Nikhil Jaisinghani

Professional Experience
Director, Value Development Initiatives, Ltd. January 2009 to present
 Developed business plans and financial models for small-scale gas processing projects in the Niger Delta (ongoing)
 Presented small-scale gas processing opportunities to potential equity investors (ongoing)
 Conducted due diligence on potential EPC contractors (ongoing)
 Negotiated contracts with established companies searching for equity investment and access to associated gas (ongoing)

Project Development Officer, USAID, Abuja, Nigeria January 2005 to January 2009
 Led the Partnership and Private Sector team and the Democracy and Governance Office to align new activities with Mission objectives and strengthen the performance of existing Mission-funded activities
 Negotiated and designed malaria prevention, university strengthening, gas flare reduction, agricultural productivity, and local governance strengthening public private partnerships between USAID, the Nigerian public sector, and the Nigerian private sector
 Advised state governments in the Niger Delta on the use of allocated money for the achievement of development results, the establishment of long-term processes to ensure the sustainability of state initiatives, and the institution of basic monitoring and evaluation processes

Data Analyst, World Bank Institute, Washington, DC September 2004 to November 2004
 Performed data analysis to identify the effects of computer and ICT use on student learning at participating schools in a sample group of developing countries

Teacher, Kodaikanal International School, Kodaikanal, India January 2002 to May 2002
 Created a scheduling system for the high school and middle school which significantly reduced the burden of time intensive class scheduling on administrative staff
 Taught advanced programming and IB physics
 Tutored physics and math to high school students

Volunteer, United States Peace Corps, Nepal June 1999 to June 2001
 Taught mathematics in Nepali at a remote elementary and high school in eastern Nepal
 Wrote a teaching manual to provide Math teachers with improved teaching techniques
 Worked with the Curriculum Development Center of the Ministry of Education in Kathmandu to allow Peace Corps volunteers’ comments on the government school curriculums to be incorporated in revisions of government textbooks
 Assisted in a health and sanitation education project in the Bhojpur district

Analyst, Metron, Inc., Reston, VA June 2002 to September 2002
August 1997 to December 1998
 Developed a prototype software package for the U.S. military to maintain and display distributed Bayes networks across the internet
 Developed mission planning Java prototype for the Department of Defense
 Developed a Java applet for the Federal Aviation Administration to view real time flight activity
 Created a web site for the U.S. Navy to provide read/write access to a database through online forms
 Developed a 3-D animation package in Java

Analyst, Nexprise, Inc., Santa Clara, CA January 1999 to May 1999
 Developed a Java applet to graph database query results using user-selected parameters
 Developed test classes to accompany a previously developed test harness
 Maintained and extended the existing test harness
 Wrote Unix scripts to carry out software tests

Education
Masters of Arts, International Relations Washington, DC
Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS) May 2004

Bachelors of Arts, Math and Physics Charlottesville, VA
University of Virginia May 1997