Engineer Electrical

ARCHANA METTU

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Summary: 6+ years of experience in Software Application development, SDLC, translating business

needs to technical requirements and realizing the requirements to satisfaction of end users using Java

based technologies. 3+ years of experience with Eclipse based technologies Plug-in development, RCP,

OSGi.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Software Engineer June 2007 to present

Rockwell Collins Inc, Cedar Rapids, Iowa

Group: Enterprise Tools Integration.

Group mission: To enhance the productivity of Engineers by developing, improving, maintaining

and supporting best tools for SDLC operations and processes, with Usability, Enterprise Scalability and

Performance Optimization as key goals.

Major accomplishments:

• Developed and maintained a custom Eclipse based Integrated Development Environment (IDE) at

Enterprise level, for use by engineering teams using Model Based development tools within

Rockwell Collins.

• Developed plug-ins and extended the capabilities of Eclipse Workbench.

• Made User-Interface extensions to the Eclipse workbench including workspace scoped

Preferences, Menus, sub-menus, File Systems in Navigator, Project Properties, Perspectives,

Views, Menu bar items, Wizards, Dialogs, etc,. Experienced with APIs of SWT and JFaces.

Managed and manipulated resources in the workspace based on User actions.

• Participated in the development of a web application based on Rich Ajax Platform (RAP),

catering to the reporting needs of key stakeholders in the company, thus enabling them to make

strategic decisions based on the reported data.

• Contributed to the development of a Rich Client Platform (RCP) application that is extensively

used by thousands of Engineers in the Enterprise.

• Gathered requirements from end users and stake holders, presented Use Case, Design and Code

reviews and documented all project technical information in Enterprise Architect or Rhapsody,

based on team-project.

• Deployed Enterprise Architect projects to SQL database thus enabling Systems Engineering teams

to collaborate real-time within the tool.

• Supported UML tools, Enterprise Architect (by Sparx Systems) and Rational Rhapsody (an IBM

Rational tool) and served as sole tool smith for the Enterprise.

• Directly interfaced with end-users and helped them get on-board with the Custom-developed and

commercial tools in Model Based Engineering space. Investigated and resolved issues with

configuration, deployment and use of Engineering tools over WAN.

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• Participated in the development of a Web application that serves as a Reuse-portal for cross-team

collaboration.

• Participated in a trade study of top Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) solutions available

in the market to pick the solution appropriate for the Enterprise.

• Conducted performance tests on Enterprise tools and found key bottlenecks that need to be

addressed to enhance productivity of end users. Presented the findings to leadership, advocated

changes to fix the major issues hurting productivity and succeeded in getting approvals for the

Infrastructure and policy changes to address the bottlenecks.

• Proposed and implemented User interface changes on multiple occasions during team

discussions, to enhance the User experience with the tools and Environment.

• Attended the IBM innovate 2010 technology conference at Orlando, Florida with Rockwell

Collins Enterprise team and EclipseWorld 2008 conference in Reston, Virginia.

Tools and technologies used: JAVA, J2SE in application development, Eclipse 3.3.2, Eclipse 3.5.2 for

development and tooling with Plug-Ins, Rich Client Platform and Rich Ajax Platform, Enterprise

Architect for Requirements and Design documentation, Subversion for version control, Clear Quest for

change control, Media Wiki for User documentation, SWT and JFaces for User interfaces in the Eclipse

Environment, JDOM for XML, JProfiler, JUnit, JDBC, Multithreading, AJAX, JavaScript, XML, XSLT,

XSD, MATLAB and VAPS XT as key technologies integrated within the Custom IDE, relational

databases Microsoft SQL database and Oracle 10g DBMS, JSP, JSF, application server Apache Tomcat,

and HTML for web application development, Linux and Windows XP(32 and 64 bit) environments for

support of tools in multiple platforms. Python and Perl for scripting backend operations in the custom

IDE development, familiarity with Hibernate and Spring frameworks, Visual Studio 2005 and C# .NET to

create an Add-In for Enterprise Architect tool.

Software Quality Assurance Engineer Nov 2006 – May 2007

Symantec Corporation, Newport News, VA

Major Accomplishments:

• Improved and maintained the deployment of a distributed test automation framework to test a

component library across multiple platforms supported. The Automation eliminates all

environment setup dependencies and helps test across many operating systems and versions with

one command.

• Configured complex enterprise test environments, operating systems, applications, and networks.

• Managed defect reports and created and executed test cases for component library in C++.

Tools and Technologies used: Software Test Automation Framework (STAF), C++, XML, Perforce,

Bugzilla, RedHat Linux, Solaris, VMWare.

Software Engineer – Embedded Systems Feb 2005 – Nov 2006

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International Communications Group, Newport News, VA

Major Accomplishments:

• Designed a customized FTP Client application that transfers files qualifying a filter-criterion from

a remote vendor’s FTP server, following the standard File Transfer Protocol of request and

response sequence. Designed a User-Interface making it easy to use for the administrators to

change client authentication information and many other parameters, offering flexibility and

configurability.

• Developed a Gateway Server which acts a bridge between authorizing banks and customers, over

the network. The Dual acting gateway listens for client requests and handles each request in a

separate thread to forward to the authorizing server, after re-structuring to conform to protocol.

Developed a Multi-threaded authorization request handler. Designed a User Interface to report the

request-response sequences between the authorizing server and clients.

• Developed Digital Signal-Processing solutions for a telephony application. Implemented the

algorithms Line echo cancellation, DTMF and call progress tone detection and generation,

conferencing and voice prompt. Configured the DSP to suit multi-channel application.

Tools and Technologies used: JAVA, UML, Enterprise Architect, Eclipse IDE, analyzers,

Oscilloscopes, debuggers and emulators, TMS320C6416 processor from the C6000 family of TI.

Student Employee - Teaching Sep 2002 – Dec 2004

Drexel University, Philadelphia, PA

• Work involved teaching freshmen engineering students in class.

• Was nominated as Outstanding-TA for motivating students.

• Worked as Administrator for Online-Assignment related software suites.

Network Administration Intern Jun 02 -

Aug 02

Wilshire Software Technologies, Hyderabad, India

• Learned network performance analysis, Testing and implementing solutions for problems in the

physical network layer

Electrical Engineer Intern Dec

01 - May 02

Bharat Heavy Electricals Limited (Research & Development), Hyderabad, India

• Evaluated Controlled-Switching as a method of damage prevention by switching-surges in Motor

windings. Proposed Controller based Point-On-Wave closing of a fast acting Vacuum Circuit Breaker.

• Studied switching-surges on simulated motor running at 6.6KV.

• Used Electro Magnetic Transients Program (EMTP) for simulation.

EDUCATION

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• Master of Science in Electrical and Computer Engineering Dec

2004

Drexel University, Philadelphia, PA

• Bachelor of Technology in Electrical and Electronics Engineering May

2002

Jawaharlal Nehru Technological University, Hyderabad, India

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