SAMEERA MAHAJANI

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Summary:

Experience in the Design, Development and Testing aspect of software development life cycle gained through managing variety of projects by successfully testing and releasing software products.

Experience in databases, Object Oriented Programming Languages, Scripting Languages.

Experience with Semantic Web Technologies: RDF, RDFa, SPARQL, OWL.

Interest in Web search, semantic technologies, data mining, IR, etc.

Excellent written and oral communication skills, good team player, self starter, quick learner.

Work authorization: Permanent Resident.

Technical Skills:

Languages

C, C++, COBOL, VB/.net, Java.

Web based Languages

HTML, DHTML, XML, CSS, JavaScript (jquery), PHP, Ruby, Perl, Python, HTML 5.

Databases

MySQL, Freebase, MSSQL, Oracle 10/11g.

Testing Related Tools

Beyond Compare 2, Elementool, Junit, Selenium, Evalid, Bugzilla, WinTask, QTP, LoadRunner, WinRunner.

Semantic Technologies & Tools

Microdata, Microformat, RDF(a), OWL, SPARQL, Protégé, NOR2O

ERP

SAP R/3 ECC 5.0, ECC 6.0: HR, SD module

Search Related

Apache Lucene, Apache Solr, Apache Nutch, Heritrix.

Source Control

SVN, CVS, Rational ClearCase, CMVC.

Operating System

Windows, UNIX, Linux, Solaris, Mac.

Productivity Tools

MS Office, Adobe products, Flash, Dreamweaver, Action Script, 3D Max Studio, UML (Rational Rose & Visio), Lotus Notes, BR* Tools, MS Exchange, WEKA.

Work Experience:

Asst. Researcher – ALLEGRO, Competence Center eLearning.

Focuses on the development of new techniques for foreign language learning. It is a collaboration of the 'Computational Linguistics' department - Saarland University, Competence Center eLearning -DFKI, INRIA – Nancy and Supelec – Metz.

Duration: October, 2010 – April, 2011

Responsibilities:

Project ALLEGRO framework is based on 3 levels, which are further divided into Agents. I was responsible for the semantic modeling of the Agents.

Assisted in developing the level 1 – Intelligent Tutoring Agent and level 2 – Allegro Model in Java.

Developed the SCORM api for the Tutoring System – ILLIAS, which communicates states, session information, learner objects, etc., to ILLIAS.

Tested the SCORM api against the Tutoring System by developing a communication session applet.

Assisted in modeling the interfaces of the other 3 components with ILLIAS, that included semantically modeling the exchange of information between components, and developing the interfaces in Java.

Assisted in the research in the semantic, content analysis of LMS multi-agent systems.

Modeling the multi-agent systems using RDF, OWL.

Technologies used: Java, OWL, RDF, SCORM, Multi Agent Systems, IILIAS.

Software Programmer – Interactive Knowledge Stack

Its main focus is developing a technology platform for semantically enhanced content management system.

There is also an on-going research to create a prototype for using CMS in an Ambient User Interface environment. It uses RESTful services as a safe way of ensuring integration with existing CMSs.

Duration: July, 2010 – March, 2011

Responsibilities:

Worked on the demonstration of CMS in an Ambient User Interface Environment, Bathroom.

Developed the device detection, integration components, of the system, which also contains the interfaces for device output/adjustment and device events that each integrated device will register in the OSGi environment and also interpreting the combination of users. Ex: User x has height 175 and stands 50cm left from the Kinect sensor to

broadcast that Anna is in front of the washing basin.

Assisted in developing the grammars for the situations in Ambient User environment, which are part of the Dialog-based Ambient Interaction Manager.

Created ontologies for: The situations, the devices representations, users, context ontology which includes user preferences for: music, events etc. SPARQL was used to access the relevant information from the code.

Also, assisted in the development of Semantic Editor feature: Widgets such as Calender, Google Maps, etc. using jquery and google rich snippets.

Assisted in converting the already available components to OSGi modules.

Technologies used: OWL, RDF, SPARQL, OSGi, Apache Felix / Sling, Java, RestFul, jquery, Google rich snippets, Ambient User Interface, Content management systems, etc.

Teaching Assistant – Software Engineering Chair, Saarland University.

Duration: October 2010 – March, 2011

Responsibilities:

The coursework followed a practical approach to Software Engineering.

Students were allocated real client based projects. Develop the project following the SDLC, submitting the documents during each milestone.

Assisting the groups allocated through the SDLC and also with the client meeting.

Solving students’ software engineering issues, programming issues and client issues.

Groups:

1. Portal-based workflow engine

2. Maintaining work packages

3. Library Management System

4. Parsing and Manipulating LaTeX.

Scientific Blogging, Folsom - California

Duration: May 2009 – October, 2009

Responsibilities:

Designed database for a blogging site with 500 users. Database used was MySQL.

Implemented strategy for load balancing, implementing strategies for minimizing failover time, database

replication, etc.

Handling linux based activities related to networking, configuration, etc.

Assisted in developing the web site using Ruby on Rails.

Developing Iphone application for carbon emission 'Pollution Calculator' in Objective – C, Cocoa.

IBM, San Jose

Job Position: Tivoli Data Protection – Intern

Duration: May 2007 – August 2008

Responsibilities:

Performing system verification testing for Tivoli Data Protection for Databases (MS SQL SERVER and Oracle), and MS Exchange to assess the overall quality of the product from the customer’s perspective.

Running various scenarios for Tivoli Data Protection for Databases for acceptance, robustness, Environmental, Stress and Integration Verification Testing.

Performing integration verification testing which includes installation testing and license testing for golden driver and final package.

Writing automation for TSM Client System Verification Testing using Perl.

Reporting and tracking of defects using IBM CMVC Developer’s Client 5.0.

Performing TSM Data Protection for Databases backups (Legacy and Volume Shadow Copy) and restores on environments such as SAN, IBM N-Series, NetApp Systems, DSeries, etc.

Testing for Windows(x34, x64, Itanium), AIX, Mac, Solaris 8, 9(Sparc).

Performing backup and recovery using Oracle Recovery Manager on Windows and Solaris 9.

Compulink Systems Ltd.

Job Position: Project Developer

Duration: March 2005 – July 2006

Responsibilities:

Developed project for the Linux based systems for controlling and maintaining the traffic in the network using C, PHP and SQL.

Performed Unit, system testing.

Worked with QA team to design test plan and test cases for System Testing.

Assisted implementation project manager in determining user/business/functional requirements.

Participated in number of user meetings which involved study of business processes, gathering and documenting requirements.

Created documentation for training and help desk teams.

Times of India – Planet M

Job Position: Website Developer

Duration: January 2001 – June 2001

Responsibilities:

Developed and maintained website on Online Retail System Help using HTML, CSS and JavaScript.

Performed Unit level testing and system level testing.

Submitting weekly status report to the supervisor.

Activities:

Search related self projects using Apache Nutch, Apache Solr:

Indexing, Indexing numbers and dates, Searching, Boosting, Scoring, Relevancy, Crawling, Optimization, Text Extraction, Faceted Browsing, Hit highlighting, Spell checking, Multiple Output formats, etc.

NoSQL knowledge:

Hadoop, Map-Reduce.

Pqrs Research Non-profit Organization: Mentor

Platform for quality research for students.

Mentoring students in semantic technology, testing related research.

ALLEGRO Consortium, 2011 at Supelec, Metz.

Interative Knowledge Stack Hackathon 2010, Furtwangen.

Academic Projects:

System Design – Face Recognition System – Fall, 2008

Position: Project Manager

Followed the Incremental model of SDLC.

Preparing Problem Definition Report, Feasibility Study Report, Operational Criteria Report, Requirement Analysis.

Report, Software and Network Architecture Report, Cost Estimation Report.

Developed 'Face recognition using the 3D morphable mode' in C++.

Used Fisherface method and extended it by utilizing 3D morphable model.

Interaction with the other team members regarding project activities.

ERP: System Administration - Fall, 2008

Role: DBA

Installation of SAP on Oracle 10, LINUX on a RAID system.

Linux administration activities including Installation, Creating partitions, Creating logical volume, Extending a logical volume, Locking and Unlocking Users, disabling remote root login, stopping non-secure services, Creating User Accounts, Configuring VNC, backup and recovery of operating systems.

SAP Basis administration activities including installation (SAP Installation Parameters, Prerequisite Checker), Configuring SAP License, Generating SAP License, Create SAP Users and Passwords, Locking users, Create SAP System Profiles, Changing number of work processes, Configuring TMS, SPAM, and CTS, Op Modes, Local Client Copy, Remote Client Copy, Client deletion, Central User Administration, PFCG, configuring SAP Help, Configuring Printer, Password Management, Transport between systems, backup and recovery, CCMS, Batch jobs, Create an RFC.

Oracle database administration activities including Installation, instance management, space management (managing tablespaces, managing data files), segment management, backup and recovery, database system check, patching and upgrading, setting up database access control.

(Documentation provided on request)

Education:

Saarland University, Germany

(PhD candidate – Qualification Period)

Coursework:

Web Dynamics, Data mining, Semantic web technologies, NoSQL, User Interface, Artificial Intelligence.

Master’s in Computer Science

California State University, Chico Fall 2006 - Fall 2008

Relevant Coursework: Advanced Software Engineering, Software Quality Testing (San Jose State University), System Design, ERP: System Administration, ERP: System Configuration and Use (Management Information

System Dept), Advanced Research Methods, CCNA, Advanced Computer Security.

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