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Kazakhstan

Almaty, Kazakhstan

• Established a new branch of the business development team focused on collaborating with partners to implement and test new product hypotheses• Conducted a comprehensive financial analysis by calculating the lifetime value (LTV) of each customer in relation to customer acquisition cost (CAC) and developed a detailed five-year business model for the company• Led the initial testing and launch of a new lead generation strategy to monetize bookings from new users at beauty salons. This initiative marked the first instance of generating revenue from our active client base, and now contributes a quarter of our overall revenue• Developed a project brief for the IT team to create Remind365, a WhatsApp add-on notification system, and successfully launched sales to our existing partners. • Led business development and marketing teams to launch a promotional initiative offering $6 promo codes to offline clients for their first online booking through the app. This initiative tripled monthly active users from 40,000 to 120,000 within a year

Almaty, Kazakhstan

• Coordinated business aspects of the project while collaborating with co-founders, who focused on technological development during the founding phase• Created a platform currently used by over 1,500 businesses across 26 cities in 4 countries (Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Uzbekistan, Turkey), with >700,000 bookings each month and a customer base of over 120,000 monthly active users• Collected and analyzed feedback from beauty business owners to identify their challenges and needs, and synthesized this information into a comprehensive technical brief for the design and IT teams • Established and built initial sales, support, and marketing teams from the ground up to drive the launch of our product• Transformed an in-house sales team into a comprehensive franchise system for our product, resulting in 14 partnerships across five regions• Managed four departments, overseeing a total of 70 employees responsible for sales, marketing, support, and franchise operations• Expanded the partner network to 1,500 firms, grew monthly active users to over 100,000, and facilitated the company's expansion into 26 cities across Kazakhstan, as well as three additional countries (Kyrgyzstan, Uzbekistan, Turkey)

West Lafayette, In

• Supported ME 200 (Thermodynamics I) and ME 300 (Thermodynamics II) students with extra instructions via established regular office hours• Mentored students with their future plans by sharing my own graduate school experience• Created solutions and rubrics for the homework, graded exams and documented the statistics of the class

West Lafayette, In

• Designed and assembled a novel apparatus to study the combustion characteristics of alternative liquid hydrocarbon fuels for atmospheric pressure and a wide range of initial fuel temperatures.• Measured the flame spread rate, ignition characteristics, burning rate, radiation feedback for all the test fuels.• Used LabVIEW and MATLAB for data acquisition and analysis of experimental results respectively

Zucrow Laboratories, West Lafayette, In

• Conducted and analyzed more than 5000 tests to measure the HSI temperature of hydrocarbon fuels dispensed onto a temperature controlled stainless steel surface• Results showed that HSI phenomena is probabilistic and random in nature

Robotics Research Center

• Designed and modeled outer physical body for an interactive robot assistant using SolidWorks which could be used in the elementary schools as an educational tool• Performed structural analysis of the design using ANSYS software to determine weak areas on the design

Almaty, Kazakhstan

• Developed a new method against ice coating on rotating parts of H-rotor wind turbines for areas in harsh climates • Analyzed CFD simulations results to determine the optimal size and design of the internal cavities for wind turbines

• Examined different geophysical methods for uranium deposit explorations • Gathered and compiled geophysical data for my engineering instructor

Master Of Science - Ms, Mechanical Engineering

Activities and Societies: American Society of Mechanical EngineersThesis: "A Study of Flame Spread Measuremens of Aviation Fuels"

Bachelor Of Science - Bs, Mechanical Engineering

Activities and Societies: President of Purdue Astronomy Club Vice-President of Purdue Kazakh Student Assosiation Purdue Judo Team Member.

Study Abroad Exchange Program, Mechanical Engineering

High School Diploma

Activities and Societies: President of the School Committee Winner of Internation Astrophysics and Astronomy Olympiads