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-Planning and project management of the creation of tech products for Make A Difference through facilitation with external partners-Performed Cost-benefit analysis and selected the right external partner- Products include a Volunteer recruitment platform, Classroom management tool, volunteer management platform, etc.- Facilitated smooth sharing of requirements between the internal and external teams.

Tonk, Rajasthan, India

Tonk, Rajasthan, India

1. Improved class-4 students' learning in literacy from alphabets to paragraph level (in reading).2. Facilitated trainings to 2 blocks covering more than 100 teachers, who in-turn impact 3000children.3. Made dashboards out of data to help government officials in targeting vaccination sessions.4. Strategized a block-level vaccination plan- impacted people of an entire block of 240, 000+peopleJob Responsibilities:1. Visit a rural hamlet everyday to conduct classes to children on basic literacy2. Participate in the food and safety kit distribution to help people in need during lockdown.3. Read larger education policy documents, connect on-ground observations and write reflectivereports.4. Participate in Foundation's work with local healthcare system to support covid vaccination work.5. Understand public education and contribute in the Foundation's effort towards quality education

● Project manager , Making MAD Digital, which digitally connected 2300 children in 60Child Care Institutions across 23 cities. The project resulted in,○ 6 hours of support per week per child with a project budget of 1.5 crores.○ Set-up of 33 high-speed internet connections in 33 Child care institutions● Implemented multiple agile strategic rolling planning cycles of program impactmanagement, which plans for 1 year of vision, strategies, budget, outcomes, andoutputs of the program with the immediate quarter in focus.● Project managed “volunteer retention” project through which MAD retained 54% ofits total volunteers from one year to the next. (baseline was 30%)● Facilitated multiple training workshops and calls for more than 75 cumulative hourswith volunteers and volunteer leaders.

Bengaluru Area, India

● Managed the operations of the “voice of the child” project, cumulatively resulting inmore than 500 hours of volunteer-child interaction outside of MAD class hours (theproject is aimed at building agency in children) from December 2019 to March 2020.● Managed a distributed team of 67 city managers responsible for the quality andconsistency of MAD’s interventions across 23 cities and 64 child care institutions.● Mobilized the 67 member city-manager team to raise a total of 7L rupees throughcommunity fundraising.

• Ideated and implemented successful sourcing campaigns to identify, inspire and recruit over100 volunteers to work with children in shelter homes.• Built and maintained relationship with internal and external stakeholders representing theorganization.• Used design thinking tools like user journey mapping to curate positive volunteer (user)experience.• Mobilized the 160 member city volunteer team to ensure organizational outcomes areachieved.• Project managed several events on behalf on Make a difference for volunteers and externalstakeholders.• Built and enabled a highly co-working city manager team of 18, facilitating meetings anddecision making on ground.

• Implemented experiential learning through simulation based lessons in classes which lead togreater curiosity-based science learning• Activity based lesson plan creation and implemented in classroom, used a project plantemplate to create exam readiness timetable for students.• Managed to raise around Rs.80,000 in the 2018-19 Community fundraising campaign throughvarious campaigning methods.

Coimbatore Area, India

• Helped design and develop the company’s flagship product series of compressors called F-4 Alpha.• Learnt and used holistic design and development principles such as bench-marking, identifyingneeds for a product, facilitating concept ideas, selection of concepts and pilot building.• Being a part of a cross functional design team, learnt and implemented project timelinemanagement tools like design structure matrix, Gantt charts and critical path analysis.• Learnt planning and execution of tasks through a top-down approach having monthly milestones,weekly activities and daily work management.• Learnt critical skills like root cause analysis (understanding the source of a problem), design ofexperiments and statistical tools for analysis.• Worked on certification for Europe (CE) for export machines curating and documenting to meetinternational certification demands.• Designed and developed an advanced oil free sealing system, innovating a new sealing system foroil-free compressors• Enhanced the product value with the aid of extensive analytical calculations thereby reducing theproduct cost and enhancing the performance.

Coimbatore Area, India

Thanjavur Area, India

Captained a 25 member engineering design team. Participated in SUPRA SAE INDIA, design competition.

Chassis fabrication engineer

Master Of Science - Ms, Computational Analysis And Public Policy

Bachelor Of Technology (B.Tech.), Mechanical Engineering

Activities and Societies: - SAE INDIA COLLEGIATE CLUB - ISHRAE - ILLUMINATI- NIYANTRA - SASTRA RACING TEAM