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Madalina Seghete

Electrical Engineering graduate from Cornell, with MSc in Management Science and Engineering from Stanford. Currently working at Synthasite.com as Business Development Manager.

Headline: Entrepreneur
Work status: Employed Full-Time
Website: http://madaseghete.com
Skills: Business, Design, Electrical Engineering, Engineering, English, French, German, Graphic design, Italian, Languages, Management, Spanish
Location: San Francisco
Groups: BASES, E-Challenge Competition 2008, E-Challenge Competition 2009, [INACTIVE] BASES E-Challenge 2010
Interested in: Brainstorming, Finding business partners, Helping friends, Meeting new people, Mentoring, Professional opportunities, Promoting my startups, Raising money
Schools: Cornell University, Stanford University

WORK EXPERIENCE

Employer: Synthasite.com, San Francisco, CA
Position: Business Development Manager
Time period: October 2008 - Present
Description: • Leading the implementation of a new payment system on the company’s main website
• Managing the design and release of new product offerings including new website styles, templates and layouts

Employer: Reconstruction Capital II Limited
Position: Web Designer
Time period: December 2004 - Present
Description: Web Designer, designed and maintained the Reconstruction Capital II Limited company website (listed on AIM on LSE)

Employer: Graydon’s Gang
Position: Co-Founder and Co-Captain
Description: Co-Founder and Co-Captain of Graydon’s Gang, a Multiple Sclerosis bike racing and fundraising team: led the team of 12 to complete 40-150 miles of biking, raised over $8000

Employer: Deloitte
Position: Recruiting Champion and Lead
Description: Led Stanford recruiting communication and resume selection efforts

Employer: TransFair pro-bono project (Deloitte)
Position: Interview and Process Design Lead
Description: Led the interviews and contributed in the redesign of a new market entry validation process

Employer: Deloitte Consulting LLP, San Francisco, CA
Position: Business Analyst
Time period: May 2007 - October 2008
Description: • Led an initiative to create homepages for Deloitte’s client accounts that was adopted by the top 100 largest teams; worked with IT teams and Deloitte practitioners at every level of the firm
• Managed the data retrieval, modeling and client presentation for a sourcing project at a 100B telecom client, resulting in several million dollars in savings
• Part of a team of three planned, organized and led the marketing of Deloitte’s first Unconference for ~200 practitioners, a successful initiative that was adopted by other offices around the globe
• Built a survey, gathered insights and managed outside vendor relationships on a strategy paper on Transforming Strategies into Results in the Turbulent High-Tech Industry to be published in November 2008
• Ranked 1st out of the 2007 San Francisco analyst start class

Employer: Stanford University
Position: Designer
Time period: August 2006 - May 2007
Description: • Used design principles to solve business problems for clients such as Wal-Mart, Google, Mozilla, Disney, Method.
GlobalGiving at the Hasso Platner Institute of Design. Projects included:
− Part of a team of four designed and marketed an eBay toolbar to increase the adoption of Firefox; results included over 40,000 downloads and over 200,000 visits
− Worked with GSB students to redesign and improve Google’s AdSense sign up process
− Proposed a campaign to promote Wal-Mart’s Sustainability initiative; presented to CEO of Walmart.com and 100 employees
• As part of a joint team with students from Hong Kong University of Science, assessed possible market entries for PCH China Solutions; presented to head of marketing and CEO in Hong Kong

Employer: Siemens Medical Solutions, Malvern, PA
Position: Software Engineer
Time period: June 2005 - June 2006
Description: • Led a team of five to design and implement a new framework (database structure and user interface) that allows testers without any programming experience to create and run automated tests

Employer: Borg Warner Automotive, Ithaca, NY
Position: Manufacturing Engineer
Time period: April 2004 - July 2004
Description: • Recipient of the Above and Beyond Merit Award for improving equipment effectiveness and increasing cost savings by designing, implementing and testing several VB.net and ASP.net applications

EDUCATION

University: Stanford University
Time period: 2005 - 2007
Degree: Management Science and Engineering, MSc

University: Cornell University
Time period: 2000 - 2005
Degree: Electrical Engineering, BSc

INFORMATION

Hobbies: Photography, painting, graphic design, travel (~20 countries)

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    Connecting landlords and tenants

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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) .