Software Engineer Medical Device

Venkataraman ("Shaker") Chandrasekhar

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Kokomo, Indiana 46902

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Summary

. Looking for a software developer position that will utilize my one

year experience in Web software and several decades in other domains

. Exceptional motivated worker

. Very interested in learning new technical skills

. Several years of experience in object oriented languages (including

Smalltalk and C++)

. Experienced in several scripting languages - recently in JavaScript

and PHP; in the past in Perl and TCL

. Good communication, documentation, and software debugging skills.

. Degree and three years of graduate study in engineering. US Citizen.

Recent Self Study (Using my home desktop)

1. Wrote Java code that uses IBatis to communicate with a MySQL database

2. Installed a WAMP bundle for testing PHP web scripts

3. Started a Lynda.com course on ActionScript basics

The Last Fifteen Years

1. Senior Developer at SearchSoft Solutions, Indianapolis, IN (11/2012 -

Present)

Successfully completed the following tasks that enhanced the company's

applicant tracking Web server (Used Java, SQL, HTML, XML, and Eclipse)

a. Added features to teacher evaluation Web pages

b. Customized Web pages for specific customers

c. Performed more than a dozen maintenance tasks

d. Modified an auto import Java Server Page (JSP, HTML)

e. Developed functional tests to test features (Selenium, TESTNG)

f. Extensively documented features of the applications in a Wiki

g. Modified Web pages that perform security related operations

h. Performed several sizable refactorings

2. Embedded Software Engineer at Bartech Group, Kokomo, IN (Assigned to

Delphi Corporation's Power Electronics group.) (9/2010 - 10/2012)

Successfully developed several key pieces of embedded software in 'C' for

the Allison and Ford battery pack controllers, including isolation

resistance calculations and a large number of Hardware I/O diagnostics.

Was instrumental in developing requirements by interfacing with

electrical engineers, systems engineers, validation engineers, and

manufacturing engineers. Met several schedule challenges, taking

ownership of problems and working extended hours.

3. Senior Software Engineer II at Raytheon Company, Indianapolis, IN

(9/2008 - 7/2010)

Successfully developed several complex enhancements to a large Mission

Planning application.

4. Programmer Analyst at Computer Sciences Corporation, Kokomo, IN.

(Assigned to Delphi Corporation's Factory Information System group)

(3/2008 - 9/2008)

Successfully made enhancements to a Factory Information System.

Senior Software Engineer at SonarMed, Indianapolis, IN (2/2006 - 2/2008)

Successfully developed GUI and system software in C++ for deployment in

an embedded Blackfin BF-532 processor in a handheld medical device. Also

setup the open source configuration management system Subversion.

Embedded Software Engineer at Manpower Professional, Kokomo, IN.

(Assigned to Delphi Corporation's Passive Safety group.) (9/1999 -

12/2005)

Successfully developed several key pieces of embedded software for use in

Opel, Saab, and GM Truck airbag control modules.

The Previous Twenty-Five Years

Systems Engineer at Electronic Data Systems, Kokomo, IN 1/1990 -

8/1999

Independent Consultant in Louisville, KY 7/1986 -12/1989

5. Computer Scientist at SASC, Lanham, MD 7/1983 -

6/1986

6. Computer Scientist at CSC, Silver Spring, MD 7/1981 -

6/1983

7. Software Engineer at Singer Link, Silver Spring, MD 6/1980 -

6/1981

8. Member of Technical Staff at CSC, Cardiff, NJ 11/1974

-5/1980

Education

1. Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Blacksburg, VA. All

the

coursework for a master's in engineering completed. (9/1971 -

10/1974)

2. Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India. Bachelor's Degree (with

Distinction) in

Engineering (June 1971)

Exceptional Motivation

1. Around 1995, our group worked on a fixed price contract to convert one

document management system to another. This project ran into schedule

trouble and we were forced to go into a "death march", which meant

working 14 hours a day, 7 days a week, for 5 months. I did this

cheerfully, for the good of the project and the company, playing a key

role in the successful completion of the conversion.

2. Here is what one of my team leaders at another company said about my

work there, while awarding me a Star Performer Award, at a department

meeting:

"Shaker enjoys working on new and challenging software projects and this

proved to be a real asset for the team. Through his hard work, dedication

& long hours, he has been able to complete some very difficult and

complex software tasks -- Shaker has been able to deal with pretty much

everything we've thrown at him. Great work!"

3. In 2011, I successfully integrated a customer provided exception handler

module (developed in Power PC assembler) into a battery pack controller

software. The need for this integration and its difficulty were not

appreciated during the planning phase and this became almost a crisis. I

worked long hours to get things under control.

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