Resume - Gaurav Saxena

Gaurav Saxena

10620 Northwoods Circle,
Chardon Ohio 44024
(330) 283-4972
gauravdotsaxena AT gmail DOT com

OBJECTIVE

Seeking full-time or part-time software development position in North-east Ohio.

EDUCATION

Masters of Science in Computer Science
Kent State University, Kent, Ohio
Spring 2007 (In Progress)

Bachelors of Engineering in Computer Engineering
University of Pune, Pune, India
Fall 2002

EXPERIENCE

Software Developer (Intern)
NEC Unified Solutions, Inc.
4100 Holiday St NW Suite 200,
Canton, Ohio 44718
June 2006 – December 2006
- Wrote VBA scripts in Testpartner to test the application MA4000 version 4.
- Created Procedures in QA Director to logically group the test scripts. Ran the procedures to test application correctness.
- Completed a three week training of ASP.NET, C# and the .NET Framework.
- Contributed to the localization of MA4000. Converted valid phrases into keys, based on runs of KeyChecker (an external tool in Visual Studio to flag phrases that need translated).
- Reported to the QA department and Development team, to assist in testing and coding.
- Skills: [C#, ASP.NET, IIS, VB, VBA, WSH, SQL Server 2005, Localization, Compuware's TestPartner and QA Director]

Research Assistant (NSF Grant)
Department of Computer Science,
Kent State University,
Kent, Ohio 44242
January 2006 – June 2006
- Wrote an application to use the parallel capabilities of a set of cluster nodes for visualization.
- Designed a user-interface in the C++ based FLTK library and wrote glue-code to make it work with LAM-MPI.
- Scheduled test scripts to run the application on the network and generate log files.
- Described and implemented an algorithm to composite images efficiently.
- Skills: [C, C++, FLTK, OpenGL, Mesa, LAM-MPI, Bash, Systems Programming, IPC]

Technician
Kent State University,
Client Services Helpdesk,
Kent, Ohio 44242
July 2005 – January 2006
-Administered a ghost server and imaged departmental computers.
-Created and administered user accounts in Active Directory.
-Provided technical support for University wide services.
- Skills: [Active Directory, Norton Ghost, WS-FTP]

Software Developer
Cruise Controls Pvt. Ltd.,
Pune, India
July 2001 – May 2002
- Developed an web-application to manage project work flow, in order to obtain CMM Level-3 Certification.
- Designed a web user-interface with a PostGreSQL backend.
-Wrote Java Servlets to generate dynamic web content from custom queries.
-Wrote SQL queries and normalized a PostGreSql database schema.
- Skills: [HTML, JavaScript, Java, Java Servlets, SQL, Tomcat Apache, PostGreSql]

Software Developer
Bharti Telesoft International
New Delhi, India
September 1999 – August 2000
-Developed a client application to log complaints of wireless customers.
-Designed front-end with Visual Basic with a Microsoft Access database back-end.
- Skills: [Visual Studio 6, Microsoft Access]

SKILLS

Programming Languages: C, C++, C#, Java, Visual Basic, VBScript, Assembly (8086), UML
Additional libraries: LAM­MPI, FLTK
Web­Programming: ASP.NET, Java Servlets, JSP, HTML, Apache Tomcat, Bash, Java Script, Windows Scripting
Operating Systems: Linux 2.6.18, FreeBSD, Windows NT/XP
Databases: SQL Server 2005, PostGreSQL, MySQL
Graphics: OpenGL, Mesa 3D, Adobe Photoshop
Protocols: TCP/IP, HTTP
QA Tools: Compuware's Test Partner and QADirector
Application Suites: Microsoft Office, Open Office

REFERENCES

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