Project Manager at Behavior
Greater New York City Area
- Current
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- Project Manager at Behavior
- Past
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- Feature Columnist at ANG Newspaper Group
- Software Management Trainee at Fog Creek Software
- Customer Service, Marketing, & QA at Salon Media Group (Salon.com)
- Stage Manager at Subvert (Sole Proprietorship)
- Education
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- Columbia University in the City of New York
- University of California, Berkeley
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Sumana Harihareswara’s Summary
I'm a geek-suit interface, best as a software development project manager or customer relationship manager. I like to work on products, services, or sites that delight people.
I've worked in nonprofits, schools, the arts, periodicals, product companies, and service companies. That breadth led me to see a need for managers who can identify users' needs, translate them into business tasks and technical requirements, and shepherd development to completion. That's who I am.
Sumana Harihareswara’s Specialties:
Free software, writing so humans can understand, public speaking, event and project coordination.
Sumana Harihareswara’s Experience
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Project Manager
Behavior
(Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Internet industry)
January 2008 — Present (5 months)
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Feature Columnist
ANG Newspaper Group
(Public Company; 201-500 employees; Newspapers industry)
March 2005 — August 2007 (2 years 6 months)
I wrote a weekly column about culture, the Bay Area, personal stories, and so on. You can find them under my name at findarticles.com.
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Software Management Trainee
Fog Creek Software
(Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Computer Software industry)
January 2006 — June 2007 (1 year 6 months)
Sold software and services and answered sales questions via email and phone
Provided technical support to customers via email, online discussion groups, and phone
Tested software and wrote bug reports
Wrote technical white paper about new product and designed and implemented marketing efforts for existing products
Posted regularly on corporate blog, blog.fogcreek.com -
Customer Service, Marketing, & QA
Salon Media Group (Salon.com)
(Public Company; 51-200 employees; SLNM.OB; Online Media industry)
July 2003 — January 2006 (2 years 7 months)
Provided customer support to 90,000 Salon Premium members via phone and
email
Performed QA for high-volume e-commerce site
Tested and fixed bugs in membership management system
Proofread marketing copy
Wrote and revised internal documentation
Developed and documented special member benefits and promotional offers
Wrote articles for Salon Magazine; links to articles are on my website -
Stage Manager
Subvert (Sole Proprietorship)
(Sole Proprietorship; 1-10 employees; Performing Arts industry)
2004 — 2005 (1 year)
Stage-managed, advised, publicized, and ran sound and lights for Heather Gold's weekly one-woman show: "I Look Like An Egg, But I Identify As A Cookie."
Sumana Harihareswara’s Education
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Columbia University in the City of New York
MS, Technology Management [EITM], 2006 — 2008 (expected)
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University of California, Berkeley
1998 — 2002
Additional Information
Sumana Harihareswara’s Websites:
Sumana Harihareswara’s Interests:
cultural/political aspects of technology, project management, FL/OSS, editing, teaching, tax history, Russia, India
Sumana Harihareswara’s Groups:
Systers, NY Tech Meetup, Electronic Frontier Foundation, Participatory Culture Foundation, Usenet
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Anita Borg Institute for Women and Technology member -
Columbia University EMSTM member
Sumana Harihareswara’s Honors:
National Merit Scholar
Sumana Harihareswara’s Contact Settings
Interested In:
- consulting offers
- new ventures
- job inquiries
- expertise requests
- reference requests
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