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EMPLOYMENT SCAN May 2006 – July 2009 with Larson & Toubro Ltd., Mumbai as Assistant Manager - Systems & Software November 2003 – May 2006 with iFlect Technologies, Mumbai as Systems Software Engineer Technical: Platform : Windows XP, Linux v2.6, Vxworks v6.2, Symbian OS series 60, 80. Programming : C, C++, Qlarity v2.4, bash scripting. Tools : Workbench v2.0, QT Designer v3.3, Windriver Scope Tools, GCC, v3.2.2, Valgrind, GlowCode, Ethereal, Vnc-tools, ECDIS, Xenomai. Functional: Project Implementation Ø Supporting overall operations for executing projects involving scoping, design & architecture & sourcing. Ø Addressing all the important issues & defining best practices for project support and documentation. Ø Mentoring and training project members to enable them to perform their activities effectively. Software Development Ø Interacting with the client & system engineering team for requirements gathering & scoping. Ø Handling architecture and designing the solution for the product. Ø Managing process setup & development. Ø Undertaking code review, debugging and troubleshooting the application. Ø Extending post go-live and application maintenance support to the client. Key projects handled: Larsen & Toubro Limited GUI Design for Control Software Duration : 1.5 Years Client : BrahMos Aerospace Role : Software Developer Hardware : Intel P4 1.4 GHz VME SBC, ATI Radeon 7500 card, Ethernet. Software : Qt Designer v3.3, GCC v3.2, VME Driver v1.0, RHEL v4. Description : Handled elicitation, analysis of all the requirements from customer through the forum of meetings and presentations. Participated in Project Documentation as per IEEE 12207 Standards. Generated various test cases to perform unit testing, black box testing, integration testing & user acceptance testing. Handled Implementation, which resulted in many new abstract classes to be used across the projects. Took part in technical meetings to develop System Architectural Designs and Requirement Allocations. Generated modular graphical objects group thereby reducing coding and debugging overheads. Designed a unique 2D model depicting all sub-system components for easy maintainability of system through software. System Software for Platform Stabilization Control Duration : 1 year Client : LRDE Role : Software Lead Developer Hardware : MPC 7455/7457 PowerPC VME SBC, Qlarity Screen, Discrete Input, Discrete Output, Analog Input, Analog Output cards. Software : Vxworks v6.2, Workbench v2.4, Scope Tools, Qlarity v2.4. Description : Designed, implemented and documented the different interlocks in the system as schematic ladder logics. Handled internal communication of the controller with drives, encoders, and surface gyrocompass & motion sensors. Ascertained understanding the data flow requirements between the Touch Screen and controller, designed and implemented the internal interface software. Participated in design & documentation of “Health Monitor”, a supervisory task scheduler. Participated in requirement analysis, design, implementation & testing of external interface protocol. Designed message queue based error-handling and reporting system for system generated errors. Generated various test cases to perform unit testing, black box testing and integration testing for the system. Handled elicitation, analysis of all external interface requirements from customer to entail essential data requirements. Linux GIS Display Engine Duration : 6 months Client : BrahMos Aerospace Role : Software Developer Hardware : Intel P4 1.4 GHz VME SBC, ATI Radeon 7500 card. Software : ECDIS kernel v5.8, GCC v3.2, X Windows Description : Designed solutions for polygonal region drawing, point in polygon test (containment test). Handled graphics overlay of symbols, pixmaps, geometric objects and other image formats. Developed the software over X-Windows using Xt, X, & ECDIS api’s. Incorporated special customer symbology into the application. Linux Desktop Screen Recording Software Duration : 3 months Client : BrahMos Aerospace Role : Software Developer Hardware : Intel P4 1.4 GHz VME SBC, ATI Radeon 7500 card. Software : VNC tools, bash shell, gcc v3.2. Description : Understood the architecture of vnc tools viz., vnc viewer, server and vncrec. Handled modifications in vncrec & vncviewer application, incorporating signals to record, play & stop. Generated the script file to run the vnc apps, trap the signals and execute commands. iFlect Technologies QwikStream on Symbian OS Duration : 1 year Client : Sindhara Inc. Role : Software Engineer – Software Module Lead Hardware : Arm 7 armi processor 104 MHz & 210 MHz. Software : Symbian OS 6.1 sdk v1.2, v8.0 sdk v2.0, Visual C++ 6.0. Description : Designed, developed and supported 4 versions of QwikStream Decoder for Symbian OS. Integrated the Qwik Live client for Symbian OS with the video-audio streaming server. Integrated local playback, download-n-play (DLP), progressive video download (PVD) with buffering. Ported the video decoder to Symbian OS. Involved in unit testing, integration testing for players over GPRS, EDGE & CDMA networks. Worked out enhancement in Player Performance through assembly instructions to 12 fps for DLP, PVD and 10 fps for Live Streaming. Ported audio playback of AMR, MP3 & G723 codec formats to Symbian OS. Optimizations for QwikStreamPlus Duration : 4 Months Client : Sindhara Inc, Role : Software Engineer Hardware : Pentium4 1.5 GHz Desktop machine with 1-Gb RAM. Software : Microsoft’s Visual C++ v6.0, 7.0, Glowcode, Nasm Description : Engaged in assembly level programming for motion estimation block, motion compensation block, RGB to YUV, YUV to RGB conversions with 15% faster execution. Performed assembly level programming for Wavelet transform, with 40% faster execution for larger image sizes. Removed Lifting scheme and introduced a simple quantizing technique through mallat-like decomposition instead of in-place transform. Automatic Vehicle Locating System Duration : 1 year Client : Sindhara Inc, Role : Software Engineer Hardware : Rabbit RCM 3610 and RCM 3710, SPI flash, RS232, Siemens XT55 v1.05 and 2.06 (TCP/IP stack), LED’s. Software : Dynamic C, HyperTerminal, Siemens PPPTracer, Ethereal. Decription : Developed GPS library that includes NMEA frame grabber for GGA, VTG, RMC, ZDA strings and configuration of GPS receiver through input NMEA/Sirf Binary Protocols. GSM communication was managed GSM AT commands (GSM 07.07, 07.05) & custom Siemens AT commands. Handled data storage through SPI flash on GSM Network failure. Implemented Memory Fault checking algorithms, Watchdog, Power-Saving modes, Exception Handling. Implemented the Serial Datalogger that logs the GPS data onto SPI Flash and delivers the same on connection to COM Port.