Jalpesh Chitalia

                                                                                                 (Jalpesh@ gmail.com)

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)