Software Developer/Tester

SWAPNIL MAHAJAN

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E mail: ***************@*****.***, Mobile: +1-613-***-****

Highly motivated and hard-working professional with 3 years of academic experience in software development, Android

Development and Qualitative research. Experienced working in a challenging environment with specific deadlines and

agile software development. Proficient in Core Java and J2EE technologies and experienced in native as well as Web

application development. Flexible and comfortable to work in a team or alone on a project depending upon the

requirement with good analytical skills. Always ready to learn new technologies with or without minimal supervision.

AREA OF EXPERTISE:

• Java Development • Android Development • Game Development

• Web Development • Agile Software Development • Qualitative Research

• Ubiquitous Computing • Semantic Web Technologies • User Interface Design

• HCI • Security & Privacy • Audio-Video Analysis

TECHNICAL PROFICIENCIES:

Certifications : Oracle Certified Java Programmer (OCJP), Oracle 10g Introduction to SQL

Programing Languages : C, C++, Java,

Database : MySQL, MS-SQL Server, Oracle

Operating Systems : Windows, Linux (Ubuntu), Mac OS

J2EE Technologies : Servlets, JSP, JDBC, RESTful web services, Spring & Hibernate frameworks

Web Technologies : JavaScript, jQuery, Ajax, PHP, HTML5, CSS, XML, JSON

Web/App Servers : Apache Tomcat, WAMP, XAMP,IIS

Tools/Utilities : Eclipse, NetBeans IDE, MS Visual Studio, Microsoft Office, Microsoft Visio,

MySQL Workbench, Maven, Protégé,

Frameworks : Spring Framework, Hibernate Framework

Other : Ontology, OSC communication Protocol, OpenWonderland API

EDUCATION AND TRAINING

Master in Computer Science (Thesis) (JAN, 2012- FEB, 2015)

Dalhousie University, Halifax, NS, Canada

Thesis title: A Generic Framework for Providing Psychosocial Support to Patients through an Online Virtual World

Thesis URL: http://dalspace.library.dal.ca/bitstream/handle/10222/56100/Mahajan-Swapnil-MCSc-CSCI-January-

2015.pdf?sequence=3

Published paper: Providing Psychosocial Support to Young Cancer Patients using an Online Virtual world, ISHMR,

Halifax 2013, Paper URL: https://ijhimr.shef.ac.uk/ojs/index.php/ijhimr/article/view/18

(SEPT, 2006- AUG, 2010)

Bachelor in Computer Engineering

Mumbai University, Mumbai, India

WORK EXPERIENCE:

Research Assistant/Programmer (June, 2012- Dec, 2014)

Dalhousie University, Halifax, NS

As a Research assistant/ programmer, I was part of number of projects as a programmer and also performed

t esting. Following are the projects, I w orked on.

P roviding psychosocial s upport to patients using an online virtual world: I t was a research project

in which I developed online virtual world (Gaming world) with location - based functionalities for the

patients. Semantic web technologies like Ontology and SWRL rules was used to st ored the data about

patients. The virtual world was developed using from scratch using OpenWonderland framework

o T echnologies used : OpenWonderland framework, Core Java, C++, Ontology, Jena, pellet,

E ventHeap framework.

A Mixed Reality Game for Studying behaviours of players (Nocturne Halifax, 2013): I worked on this project

as programmer and tester while working as researcher assistant/programmer in Dalhousie University. Our Lab

exhibited the game at Nocturne 2013 Halifax.

o Technologies used: OpenWonderland framework, OSC communication framework, Core Java.

Tweetris (Nocturne Halifax, 2012): I was a part of this project as tester. Our Lab exhibited this game in

Nocturne 2012 Halifax.

Teaching Assistant (May, 2013 – AUG, 2013)

Dalhousie University, Halifax, NS

I w as responsible for helping students in their project for the course in which they have to use a

c ommunication framework 'Thing broker' for developing a project. The pro jects were developed for

m obile and large display. I was also responsible for installation of the projects on the large display and

helping students to successfully run their projects for their demo.

Student Assistant (sept, 2012-sept, 2014)

Killam library, Dalhousie University, Halifax,NS

M y responsibilities was to keep track of incoming books from other universities, finding articles and

books requested by the students (Patron) using Novanet and e - library, opening the mails and sending

books to other universities via Canada Post.

ACADEMIC PROJECTS

Event Manager App: An Android app, which can be used to manage events on the university

campus.Technologies used: Android sdk, PhoneGap, Thingbroker, HTML, JavaScript.

ScanRush: An Android app, which allows customers to scan the barcodes of the products in the superstore and

get different kinds of information about that product. Technologies used: Android sdk, JavaScript, MySQL.

Improved ID3 algorithm: We implemented a research paper to improve ID3 algorithm by introducing a new

selection criteria attribute in the algorithm. Technologies used: Core Java.

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