From: pradeep@jumbo.sps.mot.com (Pradeep "AIR" Buddharaju)
Subject: MSEE for Software Engineering position
Organization: Motorola Inc., Austin, Tx
Date: Thu, 10 Sep 1992 13:53:20 GMT



I am posting this for a friend. Please reply to him directly.

-pradeep

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						Praveen Patnaik
						3000 July St., #99,
						Baton Rouge, LA 70808.
						Phone : (504)-387-0553.[Res].
                                                        (504)-388-5346.[Off].
                                                E-mail:  praveen@max.ee.lsu.edu

Dear Sir/Madam,

         I am a graduate student in the Department of Electrical Engineering at
Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, specializing in the area of Computer
Engineering. I will be graduating with a Masters degree in October, 1992. I am
extremely interested in making a career for myself as a systems programmer/
software design engineer. 

         During the course of my graduate study here at LSU., I did a lot of 
application design and development. At Louisiana Geological Survey, I worked 
in the GIS environnment coupled with a digtal database, in addition to software 
development and modification using C (with calls to a graphics library) and 
Fortran under the UNIX and VMS operating systems, respectively. I also did a lot
of X window application development. I did the simulation work in my masters 
thesis on "Interprocedural dependence testing", in the Parascope parallel
programming environment.
               
         I also have more than a years work experience in a software firm, in
India, where I did the system study for a steel plant to choose between a 
central or distributed environment. I also worked on the development of an 
interactive graphic, computer application to optimize the cutting of sheet
metal parts of an earth mover company. I have also taught several programming
languages (Fortran 77 and Pascal) and databases (Ingres and Focus). This
teaching experience has helped me sharpen my communication  skills.

         My qualifications and earlier work experience, give me at least a 
cumulative of three years experience. I am a motivated and efficient individual
and am confident of contributing towards innovation and development of new 
products. My resume, in brief, follows this covering letter. 

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                            PRAVEEN PATNAIK 
                           3000 JULY ST., #99
                         BATON ROUGE, LA 70808.
                       Ph. Home :   (504)-387-0553.
                       Ph. Off  :   (504)-388-5346.
                       E-mail   : praveen@max.ee.lsu.edu 

OBJECTIVE
 
  A position in the field of systems programming, system analysis or parallel
  programming. 

EDUCATION

  M.S.,Computer Engineering, Graduating in Oct. '92, Louisiana State University,
  Baton Rouge. [3.91 GPA].
 
  . Thesis: Design of software tools to increase parallelism in subroutines and
    development of efficient methods to analyze inter-procedural dependencies.
 
  . Major Graduate Courses: 
    Interactive Computer Graphics          Operating Systems
    Advanced Operating Systems             Parallelizing Compilers
    Computer Arithmetic                    Computer Networks 
    VLSI and Parallel Computation          Advanced Parallel Algorithms
    Computer Architecture                  Advanced Computer Architecture
    Reliability of Computer Systems        Hypercubes
 
  B.S.,Graduated with distinction in Electronics and Communication Engineering,
  May '89, Andhra University, India.

EXPERIENCE

  Research Assistant, Louisiana Geological Survey, Oct. '90 to date.
  . Design and development of a computer application for the calculation of
    shoreline change graphically.
  . Developement of programs to generate maps from ASCII data and vice-versa.
  . Creation of shoal bathymetry grids from depth matrices to find out the 
    effect of wind and wave patterns on the shoreline.
  
  Computer Consultant, CADGIS Lab, Oct. '90 to date.
  . Providing hardware and software support for their Intergraph InterPro 2000
    and Sun SPARC workstations.

  Computer Lab. Asst. System Network Computer Center, LSU, Aug. to Nov. '90.
  . Laboratory monitoring and helping with Pascal programming problems on the 
    IBM 3090.

  System Executive, CMC, India, June '89 to July '90.
  . Design and development of a computer application for the optimization of
    sheet metal cutting of machine parts using CNC machines, to reduce wastage
    of metal. 
  . Proposing a computer environment between a Centrallized and Distributed 
    system for a steel plant in India.
  . Taught PACAL and FORTRAN programming languages and software packages INGRES
    and FOCUS.

COMPUTER EXPERIENCE

  . Languages: "C", C++, FORTRAN, PASCAL, BASIC, Microstation Developement 
    Language (MDL), SQL, Shell and Assembly language programming.

  . Tools: X Windows, GRAFIC, OpenLook, Motif, Wordperfect, Lotus 1-2-3,  
    Word 4.0, OpenWindows, Sunview, Microstation, MGE, Projection Manager, 
    ARC/INFO, INGRES, FOCUS, ORACLE, Harvard Graphics and Matlab.

  . Environment: AT&T 3B15, SUN SPARCstation, VAX 11/780, Encore Multimax, IBM
    3090, InterPro 6040, InterAct 2000, InterView 32C, PS/2 and Macintosh.

  . Operating Systems: UNIX (4.3 and System V), VMS, VM/CMS, CLIX and MS-DOS.

PROJECTS

  . Designed and developed an application to simulate a "PUTT-PUTT" golf game.
  . Developed a 3D pipeline to convert a 3D picture to 2D interactively using
    C and calls to a graphic library.
  . C program development to handle concurrent programming problems like 
    Readers/Writers and Producer/Consumer using Semaphores.
  . Developed software for Process Scheduling using the "Round Robin" method.
  . Developed software for Memory management using "first-fit", "best-fit" and
    "worst-fit" methods. 
  . Simulated the UNIX sort utility, using C.
  . Developed a software communication application for the implementation of a
    library and bookstore interface using Sockets (UNIX 4.3 BSD).
  . Developed software to implement the "Travelling Salesman problem".
  . Developed software to find node disconnectivity in the presence of failures
    where failures are generated using the "Monte Carlo Simulation" technique. 
  . Developed a program to use trace information to prove PUZAK's cache laws.
  . Developed software to find fault-free paths from input to output in a 
    faulty circuit using "PODEM".

PUBLICATIONS

  . "An evaluation of Physical Environmental Impacts of Sand Dredging on Ship 
    Shoal", presented in the Information Transfer meeting, Oct. '91 and 
    published in the Proceedings of the Mineral Management Service.
 
AWARDS AND ACHIEVEMENTS

  . Member of "ETA KAPPA NU", the Electrical Engineering, honor society.
  . Outstanding achievement award at CMC, Dec. '89. 
  . Nationally (USTTA) ranked Table Tennis player.

REFERENCES

  . Available upon request.

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