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Adharsh Dhandapani

Intrapreneur, Innovation Coach And Software Developer
Chennai,

Summary

Intrapreneur, Software Developer and Innovation Coach with experience in both technical engineering as well as in business design.

Overview

10
10
years of professional experience
4
4
years of post-secondary education
3
3
Certifications

Work History

Senior Application Developer

IBM
Chennai
07.2013 - Current
  • Worked on modernizing the API Backend for a leading airlines firm.
  • Facilitated the implementation of Design Thinking & Lean Startup via Assumptions Mapping and User Journey tool.
  • Facilitated and achieved buy-in from the senior management team to follow a more Agile approach when developing new ideas.
  • Adoption of Mural tool within the backend engineering team.

Alumni Coach(Part-time Volunteering Position)

IDEO U
Remote
07.2021 - Current
  • Worked as an Alumni Coach for the IDEO U courses based on strategic design and business design.

Intrapreneur

IBM
Bangalore
01.2018 - 03.2020
  • Intrapreneurship project on a collaboration tool for cross-functional teams trying to apply Design Thinking + Agile.
  • Presenting and gathering feedback on my own intrapreneurship project from early adopters of Design Thinking tools around the world within IBM.
  • Digital wire-framing, prototyping and collaborating using tools like InVision and wireframe.cc.
  • Conducting User Research on the needs and pain-points faced by teams and individuals with experience applying Design Thinking.
  • Adopted Assumptions Mapping framework to follow a more lean startup approach.
  • Achieved buy-in from a few design & design thinking leaders during the initial phase of the project.
  • Invalidated the business model as the problem was not considered to be primary unsolved problem outside of the design team.

Education

B.Tech - Electrical And Electronics Engineering

Amrita School of Engineering, Coimbatore
06.2009 - 05.2013

Skills

    Business Model Innovation

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Publications

After participating in an public survey, I was selected as a guest author of the book The Design Thinking Toolbox, which got published in 2021, where I had an opportunity the explain the 'Interview for Empathy' design tool explaining how to practically use empathy as a tool in interviews to understand the end-users. 

Certification

IDEO U Human Centered Systems Thinking

Timeline

IDEO U Human Centered Systems Thinking

07-2022
Alumni Coach(Part-time Volunteering Position) - IDEO U
07.2021 - Current

IDEO U Designing a Business

07-2021

IDEO U Designing Strategy

05-2021
Intrapreneur - IBM
01.2018 - 03.2020
Senior Application Developer - IBM
07.2013 - Current
Amrita School of Engineering - B.Tech, Electrical And Electronics Engineering
06.2009 - 05.2013

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