Chitra Ramaswamy

• Created and designed individualized behavioral interventions under supervision to promote positive behaviors and mitigate behaviors that need to be reduced.
• Administered therapy and applied behavioral analysis techniques in home and community to facilitate client treatment plan.
• Attended ongoing professional development training programs and industry seminars to remain current on treatments and techniques.
• Collaborated with treatment team to determine obstacles to success, assess client needs and develop treatment plan.
• Implemented exercises to enhance client emotional and physical well-being and improve functional skills.
• Documented client behavior and interventions attempted and collected and reported data using approved format, methods and forms.
• Participated in parent training - Encouraged clients and family members to practice and use skills and strategies for confronting problems constructively.

• Implemented interventions formulated by supervisor to assigned clients (verbal/ non verbal) in home settings.
• Conducted data collection for set client goals and performed data entry into ABA software with timely notes for supervisor.
• Taught skills to enable clients to use AAC device - Proloquo2go towards goals of building communication and social interactions.
• Organized pairing and educational activities keeping client goals in mind.
• Taught basic life skills including but not limited to personal hygiene, toilet training.

• Lifelong caregiver for schizophrenic patient(family member). Duties included - medication administering, vitals monitoring, meltdown management, meal prep and personal hygeine

• Elicited clinical histories and assisted in formulating treatment plans for patients in both family
  medicine and psychiatry departments - Caseloads included diagnoses such as anxiety, depression, schizophrenia in inpatient/outpatient settings.
• Educated families of mental health patients to increase awareness and improve patient management in home settings.
• Assisted in management and monitoring of psychiatric ward patients before, during and after Electro Convulsive Therapy(ECT) sessions.

• Conducted qualitative and quantitative research to understand user behavior and needs.
• Worked as member of integrated project design team in a highly collaborative work environment.

• Established and maintained strategic partnerships with rescue organizations in the US and veterinary clinics, rescuers and fosters in Oman by understanding community behaviors, needs of stakeholders and deficiencies in the system.
• Mobilized increased numbers of special needs cats overseas in record time and fundraised $100,000 for program efforts.
• Conducted target rescue industry research to scope out industry competition and identify advantageous trends.

• Elicited detailed patient clinical histories (average100/day) for research and care delivery . Presented cases to health care providers in a fast-paced environment to enable an increase in patient load treated/ day , improve patient flow and physician performance.
• Educated patients on preventive care on diverse health conditions as part of public health measures to increase positive behaviors, improve compliance rates to treatment plants and improve awareness of available health care initiatives.

CAREER BREAKS - 2012-2017 - Only Limited time temporary work visa, waiting for Green Card

Mid 2017-2019 - Diagnosed and treated for health ailment and recovered. Pursued UX Design Certificate in 2020 soon after . Recently acquired US citizenship and will not require future work

sponsor .

• Taught at risk youth in community school in NY to decrease dropout rates of middle school and high school children .

• Designed and Facilitated Nutrition Education workshops to middle-aged and senior population with chronic diseases in health care centers to initiate behavior changes to promote healthylifestyle, better food consumption and improve understanding of relevant health conditions.

• Educated substance abuse clients in a needle exchange program and general public on STDs and contraceptives.

• Conducted study participant interviews and collected data from low socio-economic communities with high obesity prevalence among adults and preschoolers to understand their behaviors affecting eating habits and food purchase.