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Raveendran  S

Raveendran S

Chennai

Summary

Creative, hands-on Presentation Specialist with expertise in presentation design, vector graphic redraws, and project/time management skills.

Proficient in creation of template design/slide masters/themes, creation and reformatting, animation, and transitions.

Expert ability to distill complex materials to brief, easily understood graphical representations.

Great communication skills, strong organizational and project management skills, enabling the ability to prioritize in a fast-paced, deadline-driven environment and handle multiple tasks with concurrent deadlines.

I'm a self- starter and team player and quality-oriented professional, who delivers on time, follows best practice/ client guidelines, and at the highest quality.

Overview

15
15
years of professional experience

Work History

Senior Visual Solutions Executive

Egon Zehnder KCI
Gurgaon
08.2022 - Current

Business Presentation Specialist

McKinsey & Company
Chennai
04.2011 - 07.2022

Education

Master of Science - Science, Technology & Communication

Anna University
Chennai
04.2011

Bachelor of Science - Bio-Chemistry

SASTRA University - SRC
Kumbakonam
03.2008

Skills

  • MS PowerPoint *****
  • MS Excel ***
  • Adobe Illustrator ***
  • Adobe Photoshop***
  • POWER BI, Tableau **
  • Adobe InDesign **

Roles and Responsibilities

As an Expert Visual Storytelling professional, i am responsible for engaging with multiple client service team across geography for their immediate engagement with the client team.

Understand requirement from the instructions given if any or will have check with user via various communication platform to get it understood to proceed with the work.

Responsible to make best decision while visualizing data to create the crisp and impacting communication.

Required to decide which deck need what level of format/enhancement to get the client satisfied in their engagement.

Responsible to involve multiple stakeholders across services for the smooth transition of the work and will need to keep the communication live on the same to the user.

On the technical front, required to use multiple tools (MS Office and Adobe platforms) and techniques  as per the need to serve the user requirement.

Required to learn/un-learn skills to meet efficient work culture/professional ambiance.

Continuous improvement has been the key to evolve as the professional.

Achievements:

Continuously maintained the average of greater than 98% of quality, deadline in handling the engagements.

Have taken in-charge and created presentation decks for various war room studies with crisp deadlines at elevated quality.

Have conducted huddles and team meetings to knowledge share and to educate innovative approach in client engagements.

Role journey

Training: ~1.5 years

Have been in hard training for a straight 1 and half years for honing the skills with various experts in learning and development team. Have had multiple sessions and hand-on-training for the gist of live work environment.

Team 1 - FastTrack: 3.5 years

Functionally this team is for engaging with the user for the last minute changes in their slides, i have to work on the slides with shorter deadline (15 minutes to an hour) and has to be quality conscious as well as deadline driven.

Here i learned the importance of the minutes & seconds, and how often we can make impact to the firm by helping CST team in getting their slides done for one last iteration just before the client meetings.

Team 2 - KAM: ~3 years

This team has to the most renowned and most dated clients of the firm, most of them were EU and ME clients.

This team provided me a lot of opportunity to establish myself with the CST team by allowing me to directly talk to the team to understand their need, and to be in the kick-off calls to understand their requirements thereby we can set the benchmark clearly at the beginning to make the engagement smooth.

Here I understood the business completely and started taking initiatives to make the process more reliable and streamlined, and on a monthly basis i started taking sessions to understand areas of improvements and and decide with the team on how it shall be applied smoothly in the existing process.

Team 3 - IR (Insider relevant) ~2 years

This team was set-up to handle most confidential client studies in the firm and later it expanded to include support to differently abled CST colleagues.

Here i had opportunity to understand how the firm support the differently abled colleagues and the kind of technical support they are given access to, which helped me to assess how i can be helpful to them to make collective impact to the firm.




Timeline

Senior Visual Solutions Executive

Egon Zehnder KCI
08.2022 - Current

Business Presentation Specialist

McKinsey & Company
04.2011 - 07.2022

Master of Science - Science, Technology & Communication

Anna University

Bachelor of Science - Bio-Chemistry

SASTRA University - SRC
Raveendran S