Abdullah Zeeshan

CF APMP

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About

I am a CF APMP certified professional transitioning into the world of bids & proposals.

Professional Journey

My professional journey can be easily divided into the following three phases:

  1. Education Sector
  2. Tech Exploration
  3. Bids & Proposals

2016 to 2021 Education Sector

Educating underprivileged kids

I started my professional journey working in a Hyderabad, India based NGO Youngistaan Foundation in its educational program Bright Spark. The program served the educational needs of the underprivileged children who live in slum areas.

During my time, I went on to take a diverse set of roles ranging from teaching, mentorship, curriculum designing, coordination, and content creation.

Following are some highlighted projects I was involved in:

  • Cyber Congress Project: Worked as a Content Designer, Volunteer Lead, and Coordinator on a statewide 10-month Cyber Safety project targeting students of more than 3000+ government schools teaming with the Telangana Police Department, the SHE Team Hyderabad City, the Women Safety Wing, Telangana State, the NICSI and the educational partner and lead trainer Mr. Rakshit Tandon.
  • Social Emotional Learning Project: Worked closely with underprivileged children on developing and honing critical social-emotional skills and attitudes of resilience, self-advocacy, empathy, and learning. Actively engaged in preparing, planning and implementing CASEL’s evidence-based SEL framework.
  • Educational Project: Helped children aged 5 to 16 build foundation skills in Math, English, Logical Reasoning, and Science, and took them to educational trips, theatre shows, and field trips for a holistic learning experience.
  • Theatre Art Project: Co-ordinated a 2-month-long theatre workshop that was conducted by eminent theatre artist Vinay Varma with 13 underprivileged children from a learning pocket in a political satire, Kane Raja ki Nagari. Later, these children performed the play in one of the busiest theatres of Hyderabad.
  • Child Safety Project: Facilitated a session revolving around educating children on “Good and Bad Touch” to keep them ready to tackle such a situation.
  • Rubaroo Fellowship: Affiliated with Rubaroo for a year in their “Nurturer Program” fellowship.
Classrooms brought to life with learning

After having gained experience and exposure to education, I later joined a Hyderabad based private school and worked there as a Math and Physics teacher for classes 9th and 10th and a Life Skills Trainer for classes 7th and 8th.

My goal was to make my students fall in love with Math and Physics and make learning a wholesome and a joyous experience.

I brought creativity in my classrooms by including activities, games, collaboration in my lesson plans.

Working in an Ed-tech startup - my first taste of the corporate world

I joined a B2B ed-tech startup that provided educational content creation services to organizations.

I worked there as an SME and an SME Lead wearing multiple hats. I created Math educational content in both video and text formats, led a mid-size team of educators, assisted in pre-sales activities, handled operations and project management side of the business complying with clients requirements, recruited and onboarded educators on my team, held marketing campaigns, and so on.

This was my first hand experience into the corporate world and it taught me a lot about how B2B organizations worked. Since, it was a startup, I was able to get my hands across all the different departments of the company.

2022 - 2024: Tech Explorations - Data Science/AI/ML/Software Engineering

I took a conscious decision to go on a career break to explore my tech aspirations. Over the course of 3 years, I enrolled in the following programs with the aim learning and exploring Data Science and Software Engineering.

  1. Indian Institute of Technology Madras (IIT M)’ BS in Data Science & Applications, 2021 - 2023.
  2. fast.ai’s Practical Deep Learning for Coders, 2023.
  3. The Odin Project’s Full Stack Web Development course, 2024.

I did two internships in this duration.

The first one was a summer internship in 2022 at IIT Ropar under the expert guidance of Professor Dr. Sudarshan Iyengar during my internship, I primarily designed, developed, and fine-tuned NLP models using Transformers and BERT, implemented from the research papers Attention Is All You Need and BERT, respectively.

The second one was at the end of 2024, in a mid-sized IT services company where I worked as a Developer and a Team Lead working on various client projects and leading both frontend and backend teams for cross-collaboration.

My explorations in tech equipped me with problem solving skills, a technical acumen, and way to look at technology from the builder’s eye!

2025 - present: The world of Bids & Proposals

Along the way, I got to know about this niche profession of Bids & Proposals. I started doing some research and a whole new world open up in front of me. I was surprised by its diversity - writing, technical acumen, understanding customers needs, and most importantly a seat that gives a 360 degree view of the complete business development cycle. I got to know about APMP and after a few weeks I decided to transition into this profession. I studied for the APMP Foundation Level Exam and got certified.

I did an externship under a the mentorship of Senior Bid Manager of 30+ years of industry experience in Saudi Arabia learning about various the complete sales cycle operations starting from RFP/RFQ responses to closing project delivery deals.

Equipped with this diverse background, I have recently moved to Riyadh, Saudi Arabia seeking fresh opportunities in this area.

Professional Certifications

APMP Foundation Level Certification (CF APMP), APMG International, June 2025, View Credentials

Hobbies & Interests

Swimming, Strength Training, Reading, Watching thriller movies, Gaming, Watching football, Philosophy, AI, ML, Programming, Psychology, Liberal Arts

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