Education & Skills

UCLA Extension
in collaboration with edX

The Product Management Boot Camp at UCLA
April 2023 – August 2023

The most recent bootcamp study I did on Product management has given me a formal education on the product’s lifecycle: from development, to positioning and pricing, by focusing on the product and its customers first and foremost.

I have gained crucial product management skills like market analysis, ideation, value proposition creation, prioritization, roadmap development, rapid prototyping using Figjam, data analysis using SQL, and data visualization using Tableau

USF Health
Morsani College of Medicine

Masters in Healthcare Informatics
2020 – 2021

The masters course in Healthcare analytics focused on the management and use of healthcare data. It included study of the design, development, adoption and application of information technology-based innovations in healthcare services delivery, management, and planning.

I had hands-on training to develop skills around data dashboards, data mining, Predictive analytics, data preparation, data visualization, descriptive statistics, healthcare data, predictive analytics, SAS Studio, SAS Visual Analytics and SAS Viya.

MIT
Management Executive Education

Design Thinking
Feb 2018 – April 2018

Innovation of Products and Services: MIT’s Approach to Design Thinking

Skills I gained from this course:

  • Customer Insights Interviewing Brainstorming Techniques
  • Gained techniques to better understand the social, emotional, and physical needs of your customers.
  • Applying methods that will help turn customer needs into human-centered solutions.
  • Ideation techniques to quickly generate, develop, and test new ideas.

St. Aloysius College
(Autonomous), Mangaluru

Doctorate studies in Bio-Sciences
1992 – 1998

Ph.D. studies included Laboratory related techniques such as Plant tissue culture, genetic transformation, synthetic seed production, cryopreservation of somatic embryos, microphotography, micro-techniques and staining methods, experimental design, documentation, statistical analysis and report generation.

I presented at several conferences, domestic and international and met students and teachers in Jerusalem and across Europe.

St. Joseph’s College (Autonomous)
Department of Botany

Masters studies in Botany
(Specialization in Microbiology)
1990 – 1992

Masters studies included laboratory related techniques such as microphotography, micro-techniques and staining methods, experimental design, documentation, statistical analysis and report generation.

Courses involved various areas of research like Advanced Plant Physiology, Plant Tissue Culture, Plant Systematics and Microbiology

I was encouraged to take up various research topics of my interest and present my work in National conferences.