Adoption of new systemsis a behavior‑changeproblem. I trained inbehavior change first,then learned to build.

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Builds

Production software, shipped end to end as sole product owner.

Enables

A five‑section pre‑arrival course, three self‑paced courses and an 11‑publication guide series.

Governs

Hard boundaries specified before features: humans publish, no student identity, provenance is labeled.

Measures

Engagement records matched to documented outcomes at the student‑ID level for 664 graduates.

20of 20 career center staff with operational tooling access, up from 3
6,379engagement touchpoints across 664 graduates
84.2%of the international student population reached
44%average open rate against a 23 to 34% sector benchmark

Live prototype: Pathline

Career Plan

A longitudinal student career record platform, taken from proposal to a working application in four weeks on synthetic data, with security enforced in the database.

In development under institutional security review.

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Try the live prototype

Pathline prototype: the student home screen for Jordan Ellis, a synthetic senior, showing a path through four career plans with three verified, a reflection prompt and Handshake suggestions, under a banner marking it as a design prototype on synthetic data.
Groundwork event workspace: the structured event record every asset derives from

Flagship

Groundwork

An AI‑powered marketing and operations platform for a 20‑person career center. One structured event entry generates the brief, the copy, the email sequence and print‑exact designs.

Launched to the full staff September 2, 2026. Sole product owner and builder.

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Aki Vivekanandan

Aki Vivekanandan

Assistant Director for Career Systems Strategy & Innovation, Suffolk University

I trained as a clinical mental health counselor and now build software, instruction and research systems inside a university career center.

How I work