Jalpesh Chitalia
| Education § Master of Science in Computer Science, Kent State University, 2004 (GPA 3.8/4.0) § Bachelor of Engineering in Computer Engineering, University of Pune, 2000 § Associate (Diploma) of Engineering in Computer Technology, Bombay Inst. of Technology, 1997 |
| Experience |
| Software Engineer International Business Solutions Hudson, Ohio Sep 2004 – Jan 2005 § Research and development of application platforms, including design documentation, white paper writing, functional specifications documentation for a media driver § Embedded systems, media streaming, platform-independent protocol layer, platform-specific network and media drivers § Coordinated development at three different sites (US, Russia, and India) |
| Part-time Instructor Department of Computer Science, Kent State University Kent, Ohio Aug 2003 – May 2004 § Taught 3 undergraduate courses at Department of Computer Science in two semesters § The students rating improved semester on semester with larger § Introduce the students to basic features of office applications and the Internet § Give and grade home-works, and exams |
| Graduate Assistant Pan-African Studies, Kent State University Kent, Ohio Aug 2003 – May 2004 § Responsible for smooth functioning of the computer hardware and software systems at a university department § Scripting, programming and web-development for in-house requirements § Managing the computing resources and assembling computers |
| Software Engineer Hughes Software Systems Gurgaon, India Mar 2001 – Jul 2002 § Involved with various phases of software development life cycle for wide range of software applications and tools in strict processes and timelines § Involved in design and development of Multimedia Messaging Server; was responsible for user documentation, the user interface testing, the integrated testing and the installation automation § Preliminary research on developing applications on Symbian Operating System, used on Nokia communicators § Was responsible for software quality assurance and design and development of a test tool for telecom network component § Coordinated the development of the intranet project for the management of project resources; as a primary customer contact was responsible for prototyping, requirements specifications, product testing § Actively involved at a technical exhibition “TechDay” to present our Symbian product |
| Programmer (Undergrad Intern) Inter-University Center for Astrophysics and Astronomy Pune, India Dec 1999 – Nov 2000 § Study the existing email system and requirements for an enhanced web-based email system § Study of various Internet protocols – IMAP, POP, SMTP, HTTP – and Java, HTML § Design of an imap-based user agent, and sendmail based transfer agent along with online and offline HTML email composer, offline email notification agent § User documentation, GUI testing and technical presentations |
| Presentations, Selected Projects and Publications § Presented an idea of "structure codes" for implementation of various data-structures for super-computing paradigm § “Efficient Representation of Data Structures on Associative Processors”, Master’s Thesis, September 2004 § “Efficient Associative SIMD Processing for Non-Tabular Data”, IEEE NewCAS 2004, June 2004 § Selected “Associative Computing and Data Structure Codes”, at the Graduate Student Senate Colloquium, April 2004 § Design and development of efficient materialized view management thereby allowing definition of various complex views and obtaining search results efficiently (advanced database class) § Led the development of the image processing tool for a dissertation research at the Psychology Department at Kent State University § As a software engineering in various telecom and telecom application projects at Hughes Software Systems § Numerous technical presentations on EPOC, Internet Protocols, and some custom tools § Presentation and paper writing for undergraduate seminar on “Introduction to VHDL” § Design and implementation of Web-based interface to email for Inter-University Center for Astrophysics and Astronomy (IUCAA), including online and offline mode of email access § Design of a toy robot for the IIT Bombay technical contest § Design and Development of “Othello” for a game programming contest § A database application for online Inventory Control for a small supermarket enterprise |
| Technical Skills Programming Experience Languages: C, C++, Shell Scripting, SQL, VHDL, ASC, Message Passing (MPI) Library, assembly (x86 and ASC), ImageMagick Library, HTML, Java, Tcl/Tk scripting, MultiC (SIMD programming), AHDL Operating Platforms: Linux, Sun Solaris, ASC, MySql, FPGA, MS-Dos, Windows, Symbian Operating Experience Operating System/Environment: Linux, Sun Solaris, Windows, MySql, FPGA, OS X, Symbian emulator, Software and Tools: MS Office software, ClearCase, Lotus Notes Client Software, SpecTcl, iPlanet Messaging Server Suite, Sun Management Center, Max Plus II, Quartus |
| Achievements and Activities § Published and presented my master’s project work at a well-known conference for circuits and systems society § Research abstract selected for presentation at the Graduate Students Colloquium for presentation § Was awarded graduate assistantships at Pan-African Studies, Bureau of Research and Training Service § Awarded a project in psychology department to implement an image processing tool § Won "Best Team Award" for NEC's "Push Proxy Gateway" project § Won at the technical exhibition "TechDay" for presenting an application on embedded system § Audited and recommended plans and expenditures, as part of the Hughes Software (HSS), of the non-governmental organization serving the under-privileged community § Participated in the recreation activities like quizzes and decoration competitions at the HSS campus § Won several technical – quizzes, programming competitions, and game programming competition – as an undergraduate studies (Genesis ’98, Genesis ’99, Technomania 2000 and Softrac ‘2000) |