Apr 2024 – Jan 2025 · 9 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

• Programme Lead - PUCAR
• Led a 12 member team to collaborate with the PUCAR collective (four organisations and 50+ community members) to co-work with the judiciary in Karnataka and Kerala and the Supreme Court eCommittee to conceptualise, design, build and support operations of DRISTI an open source technology for services such as filing, scrutiny, summons, hearings, scheduling, orders and judgements (https://pucar.org/cheque-bounce-disputes) and 24x7 ON Court launched by HC of Kerala (https://oncourts.kerala.gov.in/about)
• Programme Lead - Financial inclusion (confidential)
• Led a 5 member team to support a public-sector institution to conceptualise, design, partner and drive execution of 10+ innovations in the BFSI sector for under-served groups such as gig workers, SHG members, nano entrepreneurs, women, cattle farmers etc.
• Programme Lead - Tourism and citizen connect (confidential)
• Led a 5 member team to conceptualise, design and facilitate execution of a nation-wide initiative to increase avenues of tourism and citizen engagement with a public institution leading to increasing the average annual footfall from 7 lakh to 50 lakh.

Feb 2023 – Apr 2024 · 1 yr 2 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

• Programme Lead - Collective for Digital Courts (CDC)
• Led a 4 member team to collaborate with the Collective of four organisations focused on reimagining court systems that can deliver justice in an efficient, predictable, accessible and effective manner. The collective was able to diagnose problems, design solutions and align stakeholders across the justice ecosystem to adopt a "reimagined process" to deliver justice.
• Outreach Lead - Internal role
• Led a 4 member communications team to design and execute an outreach strategy for Samagra which included (but not limited to)
• A. Conceptualising and executing
• i. 'Sushasan' a governance podcast (78k+ followers by Dec '24),
• ii. Governance Decluttered, a short-video format governance lessons,
• iii. Amrit Series, governance case studies across sectors
• B. Growing the reach of Samagra via social media (85k+ social media followers by Dec '24) and forums such as conferences, events, round tables etc.

Aug 2022 – Jan 2023 · 5 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

• ARTh was a bootstrapped D2C brand of artisanal products crafted in historical artforms. The brand worked with artisans across India to bring to life the history of their art, stories and finesse of their artisanry.
• We shut it down after six months of operations because we were keen on building something that could scale rapidly and we didn't see a consumer insight sharp enough for that.

Jun 2022 – Oct 2022 · 4 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

• Leading a Program and Monitoring & Evalutation teams to support fortification of wheat flour across partner mills in Madhya Pradesh, Maharashtra, West Bengal and Telangana.

Mar 2022 – Sep 2022 · 6 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

• Supporting the design of organizational strategy for state wide education reforms, organizational structure & processes and capacity building of team to execute state reforms

Mar 2022 – Sep 2022 · 6 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

• Supporting the design of organizational strategy for state wide education reforms, organizational structure & processes and capacity building of team to execute state reforms

Mar 2022 – Mar 2022 · 0 mo · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

• - Supported retail sales of gems and jewellery and customer engagement at Tanishq Store

Oct 2021 – Feb 2022 · 4 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

• Supporting conceptualization of a framework for engagement between elected representatives and citizens to achieve developmental goals such as climate resilience, social development, etc.

Nov 2020 – Nov 2021 · 1 yr

• Programme Manager, Mission Prerna Cell, Department of Basic Shiksha, Govt. of Uttar Pradesh
• Led a 4-member team to design and implement a statewide systemic reforms roadmap to achieve FLN goals for all 1.6 crore+ students taught by 5.75 lakh+ teachers across 1.35 lakh+ schools in the state. The following were achieved as part of the same.
• A. Diagnosis, design and alignment of a holistic framework of 25+ interventions
• Collaboration of 25+ senior partners across govt, NGOs, funders and experts
• Salience building of design across all teachers, administrative officers and partners of state govt.
• Conceptualizing and managing a unique fellowship programme, "Prerna Saarthi", for 10+ NGO partners of state govt.
• B. Design and implementation of a holistic 'phyi-gital' home learning intervention for all students
• 1 lakh+ school-parent WhatsApp groups set up
• 2.4 lakh+ volunteers (Prerna Saathi) onboarded to provide digital access to 7 lakh+ students
• 2.5 lakh+ students accessing WhatsApp bot-based quizzes every week
• 3.4 lakh+ users downloading Prerna Lakshya App to self-assess/practice FLN concepts
• 18 lakh+ parent-teacher conversations every week
• C. Conceptualization, development, and deployment of an open-source, free assessment cum practice App (incl. oral reading fluency via voice recognition) in collaboration with Google
• D. Ensuring delivery of 20+ unique TLMs to all schools and capacity building of all teachers
• Supply chain management across 75 districts and 900+ blocks
• 3 day in person training of 5 lakh+ teachers
• Monthly visits by 5000+ mentors to all schools to coach teachers
• Monthly peer learning meetings across all 8,000+ clusters
• Need based Diksha courses completed by >90% teachers
• E. Design and facilitation of administrative streamlining
• Online school allotment of 1 lakh+ teachers across three phases
• Recruitment of 880 block MIS coordinators
• Cascaded data backed monthly reviews across 75 districts and 880 blocks

Sep 2020 – Oct 2020 · 1 mo

• Analytics for Decision-making and Agriculture Policy Transformation (ADAPT), Dept. of Fisheries and Animal Resource Development, Govt. of Odisha
• Led a team of 4 members to design a comprehensive framework with initiatives to embed a culture of data and technology backed governance in the sector

Apr 2020 – Aug 2020 · 4 mos

• Confidential project, Government of India
• Led a team of 3 members to support Government of India in managing various aspects of nation wide lockdown during the COVID-19 pandemic
• NODE for Skills & Employment (internal project)
• Led a team of 2 members with active collaboration with a technology team to conceptualize and design a National Open Digital Ecosystem (NODE) for Skills and Employment in line with the principles laid down by Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (Govt. of India) in their white paper on NODE. The following were conceptualized and designed as part of the same
• a. Detailed development and roll out plan for an open source, modular and privacy sensitive technology platform
• b. Community engagement plan to identify mechanisms for stakeholders to engage with the technology platform
• c. Governance framework with draft policies and processes to anchor and guide the usage and adoption of NODE

Nov 2019 – Mar 2020 · 4 mos

• Programme Manager, Skill India Cell - Ministry of Skill Development & Entrepreneurship (MSDE)
• Led a team of 3 members to design a tangible roadmap to realize MSDE's Vision 2025 with 20 initiatives across six components including setting up a digital regulator for the skilling ecosystem, NCVET.

Sep 2017 – Oct 2019 · 2 yrs 1 mo

• Programme Manager, Skills & Employment - Saksham Haryana Cell, CM Office Haryana
• Led a team of 4 members to design & implement a systemic reforms roadmap to
• A. Link the youth of Haryana to employment opportunities
• 1. Holistic system transformation of recruitment agency (for Group C & D category posts) leading to employment of >30,000 youth
• 2. Established a unique win-win partnership between the Govt. & private aggregators such as Ola, Uber, G4S etc. leading to ~20,000 youth being employed
• 3. Institutionalized professionally managed mega job fairs with a target of linking >25,000 youth to employment opportunities in a calendar year
• 4. Embedded a placement platform (including assessment & training) for higher education institutions in the state with the target of linking >10,000 youth to employment opportunities in an academic year
• B. Improve the skilling outcomes across all government ITIs and short term skilling schemes
• 1. Streamlined the implementation of Apprenticeship Act, 1961 in the state leading to appointment of ~30,000 youth as apprentices (Haryana stands at the highest no. of apprentices/lakh population in comparison with all other states in India)
• 2. Embedded a standardized monthly assessment mechanism to evaluate & analyse growth of all 60,000+ students studying in Govt. Industrial Training Institutes
• 3. Designed and implemented a rationalization model to re-distribute training staff to provide access of trainers to 3,000+ students who earlier did not have any
• 4. Drove implementation of a holistic transformation with >15 interventions for reforms in all 160+ Govt. Industrial Training Institutes and short term skilling schemes of the state

Jun 2017 – Aug 2017 · 2 mos

• Saksham Haryana Cell, CM Office Haryana
• Collaborated with a team of 7 members in the Chief Minister's Office to design & implement a systemic reforms solution roadmap to achieve
• A. Grade level outcomes for 80% of school students in Haryana
• B. Employment for 2 lakh domicile youth of Haryana
• Led a multi stakeholder team of senior bureaucrats and political leaders to improve the functioning of public sector recruitment agency (Haryana Staff Selection Commission) through policy changes, organizational strengthening, process redesigning and technology infusion. The commission has recorded the highest recruitment of over 50,000 people (in comparison with previous govts in the state)

Apr 2016 – May 2017 · 1 yr 1 mo

• Programme Team, Chief Minister’s Good Governance Associate, CM Office Haryana
• 1. Collaborated with a team of 4 members to design and implement the programme led by the Chief Minister to leverage young professionals in governance of the state
• 2. Represented CMGGA programme at the Regional Conference on Innovations in Citizen Centric Services Delivery, 2016 conducted by Govt. of India in Jaipur
• 3. Supported 9 associates to implement 18 innovative pilots across 10+ sectors
• 4. Led multi stakeholder teams on 6 projects to deliver the below achievements
• a. Transport - 50% reduction in service delivery time across all 90+ offices through standardization of processes
• b. CM Window - 70+% increase in disposal rate of state grievance redressal system through institutionalization of review & monitoring system
• c. Police - Implementation of a centralized emergency response system (Haryana 100) worth Rs.300 crores and citizen facilitation centres at 20+ police stations (Police Mitr Kaksh) initiated

May 2015 – Apr 2016 · 11 mos

• Led a collaboration group of 16 year-1 fellows as Fellow Advisor supporting their professional growth, planning and executing training sessions.
• Pioneered a Leadership Development program for 20 adolescents in a government school
• Initiated and managed the “Meghshala” pilot project for 22 government teachers impacting over 650 children
• Piloted a Technology in Classroom Project which uses technology to enhance learning experience for children in classrooms
• Facilitated a training programme on Cognitive Development & Literacy for 30 government teachers impacting over 1000 children.

May 2014 – Apr 2015 · 11 mos

• Achieved 1.5 grade levels of growth in a span of one year
• Collaborated with 3 budget schools impacting over 150 families in a community project 1000 Smiles, to bridge the gap between communities and schools in order to ensure schools are a centre for social change
• Managed the Teacher Training programme “Firki”, for 15 teachers in a low-income private school impacting over 300 children
• Conceptualized cluster specific conferences for partner school leaders of Teach for India, Hyderabad

Jan 2014 – May 2014 · 4 mos · Bengaluru Area, India

• Built an Insurance Quotation Warehouse using Oracle database and Informatica to enhance the efficiency of existing systems

Jul 2012 – Jul 2012 · 0 mo · Hyderabad Area, India

• Analyzed Electoral Reforms, Scope & Methodology of auditing system of NRHM, Reorganization of Districts, Grievance Redressal Bill and other governance policies

Apr 2012 – May 2014 · 2 yrs 1 mo · Bengaluru Area, India · On-site

• Collaborated in the conceptualization and working of India’s first and only professional Radical Mime team
• Conceptualized and established a unique performance platform, Open Up (later known as Bangalore Laughter Club) for upcoming comic artists in the Bengaluru
• Managed the social media division with a reach of over 50,000 followers

Jan 2012 – Jan 2012 · 0 mo · Bengaluru Area, India

• Researched and analyzed city based municipalities in India and other foreign countries, e-Governance plans in India and JNNURM