
Engineer, Entrepreneur skilled in Medical Devices, CAD, Social Entrepreneurship, Leadership, Education & Sustainability
San Francisco Bay Area

Engineer, Entrepreneur skilled in Medical Devices, CAD, Social Entrepreneurship, Leadership, Education & Sustainability
San Francisco Bay Area
Professional Certifications:
1. Certified SolidWorks Professional (CSWP - Core Modeling)
2. Certified SolidWorks Instructor (CSWI)
3. Certified SolidWorks Technician (CSWT)
4. Certified SolidWorks Simulation Professional Support Technician (CSPST)
5. Certified Nanotechnology and Clean Technology Professional (CNCP)
Other:
1. Stanford Wilderness Medicine (SWiM) certified Wilderness First Aid Provider (WFAP)
------------------------
Summary: I have done a little bit of many things. Here are some examples:
1. Medical Devices: Experience with conceptual design, detailed design, testing, animal and laboratory testing.
My Medical Devices, Biotechnology and Bioengineering Blog:
http://chaaraka.blogspot.com/
2. Mechanical Engineering: Design, Manufacturing, Teaching and Tutoring in Mechanical Engineering.
3. Clean/Nanotechnology: I am currently working on getting a certification in Clean Technologies and Nanotechnology to understand the industries better.
4. Non-Profit Work: I volunteer with Citizen Schools when I can, and I have also been running an online group of over 1800 members for over 7 years now:
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/gre-success/
5. I am also an amateur photographer, and I am learning Spanish (hablo espanol muy poco y entiendo muy poco - I could not find a way to type in the nya!)
Mechanical Engineering Design, Sustainability in Design and Engineering, SolidWorks & SolidWorks Simulation (Finite Element Analysis); R&D - Conceptual Design and Intellectual Property DevelopmentDevelopment, Test Method Development; Education, and Education Technologies
(Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Mechanical or Industrial Engineering industry)
March 2008 — Present (1 year 9 months)
(Non-Profit Organization Management industry)
May 2001 — Present (8 years 7 months)
An online non-profit community for prospective graduate students
(Medical Devices industry)
2008 — April 2009 (1 year )
(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; BSC; Medical Devices industry)
August 2007 — February 2008 (7 months)
(Public Company; 501-1000 employees; Medical Devices industry)
May 2006 — March 2007 (11 months)
(Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Medical Devices industry)
June 2004 — September 2004 (4 months)
Internship in blood glucose monitoring start up. Involved in extensive experimentation to benchmark competing devices, possible device characteristics, and competing technologies leading to future implementation. Also involved in brainstorming and conceptualization for product development.
Degree of Engineer , Mechanical Engineering , September 2003 — September 2005
MS , 2001 — 2005
B.E. Sandwich , Mechanical Engineering , 1996 — 2001
Photography, Environmental Protection, Recycle and Reuse, Book Collection, Web Design, Independent Production, Blogging. As a new interest, I will be publishing my own photography newsletter in the near future: http://yamanoor.net/news/su.html Also, a personal blog at http://ysrihari.blogspot.com/
Owner of Mountain View Free
(http://groups.yahoo.com/group/mvfree)
Owner of gresuccess
(http://groups.yahoo.com/group/gre-success)
Co-owner of Palo Alto Free (http://groups.yahoo.com/group/pafree)
Founding President and Co - Chair of Stanford Students for Relief, that received the Dean's Outstanding Achievement Award, for leading campus wide fundraising efforts toward Tsunami Relief at Stanford University.
� Member of Award winning team in the Social e - Challenge business plan contest for the year 2004 for a project titled e - Immunization, for using innovative mobile media for infant immunization in developing countries.
� Selected meritoriously as a Young Scientist among 25 outstanding Mechanical Engineering students in India, to participate in the Young Scientists Contact Programme organized by Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur & Department of Science and Technology, Government of India.
� Awarded the Best Outgoing Student Award of my Undergraduate Class among 54 students by the Alumni Association, PSG College of Technology, Coimbatore, India.