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Across both projects, I leaned heavily on a lightweight Agile approach with a very disciplined use of Kanban boards and clear acceptance criteria. On my first project, we were implementing a new process for handling customer requests that involved three different teams and about 1,500 tickets per month. Initially, work was bouncing around in email and spreadsheets, and our average turnaround time was about 5.5 days. I set up a shared Kanban board in Jira, defined three standard workflows, and added simple, binary acceptance criteria for each step so nothing could move forward half‑baked. Within one quarter, we cut average turnaround time to 3.2 days (about a 40% improvement), and “lost” requests dropped to essentially zero because everything was visible. The transparency also let us spot a bottleneck in approvals, and by reallocating just 0.5 FTE to that step, we cleared a backlog of 300+ items in two sprints.
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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.
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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?
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?