Alishah Novin is a software engineer, entrepreneur, and product manager. He is active in teaching, and mentoring young people wuth computer skills..[1].[2]

Early Life and Education

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Alishah Novin was born in Canada. He pursued his higher education at the University of Toronto, where he earned a Bachelor of Arts degree in Physics.

Career

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Novin, a Lead Senior Product Manager at Microsoft (2022-present), started his work at a software company in Canada, befor joining the HPA, a Cognizant Company in 2010, as the Senior Manager of Software Engineering and New Product Development and Solutions. In 2020, he joined fintech Celero Commerce as director of engineering, after nearly a decade as part of HPA.[3] He actively has mentored and introduced high-tech automation to youth and high school students, demonstrating the analytical mechanisms involved in software engineering. [4][5] One of his developed programs is used by Kathy Ceceri in her book 'Bots! Robotics Engineering: with Hands-On Makerspace Activities'..[6][7] He also has written many articles in computer journals to introduce various aspects of coding [8]

In 2021, Novin has won the Community Leader of the Year Award by the Nashville Technology Council (NTC) for contributions to the tech community[9]. In 2017, he had won Software Engineer of the Year Award [10]

Computer Games

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In 2007, Novin created the online game Broken Picture Telephone, based on the classic game of Telephone Pictionary. The game was recognized as one of the top 100 sites by PCMag in 2009.[11][12]

References

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  1. ^ "SelfTaught TXG, Michael Jude Larocca". 26 August 2024.
  2. ^ "NashvillePost, Technology, NTC names '21 awards finalist, Dec 11, 2020". 11 December 2020.
  3. ^ "ALISHAH NOVIN has joined fintech Celero Commerce as director of engineering, The Greater Nashville Technology Council". 13 May 2020.
  4. ^ "MNPS students go on a STEM fieldtrip to HPA, a Cognizant Company, — By Elizabeth Wood, Jun 18, 2019". 18 June 2019.
  5. ^ "NashvillePost, Amazon, AllianceBernstein join tech mentorship program, Kathryn Rickmeyer, Kathryn Rickmeyer, Oct 5, 2021". 5 October 2021.
  6. ^ "A Different Approach to Teaching Kids and Teens to Code – Alishah Novin – Hackernoon, November 5th, 2016".
  7. ^ "Computational Thinking (with Kids!) – Alishah Novin – Medium, by: Alex Curtis, Apr 9, 2019, The Nashville Technology Council". 9 April 2019.
  8. ^ "A Keyboard Selection Enabled ComboBox in Silverlight". 24 Mar 2010.
  9. ^ "Nashville's Tech Best Announced at 12th Annual NTC Awards, The Greater Nashville Technology Council". 16 April 2021.
  10. ^ "Nashville Tech Leaders Announced at 9th Annual Nashville Technology Council Awardsé The Nashville Technology Council". 26 January 2018.
  11. ^ "Broken Picture Telephone". Jay Is Games. 17 June 2009. Retrieved 15 November 2015.
  12. ^ "Nektan Slots Games & Other Communication Games - Broken Picture Telephone". www.brokenpicturetelephone.com. Archived from the original on 16 November 2015. Retrieved 2020-09-19.