Education & Skills

MPA : Columbia University SIPA, NY, USA

MBA : Xavier School of Management, Jharkhand, India

ELECTRICAL ENGINEERING : Rajiv Gandhi Technological University, MP, India

  • Technical: STATA, SPSS, ArcGIS, Tableau, Visio, Carto DB, Microsoft Office

  • Business Development: Stakeholder engagement, Negotiation, Proposal and Grant writing

  • Program Design: Research design, Drafting survey instruments, Monitoring and evaluation

  • Publication: National Rural Health Mission (NRHM), Facility Survey under (DLHS-4)

  • Awards: Syntel S’prayas Leadership, HULTZ prize runner-up, AMEX Outstanding Quality

  • Supporting Faculty: Centre for Good Governance, Jan Abhiyan Parishad, Muktangan, MLB,

  • Certification: Decentralized Planning (UNDP), CSQA Quality Specialist, LOMA Health Insurance

  • Voluntary Work: Board of Director (BSSS), SIPA Brand Ambassador, Fund raising ‘Swadhar’, SYDA Prison Project

  • Language: Native: English and Hindi | Speaking: Gujarati, Marathi, Tamil and Spanish

Work Life

Consultant Communication for Development : United Nations, UNICEF, NY, USA

Research Associate, Millennium Village Project [MVP] : Columbia Earth Institute, NY, USA

Policy Analyst, UNREACH : World Food Program[WFP], Yangon, Myanmar

Program Manager: Indian Institute of Development Management ( [IIDM], Bhopal, India

  • Designed and supervised a variety of projects from inception to execution for multiple clients.

  • Increased potential annual savings by 326 million INR for state government of MP via revising supply chain of Public Distribution System and enhanced food security in the state.

  • Led large scale demographic survey such as Annual Health Survey (10,048 Households) and Facility Survey under DLHS-4 (2,475 health institutions) for Government of India.

  • Supervised need based capacity building of 134 NGO’s in partnership with National Aids Control Organization (NACO) leading to 1387 training's for five experience levels.

  • Influenced behavior change action plan for ‘complementary feeding’ to eradicate malnutrition in the state of MP in partnership with UNICEF and Ministry of Women and Child welfare.

Business Analyst : Syntel Ltd [link], Pune, India | Phoenix, USA

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creative side

Creator; Performer and Healer

Painter : A self-taught artist and use art as a medium of social change My work is available here and details of the exhibit here.

Writer : Multiple Short stories published in Indian National Daily

Blogger: Voracious traveler to see things with an eye of explorer , native and visitor excerpts available at  Creative Darshan

Performer Artist:  Vagina Monologues  and  SIPA follies at Apollo Theater and  2 National level classical dance performances.

Voice Over Artist:  Behavioral Communication shows for Tribal Community Radio Vanya and  Talking Books for  Aadarsh in 3 regional languages of India

Event Manger : Multiple national and  international Conferences,  2 Fashion Shows for Syntel Chennai and Pune,

Graphologist : Analysed more than 200 handwriting's  

Spiritual Healing : Reiki Healing , Meditation , Color therapy