Operating Systems

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Windows 9x / NT / 2000 / XP, DOS, Linux / UNIX (various flavors)

Languages

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Visual C++ / MFC, C / C++, (working knowledge of PASCAL, BASIC, COBOL, FORTRAN, 80x86 Assembly)

Tools

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Rational ClearCASE, Rational ClearQuest, Visual SourceSafe

Databases

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Oracle 7.3, FoxPro 2.6

Middleware

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Developer 2000 for Oracle 7

Other

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InstallShield Developer 7.02

Project Title

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ChemStation Porting (Life Sciences Instrumentation Product) for Agilent Technologies

Scope of the Project

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The ChemStation Plus product covers a wide range of analytical instrument control, allowing you to use just one software package to do multiple analytical techniques. Data handling and reporting includes batch review and automatic spooling to database for trend charting and studies, with facilities to view the status of runs remotely and to access instruments to load methods and start or stop runs. Currently Agilent's suites of ChemStation products are 16-bit products which are being ported to the 32-bit world. The tasks involve changes in APIs used, changes in the message passing mechanisms and changes in data structures. Another task is to make the 32-bit ported code Unicode compliant so that ChemStation will support languages other than English and German. Agilent also wants the 32-bit product to be deployed as a installation package.

Duration

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 6 months (Jan 2003 to current)

Team Size

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 21

Role/Responsibilities

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·   Responsible for creation of 32-bit product deployment packages using InstallShield Developer technology.

·   Involved in porting of 16-bit InstallShield scripts to 32-bit, while incorporating enhancements necessary for a state-of-art 32-bit installation using latest Windows Installer technology.

Software Tools

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InstallShield Developer 7.02 , Visual C++ / MFC, Rational ClearCASE, Rational ClearQuest

Project Title

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 Autocomputation of Radiotheodolite Data, for Indian Meteorological Department.

Scope of the Project

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 ‘Auto computation of Radiotheodolite Data System’ consists of Windows based software which is used in conjunction with data acquisition hardware to enable IMD operators to take flights for the collection of meteorological data through remote sensing apparatus coupled to a weather balloon. The software guides the user through the process of conducting a flight by intuitive wizard-driven interfaces. The software automatically computes the desired meteorological parameters such as Pressure, Temperature, Humidity, Azimuth and Elevation in real-time with stringent quality assurance applied to the acquired data to ensure accurate results even in case of inherent system anomalies, while graphical capabilities of the software allow real-time and offline plotting of various parameters of complete ascents including display and printing of complex meteorological end-products. The system is a classic real-time system with highly complex processing.

Duration

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 2 years (December 2000 to December 2002)

Team Size

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 2

Role/Responsibilities

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·   GUI and Acquisition Modules : Development of the system and implementation has been done in Visual C++ 6 using MFC using features such as multi-threading, embedded micro-controller software control and serial port interfacing, ActiveX controls, complex graphical displays, quality assurance algorithms and user interface elements such as wizards and property sheets, integration of MSFlexGrid control.

·   Processing modules : Development of almost half of the complete software including the development of real-time processing algorithms, wizard interface development, data quality assurance.

·   Testing by conducting test flights

·   User training.

Software Tools

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 Visual C++ / MFC, InstallSHIELD, Visual SourceSafe

Project Title

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Radio Acoustic Sounding System (National RASS) for Indian Meteorological Department.

Scope of the Project

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The project RASS is used to probe the lower and upper atmosphere for the purpose of wind profiling. The project is based on the Doppler Effect in which the frequency of waves from a source and a destination are used to determine their relative speed and direction. In this project Radio Frequency waves are transmitted from the ground and a receiver on the ground receives the reflection from the atmosphere. By applying digital signal processing techniques like FFT to the received signals it is possible to approximate the wind speed and wind direction of the atmosphere up to a height of about 15-16 kms.

Duration

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2 years (maintenance)

Team Size

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2 (December 2000 to December 2002)

Role/Responsibilities

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I was involved in the development of the real-time data processing and offline viewing software used to control and interact with a state-of-art atmospheric data collection system. The development was carried out in Visual C++ 6 and I was also responsible for maintaining and defect fixing of the software.

Software Tools

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Visual C++ / MFC, InstallShield, Visual SourceSafe

Project Title

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IITZeus Visualization Package for Aerospace Department, IIT, Mumbai

Scope of the Project

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IITZeus development, a graphical computer aided design and computational fluid dynamics visualization package.

Duration

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8 months (December 1999 to August 2000)

Team Size

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25

Role/Responsibilities

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Was responsible for the integration of post-processing modules for generating visualizations such as flow lines and contour plots into IITZeus.

Software Tools

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C, X-Motif under UNIX