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Dubai, United Arab Emirates

Palo Alto, California, United States

~ Managed the end-to-end import process for educational devices, ensuring timely delivery to various markets worldwide.~Collaborated with cross-functional teams to optimize shipping routes and reduce transportation costs by 15%, leading to significant cost savings.~Analyzed existing road freight transportation routes and carriers to identify inefficiencies and areas for improvement, resulting in a 35% reduction in costs and a 50% improvement in efficiency.~Implemented new optimized transportation routes and negotiated contracts with preferred carriers, leading to a 20% decrease in average shipment delivery time and a 15% increase in on-time delivery performance.~ Coordinated and executed a time-sensitive ocean shipment valued at $5.5 MN from China to India by leveraging strong relationships with carriers, resulting in on-time delivery and cost savings of 10% compared to previous shipments.~Developed and implemented a comprehensive tracker system for ocean freight and domestic carriers, resulting in a 30% increase in company-wide visibility of shipments.

Mumbai, Maharashtra, India

Activities:• Managed effectiveness and quality in customer service of exporters.• Spearheaded air freight shipment between Mumbai and Nairobi and optimized airline booking and custom clearance process. • Designed process map of each leg of air freight forwarding operations and conducted their deep analysis to understand any shortfalls.• Mapped 80 potentials ocean carriers for business growth and created a roadmap to engage with them for the possibility of collaboration. Achievement: The operational bottleneck was removed and the customer service to exporters was enhanced. Received constructive feedback from the client and secured subsequent shipments orders. The air freight booking time was optimized, which led to 30% reduction in shipment turnaround. A more refined and improved operations procedure was established for overseas air freight shipment.Skills: Data analysis, Process improvement, Problem Solving, ERP, Stakeholder Management.

London, England, United Kingdom

Activities:• Reviewed existing stakeholder engagement strategy of the company and developed a new stakeholder engagement strategy.• Collaborated with more than 20 cross-functional maritime stakeholders.• Engaged with 9 Steering Group members and 13 stakeholders of maritime industry to understand their existing strategy and market condition.• Conceptualized and designed disclosure criteria for company’s website to bring data transparency in the shipping industry.Achievement: New engagement strategy was developed and implemented to cater more stakeholders for a project. A new disclosure criterion was established on company’s website to disclose stakeholders’ sustainable shipping KPIs and data to bring transparency in the shipping industry. The total ocean carriers count was increased by 130% in 6 months. Skills: Process Mapping, Value Chain, Stakeholder Engagement, Data Analysis.

Hong Kong Sar

➣ Navigational planning and maintenance (passage planning, maintenance of navigational equipment)➣ Maintenance of life-saving and fire-fighting appliances, and GMDSS (Global Maritime Distress and Safety System)➣ Developing complete knowledge transfer procedures and training for incoming ship's staffs➣ Planned emergency drills on the ships as per International Maritime Organization’s regulations➣ Supplier/vendor negotiations➣ Assisted Charterer’s party in collecting data of the cargo loaded and discharged, guided them in inspection of the consignments and prepared necessary documents required➣ Inventory operations and employee management (complete life-cycle: training and team building)➣ Quality Audits - External (Government) and Internal➣ Legal compliance management: Quality, Health, Safety, and Environment policies adherence

Hong Kong Sar

➣ Reported and prevented a major incident by identifying a leakage in cargo hold at China’s Dockyard➣ Assisted Senior Officers in cargo operations, draft survey and different cross functional projects➣ Carried out different training sessions to ship’s staff on weekly basis➣ Managing vendors➣ Complex inventory management operations

Master Of Business Administration - Mba, Business Administration, Management And Operations

• Core Modules: Operations Management, Strategic Evaluation and Analysis, Leadership, Accounting and Financial Management, Marketing.

Bachelor Of Science - Bs, Nautical Science

Activities and Societies: Student activity forum( In charge), Organised annual inter-college cultural events, Captained college cricket.