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PRAVISH VASUDEVAN

PRAVISH VASUDEVAN

Summary

Driven Business Analyst ready to leverage business knowledge and project management strengths to enact lasting and successful changes to company culture and operational practices. Insightful and driven professional with forward-thinking mentality. Offers 6 years of experience in operational improvement.

Overview

9
9
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification

Work History

Senior Business Analyst

Param Info
Abu Dhabi, UAE
08.2024 - Current
  • Supported leadership team with reporting, analysis, and business presentations to inform divisional strategies.
  • Implemented Agile methodologies within project teams, increasing overall adaptability and responsiveness.
  • Enhanced stakeholder engagement through effective communication of complex data and insights.
  • Facilitated requirement gathering workshops, resulting in clear project objectives and deliverables.
  • Created Business Requirement Specification and wireframes for post the ideation and discovery phase.
  • Created detailed user stories for system enhancements, leading to improved functionality and user satisfaction.
  • Collaborated with cross-functional teams, ensuring a cohesive approach to business analysis.
  • Conducted gap analyses to identify discrepancies between current and desired states, leading to actionable recommendations.

Business Analyst

Sutrix Solutions Private Limited
Chennai, Tamil Nadu
06.2023 - 10.2024
  • Experienced in providing thorough business analysis from client RFP and BRD, offering comprehensive solutions.
  • Managed various software web and mobile application projects, demonstrating strong project management skills.
  • Collaborates with project manager to develop project plan, ensuring effective coordination and seamless execution.
  • Proficient in Agile Framework, possessing a strong understanding and practical experience in its application
  • Collaborates in refining epics, themes, and features into user stories for efficient completion within a sprint.
  • Created BRD, FRD, User Guide, and Release Notes for project development and implementation.
  • Proficient in Jira and Asana with hands-on experience.
    Experience in Drupal and Starpi CMS with a solid foundation in web development and content management.
  • Experience in preparing change requests for software products, ensuring efficient and effective implementation.
  • Collaborated with clients to execute User Acceptance Testing (UAT) in a timely and efficient manner.

Business Analyst

MSC Technology (India) Private limited
Chennai
01.2022 - 04.2023
  • Providing Functional Business analysis and working in ad hoc projects to facilitate process improvements
  • Working knowledge of Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe)
  • Bench marking the functional process with stakeholders
  • Discusses with Product owner on future requirements for incremental product delivery
  • Assists with the elaboration of epics, themes and features into user stories that are small enough, or granular enough, to be achieved in a single sprint
  • Working knowledge in Azure devops
  • Creates Acceptance criteria in a way to ensure the increment to the product is fulfilled
  • Monitor Project process, and highlight risks.
  • Coordinates with UI/UX specialist to gather the prototype/ Mock-up as per the COP UI guidelines
  • Provide Scrum team to have better understanding of requirements through scrum ceremonies and get the efforts to achieve better velocity in the sprint
  • Experience in the TMS integration & Tracking environment globally
  • Conduct Sprint reviews to the Product owner and stakeholders
  • Conduct Sprint Retrospective facilitated by Scrum master and will gather incremental feedback for the future sprints
  • Conduct UAT Campaign by preparing the UAT test cases, Functional release notes to the end users
  • Performs Functional end to end testing on every release
  • Conduct training to end users on product delivery

Analyst

C.H.Robinson Worldwide Freight
Chennai
04.2021 - 01.2022
  • Perform User acceptance testing based on the roles and functionalities ordered to our product increment.
  • Coordinate with the business stakeholders to provide the business requirements to the software service provider.
  • Worked on Agile scrum framework.
  • Ensures the acceptance criteria is met to fulfill the product increment
  • Provide Quality analysis and testing on the product increment and raise incident to the service provider to fix the bug related to the product.
  • Providing Quality analysis and working in ad hoc projects to facilitate process improvements.
  • Filing Import Security Filing (ISF – 10) for all the import shipments entering United states prior arrival.
  • Filing AMS on behalf of the SSL line for US import shipments.
  • Create booking with the Steam ship line Carrier for containers and space.
  • Creation and consolidation (LCL & FCL) of Shipments in Navisphere (dedicated in house tool).
  • Trend and track results and provide summations on risk and opportunities for improvement for operations management and quality program review.
  • Creation and maintenance of analytical tools to discover trends and track/analyze performance of operations and third-party service providers
  • Reproducing communication strategies to meet client's KPIs.

Senior Business process Associate

DHL Global Forwarding Freight
Chennai
10.2018 - 03.2021
  • Successfully promoted productivity and eliminated unnecessary delays but sorting cargo to be shipped correctly to target locations.
  • Successfully migrated CZ AFR for Czech Republic from Prague to DHL GSC MAA.
  • Worked tirelessly to resolve customers' problems to their satisfaction, which resulted in a loyal customer base and increased its positive reputation.
  • Responsible to take ownership of and professionally support customer escalations in conjunction with Product Manager, Account Management and/or Sales
  • Assisted and maintained service relations with clients and other offices.
  • Works closely with Trade Services and communicates any customs holds or delays promptly to Product Customer Service L.
  • Updated rates, created invoice, and distributed invoice.
  • Providing analysis and working in ad hoc projects to facilitate process improvements.
  • Trend and track results and provide summations on risk and opportunities for improvement for operations management and quality program review.
  • Meets with Team Leader regularly to assess department performance and to plan initiatives targeting improvement
  • Reproducing communication strategies to meet client's KPIs.
  • Determining shipping methods and prepared bills of lading, invoices, and other shipping documents.

Executive Ocean Freight

New Age Vanguard Logistics services
Chennai
08.2016 - 08.2018
  • Acted as a vital member of the operations team for the global distribution of products across EU/ ASPA & MEA countries.
  • Successfully consolidate Sea Exports for Vanguard Logistics Services, USA.
  • Promoted productivity and eliminated unnecessary delays but sorting cargo to be shipped correctly to target locations.
  • Provided excellent customer service to many shippers, consignees, and overseas agents via phone and email.
  • Produced documents such as certification of origins, and house and master bill of ladings.
  • Responsible to take ownership of and professionally support customer escalations in conjunction with Product Manager, Account Management and/or Sales
  • Works closely with Trade Services and communicates any customs holds or delays promptly to Product Customer Service
  • Prepared Bills of Lading as per customer instructions.
  • Consolidation of Sea Exports for Vanguard Logistics Services , USA

Junior Executive

Aiki Logistics Private Limited
Chennai
07.2015 - 07.2016
  • Successfully received enquiries from new customers and explained product and services rendered by the organization.
  • Negotiated with the shipping lines for economical and affordable rates.
  • Created booking and prepared the regulatory documents (Plant Quarantine certificate, Certificate of Origin)
  • Successfully applied for FORM 13 to the Shipping terminal to gate-in the containers in to
  • Liaised with the supervisors in stuffing and discharging of the cargo in the ICD / CFS.
  • Successfully maintained a 50k book of business while building my own account with clients.
  • Managed and maintained regular contact with existing clients to determine daily and weekly shipping needs.
  • Presented sales prospective clients and customers.
  • Negotiate freight wages and prices with clients and freight carriers
  • Provided responsive customer service and resolving customer issues quickly including invoices and account management.
  • Filing the Shipping bill Checklist in ICE GATE portal
  • Tracked containers from the respective shipping liner portals.

Education

Master of Business Administration - International Transportation and Logistics Management

Indian Maritime University , Chennai, TN
2015

Applied Marine Information Technology and communications

AMET University , Chennai, TN
2012

Skills

  • Requirements gathering
  • Product management
  • Product development
  • Stakeholder relationship management
  • Computer literate
  • Superb communication skills
  • Business administration
  • User acceptance testing
  • Customer Experience Management
  • Leadership & Team building
  • Project objective understanding
  • Wireframe

Certification

  • Professional Scrum Product Owner level 1
  • Scrum.org

Additional Information

https://www.linkedin.com/in/pravishvasudevan/

Languages

English
Advanced (C1)
Tamil
Bilingual or Proficient (C2)

Timeline

Senior Business Analyst - Param Info
08.2024 - Current
Business Analyst - Sutrix Solutions Private Limited
06.2023 - 10.2024
Business Analyst - MSC Technology (India) Private limited
01.2022 - 04.2023
Analyst - C.H.Robinson Worldwide Freight
04.2021 - 01.2022
Senior Business process Associate - DHL Global Forwarding Freight
10.2018 - 03.2021
Executive Ocean Freight - New Age Vanguard Logistics services
08.2016 - 08.2018
Junior Executive - Aiki Logistics Private Limited
07.2015 - 07.2016
Indian Maritime University - Master of Business Administration, International Transportation and Logistics Management
AMET University - , Applied Marine Information Technology and communications
  • Professional Scrum Product Owner level 1
  • Scrum.org
PRAVISH VASUDEVAN