Tanay

Jayawant

tanay.j@gmail.com +1 (224) 324-2906

2018 Wightman Street, Pittsburgh, PA, 15217

Business Model

Product

Sales & Marketing

Product management Design

Technology

EDUCATION

Carnegie Mellon University, PA, USA

Anticipated Graduation: December 2013 Masters in Engineering and Technology Innovation Management GRADUATE COURSEWORK Strategy and Management of Technological Innovation Decision Tools for Engineering Design and Entrepreneurship Involves commercializing industry sponsored project using production modeling, cost optimization, demand modeling Project: Power converter for Solar PV plants using Nano-crystalline magnetic material for transformer core. Sponsor: ARPA-E Managerial and Engineering Economics Open Innovation Innovation Management in Practice Interact with industry professionals managing innovation focused activities Systems Architecture for Managers

Rajiv Gandhi Institute of Technology, Mumbai University, Mumbai, India

Graduated in May 2008 Bachelor of Engineering in Computer Engineering 70.33% (First Class with Distinction) PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Senior Consultant, ThoughtWorks, Inc.

(4 years) Oct 2008 Nov 2012 Role: Application Developer Responsibilities: Distributed development using Agile and Lean principles, technical analysis and planning, analytics implementation, recruiting Locations: Pune (India), Sydney (Australia), Xian (China) Technologies: Java, Struts 2, Ruby, Ruby on Rails, Android, iOS, Javascript, CoffeeScript, Node.js, C#, ASP.Net
Cross Platform Mobile Applications For One Of The Largest Airlines in US Helped client deliver critical business functionality not planned for initially. Android, iOS and Mobile Web platforms. Backend RESTful services component in Java. April 2011 Nov 2012

Customized Website Solution For Largest Australian Real Estate Advertising Group Sep 2011 April 2012 Led transition towards a complete offshore delivery team. Worked closely with UX designers on front-end implementation. Ported UI Framework to a cleaner, more scalable solution. Challenges included integration with various internal systems, maintaining development environments on a virtual private cloud and implementing mobile browser specific experience design. Home Services Related Application For Large US Based Retail Organization Apr 2009 - Oct 2010 The project involved integration of multiple backend systems and creating a javascript-heavy UI solution. Complexities included integration with CAS server, creating location based complex hierarchical rules using a rules engine and a jsonp-based external widget.

RELEVANT PRODUCT MANAGEMENT SKILLS Cross-technological cross-cultural cross-geographical cross-role experience Facilitation skills (led meetings across Australia and China teams) Requirements elicitation, analysis, prioritization and estimation Context switching o Between technologies o Micro-view to macro-view Adapt to and utilize new technologies quickly Talent evaluation skills through involvement in recruiting activities MARKETING AND SALES EXPERIENCE Implement Omniture analytics tracking (working with Omniture consultants) and Google Analytics tracking for multiple projects Implemented A/B testing using Omniture M -box for a project Procured sponsorships from corporates for national level events Visited multiple universities to promote national level events

LEADERSHIP EXPERIENCE Technical Secretary for college Rajiv Gandhi Institute of Technology (RGIT) and Zodiac IV, RGIT fest General Secretary for IEEE RGIT Student Branch Treasurer for IEEE RGIT Student Branch ENTREPRENEURIAL ACTIVITIES Developed the website Kidgloves.co.in for Podar Educational Complex during my Bachelors Degree Initiated side-project to present to the client a POC to explore possibilities via a mobile app Participated in CMU Social Innovation Challenge 2013 and Cleantech and Facebook's " Cleantech Goes Social" challenge

DESIGN EXPERIENCE Front end development for web and mobile. Proficient in HTML, CSS, Sass, Haml. Tools: Photoshop, Gimp, Inkscape. Wireframing for Cleantech Group and Facebook's "Cleantech Goes Social" challenge 2013 entry using Balsamiq Mockups. Site design for KidGloves.co.in website in 2007. (Site not active) Co-designed Posters, stage backdrop, brochures, digital advertisements, merchandise for national level events