Software Engineer

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San Diego, Ca. 92126 Email: ****.***********@*****.***

Padmaja Chandgadkar

OBJECTIVE

Participate in Systems / Application software development in a technology / engineering environment focused towards product development, using object oriented analysis and design.

PROFILE

• Master’s level software engineer with 2+ years experience in software development using OO design and development with Java and C++.

• Highly committed, dependable and accountable team member; valued contributor.

• Work well in a collaborative environment.

• Conscious about quality – believe in doing it right the first time.

• Strong analytical / problem solving skills.

• Excellent communication skills.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

• Object Oriented Programming.

• Programming Languages - Core Java, C++, C, XML.

• Operating System - Win 98/NT/00/XP, Redhat Linux 7.x upwards, FC4, UNIX.

• Development Tools - JCreator, Eclipse.

• Software Packages – MS Office, Adobe Suite

• Familiar with Perl, Bash, Python, J2ME, J2EE, Visual Studio .Net.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

 GE India Tech Pvt Ltd., Bangalore, India – Engineer, June 2007 – Dec. 2008

Engineer (Software) in the Remote Visual Inspection (RVI) team for GE Sensing & Inspection. Remote Visual Inspection allows the inspection of components in complex systems such as aircraft engines without disassembling the engine modules, surrounding structure or removing the engine from an aircraft. I was involved in the development of application software – integrated data management and productivity tools, for a video boroscope called the XLG3. This device is used to remotely inspect industrial grade equipment for surface level defects with the help of a video probe.

• Responsibilities included software enhancements, bug fixing and developer testing.

• Successfully designed and implemented several complex, high impact features for the XLG3 software – in particular received the project of the month award for providing simple and elegant solution for MDI scrolling feature.

• Improved and streamlined the XLG3 software build process to reduce the overall execution time for the RVI XLG3 projects. Man hour savings for 2008 - 60 hours. The process improvement was implemented using the 6-Sigma DMAIC methodology, and awarded with the GE green belt certification for the same.

• Mentoring of new team members.

• Technical presentations and trainings to team members.

• Participated in Code reviews and Document reviews within the RVI team.

• Testing of Software Applications for the XLG3 product and identifying critical bugs.

Platform: Java 2 Platform 1.5, C++, GDB, Linux, Windows XP, Subversion, Python, Perl, XML.

 DWS Advanced Business Solutions, Melbourne, Australia – Software Consultant, Sept. 2006 – March 2007

Software developer for Platefood - a pay for performance Search Marketing Engine, that provides an auction-based platform for Sponsored Listings.

• Implemented the Presentation tier using the Model View Controller and Intercepting Design patterns.

• Documentation related to the Presentation tier.

Platform: J2EE, JSPs with Struts/JSTL Taglibs and Tiles, Spring, Subversion.

EDUCATION

• Master of Information Technology, Monash University, Melbourne, Australia. (Dec. 2004).

• Graduate Diploma in Network Computing, Monash University, Melbourne, Australia (Sept. 2005).

• Bachelor of Computer Science and Engineering, Visveswairaiah Technological University, Karnataka India (July 2002).

INDUSTRIAL COURSES

CCNA, Monash IT

• CCNA Network Basics

• CCNA Routers and Routing Basics

• CCNA Switching Basics and Intermediate Routing

• CCNA WAN Technologies

KEY PROJECT

UPnP for J2ME - Network Computing Project, Monash University (March 2005 – Sept 2005)

• 12-credit point project as part of developing a Reference Implementation for the Universal Plug n Play (UPnP) specification on the J2ME platform.

• Added the required lower layer networking protocols to the Connected Limited Device Configuration (CLDC) Kilobyte Virtual Machine (KVM), and make them available as a CLDC Java API.

Platform: FC4, C, Java 2 Platform 1.4, CLDC 1.1, Sun’s KVM RI 1.1, KNI.

WORK PERMIT

Authorized to work in the US (L2 –VISA with Employment Authorization Document)

REFEREES

Referees are available upon request.

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