University of California, Berkeley, Masters of Science in Development Practice, 2014
University of California, Santa Cruz, Bachelor of Arts: Politics, 2006

Mana USA LLC, Irvine, CA USA
August 2015—Present

Managing Director/Lead Consultant

• Currently leading the go-to-market strategy for company’s organic tea product line
• Working with partners to develop a drip irrigation financing project for small holder farmers in Madhya Pradesh, India
• Conducted a Discounted Free Cash Flow Analysis of a social enterprise client’s scale-up plan for its organic lentils product line

Total Synergy Consulting Pvt. Ltd., New Delhi INDIA
October 2014—December 2015

Associate Senior Consultant

Project 1: Strengthening Governance and Public Services in Karnataka Project

• Synergized inputs from multiple stakeholders into a coherent, comprehensive Monitoring and Evaluation plan that utilizes both information and communication technology (mobile devices, GIS mapping, web applications) and community-based initiatives (social audits and grievance reporting)
• Conducted a Cost-Benefit Analysis, including Monte Carlo simulations and sensitivity tests, of the project
• Drafted an impact evaluation strategy for the project

Project 2: Higher Education Reform Project

• Worked with stakeholders in Madhya Pradesh, India, and the World Bank to design an application for awarding $353 million in grants to colleges and universities based on strategic plans
• Managed an iterative process of deciding infrastructure funding priorities for higher education state wide
• Co-drafted a project manual that integrated the goals of both the World Bank and the Government of Madhya Pradesh

Project 3: CSR Assessment Project

• Programmed and managed a tablet-based socioeconomic baseline survey for 18,000 households in Rajasthan, India and co-wrote 16 reports based on the survey’s findings for a Corporate Social Responsibility client
• Conducted econometric analysis of the survey’s results to identify community needs and determine the impact of client’s past CSR activities
• Co-wrote 16 reports reviewing client’s various CSR activities to-date, focusing on proposed programs’ theories of change and their potential for impact

University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, CA USA
August 2013—May 2014

Graduate Student Instructor

• Consulted six teams of graduate engineering students designing technology for Bottom of the Pyramid markets

Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, MONGOLIA
June 2013—March 2014

Value Chain Consultant

• Designed and led a study of the Mongolian livestock industry that utilized both quantitative and qualitative research methods
• Analyzed the impact of risk on herd composition, and developed 3 policy recommendations

• R (3 years experience)

English, Lao, Thai