About

Divit Sood is a Business Analyst, Operations II at Uber Freight, with over 7 years of relevant experience in the field. He has a Bachelor of Science degree in Civil Engineering from the University of California, Berkeley, where he studied from 2012 to 2016. Divit's past experience includes working as a Business Analyst at Uber Freight and as a Maritime Planning Engineer at WSP USA. At WSP USA, Divit was part of the Maritime Planning group and was responsible for various tasks, including analyzing national Freight Analysis Framework data using Excel and Tableau to identify 10 national supply chains, investigating the impact of natural and man-made disruptions to each supply chain, and authoring a research paper with the lessons from this analysis to be published by the Transportation Research Board. He also developed over 30 smart modeling shapes on Microsoft Visio to lead the digitization of the Port and Intermodal Facility planning process, conducted a literature review of 20 research papers to identify cutting edge intelligent technology systems for port facilities, and coded a Visio shape alignment tool in Microsoft Visual basic that sped up facility planning by 20 percent. Divit's achievements at WSP USA also include compiling over 200 help documents detailing the workings of the Excel and Visio components of the integrated Port and Intermodal planning model, which earned him the WSP USA 2018 Knowledge Sharing Award for distributing these documents across business sectors in three continents. He also allocated a $2,500 local office developing professional network budget to the firm's internship program and speaker series initiatives, manufactured 10 port facility layouts from start to finish using Microsoft Visio and Excel while incorporating client feedback to improve satisfaction by 15 percent, and drafted an infrastructure redevelopment plan for the city of Cleveland centered around an interconnected transportation system, and supported by an in-depth economic review of the local economy, which earned him the 2017 WSP USA National Request for Proposals contest prize. Divit's tech stack includes Research Scientist and Infra. With his experience and skills, Divit is a valuable asset to any organization looking to improve its operations and planning processes.