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My current title is Senior Operations Manager. My first core responsibility is end-to-end process improvement for our customer lifecycle. I map workflows, analyze KPIs, and run pilots; for example, I recently streamlined our contract-to-onboarding flow and cut average cycle time from 21 days to 14. Second, I own our operational reporting and forecasting. I work closely with finance and sales, building dashboards in Tableau and structured models in Excel/SQL that forecast volume, capacity, and SLAs. Those forecasts drive hiring plans and helped us avoid an estimated $250K in overtime last year. Third, I lead a 12-person team. That includes setting quarterly OKRs, coaching team leads, and coordinating cross-functional projects with sales, finance, and IT. I spend a lot of time turning high-level goals into clear, measurable projects and making sure dependencies and communication are tight across teams.
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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.
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?
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?