Vijay Viswanathan
Electrical Engineer turned Supply Chain Strategy PhD student interested in disruptive ideas for the bottom half of the pyramid
| Headline: | Entrepreneur |
| Work status: | Full-Time Student |
| Industries: | Education, Financial |
| Skills: | Editing, English, Entrepreneurship, Industrial Engineering, Management, Product design |
| Location: | MIlwaukee, WI |
| Groups: | Global Social Venture Competition |
| Visas: | USA, India |
| Interested in: | Advising startups, Brainstorming, Consulting opportunities, Finding business partners, Finding cofounders, Finding experts, Finding hot stories, Finding team mates, Getting press, Giving back, Helping friends, Joining a startup, Learning about entrepreneurship, Meeting new people, Mentoring, Participating in a competition, Professional opportunities, Promoting my startups, Providing services to startups, Raising money, Receiving feedback, Recruiting for my startup, Sharing my projects, Trading services |
| Schools: | University of Wisconsin System - Milwaukee, Visvesvaraya Technological University |
FEATURED STARTUP
MjuQuity.Org
MjuQuity.Org
Bringing the Investment Bank to the bottom half of the pyramid!
- Startup type: Social Enterprise
- Status: Active
- Stage: Prototyping
WORK EXPERIENCE
| Employer: | UW-Milwaukee |
| Position: | Research Assistant |
| Time period: | January 2011 - Present |
| Description: | Industry funded project on “Risk Analysis in Truckload Freight Pricing”
Assisted Prof. Jang in preparing project proposal and successfully obtaining this extramural grant. Responsibilities to-date have included defining project scope, schedule and deliverables, requirements gathering, literature review, data analysis with MS Excel/SQL, Macro Programming in VBA with Excel to model/analyze and estimate cost and risk drivers for pricing truckload freight, thereby helping this leading 3PL company improve its strategic pricing capabilities. |
| Employer: | Metro Transit |
| Position: | Intern - Rail Technical Services and Operations Analysis |
| Time period: | May 2010 - August 2010 |
| Description: | One of the 32 interns at the Metropolitan Council of Minnepolis-St. Paul in Summer’10 selected from a nationwide pool of 300+ applicants.
Worked with the Operations Analyst and Manager-Rail Operations Analysis to collate and identify on-time performance, reliability, maintenance scheduling and day-to-day operational health metrics for the Hiawatha Light Rail Line in the Minneapolis-St. Paul Metropolitan Area. Helped prepare data for monthly dashboards presented to the executive management pertaining to the real-time health of the Light Rail Operation. Helped collate/prepare data for mandatory NTD reporting to the federal government. |
| Employer: | UWM ANSYS Institute for Industrial Innovation |
| Position: | Innovation and Commercialization Project Associate |
| Time period: | January 2010 - May 2010 |
| Description: | Consulted as a part of an interdisciplinary student team for a confidential Milwaukee area mobile device startup on the business case for an iPhone based healthcare application.
Key tasks included mapping the IP space for the application offering, gauging IP prosecution opportunities/potential, formulating the business case and detailed financial and operational model for concept-to-market ramp-up as well as prepare a funding pitch/ROI Analysis for obtaining future venture funding. |
| Employer: | UWM ANSYS Institute for Industrial Innovation and Tapco Inc |
| Position: | Product Realization Project Associate |
| Time period: | September 2009 - December 2009 |
| Description: | Consulted as a part of a 4 member team on a concept-to-prototype Industry assignment designing a “Solar Powered Illuminated Street Sign” using Product Realization principles as a part of a unique 3 credit class offered by the Institute.
Responsibilities included requirements mining, product definition and placement, new product ideation, product design, assisting the team with the development and testing of the final prototype, building a marketing and test plan for the new product. Successfully delivered a proof-of-concept working prototype of the new product design. |
| Employer: | TRIO and Pre-College Programs, UW-Milwaukee |
| Position: | Lecturer, Student Success Summer Program |
| Time period: | June 2008 - July 2008 |
| Employer: | Dueco Inc. |
| Position: | Engineering Intern |
| Time period: | May 2007 - August 2007 |
| Description: | DCF Analysis supporting a major capital equipment “repair vs buy” decision in MS Excel.
Simulation Modeling and analysis of multiple shop floor areas in ARENA 10 resulting in identification and implementation of multiple shop floor/process modifications that resulted in greater operational efficiency, reduced lead time, improved employee and machine utilization. ERP implementation (TCM from Workwise Inc) – helped with part master cleanup and part name standardization initiatives and Lean office/plant layouts in AutoCAD |
| Employer: | Center for Ergonomics, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee |
| Position: | Student Assistant |
| Time period: | January 2006 - November 2008 |
| Description: | Programming enhancements to Ergonomic job analysis software in VB 6
Database design/ admin. in Filemaker Pro 7 for a CDC/NIOSH funded ergonomics research projects Macro programming in VBA with Excel. Occasional supervision and training of other student workers in the lab. |
| Employer: | UW-Milwaukee |
| Position: | Graduate Teaching Assistant |
| Time period: | January 2005 - December 2010 |
EDUCATION
| University: | University of Wisconsin System - Milwaukee |
| Time period: | 2006 - 2012 |
| Degree: | Industrial Engineering, PhD |
| University: | Visvesvaraya Technological University |
| Time period: | 2001 - 2005 |
| Degree: | Electrical and Electronics Engineering, BEng |
PUBLICATIONS
| Articles: | V Viswanathan and J Jang, Strategic Inventories in the two-period Stackelberg Duopoly with Vertical Control, Proc. Of the 2010 Western Decision Sciences Institute Annual Meeting, Lake Tahoe, NV, Apr 6-9th ‘10
V Viswanathan and J Jang, Strategic Inventories in a Cournot Duopoly, Proc. of the 20th Annual Conference of the Production and Operations Management Society, Orlando, FL, May 1st -4th ‘10 |
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the Global Microfinance and Venture Capital Group
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