Marium Afzal Khan Email & Phone Number

Adelaide, South Australia, Australia

Singapore

• Interfaced with internal teams from across the globe to identify opportunities for employing data analytics to improve business processes, efficiency and value to external clients
• Collected requirements from stakeholders and worked with data analysts on the team to conduct preliminary analysis and prototype tools for data-based solutions using SQL, Stata and R
• Supported the executive leadership of the Center on their goal to position Aon as a global knowledge leader in FinTech and InsurTech by providing qualitative and quantitative research and analysis on cutting edge.
• Collaborated on global projects that had stakeholders across Singapore, Australia, USA and Ireland
• Presented qualitative and quantitative findings to technical and non-technical audiences

• Lead consultant for spatial data analysis and remotely sensed information from satellite imagery on poverty mapping project in Pakistan
• Proposed methods to use GIS and satellite data to generate proxies for poverty at high spatial and temporal granularity in the absence of a census
• Initiated proposals for cross-pollinating the same methodology among government sectors

• Grew portfolio of ICT and governance innovations by proposing and assessing technology options for process optimizations, managing prototype development and subsequent implementations
• Led the design and development of mobile-based data collection systems to support the USD50 million project to improve transparency and resource management of target government departments
• Pitched design and implementation approach for spatial and statistical data analysis to assist government officials for monitoring and decision making in health, education and livestock sectors
• Led a pilot study to assess the feasibility of mobile-based attendance monitoring solutions for remote, low infrastructure areas to address chronic absenteeism in education sector, particularly in remote conflict-prone.

• Technology and design nonprofit startup seeded by Google that solves governance problems in the public sector through design thinking, prototyping and iteration.
• Managed a team of up to 12 developers and researchers across multiple projects
• Liaised between donors, clients and researchers for fundraising and for reporting on ongoing projects
• Led an exploratory study funded by UKAID to research low-cost alternatives for mapping socioeconomic status using spatial data, remote sensing and mining of big data
• Estimated access to primary healthcare and public schools with spatial analysis to identify rural underserved pockets
• Conducted spatial analysis for a study titled "Metropolitan Lahore – Economic Geography, Labor Markets and Growth" that analyzed the growth of the city of Lahore and its economic impact.

• Technology consultant for the Citizen Feedback Monitoring Program, and award-winning mobile-based service to track petty corruption.
• Responsibilities included designing protocols and data collection mechanisms, developing prototype solutions to pilot the model across four services in six districts, and using the findings to iteratively improve the.

Designed and developed a real-time mobile-based system that measures a student’s learning from a lecture before the student has an opportunity to use other sources of learning.

• Pakistan's first SMS-based social network, now with over 7 million users. Won e-Inclusion Award at Annual ICT P@SHA awards 2008. Spawned competitors like Pring and Ufone Group SMS.
• Responsibilities included designing the service, and developing supporting technology, including SMS- and web-based interfaces.

Ed. M., Technology, Innovation And Education

Bsc. Hons., Computer Science, Math

Activities and Societies: LUMS Art Society - Executive Council GPA: 3.92/4.0 Specialization GPA: 4.0/4.0