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Buddha TechHead of CRM & Project Management Office
Aug. 2022Kathmandu, Bāgmatī, Nepal- Collaborating with the Founders & the CTO to set up, strategize, plan & prioritize the objectives of the PMO function, & define success criteria, workflows, to align with the company’s goals.
- Introducing processes leveraging agile principles, waterfall models & tools (like JIRA) to organize/manage activities. Leveraging the continuous optimization approach including ability to identify and implement process improvements for the organization as a whole.
- Managing client/internal communications, monitoring progress, metrics, & driving decisions. - Supported the launch of the new Buddha Air mobile app (driving +30% increase in sales) & revamp of their HR/Payroll system - owned client relations (across multiple departments) & partnered with our x-fn team to define requirements, run sprints, plan releases, while mitigating risk, clearly defining ownership of key tasks, to ensure high quality & timely delivery.
- Hired 2 Project managers - coaching & managing them to scale impact by delegating work and aligning their work with the goals of the priority projects.
Career BreakPersonal goal pursuit
Oct. 2021 - May. 2022San Francisco Bay AreaSpent time with family and friends before getting married, recharging & up skilling before getting back to grind. Traveled with my partner - India, Dubai, Turkey. Played Advisor to Startups in Nepal. Developed PgM & Strategic thinking skills through short courses - completed Google Project Management: Professional Certificate.
Ministry of Population and Environment, NepalProject Management Intern
May. 2015 - Sep. 2015Singha-Durbar- Supported researchers & government officials to publish the Second National Communication report.
- Supported the organization of seminars and workshops related to Air Quality, Water Quality & Quantity Management and Climatology.
- Assisted project planning, status reporting, meeting facilitation, and process documentation.
CloudFactoryDelivery Team Lead
Feb. 2020 - Aug. 2021Teku- Led a diverse team of associates & assistants, to support Large enterprises projects.
- Managed project priorities & resources ($XM annual budget), plus relationships with x-fn partner-teams (Finance, HR), & clients, while ramping up the operations by 3x in <6 months. - Identified & implemented process improvements across various work streams, such as cloud workforce training & quality management, to deliver output with accuracy.
- Designed performance plans & set targets along with incentives to drive higher productivity. -Developed dashboards & client communication strategy to ensure transparency for clients.
Paaila TechnologyCo-founder, Head Of GTM & PMO
Jan. 2018 - Jan. 2020Nepal- Managed vision, strategy, roadmap, product specs, and execution frameworks for a team with 6 Electronics, Software and Mechanical engineers and 1 UX designer. - Landed 3 versions of Robots (Ginger for restaurants, Pari 1.0 primarily for banks and Pari 2.0 for reception desks) to cater to multiple industries & help businesses find efficiency.
- Expanded into Artificial Intelligence services (such as Nepali Text to Speech, Chatbot, Nepali Speech Recognition services) to enable businesses in Nepal with automation. - Defined and iterated on the sales narrative/strategy for robots from Paaila and AI solutions which enabled closing deals with clients like National museums (BP Koirala Memorial Planetarium Observatory) and International Airport (Tribhuvan International Airport, Nepal).
- Regularly led brainstorming sessions with the team using the UXR findings and client feedback to source innovative ideas for the roadmap. Eg. Collaborative feedback sessions with SBI bank employees (one of the first adopters of Pari 1.0) and user survey results inspired the development of Pari 2.0 which was powered with features like face recognition, query answering, automatic docking system and autonomous navigation.
- Launched Naulo, Nepal’s first AI infused robot fully operated restaurant, with the goal to live demonstrate Paaila’s prototypes/solutions (AFP Nepal's first robot waiter ready for orders | Euronews: Nepal's digital restaurant where guests are served by robots | India Today: Made in Nepal robots are serving food | Indian Express: In a first for Nepal, robots serve food).
- Internally developed processes across multiple functions (eg. managing travel & expenses, prospect pipeline, client communications and expectation setting) to drive efficacy.
IUCNProject Management Intern
Jun. 2018 - Nov. 2018Nepal- Evaluated data, conducted research with the guidance of the Program Officers & published internal reports for projects like JaibikMap project & Clean and green - Panauti.
- Developed sections of project proposals, pitch decks to enable net new projects approvals. - Supported the organization of workshops for the JaibikMap project.
WWF NepalProject Management Intern
Nov. 2017 - Jan. 2018Nepal- Project managed internal comms, executed on established processes & profiled volunteers / interns, for The Generation Green (TGG) campaign.
- Supported the organization of both internal & external events focussed on the TGG campaign.
- Drove recurring internal project meetings, status reports, project plans, and process documents.
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