Project Management A Part-Time

Chintan Desai

Campaign/Project Director

*******.*****.***@*****.*** • 870-***-****

linkedin.com/in/chintan-desai1988 • San Luis Obispo, CA Areas of Expertise

● Project Management: Asana Trello Google Project Management Professional Course Certificate

● CRMs/Databases: PDI/VAN/NGPVAN Salesforce Hubspot

● Artificial Intelligence: Google AI Essentials Course Certificate ChatGPT Perplexity Grammarly

● Communications/Graphic Design: Canva Adobe Acrobat BIGVU Career Experience

School Ops Remote 2/2025 - Present

Coach

● Serve as a part-time coach for Nevada charter school applicants during the 2025 cycle; delivery of coaching on all operations aspects of the application received the highest individual evaluation from coachees a coach can obtain.

● Serve as a part-time coach for a high-level executive working in an independent contractor role to revamp their personal organization system. The Outreach Team San Luis Obispo, CA 5/2025 - 5/2025 Deputy Director

● Co-managed a group of 12 canvassers in support of clean energy projects on the Central Coast. The campaign achieved 132% of the project's door-knock goal and nearly doubled the signature goal from residents seeking to push forward an offshore wind project off the coast of Morro Bay, CA. Verix Remote 1/2025 - 5/2025

Business Development Lead

● Conducted a comprehensive competitor analysis that led to a revised pricing strategy for the company.

● Wrote and edited six detailed case studies highlighting successful client implementations, published on the company’s website. Assemblyman Duy Nguyen District 8, Las Vegas, NV 9/2024 - 12/2024 Senior Adviser to Re-election Campaign and Policy Director

● Advised Assemblyman’s re-election campaign on key campaign priorities, including communications, field operations, legislative contacts, and district engagement events. The candidate won by 7 percentage points during a challenging election cycle.

● Assisted the Assemblyman-elect in preparing for the 2025 legislative session by attending stakeholder meetings, reviewing bill draft requests to introduce during the session, summarizing key takeaways from meetings, and proposing next steps for all parties involved. Zero Week Solutions, Los Angeles, CA Las Vegas, NV 1/2024 – 9/2024 Campaign Director

● Held responsibility for all project plan creation and execution of an independent expenditure campaign for 2 Los Angeles City Council candidates, co-managing over 40 paid canvassers. Efforts resulted in a 30-point victory for one candidate and an unexpected primary runoff for the other.

● Managed and trained a Deputy Campaign Director, Campaign Director, and 35 paid canvassers in Las Vegas to protect a high-ranking member of the State Senate from a primary challenger. The client won the primary by 11 percentage points. University Preparatory Schools Denver, CO 4/2020 – 9/2021 Manager, Scholar Recruitment & Enrollment

● Aligned all recruiting activities with stakeholder requirements and trained “Parent Champions” carrying out phone-banking and door-knocking campaign efforts. Proposed creative measures to increase enrollment and strengthen funding while managing a $100k budget.

● Boosted enrollment by 10% between SY20 and SY21, the highest total enrollment in the network's history.

● Customized and implemented the region's first student recruitment cloud-based CRM (Hubspot) to track all activities related to the new family customer journey in a single source.

Chintan Desai for U.S. Congress Jonesboro, AR 11/2017 – 11/2018 Democratic Nominee for U.S. Congress, Arkansas District 1

● Recruited and managed 5 full-time staff members through compelling campaign vision, including a campaign manager, field director, political director, and finance director. Communicated campaign’s strategy and managed messaging for a website and social media platforms.

● Received nearly 30% of the vote, outperforming the previous challenger by six full percentage points.

● Raised roughly $150K from 1,400 individual contributors. KIPP Delta Public Schools Helena, AR 6/2012 – 9/2018 Project Manager / Executive Assistant to Executive Director

● Spearheaded the regional teacher recruitment initiative, growing staffing capacity to 97% for the start of SY17, the highest regional mark for each of the previous three years.

● Crafted the organization’s first policy manual aligned with organizational values and state education statutes by codifying procedural practices for six schools serving 1,500 students in collaboration with school and regional leadership.

● Produced content for the region’s charter applications to the State Board of Education, resulting in a 10-year contract renewal and approval to establish KIPP Delta in a new community.

Teach For America Helena, AR 8/2010 – 2/2016

Manager of Community Partnerships / Corps Member, Fifth Grade Social Studies

● Selected from over 45K applicants nationwide to join a national teacher corps of 4K recent graduates and professionals committed to teaching in underserved public schools.

● Opened and attracted 80 unique community visitors per week to the Hunt Education Center - a community center in downtown Helena owned by TFA - in FY15, surpassing the original grant target by over 100% and raising nearly $15,000 in revenue, increasing the original building budget by 42%

● Recruited 15 Arkansas partner organizations to participate in the region’s summer fellowship program designed to retain second-year corps members in the state, doubling the number of organizations recruited by my predecessor.. Education

● Bachelor of Arts in Political Science – University of California – Davis, Davis, CA, Magna Cum Laude, GPA: 3.68 Professional Development & Service

● Analyst Group Retreat Participant, 2024

● AAPI Forward Nevada Board Secretary, 2024

● Arena Academy 201 Manager Training, 2024

● They See Blue Nevada Chapter Lead, 2024

● Delta Cultural Center Advisory Board Member - Appointed by Arkansas Governor Asa Hutchinson to serve a three-year term, 2016-2019

● Boys & Girls Club of Phillips County Board Member, 2015-2018

● Board Chair, Teach For America Arkansas Collective 2017-2018

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