Asha S. Email & Phone Number

Washington, Dc, Us

Mclean, Va, Us

Reston, Virginia, Us

Building teams and delivering across multiple contracts for 3+ federal clients to date. Deliveries include a custom business transformation roadmap incorporating actional improvements across organizational process, security, operations, infrastructure, tools, and technology focuses; three business process reengineering deliverables spanning development & deployment, onboarding experience, and organizational design; eleven implementable proofs of concepts for technology optimization; and a package of strategy documents for an internal organizational redesign for program efficiency. ● Designed and led efforts for a holistic technical, business, and strategic assessment to federal health clients; providing actionable recommendations, testing technology viability, and implementing accepted solutions on the provided custom roadmap to transform internal operations for improved customer service ● As a Strategist – facilitated stakeholder workshops using design thinking methods to define problems, reach consensus, and capture requirements for organizational, process, and technical improvements. Conducted ceremonies in SAFe and hybrid agile methodologies for multiple teams. Assisted with strategy design workshops for change management strategy sessions ● As a Project Manager- served as the point of contact for contract, budget, scope, risk management & mitigation, staffing, client relationships, and team management for teams between 10-15 people. ● As a Program Manager - oversees 4 subcontracts with partner organizations including delivery quality assurance, staffing budget and forecasting, and people management.

Newtown, Pa, Us

Managed four accounts including commercial and non-profit clients, with budgets between $100k -$10M, and teams between 8 - 25+across multiple contients. ● Managed cross-functional teams ranging between ten and thirty FTEs; comprising UX generalists, Designers, Front and Backend Developers, Business Analysts, and Content Strategist; teams and clients were distributed across three continents and multiple time zones ● For all accounts- fully responsible for facilitating functional requirements, managing sprint scope, and prioritization, scope estimation, budget tracking, status reporting, stakeholder management, risk assessment and mitigation, teambuilding, staffing, release planning, issue escalation, and contract change process and ensuring client satisfaction ● All projects managed in Agile methodology using sprints and scrum team modelsAccounts and Projects overview: ● Account: Estée Lauder Companies, Bobbi Brown App project | Developed an iOS augmented reality application allowing users to virtual wear the Bobbi Brown makeup line. ● Account: Capital District Physicians' Health Plan (CDPHP), O&M project | Ongoing maintenance and enhancements contract for three Sitecore portals serving this healthcare insurance provider’s segmented audiences. their main membership audiences ● Account: Yum! Brands: Pizza Hut International, Digital improvements project | iOS application to digitize and improve required safety and operational inspections for store managers in two pilot international regions ● Account: Women’s Foodservice Forum (WFF), Portal Outreach Strategy project | Establish a strategic vision for a new community engagement program for a nonprofit supporting women’s advancement in the foodservice industry. Project tasks included facilitating current-state assessment of the current state and delivering a roadmap, requirements, and proof of concept for a Salesforce-based member portal

Boston, Massachusetts, Us

Served clients by applying her management consulting, marketing, design thinking, and research expertise to both nonprofit, federal, and commercial clients on 15+ projects.Highlights and Accomplishments Include: ● Led a market research initiative for design and branding elements for 1000+ digital users, increasing initial brand adoption by 25%. ● Successfully built strong relationships with 5+ separate client working groups and 10+ team members using key skills including consensus facilitation, multi-stakeholder workshops, and organizational capabilities assessment techniques to become a trusted advisor. ● Drove business development and consulting sales efforts by delivering tremendous client value. Successes include the delivery of a successful rebranding project by leveraging a marketing/communications strategy featuring change management planning to ensure minimal disruption. ● Achieved the successful delivery of 4 user experience and organizational assessment projects resulting in 3 additional follow-up projects and business development opportunities. Accomplished by utilizing tools such as client interviews, focus groups, market research, social media scanning, customer journey mapping, digital analytics research, and business operations assessment methodologies. ● Contributed to the successful delivery of project-level project management plans, five-year schedules, and supporting documentation per governmental audit compliance requirements. ● Lead the Women’s Leadership Network, an internal initiative with a vision to advance women in business. Accomplishments include the creation and facilitation of the ‘Emotional Intelligence” workshop, a leadership panel on corporate diversity, and professional women’s clothing drive. ● Strive to build an engaging and inclusive workplace culture by leading and supporting events such as annual holiday and summer celebrations increasing attendance and employee engagement by 15%.

Fairfax, Virginia, Us

Responsible for managing the current state of training and improving documentation, process improvement, and optimization. Served as the deputy FSO managing the personnel government security clearances process. Key successes and responsibilities include:● Led a project to create the first corporate-wide training program and development program which strives to effectively map skills, certifications, and experience over a competency matrix with the aim of achieving internal growth and workforce development.● Responsible for implementing an onboarding process for new personnel security assessments, and maintaining FSO documentation in accordance with DOD standards. Conducting quarterly security assessments and leading annual training briefings as an Assistant Facilities Security Officer.● Acting as a system administrator for the Taleo application tracking system and SkillSoft corporate learning management solution which led to a 25% increase adoption of online training. ● Coordinated charitable activities, corporate giving, and internal training & social events, contributing to employee engagement and satisfaction increase of 15%.● Content creation for corporate monthly newsletters, and website updates.● Contributed to proposal production, white paper development, and business development documentation.

Washington, District Of Columbia, Us

Responsible for marketing campaigns and other key functions revolving around attracting and engaging candidates.Key successes and responsibilities includes:● Led a multi-channel targeted advertisement campaign that resulted in a 60% increase in overall enrollment. ● Created and implemented 15+ public speaking engagements on program benefits, customized for each university.● Responsible for conducting full life-cycle campus recruitment at partner institutions in five states by leveraging a multi-channel campaign, artwork, meeting facilitation and public speaking. ● Initiated the organization’s inaugural social networking recruitment ad campaign.

Washington, Dc

Joined NACD focusing on communications, marketing, and legislative analysis. She also assisted with event support for their annual meeting, and event planning for their summer legislative meeting. Activities included: ● Conducted legislative analysis of proposed bills relating to conservation, invasive species, farming, ranching and environmental issues. ● Wrote daily media highlights, attended Congressional Hearings and disseminated data to staff and members.● Contributed to logistics, event coordination and execution of Annual Meeting for all member districts, and Legislative Meeting preparation.

Master Of Arts (M.A.), Organizational Management

Academic Internship Semester, Science, Technology And Society

Bachelor Of Arts (B.A.), International Studies, Asian Studies, Geography