Software Design

Nishant Sehgal http://www-scf.usc.edu/~nsehgal/

*******@***.*** 2353 Portland Street Apt#12 Los

Angeles CA - 90007 Contact: 410-***-****

Career Objective

To obtain a challenging full time position that enables me to utilize my

computer science skills and experience in an efficient way and

simultaneously increasing my knowledge.

Education

Masters in Science (Computer Science)

Graduating 05/14/2010

University of Southern California, Los Angeles

Bachelors in Engineering (Computer Science)

Graduated 06/01/2007

Institute of Technology and Management, India

Technical Skills

. Programming Languages: C/C++, JAVA

. Database: MYSQL, Oracle 9i/10g,Filemaker

.

Technologies:PHP,JavaScript,HTML/DHTML,CSS,XML,PERL,AJAX,Servlets,Jquery,SOAP,REST,JSP,Lucene

. Tools used: COCOMO II, Rational rose UML, MATLAB, Photoshop CS

4,Subversion,Bugzilla,NetBeans,

MS Project

. Business Intelligence Expertise: Siebel 7.7,Siebel Analytics, EAI, EIM

. Test Automation Tools : Selenium, Quick Test Professional

. Operating Systems and Servers: Windows(XP, 98, Vista),UNIX, Linux,

Solaris, Apache, Tomcat

Experience

Polaris Software Lab Ltd., India http://polaris.co.in/

(2007 -2008)

Software Engineer

Worked as a Siebel CRM consultant to Cadence Design Systems, San Jose,

designing front office applications and successfully implementing

integration of Siebel to IBM webshphere for common user registration

experience. Also involved in writing test automation scripts in PERL for

integration testing.

Southern California Earthquake Center, USC, Los Angeles http://scec.org/

(09/09 - Present)

Web and Database Developer

Enhanced the UI Design of http://shakeout.org/ and optimized the backend

code using PHP for faster data retrieval

using Filemaker Pro and implementing other modules using AJAX, JavaScript,

JQuery, XML, and Smarty Templates.

Relief International, Los Angeles http://ri.org/

(06/09 - 08/09)

Software Intern

Developing PHP based websites using MySQL, JavaScript, JQuery, XML, and

REST also successfully worked with philanthropy department in adding new

functionalities to current website.

USC External Relations, USC, Los Angeles http://communities.usc.edu/

(08/08-12/08)

Software Architect & Developer

Successfully designed architect for integrating reports and scheduling

functionality and implemented using Incremental Commitment Model exploring

Rational Rose, UML in object oriented approach.

Projects

. Concept clustering enhancements to Data mining in Email Corpora: Solved

the problem of word trajectories analysis with respect to time and

frequency domain using TFIDF values based on event based clustering using

information retrival, digital signal processing and machine learning

algorithms implementing in JAVA.

. Common User Registration Experience: Successfully developed a common

registration framework for Cadence external Web sites by maintaining sync

between Siebel and external databases using Enterprise Application

Integration. I won the accolades of project lead and client for this

implementation.

. Information System to carry out front office function within Customer

Life Cycle

Client: Cadence Design Systems

Designed business components and implemented business Services,

automated workflow policies and workflow processes using

eScript, java.

. Blackjack Game using Augmented Reality: Designed and implemented an

augmented reality based card game using FLARToolKit, Action Script 3,

Adobe Flash CS4, and Papervision3D and game UI was carefully designed

using Game UI using Shneiderman's Eight Golden Rules of Interface Design.

. Code Count Tool: Lead the testing of the code count tool written in C

designed to automate the collection of source code sizing information

adapting COCOMO with logical and physical SLOC as the metrics generated

by the toolset.

. Google-Flickr Meshup: Developed mesh up between Google maps and Flickr

to retrieve flickr Images on Google maps dynamically on particular

location, implementing the code using AJAX, JAVA SERVLET, JSON, XML

and SOAP.

. Google-Bing Search Comparison: Used Perl to parse the RSS feed to

generate XML file at server side and then parse the XML file to

display the results on APACHE server and to extract sponsored links of

Google and live search dynamically to compare them in tabular form.

. UNO Reporting Tool: Implemented architecture using object oriented

approach to design the full design architecture for the report

integration application involving process, stakeholders, deployment

and other important class diagrams and successfully worked on

designing SSAD (System and Software Architecture Description)

document.

Summary

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. 2 years of experience in developing and testing of large software

applications practicing software development life cycle principles

including incremental commitment model, agile, collaboration and extreme

programming.

. Expert knowledge of database systems development and implemented semantic

database clustering using JAVA.

. Excellent experience on web application development using PHP, AJAX while

working as a Software Intern.

. Successfully worked as a shaper between client and developers to reach

win-win situation.

. Extensive experience of formulating Test Plans and Test Cases based on

User Requirement Documents and developing documents like Feasibility

Design, Architecture Design, and Requirement Design etc.

. Knowledge of writing test automation scripts using Perl while working on

Selenium (Test Automation Tool).

. Possess excellent communication and interpersonal skills and a committed

Team Player.

. Relevant courses at USC includes Software Engineering, Software

management and economics, Database Systems, Analysis and design of

Algorithms, Web Technologies, Database Interoperability, Specifications

of User Interface Design, Introduction to Robotics.

. References: Usha Narayanan (Sr. Team Lead, Polaris), Bin Su (IT Manager,

RI), John Marquis (Sr.Developer, SCEC),Manu Gugnani (Pega Systems)

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