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Andi Kleissner

Headline: Engineer
Work status: Full-Time Student
Industries: Cleantech
Skills: Chinese, Design, Engineering, English, German, Graphic design, Languages, Product design, Writing
Groups: Social e-challenge Competition 2008
Interested in: Internships, Meeting new people, Providing services to startups, Receiving feedback, Sharing my projects
Tags: capoeira, clean energy, environment, hula, international development, Skiing, social entrepreneurship, sustainability
Schools: Stanford University

WORK EXPERIENCE

Employer: IDEO
Position: Intern
Time period: June 2008 - Present

Employer: American India Foundation (AIF)
Position: Intern
Time period: February 2008 - May 2008
Description: • Provided manufacturing support for the production of a lighter, smoother-driving cycle rickshaw. The improved rickshaw reduces the plight of rickshaw drivers and increases their income. The rickshaws are part of a microfinance scheme in which drivers are able to own their rickshaws after 450 days of installments, thereby eliminating the financial burden of daily rental fees.
• Designed a manufacturing jig and alignment tools for accurate production.

Employer: Lanka Gasifiers
Position: Intern
Time period: September 2007 - February 2008
Description: • Micro Biomass gasifiers (9 kW), designed and built by Lanka Gasifiers, are currently deployed in six villages in rural Sri Lanka providing renewable, CO2 neutral, affordable energy in rural areas with no access to the national grid.
• One of three on-site engineers working on project. Responsible for design improvements, R&D, and machine testing.

Employer: Future Social Innovator’s Network
Position: Internship Coordinator
Time period: September 2006 - November 2006
Description: • Project managed six international internships in social entrepreneurship—two in India and four in Papua New Guinea.

Employer: Panango
Position: Board Member
Time period: September 2006 - November 2006
Description: • Founding member of Panango, an NGO that brings English learning to Papua New Guinea students through locally relevant topics like ecology and land rights.

Employer: Alternative Spring Break Class
Position: Co-leader
Time period: September 2006 - November 2006
Description: • Taught class in winter quarter titled “Social Entrepreneurship in the Bay Area.”
Organized weeklong seminar for 13 students which included visits to and volunteering for entrepreneurial social ventures.

EDUCATION

University: Stanford University
Time period: 2004 - 2009
Degree: Mechanical Engineering, BSc

INFORMATION

Sports: Outdoor enthusiast including mountaineering, skiing, camping, triathlete. Capoeira.
Hobbies: World traveler, visiting social benefit projects in Brazil, Eastern Africa, and Southeast Asia.
Memberships: Society of Women Engineers.

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