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New York, United States

• Coached over 85% of immigrants in resume building, interview preparation, and connecting them to job fairs leading to their successful employment within six months of resettlement
• Connected immigrants to local healthcare, education, USCIS, and community resources, accelerating their community integration and reducing reliance on support programs
• Assisted 100% of asylum seekers with opening bank accounts and improving financial literacy, encouraging saving habits
• Facilitated housing, school placements, asylum application and work authorization applications, achieving a 95% success rate in securing job placement and essential services for asylum seekers

• Successfully developed a strategic expansion plan to expand Microsoft Leap initiative to 4 countries, resulting in a significant increase in the tech talent pool and addressing the talent gap for both Microsoft and its.
• Conducted market research for 10 countries within Europe, Middle East and Africa (EMEA) to identify and agree potential countries to invest in which resulted into investing in 2 new emerging countries across EMEA
• Designed the user experience of Microsoft Leap as a service website with focus on identifying business opportunities in enhancing business growth by 12%
• Effectively led the development of 11 technology skills portfolio pathways, which increased the qualified candidates pool by 20%

• Built strong relationships with key government executives, corporate and influencers expanding IBM business and technology skills initiatives in 17 countries across Central, West & Southern African countries
• Created and executed 22 social responsibility and technology developmental projects with NGOs, foundations, tertiary institutions, governments, and developmental organizations such as World Bank to impact job.
• Developed an educational stakeholder engagement strategy with a centralized partner/alliance process with result of 12% incremental improvement in revenues owing to adoption of IBM products in Africa
• Surpassed technology educational target in 2019 by 300% by partnering with federal government in growing digital skills to reach over 500,000 individuals

• Developed and maintained a strong sales pipeline and nurtured close relationships with 8 key clients, contributing to a significant increase in IBM's business and market share within West Africa
• Managed client sales cycles by identifying and eliminating bottlenecks, resulting in increase in sales pipeline and deal closures

• Supervised and evangelized 10 new emerging technologies by leveraging 90 IBM Cloud events during an outreach across Middle East, Africa and Pakistan with a presence of 1633 students in a span of two months
• Leveraged IBM Cloud in growing technical needs and cloud adoption in 25 universities and hubs across Middle East and Africa
• Evangelized 10 new technology developments and best practices to faculties & students to expand application deployments forcloud transformation using IBM academic initiative as cloud resources