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Asokan Padmanabhan
2128 Prentiss Dr #311
Downers Gr. IL 60516
E-mail : [email protected]

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EXPERIENCE

Summary: 12 years of Software Development experience. (Itemized experiences shown below)

2 + years in Clarify Application (CRM)
5.0 years in Visual C++. / BC++
1 year in Microsoft SQL Server
4 years in C
3 years in FORTRAN

Coding and Development of applications in the following areas:

Customization of Clarify Applications (Ver 6.0 & 7.0) on Various Modules
UK banking system on Customer relationship Management
Ramco Marshal EMS.
Bug fixing of various modules, as part of ongoing maintenance.
Development of real time systems for space launch vehicles.
Development of decision support expert systems for space launch vehicles.
Software development related to aerodynamic stability characteristics for defense aircraft.
Software development using Finite Element Method (FEM) for engineering applications.

Technical Summary:
On Clarify Application: Underwent Training in Clarify, appeared for the certification exam and holds Clarify Professional Certificate. Customization of the Clear Sales module in Clarify Application for the client (US West), using the relevant tools and using Oracle has backend. Currently implemented the Clarify suite 7.0 for 21st Century and doing customization to suite the end user requirements. Development of additional forms/screens to suite the business requirement at 21st Century. Interface Clarify with external application like Net Cool (Micromuse) to facilitate end user. Synchronize/upload CSG and Telution data to use in Clarify

Worked in Visual C++ 4.0 years
Carson Group Of Companies: MN, USA: On Systems Tool to interact with Cobol application to obtain statistical analysis.
Unisys, UK: On the preliminary Design and Development of UK banking Practice.
Ramco System, India: Design and Development of Flight Simulator for Fighter Aircraft, On EMS Marshal Sales Management system, and MODVAT (MODified Value Added Tax) application. Generation of Various Windows dialogue boxes for launching the application as per the user requirement of the MTC.
Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO): Developed an expert system using BC++ for decision support of satellite launch vehicles, system primarily used during vehicle delivery. This was completed in a 1-year development lifecycle.

SQL Server. 2.3 years
Ramco System: Marshal EMS Sales Management System using SQL Server Ver 4.0 for database access. Created stored procedures, and triggers. Administered the database, and generated batch scripts. MODVAT Application on EMS product Using SQL Server ver 6.0 for database Controls.

C Language. 4.1 years ( 2.5 in job and 1.6 academic)
Developed engineering applications using Finite Element Method (FEM). Pre estimation of flight path trajectory for various flying objects (i.e., aircraft, rockets and missiles) depending on their geometry configurations. Performance of rockets in real-time with graphical representation.

Hardware Platforms:

Pentium Windows NT Server
   SINIX Siemens System
   VAX VMS System
   PDP 11 (RT System)
   DEC 10 (VMS System)

Operating Environment:

Windows NT,
   Windows NT Workstation 4.0,
   Windows 3.1,
   Windows for Workgroups,
   SINIX (UNIX),
   UNIX,
   DOS

4GL/Compliers:

Visual C++ Version 5.0 , 4.0 & 1.5 (MFC Ver 2.5,4.0, and 4.2) with Spy, and ODBC Spy ver 2.0
Exposed to VB Version 5.0
MS SQL Server Version 6.0 with SQL EM, ISQL/w, SQL SM , and ODBC 3.5
VAX FORTRAN and Turbo C ver 1.2

Computer Languages:

C++ ( version 2.0 as defined by Bjarne Stroustrup)
C (ANSI C as defined in K&R)
SQL (TSQL dialect of SQL Server 6.0)
FORTRAN

Education:
Clarify Certified Consultant (CCP)

   Master of Engineering in Aerospace
   First Class. (CGPA 6.0/8.0)
   Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore-560 012,India.

   Bachelor of Technology in Aeronautics,
   First Class, (Anna University)
   Madras Institute of Technology, Madras-600 044.India.

Details of Work Experience Organization wise:


Name of the Organization	Position Held	Period (From & To)	Years	Reason for Quitting
Hindustan Aeronautics Ltd., Bangalore, India	Asst Aero Engr	9th Jul 87 to 8th Jul 88	1.0	To Pursue higher Education
Indian Institute of Tech., Madras, India	Project - Associate	1st Mar 90 to 21st May91	1.3	Temporary post & UGC project
Indian Space Resarch Org, Trivandrum, India, Sriharikota India,	Scientist / Engineer	23rd May 91to 30th Apr 95	4.0	Better Remuneration
Ramco Systems, Madras, India	Sr. Systems Analyst	2nd May 95 to 23rd Sep 97	2.5	Abroad Assignment
Mastech Systems, co., Brackenell, UK	Software Engineer	24th May 97 to 20th June	0.75	Client’s Project Expired, On Bench.
Syntel Inc	Systems Analyst	23rd June98 to 31 Mar 99	9 months	Project completed


Syntel Inc Troy, MI, USA	Clarify Consultant	1 Apr 99 to Till Date	2.0+

DETAILS OF WORK EXPERIENCE IN CHRONOLOGICAL ORDER :

Project Name:                                      Helpdesk- Support & Customization
Client:                                                  21st Century Telecom Chicago/ US West Minneapolis/ Clarify Inc
Organization /Location:                        Syntel Inc, MI, USA
Duration (MM/DD/YY) :                      04/01/99 to Till date
Project Description:                             This is a Front office Solution caters complete Customer support, providing single point of
                                                            Contact for customer inquiries, service requests and problem reporting. Helps in handling
                                                            customer calls and updates on Online the status of the problem reported. Depending upon
                                                            the business requirements this product can be modified and customized.
Tools used:                                         Clarify , DDEditor, UIEditor, ClearBasic and Dataex.
Role (Designation):                              Clarify Consultant

Responsibility:
To understand complete suit of the Clarify Product Viz. ClearSupport, ClearHelpDesk, ClearQuality, ClearLogistics, ClearContracts, ClearCallCentre, ClearSales, Policies & Customers, and Product manager.
Utilization of tools such as DDEditor, UIEditor, DataEx as per the requirments to analysize, modify & customize and Test the complete Product.
Enhancement of the product Using Clear Basic Application.
Development of additional forms/screens to suite the business requirement at 21st Century
Interface Clarify with external application like Net Cool ( Micromuse) to facilitate end user
Synchronize/upload CSG and Telution data to use in Clarify

Software/Language:             VB and ClearBasic
H/W:                                  PC/LAN Pentium II based W/S and servers
O/S:                                  WINDOWS NT 4.0 W/S

Project Name:                               Y2-K -CMG
Client:                                               Carlson Marketing Group
Organisation /Location:                     Syntel Inc, MI, USA
Duration (MM/DD/YY) :                  06/23/96 to Till date
Project Description:                          Analysis on Date Impact
Tools used                                       VC++ ( v 4.0), MFC (v 4.0), J++ 5.2, SmarScan (Inhouse Project )
Role (Designation):                           Systems Analyst,
Responsibility :
The whole Project consists of Applications Developed in various Platforms, using different languages. My work involves complete VC++ applications, which are involed in the project. To analyse all the code check for the date impact for Year 2000. Find the suitable solutions and modify test it. Implement all the change and test for the Production run. Also Developed some Tools to interact with COBOL code on VC++ to check for the line error and to evaluate the actual size of the code and the execution time. This is to assist any major modification in COBOL program to continue in it or to redevelop using Client Server applications. Some sample Program tested rewriting the COBOL to C++ proved Quite faster and Robust.
Software/Language:                  C++
H/W:                                        PENTIUM MACHINE
O/S:                                         WINDOWS NT 4.0 W/S

Project Name:                         U.K Banking Practice
Client:                                           Unisys, Slough, UK
Location:                                      Slough
Duration (MM/DD/YY) :              25 Sep 1997 to 20 Jun 1998
Project Description:                      Banking software Focussing on Customer Relationship Managment
Role (Designation):                       Project Manager,
Responsibility :
Project Manager for   design and development of Various components of the Model. The schematic study of various requirements of the Customer, extracted by Business Analyst and Technical analyst for Customer Relationship management in Banking. It focuses on Internet banking using the state of the art Client server On Windows NT with Platform Independent, Language   and Database Independent using ActiveX controls (ATL objects) and OLE concepts.

Software/Language: MSVC ( VISUAL C++ ver 5.0, VB ver 5.0)
H/W: PENTIUM MACHINE
O/S: WINDOWS NT 4.0 W/S

Project Name:                          KTS-4 SIMULATOR
Client:                                           IAF
Location:                                      Madras
Duration (MM/DD/YY) :              07/01/96 TO 09/22/97
Project Description:                      Design and Development of Flight dynamics Simulation for Fighter aircraft
Role (Designation):                       Senior Systems Analyst,
Responsibility :
Project Leader for Complete design and development of Flight simulator
for a fighter aircraft. A set of Flight equation was formulated to obtain
the flight behavior and the same was independently designed and developed
as Flight dynamics simulation which forms one of the important
module in the simulator. As the simulator involves instruction station and
operator station (Pilot), development of separate stubs with all
necessary controls, to test the software was developed to test and check
the various flight conditions for various controls before incorporation.
The overall implementation at the site is over, with few minor tunings for high performance. This was designed using object oriented design using
Coad and Yourdon methodology
Software/Language: MSVC ( VISUAL C++ ver 4.0)
H/W:   PENTIUM MACHINE
O/S:   WINDOWS NT 4.0 W/S

Project Name:                      RAMCO - EMS MARSHAL
Client:                                        In-house
Location:                                  Madras
Duration (MM/DD/YY) :          09/01/95 TO 06/30/96 (10 MONTHS)
Project Description: Development of Enterprise software and
Customisation on Various Modules of the product
(Viz., Purchase, Sales, etc.)
Role (Designation):                 Senior Systems Analyst,
Responsibility :
As a Team leader, to design and develop from Product feature specification (PFS), Product Feature Matrix (PFM), the MODVAT application
and also generation of Test Plan and Test cases. This was containing total
of 18screens, which are developed in MSVC as Independent DLLs, to
communicate across the four different Enterprise products.(Viz. Purchase,
Inventory, Sales and General Ledger ). This along with the Front End , a
set of stored procedure, tables, triggers were developed to support
Backend changes using Microsoft SQL 4.0 & 6.0
Software/Language: MSVC ( VISUAL C++ ver 1.5)
H/W:   PC-AT
O/S:   WINDOWS

Project Name:                             MS-3000 ( Pre-Signal alarm warning and
                                                        Maintenance System)
Client:                                             Monitoring Tech. Corporation, USA
Location: Madras / USA
Duration (MM/DD/YY) :                05/02/95 TO 08/30/95 (4 MONTHS)
Project Description:
Pre signal   alarm , warning and monitoring the various machinery
aspect using   pre-loaded data etc.
Role (Designation): Senior Systems Analyst,
Responsibility :
Designed and developed a separate module for global modification
of the various fields of the tree structure, based on the software
requirements. Nearly ten separate screens were developed for individual
and global modification of the parameters. This was designed using object oriented design using coad and Yourdon methodology.
Software/Language:                     MSVC ( VISUAL C++)
H/W:                                                 PC-AT
O/S:                                                  WINDOWS

Project Name:             ISRO-SHAR PSLV/GSLV REAL TIME STUDIES
Client:                               GOVT OF INDIA
Location:                          SRIHARIKOTA (A.P)
Duration (MM/DD/YY) : 05/01/93 TO 04/30/95 (24 MONTHS)
Project Description:         Real time system for various Launch vehicles
                                            Using pre estimated Flight trajectory .
Role (Designation):         Scientist/Engineer
Responsibility :
Designed and developed flight trajectory path estimation for various launch vehicle based on the geometric configuration. Development
of software module for radar data tracking of the launch vehicle in Real
time. Development of intelligent system based on filter technique to
switch over between the various tracking radar, on Online, depending upon
the strength and quality of the signals. This was developed in VAX-FORTRAN
with a three member team.
On-line Graphical representation of the ground trace in latitude and
longitude co-ordinates, with earth has background, was independently
designed and developed in turbo C , for PC based system.
Jointly developed and co-ordinated Expert system for decision
making for range safety, during the launch of the vehicle in Borland C++
for PC based system.

Software/Language: VAX-FORTRAN , Turbo C & BC++
H/W: VAX/VMS , TEKTRONIX W/S AND PC-AT
O/S: VMS, UNIX, DOS

Project Name:         ISRO-VSSC PSLV/GSLV REAL TIME STUDIES
Client:                       GOVT OF INDIA
Location:                  TRIVANDRUM
Duration (MM/DD/YY) : 05/23/91 TO 04/31/93 (24 MONTHS)
Project Description: Data acquisition from Supersonic Wind tunnel
and graphics visualisation.
Role (Designation): Scientist/Engineer
Responsibility :
Extension of the available data acquisition module to support
graphics and representation of the same both in on line and off-line.
Using External graphics library the same was independently designed and
developed in C.
Solving Isentropic equation , to study the behaviour of flows at
supersonic conditions, for various models, using theoretical conditions
and comparing the results with the experimental values.

Software/Language: Turbo C and FORTRAN
H/W: DEC-10 (MAINFRAME) AND PC-AT
O/S: VMS AND UNIX

Project Name: IIT-M, (Interference Effect on Spray
Combustion)
Client: ARDB
Location: IIT-Madras
Duration (MM/DD/YY) : 03/01/90 TO 05/21/91 (15 MONTHS)
Project Description: Effect of Droplets using FEM
Role (Designation): Project Associate
Responsibility :
Independently formulated FEM equation and developed the code in
UNIX -C to study the effect of droplets interference effect during spray
combustion. The effect of single droplet and double droplet were studied
and the results were compared with the available experimental results. The
same theory was extended for multiple droplets by my successor.

Software/Language: SINIX - C ( UNIX -C VER)
H/W: SINIX-SYSTEM ( SIMENS)
O/S: UNIX

Project Name: Light Combat Aircraft for Indian Defence
Client: HAL/IAF
Location: BANGALORE
Duration (MM/DD/YY) : 07/09/87 TO 07/08/88 ( 12 MONTHS)
Project Description: Design & Dev of Stability derivative
calculation for LCA a/c
Role (Designation): Asst. Aero Engineer.
Responsibility :
This involves formulation of flight equation and to solve the same
for various flight conditions. For straight and level flight, both for longitudinal and lateral cases of static condition, a separate equation
was formulated . The same was Independently designed and developed, as one
of the subsystem, in Fortran. This was tested using the available
aircraft data and was implemented for Light Combat Aircraft (LCA). LCA has on board computers, which use state-of the art fly-by wire systems and has various modules for various subsystem.
The calculation of stability derivatives involves solving of chain
of equations. This has been suitably formulated and developed as module to obtain these parameters at various flight conditions. This module is
basically used for checking the aircraft parameters, for design of
aircraft aerodynamic and geometric configurations.

Software/Language: FORTRAN
H/W: PDP-11 (RT)
O/S: UNIX