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Pranay Raj Kanakala

Pranay Raj Kanakala

Oklahoma City

Summary

Seasoned Business Analyst offering 10 years of industry success. Expert on business and systems requirements, user acceptance testing and end-user training. Accomplished at leveraging past lessons to inform future decision-making.

Overview

10
10
years of professional experience

Work History

Business Analyst

Internship
01.2024 - Current

 Having good experience in Microsoft Power BI Reporting Tool.
 Created Rich visualized Pie & Line Charts, Tree Map, Tabular and Matrix Reports Using Power BI.
 Experience on various Power BI Visuals and Visual Properties including Tree Map, Pie Chart, Funnel, Scatter Bar Chart and Column Charts.
 Experience with Column (Field) Grouping, Hierarchies Creations and Usage.
 Experience with Drill Ups, Drilldowns, and Expand Fields to next level and Expand All Levels.
 Experience with Edit Interactions and Bookmarks including Buttons and Actions.
 Working with various Visualizations for Maps and Interactive Visuals including Slicers and Visual Sync.
 Experience on various Power BI Modeling Techniques using Power Query [M Language] and DAX.
 Having good experience in DAX query Language.
 Implement DAX Measures and Calculations for various Accounting Aggregations.
 Implement DAX Quick Measures for categorizing the data based on given parameters.
 Created, maintained & scheduled various reports in Power BI Desktop.
 Published Power BI reports from Power BI desktop to Power BI service.
 Extensively worked on Power BI Personal Gateways and Enterprise Gateways.
 Creating Power BI Dashboards with Tiles and Pins from Reports, Insights and
Workbooks.
 Creating and working with IMPORT and UPLOAD options for Dataset Creations.
 Working with Power BI Report Server for Paginated Reports and Using Report Builder
Tool.
 Experience with Power BI Mobile Reports and Mobile / Phone Options in Desktop,
Cloud.
 Sharing Reports, Dashboards, Organizational Content Packs and App Workspace.
 Created complex Stored Procedures, Tables and other SQL Joins and Statements for
Applications.

MANAGING DIRECTOR

Eduvanti Abroad Consulting Services Pvt Ltd.
12.2020 - 03.2023
  • Develop and maintain sustainable relationships for prospective students
  • Manage recruitment agents, set targets, and handle contractual negotiations
  • Ensure proper commission payment procedures are followed
  • Attend and evaluate recruitment events, manage on-campus events
  • Oversee CRM campaigns for student prospects
  • Conduct strategic market research and analysis
  • Support budget management for admission activities
  • Contribute to student recruitment marketing materials
  • Eectively manage sta and resources, adhere to policies
  • Participate in continuous professional development
  • Promote equality and diversity principles
  • Commit to delivering an excellent student experience
  • Established domestic branches in Bangalore, Raipur, Delhi, Ahmedabad, Hyderabad & International branches at Ukraine, and Russia & Philippines
  • Reach out to and inform students at recruitment engagements
  • Independently evaluate and optimize the admissions process
  • Finalize marketing materials for school promotion
  • Maintain contact with students throughout the admission process
  • Maintain a close relationship with Deans and Rectors
  • Manage various responsibilities throughout the year
  • Create and achieve company targets using digital and traditional marketing methods
  • Utilize historical data, sales initiatives, and employee input for efective marketing.
  • Oversaw operations and provided corrective feedback to achieve daily and long-term goals.

DIRECTOR OF OPERATIONS

International Training and Consulting Services
04.2018 - 12.2020
  • Taking a leading role in managing student recruitment in terms of Abroad admissions and activities to attract suitably qualied applicants ensuring high level of conversion and delivery of recruitment targets for 28 countries and 108 universities all across the globe
  • Being responsible for development, operational management and delivery of recruitment and conversion activity plans; managing network of agents, college/school relationships and line management responsibility for the Recruitment Team
  • Devise, manage and implement Abroad admission strategies and operational plans that support the admissions of qualied students wishing to study at countries like Georgia, Russia, Ukraine, Philippines, Poland, Germany and many more reputed study destinations
  • In liaison with International Recruitment Teams, contribute to development and implementation of strategies and plans for recruitment of international students to dierent Government universities
  • Collect, evaluate and share data with respect to the performance of individual recruitment initiatives and the overall student recruitment strategy
  • Collaborate eectively with academic and marketing colleagues both in India and abroad to ensure recruitment/admission initiatives and strategy are relevant
  • Identify key target markets and program development opportunities based on market and business intelligence, trends and research to ensure recruitment strategies and plans are relevant to the business needs.

NW DESIGN & OPTIMIZATION

Nokia India Pvt Ltd.
06.2016 - 05.2017
  • Worked for Nokia MNC as a Network design engineer and also used to be a part time sales manager for a company for doing student recruitment.

LTE RF OPTIMIZATION ENGINEER

Telenor Myanmar
06.2014 - 05.2016
  • Travelled abroad as a technical optimization engineer and worked for Employer TECHNO PROFESSIONAL SERVICES CO
  • LTD
  • Under the TELENOR MYANMAR Project for complete radio frequency optimization.

RADIO FREQUENCY ENGINEER

Signal Teleservices Ltd.
06.2008 - 04.2014
  • Started my Career in technical related job as a RF engineer and parallelly used to do sales as a part time as a Tele caller
  • My roles and responsibilities were all Technical related to Electronics and Telecommunication.

Education

MASTERS IN SCIENCE AND ENGINEERING -

Oklahoma Christian University
Edmond, Oklahoma
04.2024

MASTERS IN COMPUTER SCIENCE -

Jawaharlal Nehru Technological University
Andhra Pradesh, India
05.2016

BACHELORS OF ELECTRONICS & TELECOMMUNICATIONS ENGINEERING -

Pune University
Pune, India
04.2014

Skills

  • Knowledge on SQL and Power BI
  • Helped more than 1000 students achieve their dream to become a doctor in abroad
  • Established 5 offices in India and 3 Offices at Ukraine, Russia & Philippines
  • AWS Solution Architect
  • PMP (Project Management Professional) Certified
  • Agile Scrum Master
  • Stakeholder Relationship Management
  • Recruitment and Negotiation
  • Event Management
  • Marketing and Communications
  • Market Research and Analysis
  • Budget Management
  • Team Management
  • Global Expansion
  • Admissions Process Optimization
  • Target Achievement
  • Customer Service Orientation
  • Multitasking and Calendar Management
  • English Advanced
  • Hindi Advanced
  • Telugu Native
  • Marathi Advanced

Accomplishments

    Won the "International Excellence Awards 2022" for Best Educational Consultancy for Bangalore, South India

Awards

International Excellence Awards 2022, Won the "International Excellence Awards 2022" for Best Educational Consultancy for Bangalore, South India, 12/01/2020

Timeline

Business Analyst

Internship
01.2024 - Current

MANAGING DIRECTOR

Eduvanti Abroad Consulting Services Pvt Ltd.
12.2020 - 03.2023

DIRECTOR OF OPERATIONS

International Training and Consulting Services
04.2018 - 12.2020

NW DESIGN & OPTIMIZATION

Nokia India Pvt Ltd.
06.2016 - 05.2017

LTE RF OPTIMIZATION ENGINEER

Telenor Myanmar
06.2014 - 05.2016

RADIO FREQUENCY ENGINEER

Signal Teleservices Ltd.
06.2008 - 04.2014

MASTERS IN SCIENCE AND ENGINEERING -

Oklahoma Christian University

MASTERS IN COMPUTER SCIENCE -

Jawaharlal Nehru Technological University

BACHELORS OF ELECTRONICS & TELECOMMUNICATIONS ENGINEERING -

Pune University
Pranay Raj Kanakala