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Anonymous

4.6Exceptional
The accomplishment that i am most proud of is leading the development and launch of Order Service API at my previous company . The project is significant to me due to technical challenges we faced , the skills i applied and the substantial impact on the company’s operation
At the time , our ecommerce platform was hindered by monolithic architecture and outdated order management system which led to inefficiencies and frequent failure.'I was entrusted with the exciting challenge of developing a new Order Service API that could handle order creation, inventory fetching , product details while also integrating 3rd party tools for communication . We updated the programming language and underlying architecture to scale the platform and manage it  and integrated with 3rd Party apps .One of the major challenges was to maintain backward compatibility and ensure the new platform works hand in hand with existing platform and manage real time data effectively.After months of rigorous development and testing and iterative improvements based on user feedback we successfully deployed the API . The new system streamlined order management , provided real time order tracking and automated communications with customers. It resulted in 30% reduction in order processing and significant decrease in customer complaints . It was a great learning opportunity that challenged my technical and leadership skills and positive results validated the value of using latest technology

Anonymous

4.6Exceptional
The accomplishment that i am most proud of is leading the development and launch of Order Service API at my previous company . The project is significant to me due to technical challenges we faced , the skills i applied and the substantial impact on the company’s operation
At the time , our ecommerce platform was hindered by monolithic architecture and outdated order management system which led to inefficiencies and frequent failure.'I was entrusted with the exciting challenge of developing a new Order Service API that could handle order creation, inventory fetching , product details while also integrating 3rd party tools for communication . We updated the programming language and underlying architecture to scale the platform and manage it  and integrated with 3rd Party apps .One of the major challenges was to maintain backward compatibility and ensure the new platform works hand in hand with existing platform and manage real time data effectively.After months of rigorous development and testing and iterative improvements based on user feedback we successfully deployed the API . The new system streamlined order management , provided real time order tracking and automated communications with customers. It resulted in 30% reduction in order processing and significant decrease in customer complaints . It was a great learning opportunity that challenged my technical and leadership skills and positive results validated the value of using latest technology

Anonymous

4.6Exceptional
I led the UX design for automated sandbox creation and management, significantly reducing manual migrations from months to minutes through agile development and cross-functional collaboration. The system enabled self-service management, simplified user access control, and provided a dynamic dashboard for clear sandbox oversight. Enhanced security and transparency were achieved through detailed logs and full visibility of sandbox changes. User research, stakeholder workshops, and iterative design processes ensured the solution met user needs. The project reduced environment sync time, empowered users to manage data privacy settings independently, and achieved a 60% adoption rate, saving the operations team 72 hours per week and $12,000 annually in baseline costs.


CAB(Research 10) -> Phase 1 Designs -> Private Preview 1(CAB: usability testing - create, delete, & refresh, 7 customers interview) + GA(300+ customers) ongoing feedback -> Phase 2 ->  Usability testing Plan


UX Case Study: Automated Sandbox Creation and Management for OneTrust
Project Ownership:
• Led the UX design for automated sandbox creation and management, supporting various modules and empowering over 300 clients.
• Achieved a reduction in manual migrations from months to minutes through agile development and cross-functional collaboration.
Key Themes:
Effortless Sandbox Management:
• Self-Service Management: Enabled users to create and manage sandbox environments independently.
• User Provisioning & Access Management: Simplified control of user access to production and sandbox environments.
• Quick Sandbox Creation: Allowed swift development in isolated environments.
• Safe Deletion: Provided secure management of workspace by deleting outdated sandboxes.
• Dynamic Dashboard: Offered a clear overview of all sandboxes at a glance.
Enhanced Security and Control:
• Effortless Configuration Testing: Enabled testing changes without impacting production.
• Full Visibility: Tracked all changes made within sandbox environments.
• Transparency: Detailed logs ensured a clear understanding of every action within the sandbox.
Current State:
• OneTrust customers commonly have a production tenant and a UAT tenant in separate environments.
• 80-90% of customers copy data from production to UAT to ensure accurate testing.
• Collaboration with Cloud OPS revealed 70% of tickets related to aligning production with UAT.
• 300 clients supported this idea on the Ideas portal.
Sandbox Solution:
• Sandbox Creation: Newly created tenants in the same environment as production, containing a copy of production configuration data.
• Long-term Goal: Promote data from sandbox to production.
• Focus: Simplify deployment between production and sandbox environments.
Design Process:
1. Kickoff Workshops: Organized two workshops with stakeholders to gather perspectives, priorities, business goals, constraints, user insights, and prior research findings.
2. User Research: Conducted 10 moderated interviews to identify pain points in existing processes. Created user personas, journey maps, and prioritized critical features.
3. Market Research: Ensured alignment with industry standards and user expectations (ServiceNow & Salesforce).
4. Iterative Design: Crafted and prototyped high-fidelity solutions, incorporating weekly feedback from stakeholders (PM, Dev, Content Writer, Peers).
5. Consistency and Accessibility: Utilized OneCore design components and developed specific local components.
6. Feedback Integration: Facilitated feedback sessions, integrated customer input during Sandbox Private Preview, and implemented a survey system for continuous feedback.
7. Ongoing Support: Provided developer hand-off, ongoing UI enhancements, and addressed bugs.
8. Phase 2 in Progress: Includes promotion designs.
Customer Impact:
• Reduced Sync Time: Environment sync time reduced from months to minutes.
• Empowered Users: Users can test and configure data privacy settings independently.
• Improved Satisfaction: Satisfaction score improved to 7.2/9.
• High Adoption Rate: Achieved a 60% adoption rate, with 9 out of 15 modules adopting the new automated sandbox.
Potential Business Impact:
• Time Savings: Saved the operations team 72 hours per week through automation (28 consultants).
• Cost Savings: Customers save at least $12,000 annually on baseline costs.
• Streamlined Processes: Potentially eliminated the 2-month CloudOps queue backlog.
• Leadership Position: Positioned OneTrust as a leader in user-friendly and efficient data privacy solutions.

Anonymous

4.2Exceptional
During my career I manage a large number of projects, but one of the most challenging ones was the development and launch of a Telematic Control Unit for an important car maker in Japan. The project is important to me due to technical challenges we faced, the skills I applied and the impact on the company.
As Program manager my role was to lead a cross-functional team including Design Engineers, SW Engineers, Operations teams, Material procurement teams, quality and logistics, among others to successfully launch the product to mass production.
First, I kicked-off the project. For that, I shared with the team the project scope, the goals to achieve, I shared the project plan with key milestones and defined the roles and responsibilities for the different team members.
During execution, to maintain a clear communication, I set up design review sessions with the entire engineering organization to ensure everyone was aligned and fixing potential issues in advance. Besides, I led a weekly core-team meeting where we assigned tasks to team members, and setting clear deadlines for each task. To make these tasks easier to manage, I made sure tasks were broken down into manageable sizes with clear descriptions and acceptance criteria. This helped the team to stay focus on their deliveries and maintain speed.
Another important part was to manages Risks. I worked with the team to identify and classify possible risk that might impact to the project deliverables. We defined a Risk matrix to monitor during the development process, and also a project board with the main KPIs to achieve during each stage of the project.
To ensure quality, we defined different testing processes focused on the design, and the process. We installed specific quality check for the documents and devices delivered for each of the milestones of the PDP, as well as a clear quality control in mass production.
Finally, for transparency, I reported on monthly basis to our company leaders and customer about the project status, focusing on Timing, cost, quality and scope.
By employing these strategies, we successfully launched our module on time matching with all the requirements defined by our customer. This was a great example of teamworking, and taught me the importance of breaking down large projects into smaller and easy to manage pieces. Transparent and clear communication was also a great lesson learned. This approach helped me to improve in leading teams through complex problems.

Anonymous

4Strong
My biggest success was the first time I was able to identify a customer pain point and along with team effort, take the idea from 0 to 1 i.e. from a prototype to deployment for customers. This happened when I was working on Shipment Creation & Planning at Pando. To use the product, admins took about 30 days t compete setups with required intervention from sales team. Hence the time to value was quite high. I thought o myself that there has to be a better way. I eat back to the drawing board, and sketched out a solution to give customers customisable services/ workflows that they can setup by themselves without sales intervention. I pitched the idea to upper product management, and presented it in quarterly product planning to gain buy-in promising that it would bring down the implementation time by almost 50%. We took it under implementation, and business impact was significant. It did reduce implementation times for existing client and we offered it as an add-on feature for new clients. 

Anonymous

4Strong
The accomplishment that i am most proud of is leading the development and launch of Order Service API at my previous company . The project is significant to me due to technical challenges we faced , the skills i applied and the substantial impact on the company’s operation
At the time , our ecommerce platform was hindered by monolithic architecture and outdated order management system which led to inefficiencies and frequent failure.'I was entrusted with the exciting challenge of developing a new Order Service API that could handle order creation, inventory fetching , product details while also integrating 3rd party tools for communication . We updated the programming language and underlying architecture to scale the platform and manage it  and integrated with 3rd Party apps .One of the major challenges was to maintain backward compatibility and ensure the new platform works hand in hand with existing platform and manage real time data effectively.After months of rigorous development and testing and iterative improvements based on user feedback we successfully deployed the API . The new system streamlined order management , provided real time order tracking and automated communications with customers. It resulted in 30% reduction in order processing and significant decrease in customer complaints . It was a great learning opportunity that challenged my technical and leadership skills and positive results validated the value of using latest technology

Anonymous

3.5Strong
As a super development engineer, I successfully meet the KPi by conducting minimum 7supplier audit as listed in the workbook. I have to check the supplier availability, review supplier company profile and documents, the products records that supplier ship to my company to plan my audit question and agenda. After confirming, I will conduct the audit either remotely or in site as per agreed with management and supplier. during audit, I will review supplier company documents like procedure, the records, do the observation and interview with auditees. If there is any concerns, will highlight to auditees to discuss, to reach mutual understanding before making the finding decision. If the finding is firm, then have to communicate with supplier and get their agreement. The findings will require supplier to provide 8D capa report which will be captured in my company system. 

Anonymous

2.5Fair
something i think is significant is completing at full time third level education while working full time also. managing my time such an extended period of time to be able to do both i believe is a significant accomplishment for me.
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