SUDHA VANA

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OBJECTIVE

To contribute to fielding new products, capturing market share and keeping projects on time and under budget

as a full time employee in an innovative avionics company

SUMMAR OF QUALIFICATIONS

• Enthusiastic engineer with MSEE and valuable experience in electronic navigation, positioning algorithms,

GPS receiver design and integration of navigation systems

• Nearly four years of professional experience in Avionics and Automotive software companies

• Experience in several successful projects that spanned the entire design and development cycle

• Proven experience in completing team tasks consistently and showing initiative and reliability

• Exceptional communication, interpersonal, organizational and analytical skills

WORK EXPERIENCE

Graduate Research Assistant, Avionics Engineering Center, Ohio University, Athens OH Jan 2009 to

present

• Worked for NASA Integrated Intelligent Flight Deck (IIFD) project to develop new sensor/data link

integration/monitoring methods to better suit the Integrated Alerting and Notification (IAN) functionality

• Ensured IIFD success by implementing measurement based integrity monitors for GPS and eventually for

INS in support of mitigation strategies for off nominal sensor behavior of the Hazard and Integrity

Monitoring function. Impressive results in first year led to funded extension of the project for the second

year.

2006

Senior Software Engineer, Robert Bosch Engineering and Business Solutions, India

2008

• Designed, developed and tested automobile electronic control unit (ECU) software for an Indian

automobile manufacturer. Ensured product met requirements on time and within budget with a reduced

physical footprint. Product was accepted for future auto models and led to follow on contracts with Volvo

and Peugeot, the first such entry into that market segment. The software development was in C.

• Actively participated in supporting customers for integration testing and mentoring new employees

Software Engineer, BAeHAL Software Limited, India 2004

2006

• Worked on design, development and unit testing of Solid State flight data recorder, which is a crash

protected unit that records the final stages of aircraft operations. This project met a key Indian Defense

Department requirement. Software development was in C++.

• Worked for the white box testing team of the A 380 TRENT 900 engine

SOFTWARE SKILLS

• Languages C, C++, Assembly language (8051 and 8086)

• Tools MATLAB, Simulink, Adobe Photoshop CS5

• Debuggers UDE debugger

• Operating systems Macintosh, Windows XP, Windows Vista, Windows 7

• Software Configuration Management Rational Clear Case, Rational Clear Quest

• Standards DO – 178B

EDUCATION QUALIFICATIONS

Master of Science in Electrical Engineering, Ohio University, Athens, OH

GPA – 3.56 Aug 2010 (Expected)

Thesis: Collision Avoidance with Integrity using Raw Measurements in ADS-B

Guide: Dr. Maarten Uijt de Haag, Avionics Engineering Center, Ohio University, Athens, OH

Bachelor of Engineering in Telecommunication Engineering, Visvesvaraya Technological University, India

Aggregate – 72% (First Class with Distinction) Aug 2004

COURSE WORK AND PROJECTS

Electronic Navigation Systems – I and II

• Introduction to different radio navigation systems and their working principles, introduction to fault

tolerance, GPS, GPS receivers, Laser Navigation.

GNSS Receiver Design

• Implemented GPS L1 C/A code acquisition and tracking post-processing suite.

Inertial Navigation Systems

• Implemented attitude, velocity and position computation over entire data set, which implements the

navigation frame mechanization. Also analyzed the short-term position and attitude error behavior of

gyroscope bias errors accelerometer bias errors initial velocity errors.

• Implemented attitude, velocity and position computation over entire data set, which uses Wander

Azimuth mechanization and quaternions for rotation and attitude updating.

Integrated Navigation Systems

• Designed and implemented Kalman filter that demonstrates the working of loose and tight integration of

various navigation systems like GPS, Inertial, and DME systems.

Advanced Satellite Navigation Systems

• Implemented user position solution using least square method for standalone GPS along with error

corrections.

High Accuracy Satellite Navigation Systems

• Implemented advanced multipath and atmosphere delay mitigation techniques in Double Difference

Differential GPS (DGPS) user position solution algorithm.

Aviation Standards and Software Certification

• Worked on implementing a project that demonstrates the complete life cycle of a software project in a

group of three students.

PUBLICATIONS/PRESENTATIONS

• Sudha Vana and Maarten Uijt de Haag, “Surveillance for Collision Avoidance with Integrity using Raw

Measurements in the Automatic Dependent Surveillance – Broadcast,” published in the SPIE proceedings,

April 6, 2010

• Zhen Zhu, Sudha Vana, Sumit Bhattacharya, Maarten Uijt de Haag, “Integration of forward looking

infrared (FLIR) and traffic information for moving obstacle detection with integrity,” published in the SPIE

proceedings, May 6th, 2009

• Sudha Vana and Maarten Uijt de Haag, “Surveillance for Collision Avoidance with Integrity using Raw

Measurements in the ADS B,” poster that won second prize for Student Expo at Ohio University, May 13 th

2010

• Sudha Vana, “Surveillance for Collision Avoidance with Integrity using Raw Measurements in the

Automatic Dependent Surveillance – Broadcast,” presented in the SPIE Conference proceedings, April 6,

2010, FL

• Sudha Vana and Lavanya Sekar, “Package integration methodology,” poster presented at Robert Bosch

Engineering and Business Solutions as part of the company’s annual TECHDAY event

OTHER ACTIVITIES

• Student member of Society of Photo-Optical Instrumentation Engineers

• Member of Executive committee of Indian Student Association (ISA) at Ohio University, 2008 09

• Organizing member for TECHDAY event at Robert Bosch Engineering and Business Solutions

REFERENCES

Available on request

EMPLOYABILITY STATUS

Currently on F 1 visa. Desire H1; also eligible to work on CPT/OPT, an interim step to H1 visa

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