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Toronto, On, Ca

Toronto, Ontario, Canada

• Coordination and management of meeting logistics, audiovisual, event production, food & beverage, meetings & conventions, tradeshows, ground and air travel, hotel stays, and special requests for groups at various global destinations.• Destination research and contract negotiations with hotels, airlines, and destination management companies.• Planning off-site events and/or activities for groups, meetings, and conventions for groups.• Managing the Creative Production & Pricing Schedule with the assigned Graphic Designer.• Group registration management and follow-up for programs.• Creating payment requests, managing supplier payment schedules, accounting for group expenses, and invoicing with the finance department.• Maintaining group profitability including pre-cost and post-cost analysis.• Holding and operating pre/post-conference meetings.• Multi-modal correspondence and travel with clients for site inspections and programs.

Maryland, United States

Environmental Scan of Factors Impacting NASA Aeronautics• Cataloging articles from numerous sources to shortlist headlines for impact analyses to identify relevance to ARMD.• Preliminary research, development of summary descriptions for each headline, and collaboration in compiling monthly reports to determine topics for exhaustive research.• Aeronautics strategy development including formulating future visions, goals, and research portfolios - Conducted an Integrated Portfolio Assessment to show a hierarchical tracing of the highest level ARMD goals and objectives down to the technical activities being done at the Project and Sub-Project level.• Knowledge elicitation with government and industry stakeholders - Women in Aviation (WAI) 2023 conference in Long Beach, California.NASA Phase I SBIR project - Vertiport Human Automation Teaming Toolbox (V-HATT) Developing a configurable human factors analysis tool to simulate Advanced Air Mobility (AAM) vertiport operator airside operations management by placing a human-in-the-loop (HITL) with some level of automation to manage the flow of arriving, surface, and departing AAM eVTOL aircraft at the vertiport and analyze bottlenecks and human performance.• Supporting final completion of the V-HATT Prototype development system, including reviewing Human Factors analysis capabilities, developing AAM use cases, and providing recommendations.• Developing a set of Phase II “Post-Mission” requirements related to bottleneck and human factors analysis.• Pushing the ability to configure the simulation to evaluate the human performance using predefined configuration and operational parameters.• Developing a Phase II HITL experiment work plan, identifying and documenting a prospective approach for setting up an experiment.• Developing the narrative for the proposal - the Human Factors Analysis Suite of Tools, its use in analyzing the selected operational concepts, vertiport design configurations, and experimental design.

Maryland, United States

Experiment development/ content creation for criterion-related validation studies to evaluate a proposed change within the NAS in the use of HITL simulations including the Tower Simulation-Based Performance Measure (TSBPM) as part of the GATTOR project for the FAA Civil Aerospace Medical Institute (CAMI). • Designing and deploying high-fidelity air traffic simulations using simulation software like the ATTower® Tower Simulator to develop a turnkey solution to replace traditional ATC towers with Remote Digital Towers (RDT). • Assisting in laboratory setup and test conduction for the FAA at the Mike Monroney Aeronautical Center (MMAC) involving human factors testing for RDT design configurations. • Designing test conditions, developing scale drawings, making hardware recommendations for four Human Factors Experiment studies to analyze human performance data for aptitude assessments in mission- and safety-critical occupations such as ATC Specialist. • Preparing test simulations for QA and performance tuning. • Testing prototype UI and network architecture for application optimization. • Assisting in defining requirements of future experiment content creation.• Performing troubleshooting and helping validate software updates prior to experiment conduct and product delivery to resolve known bugs and limit future issues.• Documenting methodologies for enhanced supportability and scalability of customer solutions with continuous test-driven development.• Ongoing collaboration with cross-functional groups across three companies in synergy on the GATTOR contract.

Orlando, Florida Area

7 years’ experience in the hospitality industry with a leading tour operator, Maxim Tours LLC, based in Orlando, Florida, USA. Job Profile• Managing operations for tours outbound from the series as well as negotiating wholesale contracts for leisure groups and tour series. • Networking and liaising with hoteliers, transportation suppliers, and DMCs around the world.• Detailing tour programs, routing, logistics, and on-tour coordination for leisure series, adhoc groups, MICE and FIT in over 60 countries.• Correspondence with clients and suppliers via telephone and email. Personnel training and team leads. • Coordinating with the Accounts department, authorizing payments and maintaining records for accounts payable and receivable. • Management of various internal projects like office renovation, FAM trips and other team-building events. Achievements• Successful completion of over 300 tours in over 60 countries with positive feedback.• Developed a comprehensive Employee Training Manual.• Successfully trained and led multiple batches of operations teams over the years.

Master Of Science - Ms, Aeronautics/Aviation/Aerospace Science And Technology, General, 4.0

Bachelor'S Degree, Aeronautics, Cgpa 4.0

Activities and Societies: Alpha Sigma Lambda

Certified Flight Instructor, Advanced Ground Instructor, Flight Training, Cfi Rating

Commercial Pilot Airplane - Multi Engine, Single Engine, Instrument Rating, Aerodynamics, Aircraft Systems, Weather, Airspace, Air Law, Flight Planning, Navigation

Activities and Societies: AOPA - Aircraft Owners and Pilots Association since 2010

B. Sc. Information Systems & Management, Network Security, Computational Maths, Dbms, Routing Protocols, Information Systems, Network Admin, Cgpa 3.48/4

Activities and Societies: Events Committee member - IEEE Region 8 Student Chapter (2009) - Manipal University, Editorial Board.

All India Senior School Certificate Examination, Physics, Chemistry, English, Physical Education, Computer Science

Activities and Societies: Sports Captain (2005-2006) Secretary - Cultural Society (2004-2005)

All India Secondary School Examination, Grade 1-10

Activities and Societies: Prefectorial Board (2000-2003) Girl Guide (2000-2003) Environmental Club (2000-2002)