Novelle Maharjan - Strategy & Product

01 Resume

I use technology and design to solve business problems in strategy and operations.

I have 5+ years of experience across fintech, payments, and AI in Mexico and the U.S., and I am currently pursuing an MBA at the University of Rochester. My background is in program management and product operations, focused on helping teams run more clearly and making complex work easier to scale.

Professional Experience

June 2026 -August 2026

AI Strategy & Pricing Intern

Finta.ai

Buffalo, NY

AI-powered relationship management platform for fundraising. Summer internship focused on pricing, funnel performance, and AI product economics.

Built a pricing and credit-economics model that improved model-routing decisions, using LangSmith to evaluate output quality while protecting internal margins and workflow performance.
Rebuilt new-user onboarding around activation credits and email engagement, creating a more scalable activation model that balanced conversion with top-up and subscription growth.

February 2025 -June 2025

Enterprise Operations Consultant

Yaydoo

Mexico City, MX

LATAM division of Paystand Inc, a global B2B payments and collections platform. Short-term consulting assignment focused on fixing operational inefficiencies and improving internal execution.

Recovered a delayed enterprise launch by converting the product roadmap into Jira sprint workflows, restoring cross-functional execution across product and operations teams during a critical rollout.
Deployed AI agents for customer meeting analysis and SQL reporting across multiple departments, then trained employees to operationalize the workflow at scale.

September 2022 -January 2024

Operations Program Manager

Scale AI

Mexico City, MX

Data infrastructure company supporting advanced AI systems. Operations leadership role focused on delivery, onboarding, and quality execution.

Managed Generative AI training projects for enterprise model development, coordinating cross-functional delivery with strict quality standards and process optimization across workstreams.
Turned a technically complex 3D AR/VR labeling workflow into a trainable operation, reducing ramp time through multilingual training and project-specific benchmark tools while maintaining high quality.
Built SQL and Power BI dashboards that gave leaders trusted visibility into delivery risk and staffing gaps, supporting resource allocation and execution decisions across projects.

February 2021 -July 2022

Operations Coordinator

Oyster Financial

Mexico City, MX

Fintech serving small and medium-sized businesses through credit and debit products. Operations role focused on collections, workflow design, and acquisition transition.

Directed user offboarding after company acquisition by building the transition operating plan and coordinating cross-functional department leads, minimizing disruption and protecting customer trust during a high-stakes business transition.
Built and trained the credit collections team, overhauling repayment tracking through HubSpot CRM and IVR workflows that automated outreach.

July 2020 -December 2020

Project Manager

Ibriz.ai

Mexico City, MX

Blockchain and AI consultancy supporting startups with growth and market-entry strategy. Short-term project role focused on market analysis for a new product launch.

Led an ML-based market research project for a fintech client, defining the ICP through behavioral analysis and identifying stronger prospect segments for outreach.
Built go-to-market acquisition channels through landing page testing, paid campaigns, and analytics, helping clarify where demand was strongest.

September 2017 -July 2020

Financial Analyst

DC Venture Capital

Mexico City, MX

Early-stage venture capital firm focused on small and medium businesses and real estate projects across Mexico. Investment team role centered on financial analysis and due diligence.

Supported distributed capital across small and mid-sized business projects by conducting financial statement analysis, due diligence, and site assessments that shaped credit strategy for funding decisions.

Education

July 2025 - May 2027

Rochester, NY

Master of Business Administration (STEM-Designated Program)

University of Rochester - Simon Business School

Concentration: Strategy and Operations.
Honors & Awards: Merit Scholar (Stephen & Barbara Shepard), Forté Fellow & Ambassador, National Black MBA Fellow.
Organizations: President of Simon Women in Business, Member of Simon Vision Consulting, LatAm Students of Simon.

August 2016 - August 2020

Mexico City, MX

Bachelor's in Finance & Banking, GPA 3.7

Escuela Bancaria y Comercial

Graduated with AMIB Certification to provide licensed financial & investment advisory in Mexico.

Skills

Business

Strategic OperationsAI StrategyProject ManagementData Analytics & ReportingExecutive CommunicationMarket ResearchFinancial AnalysisDigital TransformationProcess Improvement

Technical

SQLPythonJavaScriptCursorCodexLangChainLooker Studion8nPostHogGoogle Apps ScriptJiraPower BITableauHubSpotGitHubVercelLovable

Additional Information

Languages

English (Fluent), Spanish (Fluent), Hindi (Basic), Nepali (Native)

Volunteering

Promoted 5 exhibits at Museo Nacional de Antropologia, supporting 10,000 multilingual visitors.

Mentored 2 international students during their first year to support academic adjustment and early program success.

Interests

Design and branding projects, Amateur astronomy, Strategy-based video games

02 Experiential Learning

Applied strategy work

Applied strategy work outside the core curriculum, used to sharpen strategic judgment on real business problems.

Simon Vision Consulting

🏆 Best Consultant of the Cycle

Student-run consulting group delivering pro bono strategy work for external clients. Worked with an SEO services company to explore how changes in search behavior were creating new business opportunities beyond its core service offering.

Researched GEO/AIO and other new market trends to identify where changes in search behavior could create viable adjacent opportunities.
Proposed three new venture concepts, supported by financial modeling and an implementation roadmap across pricing, go-to-market, and automation.

Ain Center AI Hackathon

🏆 Winning team

See LinkedIn post

Responsible AI system design for a social care technology case involving sensitive data and HIPAA constraints. The work focused on where AI could add practical value inside existing care workflows while respecting compliance, data privacy, and the trust required in community-based services.

Simon Winter Case Competition

🏆 Winning team

See LinkedIn post

Social media and brand strategy for a Gen Z sportswear and casualwear launch. We interviewed influencers to understand how sponsorships actually work, how creators evaluate brand fit, and what makes a campaign feel credible to the audience it is trying to reach.

Simon Summer Case Competition

Market selection and go-to-market strategy for a cable protection company. The challenge was evaluating multiple high-growth markets without one obvious answer, then turning the market logic into a defensible recommendation for industry practitioners.

Simon Interclub Case Competition

Expansion planning for a growing moving and storage business deciding where to prioritize its next move. The challenge was deciding where to attack when the business was growing steadily but not explosively, balancing market attractiveness with operational fit and competitive pressure.

03 Technical Projects

AI applications & tools

Hands-on projects where I used code and AI to learn new tooling by taking an idea from an initial concept through to a working project.

Novelle's Portfolio Website

GitHub repo

Custom portfolio site built to present experience, projects, and professional direction in one place.

Built with Next.js, React components, and custom CSS motion.
Used Codex to iterate on the rolodex layout and animation details.
Maintained through GitHub repo and deployed through Vercel.

Portfolio homepage shown beside a code preview

Will Codex reset?

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Predictive model that uses sentiment around Codex, OpenAI developers, and influencer posts to estimate whether the platform may issue a weekly token reset.

Built as a Lovable-hosted web app with React-style components and responsive layout logic.
Includes SEO-oriented page metadata so the live site reads clearly when shared.
Uses a newspaper theme with a daily forecast, reader poll, tracked signals, and reset probability.

Currently working on a calendar-sync tool that brings Outlook and Google Calendar into one planning view for cleaner weekly scheduling.

04 Creative Work

Branding & design work

Projects turning ideas into clearer identity and storytelling by giving them a more deliberate form.

Wine tasting - Poster series

A recurring wine tasting hosted with friends for the MBA class. The posters helped turn a casual gathering into a small recurring series, giving each tasting its own theme.

Simon Business School - Orientation T-shirt

Winning design from the Simon Business School T-shirt contest for the batch of 2028's MBA orientation. I am grateful to have made something that will become part of how incoming students first see themselves in the Simon community.

Built on the University’s navy and dandelion palette, the design centers on the Rush Rhees dome set against a warm sunset backdrop. The yellow field captures that late-day glow on campus.

Open post on LinkedIn