Amit Deshwal
| Headline: | Entrepreneur |
| Skills: | Business, C/C++, Engineering, English, Entrepreneurship, German, Industrial Engineering, Investment, Languages, Languages and Platforms |
| Location: | Mumbai, India |
| Groups: | Genesis 2008 - IIT Madras, Genesis 2011, HeadStart Ventures |
| Interested in: | Brainstorming, Finding business partners, Finding cofounders, Finding team mates, Meeting new people, Professional opportunities, Promoting my startups, Recruiting for my startup |
WORK EXPERIENCE
| Employer: | ApniDhun.com |
| Position: | Co-Founder |
| Description: | A Music portal that provides Indian Music both free and legal. |
| Employer: | Cell for Technology, Innovation, Development Support (C-TIDES), IIT Madras <www.c-tides.iitm.ac.in> |
| Position: | Student Head |
| Time period: | January 2007 - December 2008 |
| Description: | - Brought C-TIDES as key primary partner in National Student Business Forum (GEN)
- Organized Breakthrough (National Level Business Plan competition in 2006 & 2007) |
| Employer: | GE Global Research (Industrial, Appliances Innovation Lab) |
| Position: | Trainee |
| Time period: | May 2006 - July 2006 |
| Description: | Worked on “Assessment of Steam Cooking Oven” and carried out mathematical modeling and experimental evaluation of Steam cooking process.
Key Achievement: Enjoyed creating a working model of steam cum microwave oven in just 2 months to be used for further research in GE Lab. Work was appreciated by the CEO, India Innovation Centre GE as exemplary piece of work in field of Heat Transfer. |
| Employer: | Asia Pacific Student Entrepreneurship Society, India <www.asesindia.iitm.ac.in> |
| Position: | Student President |
| Time period: | January 2006 - December 2008 |
| Description: | ASES is an international student society started by Stanford University and KAIST in 2000 now having presence in 13 countries.
- Built Indian chapter from scratch and brought it to the level of primary chapters competing with the ones in Singapore and Hong Kong - Today we have 4 colleges as sub ASES chapters including DCE and NIT Suratkal - Among many other organized Genesis, largest social innovation competition in Asia in terms of scale, in collaboration with MIT USA and TCS India |
| Employer: | NTPC Noida R&D Department |
| Position: | Trainee |
| Time period: | June 2005 - August 2005 |
| Description: | I had undergone practical training in Non- Destructive testing of Pipes and Turbines in a Power Plant.
Key Achievement: Graded excellent for the work presented and won 1st place in GE Internship challenge using the work done in NTPC Lab |
INFORMATION
| Sports: | Won Silver in Back speed skating competition representing Noida (2000) Won Gold in Back speed skating and Silver in Speed skating at Dean’s Trophy (2004) |
| Hobbies: | Love playing mouth harmonica and carry it with me always |
| Awards: | - General Electrics Foundation Scholar Leaders (2007): One among 40 students from India & 150 all over the world to be honored with the scholarship amounting to 5000 USD (2007)
- First prize in the Internship Challenge held at GE India for presenting a design solution for detecting localized corrosion in pipelines in refineries (2006) - Second place in E-Pitch (Business Plan Pitching Competition), Stanford University, USA (2005) - Awarded distinguished NTSE Scholarship by NCERT (2000) - 28th rank in National Math Olympiad conducted in Delhi (Dec 2001) |
