Rina Patel
| Headline: | Startup Member |
| Work status: | Employed Full-Time |
| Industries: | Health, Information Technology |
| Skills: | Business, C/C++, Computer Engineering, Design, Engineering, Entrepreneurship, Event planning, HTML / CSS, Human-Computer Interaction, Java, Languages and Platforms, Management, Software Engineering, Web design, Web Development |
| Groups: | Social e-challenge Competition 2009 [inactive], [OLD] Social e-challenge Competition 2008 [INACTIVE] |
| Interested in: | Consulting opportunities, Finding team mates, Meeting new people, Professional opportunities, Recruiting for my startup |
| Tags: | business productivity, clean tech, information technology, Quality Assurance |
| Schools: | University of Florida |
FEATURED STARTUP
CHWired
CHWired
Connecting rural community health workers to the medical expertise and support they need
- Startup type: Social Enterprise
- Status: Active
- Stage: Just An Idea
WORK EXPERIENCE
| Employer: | PTC |
| Position: | Senior Business Productivity Advisor |
| Time period: | August 2005 - Present |
| Description: | - Developed and launched company-wide guide on technology services for all new hires localized by country.
- Partnered with HR Learning and Development to implement global IT training curriculum for employees and new hires - Performed needs based assessment on company employee training needs; Developed, designed and deliver IT Trainings for software and any self-service applications; Identified learning interventions to meet business priorities, issues and objectives; Developed web-based trainings to increase proficiency in IT business applications for PTC University - Responsible to develop training and transition plans for global IT support teams during new releases - Provide quarterly updates projects related to company IT strategy; Developed and organizing special events such as Technology Fair to increase awareness of IT tools and applications available to ultimately enhance employee productivity - Business process improvement; Developed new processes on automation of IT accounts management. - Facilitate user acceptance testing and reporting of all new technology for IT to reduce end-user impact - Responsible for and manage worldwide IT communications and the IT Web Content Management System |
| Employer: | Cents of Relief, Inc. |
| Position: | Co-Founder/President |
| Time period: | April 2003 - Present |
| Description: | - Established 501(c) 3 organization to help reduce human trafficking and health problems of the red-light areas
- Responsible for financial reporting, operations, communications and program management - Designed a curriculum to improve computer literacy, English, and self-esteem of children in red-light areas; volunteers implemented initiative allowing children to chat on-line with “mentors” overseas |
| Employer: | RLM Software – FlightView Software |
| Position: | Operations Engineer |
| Time period: | October 2004 - August 2005 |
| Description: | - Handled problems relating to FlightView Tracking Softwares solutions on customer site, backend problems, communication issues, data processing and raw data problems.
- Responsible for making builds of customer configuration files and software customization for all new customers. - Developed user documentation along with software release notes and administrator guides; Released support manuels and protocals for new products - Performed maintenance on company-wide intranet, call center tracking system, and customer feedback database - Worked with sales and business development on customer demonstrations and solution customizations |
| Employer: | United States Biomedical Information Systems |
| Position: | Senior Technical Analyst |
| Time period: | October 2003 - July 2004 |
| Description: | - Performed drug content updates for Sanford Guide and Tarascon Pharmacopeia Software
- Designed, developed and implemented working scheduling tool for our company’s departments and employees allowing for an efficient way to allocate job hours. - Corrected program errors and bugs reported by end-users using applications designed for Tarascon Pharmacopeia and Sanford Guide - Tested for PDA compatability issues that arose due to software updates (Palm and Windows Mobile Platforms) - Developed support documentation for wireless handheld device computing involving medical reference guides. This documenation was used by company when providing support to our clients requiring assistance. - Conducted quality control and usability testing of software |
EDUCATION
| University: | University of Florida |
| Time period: | 2003 - 2004 |
| Degree: | Computer Science, MSc |
| University: | University of Florida |
| Time period: | 1999 - 2003 |
| Degree: | Computer Science, BSc |
