Ajay Kumar Budumuru
Manager, State Programs
Hyderabad, Telangana
Summary
An experienced and skillful development sector professional with background in project management, impact analysis, research, and scaling. Experienced in leading cross-functional projects in user-centric design, process optimization and automation. Deeply passionate about creating sustainable impact through systemic change at speed and scale.
Overview
5
5
years of professional experience
6
6
years of post-secondary education
Work History
Manager, State Programs - AP & Telangana
ConveGenius
8 2023 - Current
- Designed and created dynamic dashboards on PowerBI and Quicksight, respectively and supported states with actionable insights through data analysis.
- Impacted 5L+ students and 1.6L+ teachers through multiple student-facing and teacher-facing chatbots.
- Leading a cross-functional team creating a GenAI chatbot to analyse UDISE+ Dataset (900+ columns and upto 4L+ rows) and presented a Proof of Concept to the state.
- Conducted extensive on-ground research and proposed an architecture than can effectively capture the impact of student learning on the Weekly Practice chatbot, which has been taken up for development.
- Conducted extensive research and created comprehensive country profile documents of Ghana and Guinea for the World Bank Event facilitated by ConveGenius.
Project Lead
Educational Initiatives
2022.10 - 2023.08
- Impacted 14,000+ girl students from 50 tribal residential schools across 24 districts of Telangana by bringing significant learning improvement through Computer Science learning modules & Personalized Adaptive Learning tool, Mindspark.
- Identified outcome metrics, designed and deployed baseline and endline tests to measure the impact of the Computational Thinking modules, which has shown 57% students improve on the measured metrics.
- Collected, analyzed, and reported high-fidelity granular data from the field to the Amazon team on a monthly basis.
- Trained and coached 50 lab instructors to teach computer science to students from grade 6 to 9.
- Assisted in designing 21 hours of contextualized, unplugged computer science curriculum for students of grade 6 to9.
Manager, Fellowship Recruitment
Teach For India
2021.05 - 2022.10
- Planned and executed a comprehensive recruitment and advocacy strategy for the states of Karnataka, Telangana, and Andhra Pradesh and recruited 83 Fellows against a goal of 75 Fellows in one year.
- Recruited and managed a team of 4 people to support 2200+ candidates through the selection process.
- Led a cross-functional project with Technology and Selection teams to automate reminders and query resolution from candidates by integrating Salesforce and WhatsApp and improved the engagement by 120%.
Fellow
Teach For India
2019.04 - 2021.04
- Taught eighth and ninth-grade students (138) in a government school in Hyderabad for two years and achieved 1.5 years of reading comprehension growth along with a 19% increase in average science mastery
- Designed and facilitated a two-part workshop on foundational literacy acquisition to 60 Fellows across the country.
Research Intern
Foundation For Democratic Reforms
2020.04 - 2020.05
- Conducted extensive quantitative and qualitative research on local governance systems and created a module on ‘Architecture for India’s million-plus cities’, as part of a Massive Open Online Course on ‘Big City Governance’.
Education
Bachelor of Technology - Mechanical Engineering
Vishnu Institute of Technology
Bhimavaram, AP 2013.09 - 2017.05
Intermediate/ Pre University - Math, Physics, Chemistry
St Patrick's Junior College
Hyderabad, TG 2011.06 - 2013.04
Secondary School Certificate -
Siddhartha Public School
Tuni, AP 2010.06 - 2011.04
Skills
Project Management
undefinedAccomplishments
- Led a team of 25 members each for Go Kart and E-bike national level championships.
- Developed an electronic module to operate home appliances with voice commands to address the needs of specially-abled persons.
- Won 1st and 2nd prizes in paper presentation competitions organized by ‘Institute of Engineers’ and ‘Student Federation of India’, respectively.
Timeline
Project Lead
Educational Initiatives
2022.10 - 2023.08
Manager, Fellowship Recruitment
Teach For India
2021.05 - 2022.10
Research Intern
Foundation For Democratic Reforms
2020.04 - 2020.05
Fellow
Teach For India
2019.04 - 2021.04
Bachelor of Technology - Mechanical Engineering
Vishnu Institute of Technology
2013.09 - 2017.05
Intermediate/ Pre University - Math, Physics, Chemistry
St Patrick's Junior College
2011.06 - 2013.04
Secondary School Certificate -
Siddhartha Public School
2010.06 - 2011.04
Manager, State Programs - AP & Telangana
ConveGenius
8 2023 - Current
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