MS in CS (Networks) looking for full time positions

TARA PRASAD CHOUDHURY

**** ****** *****, ******, ** 92617

Phone: 510-***-****, Email: **.*********@***.***

Website: http://www.ics.uci.edu/~tchoudhu/

OBJECTIVE

Seeking a challenging full time position in an organization which gives me an opportunity to further my academic knowledge and utilize my skills in application design and development.

EDUCATION

Master of Science in Computer Science September 2008 - December 2009

University of California, Irvine, USA

GPA: 3.6/4.0

Bachelor of Technology in Computer Science and Engineering August 2003 - May 2007

National Institute of Technology, Durgapur, India

GPA: 8.09/10.0

WORK EXPERIENCE

Student Programmer

Office of Admissions in Relations with Schools, UC Irvine, USA August 2009 - Present

• Designing and developing a XML database for candidates with foreign records applying to UC campuses participating in Collaborative Exchange of Transfer Applicant Data (CETAD) program.

Summer Intern, Test System Automation Engineer June 2009 - July 2009

7 Layers Inc., Irvine, USA

• Created a sequence of test cases for TTY Test Solution so that the testing is automated with minimal human efforts.

• Tested and managed certification process for manufacturers of GSM/UMTS wireless devices which operates on PTCRB operator networks.

Programmer Analyst Client: Metlife Inc. May 2007 - July 2008

Cognizant Technology Solutions, Kolkata, India

• Designed and developed software modules for insurance premium payment with alert generation and annuity calculation using Java technologies.

• Provided service assurance for multiple legacy systems in IBM Mainframes.

• Have industry knowledge in the Banking, Financial Services and Insurance sector.

RESEARCH EXPERIENCE

Graduate Student Researcher

Networks Lab, UC Irvine

• Mobility management in Wireless Mesh Networks using Distributed Hash Tables (DHT) at a topology’s overlay under supervision of Prof. Lichun Bao.

COMPUTER SKILLS

• Languages: C, C++, JAVA, HTML, XML, COBOL, SQL, Oracle, Matlab, Octave

• Operating Systems: Linux (Red Hat Fedora Core 10, Ubuntu 8.10), Mac OS, Windows 98/NT/XP/Vista, IBM Z/OS

• Databases and Servers: SQL Server 2005, DB2, MySQL 5.0, MS Access

• Packages: MS Office, MS Office Project, UNIX utilities, Eclipse, Ethereal, NCTUns 5.0, Netbeans 6.0

GRADUATE COURSEWORK

• Internet

• Networking Lab

• Fundamentals of Algorithms

• Wireless Mesh Networks

• Algorithms for Fraud Prevention and Detection

• Applied Software Design Techniques

• Principles of Data Management

• Middleware for Networked and Distributed Systems

ACADEMIC PROJECTS

Wireless Mesh Network

• Designed and simulated a routing protocol on OSPF based Wireless Mesh Networks with air time metric as its performance metric.

Eigen face based Facial Detection

• Developed a facial detection software using MATLAB by weighing the difference between a given facial image and a mean image generated from a predefined facial database.

IMail

• An intelligent email client that understands user‘s behavior, priorities and ranks the emails based upon statistics like sender criticality and content criticality.

• Developed the content analysis engine in Java to determine content criticality.

Networking Lab

• Configured Cisco routers for the use of static routing and LAN switching.

• Implemented TCP Flow control and Congestion control in department’s network in Red Hat Linux.

Middleware

• Created a middleware for UCI’s SATWARE multimedia information system which will buffer and display multiple image streams from different sensors in a time synchronized fashion.

Database Management Systems

• Participated in the design process of a DBMS system for SATWARE project.

• Implemented an efficient indexing scheme for retrieving tuples from the database server.

OpenSSH

• Implemented OpenSSH in Ubuntu Linux which encrypts all traffic (including passwords) to effectively eliminate eavesdropping, connection hijacking, and other attacks on a LAN of 15 PCs.

• Secured tunneling capabilities and authentication methods through OpenSSH which supports all SSH protocol versions.

HONORS AND ACHIEVEMENTS

• Graduate Student Researcher in Networks Lab, UC, Irvine for Summer 2009.

• Student Manager, Food and Dining Services, UC Irvine from Fall 2008 to Winter 2009.

• Cognizant Certified Professional (CCP) in the Banking, Financial Services and Insurance sector since September 2007.

• One of the eight finalists of Hydragyrum, an overnight C# programming contest organized during Aarohan 2006, out of nearly 180 participants.

• Secured 94 percentile in National IT Aptitude Test conducted by NIIT in 2005.

• Ranked in the top 2% of 330,000 candidates appearing the All India Engineering Entrance Examination (AIEEE) in 2003. Ranked 158 in the State of Orissa for the same examination.

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