Development Engineer

S.R. Subramanya

***** ***** ********, *** *****, CA 92128

Phone: 858-***-**** email: ******@*****.***

SUMMARY

Over twelve years of software design/development and product management

experience, including mobile handsets; Introduction of several novel

procedures and processes for product development, resulting in improved

product quality and reduced cost; Technology evangelism in User Interface

and User Experience, enabling novel feature/product offerings; Strong

analytical ability with excellent communication and inter-personal skills

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Mobilerts.com, San Diego, CA Jan. 2009 - Present

Senior Architect / Senior Manager

Consulting in UI and User Experience for mobile devices/applications;

Design and evaluation of UX schemes for mobile applications; Optimization

of Software modules and processes

Sample Projects:

. Architecture of novel UI for mobile devices

Outcomes: Design/development of novel UI architecture and features for

mobile/hand-held devices using sound system-theoretic approaches

. Design and evaluation of usability and user experience of mobile

devices

Outcomes: Identification and quantification of parameters of user

experience, and techniques for improving them; Metrics for evaluations

of features/applications

LG Electronics, San Diego, CA Jan. 2005 - Dec. 2008

Senior Technical Staff Engineer / Sr. Staff Manager, Advanced Engineering

Group

Mobile handset product development/management; Software process management;

Innovations in UI, Usability, and User Experience

Overall responsibilities:

. Technical leadership in the development/delivery of mobile phone

software

. Improvements to handset software development process and methodology

. Design, development, evaluation, and deployment of novel mobile phone

concepts, UI, features, and usage scenarios for product

differentiation

. Liaise with multi-disciplinary teams (product development, quality

management, technical support, and buyer approval) to ensure software

integrity as per requirements

. Technology evangelism and future product strategy

Sample additional voluntarily tasks performed:

. Contributions to several inventions (patent filings and disclosures)

. Mentoring software engineers

. Presentation of seminars related to user experience/interface and

software process improvement

. Tracking technology trends, developing business intelligence, and

applying to product development

Sample Projects:

. Design/Development of techniques to enhance usability/user experience

of mobile phones

Outcomes: Several improvements to existing UI features and development

of 20+ new features across several CDMA mobile handsets, enabling

differentiated offerings to mobile operators (leading to better

relationships with mobile operators and improved sales); Several

patent application/disclosure filings

. Improvement of software development process for mobile handsets

Outcomes: Introduction of concepts from manufacturing such as 'waste

elimination' and 'continuous improvement' to software development

process, resulting in reduction of development costs by 15%;

Identification and reduction of root causes of bugs during software

development resulting in reduction in lead times by 20%; Development

of code re-factoring process to improve legacy code bases resulting in

improved software quality and development times, as well as reduced

code complexity, improved readability, modularity, reusability,

extendibility, and maintainability

University of Missouri-Rolla, Rolla, MO Aug. 1998 - May 2005

Director, Multimedia Laboratory;

Assistant Professor, Dept. of Computer Science;

Research Investigator, Intelligent Systems Center;

Supervision of several projects related to image/video (multimedia)

indexing, search/retrieval, and coding; Research in Multimedia Information

Systems, Computer Security; Teaching Computer Science courses

George Washington University, Washington, D.C Jan. 1994 - Jul. 1998

Department of EE&CS

Senior Graduate Teaching Assistant

Doctoral studies/research; Teaching Computer Science courses. Courses

taught: Introduction to Programming; Digital Design; Computer Organization;

Computer Architecture

College of Engineering, Kuwait University, Kuwait Feb. 1992 - Nov. 1993

Computer Systems Engineer

Systems and Network Administration of a network of Sun workstations;

Development of shell scripts and C programs for system performance

monitoring and statistics gathering

EDUCATION

Ph.D. (Computer Science), George Washington University, USA

M.S. (Computer Science), Indiana University, Bloomington, USA

M.E. (E.C.E.), Indian Institute of Science, India

B.E. (Electronics), Bangalore University, India

SAMPLE SKILLS

. Strong analytical/algorithmic and problem solving skills

. Excellent leadership and consensus building skills with multi-

disciplinary teams

. Proficiency in C / C++, Java, Unix/Linux, Object-Oriented design, and

embedded system design

. Good understanding of mobile technologies/business landscape

OTHER ACCOMPLISHMENTS

. Contributions to inventions (patents and disclosures)

. Presentation of numerous technical seminars

. Several scholastic awards and recognition by professional societies

(Senior Member IEEE)

. Publications of several papers and articles in refereed Journals and

conferences

PUBLISHED WORK

For a sample of publications (based on proprietary work), please visit:

http://sites.google.com/site/subrabiz/info

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