Bernardo Orvañanos, Ph.D. Email & Phone Number

Chicago, Il, Us

Mclean, Va, Us

Advising product leaders on messaging stack, mobile app and user authentication

Menlo Park, Ca, Us

Advised product leaders on critical decisions in topics such as messaging, content discovery, and VR experiences

Bellevue, Wa, Us

Led high-impact growth & product strategy projects for C-suite and leadership team• Drove strategy for partnership program with $500M+ rev. goal, resulting in C-suite approval of $30M+ investment• Created strategy & financial model guiding $9B spectrum acquisition • Led a ~20 people cross-functional team in creation of content for quarterly business update presented by the CEO to the Board of Directors• Developed framework to prioritize ~20 emerging wireless product categories and determine their go-to-market strategy (channel, pricing, etc.), as well as the 5-year financial projections; technologies included VR, AR & IoT

Windsor, Berkshire, Gb

Led team defining product and technology strategy for emerging energy optimization platform

Windsor, Berkshire, Gb

Boston, Massachusetts, Us

Advised S&P 500 and large multinationals in mission-critical business goals including product strategy, growth strategy, corporate strategy, operations, and M&A • Developed product strategy & roadmap for HVAC Co. based on NPV, strategic positioning and regulatory risks, resulting in licensing agreement with direct competitor for key product component in 10 year pipeline• Developed growth strategy for MedTech market leader looking to enter adjacent markets, resulting in market entry via a $200M acquisition of startup• Developed playbook mapping key business process for industrial equipment company • Evaluated disruption potential of digital technologies for an industrial goods distribution company• Mapped drivers leading to growth and value creation for companies with breakout growth vs rest of industry• Performed customer segmentation and analyzed competitive position for industrial equipment company• Developed benchmark for industrial conglomerate to assess financial performance of BUs vs competitors• Led growth forecast & market assessment for due diligence on market-leading refrigerants company

Cambridge, Ma, Us

Employed machine learning tools for high-throughput discovery of battery and photovoltaic materials• Led internal research subgroup with three Ph.D. students and the thesis work of an undergraduate student• Developed Python, Bash and MongoDB scripts to access databases and run machine learning algorithms• Published four peer reviewed articles

Ann Arbor, Michigan, Us

Modelled and analyzed the electrochemistry of lithium-ion battery cathodes using high-performance computing• Developed high-performance Fortran codes and executed them in parallel using 1,000+ CPUs• Analyzed the impact of electrode design on coin-cell batteries• Published seven peer-reviewed journal articles, five of which as first author • Programming languages: Fortran, MATLAB, MPI, OpenMP

Ann Arbor, Michigan, Us

Taught computational and experimental laboratory for undergraduate students

Nairobi, Ke

Assessed financial and environmental impact of electric-grid energy storage technologies• Evaluated impact of 18 energy-storage applications for generation, transmission, distribution and end users• Assessed synergies between grid energy storage and photovoltaic systems• Analyzed proposed and enacted policies in different geographies and their impact on grid energy storage• Selected candidate countries for solar cell and battery mini-grid systems program funding

Ph.D., Materials Science And Engineering

M.S.E., Materials Science And Engineering

Exchange Progam, Renewable Energy

B.S., Industrial And Systems Engineering