Tapan Bhargave has extensive experience in engineering, entrepreneurship, and management. He has founded two startup companies, EarthBenign and Aviraam Networks, where he served as CEO and oversaw technology strategy and partnerships. As an engineer, he has worked at IBM, developing chips for the Cell processor and PowerPC products, and at other companies leading projects in areas like systems architecture, blockchain technology, and software development. He has a background in electrical engineering and computer science from Cornell University, with coursework in topics such as VLSI design, nanofabrication, and semiconductor device physics.
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Tapan Bhargave Detailed Work Experience
TECHNICAL & ENGINEERING EXPERIENCE
Founder & CEO, EarthBenign March 2012 - Present
Austin, TX(www.earthbenign.com)
Served as de facto Product Manager, managing the Agile Scrum process:
o Owned the backlog and storymaps; wrote user stories and epics
Sketches,wireframes, mockups creation
o Ran the Scrum ritual meetings (Release Planning, Backlog Grooming, Sprint Planning, Daily
Standups, Retrospectives)
o Did all the above for both the product (a complementary currency solution) and the website
project
Served as de facto Enterprise Architect
o Architected the blockchain-based solution
o Created business and technology roadmaps
o Managed the IP and Partnerships strategy
o Became an SME in blockchain technologies and cryptocurrencies
Served as de facto Engineering lead
o Managed code commit to the Git
o Chose the MEAN stack on which to develop, and deployed it for the team
Systems ProcessEngineer & SOA ARCHITECT, SourcePulse,
Austin, TX(www.sourcepulse.com) April 2008-January 2010
SOA development aimed at enterprise software applications within (mostly) government domains
Developed on IBMs BPM Middleware stack: Websphere and Rational
Business Process Modeling, Business Analysis
Developed on IBM Software
o Websphere: Integration Developer, Business Modeler, Business Services Fabric, Application
Server Toolkit
o Rational: Data Architect, Application Developer, Software Architect
Development of in-house business rules management and execution engine
Development of comprehensive IT asset content packaimed at government domain: concepts covered and
implemented include: ontology,business-capability mapping, modeling for deployment, Web Services and
schema (WSDLs and XSDs (XML Schema Definition))
Coding in Java and WS-BPEL (Web Services Business Process Execution Language)
Chip Tools Design Engineer & Chip Data Management, IBM Corporation: STI Design Center
Austin, TX(www.ibm.com) January 2005 August 2005
Part of the CELL architecture design team
IBMs premier Chip designed for high-end multimedia applications
Dubbed Supercomputer on a chip by popular media; recognized as most powerful chip ever
STI Sony, Toshiba, IBM joint venture
Responsible for chip data library management, Database structure, design/implement the logic design
environment to support the entire project, Cadence tools customization.
Coding of Front-end logic Tool algorithms in scripting languages Korn Shell, PERL, and SKILL
General Purpose programming language : C
Enabled tools: DB interfaces, logic release process,VHDL build processes,layout device libraries
Field Application Engineer, Agetak Software ( www.bdipl.com) & (www.agetak.com)
Austin, TX January 2004 November 2004
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Customer on-site product deployment, technical support,systems engineering
Authored technical marketing literature: powerpoint presentations, product fact sheets and brochures, white
papers,positioning papers and trade magazine articles, along with website content
Worked with development team to define product features based on field input
Management of full sales life cycle to achieve success with customers
Did customer visits,conference calls, trade shows
Wrote internal competitive comparison literature based on market research
Troubleshooting,validation and testing of final software products
Virtual Data Warehouse,relational database management software on MS SQL, Oracle, IBM DB2
PowerPC Engineer, IBM Corporation: MicroElectronics Division
Research Triangle Park, NC (www.ibm.com) April 2001- January 2002
Design & verification analysis,technical marketing of PowerPC embedded processors &cores
Team owned PowerPC Chip design and directed PowerPC Product launches
Part of team that worked closely with Application Engineering and Development Teams (VLSI, circuit, layout
engineers) to define chip roadmap, features, logic, functional verification.
One of only 2 IBM Representatives to the RapidIO On-Chip interconnect Marketing Working Group;
promoted IBM PowerPC
Frequent writer for IBMs PowerPC website as well as IBMs MicroNews Publication
Team did customer visits, conference calls, trade shows;
Hosted customer meetings, answering technical questions.
Hosted internal meetings and conference calls, laying out future PowerPC strategy.
Authored and distributed official IBM PowerPC literature, making different versions for customers, Sales Teams,
FAE and Advanced Technology Engineers.
Worked with Application Engineers to troubleshoot and test prototypes and returned chips/boards from customers,
supporting customers by providing troubleshoot databases.
Wrote internal competitive comparison literature based on market research
ENTREPRENEURIAL EXPERIENCE
Principal and Founder, Streaming Gold Real Estate January 2006 May 2008
www.streaminggoldrealestate.com
A Hotel investor, developer and builder in Austin,TX with a hotel construction subsidiary company, Earnest
Development
Initiated and spearheaded Land Acquisition and development of two new-build side-by-side hotels on 5.5 acres
of land in north Austin as well as one on 1.5 acres in south Austin nearthe airport
Analyzed appropriate brand placement, financing, construction costs,demand generators,hotel performance
projection spreadsheets
Past construction projects include $1M+ Condo Project in East Austin and $1.2M+ Custom Home in Lakeway
ChiefExecutive Officer and Founder, Aviraam Networks
Santa Barbara, CA Nov 1999 Nov 2003
Key contributorto chip design, fabrication & verification: Nanotechnology - system-on-chip CMOS logic
combined w/ MEMS structures; product aimed at drastically reducing semiconductor feature sizes
Final chip testing,customer On-site maintenance, and training for chip deploypment.
Responsible for startup company's direction and technology strategy.
Identified and acquired partnership contracts with university and Venture Capital firms, and Angels.
Authored technical marketing literature: product fact sheets and brochures,white papers,positioning papers and
trade magazine articles, along with website content
Wrote business plan and its presentation,along with financial and marketing plans.
Authored and performed technical marketing (powerpoint) presentations to partners and customers.
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Addressed investorand customer queries regarding companys product technology,roadmap, path to profitability,
and negotiated terms of partnership and investment.
Director, Texas Territory Acquisitions, The Real Market Experts ofNevada Jan June 2006
www.investorconcierge.com www.realmarketexperts.com
A Real Estate Investment Acquisition firm with over 18,000 investors subscribing to its services
Director of acquisitions and development for all realestate in the state of Texas
Responsible for real estate statistics verification and eventual upload into the Investor networks
central repository
PROGRAMMING ANDSOFTWARE EXPERIENCE
IBM Websphere Class/Activity Diagrams Java BPEL C# C++ (Object oriented) VHDL Verilog
Cadence verification tools SKILL (Cadence) PERL Unix (Korn shell and AIX) Linux MATLAB
Atlas: Deckbuild, TonyPlot, DEVEDIT (Semiconcuctor Device Physics) ExpressPCB (Printed Circuit Board) P-
Spice Tanner Tools: L-Edit, S-Edit, T-Spice (VLSI) I-DEAS (MEMS) Labview Finle: Prolith (Lithography
Simulation Software) HP/Keithley Test Systems
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TAPAN PRAKASH BHARGAVE
DETAILS OF ACADEMICCOURSEWORK
Coursework and Projects completed at Cornell University: 1995-1999
Solid-State Power Switching Circuits and Audio Amplifiers
Investigated field of power amplification and switching circuitry; included frequent labs.
Linear-mode/Switching-mode transistors,Power regulation: linear vs.switching.
Audio amplifier architectures, Pulse Width Modulation, H-bridge; mixed-signal designs.
Distortion reduction techniques and feedback; frequent SPICE simulations.
Integrated options for audio amplification: Powered subwoofers,etc.
Electronic Circuit Design
Lab experiment and simulation (SPICE) course.
Diodes & Diode Circuits; BJT & MOSFET Characterstics; CMOS Inverter Circuit.
BJT Common Emitter Amplifier: Frequency Response.
Differential Amplifier; Multiple-Stage TransistorAmplifiers.
VLSI Digital Design
Did circuit schematics, layout, and simulation of various digital circuits (mostly CMOS).
Projects: CMOS inverter, 4-input XOR gate, 4-bit Counter, 8-Bit Adder.
Undertook and completed a 64x16 bit 3-T DRAM project , with another partner.
Nanofabrication Technology
Hands-on fabrication laboratory course, at CNF lab (Cornell Nanofabrication Facility).
Completed a MOS/MEMS fabrication project from blank wafers to functional devices.
Lithography, diffusion, ion implantation, thin film deposition,etching, metallization, assembly.
Silicon and Compound Semiconductor Electronics (2-semester sequence)
Comprehensively developed basic silicon transistormodels and device physics.
In lab, measured characteristics: carrier transport,BJT, MOSC, MOSFET characterization. etc.
Ideal DC characteristics, channel length extraction, study of SCE and NWE, DIBL, etc.
HEMTs, HBTs, JFETs, various otherGaAs structures (MESFETS, etc), SiC and InP devices, SiGe, biCMOS