Rishi Bhilawadikar

Email: Website: lcc.gatech.edu/~rbhilawadikar Phone: 812.219.7740

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Work Experience:

Graduate Research Assistant- Webmaster,School of Literature,Communication and Culture,Georgia Tech

(Current)

  • Redesign and maintain current graduate digital media program website.
  • Manage intra-departmental communication in the capacity of webmaster.

Research Assistant– Entertainment Research Group,School of Informatics,Indiana University

(Summer 2006)

  • Design, develop and examine the applicability of “machinima” for video prototyping in HCI.

Associate Instructor for a Film/TV pre-production class, IndianaUniversity

(2005-06)

  • Review and critique student presentations and projects.
  • Conduct in-class exercises such as focus group discussions, story pitches etc.

Project Trainee at Larsen and Toubro as part of course work of senior year.

(2004-05)

  • Conduct user research for designing database and portal features.
  • Develop the intranet portal in a team of three.

Summer Trainee at Siemens Information Systems Limited at Mumbai.

(Summer 2003)

  • Assist in documenting employee records for company database.

Education:

M.S. Information Design and Technology, Georgia Institute of Technology – Candidate (2008).

M.A. Telecommunications, IndianaUniversity – Candidate (2008).

Related Courses: Prototyping for HCID, Teaching Electronic Media Production, Interactive Transmedia Design, Applied Cognitive & Emotional Psychology, Reality TV in your Community.

B. E. Computer Engineering, MumbaiUniversity

Related Courses: Software Engineering, Object Oriented Analysis and Design, Intelligent Systems, Multimedia Systems, Data Structures and Algorithms, Industrial Economics and Management, Computer Graphics, Image processing, Data Warehousing and Data Mining.

Projects:

(Partial List)

“Capturing Experiences in Edinburgh” (As part of Convivio interaction design summer school, Summer 2006)

Design and prototype concepts that would “capture experiences” of people at the Edinburgh festival. Worked in an inter-disciplinary team of ten.

VOID (Summer 2006)

Writer and director for this short experimental film- an exercise in providing visual form to an abstract concept.

Senses, Sensations and Sensibilities (Spring 2006)

Video prototype for an accessible interactive art museum exhibit.

CampBuild (Spring 2006)

Multimedia prototype fora virtual reality, accessible social learning application for National Parks.

Flash Assistant (Spring 2006)

Designed a new feature for Adobe’s Flash Professional.

Shalom Center:Help,Learn and Grow (Spring 2006)

Produced a promotional community service video for a homeless shelter in Bloomington, Indiana

Friday Zone (Fall 2005)

Scripted and co-directed a fifty second animation piece for “Friday Zone”, to be telecast on PBS.

Intranet Human Resources Portal (2004-05)

Designed and developed an intranet portal for the Engineering division of Larsen & Toubro.

Skills:

Conceptual: Prototyping as design inquiry, user research, user observation, surveys, scenario and persona creation, storytelling

Programming: C, C++ (basic). Java (including Processing), PHP, SQL, ActionScript 2.0, HTML, CSS.

Software Packages: Final Cut Pro, Flash, Dreamweaver, Photoshop, Fireworks, Premiere, Rational Rose (basic).

Awards and Achievements:

  • Awarded complete scholarship based on academic merit for pursuing graduate degree by the Department of Telecommunications at IndianaUniversity, Bloomington.
  • Awarded EU grant for participating in Convivio Summer School 2006 at Edinburgh.
  • Selected to work for Tata Consultancy Services as Assistant Systems Engineer.
  • Ranked in the top ten percentile at the National Talent Search Examination.
  • Ranked in the top ten percentile at the AllIndiaSecondary school examination.