Muhammed Fazeel

Muhammed Fazeel

Los Angeles, California, United States
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University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
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About

An experienced Product Manager with 10+ years of launching award-winning solutions…

Experience

  • CareRev

    CareRev

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      Greater Chicago Area

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      Greater Chicago Area

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    Los Angeles, California, United States

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    Pasadena, California, United States

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    Greater Chicago Area

Education

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    Activities and Societies: Lemelson MIT Illinois Student Prize - Finalist - Only undergraduate to be considered for this that year.

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    Activities and Societies: KIEA scholar. Event programmer for the International Student Organization (09-10) Innovation and Entrepreneurship Academy (IEA)

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Volunteer Experience

  • Los Angeles Hub Member (former curator)

    Los Angeles Hub Member (former curator)

    Global Shapers Community

    - Present 8 years

    Muhammed was a Global Shaper in Chicago before moving to LA and became curator for 2019-2020.

    Muhammed was part of the 50 Global Shapers selected to attend the World Economic Forum Annual Meeting at Davos 2020.

    Launched Shaper Hands - a free delivery service for elderly and immunocompromised during Covid. The service has expanded from Los Angeles to Seattle, Sacramento, Atlanta, San Francisco, New York City
    Set up partnership with Lyft (Free rides for volunteers if they need it…

    Muhammed was a Global Shaper in Chicago before moving to LA and became curator for 2019-2020.

    Muhammed was part of the 50 Global Shapers selected to attend the World Economic Forum Annual Meeting at Davos 2020.

    Launched Shaper Hands - a free delivery service for elderly and immunocompromised during Covid. The service has expanded from Los Angeles to Seattle, Sacramento, Atlanta, San Francisco, New York City
    Set up partnership with Lyft (Free rides for volunteers if they need it for deliveries)
    Set up partnership with NAPCA (National Asian Pacific Center for Aging), we will be helping their constituents in LA county and King County (Washington) - Requesters can call their phone lines and place an order if they aren't comfortable using the website. The phone line has 10+ languages offered.
    Featured in ABC 10 (Sacramento) https://www.abc10.com/video/news/health/coronavirus/young-leaders-volunteering-to-deliver-to-community-members-with-a-high-risk-of-getting-coronavirus/103-71e5786d-2806-4a5f-bbd6-4a3265e3c457
    Our requesters being so happy with our deliveries that they donate to non-profits on our behalf or send us kind notes. ** - "What wonderful people. They stayed in contact with me all the time, even calling from the store to check on something! ...I am a diabetic on insulin so I have to eat. So you understand!..They will be in my prayers forever." ** - "Your offer is incredible! I do not even know how to thank you!!! At the same time – I feel guilty because your wonderful volunteers are risking so much while helping me!!"

    He has worked on increasing engagement for Neighborhood councils, mentored a startup aiding refugees with mental health issues, judged a hackathon, facilitated conversations between children affected by incarceration of parents among other projects.

    Learn more at globalshapers.la

  • Triage Volunteer

    Avicenna Community Health Center

    - 1 year

    Take vitals (blood pressure, temperature, pulse etc) of patients.

    Avicenna offers health services for free to the uninsured.

Licenses & Certifications

Projects

  • ICE

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    A cardiac monitoring solution geared for high risk patients.
    Part of the Illinois Launch program. Spun off to form Benecure Inc.

    See project

  • S.A.F.E.-Smart-kit for Automobile Fuel Efficiency

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    A system geared to increase fuel efficiency of gasoline cars by 5-10%.

    Other creators

Honors & Awards

  • Lemelson MIT Illinois Student Prize - Finalist

    Lemelson committee MIT/University of Illinois

    The Lemelson-MIT Illinois Student Prize, administered by the Technology Entrepreneur Center in the College of Engineering, is awarded on an annual basis to a senior or graduate student who has created or improved a product or process, applied a technology in a new way, redesigned a system, or demonstrated remarkable inventiveness in other ways. Only undergraduate finalist in 2012.

  • Illinois Fifty For The Future

    Illinois Technology Foundation

    The Annual Fifty For The Future® Celebration recognizes fifty exceptional students with an interest in and potential to use technology in innovative ways.

  • Business competitions - while at IIT

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    2nd - MIT enterprise forum whiteboard challenge, 2010
    The Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) Enterprise Forum Chicago selected 10 finalists to present their ideas at the Feinberg school of medicine. I won second place at the event and was the only undergraduate student competing.

    Winner - Knapp Entrepreneurship center video elevator pitch competition, 2010:
    Winner of the university wide elevator pitch competition.

    Finalist - Entreprenuer Idol at Northwestern…

    2nd - MIT enterprise forum whiteboard challenge, 2010
    The Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) Enterprise Forum Chicago selected 10 finalists to present their ideas at the Feinberg school of medicine. I won second place at the event and was the only undergraduate student competing.

    Winner - Knapp Entrepreneurship center video elevator pitch competition, 2010:
    Winner of the university wide elevator pitch competition.

    Finalist - Entreprenuer Idol at Northwestern University, 2009:
    A national business pitching competition with over 30+ teams.

    Semi Finalist, I2P Idea to Product Illinois-Missouri Regional Competition, 2008/2009:
    Regional stage of the international Idea to product competition.

    IEA idea challenge 2008/2009:
    University wide business idea/service competition
    2009: Secured 2nd, 3rd and 9th position working with teams consisting of undergraduate and graduate students from different colleges. 2008: Secured 3rd and 10th position.

  • Dean's list for the Armour college of engineering

    Illinois Institute of Technology

    Deans list for Biomedical engineering.

  • Hackathons

    Various

    Top 8 in largest health hackathon - Health++ (Global Health) at Stanford, 2019
    Mentor and Judge - Futurethon Hackathon (for global refugees) at USC, 2018
    1st place PACT healthcare app challenge sponsored by Independence Blue Cross, 2015
    1st place GBM (Brain Cancer) hackathon, 2015
    2nd place Cigna hackathon, 2015
    2nd place Paypal hackathon (Chicago round), 2014
    1st place Grand prize winner for Affordable Care Act 2.0 + Make-a-thon, 2014

  • Speaking Engagements

    Various

    Winner, American Muslim Storyteller Grant, 2017
    Finalist speaker, American Diabetic Association Venture to Stop Diabetes Challenge, 2016
    Panelist, World Islamic Economic & Finance Conference, Kuala Lumpur, 2015
    Keynote Speaker and startup competition judge at NAPEC (North American Professionals and Entrepreneurs Conference), 2014
    Finalist speaker, American Heart Association Venture Challenge, Scientific Sessions, 2014
    Speaker at the U.S. Islamic Economic & Finance Conference…

    Winner, American Muslim Storyteller Grant, 2017
    Finalist speaker, American Diabetic Association Venture to Stop Diabetes Challenge, 2016
    Panelist, World Islamic Economic & Finance Conference, Kuala Lumpur, 2015
    Keynote Speaker and startup competition judge at NAPEC (North American Professionals and Entrepreneurs Conference), 2014
    Finalist speaker, American Heart Association Venture Challenge, Scientific Sessions, 2014
    Speaker at the U.S. Islamic Economic & Finance Conference, 2014
    Alumni speaker for incoming LAS freshman at the University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign, 2014
    TEDx IIT speaker, 2012 (Featured in Forbes)

Languages

  • English

    Native or bilingual proficiency

  • Hindi

    Native or bilingual proficiency

  • Urdu

    Native or bilingual proficiency

  • Arabic

    Limited working proficiency

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