Vinod Mehta
500 West University Pkwy, #2J,
Baltimore, MD
Phone: 4105301534
Email: vinod@cs.jhu.edu

Objective
Seeking a full time position as a software developer that would utilize my skills and technical knowledge to the best

Education
*MS Computer Science, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD - August 2006    ( GPA : 3.7 )
*BE Information Technology, Veermata Jijabai Technological Institute (VJTI), Mumbai - May 2005

Professional Experience 
Center for Language and Speech Processing (CLSP), Johns Hopkins University	  	Summer 2006
Summer Research Intern
*Involved in Automated Multi-Lingual Translation and Language Morphology.
*Aim is to create software to convert text in any language to English without any knowledge of that language.

Internet Student Information Services, Johns Hopkins University 		        Fall- Spring 2006
Member, JHU Information Technology Team
*Involved in various projects using ASP.NET, MS SQL Server, HTML and Javascript
*Developed a module for Student Emergency and Parent Contact Information Service

Directorate of I.T., Govt. of State of Maharashtra, Mumbai, India                   	Summer 2004
Issues Management Service
*Developed an intranet website to handle the myriad of issues raised in the Legislative Assembly
*Implemented various role based security levels for approvals of issues
*Introduced tracking and automatic categorization of similar issues raised in the past

Projects
Cricketer Information Analysis Tool							Spring 2006
Information Retrieval and Web Agents Final Project, Johns Hopkins University
*Implemented a statistical search engine to search cricketer’s records
*Implemented an unsupervised clustering of players based on their career records

Online Pediatric Culture Book								Spring 2006
Division of Health Science Informatics, Johns Hopkins University                                              
*Designed and implemented the security aspect and front end of a patient culture information management system
*This critical system to allow physicians to effectively manage treatment history and administer drugs effectively with reduced paper work

Image Stitching to produce Panoramic Images					        Fall 2005
Computer Vision Final Project, Johns Hopkins University
*Implemented an automatic image stitching algorithm
*Involved use of corner detection, Homography based rectification and RANSAC algorithms

Prototype Transaction processing System							Fall 2005
Transaction Processing System Course Project
*Implemented a transaction processing system based on the paper ARIES: A transaciton recovery method supporting fine-granularity locaking and partial rollbacks using write-ahead 
*Incorporated transaction logging, savepoints, rollbacks, restart recovery, etc.
*Implemented in C++.


GUI Based Interaction with Music Synthesizer					        2004-2005
VJTI and Tata Institute of Fundamental Research (TIFR), Mumbai, India
*Developed of a Graphical Interface and a Control Driver to interact with Sfront Compiler for MP4-SA technology for algorithmic music composition and to provide a run time interaction.
*Collaborated with IIT, Bombay and TIFR professors to work on this project

Skills
Programming Languages	C, C++, VC++, Perl, Coldfusion, .NET(ASP, VB), Matlab, Java
Database Related	PL/SQL, Oracle 8i, SQL Server 2000/T-SQL
Platforms		UNIX (Solaris), Linux, Windows
Web Related		HTML, XML, Javascript
Tools			Visual Studio 2003, SQL Server Enterprise 

Extra Curricular Activities
*Member, Executive Committee Indian Graduate Students Association, JHU          	Spring 2006
*Finance Coordinator for All India level technical festival - Technovanza, VJTI      	Fall 2004