Pavithra Lakshminarayan Email & Phone Number

Trenton, New Jersey, United States

Manage Industry Sector Partnerships for Manufacturing by driving public-private partnerships to collaborate and build sustainable and scalable models that addresses workforce, economic and education challenges impacting the industry sector.

• Started in Mindbytes in 2011, design and deliver a portfolio of innovative programs such as Introduction to data analytics, Young Entrepreneurs Program, Make your Own Storybook, Algorithms and Problem solving, etc. with the Game-Design program being offered at the Governor’s School of the Rutgers Institute of Engineering and Technology• Partner of Lemelson-MIT program to develop course and content around Invention Education.• Worked in the Content Design & Development team for Biogen- Lemelson MIT – Biotech in Action (a program to encourage students from underrepresented & low income household to explore biotech). Helped successfully transition the in-person summer camp for high school students to a virtual learning model (due to COVID-19). • Built partnerships with various school districts, libraries and non-profit institutions to offer Mindbytes programs as afterschool programs, workshops and summer camps in NJ and NC. • Advisor for Education and Research based projects, including strategic planning, curriculum design, course development, training and integration for non-profit organizations and libraries.• Operational Lead for the South Jersey STEM Innovation & Partnership STEM Eco-system (includes urban and rural counties), working to broaden participation in STEM Learning and to build CTE/career pathway programs that provide a K-16 continuum. Helped scale the ecosystem to Atlantic County, Atlantic City being the pilot site. Create community engagement activities to spark STEM interests and has come up various competitions such as the IoT hackathons and NJ STEM Communities Challenge (design challenge) to increase the STEM awareness amongst students, teachers and families.• A priority group chair for Early Childhood Education at the NJ STEM Pathways Network. • Consultant for market research and data analysis for Walls Torres Group, an independent consulting company working with non-profit organizations.

Leading major STEM research and projects in the field of Early Childhood Education.

New Jersey

New Jersey, United States

• SJSIP collaborative partners are from the government, businesses, non-profit organizations, and institutions of learning. We serve and focus our efforts on three population base, namely, students (STEM education), skilled workforces (STEM-based middle skill), and employers (STEM talents).• Operational Lead for the South Jersey STEM Innovation & Partners, a STEM Learning Ecosystem (which includes urban and rural counties), working to broaden participation in STEM Learning and to Promote (CTE/career pathway programs) a STEM Education Continuum for PreK-16.• Helped scale the ecosystem to Atlantic County, Atlantic City being the pilot site. • Create and deliver community engagement activities to spark STEM interests including family STEM nights, family webinars on STEM careers & education, PDs for teachers on Cybersecurity & CAD, competitions such as the CISCO- IoT hackathons and SIEMENS -NJ STEM Communities Challenge (design challenge) to increase the STEM awareness amongst students, teachers and families.

• Designed curriculum for the virtual (tablet & web-based) math program for grades K-8 across multiple geographies including US, UK, Australia and Canada. Helped transition content on to Learnosity Platform.• Led new product strategy initiatives for different countries such as US, UK, Australia, South Africa, India & Canada. • Created and deployed framework to support operations in different countries and worked on the automation work flow & BI tools – Looker & Zoho to provide insights to the management & Investors.• Developed models to gather data to guide operations and impact student learning and trained data for an IBM Watson pilot project.• Designed products to suit specific market segments, developed go-to market strategies and led teams to launch the products.

• Led training for project teams, middle and senior management on technical certifications and project requirements, specializing in software engineering concepts and tools across US,UK & Asia-Pacific • Created e-learning frameworks for several technical topics at the graduate student level and for working professionals in the software development industry• Managed the operations of the new hire orientation and on-boarding through training, certification and in-placement, handling up to 750 trainees at a time• Created curriculum design for advanced courses for several levels up to senior management • Led the Learning and Development forefront for the campus selection initiatives for companies• Trained graduate students on software engineering, project management, data warehousing and mobile communications• Executed training programs pertaining to placements and tracked performance of students• Led the Student Internship Program (SIP) as student guide for project selection and execution• Led sales, marketing and operations for a first-of-its-kind, Two-Year Master’s Program for Computer Applications and successfully graduated the first class• Facilitated management programs and train the trainer workshops for new faculty members

• Handled the launch of the 2 year full time MCA program including marketing, admissions, course management and day to day operations management• Set up and maintained the MCA operations database and provided management reporting• Has facilitated management programs and train the trainer workshops at HQ. Also been a faculty Guide for new faculty members appointed by Head quarters.• Handled all student Summer Internship Placements for Bangalore as the SIP Coordinator and project managed the development of a SIP monitoring software

Chennai

Designing new graduate programsTeacher graduates on Software Design and ProcessDesigned professional development programs for faculties in technology.

Chennai Area, India

• Designed and developed a customized ERP solution for Government non-profit organization, including:o System Study and System Requirement Specificationo Work scheduling, resource planning and costingo Design and development of database structure o Program specifications for the development process o Functional analysis including process definition for largest & most critical finance moduleo Training users on newly developed systemo Customer interaction on key issues and project team coordinationo Offshore support during implementation.o Involved in Human Resource management system for training and development.