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Harshit  Agarwal

Harshit Agarwal

Business Analyst, Product Owner
Bengaluru

Summary

· Petroleum Engineer & currently pursuing MBA with Data Science & Analytics Specialization with 8+ years’ experience in Product Management & Application Support projects

· Accomplished Business Analyst and Product Owner in Oil and Gas, Industrial & Manufacturing domains with 8+ years’ track record of excellence in product development & implementation using Waterfall, Agile SDLC methodology

· Adept at defining, detailing, prioritizing use cases for solution implementation & leading cross functional Business, Vendor teams for value maximization in Oil & Gas Upstream application support projects

· ITIL Foundation certified practitioner with exceptional analytical, problem solving, leadership, collaboration and effective communication skills

Overview

8
8
years of professional experience
5
5
years of post-secondary education

Work History

Senior Analyst

Happiest Minds Technologies Pvt Ltd
Bengaluru
04.2021 - Current

• Gathering & finalizing requirements for developing enterprise business solutions enabling business processes digitization for Vehicle manufacturing, Smart Home Integrated experience, Voice assisted Business Operations

•Contributing to Pre-Sales support i.e., running business development campaigns focused on Industrial & Manufacturing Vertical's target accounts

• Provided Oil and Gas Industry’s Upstream Sector Overview for internal stakeholders, as a domain expert, so that suitable business & technological offerings can be developed & positioned for target clients


Achievements


• For an Automotive Dealer CRM solution, being developed for India’s biggest OEM in Automotive Industry, as a BA I was able to improve working relationships with the client & other 3rd Party vendor’s imp stakeholders leading to better project planning & coordination from requirements finalization, project delivery perspective & was able to deliver value in this fast-paced intense agile client engagement

• Led the Discovery phase engagement with client’s Safety & Productivity Solutions (SPS) Team, for product requirements finalization, resulting in SOW worth half million USD approx. being signed

Lead Business Analyst

CGI Information Systems and Management Consultants Pvt Ltd
Bengaluru
07.2015 - 04.2021
  • Provided day to day L1, L2 support for Upstream applications like Petrel, Landmark Suite, Sitecom, Discovery Web etc. by investigating & fixing application issues proactively
  • Liaised with Upstream application’s end users to provide application break-fix and enhancements, finalized as part of Change Management, Problem Management processes, for IT application’s maintainability
  • Single Point of Contact (SPOC) for client & the project’s Design, Development & Testing teams during processes like Requirements Elicitation, Requirements finalization, Requirements Overview during brainstorming sessions, Test Cases preparation and demonstrating the change in User Acceptance Testing(UAT) environment
  • Single Point of Contact (SPOC) for User Acceptance Testing (UAT) for all deployments and reviewing Test Team's prepared test cases
  • Created & refined user stories & played a key role in Sprint Planning, Backlog refinement for Agile product management
  • Led applications support team for Subsurface and Wells domain related IT applications to fix issues, identify root causes and develop problem resolutions to minimize unplanned downtime and increase service availability


Achievements


• For contribution to multiple O&G projects, I was awarded multiple times in individual contributor & team player capacities, by the company & client’s leadership teams

• Increased revenue by 30% for IT Service Management project, by streamlining Request, Incident & Problem Management processes and increasing collaboration, related to Subsurface and Wells application support

Business Analyst

Wipro Technologies Pvt. Limited
Bengaluru
11.2013 - 12.2014

• Developed workflows to ensure faster responses reducing downtime hence saving cost overruns for British Petroleum’s (BP) drilling processes


Achievement


· Led successful release management for client’s IT solution upgrade globally across 30+ drilling rigs, using ITIL’s Change Management framework, ensuring uninterrupted data availability for BP’s stakeholders

Education

MBA - Data Science & Analytics Specialization

Great Lakes Institute of Management
Gurgaon, India
08.2021 - Current

Bachelors in Technology - Applied Petroleum Engineering (Upstream)

University of Petroleum And Energy Studies
Dehradun, India
04.2009 - 06.2013

Skills

    Business Analysis

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Software

Research Asset Management System

OSIsoft PI Suite

Sitecom Suite

Landmark Suite

Petrel

Spotfire

Surfboard Central (Smart Home IoT ecosystem)

Voiceconsole (Voice assisted Business Operations)

Automotive Dealer CRM Solution

Work Availability

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Quote

The successful warrior is the average man, with laser-like focus.
Bruce Lee

Timeline

MBA - Data Science & Analytics Specialization

Great Lakes Institute of Management
08.2021 - Current

Senior Analyst

Happiest Minds Technologies Pvt Ltd
04.2021 - Current

Lead Business Analyst

CGI Information Systems and Management Consultants Pvt Ltd
07.2015 - 04.2021

Business Analyst

Wipro Technologies Pvt. Limited
11.2013 - 12.2014

Bachelors in Technology - Applied Petroleum Engineering (Upstream)

University of Petroleum And Energy Studies
04.2009 - 06.2013
Harshit AgarwalBusiness Analyst, Product Owner