Mar 2016 – Jun 2025 · 9 yrs 3 mos · New Delhi Area, India · On-site

• Led multiple projects including financial management, procurement, building environment and social safeguards. Designed and executed monitoring frameworks. Displayed strong project and stakeholder management skills. Evaluated disbursement requests over USD 100M. Projects include:
• ● Led the Skills Strengthening for Industrial Value Enhancement operation (2017-present, $125M), and the Vocational Training Improvement Project (2016-2018, $280M)
• ○ Cultivated partnerships between national and state governments, donors, and civil society to implement project through 650+ organizations.
• ○ Technical Advisory: Led policy development and research initiatives for the Ministry of Skills Development & Entrepreneurship (MSDE)
• ○ Project Management: Delivered complex, multi-million-dollar projects ($405M) on time, within budget & exceeded goals.
• ○ Financial and Procurement Management: Managed $87M in projects, implemented financial systems and procedures. Advised on $5M in technical assistance. Oversaw procurement of 8 major contracts
• ○ Monitoring & Evaluation: Built monitoring frameworks. Led over 20 reviews and independently evaluated and recommended 21 disbursement requests for $92M
• ● Supported design for Gujarat Outcomes for Accelerated Learning (GOAL) ($500M)
• ● Supported Nagaland: Enhancing Classroom Teaching and Resources (NECTAR) ($68M)
• ● Supported Enhancing Teacher Effectiveness in Bihar Operation ($250M)
• ● Supporting Andhra's Learning Transformation (SALT) Program - School-to-Skills Initiative ($270K)
• ○ Evaluated the ‘Viability gap funding through PPP’ scheme for ITIs (Government of West Bengal), Conducted RCT impact evaluations to assess the effectiveness of: (a) Innovative technology in boosting female labour force participation (b) Increased access to labour market information for women seeking employment, c) Led research initiatives evaluating the impact of vocational training on gender equity and labor market access, directly influencing national policy reforms.

Apr 2015 – Mar 2016 · 11 mos · Noida, NCR

• As part of core team of the firm, I worked on several projects including Student credit card scheme, participative agenda setting through academic consultations, etc.
• Also worked for the political wing 'I-PAC' and assisted in implementation of 'Badh Chala Bihar', 'Har ghar - Har man', etc.
• Additionally, was responsible for several vidhan sabha seats in the 2015 Bihar elections.

Jul 2013 – Apr 2014 · 9 mos · Gurgaon, India

• I was leading the data analytics operations team for Aon Hewitt's consulting team in Austalia and New-Zealand
• Responsibilities included:
• People Management
• Project Management
• Client and Stakeholder Management
• Project planning & estimation in line with customer expectations
• Project issue and risk management
• Report on KRA / KPI measurement matrices, including progress against plan, effort, schedule, milestones, issues and risks
• Efficient resource management and appropriate human capital utilization at all points of time
• Project management and process training for the team members
• Analyze project metrics to ensure compliance to quality
• Drive the compliance of SLAs and make strategies to overcome non- compliance
• Drive corrective measures proactively if non-compliance is observed
• Ensuring customer satisfaction & build ongoing relationships with them and manage expectations
• Closely work with internal stakeholders including data teams, quality, sales, etc..

Mar 2010 – Jul 2013 · 3 yrs 4 mos · New Delhi Area, India

• Managed multiple roles within the firms.
• Involved in multiple simultaneous projects with cross functional teams as a Project manager / project coordinator / project consultant in projects including:
• o Digitization of Archives at Nehru Memorial Museum and Library [Ministry of Culture, GoI],
• o Preparation and Implementation of e-governance master plan [Indore Development Authority, Govt. of Madhya Pradesh],
• o Estimation of the digitization market in the Indian public sector [Adobe Inc],
• o Capacity Building Expert, Capacity Building for PPP in local development [Asian Development Bank (ADB); Ministry of Local Development, Govt. of Nepal],
• o North Eastern Region Capital Cities Development Investment Program [ADB; Urban Development Department (UDD), Govt. of Tripura],
• o Capacity Building Expert, State capacity building on Public Private Partnerships (PPPs), Public Finance and Public Administration [ADB; Department of Finance, Govt. of Assam],
• o Preparation of Detailed Project Reports for e-Governance in 3 JnNURM mission cities of Madhya Pradesh (MP) - Bhopal, Indore & Jabalpur, under the National e-Governance Plan [UDD, Govt. of MP],
• o Deploying Innovative ICT for supporting e-Governance in Assam [ADB; Govt. of Assam],
• o IT Support for ICT Master Plan Implementation [ADB; The Royal govt. of Cambodia].
• In functional areas such as:
• Business process re-engineering (BPR)
• Project management consultancies
• Capacity building
• Institutional development
• Bid process management
• e-Governance
• Business Development - Identification of opportunities, responding to RFPs, negotiating contract . Have proven track record converting several RFPs. Have also designed various RFPs as a bid process manager; Client and stakeholder management; Internal organization development - Developed ISO framework, Development of new positions within the organisation (including writing KRAs and KPIs), Participated in strategy discussions with leadership

Jun 2007 – Jun 2008 · 1 yr · New Delhi Area, India

• ● Conducted grassroots level socio-economic research on the effects of implementation of the Right to Education (RTE) Act. Also contributed towards advocacy and outreach initiatives for implementation of the RTE act,
• ● Responsibilities included: Primary and secondary research, qualitative and quantitative research, report writing, conducting stakeholder discussions, communication strategy design and information dissemination.
• ● Conducted research and prepared high level economic analysis, wrote information dissemination reports and leaflets for making a case for the school vouchers program,
• ● Part of the team for implementing the pilot school vouchers program in New Delhi.

Mar 2006 – Jun 2007 · 1 yr 3 mos

• ● Conducted market research, data mining & analytics and on companies, people and geographies for assigning rating,
• ● Managed client requests for addition/ modification/ deletion of published research on the Capital IQ database.

May 2005 – Mar 2006 · 10 mos · Gurgaon, India

• ● Conducted primary market research studies included technology surveys, tend surveys, opinion polls, brand awareness and perception studies, among others for clients such as Data Monitor, Gartner, Forrester, etc.

Nov 2001 – Mar 2002 · 4 mos · New Delhi Area, India

• ● Conducted research on the following thematic areas:
• o Access to Primary, Secondary and Higher Education for the poor,
• o Entry barriers to bottom of the pyramid professions for the poor,
• o Regulatory barriers for farmers growing genetically engineered crop in India.