Engineer turned musician. I am a civil engineer by education turned to educator and musician out of passion. I have qualified Rockschool Piano Grade 4 with Merit and Trinity Classical Piano Grade 5 with distinction. I have a teaching experience of 10 years, piano/keyboard playing experience of 7+ years. I also have an experience in writing music curriculum/books for beginners to intermediate level. I get excited about music theory and how it can be applied on an instrument. Alongside playing piano, I am also learning Harmonica, Ukulele, Melodica and Kalimba. Checkout at Insta: @mkalimbamusic, YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@m-kalimba

Lead the 4 centres of Taaqademy in Bangalore as Centres Head

As a product developer, I was incharge of developing separate product-boxes for grades 6, 7 & 8 with multiple projects in each box. Each project is basically an implementation of the concepts aligned with CBSE science curriculum, into fun and engaging building activities. I was also incharge of making the prototypes of these models and make worksheets with reflection questions, which covered the concepts being applied into the making of the model by the student.

1. Supervised 5 high-income private schools for successful delivery of the program and managed stakeholder expectations (school leadership, parents, teachers and students)2. Conducted professional development training to the school teachers for healthy facilitation of Creya-classes through Inquiry Based Learning and experiential education system in school3. Anticipated and solved operational roadblocks that come in the way of successful implementation, through onsite and offsite support to the school management4. Added value to the company by collaborating with the sales, curriculum, logistics and marketing teams, to find ways to improve and build the program5. Developed skills like communication, collaboration, initiative, adaptability and thinking skills while following intertwined responsibilities and carrying a solution oriented approach.

• Taught a class of 40 girls in an under-privileged MCD, government school, located in a low income community• Exercised time management skills by extensive planning of each minute within the class for extracting maximum output in minimum time provided to teach; achieved an average growth of 1.5 years in English; 50% growth in math and 46% of score growth in English writing over the last 1 year• Developed communication skills by giving explicit instructions within class for clear understanding, invested stakeholders of education by breaking down the complex solution into steps, convenient to understand; conducted phone interviews of 2015-applicants• Developed organizational and planning skills by pursuing a yearlong ‘Be The Change Project’ on educating the community about girls’ safety with each week’s plan and its execution for about 500 girls; rescued about 40 girls from the clutches of sexual-child-abuse and spread awareness to the community• Learnt to work under emotional, mental and physical stress like, multitasking between project, community visit, arranging resources/worksheets,after-school TFI meetings,submissions before deadlines and responsibilities as a selection team-member; not compromising on the quality of work.• Practiced empathy and understanding others’ perspective by directing a performance based learning on values & girl-child protection to perform in City Conference held at Vasant Valley School; class was among top 4 out of about 250 classes in Delhi; received extraordinary recognition from fellows as well as staff members• Skilled relationship-building and community engagement by visiting the community/families of students, invest the stakeholders of education and understanding their problems; children raised their voices among thousands of people via India’s first children manifesto, Udghosh, organized by Youth Alliance, 2013

- Conducted 'first reviews' of the applications received for 2015 fellowship of Teach For India.- Conducted phone interviews of the shortlisted candidates to help in decision making of the candidates to be called for further assessments and interviews

- Led the Penpal Program effecting over 60 Teach For India kids, in association with Asha For Education, Stanford Chapter, through which a Stanford student could become a "Big Brother or Sister" for a child- Exhibited the TFI school kids to see a life outside of their small world of deprivation and poverty and experienced something they could have never imagined.-Developed and improved their English reading and writing skills.

- Managed multiple projects at a time with the whole team, meeting deadlines on or before date.- Led a team of 5 to complete an already over delayed project in Vizag and finish it before appointed date.- Co-ordinated between project managers, draughts men, site incharges and HOD of civil department, regarding budgeting, timelines, structuring of buildings, meeting clients, on site supervision at Vizag and getting approvals on 12 design-drawings in 1 week.

- Design of civil and structural work of Power Plants’ structures along with draughting- Complete BOQ of the project- Complete Bidding for the BoP project- Single handedly completed Vizag Steel Plant Ltd. project (Structural & foundation design, BOQ and fabrication )- Promoted to Assistant Manager within an year; appreciated by HOD of civil engineering.