Ali Siddiq Email & Phone Number

Pakistan

Lahore, Punjab, PK

Lahore, Punjab, PK

Lahore, Punjab, PK

Amal Academy (amalacademy.org) is an education startup supported by Stanford University and Acumen. Our vision is an education system in Pakistan that creates lifelong learners, self-starters, and problem solvers. To achieve this, our approach is to create a model platform – through our Career Prep Fellowship – that trains over 10,000 students and is.

London, GB

• PESP 2 is DFID’s largest project worldwide, totaling £420M in support over five years to improve school enrolment, quality and retention for Punjab’s 11 Million primary school age children
• Heading project management of PESP2, managing a team of 50+ Adam Smith Intl. and McKinsey & Co. consultants to ensure on-track technical delivery across all 36 districts of Punjab
• Leading annual work-plan and budget negotiations with donor, government, and delivery counterparts
• Providing strategic direction and technical leadership to project components focusing on public private partnership, institutional strengthening, public-perception, and technology-based interventions; also on.
• Leading business process improvement initiatives for stronger data management; Supporting business development and cross program knowledge-sharing initiatives; Developed ASI Pakistan CSR Policy
• Managing accurate financial forecasting, project reporting, and identifying and managing program risks

• An educational capacity building nonprofit institution, part of the Idara-e-Taleem-o-Aagahi (ITA) ecosystem, with initiatives across Pakistan including a UKAID/DFID funded project for school assessment
• Managed 50+ affiliate staff to design, develop, market and deliver learning modules, low-cost teaching materials, reading, sports and health kits, and training services across 4 provinces and AJK. 25+ trainers, 500+.
• Launched the Pakistan Alliance of Independent Schools (PAIS), an alliance of 25+ school associations representing 15,000+ schools across Pakistan, facilitating collaboration and development of standards for the sector.
• Directly managed the School Assessment for School Improvement (SASI) program funded by Ilm Ideas, working with a team of 9 in Lahore, Karachi and Islamabad to assess 110 low-cost schools, establish links with 30+.

Lahore District, PK

• A midsized top-tier local private school system with 3500+ students, 700+ staff across 10 branches
• Actively led expansion initiatives including preparing competitive bids, negotiating rental and construction contracts, and driving strategic school mergers, resulting in 30% campus growth over two years, setting the.
• Led strategic planning meetings with Board of Directors, built strategic partnerships,
• Conducted deep dive projects to redesign organizational structure, design and implement budgeting system, rationalize fee-structure, reevaluate and improve operations and procurement functions, and strengthen.
• Led projects to overhaul teacher training and school evaluation mechanisms

Dallas-Fort Worth, Texas, US

• Designed, piloted and launched an interactive Excel+SharePoint based workflow to coordinate the usage of a legacy revenue management mechanism, resulting in better inter-team collaboration, more accurate deployment.
• Leading continuous improvement projects for the Revenue Management organization

Dallas-Fort Worth, Texas, US

• Managed revenue performance of all American Eagle markets over the AA Chicago Hub and Canada, comprising 80+ routes, $1.2B in annual revenue
• Drove an 18% y/y increase in revenue for assigned hub over six months, the largest improvement across the American Eagle system
• Singlehandedly automated weekly KPI report generation, reducing Analyst time burden by 90%, from over three hours down to 15 minutes a week
• Awarded four AAbove and Beyond recognition awards for developing new tools and reporting dashboards which resulted in improvements to decision making and cross-team collaboration
• Earned certification as an Internal Consultant within four months of joining the company

Notre Dame, IN, US

• Magna Cum Laude, GPA 3.99
• Recipient, MBA Merit Fellowship; GMAT 740
• Recipient, John R. Malone Academic Achievement Award – for highest GPA of graduating class
• Recipient, J.D. Stuart Pegg Outstanding Male MBA Student Award – based on classmate nominations for leadership, teamwork, character
• Nominee, Lucy B. Pilkinton Award – for excellence in Management Communication
• President, ND Net Impact Club – using the power of business to address social and environmental issues

Seattle, WA, US

• Developed business case to share inventory across North American business units, resulting in projected annual impact of $1B in incremental revenue by 2016
• Conducted detailed pricing analysis to forecast impact of price-matching between Amazon’s US and Canadian websites

Natick, MA, US

• An inbound marketing role; supporting the direction of product development based on customer experience and feedback
• Led cross-functional market research project to investigate customer experience with MATLAB reporting capabilities, resulting in proposal to significantly alter product scope and marketing strategy
• Binned and prioritized backlog of 8000+ product enhancement requests based on expected customer-impact; developed and implemented improved strategy to handle new customer suggestions
• Developed user personas, conducted interviews, surveys and usability tests to guide product planning
• Drove modification to the support-strategy for the Sun Solaris Operating System, resulting in lower product-development costs and improved end-user experience
• Co-designed and piloted new technique to capture, share, and tag customer-interview notes using wiki, resulting in increased collaboration between Development, Marketing and Usability teams

Natick, MA, US

• Managed team of up to 10 peers through support shifts as Group Lead
• Provided frontline and Tier II tech-support for 90+ products; Authored 85+ Technical Solutions
• Delivered ‘Voice of Customer’ presentations to Development organization
• Facilitated infrastructural change to MATLAB by renegotiating deadlines and aligning priorities across 20+ functional development teams, resulting in product improvements affecting 150,000+ customers

Columbus, Ohio, US

• I worked on a project funded by FIPSE (Fund for the Improvement of Postsecondary Education) to expand a University level ‘Strategies for Success’ course to middle and high school students in the Columbus Public Schools.
• Key duties involved training instructors, website design, course delivery design and management, data collection, and impact assessment

Wilsonville, OR, US

• Designed and implemented software for embedded devices
• Conducted design reviews and facilitated quality review sessions

• Supervised redesign and testing of prototype hardware devices
• Represented design team in client meetings
• Managed sourcing and purchasing of hardware for prototyping and manufacturing

Mba, Business Leadership, Marketing, Social Entrepreneurship, Csr

Ms, Electrical Engineering

Bs, Electrical & Computer Engineering

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