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To obtain a lead or senior position to enable a positive impact in community / corporation as :
Collaborative Coordinator / Technical Lead / Product Manager / UX Designer Priti's StoryPriti is a dynamic individual who uses both sides of her brain to pursue her corporate career and non-profit endeavors. She is analytical and creative. She is able to create and understand vision, explain bigger picture, and go to the nitty-gritty details. Creative chaos and out-of-the box thinking matter to her as much as the order and patterns. Combination of these qualities and integrity sets her apart from the crowd.
As an IT Professional, she has over 20 years of progressive work experience in software design, development, specifications, architecture, product management and team leading. Priti specified, designed and developed core and application software for various industries – with most experience in telecommunication industry – in various stages like proprietary and internet standards, Voice XML APIs, and IMS infrastructure; via various life-cycle models: waterfall, Cisco standards and Agile. Her sincerity, adaptability, knowledge of the technology at hand and drive to provide the “Optimal” solution has attracted commendation from clients and co-workers. As a Non-Profit Volunteer, Priti has been active since her school days. She has been fortunate to be able to serve in capacity of an observer, photographer, volunteer, project evaluation, overseer, project manager, collaborator, event planner, founder and webmaster for various non-profit causes - like Eye surgery camp, health, STEM education, rehabilitation for victims of natural disasters, fundraising, livelihood and empowerment. She visited the earthquake struck area in Bhuj, India in 2001 to survey and evaluate project proposals from local grass-root NGOs for disbursement of $200K+ funds collected by Cisco employees. She has been honored to be a founding member for two groups - TeachIT (Teaching STEM to K-8 students) and Heart2Heart (Using Art to do fundraising for 501(c)3 organizations). As an Educator, Priti has taught after-school technology sessions to K-8 students at various elementary and middle schools. She has also worked with teachers to enable them with latest technological tools for an elementary school and a middle school. She has taught Yoga to K-4 students for 7 years since 2003. Priti has taught Indian Classical Dance style, Bharatanatyam since 2005 and brought three of her students to the level of Arangetram, a debut performance. As an Artist, Priti is a registered artist with Young Audiences of Virginia for the ‘Indian Classical Dance’ category from 2009-2017. She has taught master classes for the dance students at VCU and Center for Performing Arts. Priti has successfully conceived, lead and executed various stage performances, workshops and training courses in collaboration with: VMFA, Gamelan Raga Kusuma, Hindu Center of Virginia, UoR Global Sounds Concert, Chaturang school of Kathak, VCU school of World Studies, Nrithya School of Kuchipudi Dance, Gandharva School of Music, and School of Carnatic Music. As an Individual, Priti is M.Sc. (Mathematics) from IIT, Mumbai and married to Mr. Deepak Patil. They have wonderful twins - Uday (boy) and Vibha (girl) - who are kind, vivacious and confident first year students in Georgia Tech and UVA respectively! |
Creative Conceptualization ● Collaboration ● Leadership ● Out-of-box Thinking ● Love of Learning ● Communication Design ● Integrity ● Problem Solving ● Accountability ● Design
Education / TrainingAgile Software Development Methodology, 2013
Mini MBA from University of Richmond, 2004 Programming in AI, NCST, Mumbai, 1990 MSc (Mathematics), IIT, Mumbai, 1987 BSc (Mathematics), Bombay University, 1985 LanguagesProficiency: English, Gujarati, Hindi, Marathi
Read/Write: Sanskrit, Bengali Interests / HobbiesReading ● Communication Design ● Indian Classical Dance (Bharatanatyam) ● Education ● Technology ● Community Service: Education, Relief, Rehabilitation & Women Empowerment ● Yoga ● Hiking ● Music ● Photography ● Alternative Medicine
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