I love building and commercializing new products and technologies. I am currently pursuing a dual masters degree in Computer Engineering and Innovation Management at Carnegie Mellon University and have professional experience in product management, entrepreneurship, consulting and software development. In my free time I enjoy traveling, meeting new people and engaging in non-profit activities.
I am currently looking for full-time roles in Product Management.
Co-Founder and Chief Technology Officer @ - Led the product development for a 3D printing marketplace (www.kreatelabs.com). Key features of the web-platform are in-browser 3D model editing, instant quotations and automatic printer selection from our network of 450+ professional grade 3D printers.
- Built a business development plan to leverage aggregators using our pricing API. Led operations with 9 customers in USA.
- Global sales of $75K+ have been achieved with large orders from TVH (Belgium) and Freescale Semiconductors (USA). From June 2014 to Present (1 year 7 months) Product Management Intern @ Location Data Monetization Strategy
- Analyzed the technology (GPS, Beacons, Cell towers &Wi-Fi) and the market (startups to large cooperation’s) to originate 5 competitive product strategies to monetize location data.
- Drafted the product features and technical requirements.
- Development budget or an acquisition is being planned for one product idea.
Growing Verizon’s Advertising Scale (Led team of 3 interns)
- Implemented ML algorithms that will enable Verizon to target their Non-Opt Out customers growing Ad scale by 7.4X.
- Crafted a method to increase or decrease the number of people reached by varying the accuracy of the target audience. From May 2015 to August 2015 (4 months) Research Assistant @ - Worked on a novel speech recognition & dialog management system under Prof. Ian Lane From August 2014 to December 2014 (5 months) Business Technology Analyst @ - Analyzed SNAP and TANF policies of Kentucky State, and coordinated the development of the business rules.
- Conducted gap analysis of the financial module to evaluate the reusability of the existing solutions.
- Performed risk analysis for integration of the architecture
- Designed the entity relationship module for the financial module. From January 2014 to August 2014 (8 months) Mumbai Area, IndiaSystem Software Engineering Intern @ Multiple Recording:
- Developed a ‘Camera Splitter’ in the NVIDIA Camera-HAL that enables simultaneous video-recordings at different resolutions, bit-rates, and frames per seconds (FPS) via a single camera.
- Enhanced Multimedia frameworks (OpenMAX and Stagefright) to optimize the solution.
- Built Android applications that demonstrated that HD videos can be obtained for dual recording.
- Proved that multiple video recording feature, will allow simultaneous capture (save to device) and upload (stream online) of videos, and remove lag faced during multi-party videoconferencing.
- The architecture is due for integration into the next generation Tegra chip. From May 2012 to June 2013 (1 year 2 months) Pune Area, IndiaCognizant Brand Ambassador 2012 @ From January 2012 to January 2013 (1 year 1 month) IndiaCrisis and Supply Chain Management Intern @ - Resolved critical supply chain bottleneck issues with key automotive suppliers (Excedy America, Magna, Skilled Manufacturing, and Yushin Korea) to ensure zero impact on GM Powertrain plants.
- Identified 3 suppliers with unique union affiliations to help GM act proactively in incase of a strike.
- Coordinated with 13 plant managers to develop plans to safeguard the plants from the Longshoremen East Coast strike. From June 2012 to August 2012 (3 months) Greater Detroit AreaEngineering Intern @ Designed and implemented a database management system using MySQL to enhance client side experience. From December 2011 to January 2012 (2 months) Pune Area, IndiaBusiness Analyst Intern @ - Performed market research to validate a business case to develop a tie up for an R&D center.
- Carried out a study to select a product range suitable for the Indian market.
- Projected return on investment for the technology partnership. From May 2010 to June 2010 (2 months) Pune Area, India
Dual Master's Degree, Computer Engineering & Innovation Management, 3.91/4 @ Carnegie Mellon University From 2014 to 2016 Bachelor's Degree, Computer Science, 8.52/10 @ University of Pune From 2009 to 2013 Bachelor's Degree, Economics and Management @ University of London From 2011 to 2015 Summer School, Economics @ London School of Economics and Political Science From 2011 to 2011 Sakshi Goel is skilled in: Product Management, Software Development, Android, Java, C, Management Consulting, Economics, Entrepreneurship, C++
Websites:
http://www.sakshigoel.com