Educator (Informal Education)

LCL Community, An online project of LLK Group at MIT Media Lab (Facilitator)

• Working as a facilitator, helping manage the online community of learners, educators and creative designers

Bridge Kids BC (2018), Canada (Behavior Interventionist)

• Behavioral Study and Education of Autism affected children (Ages: 6 years and above)
• Imparting education on Technology to other Behavior Interventionists and Consultants

Kid Museum (From its inception, i.e. 2013 - 2017), USA (Maker Educator)

• Designing and facilitating workshops related to Science and Arts (namely Science, Technology, Engineering, Art and Math or STEAM for K-12 Students)
• Facilitating outreach activities - Hour of Code, Teen Techathon, Maker Fair and others
• Co-founder and Facilitator of DC ScratchEd MeetUps (conducted once a month)

Software Engineer (Information Technology or IT)

Government of Alberta, (2019 - Present), Canada (Business Intelligence Analyst)

• Developing Enterprise dashboards highlighting key performance indicators from certain departments, using a technology named SAS Visual Analytics, 8.2
• Supervising projects from end to end i.e. Business Analysis and Requirement Gathering to Technical Interpretation and Delivery
• Meetings with internal stake holders and cross departmental trainings and documentation

Legal & General America (2014 - 2017), USA (Business Intelligence Developer & Systems Analyst)

• Developing complex reports and dashboards using a technology called Open Text (Actuate BIRT)
• Supervising projects related to Website design and Business Intelligence
• Meetings with stake holders
• Imparting Technology related trainings
• Interviewing new recruits

HSBC (2011 - 2013), India and Hong Kong (Senior Programmer Analyst)

• Team supervision and peer-to-peer code reviews
• Reports development using Actuate One (BIRT)
• Information Objects (an abstraction layer that encapsulates query joins) development using T-SQL
• Delivery of projects on Business Intelligence, working onsite with business partners at Hong Kong

Tech Mahindra Ltd. (2007 - 2011), India (Technical Associate)

• Technical support to LIVE projects, using Oracle - SQL
• Reports development using Actuate e-report designer professional
• Meetings with vendors and global clients

Apart from learning different applications of Technology, my ten years of work experience in the IT Services industry has given me opportunities to travel to different parts of the world and interact with a diverse group of people. It has helped me evolve as a professional with strong organizing skills, time management skills, abilities to deliver quality work under pressure and lead a group of people irrespective of their cultural background or team size. Now, I am able to work independently as well as in groups.

Volunteer (Other Services to Communities)

Canada

• Volunteering in Summer Camps and Community Centers to expose children to coding and other playful activities
• Belong to a Weaving Community that encourages indigenous and non-indigenous group of Weavers to weave and share thoughts.

USA

• Volunteering at the New York Maker Faire
• Organizing work stations for children at the Silver Spring Mini Maker Faire, Maryland
• Contributing to the One Laptop Per Child project by helping in the translations from English to Bengali
• Volunteering to set up the Kid Museum, a special kind of museum that offered a Maker Space to the children of elementary and middle schools
• Co-ordinating and facilitating some of the outreach events and projects exhibited at the Hour of Code, Garrett Park Elementary School; Teen Techathon, Martin Luther King Jr. Public Library DC; Hour of Code at the White House; H2O Summit; Imagination Stage etc.
• Helping Team ROAR - a group of boys to come into mainstream education through Scratch programming at workshops.
• Volunteering to co-found Washington DC's first Scratch Educator Meet up in collaboration with the Ed School at Harvard University, the Scratch Foundation and Kid Museum. It's a free event and held every month at the Kid Museum to help Educators and Scratchers of the local area exchange ideas around a programming language for children called Scratch
• As an elected member of the Charity Drive Committee of my ex-employer Legal & General America I volunteered to raise funds, organize events, design flyers and involve employees of the organization. The amount raised was donated partly to the Unsung K9 Hero dogs of Frederick County Maryland and partly to the Jacob's Ride Foundation, a non-profit organization who helped implement successful cocchlear implant for two deaf children

India

• Volunteering to teach at Surya Kiran, an evening school for children who could not afford to go to a day school and either had to look after siblings or go to work during the day
• Volunteering to teach Math to Grade-5 students in a school called Notun Path, run by the WeCare Foundation
• Volunteering to organize workshops on Creative Coding to help educate the children of SOS Children's Village, Kolkata