Software Project
Resume:
SHINOJ PRABHAKARAN ******.***********@*****.***
http://in.linkedin.com/in/pshinoj/
Skilled IT professional having 12+ years of experience in Managing and Providing Solutions to various
domains like Cloud Services, Enterprise Solutions and Application Programming. Proven ability to
understand business requirements and translate them into software needs that enable business objectives
CORE COMPETENCIES
• Experience in Service Oriented Architecture by Managing, Architecting, Designing and Implementing
large Web-Scale System following Agile Methodologies
• Proven experience in building solutions for cross platforms like Windows and Linux
• Proven experience in Cloud Computing Platform like Amazon Web Services (AWS) EC2 Platform
• Experience in making technological choices that are coherent with program goals and that balance
variables, including robustness, reusability, scalability and maintainability
• Possess good analytical and communication skills and successful in managing and working with cross-
functional teams
TECHNICAL SKILLS
• Programming
Experience in Architectural Patterns and Design Patterns
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Expert in Object Oriented Programming and Design
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Language Exposure: C#, Core Java, VC++
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Web Services – REST Based Services, WCF Services
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Windows Technologies – .NET, Win32, MFC, COM
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Scripting Languages – Python, Visual Basic
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Spring Framework, Hibernate
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• Design, Development & Deployment Tools Used
Microsoft Visual Studio 2010
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Eclipse Helios and Maven 2.0
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Apache Tomcat 6.0
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MySQL
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Enterprise Architect, Visio, Rational Rose
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Tigase XMPP Server
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• Configuration Management Tools Used
SVN, CVS, Clear Case
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• Platform Exposure
Amazon Web Services
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o Windows Server 2008 R2
o Redhat Enterprise Linux 4.0
• Open Source Software Exposures
Splunk, Zabbix, Nagios, Collectd
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ACHIEVEMENTS & INNOVATIONS
• CERTIFIED SCRUM MASTER (FROM SCRUM ALLIANCE)
• 2 PATENTS
• 1 DEFENSIVE PUBLICATION
• PAPER SELECTED FOR PRESENTATION IN HP INDIA TECHCON’12 CONFERENCE
• HONORABLE MENTION FOR PAPER SUBMITTED FOR HP GLOBAL TECHCON’09 CONFERENCE
• GLOBAL RECOGNITION FOR TRUE INNOVATION FOR A SOLUTION THAT RESULTED IN FINANCIAL BENEFIT TO HP
• AWARD OF APPRECIATION FOR PROVIDING TECHNICAL SUGGESTIONS THAT HELPED HP TO REDUCE THE INSTALL TIME
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
HEWLETT-PACKARD INDIA SOFTWARE OPERATIONS, BENGALURU
Sept'2004 – Present
Project: Large Scale Web Platform
Tools& Technologies: Rally, Eclipse, Core Java, Visual Studio 2010, .NET 3.5 C#
Role: Solution Architect
Team Size: 100
A new printing platform that lets you print virtually from anywhere to a HP Printer that supports ePrint. Enables
the true mobile printing experience by providing features like print, download, preview and share files from your
mobile device. There are 14 Million registered users today whose devices are connected to Web Platform via
XMPP Server.
Responsibilities:
• Working with cross functional teams to achieve a highly reliable system with 99.999% job success
• Leading a Team of 10 member XMPP Team
• Managed and Lead the entire Cloud Rendering and Job Processing Architecture
• Worked in Parallel with Rolling Upgrade Team to achieve Zero Downtime in Web Print Platform
• Provide Technological and Architectural suggestions to improve Reliability and Performance of platform
• Worked with other HP teams to drive and build a Common Rendering Platform pan HP and successfully
integrated with 3 solutions
• Done User Story Point Estimation, Sprint Planning and Tracking and planned Product Increments for
Quarterly Releases
• Worked with cross functional teams to discuss dependencies and remove impediments
• Effort estimation and resource allocation
• Lead the platform strengthening efforts to improve the overall rendering performance
• Design and implement an operational and manageability software for Cloud infrastructure that helps
administrators to monitor the services and system health
Project: Enterprise Solutions Lab
Role: Technical Lead
Tools& Technologies: Visual Studio 2008, .NET, C#, C++
Worked on various projects like HP Exstream Dialogue, HP Output Server and Web Jet Admin all related to
Enterprise business and understood the relations ship of every product and its importance in Document
management and delivery eco-space
Responsibilities:
• Handled multiple teams separately and collaboratively worked with other internal projects to understand
the solutions and identify new opportunities that can generate revenue to the business
• Building a new team that is capable of developing device plug-ins for all the supported devices under APJ
region
• Worked in developing a .NET based rich user interface for an enterprise product called HP Output
Management, used for reliable delivery of business critical documents, which provides a convenient and
powerful interface for output server management by providing a single logon across multiple domains.
• Design and developed an intermediate component that connects the UI with back-end server via a web-
server that reads data from the server and passes it to the UI
• Worked on generating business proposals to integrated multiple products (printer and software) within HP
to build a document management and delivery eco space and identify new opportunities that can
generate revenue to enterprise group
Project: Current Product Engineering
Role: Project Lead
Tools& Technologies: VC++
CPE program helps HP to reduce warranty cost, protect customers from quality incidents and communicate
failure knowledge to appropriate asset teams to improve quality of future products and platforms
Responsibilities:
• Providing technical related decisions such as finding root cause of the problem, and determining the
approach for solution
• Give recommendation on sizing and effort
• Review of the solution documentation and verifying quality
• Providing technical inputs to local team and providing technical clarification and explanations to Customer
Sat Team and QA in San Diego
• Working with different asset teams in San Diego to discuss the solution approach for a problem
• Accountable for tracking vendor CPE activities and providing technical support to vendor engineers
Project: Software Integration and Release Team
Role: Technical Lead
Tools& Technologies: Visual Studio 2005, .NET C#, VC++, Python
New HP products are released by every quarter had a software CD associated with it. Software Integration and
Release Team (SIRT) has the complete responsibility to integrate different parts of the software like ICE, CUE
and product drivers to release CDs and web packs for each program.
Responsibilities:
• Data analysis of install logs and generate report that will describe the success rate of HP software
releases to Customer Sat Team and SW Asset Management Team
• Provide suggestions on how to improve the install success rate and install experience to customers
based on install data mining
• Design and develop tools like Install Analyzer and MSI Analyzer that helped to analyze the install
performance of software releases
• Design and develop Doc CD application that will help the customers to install unsupported language help
files
• Provide technical support to integration team on ICE instantiation and worked with release team for the
successful delivery of Fontana AIO Release
• Develop plug-ins for ICE (Installer Common Experience) team using VC++ and deliver on time for the
successful release of version 7.0 and V8.0
• ICE Instantiation for different product line releases
SHARP CORPORATION, SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT CENTRE, BENGALURU
Jul'2000 – Sept'2004
Project: SHARPDESK
Role: Sr. Software Engineer
Tools& Technologies: VC++, MFC, COM, Visual Studio 6.0, Rational Rose, Rational Purify
SHARPDESK is powerful, flexible and intuitive document management software that used to store and manages
documents on our PC. The primary function of the product is to serve as the common client for Sharp’s line of
MFP products with features like windows explorer-like file storage, Organize, annotate, edit and combine the
files, printing, e-mailing, and fax or archive them, converting image files into text document and displays files in
their native format as thumbnails.
Responsibilities:
• Primary responsibility of helping team members in solving technical problems and conducting code
reviews
• Responsibility of building and packaging the complete program and build system
• Design and implementation of Plug in feature support for SHARPDESK suite
• Design and implementation of Image editing features like Rotate/Split and Combine using Leadtools
library
• Implementation of Composer server embedding into SHARPDESK container
• Preparing unit test cases
• Design of common OCR engine support for SHARPDESK
Project: SHARPDESK Composer
Role: Software Developer
Tools& Technologies: VC++, MFC, COM, Visual Studio 6.0, Rational Rose, Rational Purify
SHARPDESK Composer is a windows application that is part of the SHARPDESK document system. It is an
electronic collation utility designed to capture the printer output stream from applications, and allow
rearrangement and modification of pages prior to printing them as sets to the copier.
Responsibilities:
• Design and implementation of Real PDF generation using Adobe PDF
• Design and implementation of Page Setup option
• Implementation of Adobe font support for SDF files
• Implementation of Add Document feature to Composition
• Preparing unit test cases
• Fixing defects for previous version of the product
EDUCATION
Bachelor of Technology (B. Tech) in Electrical & Electronics (University of Calicut)
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