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Vattekkat Satheesh Babu

**** ******** ****, #****

Falls Church, Virginia 22044

United States of America

abppso@r.postjobfree.com

703-***-****

Objective:

To find a position which allows me to build on my diverse experience

base, challenges me with new problems every day, and constantly

inspires me to do better today than I did yesterday, and to do better

tomorrow than I do today, with a group that takes pride in values and

practices.

Competencies:Systems Analysis & TroubleshootingProcess Analysis & ReengineeringSpecification & DocumentationTeam Building & LeadershipSkills:

I'm very strong in Unix/Linux environments and Oracle. Learnability is my

strong point and I try to constantly research and learn more about interesting

technologies.

Platforms: Linux, UNIX, HP-UX, Windows 9x/NT/2000/XP, HP3000 MPE/XLProgramming Languages: C, Java, C++, Pascal, FORTRAN, COBOL; Python, PerlWeb Technologies: Zope, ASP, PHP; J2EE, CGI, XML-RPC; HTML, XHTML, CSS, XML, XSL, JavascriptDatabases:Oracle 7/8i, PostgreSQL, MySQL, FileMaker ProSQL, PL/SQL, Pro*C, Oracle Developer, Oracle PowerObjects, ODBC, JDBC, OO4OLETools:Oracle Designer, MS Project 4.x - 2000Apache, IIS, Postfix, Mailman, Wikiksh, bash, AWK, sed, cvs, sccs, rcsMultilingual:Proficient in English, Hindi and Malayalam.Familiar with Tamil and French.Academic Qualifications:

B.Tech Electronics & Communication Engineering, Regional Engineering College Calicut 1993 83%

Pre-Degree (12th) Govt. Victoria College, Palakkad 1989 82%

S.S.L.C (X std) BEMHS, Palakkad 1987 85%Other Exams:GATE (Graduate Aptitude Test in Engineering) 93; 97.65%GATE 94; 94%Professional Experience:, Arlington, VA, USA.

Senior Technologist; Since March 2001Job ResponsibilitiesInfrastructure design and development for web technologies.Strategic supprt for cost-effective IT from a non-profit perspective.Manage, mentor and lead projects.Analyse, design and implement software solutions for enabling Conservation efforts and support functions.Rapid analysis and problem solving support for enterprise systems.Key Achievements

Managed design, development and implementation for a web publishing

tool that enabled unskilled and skilled content providers to publish

content to multiple sites. Implemented more features in 15% of

time and 5% of cost, compared to competing proposals. System is based

on Oracle 8i.

Managed project in development of a tool that aids scientists to

visually represent different factors that affect an ecosystem. Reports

are generated from charts that helps in analysis and prioritization.

System is based on Microsoft Visio, Visual Basic and Python.

Championed rapid prototyping methodology of Dreams, Philosophy,

Implementation - a variation of eXtreme Programming when users

have little time to devote to the project. Several successful

rapid application development projects I managed include:On-line digital assets management. Holds thousands of photos and can even run from CD-ROMs.On-line survey builder tool using Oracle and Zope.On-line benefits enrollment framework development, saving $45,000 annually.Personnel Memo portal that aggregates news from organization.Collaboration Portal using Zope-CMF for document management.Single sign-on framework for web applications using RADIUS.Custom authentication plugin for Jabber IM server.Conducted training courses on Perl, PHP, Zope and RPT., San Diego, CA, USA.

Systems Analyst and Consultant; March 1998 - March 2001Job ResponsibilitiesProvide consulting services to clients on Oracle based systems.Consulting services include working in teams at the client site,

trouble shooting production problems, software maintenance, custom

software development etc.Key AchievementsCo-ordinated a team, planned, learned, analyzed and remedied all

web systems for Year2000 readiness in 7 days in December 1999 with

little knowledge transfer. No problems happened during Year2000

transition.Implemented a cross-over system while a new CRM system was being

installed at the client site, to take over from a legacy system. Rapid design

and implementation was done using Designer/2000 and Developer/2000.Implemented web directory portal for thousands of reports generated by

CRM system with customizable layout and configuration options.

Tuned the performance, to make complete web sites in 20 seconds after

scanning for 45000+ files on 600+ nested directories on HP-UX.Software maintenance for client's legacy CRM system based on Oracle 7, Oracle Forms 3, Pro*C, PL/SQL on HP-UX.Ported legacy CRM system from HP-UX to Oracle on Linux, with query interfaces using PHP3.Developed web-based timesheets that support delegation and authorization using PHP3 and PostgreSQL., Bangalore, India.

Systems Analyst; May 1995 - March 1998Job ResponsibilitiesProject management, design and development of software systems.Quality control and configuration management.Team and customer co-ordinator for the client, Salomon.S.A. in France.On-site software maintenance support.Ensure internationalization support in projects.Key AchievementsImplemented electronic time reporting system using Designer/2000, Developer/2000, HP-UX, Oracle 7.3, Macintosh and Windows NT clients. Implemented data warehouses aggregating sales, stock and delivery information from respective systems. Designed, implemented and tuned interfaces and batch jobs using PL/SQL, Pro*C and Unix utilities. Implemented Oracle Forms interface to aid manual planning interface to Manugistics.Managed development of a Free Market system that adds to Etoile, a headquarters system developed in-house, that links delivery, financial, sales and manufacturing systems.Managed support and maintenance for GDT, a product planning system developed in-house.Provided on-site support and code maintenance for both Etoile and GDT., Bangalore, India.

Associate IT Engineer; September 1993 - March 1995Job ResponsibilitiesOn-site customer support for network and hardware issues.Network design, maintenance, installation, software support.System administration for Novell Netware and UNIX systems.Key AchievementsRe-structured and implemented a 140 node, multi-network Novell Netware

LAN at ANZ Grindlay's Software Development Center,

increasing uptime to 99%.Engineered a call/inventory management system in FoxPro 2.0 to

make repair lab, paperless.Provided systems support for Indian Post Office (PCs and software),

Reserve Bank of India (WAN) and Bhabha Atomic Research Center.Personal Projects

I participate in open source projects and have released some personal projects as open source.

Some of these are:

News collector and aggregator, written in Python.Cross-platform GUI application to build and run scripts to process batches of images. Extensible using

run-time reflection.On-line Oracle schema browser using PHP.On-line Oracle database monitor using PHP; extensible by simply dropping SQL scripts.WYSIWYG in-line HTML editor for IE.

Additionally, I maintain a site where I publish articles and thoughts on technology. Some of these include:

PHP Tutorial. This has been very popular.Introductory course notes for Zope.Structuring IT as an enabler for organizational success.References

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