Director, Professional Programs

• Jan 2022 - Present

Assistant Director, Academic Programs

• Jul 2019 - Jan 2022

• Manage a portfolio of professional certificates including 40+ courses, leading 40+ instructional team members and serving over 1000 students per year. • Develop and launch new certificates and courses in areas like Software Development, DevOps, Software Testing, Cloud Foundations, System Admin which includes idea generation, need assessment, development, launching and managing. • Revise curriculum for programs and turned them into popular ones based on current job skill requirements. This includes identifying issues, research, collaboration with course developers and launching new curriculum.• Evaluate, recruit, on-board, engage and retain instructors and program advisory boards from multinational companies Amazon, Microsoft, Tableau and others• Use various eLearning tools and technology platforms like – Canvas, OpenEdx, Zoom, MS Teams, GitHub, Asana and others to enhance student experience.• Review and analyze each program to assess overall program content and effectiveness, customer satisfaction, fiscal status, and market demand, and took corrective action when necessary. Recommended and implemented strategies to keep programs responsive to audience needs and market trends.• Introduced community building initiatives among instructors through regular “exchange of ideas and practices” online forum and bi-annual portfolio meetings. Initiated a LinkedIN group for Python students, graduates, instructors to establish connection and develop mentor-mentee opportunities. • Collaborate with instructional designers, marketing and operations staff to ensure proper execution of the programs Show less

Program Manager, Professional Programs

• Aug 2017 - Jul 2019

Academic Program Manager

• Aug 2016 - Feb 2017

Associate Director, Entrepreneur Support Program

• Mar 2015 - Jul 2015

Designed, developed and launched the Entrepreneur Support program from square one and led it. Grew the team from 2 to 8-member team. Developed and ran a suite of multiple training and mentoring programs for entrepreneurs. (Program scope - 60 programs, 1500 entrepreneurs, 50 trainers, 100 mentors every year. Supported over 3200 entrepreneurs)

Senior Manager, Entrepreneur Support Program

• Feb 2013 - Mar 2015

Developed and managed training programs for entrepreneurship educators and college students (Program scope - 1500 educators, 2500 students, 500 colleges in a year. Created over 4000 entrepreneurship educators). Developed a proven entrepreneurship educator capacity building model in India, recognized by Government of India. The scalable model was implemented in thousands of other colleges in India and other developing countries.

Founder and Business Owner

• Aug 2014 - May 2015

Bong Platter was a food startup operating only on weekends catering Bengali food. We served Bengali modern food as well as brought in lost recipes to our menu. • Responsible for marketing, setting menu, pricing, sales, managing customer relation and food photography • Zero cost marketing through social media. 1600+ organic Likes on Facebook within 6 months, got online and press coverage in leading national magazine • Built and reiterated the business model and made a remarkable profit margin, with over 600 orders (operating only on weekends from home kitchen) within 8 months • Partnered with meal delivery portals and developed and executed ways of customer growth and retention Show less

Senior Manager, NEN Education - Faculty & Student Support Program

• Dec 2009 - May 2012

Developed and managed programs to train faculties into effective entrepreneurship educators (Program scope - 1400 faculties, 2500 students, 500 colleges in a year. Created over 4000 entrepreneurship educators). Developed a proven entrepreneurship educator capacity building model in India, recognized by Government of IndiaSome key programs managed:• National Entrepreneur Development Program in partnership with National Science & Technology Entrepreneurship Development Board, a Government of India initiative in 2010• Mentor Development Program in partnership with Cherie Blair Foundation for Women in 2011• Mentor Development Program in partnership with Goldman Sachs and London Business School in 2008, 2009 and 2010• Entrepreneurship Educators’ Course in partnership with Indian Institute of Management – Bangalore (IIM B) and Stanford Technology Ventures Program (Stanford University) in 2007, 2008 and 2009.• Student Startup Program in partnership with TATA in 2011 Show less

Program Manager, NEN Education

• Dec 2006 - Mar 2011

Executive, Academics and Support

• Feb 2005 - Nov 2006