Vaidya Ananthanarayanan
Phone 847-***-****
Email **********@*****.***
U.S. CITIZEN
CAREER SUMMARY
A creative, goal-oriented professional with over 5 years of experience in Embedded Development, with an emphasis on:
Embedded Telephony Development, and Telephony Application Software, and Testing Automation.
EDUCATION
• Bachelor of Sciences, Electrical Engineering - University of Wisconsin-Madison (2001)
WORK EXPERIENCE
Software Engineer, NEC Sphere Communications
7/2008-5/2009
Developed Software for Sphericall, NEC Sphere's Enterprise-Grade (SIP Based) VoIP product. The responsibilities of
this position are as follows:
• Responsible for resolving defects found by system test
• Responsible for integration of new IP Phone Endpoints into the Sphericall System
• Responsible documenting the system behavior via SIP Protocol call flows
• Technologies used
o Microsoft Visual Studio
o C++
Software Engineer, Continental Automotive Group
4/2007-5/2008
Developed Software and Test Scripting targeted to Continental's Voice Recognition and Hands-Free product; for
deployment in various OEM vehicle platforms. The responsibilities of this position are as follows:
• Developed Embedded Software as to resolve Customer Change Requests, on Continental's Hands-Free system
• Responsible for testing new Voice Recognition engines, and updating existing testing techniques
• Responsible for field testing SW Releases on-site with the Customer
• Technologies used
o C/C++
o MATLAB
o Perl
Embedded Software Engineer, Zenith/LG Electronics Corporation
10/2005-4/2007
Developed Embedded Software to implement HDTV-centric consumer electronics devices. The responsibilities of this
position are as follows:
• Responsible for embedded software on a HDTV Video-over-IP platform
o Developed Embedded Software to interface IP network with the HDTV
o Developing software capable of delivering packet data and HDTV signals through the existing Coax (RG-
59) cable already in most homes
• Technologies used
o UBICOM IP3023 Platform and SDK
o Altera NIOS II Platform and SDK
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Member of Technical Staff, Packet Video Corporation
10/2004-6/2005
Developed Embedded MPU Multimedia Software to implement digital camcorder, and 2-way video conferencing
function on a Mobile Phone. The responsibilities of this position are as follows:
• OMAP Multimedia Engine MPU Software Development
o Developed Symbian API Library to interface with a DSP-based GSM AMR Encoder
o Managed Version Control, and Released Builds, through ClearCase
• Technologies used
o Rational ClearCase Version Control Software
o C/C++ Programming Languages
o Symbian EPOC SDK and Tool chain
DSP Embedded Software Engineer, Motorola Inc
8/2001 – 10/2004
Developed Embedded DSP software, on the Motorola 563xx DSP platform, used in the Baseband Transmit and Receive
DSP Modems for the Nextel Wireless Communications System. The responsibilities of this position are as follows:
• Software Development
o Developed Feature-Specific Embedded DSP Base-station software
o Created an Embedded Forward Error Correction (FEC)/Bit Error Rate Testing integration testing paradigm
• Software Unit, Integration, Box Test, and Tool Development
o Successfully achieved a 10x Test Cycle Time Reduction by Fully Automating software integration tests.
o Engineered a Perl query tool to do complex expression-based queries on System Statistics
• Technologies Used
o Rational ClearCase Version Control Software
o Motorola 563xx DSP Assembler and Simulator
o Perl Scripting Language
SOFTWARE SKILLS
Operating Systems Scripting Languages
• MS Windows • Perl
• Solaris UNIX • Tcl/Tk and Expect
• CSH Scripting
• VBSCRIPT
Embedded Operating Systems
• Symbian OS
• UBICOM ipOS Software Engineering Tools
• Rational ClearCase
• Perforce
Programming Languages
• C/C++ • CodeCollaborator
Mathematical/Automation Software Document Preparation
• MATLAB • HTML
• Adobe FrameMaker
• Microsoft Office
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