Zachary Tratar
Student, Engineer, Business Development, Leadership, and Marketing Enthusiast
| Headline: | Entrepreneur |
| Industries: | Internet |
| Skills: | Business, Computer Engineering, Design, Engineering, Graphic design, Languages, Leadership, Management |
| Location: | Champaign, IL |
| Interested in: | Brainstorming, Finding business partners, Finding cofounders, Finding engineers, Finding team mates, Meeting new people, Participating in a competition, Professional opportunities, Promoting my startups, Recruiting for my startup |
| Schools: | University of Illinois System - Urbana-Champaign |
WORK EXPERIENCE
| Employer: | Engineering Council |
| Position: | Executive Board, Vice President |
| Time period: | April 2010 - Present |
| Description: | Lead team to organize Engineer’s Week, the 2nd largest student-run event on campus.
Planned and executed Engineer’s Night, a student organization recruitment and college interaction event; event attracts 60+ student organizations, college deans, and 1000+ students. Manage relationships with 70+ student organizations. |
| Employer: | Instarta.com |
| Position: | Co-Founder, Chief Technology Officer |
| Time period: | November 2008 - Present |
| Description: | Performed analysis pertaining to horizontal integration, target markets, and marketing strategy.
Lead early development and expansion into Korean market. Established brand development capabilities for political legislators, candidates, and organizations. Designed and created user interfaces and backend hooks to internal web platform, facebook, twitter, and youtube. |
| Employer: | General Electric – Appliances & Lighting |
| Position: | Information Management Leadership Program, Intern |
| Time period: | May 2010 - August 2010 |
| Description: | Created corporate-wide deployment strategy for in-house mobile applications, 500% more efficient than the latter. (10+ Projects)
Designed business process to integrate 1000+ diverse users into delivery application. Developed warehouse scanner updating program, now being deployed nation-wide; project completed 70% early and program features exceeded client expectations. |
| Employer: | Engineering Council |
| Position: | Executive Board, Director of Information Technology |
| Time period: | April 2009 - April 2010 |
| Description: | Led team to manage Engineering Council’s internal IT systems, support 40+ student organizations’ websites, and create and direct new technology initiatives.
Overhauled entire internal IT systems, resulting in a leaner overall system with higher performance and stability. |
EDUCATION
| University: | University of Illinois System - Urbana-Champaign |
| Time period: | 2012 |
| Degree: | Computer Engineering, BSc |
INFORMATION
| Hobbies: | Burn Notice, ultimate frisbee, amateur photography, web and graphic design |
| Memberships: | Engineering Leadership Committee – Facilities & Planning Coordinator: March 2009 – March 2010
E-Week Committee – Marketing Director: March 2009 – March 2010 Engineering Council IT Committee – Application Developer, Linux Administrator: August 2008 – March 2009 Engineering Freshmen Committee – Executive Board, Webmaster: August 2008 – August 2009 IEEE – General Member: August 2008 – Present |
| Awards: | NAESC Midwest Regional Award, A+ Certified |
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Matthew Gornick
I build technology companies like OrangeQC.com and Inventables.com. I am an entrepreneur, a ruby on rails aficionado, and a world traveler in training.
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Carolyn Ratcliffe
24, B.S. Mechanical Engineering from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, and currently pursuing M.S. Human Factors. 3 Product Design Engineering Co-Op terms for John Deere Commercial Products.
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Ryan Rogowski
Currently pursuing Electrical Engineering degree at University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and working at Office for Technical Consulting Resources.