Wendy Kakuda Email & Phone Number

United Kingdom

Wimbledon, England, United Kingdom

As Head of Strategic Resourcing, I consolidate management of operational support functions such as HR, office admin, and compliance while driving technical training. I serve as a member of senior leadership, ensuring these functions align with operational and strategic goals.

Utilising Agile workflow on projects as diverse as battlefield interoperability, full-stack cybersecurity product development and vulnerability assessments with Qualys. Also managing company-wide onboarding, development training and documentation of knowledge.

Utilising Agile workflow on projects as diverse as battlefield interoperability, full-stack cybersecurity product development and vulnerability assessments with Qualys. Also managing company-wide onboarding, development training and documentation of knowledge.

London, England, United Kingdom

Utilizing agile ways of working, DevOPs, software design, testing and relevant soft skills to create software applications in C#, .Net, Typescript, NextJs, React and more.

Remote

Moms Can™ & Co. is an online incubator for moms who want to switch careers and work exclusively remotely. We help optimize moms for remote entry-level job opportunities through our online programs, The Moms Can™ Code School & The Moms Can™ Design Lab.Responsibilities include: •Working to nurture a positive, collaborative working relationship through regular communication and continual expectation management. •Assisting in the management of schedules and overall curriculum organisation in collaboration with students, mentors, Program Manager, and Program Director.•Creation of tutorial content on HTML, CSS and JS as well as project rubrics.

Online

Online course instructor for 'Intro to Python', 'Python for Parents' and 'Develop Camp HTML, CSS, JS & Ruby Precourse'

London, United Kingdom

Prospect Burma is a small UK registered charity supporting the higher education of Burmese youth who wish to contribute to the development of their country.Key Duties: • Developing and implementing an integrated communications strategy including stakeholder engagement through digital channels, social media, and marketing materials• Producing newsletters and promotional materials• Managing and updating the content of the website, improving SEO and mobile phone communication• Developing and implementing a fundraising strategy that will generate a sustainable income stream for Prospect Burma to support the charity’s three-year business plan• Initiating and leading on new fundraising initiatives, including researching major institutional donors, corporates, trusts, legacies and individual donors• Maintaining and developing links with existing supporters and attracting new supporters.• Maintaining donor database and dealing with day-to-day enquiries

Nur-Sultan, Kazakhstan

• Communicating with press and maintaining press relations• Coordinating high-level visit communications• Line-management of two Embassy officers• Financial management of section budget• Creating, implementing and assessing public relations and digital projects and events• Writing news and briefing reports• Content management in Alterian, SharePoint and various social mediaMain achievements:• Implemented successful “London 2012” Olympic and Olympic Legacy campaign in Kazakhstan• Project implementer for four government funded projects• Coordinated communications for high-level ministerial visits

• Website development, content management and graphic designMain achievements:• Created and implemented website redesign and content management for Sue Doughty parliamentary political campaign• Logo designs created for Mauricio Prado political campaign in Brazil

•Working in a special needs school with learners ages 7 to 18.•Facilitating child-centered therapeutic interventions with learners in both a weekly group session and individual sessions.•Responsible for the clinical care of learners, managing the art therapy service, liaising with school staff about learners needs, session and client meeting scheduling, risk and art therapy assessments, formulation of appropriate therapeutic interventions, therapy evaluations and materials ordering.

•Working in an established school-based counselling service facilitating individual therapy sessions with children.•Working with three children ages 3 to 12 on a weekly basis.•Providing child-centered therapeutic support that helps to contain difficulties with trust, self-esteem and overwhelming emotions. •Responsibilities include keeping clients notes, planning therapeutic interventions, service evaluation, and group supervision.

•Worked in an established charitable art therapy service within an educational setting facilitating art therapy sessions with children.•Worked with four individual clients on a weekly basis over the period of nine months.•Established therapeutic alliances that helped to contain difficulties with trust, self-esteem and overwhelming emotions. •Communicated regularly with the children, their families, teachers, learning mentors and social workers about the progress of therapy, so that clients would be well supported both inside and outside of art therapy sessions.•Responsibilities included keeping clients notes, managing the art therapy service at four different school sites, service evaluation and materials ordering.•Gained valuable experience working with a diversity of cultural communities, social values and religious faiths in a multi-racial urban environment.

Ma, Art Therapy

Activities and Societies: RATS (Roehampton Art Therapy Society) Founder 2006 Completed a two-year Master’s Art Therapy course.

Js Full-Stack Developer Techdegree, Full-Stack Development

Bertlesmann Data Science Scholarship, Data Science

Activities and Societies: Bertlesmann Data Scholars Belgium Bertlesmann sponsored scholarship for introductory Data Science.

General Studies, Child And Adolescent Development; Intro. To Psychology; Counselling Skills

Successfully completed several Psychology and Counselling subject courses in anticipation of undergoing Art Psychotherapy training.

Bfa, Fine Arts

Activities and Societies: Member, Delta Delta Delta Sorority, Phi Rho Chapter

Japanese Studies