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Washington, District Of Columbia, United States

• Manage and coordinate “The Interventions Guide”, a part of the organization’s top strategic priority, in which we are developing over 25 robust, ready-made, and evidence-based curricula for children and adults in 7 languages and deploying these in 29 countries via national & regional workshops, as part of Program Strategy & Operations team.• Collaborate cross-culturally with 29 National Offices for custom-tailored Intervention planning and executing of both written materials and app-related technology, while identifying pain points and improvement of processes that positively improve outcomes for children in poverty..• Maintain, adapt, and communicate ever-changing roadmaps, risks, and dependencies due to scope creep and direction shifts.• Improved team efficiency by 20% through creating new automation, data analyses, dashboards, and regular status updates.• Created a new translation process that saved 7+ months of work effort and approximately $300,000 of allotted budget.• Developed a sustainable communication process to ensure the right decisions, materials, and dates were synced among 11+ different stakeholder groups, including operations, marketing, executive teams, and IT.

Washington, District Of Columbia, United States

• Coached teams on Scaled Agile (SAFe®) principles for product development of a mobile app and website centered on constant improvement of donor experience for sponsorship of 2.2 million children in poverty.• Led 4 teams of 23 developers, testers, and product owners in iterative work planning and progress tracking through DSU, Iteration Planning, Retrospective, PI Planning, and I&A Workshop scrum ceremonies.• Created culture of continuous improvement for teams through change roadmaps using sprint and release data analysis.• Analyzed team performance metrics to identify areas of inefficiency and to create refined processes for project delivery.• Improved team flow through process changes and data analytics to increase predictability by ~40% and delivery by ~60%

Washington, District Of Columbia, United States

• Team Lead and Scrum Master for agile-driven back-end product development of a client relationship management (CRM) tool used by the U.S. government.• Collaborated with 4 other teams for mitigation and strategizing of dependencies and potential impediments for development.• Responsible for leading DSU, Backlog Refinement, Sprint Planning and Commitment, and Release Planning for a team of 6.• Developed reference materials and resources for the team to improve agile process.

Boston, Massachusetts, United States

• Team Lead for ideation, development, and deployment of a configurable and globally-used travel request and management platform for enhanced government operations.• Conducted extensive business analysis for planning, execution, and delivery (using agile methodologies) of a client relationship management (CRM) tool to technologically modernize U.S. government systems.• Supported development and maintenance of a technical Knowledge Base for government operations.

Boston, Massachusetts, United States

• Drove change management for user groups' adoption, experience, and engagement of a university-used product (during the COVID-19 pandemic) through large-scale data analysis, communications and marketing, and agile strategy planning.

Boston, Massachusetts, United States

• Assisted in the development and implementation of a research data platform for pharmaceutical company functionality in drug discovery through functional data architecture design, agile requirements analysis, and third-party/off-shore collaboration.

Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States

• Serving as a TA for MIT undergraduate course: Fields, Forces, and Flows in Biological Systems.• Responsible for preparing and teaching classroom sessions, holding office hours for extra tutoring, and administration of homework assignments, quizzes, and exams.

Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States

• Undergraduate researcher focused on tissue engineering topics related to the cardiovascular system• Project deals with genetic factors that affect cell differentiation of cardiac myocytes• Goal of project is to better understand cellular regeneration of cardiac tissue for treatment/repair of heart failure. Potential for synthetic organ generation.

São Paulo, Sp, Brazil

• Shadowing doctors in the cardiology department and the ICU• Learning about medicine and the medical field in Brazil• Working at a partner hospital under public health to identify areas of Brazilian public healthcare that needs improvement

Bangalore, India

• Working on implementation of a class project on prosthetics• Our team developed an adaptor to attach a prosthetic cane leg to a standard prosthetic socket• Field testing done in India with amputees to test functionality of adaptor• Working under MIT's D-Lab in conjunction with Rise Legs in Bangalore

Cambrige, Ma

• Researching Acute Myeloid Leukemia (AML) and how gene expression is related to a patient’s increased resistance toward chemotherapeutic treatments.• Question how mutated oncogenes and tumor-suppressing genes and epigenetic factors cause for relapse in cancer patients.• Handle mouse models treated with PDX samples for leukemia.• Mentored by MD/PhD candidate from Harvard-MIT medical program.

Medford, Ma

• Summer daycare/camp of children ages 3-12 from the Brazilian community in Boston.• Responsible for teaching kids Bible stories, as well as other basic lessons such as math, cursivewriting, geography, and even etiquette.• Led field trips to educational and recreational places in Boston such as the New EnglandAquarium and Legoland.

Cambridge, Ma

• Assisted SOS Office with community events and tasks during spring semester

Somerville, Ma

• Helped train new employees in the newly-opened store.• Handled hundreds of thousands of dollars in transactions. • Helped keep store organized and in well maintenance.

• Tutor for an adult pursuing GED in basic math, science, social studies, and language arts.• Tutor for others in high school level algebra and calculus.

Bachelor Of Science - Bs

High School Diploma