Ashwin Purohit
Pursuing BS in Electrical Engineering from Stanford University, Software Engineering Intern at Cisco WebEx (2008), Co-founder at Lexeem.com (2009), Operations Management Engineering Intern at Yahoo! (2009).
| Headline: | Entrepreneur |
| Work status: | Full-Time Student |
| Skills: | Business, Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Engineering, Entrepreneurship, French, German, Languages, Spanish |
| Groups: | BASES, [INACTIVE] BASES E-Challenge 2010 |
| Interested in: | Brainstorming, Finding business partners, Finding cofounders, Finding team mates, Meeting new people, Professional opportunities, Promoting my startups, Recruiting for my startup |
| Schools: | Stanford University |
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| Employer: | Lexeem.com |
| Position: | Co-founder |
| Time period: | January 2009 - Present |
| Description: | Created a website where users can contribute to the site by uploading audio and text translations in their native languages, can view
similar content uploaded by other users, and can request translations from the community. To ensure quality content, users can rate and search the uploaded content to obtain speedy results. Still in development, we plan to add a matching system for translators, in which high-performing contributors are matched to users paying for lengthy or specialized translations. |
| Employer: | Yahoo! |
| Position: | Operations Management Engineering Intern |
| Time period: | June 2009 - September 2009 |
| Description: | Created a “cost transparency” (CT) tool for strategic groups, Yahoo! Finance, and engineering leadership. The CT tool allows users to better understand and optimize Yahoo!'s operating costs through selection and graphical display of cost drivers by expenditure type, product group, time-frame, and region. Shows trends in operating costs and lets the user manipulate the formulas that dictate operating costs, forecasting new costs and pinpointing inefficient expenditures. |
| Employer: | Cisco WebEx |
| Position: | Software Engineering Intern |
| Time period: | June 2008 - September 2008 |
| Description: | Developed from scratch a cross-OS (Windows, Mac, Linux) compatible desktop application version of WebEx Connect, a leading corporate collaboration platform, using Adobe Flex and AIR technologies. Analyzed application usage metrics using machine-learning
software such as Weka Data Mining, and created interactive interfaces for them using Adobe Flex technologies. |
| Employer: | IBM |
| Position: | ASIC Design Center Developer Intern |
| Time period: | July 2007 - September 2007 |
| Description: | Developed a system of improving design center productivity through the effective management of chip scripts. Delivered presentation to higher-level managers at multiple sites who will use the system for similar chip-design departments, to consolidate multiple code repositories throughout IBM. Published in the October 2007 issue of ASIC Design Center News. |
| Employer: | Stanford Student Enterprises |
| Position: | Developer |
| Time period: | May 2007 - June 2009 |
| Description: | Developed full web infrastructures and detailed features for clients such as the Graduate School of Business. Used expertise in web coding such as PHP/MySQL, AJAX, and Flex, and worked with a variety of APIs and frameworks such as JQuery, and content management systems such as Joomla! |
EDUCATION
| University: | Stanford University |
| Time period: | 2006 - 2010 |
| Degree: | Electrical Engineering, BSc |
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| Sports: | basketball |
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Michael Chu
Pursuing BS in Electrical Engineering from Stanford University, Software Developer Internship at Alcatel-Lucent, Software Developer at SIRUM, Cofounder at Lexeem.com.
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Dan Steketee
Entrepeneur with 13+ years of strategic and tactical consulting experience in the financial services, start-up and technology industries (BPM, Business Intelligence, KPI's,, Vendor Management, etc) .
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Tony Wu
Pusuing M.S in Computer Science, B.S. from Stanford University (2009), Software Engineering Intern at Facebook (2008), Program Manager Intern at Microsoft (2009), Teaching Assistant for Stanford Dept. (2007).