Jacqueline del Castillo
| Headline: | Entrepreneur |
| Skills: | Design, Entrepreneurship, Graphic design, HTML / CSS, Javascript, Marketing, Product design, Rails, Web design, Web Development, Writing |
| Groups: | BASES, Social e-challenge Competition 2009 [inactive], [OLD] Social e-challenge Competition 2008 [INACTIVE] |
| Interested in: | Brainstorming, Consulting opportunities, Finding experts, Finding mentors, Finding team mates, Giving back, Learning about entrepreneurship, Meeting new people, Professional opportunities, Providing services to startups, Receiving feedback |
| Schools: | Harvard Business School, Stanford University |
WORK EXPERIENCE
| Employer: | Stanford University |
| Position: | Research Assistant |
| Time period: | April 2007 - July 2007 |
| Description: | Research Assistant to Tom Kosnik, Professor of Management Science and Engineering.
• Wrote case study about Mozilla’s marketing strategy for Firefox add-ons. |
| Employer: | Microsoft Corporation |
| Position: | Program Manager |
| Time period: | June 2006 - September 2006 |
| Description: | • Performed internal usability study to identify top use case scenarios of an existing IE feature.
• Conducted competitive analysis and wrote specs that detailed future feature set. • Worked with developers and testers to cost code and test time of the future feature set. |
| Employer: | Microsoft Corporation |
| Position: | Program Manager |
| Time period: | June 2005 - September 2005 |
| Description: | Drove the implementation of Quick Tabs, an IE7 Tabbed Browsing feature.
o Wrote a feature design spec detailing the current and future feature set. o Ran meetings with developers, designers, and testers to close feature design issues. o Presented the functionality and feature vision to the IE team. |
| Employer: | Stanford University |
| Position: | Research Assistant |
| Time period: | March 2005 - March 2006 |
| Description: | Research Assistant to Behnam Tabrizi, Professor of Management Science and Engineering.
• Contributed to a framework for conducting rapid, corporate transformation efforts. • Wrote book introduction and sample chapter (~80pgs.). |
EDUCATION
| University: | Stanford University |
| Time period: | 2001 - 2008 |
| Degree: | Management Science & Engineering, BSc |
| University: | Stanford University |
| Time period: | 2005 - 2008 |
| Degree: | Management Science & Engineering, MSc |
| University: | Harvard Business School |
| Time period: | 2005 |
| Degree: | Summer Venture in Management Program (SVMP) |
INFORMATION
| Awards: | • Finalist Team Member in Draper Fisher Jurvetson West Coast Student Business Plan Competition (2007)
• Finalist Team Member in Stanford E-Challenge Competition (2007) • Finalist Team Member at Stanford-Berkeley “Be-A-VC” Case Study Competition (2006) • Google Scholarship to attend Society of Women Engineers National Conference (2005) • Coca-Cola Regional Scholar (2002) • Third Place at State Michigan Industrial & Technology Education Competition (2002) |
Jacqueline's Startups (2)
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Myanmar Cook Stove
Designing and developing safer and more fuel-efficient wood-burning cook stoves for rural families in deforested areas of the developing world
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Jacqueline is Following (5)
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Kiva
Kiva lets you connect with and loan money to unique small businesses in the developing world. By choosing a business on Kiva.org, you can "sponsor a business" and help the world's working poor make great strides towards economic independence. Th...
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Jacqueline's Contacts (2)
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Sanjee Singla
Stanford Masters in Management Science and Engineering, specialty in Entrepreneurship. I'm building a jobs website that will change how we search and apply for jobs. Looking for gifted startup web engineers who want to work on a big change.
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Tom Kosnik
Consulting Professor at Stanford Technology Ventures Program.