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Prajakta Aherrao

• A focused professional with nearly 3 years of experience in: ~ Technical Writing & Illustration ~ Translation Management ~ Reporting & Documentation ~ Liaison & Coordination ~ Project Execution • A project executor with expertise in executing various technical writing projects • Well versed with the concepts of writing & reviewing user manuals • Expertise in creating original works, proposing topics, gathering information about the topic • Skilled in interfacing with teams

Key Skills

Technical Writing
Technical Illustration
Project Management

Professional Experience

Sep 2014
Present
Assistant Manager
Mettler Toledo Mumbai, IN
Scale manufacturing company
Highlights: 
  • Gained working exposure for various software like FrameMaker, MS Office, InDesign, Adobe Illustrator, Adobe Photoshop, etc.
  • Preparing User manuals for customers.
  • Proofreading translations of the manuals.
  • Weekly send the projects status reports and estimation of work load for next week.
Major Projects: Title: User Manuals Role: Accountable for: 
  • Planning, implementing and writing the User Manual from the beginning to the end of the project
  • Understanding engineering drawing and preparing service instruction illustrations
  • Rewriting available material (in STE standard) in easy to understand language



Oct 2013
Oct 2014
Technical Writer Engineer
L & T IES Mumbai, IN
Service Industry
Highlights: 
  • Gained working exposure for various software like FrameMaker, MS Office, InDesign, Adobe Illustrator, Adobe Photoshop, etc.
  • Preparing User manuals for customers.
  • Proofreading translations of the manuals.
  • Weekly send the projects status reports and estimation of work load for next week.
Major Projects: Title: User Manuals Role: Accountable for: 
  • Planning, implementing and writing the User Manual from the beginning to the end of the project
  • Understanding engineering drawing and preparing service instruction illustrations
  • Rewriting available material (in STE standard) in easy to understand language

Title: Translation Projects Role: Accountable for: 
  • Planning for various translation projects
  • Checking the translation quality.
  • Updating the manuals in Indesign template.

Apr 2011
Nov 2013
Documentation Engineer
Konecranes Shared Services India Pvt. Ltd., Pune Pune, IN
Crane Manufacturing company
 
Highlights: 
  • Gained working exposure for various software like TeamCenter CMS, XMetal Autor, Aton, MS Office, InDesign, CorelDraw, Adobe Photoshop, etc.
  • Essayed a stellar role as Decision Making Authority in successful execution of the projects
  • Meticulously contributed in product documentation
  • Independently plan and monitor projects, ensuring timely and cost efficient task completion.
  • Understand and thorough study of inputs received to prepare manuals and illustrations.
  • Communicate and interact with designers, technical service engineers, product development team to arrive at best idea of the product.
  • Interview Subject Matter Experts (SME’s) to know the product with its details.
  • Use of technical guides like illustration style guide, template style guide for preparing illustrations and various manuals.
  • Weekly send the projects status reports and estimation of work load for next week.
  • Plan and distribute the work, tasks among team members and review the same before final release/delivery.

Major Projects: Title: Field Service Manual (Rubber Tired Gantry Crane) Role: Accountable for: 
  • Planning, implementing and writing the Service Manual from the beginning to the end of the project
  • Understanding engineering drawing and communicating & instructing CAD team for 3d model for required assembly; preparing and instructing others for service instruction illustrations
  • Working closely with service engineer for routine service instruction/inspection of crane component
  • Communicating with Supplier for crane component information and component model
  • Rewriting available material (in STE standard) with Acrolinx software in easy to understand language

Title: Translation Projects (DMCS022, DMCS007, etc.) Role: Accountable for: 
  • Planning and communicating for various translation projects
  • Working as mediator for translation projects (between customer and translation agency)
  • Understanding customer requirement and communicating it to the translation agency
  • Coordinating with the country trainer for getting manual reviewed (in various language) with the desired quality
  • Publishing final manual on web (Konecranes intranet web) & Aton (Konecranes Publishing Software)
Title: ETA Report Writing Role: Held accountable for re-writing the report made by site engineer in easy to understand language. 
Title: Operator’s and Owner’s Manual (Smarton Crane) Role: Administered the entire: 
  • Formatting and re-structuring of technical documents (Operator’s, Owner’s Manual and Log Book)
  • Crane specification form (order form) and preparing manuals accordingly with desired quality
  • Crane operating instruction in coordination with Project Manager

Sep 2010
Apr 2011
Planning & Design Engineer
Apurva Service Consultancy Thane, IN
HVAC
Highlights: 
  • Heat Load Calculation.
  • To attend the technical meeting with clients & architect get clarification.
  • Preparation of complete HVAC Design which includes
    • Single line Diagram
  • Preparation of Detailed specifications for Machine Unit.
  • Preparation of Bill of Quantities for the assigned projects.
  • Coordinating with the Client’s & architects Technical Team.
Major Projects: 
Title: 1. Palladium mall, Lower Parel 
2. R city mall, ghatkopar 
3. TJSB Bank, Thane 

Education

May 2007
May 2010
B.E.(Mechanical) in Yadavrao Tasgaonkar College of Engineering
Mumbai University
May 2004
May 2007
Diploma In Mechanical in K.J.Somaiyya Polytechnic
MUMBAI
Apr 1992
Jun 2004
SSC in P.B.M.,Mohone
Pune

Certifications

2017
Shema ST4
Dieter Pichl

Quote

Keep working hard

Hobbies & Interests

  • Listening Music
  • Reading Books

Languages

English
(Fluent)
Hindi
(Fluent)
Marathi
(Native)

Career Aspiration

Managing Whole Team Performing with better team

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