Work
Hikaya
Consultant
Lead product from discovery through build for UN agencies and NGOs including MSF, Habitat for Humanity, and the Danish Refugee Council.
- Assess where an NGO stands on digital maturity, then write the strategy to move it forward
- Turn stakeholder needs into the user journeys and roadmaps behind tool and investment decisions
- Build ETL pipelines (Airflow, Power Automate, MS Fabric/Data Factory) and ship app features in Python and React
Technical Lead
Led the design and development of program data tools used across the organization's country operations.
- Took a grants management system from concept to rollout in six months, designing the data models and process flows beneath it
- Built a global incident management system that triages cases and escalates them to the right support unit
- Started a community of practice that raised digital standards and governance organization-wide
TolaData
Co-Founder, Chief Product Officer
Co-founded a company building an indicator management platform for the humanitarian sector.
- Owned the product end to end, from first release onward
- Built partnerships with data-standards bodies to make the platform speak the same language as the rest of the sector
- Led the merger with Sigmah, an open source M&E tool built over a decade by the humanitarian community
Senior Data and Learning Advisor
Product Owner for the organization's digital M&E system.
- Scaled the system from pilot to 40 country offices in a year, and it remains in active use for monitoring project performance worldwide
- Secured the staffing, budget and leadership backing that made global rollout possible
Regional MEL Advisor
Advised program and M&E teams across 10 country offices in the Middle East.
- Aligned M&E and ICT strategy to close the gaps in how teams collected and managed data, and set one standard for the region
- Built tools that made donor reporting and accountability to affected populations traceable
Monitoring and Evaluation Manager
Managed M&E across Mercy Corps' Afghanistan country portfolio.
- Replaced paper surveys with mobile collection and cloud storage, and built the ETL pipeline carrying data from field collection through to donor reporting
- Cut review and reporting time across the M&E team
- Set the design that became the basis for Mercy Corps' global digital M&E system
Data Visualization Coordinator
Standardized monthly monitoring for a multi-year program and built the visualization app that published its results.
Data Analyst
Analyzed Mercy Corps' organization-wide impact data and wrote close to 40 country reports on the findings.
Research Consultant
Rolled out the Progress out of Poverty Index through a business skills program for savings groups in eastern Uganda.
Junior Economist
Ran baseline surveys and wrote reports for GIZ, DANIDA, the World Bank, and United Nations agencies.
Economic Affairs Intern
Reported on Vietnam's economy for U.S. diplomatic briefings and drafted a cable for the Deputy Ambassador.
Risk Management Specialist
Managed high-risk credit portfolios and ran risk analysis on significantly delinquent accounts.