Problem Solver
Kes Sampanthar
I am an avid innovator and problem solver and have worked with some of the largest fortune 500 companies as a consultant to solve complex business and technical problems. I an entrepreneur that has setup multiple companies in my life and I have been apart of many start-ups in my career. I have over 15 years of post graduate experience and have a deep understanding of business and technology. I am an award winning consultant and innovator and can work with all levels of management and C-level executives.
Areas Kes Sampanthar is Knowledgeable in:
Advertising, Media Strategy, Innovation, Marketing, Internet Architecture, Web 2.0, Business and Entrepreneurship, Science, Neuroscience, Cognitive Science, Artificial intelligence, Artificial Life, Swarm Intelligence
Techniques Kes Sampanthar Uses:
ThinkCubation/ThinkCube, SCAMPER, Brainstorming, Mind Mapping, WhackPack, Lateral Thinking, 6 Thinking Hats
Kes Sampanthar's Problem Solving Skills:
- Media Strategy, Social Media
- Brand Strategy
- Innovation Methodology, creative techniques
- Internet Architecture, Web 2.0, Distributed Architecture, Content Delivery Networks, TCP/IP
- Process and Methodology Design
- Online Advertising, online marketing
- Game Design, Game Development
- Software Engineering, software development, design and architecture
- NeuroScience, Cognitive Science, Artificial Intelligence and Artificial Life
- Marketing - Word of Mouth, Social Media Marketing, Adoption Curve
Kes Sampanthar's Problem Solving Experience:
- Inventor of innovation game - MetaMemes, innovation methodology - Thinkcubation and ThinkCube - an innovation tool. I am the sole inventor of the design of the above products.
- Online Advertising Management system - I designed, developed an online advertising management system for a large media company. I analyzed their business processes and the needs of the ad operations team and developed a solution leveraging an unique internet architecture design.
- Developed new process for improving the efficiency in water testing at a British Water Company - I developed a device that increased the productivity of the process for testing water quality by 400%.
- Developed new methodology for developing more interactive work applications - called FunX - it incorporates game design techniques to design user interfaces for standard work applications i.e. email, project management. This is still in the early stages. (Game Design Fun, User Experience UX - Fun + UX = FunX)
- Co-Developed a system to replace bloomberg terminals using a web services feeds and developing a financial services web service with a programming modular interface to develop reports. Worked with large commercial and investment banks. We started a company with funding in 2001 but it collapsed with the financial service industry getting hit after 9/11.
- Developed an Neural Network to learn chess using the back propagation algorithm. The design of hierarchal networks was my own design - level 1 being basic moves, level 2 being tactics, level 3 being strategies - different networks at different levels were trained to recognized different situations.