Mihir Sridhar
20, Majoring in Computer Engineering @ NUS, Minor in Technoprenuership @ Stanford. Working @ MooWee, Inc. Vice President of the NUS Students' Computing Club, and council member, NUS Students' Union
| Headline: | Entrepreneur |
| Work status: | Full-Time Student |
| Website: | http://www.csmihir.com |
| Industries: | Computing, Information Technology, Media |
| Skills: | Business, C/C++, English, HTML / CSS, Java, Javascript, Languages, Languages and Platforms, Perl, Public speaking, Python, Software Engineering, SQL, System Administration, Unix, Web Development, Windows |
| Location: | Silicon Valley, California, U.S.A |
| Visas: | U.S.A, Singapore, India |
| Interested in: | Brainstorming, Finding business partners, Finding cofounders, Finding engineers, Finding mentors, Finding team mates, Helping friends, Internships, Meeting new people, Participating in a competition, Professional opportunities, Promoting my startups, Receiving feedback, Recruiting for my startup, Sharing my projects |
| Schools: | National University of Singapore (NUS), Stanford University |
WORK EXPERIENCE
| Employer: | Special Programme in Computing, School of Computing |
| Position: | Scholar |
| Time period: | August 2006 - Present |
| Description: | • Highly competitive programme for rigorously selected Computing students, aiming to provide opportunities for students to pursue indepth computing studies with a strong research focus, organize Special-Interest-Group activities and participate in activities outside university such as conferences and competitions
• Involved in specialized research areas like Embedded, Real time systems and IT Security |
| Employer: | Experiment Control System |
| Position: | Work experience |
| Time period: | January 2008 - April 2008 |
| Description: | • Developed an experiment control system, analogous to a sourcecontrol-system, which manages end-to-end experiment processes
• Used multi-paradigm languages such as Perl and Python |
| Employer: | Webpage Creation and Maintenance |
| Position: | Project in-charge |
| Time period: | January 2008 - March 2008 |
| Description: | • Providing IT solutions for one of the professors in the university
• Creating, maintaining and developing the website along with the introduction of several flash applications |
| Employer: | Navantar Networks Private Ltd. (company under formation) |
| Position: | Intern |
| Time period: | December 2007 - January 2008 |
| Description: | • Market research and analysis
• Helped founding team in setting up their office space and other infrastructure • Prepared business plans and presentation decks |
| Employer: | Task Scheduling in Reconfigurable Computers |
| Position: | Project in-charge |
| Time period: | August 2007 - March 2008 |
| Description: | • Research work on the new trends towards reconfigurable computing platforms and FPGA’s rather than APIC’s.
• Developing a complete simulation framework to run several test cases and determine the efficiency of certain scheduling algorithms |
| Employer: | Office of Corporate Relations, National University of Singapore |
| Position: | Student Associate |
| Time period: | May 2007 - March 2008 |
| Description: | • Corporate Event Organization
• Visitor Relations: Welcoming International Delegations and Business Partners from different parts of the world and serve as a student ambassador of NUS and Singapore |
| Employer: | Wipro Technologies Ltd. |
| Position: | Project Intern, Access Control team |
| Time period: | May 2007 - July 2007 |
| Description: | • Setting up a test-bed
• Collecting and collating customer feedback • Conducted product exhibitions |
| Employer: | Robotics Project |
| Position: | Work experience |
| Time period: | September 2006 - October 2006 |
| Description: | • Project involved designing and building a robot
• Also involved maintenance of software to control basic activities such as the locomotion of the robot. |
| Employer: | Venture Creations LLP. |
| Position: | Customer Service Manager |
| Time period: | August 2006 - January 2008 |
| Description: | • Recruitment and training of staff
• Customer service operations |
| Employer: | SARS Outbreak information portal |
| Position: | Work experience |
| Time period: | November 2002 |
| Description: | • Developed an information Portal during the SARS outbreak
• Complete with FAQ’s, essential information queries amongst other details using a programming platform. |
EDUCATION
| University: | National University of Singapore (NUS) |
| Time period: | 2006 - 2010 |
| Degree: | Computer Engineering, BTech |
| University: | Stanford University |
| Time period: | 2008 - 2009 |
| Degree: | Minor in Technopreneurship, None |
INFORMATION
| Hobbies: | Public Speaking, Debating, Philately, Numismatics, Athletics, Soccer and Travelling |
| Memberships: | • Vice President (External Affairs), NUS Students’ Computing Club, 2007 – ’08
• Co-Founder, NUS Student Chapter of ACM, 2007 – ’08 • Hon. Council Member, 29th NUS Students’ Union (NUSSU) Council, 2007–’08 • Marketing and Publicity Executive, Business Incubation of Global Organizations (BINGO), 2007 – ’08 • Human Resource Executive, NUS Entrepreneurship Society, 2006 – ’07 • Sports Director, NUS Students’ Computing Club, 2006 – ’07 |
| Awards: | • Best Outgoing Student Scholar – Higher Secondary School (JC Level)
• School Board Examination Topper (A Levels and O Levels) • Most Persevering Student (O Levels) • Academic and Aptitude Achievement Test (AAT) – scholar in two consecutive years • Mathematics Olympiad – Level III |
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Qik
A mobile application that allows you to stream live video from your cell phone and broadcast your life to the world LIVE!
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SIRUM
Supporting Initiatives for the Redistribution of Unused Medicine [SIRUM] connects clinics with charitable suppliers to ensure that billions of dollars worth of usable medicine helps reach communities in need. Founded over two years ago at Stanfo...
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iMooveonline
Mooveonline aims to be the best online shopping mall so as to link all the online shopping and service businesses.
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Julian Salguero
Management Science and Engineering Master's student with Industrial Engineer background. 21. Interested in internet commerce, consulting and operations management.