Head of Product, ESG Impact Data

• Sep 2022 - Present

Leading the development of Kestrel ESG Data Product designed to provide the market with meaningful ESG impact data https://kestrelesg.com/Kestrel provides ESG Impact Data and verification services designed to bring greater transparency and insight to fixed income, helping to set the market standard for sustainable finance.We are a team of environmental and social scientists, engineers, and finance professionals with deep, nuanced understandings of how state and local governments finance and deliver public projects. We understand the complex activities and infrastructure financed with municipal bonds and provide meaningful, material insights on their ESG characteristics with our innovative data offering.We are also a leading provider of external reviews for green, social and sustainability bond transactions in US public finance, consistently garnering over 60% of the market share by par and by number of reviews. We are qualified to evaluate corporate and municipal bonds in all asset classes worldwide for conformance with international green and social bond standards.Kestrel is a Women’s Business Enterprise. Show less

Product Manager-Kestrel ESG Data

• Nov 2020 - Sep 2022

Municipal Bond Trader, Vice President

• Feb 2016 - Nov 2020

Specialization: secondary market, sell side-odd lot municipal bond trading https://www.millenniumadvisors.com/ Specialization: secondary market, sell side-odd lot municipal bond trading https://www.millenniumadvisors.com/

Vertical Marketing & Competitive Intelligence Intern

• Aug 2015 - Nov 2015

Completed second internship with Genesys remotely while pursuing master's degree at Duke University.Project Manager for Objection Handling Program:•Managed projects targeted to help Global Sales team in resolution management while selling products to customers•Responsible for goal setting for the program, timeline set-up, task assignment, setting up templates for managing objections and draft responses to objections•Developed presentation materials and documents for Global Sales team to aid in customer education in various verticals Show less

Global Sales Operations Intern

• Jun 2015 - Aug 2015

Project 1-Vertical and Industry Alignment in Salesforce.com (SFDC):• Analyzed current Industry and Vertical mapping in Account Structure within SFDC and drafted new mapping to align it with industry standards set by data.com • Worked cross-functionally with Product Marketing, Finance and IT to deliver new mapping in production environment and performed testing to prevent data loss or duplicationProject 2-Opportunity Management in SFDC:•Created reports in SFDC to identify and eliminate outdated data that adversely affected quarterly metrics•Worked with sales opportunity owners to ensure the opportunity data was updated within given timeline thus improving quarterly metrics by 63%Project 3-On-boarding training videos and training documents: • Worked with Genesys Sales University to create training videos using Camtasia and training documents for new hires to help them learn SFDC functionalities Show less

Graduate Teaching Assistant

• Aug 2014 - Jun 2015

Worked directly with Associate Director of Academic and Student Services, Engineering Professional Masters Programs at Duke University Spring 2015 Semester- •Analyzed scores of 160 students over 8 months for variation on the Intercultural Effectiveness Scale. •Organized English Conversation Clubs to help diverse group of students interact and collaborate •Managed Master of Engineering Management Program (MEMP) orientation for 30 students of MEMP Spring 2015 batch and served as mentor for over a period of 3 days. Fall 2014 Semester- •Worked directly with the Associate Director of Academic and Student Services, Engineering Professional Masters Programs at Duke University to organize 7 Focus Lunch Groups with 20 students in each group to collect their feed back for MEM Program at Duke. •Analyzed student feedback and gave suggestions for improving the MEMP at Duke to the Dean of Engineering Professional Masters Programs at Duke University and other staff members. •Assisted an industry expert to conduct Presentation Skills Workshop for MEMP Fall 2015 Batch. Analyzed the feedback given to the students by the industry expert on their presentation skills and made recommendations on how students can improve. Show less

Team Leader/Systems Engineer

• Oct 2011 - Apr 2014

Yellow Belt in Lean Six Sigma program Project: Core Banking project for Deutsche Bank (DB) Subject Matter Expert (SME) for Lean Six-Sigma Project for TCS-Deutsche Bank Team Leader: •Supervised team of 10 and served as a single point of contact for TCS and Deutsche Bank Management •Mentored and trained the team •Supervised and managed workflow between the team to ensure Service Level Agreement (SLA) compliance •Built daily critical reports (health check, release reports, intraday/EOD reports, KPI reports and KCS articles) reflecting overall system performance for Senior Management Product Release and Change Management Team: •Successfully managed 3 major software releases for the TCS and Deutsche Bank's Coral application (core banking application) by working cross- functionally with engineering, testing and change management teams. SME for Lean Six-Sigma Project: •Successfully identified and minimized non-value adding activities resulting in monetary savings to client •Trained team to perform operational tasks optimally •Assessed service operations for automation, drafted project proposals and worked with engineering team to get the automations incorporated Show less

Campaign Leader (Volunteer)

• Jun 2013 - Jan 2014

Volunteered to increase awareness about educational inequity in India and inspired leaders at Tata Consultancy Services to apply for Teach For India Fellowship program Volunteered to increase awareness about educational inequity in India and inspired leaders at Tata Consultancy Services to apply for Teach For India Fellowship program