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I led a migration of about 120 on‑prem VMs from two data centers to Azure for a logistics company. We started with a 6-week assessment: dependency mapping with tooling plus interviews with app owners. That gave us three buckets: 60% rehost, 25% replatform, 15% refactor. The core ERP system was rehosted first using Azure Migrate and ASR for near-zero downtime cutover; we ran in sync for 48 hours with real-time replication and switched over during a 2-hour maintenance window. For customer-facing apps, we replatformed to App Service and Azure SQL to offload patching, then gradually refactored the highest-traffic API into containers. To manage risk, we used blue/green DNS cutovers, enforced read-only modes during final data syncs where needed, and pre-built rollback plans for every wave. Across the entire program, we had no unplanned downtime and cut infrastructure costs by ~28% within the first year.
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Walk me through a recent multi-channel digital marketing campaign you managed end-to-end. How did you set objectives, choose channels, allocate budget, and measure success?
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.
In your civil engineering studies, what specific design coursework or project work did you complete related to irrigation channels or canals (e.g., design of lined/unlined canals, distributaries, minors)? Describe one such design in detail, including how you determined discharge, permissible velocity, section dimensions, and lining choice for Gujarat-type soil and climate conditions.
On your resume you mention working on a cross-functional project (e.g., involving multiple teams or stakeholders). Describe a situation from that project where priorities conflicted—how did you navigate the trade-offs and what was the final outcome?