Ayesha Qaisar

Experience

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  Pakistan International School Riyadh

  Sept 2013 - Sept 2020

  Debating

  Being an active participant in extracurriculars, I took part in the annal debate competitions all through middle school and high school. Winning most of those competitons as 1st place, I had become a well known debater in school and even mentored junior debaters.

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  Elections Ontario

  May 2022 - Jun 2022

  Deputy Returning Officer

  - Process electors, revise their information, and issue ballots using electronic forms and lists on a computer equipped with Elections Ontario software. - Set up, test and troubleshoot the technology the night before election day. - Assist electors with disabilities, if required.- Verify elector identification and qualifications to vote. - Complete revisions and additions to eligible electors on the electronic VotersList.- Issue ballots to eligible electors.- Complete tasks manually, using paper forms and lists, legibly and efficiently,if required.- Direct any elector issues to the Supervising Deputy Returning Officer asthey arise. Show less

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  Northwest London Resource Centre

  May 2022 - Aug 2022

  Social Media Community Manager

  - Planning and organizing weekly content to be posted on social media.- Continue to expand a virtual platform to connect residents using videos, photos anda variety of social media applications including; but not limited to, Facebook,YouTube, Instagram, TikTok- Connecting youth and families to events, services and community connections in the neighborhood and city - Create, prepare and host social media event for Northwest Pop Up Summer Programto promote NWLRC and interact with residents.- Act as a role model to the youth, and maintain a safe program space. Show less

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  RBC

  Sept 2022 - Nov 2022

  Design Thinking Program member

  - Selected as 1 of 28 second year students at Western to work closely alongside RBC UI/UX Designers and acquired valuable design techniques and strategies. - Leveraged design thinking methodologies to design a mobile app in Figma.- Collaborated within a diverse team of students from various programs, to design “MentHer”; an online mentorship platform for women, as a proposed technical solution to the UN Sustainable Development Goal #5: Gender Inequality

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  GoStudent

  Sept 2022 - Jan 2023

  Tutor
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  Women+ in Technology Society

  Oct 2022 - now

  Collaborated with a team to develop the SheHacks web application for ‘Women in Tech Society’s’ annual hackathon. - Manage and allocate the WITS budget in order to allow for rapid organizational growth - Maintain WITS+ and SheHacks+ financial records by recording expenses and managing reimbursements, in order to help execute new initiatives and ensure financial health of the club - Correspond and collaborate with other club executives to ensure funding for events or initiatives can take place.

  • VP Development

    May 2024 - now

  • Director of Development

    Oct 2023 - Apr 2024

  • Director of Finance

    May 2023 - Apr 2024

  • Campus Community Lead

    Oct 2022 - Apr 2023
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  Faculty of Engineering at Western University

  May 2023 - Apr 2024

  Undergraduate Research Student

  - Received the Bill and Barbara Etherington Fellowship, awarded only to the top 4 undergraduate research students, to be working in the field of Software Engineering and AI.- Experienced working within the Natural Language Processing domain, specifically focusing on topic modeling techniques. My work involved using various methodologies to develop an AI tool aimed at enhancing the curriculum of software courses for undergraduate engineering students at Western University.- Developed web scrapers to gather data for training AI models, curating a unique AI dataset specifically tailored for the undergraduate software engineering domain, contributing to innovative advancements in the field. Show less

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  Trackunit

  May 2024 - now

  Software Development Intern
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  Western AI

  Aug 2024 - now

  Project Manager