May 2019 – Dec 2023 · 4 yrs 7 mos · Mumbai Area, India

• Ooloi Labs was founded in 2019 with the focus on building solutions and products to solve various problems faced by impact organisations in their quest to scale their programs and approaches meaningfully. As a team we have worked across various domains in the impact space: Water Quality, Ecology, Public Health, Education, Livelihoods, Agriculture, Active Citizenship, Access to Justice, Sexual and Reproductive Health, Nutrition, Philanthropy.
• Our Clients have included: Catapult Design, Vihara Innovation Network, Giving Tuesday Data Commons, Make A Difference (MAD), Global School Leaders (GSL), PATH, Veditum India Foundation, Quest Alliance, INREM Foundation, Menstrual Health Alliance of India, Foundation for Mother and Child Health, Foundation for Ecological Security, The Nature Conservancy (India), Socratus, BOSCH CSR, Naandi Foundation, Arghyam, Revitalising Rainfed Agriculture Network, Nazdeek, Video Volunteers, Agami OpenNyAI, People’s Science Institute (Dehradun)

Jul 2015 – Apr 2020 · 4 yrs 9 mos · Mumbai, India

• Between 2015 and 2020, I worked as an independent consultant with social impact organisations and initiatives in India and internationally with a focus on applying strategic and human centred design tools and principles to questions of pilots, scale and operations of programs that are in the process of being designed.
• 1. Designing an Agent Empowerment Platform for BTPN, an Indonesian Bank - Quicksand, India
• 2. Designing and executing Evaluation for Informal Science education at ‘The Story of Space, 2017’ – The Story of Foundation, India
• 3. Developing a system of documentation for learning and scale of fluorosis mitigation strategy - INREM Foundation, India
• 4. Advising on internal communications using digital communication platforms and rethinking e-facilitation - Quest Alliance, India
• 5. Developing a system for replication and communication of Lab.Our Ward, a maternal health service design for low resource settings - M4iD, Finland
• 6. Structuring the pilot and documenting for scale for Engagement of Alumni from the Skills to Succeed programme - Quest Alliance, India
• 7. Ethnographic Research around rituals in maternal health in Bihar - M4iD, Finland
• 8. Technology Roadmap and Strategy for Anandshala Program - Quest Alliance, India
• 9. Leading the Monitoring and Evaluation Team for 4 year EU funded national project around Fluorosis and Arsenic - INREM Foundation & Partners, India (ongoing)
• 10. Design and Implementation of a course to train employees and ecosystem partners in innovation techniques – Quest Alliance, India
• 11. Facilitating shift in core strategy of the business and supporting through transition – Social Enterprise in Volunteering Sector, India

May 2013 – Nov 2015 · 2 yrs 6 mos · Auroville, India

• Amrutdhara is a social enterprise working on technology and systems to ensure access to affordable, quality-assured drinking water in public spaces in Urban India.

Jun 2010 – Mar 2013 · 2 yrs 9 mos · Gurgaon, India

• Design Research, Product Design and Project Management
• Projects:
• 1. The Potty Project — The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation
• 2. Healthy Futures — A global consumer electronics company
• 3. UnBox 2011 — Design Festival initiated and executed by Quicksand
• 4. Hand Hygiene research, ideation and prototyping — Clean Hands Inc.
• 5. Smartphone Usage in India — A global Mobile Phone company
• 6. User-centred research around Dishwashing in India and Nigeria — A global FMCG
• company
• 7. UnBox 2012 — Design Festival initiated and executed by Quicksand
• 8. Project Sammaan — The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation
• 9. Digital Camera usage — Idea Couture, Toronto
• 10. UnBox 2013 — Design Festival initiated and executed by Quicksand

Sep 2009 – Mar 2010 · 6 mos

• Product, Exhibition and Graphic Design, Project Management, Research and Basic web
• development at Aurore, Auroville
• Projects:
• 1. Market and User Research around Solar Water Heaters — Ministry of Renewable
• Energy
• 2. Reboot of Mission Tejas Website — In-house project
• 3. Reboot of Eco-Exhibition — In-house project