RAMENDRA

Apt #403, 2 W University Parkway                                                                                                 ramy@cs.jhu.edu                                            

Baltimore, MD, 21218                                                                                                                         410-812-1239

OBJECTIVE

To obtain a position as a Software Design Engineer.

EDUCATION

Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD

            Master of Science in Computer Science; expected December 2007

            GPA - 3.4

Visveswaraiah Technological University, India

            Bachelor of Engineering in Computer Science & Engineering; 2004

TECHNICAL SKILLS

• Languages - C, C++, Java, Perl, Html, JavaScript, Cold Fusion.
• Embedded system, Application domain being Set Top Boxes.
• Operating Systems - Windows, UNIX, Real Time Operating System(os20).
• Other Packages - Weka, Matlab.

GRADUATE COURSEWORK

Machine Learning, Micro Kernel Architecture, Time Series Prediction using Neural Network and Hidden Markov Model,  Information Retrieval, Natural Language Processing, Computer Vision, Machine Learning Seminar, Wireless Networks, Nano-Bio Computing, Randomized Algorithms and Algorithms.

ACADEMIC PROJECTS

Designed Time Series Prediction Algorithm for Independent Research Course                  June 2007 – August 2007

• Algorithm is a hybrid model incorporating concepts of Neural Network and Hidden Markov Model.
• Precisely Models Temporal Nature of Data.
• Experiments were Implemented in Matlab.

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Built an Intelligent Financial Web Robot for Information Retrieval Course                           March 2007 - May 2007

• Web Robot performs automated gathering of news about the companies in user portfolio.
• Predicts the price of the stocks based on the news.
• Implemented in Perl with very accurate prediction results.

Intelligent Application for Predicting Crops, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India  September 2003 – July 2004                                             

• Project involved the creation of a TRAINABLE system which predicts crops for a given region based on the physical attributes like rainfall, humidity, and soil type.
• Developed Feed Forward Network and Back Propagation algorithm (Levenberg-Marquardt) to train network.
• Refined the result of the network using Fuzzy Logic.
• Results were comparable to the manual prediction made by an agriculture expert.

EXPERIENCE

Computer Consultant/Web Developer

Johns Hopkins University, Human Resource Department, Baltimore, MD                                   June 2007 -  Present                         

·   Develop and maintain the site http://hrnt.jhu.edu for faculty, staff and student.

Computer Consultant

Johns Hopkins University, HopkinsOne, Baltimore, MD                                          September 2006 - December 2006      

· Developed Simulations to train staff for HopkinsOne SAP implementation.

Software Engineer

Tata Elxsi Ltd, Bangalore, India                                                                                          December 2004 - June 2006

All projects were in collaboration with UK based client Pace Micro Technology.

Tahoe project                                                                                                                   December 2005 - March 2006

· Developed and tested PVR (Personal Video Recorder) drivers for a Set Top Box.

· Wrote Modules to test Driver API’s, the development was done on C, based on Linux platform.

· Worked with team of five people to develop the software manual for the system.

Akash Digi Box                                                                                                          September 2005 - November 2005

· Developed modules to verify the working of EEPROM.

· Successfully conducted various type of reads and writes conforming hardware vendor’s data sheet.

DVB Subtitle                                                                                                                            May 2005 - October 2005

· Implemented the DVB (Digital Video Broadcast) Subtitle on the ALC (Asia Low Cost) Set Top Box , designed for Asian market .

· Conducted an in depth study of the subtitle decoder model proposed by the DVB standard.

· Integrated subtitle in all the layers of the software stack (Driver layer, Middle Layer and Application Layer). OS20 (Real Time operating system) was extensively used in the middle layer.

· Worked with PACE team in UK on integration with the OSD (On Screen Display).

UI for Set Top Box                                                                                                                February 2005 - April 2005

· Implemented the User Interface using the Hierarchical State Machine (HSM) model.

· Integrated Electronic Program Guide screen for the Asia Low Cost Set Top Box.

PUBLICATION/PRESENTATION

· Presented the paper, “Crop Prediction using Neural Network and Fuzzy Logic”, at International Conference on Systematic, Cybernetics and Informatics, Jan 2005, Hyderabad, India.