Nick Talwar | nick@codeft.com | 425.894.

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OBJECTIVE
Find a part-time position in technology to help bootstrap my own venture.

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 Program Manager, Microsoft. Redmond, WA. 8/2008 5/2012

As singular product owner, conceived, planned, developed, and shipped: search, app recommendations & image processing web services for Windows 8 Store (app store), available on all Win8 PCs worldwide, including touch tablets Analyzed global consumer behavior and specd features that will drive over 100 million 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 bug-fixes between development, test, and operations

Co-founder, Codeft, Inc. Seattle, WA.

11/2008 8/2011
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Created and launched Urbandipity, a social network for people to meet-up easily based on common interests Led product, business development, legal, marketing, and PR while full-time at Microsoft Conceptualized product UX for target market, led successful pivots to help reach product-market fit Attracted over 200 Twitter tastemakers for a beta launch with Seattles largest free publication, Seattle Weekly 2-4 Created content for blog and Twitter, hired designers, led guerrilla marketing, produced video to intro Urbandipity 5 Pitched bloggers and tech evangelists, resulting in interview feature on GeekWire, King 5 News telecast, local blogs Managed Urbandipitys 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. Independent Consultant, PATH. Durham, NC. R&D Intern, PATH. Seattle, WA. Engineering Intern, Cardiac Science. Seattle, WA.
Tested pre-release, wearable blood pressure monitoring device. Enhanced design based on field trials

5/2007 8/2007 1/2007 6/2007 6//2006 9/2006 6//2005 9/2005 7//2000 4/2004

Built a software tool to statistically analyze software bugs and provide resourcing recommendations for the State of CA Continued research and prototyping of DNA amplification device and published results while studying at Duke Designed and built a prototype DNA amplification device, requiring no electricity, for detection of infectious diseases

Co-founder/Web Developer, Congo Design. Redmond, WA. PUBLICATIONS, DISTINCTIONS, & LINKS

Founded a web design company with a friend at the age of 14 and developed web sites for local businesses

Patent co-author: Unified Application Discovery Across Washington State Scholar (2004): merit distinction given to 147 Application Stores (filed 11/12/2010). high school students. Awarded full scholarship to any public university in WA. Duke Electrical and Computer Engineering Dept. Research Runner Up (2008). Paper: Coordinated, Tandem Tracking of a Cited links: Urbandipity [1], blog [2], @urbandipity [3], video [4] Moving Target by Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs). and GeekWire feature [5]. Non-instrumented nucleic acid amplification assay (2008) published paper on DNA amplification device prototype. "Coats of Gold" (2008) poem selected and published in The Archive, Duke University's Literary Magazine. MIT Invent Team $10,000 Grant Finalist (2004): awarded $1,000 as top-ten finalist for research proposal in microfluidics.