Vishalakshi S Pidaparthi
Profile
· [login to view URL] in Computer Science and Engineering with 8 years of experience, most of the experience in the US.
· Brainbench certification for Java 2 - GUI
· Highly motivated, innovative professional software engineer
· Experience in various languages and platforms with an emphasis on analysis, development, coding and debugging,
· Highly successful track record in implementation and documentation of applications.
· Logical, organized, and result-oriented.
· Demonstrated ability to thrive in deadline-driven environments.
· Excellent interpersonal skills, with the ability to competently work with both independent and team-driven tasks.
· Highly structured personal working style, and an affinity for new learning, change, and variety.
Education
REC Warangal, India, Bachelors Degree in Technology ([login to view URL].) in Computer Science & Engineering, 1992
Personal Information:
Writes poetry in English and one book of poetry has been published in Australia.
Got included in "International Who's Who in Poetry" published last year in USA. been awarded a gold medal in that connection.
Pursuing masters degree in psychology from Annamalai University through distance education.
Got many international awards in photography as well.
Shareware Working on:
--A desktop clock with changing colors and alarm. This clock features smooth navigation from one color to another. Used threads and Java API for colors. (Completed and published)
--A tool like a visual debugger with a rich user interface(but there is much more to this than a debugger), showing the state of the JVM in a GUI interface after executing each statement. You can run your code, statement by statement through it, showing your code as well in its user interface. It shows the currently live objects and impacted objects by the current statement. For each of these objects, it shows the current state(values of all member variables changed/unchanged by the current statement) and also, all the other variables and separate threads in separate windows. The user can invoke methods on the objects also, at the time this tool is running, to see how the objects behave (for example. he can invoke string.size() or substring() for a string in the actual code, without stopping the tool). This PEM (Program Execution Monitor)works even if you only have source code for just the file you are testing (and all the other class files, not the entire source code). This way, any java developer can see the JVM in action for his code, before submitting it.. The source file is dynamically compiled after adding debug information. (In progress)
--Office journal with clock (In progress)
Skill Summary
Java, JFC, Swing
Core Java
Visual Age For Java
C++
C
Unix, Windows
XML
QA, Testing
SAN
QTP
Eclipse
Professional Experience
- Sadhana Software Ltd. - [login to view URL] Engineer
Feb 2006-Jan 2007
Developing software for a GUI based application Visuality.
Skills: Core Java, Swing
- Telelogic India Pvt Ltd. - Tech Lead
July2005-Jan 2006
Acting as a tech lead in development of a SCM product Synergy. Taking responsibility of the GUI part of the tool. Synergy is a process oriented SCM tool which is feature rich as far as the GUI is concerned. There are panes for projects displayed as trees, tasks displayed as trees and the same for the SCM objects like files and folders. There are menus for all the commands and popup menus for the right-click action. There are property dialogs and query dialogs.
Skills: Core Java, Swing, Design Patterns
- Virtusa India- Sr. Software Engineer
Jan 2005 - June 2005
Involved in the testing of a portal development tool. The Portal tool contains a Builder tool as a component which is used for building applications to show in the portlets that would be shown inside the portal. The tool has the capability to build different kinds of custom portlets.
Skills:Manual Testing, Test Director
- Danlaw Technologies - Sr. Software Engineer
March 2003 - Jan 2005
· Involved in generating XML reports for a testing tool for GMLAN.
· Involved in the testing of a web based application. Developed test plans and tested the modules logging the bugs in PVCS.
· Developed test scripts using QTP
Skills : XML, Testing, QTP
Developed Shareware while I am out of the country (In my home country, India)
Skills: Java, Swing, Multithreading in Java, Reflection
Compaq Computer Corporation, Colorado -- Systems/Software Engineer III
Feb. 2001 - Jul. 2001
- Worked on GUI development of the latest release of EVM (Enterprise Volume Manager) for a Storage Area Network (SAN) Management system.
- Reviewed requirements and specifications, and conceptualized ideas to finalize the look and feel of the user interface.
- Developed applets using Swing components within Visual Age for Java.
- Implemented communication between each applet and the GUI server, using a wrapper class of Socket on the applet side and ServerSocket on the GUI server side.
- Designed and developed code for the GUI server that acts as a middle layer between the actual EVM server and the applets. This module involves the use of XML parsing for which Xerces is used.
- Used the design patterns MVC, singleton, Observer.
Skills:Core Java, Swing, Visual Age for Java, XML Parsing, Sockets, Multithreading, Design Patterns
Access Data Consulting Corporation, Colorado -- Senior Staff Consultant
Sept. 2000 - Nov. 2000
- Designed and implemented user interface development for an order management module for an e-commerce application.
- Developed the GUI using JFC Swing and Visual Age for Java.
- Maintained GUI for a different application while working on the previously mentioned application.
- Implemented an applet-based menu in the navigation pane with advanced capabilities such as clickable submenus to show data in the content page and for images used as part of the name.
Skills: Java, JFC, Swing, JAR Files
ChannelPoint Inc., Colorado -- Java Developer (contract position)
Oct. 1999 - Sept. 2000
- Participated in content development of web-based applications for medical insurance vendors.
- Developed code for rate calculators based on the requirements specified in the form of a manual calculator.
- Developed modules for performing database operations to fetch data from two different databases - one with plan model and another with portal definition. The plan model contained carrier-specific data and the portal definition database contained portal-specific data.
Skills: Java, Collections in Java
Damark International Inc., Minneapolis -- Sr.Programmer/Analyst
Apr. 1999 - Sept. 1999
- Converted non-Y2K compliant modules in the order management system, to be Y2K compliant.
- Played an instrumental role in the system building process.
HCL Infosystems, Hyderabad, India -- Consultant
Jun. 1998 - Feb. 1999
- Worked as a Quality Coordinator
Responsible for all Quality Assurance activities for the development of Software Requirements Specification (SRS) for the IMIS system for the Ministry of Rural Development. Used Designer 2000 for the Process Models, Function Hierarchy Diagrams, Data Flow Diagrams and Entity Relationship Diagrams.
- Ensured compliance of Quality Management System (QMS).
- Worked on an experimental project to create a prototype for software internationalization, using Visual C++.
Skills: Designer 2000, Visual C++, Internationalization
Lucent Technologies, Chicago -- Software Developer (contract position)
Jun. 1996 - May 1997
- Developed and maintained software for one of the subsystems of the 5ESS switch. This involved development of new features and enhancement of existing features. Responsibilities included requirements analysis, correcting bugs in the code (customer-reported bugs and others), as well as developing components of new features introduced in each software release.
- Inspected and approved code written by other developers.
- Acted as a troubleshooting resource for the team.
- Actively involved in documentation, coordination, design of test plans, coding, and entering of information in a database that kept track of all the changes in each subsystem.
Skills: Unix and C
Andersen Consulting, Chicago -- Contract Position
Nov. 1995 - Mar. 1996
- Worked with a team of five responsible for unit testing, integration testing and system testing of components of FOUNDATION (an integrated software environment that helps in the development of client/server applications) for design, code generation and testing of the generated code.
- Executed the test scripts on different operating systems and documented the performance statistics on each system for different components of the product.
- During the phase of unit test, executed test scripts which test the user interface design tool exhaustively by comparing the expected result with the actual result of running all possible combinations of commands.
- During the phase of integration test, involved in generating applications in all possible combinations of languages and operating systems, compiling them, and executing them to compare the expected behavior of the generated application to its actual behavior.
- During the phase of system test, involved in testing the installation program on all operating systems and comparing the performance characteristics on each operating system with that on other operating systems.
- Reviewed the open System Investigation Requests (SIRs) with the development team, and analyzed bugs found during the testing of the product.
Skills: User Interface Testing
Wipro Systems, Hyderabad, India -- Systems Engineer
Jun 1995 - Nov. 1995
- Project involved porting of TEAMWORK 6.1 to VAX/VMS. TEAMWORK is a set of CASE TOOLS originally developed on UNIX.
- Studied the architecture of the product and trained the team members in product architecture and relevant technologies.
- Porting: Developed GNUMake scripts to replace the Make scripts for Unix.
Skills: Unix, VMS, C++, GNUMake
Sierra Software Services, CA -- Software Engineer (contract position)
Sept. 1993 - Feb. 1994
- Ported a financial application from Unix to Windows 3.1 using Visual C++. Used a custom control 'datatable' to provide interface to the data maintained in a separate MS Access database and to implement functionality which enables the user to export and import data within the same application as well as from a different application like MS Excel.
Skills: Visual C++
Electronics Corporation of India Limited, India
Aug. 1992 - Dec. 1992
- Project involved computerization of fingerprint analysis, which entailed scanning of a fingerprint, sorting the attributes extracted from the image, and storing them in a database along with the image itself for further analysis.
- Tested each module in the product manually.
- Developed a module for splitting a scanned image of fingerprints of all ten fingers of a person into ten separate images.
Skills: C
