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Amr Awadallah

EIR Accel Partners. Nerd. Hacker. Chubby. Smart. Rough. Happy. Committed. Visionary. Strategic. Focused. Learner. Achiever. Gamer. http://awadallah.com

Headline: Entrepreneur
Work status: Employed Full-Time
Website: http://www.awadallah.com
Industries: Computing, Gaming, Information Technology, Internet
Skills: Business, C/C++, Computer Engineering, Databases, Engineering, Entrepreneurship, HTML / CSS, Java, Languages and Platforms, Leadership, Perl, Software Engineering, SQL, Web Development
Location: California, USA
Groups: E-Challenge Competition 2008
Interested in: Advising startups, Brainstorming, Finding business partners, Finding engineers, Getting press, Helping friends, Meeting new people, Promoting my startups, Recruiting, Recruiting for my startup, Starting a company
Schools: Cairo University, Stanford University

WORK EXPERIENCE

Employer: Accel Partners
Position: Entrepreneur in Residence
Time period: June 2008 - Present
Description: I am looking at the virtual machines, cloud computing, and grid computing space.

Employer: Diagnosoft, Inc.
Position: Seed Investor, President
Time period: January 2002 - Present
Description: Diagnosoft builds windows software that can analyze cardiac MRI image sequences to quantify where the heart is weak.

Employer: Yahoo! Inc.
Position: VP Engineering for Product Intelligence Systems and Deep Analytics
Time period: June 2000 - Present
Description: Optimize Yahoo's Products based on science, metrics, and analytics.

Employer: VivaSmart/Aptivia
Position: Founder, System Architect
Time period: May 1999 - June 2000
Description: I started VivaSmart with Thai Tran to build comparison shopping technology. We were acquired by Yahoo! Inc in mid 2000. Our technology is now the backend powering the content management system for Yahoo Shopping (aka Catzilla).

Employer: Nortel Networks
Position: Senior Research Intern
Time period: June 1998 - September 1998
Description: Built a packet mapper using window NDIS drivers to provide QoS for video conversations. A patent was issued based on this implementation.

Employer: Hewlett-Packard Laboratories
Position: Research Intern
Time period: June 1997 - September 1997
Description: Migrated the freebsd TCP/IP stack to the wind river operating system on an intelligent IO card. The card serves to offload network processing from the host.

EDUCATION

University: Stanford University
Time period: 1995 - 2007
Degree: EE, PhD

University: Cairo University
Time period: 1992 - 1995
Degree: Computer Engineering, MSc

University: Cairo University
Time period: 1987 - 1992
Degree: Electrical Engineering, BSc