Engineering Sales

Prasanth Kachgal

**** ********* *** #***

Studio City, CA 91604

310-***-**** *******@*******.***

OBJECTIVE

. Highly motivated and experienced engineering support analyst seeking

position as business analyst in marketing, finance, sales, support and

product development

WORK EXPERIENCE

PERIOD: 1/2008 - Present Company: Metacomp Technologies,

Inc. Agoura Hills, CA

Position: Senior Engineering Analyst

ROLE & RESPONSIBILITIES:

. Lead support team in troubleshooting and answering highly technical

questions regarding several engineering software products

. Accumulated and analyzed data from physics and numerical models

. Programed code using Perl, Python, C++, C and Fortran to analyze data

. Created training material and conduct training of engineering products

. Created marketing material and help support and maintain company's

support website using SQL and PHP

. Created and presented reports of product development

. Represented company at technical conferences and sales expositions

. Lead cross-functional product teams to deliver market leading features

and services through all phases of the product life cycle

. Developed portfolio roadmaps and managed technology priorities to

maximize time-to-market

. Analyzed market segments and performed competitive analysis to increase

product value

. Developed document repository management system using LiveLink and Wiki

to house business/functional requirements, analyses, surveys and process

flows

. Gathered metrics to calculate the performance of software for cross-

platform capabilities

. Translated and prioritized customer and market priorities into product

requirements

. Created high level process flows and various workflow diagrams using UML

. Created test cases and test scripts

. Worked closely with development team to create Proof of Concept (POC)

prototypes

PERIOD: 1/2003 - 1/2008 Company: Metacomp Technologies, Inc.

Agoura Hills, CA

Position - Support Engineer

ROLE & RESPONSIBILITIES:

. Created technical documentation for engineering products

developed and sold by company

. Used variety of computational software to perform

analysis on a multitude of engineering problems; written

reports describing findings of computational analysis

. Provided technical support to customers

. Created marketing material for several products

developed by company

. Created training material and conducted training of

engineering products developed by company

. Represented company at technical conferences and sales

expositions

EDUCATION

9/2004 - 6/2006, UCLA, Los Angeles, CA

. MASTER OF SCIENCE, MECHANICAL ENGINEERING (GPA 3.5)

o CONCENTRATION: FLUID DYNAMICS

o CLASSES: FLUID DYNAMICS, HEAT TRANSFER, PROBABILITY THEORY,

DYNAMIC PROGRAMMING, NUMERICAL METHODS, NUMERICAL ANALYSIS,

STATISTICS

9/1998 - 6/2003, UCLA, LOS ANGELES, CA

. BACHELOR OF SCIENCE, MECHANICAL ENGINEERING (GPA 3.3)

o CONCENTRATION: DESIGN AND MANUFACTURING

o CLASSES: PRODUCT DESIGN, PROJECT MANAGEMENT, APPLIED

MATHEMATICS, PROGRAMMING, ECONOMICS, TECHNICAL WRITING

TECHNICAL SKILLS

. Operating Systems: Microsoft Windows 2000/NT/XP, Win 7, Ubuntu, SuSe,

RedHat

. Databases: MySQL, MS Access, Joomla

. Application Software: MS Office Suite, MS Excel, MS Project, MS

Visio, OpenOffice Suite, Adobe Photoshop

. Methodologies: Business Modeling, UML, Use Case Diagrams

. Presentation: MS PowerPoint, Camtasia Video/ Audio clips

. Languages: C++, C, SQL, PERL, Python, HTML, CSS,

Fortran, Matlab, PHP

. Engineering Software: Solidworks, Pro/E,

Catia, Rhino, ICEM, Pointwise

WORK STATUS

US Citizen

REFERENCES

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