Puneet's resume

Puneet Wadhwa

                                                                       Address:                      6328 Karen Davie Dr
                                                                                                             Huntsville, AL-35806
                                                                                                             USA
                                                                                                             Ph: +001-256-479-1891
                                                                         Email                           puneet_w@yahoo.com

Personal Particulars

^{Date of
birth}23rd December, 1978^{Father's
name}^{Mr. Subhash Wadhwa

Nationality                          Indian

Languages Spoken
Hindi, English}^{Marital
Status
Single}

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Career Objective

Seeking a Software Engineer/Systems Analyst position in the field of Computer Science with special emphasis on Software Engineering.

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Certifications and Affiliations

1. Brainbench Certified Active Server Pages Professional

2. Brainbench Certified XML Professional:

3. Brainbench Certified HTML Professional:

4. Brainbench Certified Ecommerce Concepts Professional:

5. Brainbench certified Javascript professional:

6. Brainbench certified Java professional:

7. Brainbench certified MS Frontpage 2000 professional:

9. Member of Indian Society of Mechanical Engineers , Indian Plastics Institute from July 1999 - July 2000.

10. Vice President Indian Students’ Organization, UAH

11. Secretary Association of Computing Machinery (ACM), UAH

12. Webmaster Association of Computing Machinery (ACM), UAH

13. Member Microsoft Developers Network, IBM Developer Works, ACM, IEEE

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Work Experience

July 2000 onwards Better eSolutions Inc.

Founding Member/Software Engineer

Better eSolutions is a New Delhi based web solutions firm offering website design, software development, database programming and development of dynamic websites and portals to many small and medium sized companies.

I was working with Better eSolutions alongside the final year of my B.E. and then along with my technical training in E-commerce. As a founding member and Software engineer, my responsibilities included all technical and managerial aspects of the organization. My Job work included Software engineering, web applications and software development, and handling the corporate clientele of Better eSolutions.

Summary of projects undertaken

1.	Portal development involving Chat, Email and Message forums
	Duration	:	May 25^th 2001 till date
	Organization	:	M/S 7to2.com Pvt. Ltd. http://www.7to2.com (under const.)
	Software/Technologies	:	Html, JavaScript, ASP, Java Applets, Photoshop 5.5, Xara Web style, MS Front-page 2000
	Job Description	:	Designed and developed the dynamic site for the portal in a team. My role included server side programming using ASP, client side scripting, graphics design, development and deployment of ASP based message forums.
2.	Design of static websites
	Duration	:	September 2000 – December 2000
	Organization	:	M/S Thermic Engineers http:/wwww.thermicaircon.com M/S Savi Vision Pvt. Ltd. http://www.savivision.com
	Software	:	Html, JavaScript, CSS, Photoshop 5.5, Xara Web style, MS Front-page 2000
	Job Description	:	Designed the static website for the mentioned companies. My role including website design, client side programming and CGI scripts.

3.	B2B portal development involving complete web integration of the manufacturing , inventory and order management of the company

	Duration	:	July 20^t^h, 2001 till date
	Organization	:	Asset International Ltd. (Simulated project)
	Software	:	SQL Server, JSP, Servlets, IBM Visual Age, Web Sphere studio
	Job Description	:	The aim of the project was to integrate the current activities of the company with their website. It included features like Posting open tenders, receiving quotations, issuing purchase orders to the vendors and sub-contractors.

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Academic Qualifications


Examination	University/Board	Year	Result
MS (Comp. Science)	The University of Alabama in Huntsville, USA	2004	GPA: 3.6
BE (Mechanical Engg)	Priyadarshini College of Engineering & Arch., Nagpur University	2000	GPA: 3.58 EQ

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Technical Profile

Operating Platforms: UNIX (Solaris), Redhat Linux, Windows XP/2000/Me/98/95

Languages: Java (JSP/Servlets), C, ASP, UML, XML, XSLT, SVG, Unix Shell Scripting

Networking Protocols: TCP/IP, POP3, SMTP, ATM, VoIP, SIP

Database Systems: MS SQL Server, PostgreSQL, MS Access

Web Servers: MS IIS, MS PWS, Tomcat, Weblogic

Tools: Visual Studio, Net Beans, ILOG, JBuilder, JCVS, XsltUnit, Lotus Notes

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Special Achievements

1. Developed a fully functional advanced message
board system for a renowned Indian portal and won the
Planet Source Code's Superior Coding Competition.
www.planetsourcecode.com

2. Won the first prize at a National Level Technical Paper presentation on “Design and fabrication of a virtual machine” at TIE`2K technology event organized by Ramdeo Baba Kamla Nehru Engineering College, Nagpur.

3. Won the first prize at “INNOVATIONS – 2000”- a National level project exhibition organized by Institute of Engineers, (IE) for the final year project on Automation.

4. Participated at the Open Hardware contest at TECH FEST – 2000 organized by IIT, Powai and won the special encouragement prize.

5. “Who’s Who Amongst American Colleges and Universities” award from UAH, 2003

Summary of Projects (College level)

Enhancements to popular Open source game Stellar Crisis using XML, XSLT and SVG:

Presently working on modifying existing modules and adding enhancements to the popular open source game, Stellar Crisis. The project involves two modules: generation of stellar maps; and highlighting a player’s ships amongst others using XML-SVG transformations using XSLT.

EAuctions – A web based online Auction Management System:

Designed and developed an online, web based auction management system built on EBay’s popular auction model. The project involved responsibilities like database design, database normalization, query design, performance tuning and front-end development. Used Java technologies (JSP, Servlets, JDBC, Tomcat) at the middle layer, and PostgreSQL as the backend database.

Indian Trends – A popular Indian travel portal:

Developed a three hundred-page travel portal for a large Indian travel agency catering to hospitality and entertainment industry, and comprising of several data centric dynamic web applications such as hotel selector wizard, dynamic tour package advisor, and content management system.

· JSwingpad – Java Swing based basic Text editor:

Developed a freeware WordPad like text editor using JFC Swing, having features like floating toolbars, customizable backgrounds etc. Project featured in “Popular Downloads” on CNET and ZDNET.

· JMail Express – A GUI based POP3 and SMTP client using Java Swing:

Designed and developed a GUI based ‘Outlook Express’ like email client, which communicates with SMTP and POP servers using Java Networking API, and allows users to compose, send and retrieve their emails from an external server. The tool was based on RFC 1939, RFC 821.

A Round-Robin Process Scheduler for UNIX:

Designed and implemented a Round Robin Process Scheduler which reads a number of tasks to be run from a configuration file and manages the resource allocation based on configuration parameters such as time slice, task priority etc. Project also implemented a SVR4 Inter Process Communication based file-transferring utility that made use of UNIX pipes, Message Queues, and Shared Memory.

A Windows sockets based Client Server chat system:

Designed and implemented a simple client server chat system that allowed several clients to connect to a chat server and exchange messages using Windows Sockets API.

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