Software Engineer

Background Summary

Proven software developer, providing quality solutions to complex business problems within scope, budget and tight schedules for Over 7 years. Highly experienced in the field of application programming, web programming, databases, IT support, and technical communication. Flexible in moving from project to project and learning new technologies. Proven team leadership skills. Now looking to continue making a significant contribution within design and development or permanent management position.

Career Profile

Senior Software Engineer/ Systems Analyst Clynch Tech Inc June, 2009-Present

• Developing software using Visual C++, XML, MS Access and OpenGL, which can help medical clinicians, support cranial orthotics. In the same role, I support, test, and upgrade all existing software.

• I am also developing state of the art technology for Prosthetics and Orthotics software for USDoD, which coordinates with other software systems like PowerMill, CAD/ CAM, and other Rockwell automation software.

• As a systems analyst, I collect information on the systems to analyze and evaluate. In the process, my work also involves research, planning, installing, configuring, trouble shooting, maintain and upgrading hardware and software systems.

• I maintain detailed flow charts and diagrams outlining the each system capabilities, processes and recommend hardware and software upgrades on a timely basis.

• I conduct technical research on system upgrades to determine feasibility, cost, time required, and compatibility with current system. As a next step, I Install, configure, and upgrade desktop hardware and peripherals to include; network cards, printers, modems, mice and add-in boards.

Accomplishments So far

• Initial Scanning procedure to acquire the cranial head scans completed.

• Requirement analysis completed.

• Design phase completed.

• Coding phase started

Capabilities

• Visual C++, C#, XML, MS Access, OpenGL

• PowerMill, CAD/ CAM, and other Rockwell automation software

Software Engineer/Web Developer/ Support UNBC Sept 2008 - June 2009

Accomplishments

• Developed personal web page (http://www.unbc.ca/ctlt/). Supported most creative use of audio/video integration through the website.

• Worked through university department’s professors and students by created pages for each course, which would be web interactive.

• Provided new perspectives on the feasible technologies to be used of OpenGL was most welcome and for our ongoing research.

Capabilities

• Proficient in various web design programs including PHP, HTML, OPENGL, Adobe PhotoShop, Shockwave, Dreamweaver, Perl, FrontPage, ASP, crystal reports and others. Extensive use and knowledge of end user programs and browser integration problems for web page design.

• Experienced graphic illustrator and designer.

• Hardware and software abilities. Knowledge of LAN technology with experience on various platforms including Windows XP, 95/98, NT and Unix.

• Excellent planning and communication skills. Natural presentation and skills, particularly in areas of technical data and e-commerce issue.

Software Engineer/Advisor/Assistant UNBC September 2005 - April 2009

Accomplishments

• Designed and coded system for pair-wise DNA alignment algorithm, and developed a new algorithm `MASAA’.

• System development includes architecural design and overall implementation of core system and other features.

• Masters thesis, ‘Multiple Anchors for Pairwise Sequence Alignment Algorithm’. MASAA is written entirely in C and C++, to be Fast and efficient at the same time.

• MASAA is currently the fastest and accurate algorithm for aligning pairwise DNA sequence alignment

• Published two papers at the IEEE EMBC - 2008 conference held in Vancouver and ACM-ISTA, 2009, Kuwait.

Capabilities

• Proficient in C, C++, MPI, version 2.0, JAVA, MPI-JAVA.

• Proficient in parallelization using C++, MPI and JAVA, and MPI-JAVA.

• Strong Object oriented programming skills and programming skills

• Proficient in tools like Netbeans, Jasper reports, MySql

Software Technical/Systems Engineer Hewlett Packard Dec 2002 – Nov 2003

Accomplishments

• Designed and developed a custom web portal, meant for web procurement, bookkeeping, monetary transactions, and delivery of the goods.

• Designed and developed entire system using J2EE technology implementing MVC design pattern with the aid of Struts, an Open Source framework. Technology used: JSP/JavaScript, Servlets, custom tag libraries, JavaBeans and JDBC connecting DBMS’s.

• Design phase included creation of Entity Relationship/Class/Sequence Diagrams (UML)

• Delivered fully functional and fully tested web application.

Capabilities

• JAVA, J2EE, .Net, Cray Software

• UML, JAVASCRIPTS, JDBC, JAVABeans, Servlets

Database Developer, Software Engineer SoftCraft Solutions Sept 2001 – Oct 2002

Accomplishments

• Developed a Database management system, which streamlines records management. Clientele included 6th largest bank, State Bank of India, Cable and entertainment companies.

• Design and built oracle database that used complex sql queries to bring information from different servers and integrate.

• Designed databases from scratch including relational design, normalization, UI, and testing.

• Involved in formatting, loading, and transferring data into clients’ databases when necessary

• Mentoring junior software engineers

Capabilities

Oracle 7i, 8i, SQL, Access, D2k, Visual Basic

Software Engineer Indian Institute of Science, IISc September 2000 - July 2001

Accomplishments

• Designed and developed a web portal very similar to present day E-bay, which was aptly named ‘Agent Based E-market Place’. The effort was to design a software package to create a web enabled Agent based marketplace to be used for both B-B and B-C types of users

• Design phase was constructed using the UML design methodologies in mind like uses case/ entity/ relational diagrams.

• E-Market Place had many features, it allowed for trading all types of goods, it automated the process of searching for appropriate trading partners, and it automated the process of price variation and negotiations.

• Bagged third prize for Inter provincial software design competition.

Capabilities

JAVA, CORBA, Oracle 6i, JDBC.

Education

M.Sc. Computer Science March, 2009

I completed my Masters degree from University of Northern British Columbia, Prince George, BC, Canada with a GPA standing of 4.1/4.33.

M.B.A. General May, 2008

I completed my Masters degree in Business administration from University of Victoria/ British Columbia/Phoenix, Arizona, U.S.A, with a GPA standing of 3.3/4.0.

Bachelors of Engineering- Computer Science June 2001

I completed my bachelors’ degree in Computer Science Engineering from Bangalore University with a GPA standing of 4.0/4.0

Skills

Microsoft Office Word, Power point, Excel.

Linux, UNIX, MAC, Windows operating Systems.

C, C++, Java, python, pearl

PHP, HTML

.NET, C#, ASP.Net

Oracle, MySQL

Microsoft access, JDBC, CORBA, Message passing interface (MPI), MPIJAVA.

Jbuilder, Eclipse, JCreator, Apache, Microsoft Visio, LATEX

Dreamweaver, Fireworks

Adobe Flash, Dreamweaver, Photoshop, Microsoft Office, Excel, Visio, OPENGL

Publications, Conferences and Technical Talks

1. Bharath Reddy, Waqar Haque and Alex A. Aravind; “Enhancing Parallelization of Sequence Alignment Using MPI”, Northern High Performance Computing Conference, UNBC. (May 2006)- Technical talk.

2. Waqar Haque, Bharath Reddy and Alex A. Aravind; “An Efficient Algorithm for Local Sequence Alignment”, EMBC-IEEE Conference, ‘Personalized Health care through Technology’, Vancouver, August, 2008

3. Waqar Haque, Alex A. Aravind and Bharath Reddy; “Pairwise Sequence Alignment Algorithms A Survey”, INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON Information Science, Technology and Applications (ISTA 2009), Kuwait University, March 2009.

Awards

Awarded the second best project for Agent based E-market place.

Awarded half tuition waiver at UNBC for the year 2005-2006 and 2006- 2007.

Awarded Research Assistant from the Department of Computer Science for 2005-2006.

Awarded Entrance Scholarship of 10,000 Dollars for the year 2005- 2006.

Awarded Entrance Scholarship of 10,000 Dollars for the year 2006- 2007.

Awarded Travel Grant of 1500 Dollars to present the paper, “An Efficient Algorithm for Local Sequence Alignment” at the EMBC-IEEE conference, Vancouver, 2008.

Community Service

Volunteered to help educate children in computers from different schools.

Volunteered for Red Cross

Strong supporter for AIDS and Muscular Dystrophy awareness program

Activities

Enjoy reading, playing cricket, F1 and Table Tennis

Recently have taken a liking towards trekking

Enjoy talking to people and making new friends

Enjoy Fighter Planes (F-22)

References

Available on request.

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