Vilvaraja Mahendraraja Email & Phone Number

Greater Boston Area

• Communicate with an array of people; serve food, & continuously updating knowledge on different food & wine.
• Consistently had the highest check average per person among the server staff in the Boston location. Also produced the most positive customer feedback cards (voluntary for each guest to fill out following their.

Freelance photography assignments done throughout the year as a hobby turned part-time jobCurrently working jobs for Northeastern University, Zazil Media Group and New England Tile Company

Greater Boston Area

• Have held Brand Ambassador positions for the following clients in the past 2 years: ADD Marketing, Encore Marketing, GT Marketing, Sony, Fox, MTV, Perez Hilton, Nero Energy Drinks, RCN Cable, Comcast Cable, HBO, Comedy.
• Conducted numerous direct/guerilla marketing engaging audiences and increasing product awareness.
• Attract and interact with thousands of diverse people at numerous settings (streets, venues, events, etc.).
• Establish and execute marketing plans. Train staff and served as liaison between the team and clients.

Greater Boston Area

• Built brand awareness and presence on Boston college campuses’ through two successful contracts/programs.
• Increased overall brand perception and product trail through unique promotions, while generating PR surrounding the products, both on and offline.
• Drove traffic to the websites (10,000+ unique hits in a few short months) while creating and maintaining email list, updates and blogs.
• Established and managed dozens of events on campus while collaborating with different clubs, organizations and companies throughout the University and city.

Greater Boston Area

Northeastern & Boston Rep for the revival of what was New England/The Red Sox's Beer of choiceAccompanied and assisted with B2B sales and promotions.Planned events, analyzed feedback, came up with creative ways to market on and offline.

Cambridge, MA

• Integral member of the pre-production gene engineering team in the Monsanto Protein Optimization platform, with a focus on gene synthesis and method optimization.
• Maintained various daily laboratory procedures while balancing multiple projects.
• Meticulous record taking skills refined and high throughput gene engineering done to analyze and produce thousands of gene variants in the short span of the Co-op

Greater Boston Area

• Conducted numerous molecular biology techniques such as DNA cloning of antibody and target constructs, DNA production and purification, PCR, phage display regeneration, gel electrophoresis and other tasks throughout.
• Due to lay-offs mid-internship, took on leadership role training fellow interns from different departments in the lab dozens of different laboratory techniques.

Manage, update, market and run a student social networking site started by myself and funded through a private advertising company in Boston.

Researching the correlation between Vitamin B12 and Folic Acid and how they affect the elderly. Daily tasks including procedures involving DNA, RNA, Animal Care, Data Entry and numerous intermediate lab skills. Part of my job entailed adapting and implementing an image analysis method for estimating brain micro vascular density using NIH image software and.