Rohit Vamsi Krishna Yellapragada

AI Product Analyst at Shell Artificial Intelligence Innovation Team: Current position requires me to play three crucial roles.
Business Opportunity Lead:
• Play a pivotal role in stakeholder management by collaborating with digital leads from Shell Assets (LNG, Midstream, Upstream).
• Understand and address business challenges, transforming them into actionable opportunities.
• Develop pre-project estimates encompassing costs, benefits, project plans, and team structures.
• Engage with asset leaders to present and refine business opportunities in Decision Review Boards, securing necessary approvals and direction.
Business Analyst:
• Engage with business stakeholders daily to gather and evaluate requirements.
• Conduct comprehensive cost-benefit analyses and effectively communicate these requirements to AI researchers for feature development.
• Ensure alignment and clarity in translating business needs into technical solutions.
Product Analyst:
• Oversee the product roadmap and collaborate with leadership to define strategic directions.
• Maintain the product backlog, ensuring timely delivery of project milestones.
• Drive the product strategy, ensuring alignment with organizational goals and market demands.
• Lead product discovery initiatives to identify new opportunities and validate concepts.
• Manage the entire product lifecycle, from ideation to launch and beyond, ensuring continuous improvement and relevance.
• Implement robust product measurement frameworks to track performance, gather insights, and inform data-driven decisions.
Key Achievements:
• Managed the delivery of 4 cross-functional teams consisting of 40+ individuals and oversaw a yearly budget of ~$3 million.
• Implemented an R&D project management product at Shell, significantly improving the efficiency of R&D project management across the company, resulting in an NPV of $11.5 million.
• Launched an analytical platform tool that enhanced decision-making and increased the efficiency of Shell Catalyst reactors, boosting overall revenue generation from the plant with an NPV of $42 million.
• Developed an insights dashboard for the leadership team with real-time data integration, improving productivity, decision-making, and efficiency, achieving an NPV of $2 million.
• Identified gaps in existing product functionality and led the development of new features, increasing NPV by $1 million through enhanced efficiency gains and data integration.
• Managed the delivery of an intrusion detection proof of concept in just 2 weeks, showcasing Shell's capability in rapid technology development.
• Served as project manager for an emission detection POC using OGI cameras, collaborating with drone companies, Shell Asset focal points, and the R&D innovation team. Led iteration planning, reviews, retrospectives, and daily iteration calls, successfully creating a cohesive team.
• Acted as Scrum Master for the "Image Generation for Marketing" project, developing a product that utilizes Generative AI for image creation. This POC has the potential to significantly reduce vendor costs for Shell.
• Led the "Automate Operator Rounds" project as project manager, developing an AI solution that leverages robotics and computer vision to automate operator rounds in Shell Assets, resulting in substantial cost savings.

• Team Leadership: Successfully led a team of 8 developers and IT operations professionals in a DevOps model, managing applications built on SAP and Microsoft technologies.
• CI Initiatives: Spearheaded the design and delivery of Continuous Improvement (CI) initiatives, achieving a Level 2 benefit of approximately $1 million.
• Cost Recovery Model: Identified gaps in the existing cost recovery model and collaborated with senior leadership to develop a consumption-based cost recovery model. This initiative democratized the recovery process and provided stakeholders with clear visibility into cost mechanisms.
• Operational Service Design: Designed and developed a new operational service team for a specific line of business, which was subsequently adopted as a blueprint for multiple business units within Shell.
• Office Design: Played a key role in the core design thinking team, contributing to the design of Shell's Bangalore Whitefield and Koramangala offices.
• Project Delivery: Delivered projects using both Agile and Waterfall methodologies in highly confidential environments.
• Risk Mitigation: Collaborated with architects and risk management teams to effectively mitigate risks associated with applications.

• Led a team of six in managing one of the most complex SAP BusinessObjects (BO) environments.
• Collaborated with multidisciplinary teams to design and implement innovative technology features.
• Acted as a service integrator, liaising with various stakeholders to ensure smooth daily operations.
• Oversaw all administrative activities of the BusinessObjects (BOBJ) platform.
• Conducted troubleshooting and root-cause analysis for critical issues.
• Ensured support tasks were completed within SLA parameters, avoiding escalations.
• Delivered knowledge transfer (KT) sessions on critical tasks and activities.
• Engaged with application users to understand and gather new requirements.
• Assisted the Project Manager in operational activities.
• Participated in SAP TICX sessions to address critical BOBJ issues.
Tools and Technologies: BI 4.2, Oracle, SQL, Apache Tomcat

• Identified issues, analyzed information and provided solutions to problems.
• Drove operational improvements which resulted in savings and improved profit margins.
• Offered friendly and efficient service to customers, handled challenging situations with ease.
• Led projects and analyzed data to identify opportunities for improvement.
• Skills and Technologies: BI 4.1, DB2, AIX

• Contribution Working as an offshore lead and as a BO administrator
• Directly involved in troubleshooting and root-cause analysis of critical Support issues
• Ensure Support tasks are completed adhering to SLA's without any escalations
• Provide estimates for the new enhancements
• Interfacing with the Customer for understanding new requirements
• Assist Project manager in operational activities
• Tools and Technology BI4.1, DB2,AIX, Websphere

• Identified issues, analyzed information and provided solutions to problems.
• Demonstrated respect, friendliness and willingness to help wherever needed.
• Implemented Disaster Recovery for BOE 3.1 Sp3
• Enabled auditing
• Generated Audit reports for refresh time and schedule time for webi reports
• Enabled ConnectInIt and begin sql parameters in Universes which are useful for DBA to track the sql generated by BO
• Used Import wizard to migrated universes and reports to production environment from QA environment
• Providing production support
• Tools and Technology Business Objects XI3.1,Oracle, Linux, Tomcat.

• Tools and Technology Business Objects XI3.1(CMC, Designer)BI4.0, Crystal Reports2008/2011,Xcelsius 2008,Live office XI 3.1, SQL Server 2005,2008,Windows 2003 Server/XP, Apache Tomcat
• Developed Various reports and Dashboards using Crystal reports, Webi, Xcelsius
• Created the Dash boards using the Qaaws Connections from the Xcelsius 2008
• Administration of SAP BI
• Mentoring trainees in SAP BI
• Provided 24/7 Production Support

• Understanding and analysis of the requirement document
• Designing and developing crystal reports
• Documentation of the workflow and the code
• Writing unit and integration test cases for B2B module
• Solely responsible for writing Test Cases for the B2B Module
• Acted as a single point of contact for testing the complete B2B Module
• Closely worked with the Project Manager and Module Lead for clarifying business rules and functional logic
• Worked with TFS (Team Foundation Server) for recording bugs/issues into the Team Project and periodically updating the issue status
• Tools and Technology Crystal reports and SQL