Engineer Software

TARAK NATH DUTTA

E-mail: **********.***@*****.*** Address: 48, Carlyle Avenue,

Phone: +44-743******* Southall, Middlesex,

Nationality: Indian United Kingdom

DOB: 26/03/1981 Post Code: UB1 2BH

PROFILE:

A motivated, highly competent product and software engineer and team lead with an MBA and 6.3 years of practical experience in consultancy, mobile telecom, and in embedded software with blue-chip companies including TATA, Motorola, and Qualcomm.

Have 3.5 years of Managerial Experience.

An impassioned team leader, result driven person

Resourceful, creative problem-solver with proven aptitude to analyze and translate complex customer requirements and business problems and design/implement innovative custom solutions.

Strong analytical and leadership skills along with negotiation and communications skill.

Adaptable and quick learner; possess skills to work under pressure; willing to travel extensively

Having exposure to Project Management methods/procedures (i.e. PMI, PMBOK etc.)

ACHIEVEMENTS:

Awarded with QUALSTAR Award for four times by Qualcomm for excellent performance, achievements and innovating solutions.

Awarded with Bravo Award by Motorola India for excellent performance and team work.

Submitted two Business Proposals in Venture Fest for Innovative Business Proposal in Qualcomm

Submitted paper in Qualcomm’s Technical Fest and the paper was highly appreciated by technical team.

Received a scholarship of 5000 (GBP) from Exeter Business School for pursuing MBA

COMPUTER SKILLs:

Programming Languages C, C++, J2ME

RTOS VxWorks, NUP

Processors ARM 11Processor

Platform Used Win32, BREW

Tools Toolkit/SDK : J2ME Wireless Toolkit, JDK, BREW, BREWMP

IDE Used : Visual Studio, Net Beans, Eclipse, Visio, Rational Rose

CM Tools : Perforce, Clear Case

Defect Tracking Tools : TeamTrack, VersionOne, and Crucible

Automation Tools: JMUnit

Debugging Tools : Trace32, QXDM, QPST

E-learning Courses

Time management, Project management, Defect Prevention, Cross-

cultural Etiquette, Business Communication.

MS Office MS Word, MS Excel, MS Power Point, MS Visio

EDUCATION:

2010 – 2011 Master of Business Administration (The Exeter One Planet MBA) with Merit,

University of Exeter, United Kingdom.

2000 – 2004 Bachelor of Engineering in Information Technology with First-class honours

Bengal Engineering and Science University, Shibpur, West Bengal, India

EMPLOYMENT HISTORY:

Jan 2008 – Sept 2010 Senior Engineer in Qualcomm India Private Ltd Hyderabad, India

Qualcomm Incorporated, a FORTUNE 500® company is the world leader in 3G and next-generation mobile technologies and is making wireless devices and services more personal affordable and accessible to people everywhere. Qualcomm holds 12,600 US patents and patent applications for CDMA and related technologies. Qualcomm has an employee base of about 16,100 highly skilled professionals spread across 146 locations worldwide.

Project Summary:

Have worked in developing, design and leading the various UI based mobile shopping client such as Ginza, AppCentre and mShop. These shopping clients are mainly targeted for high end mobile phone based on Java and BREW platforms.

Responsibilities:

Managerial Responsibilities

Resource Management

Mentoring

Daily Work Allocation

Periodic Review of Work

Arranging and conducting training programs.

Dependencies follow up.

Technical Responsibilities

End-to-end product features development and delivery;

Working with UI (User Interface) team for new product features;

Requirement analysis and closely work with product management team;

Working with Test-Team for test plan development and execution;

Designing, Development;

Achievements:

Invented a new parser (QParser) for client server communication which not only reduced network traffic by 30% but also increased performance by 600% in interpreting the server response.

Single-handedly solved 16 critical issues in one week of time, in the absence of other team members to get a product ready for Beta release.

Re-design client-server communication module which increased the performance by 40%

Drew attention of USA management by technical excellence, which helped our team to prove the competency and to take ownership of key features.

Helped test team to automate testing of the product features.

Worked with senior management to design and prototype innovative product ideas.

Mar 2006 – Jan 2008 Senior Software Engineer in Conexant Systems

Hyderabad, India

Conexant Systems is a leading provider of solutions for imaging, audio, embedded modem, and video surveillance applications - areas where the company has established leadership positions. Conexant is a fabless semiconductor company, headquartered in Newport Beach, California. and has key design centers in the U.S. and Asia, and sales offices worldwide.

Project Summary:

Worked in various Set Top Box projects such as Image Driver, Memory Cache management and TV application (CNXT TV).

Responsibilities:

Design and development of new product features.

Requirement analysis and working with product management team.

Working with application team to smoothing the integration of UI with underlying drivers

Working with test team for the development plan and execution of test cases.

Managing and guiding new resources.

Achievements:

Exercised quality control process and issue tracking strategy, which helped our team to reduce 25% issues in the development phase of project and enhanced product quality.

Came with new design template, which helped to enhance different key features existing software on a new chipset in a record time of 4 weeks.

Proactively took part in analyzing and solving the issues of different teams and was given the responsibility of defection prevention lead.

Jun 2004 – Mar 2006 Software Engineer in Tata Elxsi Ltd.

Bangalore, India

Tata Elxsi Ltd, a leading embedded product design company and part of the $70 billion Tata group. With operations in US, Europe and Asia, TATA Elxsi Ltd is a strategic partner to the world’s leading equipment makers and service providers.

Project Summary:

Worked as a consultant in Motorola and worked in various codecs modules such as NBAMR, G.726.

Responsibilities:

Profiling and analysis of the performance of the Codec modules.

Redesign and development of the key modules.

Optimization of the profiled modules to enhance performance.

Unit testing and verification of the codecs.

Achievements:

Developed various tools for test script writing and automated testing, which reduced testing time by 50%.

Performance increased by 20% of the optimized modules.

Was given the responsibility of ownership of issue tracking and release build by client.

ADDITIONAL SKILLS:

LANGUAGEs:

• English – Advanced level competency.

Completed International English Language Testing System (IELTS) with 7

• Bengali – Mother Tongue

• Hindi – Advanced level competency

• French – Beginner level competency.

Completed DELF – French language certification with 82.5%

INTERESTs:

• Working with Non-governmental Organization (NGO)

• Photography, Travelling and Trekking

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