Zeeshan Zakaria

Co-Founder & Advisor

2023 - Current

Co-Founder & COO

2021 - 2023

• Knowledge: As Head of the Knowledge team I designed curriculum here at Shikho for Grades 9-12 based on the Bangladesh National Curriculum for 8 subjects and produced over 4000 animated videos for the Science route students. The knowledge team comprises of 8 subject teams with some of the most talented individuals to ensure we produce world class animation to deliver concepts for the Science route from grades 9-12. Our primary goal was to ensure students of Bangladesh move away from rote learning and engage in content that explains concepts by connecting them with real life scenarios. As a department we also produced question banks for testing and content for live classes in our app. • Operations: As COO I managed over 250 staff at a peak of 400+ total employees at Shikho. As we built content which included ‘Smart notes’ for students we needed over 160 staff in operations. We also ran live classes which was run with the help of the production team and conducted by the operations team. Shikho continues to provide live classes today to over 20,000 students every evening with students attending from all over the country.

Head of Pastoral Care

2019 - 2021

Description As Head of Pastoral Care I work closely with the Secondary Principal, parents and students to create and maintain a positive school atmosphere and a healthy community by providing programming and processes that will enable students to learn in a safe and caring environment. Specific Duties Behavior: Create, manage and enforce school behavioral expectations. Oversee day-to-day disciplinary issues, working closely with staff to ensure compliance with school policies. Research, identify, plan, and implement strategies to address barriers to learning including attendance concerns, behavior issues and social adjustment. Collaborate with Secondary Principal and Director for appropriate school consequences. Compile, analyze and share student discipline data for purposes of interventions and consequences. Oversee the assignment, recording and issuing of detention assignments and follow-up meetings with students and parents where necessary. Oversee in-school suspensions, including logistics, teacher communication, supervision, assignments and follow-up meetings with students. Investigate student complaints and interview students and witnesses in disciplinary investigations. Provide and monitor progressive discipline such as behavioral session, restitution, detention, in-school suspension and out-of-school suspension. Plan and implement preventive disciplinary measures through changes in programming, behavioral plans, etc. Attendance: Plan, design, and conduct follow-through strategies to implement the school attendance program. Advise students and parents on attendance improvement. Assist the Secondary Principal in the preparation of reports related to attendance . Whole School: Assist School counselor with investigations Assisting teachers with classroom management Presentations on behaviour and discipline (teachers/parents/students) Grade level mediation sessions Assemblies related to behavioural issues

Teacher of Mathematics

2018 - 2019

Teacher of Mathematics • Development/IB Training:Creating Authentic Units in the MYP(Cat 3), Dhaka, Bangladesh, 28/10/18 – 29/10/18. • IB Accreditation: Working on creating a Health and Security Policy for ISD. • Behaviour Management: Shadowed the head of pastoral (behaviour) for the first half of the semester and now assisting her run a few sessions. • Assisting DP Coordinator: Working with the DP coordinator to monitor CAS progress of all DP students. • Coach:Badminton Head Coach for HS and MS Boys at ISD. • Service Project: Coordinator for team working with local school (Solmaid) for underprivileged children.

Teacher of Mathematics and Shadow Head KS3/4

2016 - 2018

• Leadership and Management: Shadowing Heads of Years (which have been replaced with Head of KS3/4 in the current academic year), attended meetings with students, parents and other teachers and analysed data by year group to identify under achieving students. • CPD Delivery: Worked as a part of an EAL specialist group throughout the academic year for a year end multi-CPD workshop where we presented resources/strategies for teaching EAL students to the rest of the school. • Student Development: Started a “Skype with a professional” club where IB students skyped with professionals from various industries to help them learn about different industries to assist with their choice of undergraduate degrees.Worked with the ‘Student Council’ to implement a buddy system to assign students to new students to help them settle in school better and also develop responsibility amongst younger students. • Intervention and ECAs: Ran a Maths extended ECA for students on the extended course for Years 9, 10 and 11 and a Badminton ECA for the secondary school. Ran a specialist help club for IB Studies students after school. • Shadow Heads of KS3/4: Applied and attained a place in the ‘succession planning programme’ designed to make progress vertically within the school structure. Involves attending all CLT meetings and assisting Heads of KS3/4 with all their pastoral tasks.

Teacher of Mathematics and Year 9 Subject Leader

2014 - 2016

• 2014/15 GCSE Results: Target based on previous data and mocks in Sept and Dec in year 11 were 2A*s, 9As, 13Bs and 8Cs. The results achieved were 11A*s 13As and 8Bs. (This was a group I never taught before Y11) • Leadership and Management: As the year 9 lead I constantly monitor students’ progress to ensure that my colleagues within the department are held accountable for their respective year 8 students. • Organization & Planning: Plan lessons well in advance of curriculum delivery and on a regular basis to ensure the students’ needs are catered to at all times. Share resources and engage with colleagues to improve the delivery of the curriculum and manage form group. • Classroom Management: Working with my colleagues in and outside of the faculty has given me multiple ways to differentiate within the classroom based on ability, SEN (special educational needs) and EAL (English as an additional language). • Data Analysis & Performance Assessment: Used data analysis for results within the Maths department as well as school-wide and nationwide data to compare and identify specific groups that require constant appropriation in planning and intervention. • Behavior Policy and Implementation: Worked with a ‘Behaviour Management Council’ to implement new ideas to improve behaviour across the school and enlisted as a ‘Behaviour for Learning’ coach for trainee teachers within the Maths department. • Meet a professional - Helped with meet a professional sessions for Year 11s where they meet a different professional each month from various industries.

Graduate Teaching Programme

2011 - 2012

• Key Achievements: Attained funding (1 of 2 Mathematics Teachers out of 400+ applicants) from the Institute of Education (IOE) to be awarded a place for a GTP in Mathematics at Kingsbury High School (KHS). Recommended for Qualified Teacher Status and graded Outstanding by the IOE. • Organisation: Taught pupils across KS3, KS4 and KS5. • Research and Presentation: Carried out a research project on “Effect of worded feedback measured against numerical feedback in Maths books on progress KS3 students” with a sample of 300 students and presented the findings to a panel as a part of my portfolio. Recommended for Qualified Teacher Status and graded Outstanding by the Institute of Education.

Summer Data Analyst

2010 - 2010

• Data Analysis: Received data from clients, analysed and reported on its content to the actuarial department. • Valuation: Set up client data ready for valuation and liaise with the Actuarial and Accounting Departments to ensure pre-valuation met deadlines.

Learning Support Assistant

2010 - 2010

• Assisting children who have ADHD by ensuring that they carry out the tasks set by the teacher and are up to date with their homework. • Attend their lessons and assist the teacher to help other students in those particular lessons. • Attend meetings with Inclusion Consultants and Educational Psychologists from the local council and parents to discuss the progress of the children in concern. • Construct Individual Education Plans (IEP) for children and try to achieve the targets set.

Reseach Assistant - Special Advisory Services

2009 - 2009

• Worked within the Specialist Advisory Services (SAS) central support team to provide assistance to over 100 member firms with bids across the globe. • Gathered, analysed and created research documentation for all SAS teams across the organisation. • Applied strong research and data analysis skills through ultilising various databases such as Bloomberg and Orbis to gather information for company profiles, analyst & market reports, reports on Mergers & Accusations, transaction multiples, stock prices, company financials, press and market trends. • Created credentials packs, which include tombstones and a list of Grant Thornton deals for GT member firms to use as a part of their bid to highlight experience with a particular company or an industry sector. • Created blind profiles, tenders for companies that want to merge or acquire another company, via which a member firm who has a client may find the right buyer or information on possible disposals. • Worked with a team to launch a system for all firms in the Valuations community to share knowledge on a data sharing platform. • Created several podcasts for marketing across various industry sectors, which have been made from a selection of interviews with industry experts in Grant Thornton firms across the globe.

Annual Fund Raiser

2004 - 2007

Worked for the External Relations within the Development team as an Annual Fund Student Caller and Researcher to improve alumni relations.

Summer Internship

2006 - 2006

• Completed a two month internship in Corporate Banking as a Summer Intern; worked under the direct supervision of two relationship managers. • Prepared call reports, analysis of credit reports, assisted in the execution of various transactions and attended client meetings. • Efficiently completed two projects during the internship. The first project was carrying out a survey of investors in the export processing zone in Bangladesh. The second project was to create a database where details of all existing foreign investors would be stored.