RAVI DESAI

Cambridge,MA

Summary
Product and project management:
 15 years of experience in operational and functional management , product and project manager
 10+ years of managing the sdLCSoftware Development Life Cycle using both waterfall and Agile
methodologies
 Artificial Intelligence, data analytics
 Handling presales communication for Oleoline consulting projects
 Business Analytics and work experience with financial services.
 Third party product evaluation and integration
 Skilled at stakeholder management, gathering ana analyzing requirements.
 Discovery process: competitive and market research, customer development, user research
 Power BI, Data exploration and visualization
 Familiarity with Fincial markets and concepts ROI, ROE, IRR, Valuation and Dicounted Cash Flows.
 Product gap analysis: converting data, customer insights and customer feedback into product initiatives and
features
 Working knowledge ETL tool like Informatica Power center for Data Normalization and Data Mapping.
 Sprint tracking and backlog grooming with burndown charts, velocity tracking
 Product roadmap, backlog, requirements, and prioritization: Storyboards, epics, features, user stories and
bugs
 Collaborated with internal and external business partners other stakeholders to make certain timelines and
deliverables were met.
 Proficient in using tools like Informatica PowerCenter, Tableau and SSRS (SaQL Server Reporting Services).
 User testing
 Use PMI PMBOK tools and methodologies.
 Managed vendor team to develop website with retail functionality, using Java, Wordpress. Was product
owner for the scrum team.
 Kanban, MS Project, Confluence, Slack, Teams
 Experience with digital customer journey and optimization
Leadership, communication and influence:
 Demonstrated ability to manage cross functional collaboration and communicate with technical and non-
technical audience, including management, and executive leadership
 Influence and conflict resolution skills, in influence teams without authority or direct reporting relationship
 Mentorship of new projects and new team members
 Ability to lead geographically diverse teams of up to 50 members
 Experience scaling agile development teams SAFE.
 Program management: launch medium and large sized projects for timely completion.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
Project Manager 01/2015 –
present.
Oleoline Cambridge, USA

 Bring in the data from various transaction systems into Data Warehouse using Data Lake (ADLS), Azure ADF
platforms to enable the Business Intelligence team to generate reports for Senior Executives to help make
business decisions.
 Established presence in US market
 Reported directly to CEO, established Oleoline as independent entity
 Which is into retail ecommerce
 Developed marketing presence and website/social media updates
  Established an online sales capability, grew revenue 10X, 50% CAGR.
 Engaged multinational agribusiness clients
 Worked with Fincial clients in ZFutures and Derivatives industry to optimize ROI.
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 As a part of Vendor management, coordinating the implementation with vendor and Development team,
Business team.
 Create the reports from Datawarehouse using POWER BI for Senior management
 Expert in Excel /VBA – complex macros, formulas & complex automations. Hands-on using SQL, SQL Server,
Stored Procedures, Excel, Pivots (including Power Pivots), SSIS, SSRS
 Build complex data models of commodities based on 10 years of financial data
 Worked with derivatrives and fixed income financial tools.
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, Mumbai, India. 01/2010-
01/2015
 Reported directly to CEO, established Oleoline as independent entity
building ecommerce platform for online sales.
 Curated regular conferences for clients in glycerin and chemical industries
 Guided growth of the biofuel division
 Responsible for Strategic Asset Planning & Business Data Analytics
 Planned and executed a strategic communication plan through approved channels to oversee executive
reporting and analytics.
 Developed effective partnerships with all internal and external clients.
 An integral link between all stakeholders.
 As a part of Vendor management, coordinating the implementation with vendor and Development team,
Business team

01/2010 – 01/2015.
 Oleoline Mumbai

Project Manager 09/2007- 12/2009

Capgemini. Mumbai, India, London , UK
 Knowledge management team lead for Capgemini UK presales
 Responsible for responding to RFIs/RFPs, proposal authoring, sales support
 Developed project dashbosrds in MS Excel
 Worked directly with data analytics team to analyze huge set of visitor’s data and tracking the conversions
across multiple channels.
 Partnered with primary business stakeholders as well as several technical teams, within an agile
environment, to ensure a seamless integration.
 Provided vendor management support for offshore and domestic development teams.
 Data visualization and data analytics for reporting system optimization and application or database
enhancements.
 Authored proposals and developed customer success stories for sales support

Senior Consultant New Delhi, India

05/2006-11/2007
Eicher Consulting Services (now PWC)
 Part of the Human Resources and Change Management team
 Led the online training initiative
 Was PMP certified for 1 year(2006)
 Led change management initiative.
 Lead vendor team working in Java, PHP
 Developed a proprietary 360 feedback system

Project manager 05/2003-04/2005

Liqvid elearning New Delhi, India
  Built the core product, English Edge, course focusing on English speaking skills.
 Developed AI based Natural Language parser.
 Lead software development team working in C++ and Java.

 Implemented and taught pilot classes to prove course efficacy

 Developed and refined course structure to drive $1.5M in sales

ENTREPRENERSHIP AND ADVISORY EXPERIENCE

2019 – present Business Strategy. Notesgen. India and USA
 Assisting with lead generation, lead nurturing and customer success
 Strategic advising and initiatives with C-level team
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 Continuous review and feedback of product offerings
 Integrated AI Deep Learning tools for students.
 1999-2014 - volunteer member of Carnegie Mellon Admissions committee.
 2015 – present Founder. ClearSky Education. India, USA and Singapore
 Founded one-on-one admission counseling service for international students
 Individualized attention, application-planning to admission-selection service
 200 undergraduate students placed, 25 graduate students placed
 2015- present elected as a member of the managing committee for the ISDC- International soaps,
Detergents and Cosmetics convention.

Education
 M.B.A., Strategic Marketing and Leadership, Indian School of Business, Hyderabad, INDIA - 2006
 Torchbearer Award for leadership in the student community.
 M.S. in Intelligent Systems Program, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA - 2002

Skills:
 Business: Marketing, Strategic Planning, Vendor Management, Change managementCustomer Success,
Customer Engagement. Pre sales, writing RFI and RFP documents
 Project management: Agile/SCRUM, Kanban, product lifecycle management, Power BI, Tableau, SPSS;
AI/ML: TensorFlow, Natural Language Processing
 Coding: Python, JavaScript, C/C++
 ETL Tools: Informatica, SQL Server Data Tools – Business Intelligence (SSDT – BI), MS Office, Excel, Outlook
and Project
 Languages: English (native proficiency), French (professional proficiency)