Manish Ashtikar

• Crafted and delivered weekly, biweekly, and monthly analytical reports tailored to business needs.
• Administered and maintained Power BI dashboards as part of daily operations, ensuring real-time visibility of key metrics.
• Developed quantitative reports using complex SQL queries and in-depth port performance analysis, with insights presented via structured PowerPoint decks.
• Proactively resolved data and reporting-related tickets raised by stakeholders, ensuring timely and accurate support.

• Performed data governance for global bunker quantity surveys by extracting structured data from PDFs, validating anomalies, and documenting metadata.
• Developed and maintained metadata dictionaries and business glossaries in Excel and SQL to standardize vessel data, barge information, and fuel volumes across global locations.
• Conducted extensive data quality checks, such as outlier detection, duplicate handling, and IMO number validation, prior to ingestion into a secure SQL Server data model.
• Established end-to-end data lineage and audit trails from raw PDFs to Power BI dashboards, ensuring traceability and compliance.
• Automated, standardized reports highlighting vessel discrepancies, supplier compliance, and port-wise trends using Power BI.
• Ensured data protection through the implementation of role-based access control (RBAC), and secured data ingestion pipelines with SQL authentication and audit logging.
• Identified, analyzed, and interpreted trends and patterns in complex datasets using statistical methods to generate actionable business reports.
• Maintained and enhanced dashboards, including the Global Marine Bunker Survey Governance Dashboard, BQS Analytics Dashboard, and BQS Commercial Dashboard.
• Explored and implemented basic predictive algorithms on historical data to derive forward-looking insights.

• Writing SQL queries on MSSQL to fetch data of app users, application parameters, and stakeholder requirements.
• Created various Excel documents to assist with pulling metrics data and presenting information to stakeholders for concise explanations of the best placement for needed resources.
• Data modeling in Power Query for creating reports. Directing the team of research analysts for primary research, secondary research, quantitative research, qualitative research, and performing surveys and interviews.
• Data Analyst for manufacturing and service-based industries, such as oil and gas, shipping, metals and minerals, and automobile engineering, etc.

• Maintaining the database for scored leads and calling data. Quality checks on data were performed by the research team. Daily and weekly reporting through MS Excel on generated leads.
• Performing data curation operations once the data is received and uploading it into the SQL Server database. Handling clients' issues with respect to data generation. Assisting the research team.
• Creating and presenting reports by using statistical methods for respective operational teams, management, and clients.

• Shipping operations, knowledge of chartering operations, and maintaining the engine room logbook operations.
• Assisting in the overhauling of H.F.O purifiers, diesel generators, water tube boilers, steam tracing operations, pumps (reciprocating, progressive, centrifugal), multi-stage high-pressure air compressors, bunkering operations, plant maintenance operations, spare parts stock management, inventory listing, rolling out requisitions, and firefighting operations.

• U.S.-based process.
• Creating a database of all storage facilities from various private websites and uploading it to the enterprise application. By going through the sales documents, loan documents, and relating the sales and loan cycles.
• I gained hands-on experience with the Oracle database as we received industrial training for it.
• The database of storage facilities consists of various parameters for research: site characteristics, property sales research, property loans research, and validation from government portals. Research also includes the previous sales, loan analysis.

Member of New Submissions Team for US Based 'Risk Placement Services'. Process consisted of setting up the data file through data sorting operations in TAT of 15 minutes once received from underwriters from USA. Gain the domain knowledge of Insurance process during this work tenure.

• Worked as a Trainee Engineer for a manufacturer of industrial cleaning machines based in Khed Shivapur Industrial Estate.
• Worked closely with the Production team, the Purchase team, and later assisted the Project Engineer with the final commissioning of the machinery.