Nick Talwar | nick @codeft.com | 425.894.8700 OBJECTIVE Find an opportunity where | can inspire, motivate, and teach students so they can reach their highest potential EDUCATION Duke University. Double Major. Electrical & Biomedical Engineering. Class of 2008 Founding member and inaugural rush chair of Mu chapter of Pi Kappa Phi. Grew the fraternity to over 80 members. EXPERIENCE Tutor, AP Chemistry, AP Calculus, Trigonometry, Algebra Redmond, WA. 9/2001 - 1/2005 Tutored students from 8" to 12" grades in math and science throughout high school. Program Manager, Microsoft. Redmond, WA. 8/2008 - 5/2012 As singular product owner, planned, developed, and shipped: search, recommendations and image processing web services for Windows 8 Store (app store), features available on all Windows 8 PCs worldwide, including touch tablets ‘+ Analyzed global consumer behavior and spec’d features that will drive over 100 milion users daily to acquire apps + Persuaded upper management to adopt my novel ideas for surfacing apps in context within Bing and Windows + Led the technical and product design, drove development and architecture of these V1 features at Windows-scale + Prioritized requirements across internal groups and coordinated bugfixes between development, test, and operations Co-founder, Codeft, Inc. Seattle, WA. 11/2008 - 8/2011 Created and launched Urbandipity, a social network for people to meet-up easily based on common interests! + Led product management, business development, legal, marketing, and PR while fulHtime at Microsoft + Conceptualized product UX fortarget market, led successful pivots to help reach productmarket fit + Attracted over 200 Twitter tastemakers for a beta launch with Seattle's largest free publication, Seattle Weekly + Created content for blog and Twitter, hired designers, led guerrilla marketing, produced video to intro Urbandipity™* + Pitched bloggers and tech evangelists, resulting in interview feature on GeekWire, King 5 News telecast, local blogs? + Managed Urbandipity’s business by writing legal docs for privacy, terms of service, incorporation, and hiring Created a mobile app for Passport Unlimited, a corporate deals company with over 800k users, to bootstrap Urbandipity * Cultivated and managed business partnership directly with Passport CEO, pitched mobile app idea + Successfully negotiated a contract and led overall product design for Windows Phone 7 app Consulting Analyst Intern, Accenture. Sacramento, CA. ‘5/2007 — 8/2007 Built a software too! to statistically analyze software bugs and provide resourcing recommendations for the State of CA R&D Intern, PATH. Seattle, WA. 61/2006 - 9/2006 Designed and built a prototype DNA amplification device, requiring no electricity, for detection of infectious diseases Engineering Intern, Cardiac Science. Seattle, WA. 61/2005 - 9/2005 Tested prerelease, wearable blood pressure monitoring device. Enhanced design based on field trials. Co-founder/Web Developer, Congo Design. Redmond, WA 7112000 - 4/2004 Founded a web design company with a friend at the age of 14 and developed web sites for local businesses PUBLICATIONS, DISTINCTIONS, & LINKS * Patent co-author: Unified Application Discovery Across * MIT Invent Team $10,000 Grant Finalist (2004): awarded $1,000 Application Stores (fled 11/12/2010) 28 top-ton finalist for research proposal in microfluidic. * Duke Electrical and Computer Engineering Dept. Research * Washington State Scholar (2004): merit distinction given to 147 Runner Up (2008). Paper: “Coordinated, Tandem Tracking of a__high school students. Awarded full scholarship to any pube Moving Target by Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVS) university in WA, * "Noninstrumented nucleic acid amplification assay" (2008) _—* Cie links: Urbancioity [1], blog [2], @ urbandinity 3}, video [4] published paper on DNA ampification device prototype and GookWire feature [5 * "Coats of Gold" (2008) poem selected and published in The Archive, Duke Universitys Literary Magazine.