Software Engineer Quality Assurance

Rajesh mathew

KEY SKILLS

Experience building and releasing solutions for Telecom/Networking and

Financial industries

Excellent Object Oriented Design and Development skills, honed over 8

years of experience.

Exhibited initiative, leadership and skill in leading focused design

discussions and coordinating timely delivery.

Key contributor for customer relationships, aided by my good

communication skills, as well as my self-driven, responsible and

responsive handling of issues raised.

Experience

Jul 2010 - Present Senior Software

Developer, Ascent Media, Los Angeles, CA

Design and development of modules in C# and Microsoft Dynamics AX.

Architecting solutions for Ascent's business systems based on

functional requirements and planning interface with other modules

and systems

Jan 2006 - Jul 2010 Senior

Software Engineer, Ixia, Los Angeles, CA

Object oriented design and development (using C#) of modules in our

product, which primarily provides a solution for testing network

devices such as routers. Involves extensive use of concepts such as

Threading, WinForms, Garbage collection, XML, Generics.

Took initiative for redesigning and refactoring a large part of our

code that was in a critical code path, but was rather

unmaintainable and hence was adversely affecting response time to

customer issues in that area.

Proud to be part of a core team of 10 members tasked with designing

from scratch, and implementing the company's largest and most

successful release ever - a task involvng large amounts of new

design. Was an excellent experience in working on a major

multi-year product, right from requirements analysis, design, till

release.

Contributed above the call of duty to help with project planning,

staffing and monitoring, while also leading technical design and

planning of a major module in above project.

Excelled at opportunities to coordinate efforts between teams -

other development teams and also across different functions such as

Product Management, Quality Assurance, putting to full use my API

level design skills, communication skills as well as my

prioritization, organization and planning skills

Jan 2003 - Jan 2006 Software Engineer, MSTD Inc (now Land

America), Baltimore, MD

Primarily involved in development of our web application, as well

as standalone apps at the back end, in VB, WebClasses, VC++, C++,

C#, C, JavaScript

Suggested. analysed and designed a system that gathers information

multiple sources from IIS logs, perfmon logs and the database,

about usage of organization's infrastructure. This information was

processed to study correlation between system load and various

usage parameters - helping to come up the best times to schedule

different kinds of jobs.

Within a short period of joining the company, I was promoted to

being the primary contact for our largest customer - a task that

involved regular syncups on infrastructural issues, as well as

being responsible to triaging and delegating, or personally

resolving bugs and issues reported.

Executed on time, and exceeded customer expectations, when I was in

charge of a module that involved coordinating and leading the

development efforts of 3 developers in our offshore team.

May 2002-Aug 2002 Software Engineering

Intern,MSTD Inc, Baltimore MD.

Designed and Implemented (using C) modules for processing large

flat files quickly replacing existing modules, which were

relatively much slower.

Developed code in VC++, WinSock for data transfer module from our

clients to our server.

June 2001-Aug 2001 Intern, Rapid Prototyping

Department,Siemens Inc, Munich, Germany.

Team Member for the FAIN (Future Active IP Networks) project

Developed the design for a Web Services Distribution Model in

keeping with the paradigm of Active Networks

Developed module for packet filtering on Linux - the module

terminates a TCP connection and replaces it with a UDP connection

as dictated by the Active Networks model.

Sept 1999-Jun 2000 Assistant Software Engineer, Tata

Consultancy Service, India.

Team Member, Departmental Store Data Warehousing Project - Involved

Database administration and extraction of data indicating user

transaction patterns at various departmental stores to maximize

returns on advertisement. Worked on UNIX, ORACLE.

Team Member, Venture Reporting Group - Involved creation of reports

using Business Objects and PL/SQL

Team Member, SAS group - Involved developing SAS modules for our

clients

Education

2000-2002 University of Maryland, Baltimore County Baltimore, MD

M.S., Computer Science

GPA: 3.75

1995-1999 Veermata Jijababi Technological Institute Mumbai, India

B.E., Computer Technology Graduated

with First Class

Awards

Won "Developer of the Month" Award at Ixia for exceptional

contribution to team's success.

Secured Best Paper Award at "Student Research Conference", UMBC

(December 2002)

MASTER'S THESIS TOPIC

Bootstrapping in Sensor Networks and Optimal Placement of Gateways

in such Networks : Presented a justification for optimality

requirements in Sensor Networks Bootstrapping and designed a

Protocol which performs this task. Also devises motion patterns for

the high powered entities, the gateways and aims at high node

discovery ratios. This protocol was simulated using Visual C++.

publications

"Energy Efficient Bootstrapping Protocol for Sensor Networks", The

2003 International Conference on Wireless Networks (ICWN'03: June

23-26, 2003, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA)

selected course projects

1) Simulation of Service Location Protocol -RFC 2165,Security

Policy Protocol (IETF Draft) in C

3) Design and Implementation of an Information Retrieval System in

C using the Vector Space Model with the trie data structure.

Incorporated phrase matching apart from basic word searches.

4) Design and Implementation of a Real Estate Database System in

Oracle 8i and Java

skills

Languages & Databases: C#, C, C++, VB, VC ++, Java, HTML,

JavaScript, SQL, Oracle, X++, Sql Server 2005

Dev Tools and IDEs : Visual Studio 6.0, 2003, 2005, 2008, Visio,

.NET 2.0, .Net 3.5, Microsoft Dynamics AX

Platforms : Solaris, UNIX, Linux, Windows XP, Windows 2000, Windows

Vista

Project Management and Misc Tools : Microsoft Project

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