Josh Woodard

• Oversee a multi-million dollar activity portfolio across several countries in Asia, including a team of 10 in Bangladesh that supported the digitization of more than $2.7 million in payments and the launch of two first-of-their-kind agri-credit products for smallholder farmers, as well as a multi-stakeholder engagement supporting digital merchant payments in India and a regional effort to support the scale of digital technologies for resilience in Asia-Pacific.
• Provide technical leadership and guidance to various digital technology and digital finance initiatives in the Asia-Pacific region, including strategy development, program implementation, and assessments. Led the ICT strategy development for an initiative in Indonesia supporting improved services for key populations at risk of HIV.
• Designed and facilitated multiple large-scale events on technology for development in Bangkok that engaged hundreds of people. Co-organizer of the ongoing Technology Salon Bangkok.
• Co-authored the e-Agriculture National Strategy Guide and served as technical expert on missions to Sri Lanka and Bhutan to support their development of national e-Agriculture strategies, resulting in the world’s first national e-Agriculture strategy (Bhutan).

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• Performed technical design and implementation of assessments, scopes of work, and technical products.
• Managed and provided technical direction to an activity in Bangladesh facilitating the adoption of mobile financial services by USAID implementing partners.
• Led the design and facilitation of a mobiles for development conference and an in-depth training from USAID staff, as well as writing a complementary handbook, on integrating mobiles into development projects for USAID Asia.

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Managed the implementation of USAID and private sector-funded projects in Asia and sub- Saharan Africa, including

USAID's FACET project, which was a four-year initiative focused on increasing the appropriate use of ICT in agriculture across sub-Saharan Africa.

• Developed print and multimedia educational materials to enable agriculture, education, and health practitioners to integrate ICT more effectively into their work.
• Designed and facilitated workshops for development organizations, government officials, educators, and agribusinesses from more than a dozen countries using learner-centered approaches focused on effectively using ICT to enhance impact and develop context-appropriate, multimedia educational messaging.

Helped develop a curriculum framework and project planning form for a workforce development project working with orphans and vulnerable youth in Mozambique.

• Created a multimedia training kit and materials to help rural schools in Indonesia create educational videos to manage their computer labs.
• Assisted with the facilitation of a learning facilitators' preparation workshop using project-based learning over three weeks for

20 project staff and educators in Mozambique. Managed the procurement of appropriate ICT tools for a learning facility in Mozambique.

Developed and maintained the Center for Early Care Education website. Led an initiative to redesign and streamline project data collection and analysis. Compiled, analyzed and summarized statistics and other programmatic information through MS

Access.

Thailand

• Wrote articles on a variety of industrial sectors, business and trade organizations for the Board of Investment's monthly magazine, the Thailand Investment Review. Prepared speeches and PowerPoints on trade and investment for Thai government officials. Edited government documents prepared by non-native English speakers for official purposes.

Sakon Nakhon, Thailand

• Partnered with local leaders to plan and implement first ever "Lao Pone Kaw AIDS Awareness Project" targeting over 200 community members and 100 junior high school students. Developed the "Sakon Nakhon Tsunami Volunteer Project" with three other volunteers leading 16 junior high students in conducting a two-day life-skills training for 40 orphans in Phang Nga province. Organized and facilitated a semester-long life-skills training for 100 junior high school students. Created an Excel- based accounting system for a local women's collective and provided training on using the system for tracking expenses, keeping inventory and conducting revenue analyses.

• M.A., History, University of Warwick, Coventry, UK, 2003

• Certificate of Management Studies, William E. Simon Graduate School of Business, Rochester, NY, 2000

COUNTRY EXPERIENCE (PROFESSIONAL)

Bangladesh, Bhutan, Brazil, Ethiopia, Georgia, Ghana, India, Indonesia, Kenya, Laos, Liberia, Macedonia, Malawi,

Moldova, Mozambique, Myanmar, Nepal, Papua New Guinea, Rwanda, Senegal, Sri Lanka, Thailand, Uganda, Zambia

• B.A.., History (with honors), minor in Communications, University of Rochester, Rochester, NY, 2000

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