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At my previous company, expense approvals were a constant headache. Reimbursements routinely took 4–5 weeks, and about 30% of submissions were bounced back for missing info. I mapped the process on a whiteboard, from employee submission to final payment, and interviewed five frequent submitters plus our accounts payable lead. I realized we were relying on a generic email inbox and an outdated form. I drafted a simple checklist-based template, added required fields, and set up a shared tracker in Excel with status columns and a 7‑day SLA. I walked the finance manager through the proposal, incorporated her feedback, and then ran a two-week pilot with one department. Turnaround time dropped to 9 days on average, and error rates fell below 5%. After that, leadership rolled the process out company-wide and tagged me to help standardize a few other workflows.
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In your resume you note improving or optimizing [a process, KPI, or metric]. What specific baseline metrics did you start from, what steps did you personally take, and how did you verify that the improvement was due to your changes rather than external factors?
Based on your hydrology and irrigation engineering background, explain how you would estimate the irrigation water requirement for a kharif crop in a semi-arid region of Gujarat. Walk me through each step: from reference evapotranspiration estimation, crop coefficient selection, effective rainfall calculation, to arriving at canal discharge for a given command area.
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