The roles behind the perspective.
Project management across higher education, federal contracting, and startups — from launching software end to end to running a ~$2M security portfolio. Fluent in Agile and Waterfall; a record of on-time, on-budget delivery.
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Worcester Polytechnic Institute (via Schring Consulting) · Oct 2025 – Present Current
Project Manager · Infrastructure & Security
Manage a 15+ concurrent project portfolio valued at ~$2M per fiscal year across four programs — Infrastructure Modernization, Network, Campus Safety, and Cybersecurity — owning each project from intake and chartering through execution and closeout. Saved ~$50K in a single fiscal year through vendor negotiations and retiring redundant services.
Delivered a campus-wide wired network refresh on Aruba and Juniper platforms and a DDoS risk assessment and mitigation; led converged physical-cyber security — access control and badge readers, video surveillance (Milestone VMS), and blue light phones. Drove compliance policy aligned to NIST 800-171 and FERPA, and owned vendor and financial governance: authoring RFPs, evaluating global security vendors and VARs, and enforcing SLA and contract compliance.
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Mint Labs & MintGrid · Jun 2025 – Present Current
Co-Founder
themintlabs.com · themintgrid.com
Co-founded Mint Labs, a venture studio building tools at the intersection of structured data and workflow design. Its first product, MintGrid, is a platform modernizing land and property intelligence. Defining product vision, system architecture, and scalable data models for land professionals.
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RELI Group, Inc. · Catonsville, MD (Remote) · Jun 2024 – Feb 2026 Federal · cyber
Business Analyst · Project Management Intern
HUBZone-certified federal prime contractor — CMS, NIH, TSA, IHS
Billed as Business Analyst on client contracts while serving as project coordinator across two cybersecurity initiatives — the Corporate Security Initiative and the CMS Marketplace State Security and Privacy Support Services (MSSPSS) program. Wrote Snowflake queries to identify and match CVEs and vulnerabilities across security datasets, preparing risk reports for contract leadership.
Project-managed organization-wide ISO 27001 compliance and a CMMC / NIST 800-171 control assessment — gap analysis, remediation tracking, and audit-readiness milestones. Built the Decision Analysis & Resolution (DAR) framework evaluating 30+ metrics, and automated compliance reporting in Excel VBA, SQL, and Power Automate with Power BI (DAX) dashboards for MSSPSS clients.
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Worcester Polytechnic Institute · Jun 2024 – May 2025 · Part-time IT portfolio
Project Management Analyst
Designed the SharePoint architecture and built the institution’s portfolio governance platform (Power Apps, Power BI), standardizing 60+ project attributes and giving leadership real-time visibility into project health, risk, and spend. Built Power Automate workflows replacing manual spreadsheet tracking, and authored documentation for the Business Analyst Community of Practice.
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Worcester Polytechnic Institute · Aug 2023 – May 2024 · Part-time Research
Graduate Research Assistant
Conducted blockchain and business-intelligence research under Professor Daniel Treku (WPI Business School) using Python (Pandas, NumPy); selected as Teaching Assistant for the Business Intelligence course.
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PluginLive Technologies · Chennai · Aug 2022 – Jul 2023 Delivery
Project Manager
HR-tech startup — campus hiring platform
Joined in the company’s founding year and drove the flagship campus hiring platform from ideation to production — working directly with the C-suite on requirements and the early roadmap while managing internal and vendor technology teams through development and launch. Operated in product-owner fashion beyond the title: authored BRDs, owned the backlog, ran sprints, and delivered client demos. Built the PM function from the ground up (RAID, RACI, change control, critical-path scheduling) and rebuilt the JIRA/Confluence workflows.
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IndieSpirit Technologies · Chennai · May 2020 – Aug 2022 Product
Associate Project Manager
Began my career at an early-stage startup supporting the senior leadership team, delivering the flagship e-commerce platform from prototype through production launch with a 10-member cross-functional team. Coordinated backlogs, sprints, and stakeholder communication while contributing hands-on as a software developer — applying secure SDLC practices for payment security and PII handling.
- M.S., Information Technology · Worcester Polytechnic InstituteMay 2025
- B.Tech., Information Technology · Anna University, ChennaiApr 2020
- PMI-ACP® · Agile Certified PractitionerPMI
- SAFe® PractitionerScaled Agile
- CSM® · Certified ScrumMasterScrum Alliance
- CAPM® · Certified Associate in Project ManagementPMI
- PMP® · CISM®In progress