R. Ramya Devi
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PROFILE SNAPSHOT: Business Presentation Designer, Chennai, India
Nov 2005-till date
Dynamic presentation designer offering 10 years of consistent experience in management consultancy and 2 years as a corporate trainer
Skill-set: Enhancing and produce custom presentations, Digital LOP which involves, image editor, illustrator, Adobe Photoshop
Profile at a Glance
Help McKinsey teams translate the findings made during the consulting process into compelling visuals and charts.
Provides support in designing and enhancing electronic presentations for McKinsey consultants worldwide.
These presentations play an essential role in McKinsey consultants' communication with McKinsey clients, thus making the role of the Business Presentation Designer (BPD) a central one.
The majority of presentations are created in a McKinsey customized version of MS PowerPoint (PPT).
Supports the consulting teams often operate in tough business environments, under enormous pressure and with crushing schedules.
Works as a thought partners to help the Consultants meet their project demands.
Ensure that the presentations are compelling communications and are in line with the design and format guidelines.
Work closely with image editors, illustrators, adobe photo shop to create and integrate the imagery that best captures the consulting teams important points.
Help with creation of custom presentations, Digital LOP and LOP documents
Professional Experience
Frost & Sullivan
Business presentation Designer
April 2015 – June 2016
Notable Achievements: Training given to all employees of Frost & Sullivan globally in presentation skills and played a vital role in forming a team with 9 skilled persons
Responsibilities:
Help to produce client ready CEO documents and meeting documents for bigger presentations
Help to produce infographics for the F&S reports in uploading for marketing purposes
Trained employees in visual enhancement of documents globally
Help to create brochures, flyers, LOP documents
Visual Graphics India, McKinsey & Company
Business presentation Designer
November 2005- March 2015
Notable Achievements: Plays a part of various roles along with the company’s growth
Responsibilities:
Help Visually enhance client ready document with high end quality by setting expectations with the Consultants with deadlines
Support as a thought processing of visualization concepts of any given data provided by consultants
Sourcing of appropriate images based on the content adhering to firm guidelines
Application of creative thinking and conceptualization of frameworks and customized layouts
Provide guidance to the business presentation specialist on delivering high quality document.
Collaboration support by providing imageries, optional layouts, Visual enhancement of a part of a document
Coordinating the design team on demand by estimating time for the document, monitor capacity and assigning reqs
Clarify the scope with the consultants and convey the same to the specialists etc.,
Roles and Responsibilities in VGCS since 2005 November:
Visual aid specialist: Started working as a Business Presentation Specialist mainly focusing on creating visuals with the use of MSOffice applications
Visuals include Mathematical an Statistical data analysis Raw data processing, into graphs
Business presentation Reviewer: On demand:
Involved in identification, segregation and categorization of requests based on taxonomy vs. skillset
Estimation of production time based on the complexity involved in execution of requests received
Assignment of requests based on availability of resources and criticality of the requests
Negotiation of deadline with consultants based on skillset and capacity available
Scope negotiation with consultants if the required skillset is unavailable at any given time
Communicating with Business Presentation Specialist on any request updates needed by CSS
Periodic reports to shift managers on shift-wise volumes and challenges
Coach to new Capability Building Group VAs: On demand
Trained and support the new joiners about 5 VAs for 3 months: On-job training provided to new joiners by educating them regarding the workflow and schedules and method of handling the request and ensure them to deliver high quality documents
SRM Systems and software Corporate trainer
Aug 1999 – Jan 2002
Responsibilities:
Trained the teachers and students of all Govt schools in and around Chennai on basic computers, MS office applications
Took Java training and trained teachers and students of various Govt schools in around Chennai on C, C++ and Java
Education
Bachelor of Banking management from Madras University, 1998
Higher Diploma in software engineering, Aptech Computer education, chennai
Personal Profile
NAME: R. Ramya Devi
BIRTH DATE:22-Oc-1977.
MARITAL STATUS:Married
SEX:Female
LANGUAGES KNOWN: ENGLISH, TAMIL and Hindi
R. Ramya Devi