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Pushpamitra Das

Madison

Overview

11
11
years of professional experience

Work History

Teaching Assistant

Educational Policy Studies, UW-Madison
08.2024 - Current
  • Graded assignments and provided constructive feedback to students in EDPOL 300: School & Society. (Fall 2025)
  • Facilitated discussion sections for 48 students in EDPOL 300: School and Society.
  • Graded assignments and provided constructive feedback to 50 students in EDPOL 220- Human Rights & Education ( Fall & Spring 2024)

Young Professional, Education Vertical

NITI Aayog, Government of India
08.2021 - 06.2024
  • Led the implementation of the national index, the School Education Quality Index (SEQI 2.0) assessing education status across all states and union territories
  • Led implementation of Sustainable Action to Transform Human Capital – Education (SATH-E) project, a school transformation progran, in 4 states
    (Jharkhand, Odisha, Madhya Pradesh, and Arunachal Pradesh).
  • Appraised 50 government schemes and projects for the central and state governments. Represented the education vertical of NITI Aayog in national and state discussions.


Learning Coach

StayQrious India Pvt. Ltd.
05.2021 - 08.2021
  • Facilitated online classes and didactic learning for 75 students through the organization’s EdTech platform.
  • Managed parent engagement for the students with regular, biweekly meetings.
  • Managed classroom engagement with a focus on the 4 Cs of learning: Creativity, Critical Thinking, Collaboration, and Communication.

Fellow

Teach for India
04.2019 - 05.2021
  • Taught English and Social Science to a class of 53 girls in 8th and 9th grade, in a low-income government school, in the urban slum of Tuglakabad Village, New Delhi.
  • Crowdfunded approximately $1,220 and set up a learning center within the school community to enable classroom teaching and student collaboration.

Research Fellow

Haqdarshak Empowerment Solutions Pvt. Ltd.
10.2018 - 04.2019
  • Researched and analyzed the state and central schemes for the Odisha and Rajasthan state governments.
  • Managed and implemented the on-ground training awareness camps for the government schemes, for the states of Odisha and Rajasthan.

Rural Development Fellow

SBI Youth for India, SBI Foundation
10.2017 - 10.2018

• Conducted trainings on creating homemade sanitary napkins in the village of Tepur in Kotda block,Udaipur city, Rajasthan.
• Conducted awareness camps with women groups regarding healthy menstrual health practises.
• Opened a school in Tepur for 57 out-of-school children.
• The school has mainstreamed 200+ out-of-school children in total.
• Successfully secured government welfare schemes through the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural

Quality Assurance Engineer

Cybage Software Pvt. Ltd.
07.2014 - 12.2017
  • Led the performance test of 3 projects: GfK-MRI (automobile application), RISARC (healthcare
    application), and Amway India (healthcare application).
  • Conducted requirement gathering, test script creation, report generation, and test analysis.
  • Provided recommendations for improving product quality and lifecycle.

Quality Assurance Analyst

PTC Software India Pvt. Ltd.
01.2016 - 09.2017
  • Led the performance test of the product lifecycle management tool, FlexPLM. Scaled the performance
    test from a user load of 100 users to 1000 users to identify bottlenecks.
  • Executed manual and automation test cases to enhance product functionality and performance.
  • Collaborated with the design thinking team to design realistic user experience scenarios.

Education

Master of Arts - Educational Policy Studies

University of Wisconsin-Madison
Madison, WI
05-2026

Bachelor of Science - Information Technology

Kalinga Institute of Industrial Technology
India
05-2014

Timeline

Teaching Assistant

Educational Policy Studies, UW-Madison
08.2024 - Current

Young Professional, Education Vertical

NITI Aayog, Government of India
08.2021 - 06.2024

Learning Coach

StayQrious India Pvt. Ltd.
05.2021 - 08.2021

Fellow

Teach for India
04.2019 - 05.2021

Research Fellow

Haqdarshak Empowerment Solutions Pvt. Ltd.
10.2018 - 04.2019

Rural Development Fellow

SBI Youth for India, SBI Foundation
10.2017 - 10.2018

Quality Assurance Analyst

PTC Software India Pvt. Ltd.
01.2016 - 09.2017

Quality Assurance Engineer

Cybage Software Pvt. Ltd.
07.2014 - 12.2017

Master of Arts - Educational Policy Studies

University of Wisconsin-Madison

Bachelor of Science - Information Technology

Kalinga Institute of Industrial Technology
Pushpamitra Das