PARALLEL COMPUTING AND TRANSPUTERS APPLICATIONS (PACTA 92), Barcelona

Spain

Wrote "Kundalini: A Transputer Based Hypertext System”;

accepted/presented at international conference, 1992



INTERFACE 92, India

Presented paper on “Mapping of Browsing Semantics for Implementation on

Transputer Based Systems” at conference organized by Computer Society

of India, 1992



CENTER FOR DEVELOPMENT OF ADVANCED COMPUTING (CDAC), India

Won Rotary Club’s “Best Academic Software Project Award” for academic

project done at CDAC, 1992







PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE



COMPUTER ASSOCIATES

World’s largest provider of enterprise-wide IT Management Solutions

with over 150 offices in 45 countries

Islandia, NY

1995 - Present

Director of Development (2004 - Present)

* Spearheads numerous projects & guides teams to develop base

architecture changes that enhance releases of backup software product & improve

security related features for enterprise/medium/small business markets.



* Researches/evaluates product designs, defines techniques for

optimizing software, architects short/long-term product enhancements, presents

recommendations to senior management, & leads implementation of

changes.



* Collaborates closely with partners on all OEM releases; coordinates

remote team efforts in China and India.



* Actively participates in all software development lifecycle phases,

from finalizing requirements with product management, to ensuring

accurate design, development, QA, and general availability (GA) product

releases.



* Works closely with clients to understand their business

needs/requirements & develop effective IT solutions.



Manager of Development (2000 - 2004)

* Managed/mentored team that developed data logical model for new

architecture, including definition of data classification concepts, point in time representation & device/media/vault

representations.



* Spearheaded design of centralized, multi-platform architecture for

media and device management solutions.



* Led team to add, backup to disk, data multiplexing feature, NAS NDMP

& SAN support across Windows & UNIX platforms.





Software Engineer (1995 - 2000)

* Developed Storagetek ACSLS support for Windows and UNIX versions of

software backup product.



* Optimized tape RAID option for Windows backup product.



* Participated in development of Windows product that supported optical

libraries as if they were regular hard disks, and wrote Windows Kernel

drivers to support this new product feature.





SOFTWARE EXPORTS INDIA PVT LTD. / ACSC INC. USA SUBSIDIARY

Software development subsidiary of Advanced Computer Systems Company

(ACSC, Inc.)

India

1993 - 1995

Software Engineer

* Developed migration file system for Solaris project that included

designing complicated file system layer under Solaris' Virtual File System

(VFS) and above its (Network File System) NFS layer.





MECHATRONIC SYSTEM & ANA PUBLISHING

Software consulting and publishing companies

India

1992 - 1993

Freelance Consultant

* Supported Windows-based industrial projects for two clients.







TECHNICAL SKILLS



MS Office / Excel MS Visio & MS Project

Xplanner

Erwin Data Modeler

Java & C/C++

XML

Liquid & Caster

Hibernate

Snapshots

CDP

CAS

SCSI Protocol

NAS / NDMP Protocol

Windows Kernel

Filter Device Drivers

True64

AIX

Solaris

HP-UX & Linux

Windows 2000 & 2003

UNIX Shell Scripts







AFFILIATIONS



T10 SCSI STANDARDS COMMITTEE

Proposed SCSI Protocol enhancements to tape drive/library

communications (currently under review), 2005



STORAGE NETWORK INDUSTRY ASSOCIATION (SNIA), Member, 2002 - Present

Participated in data management forum's data protection activities

(SIG/VTL SIG, long-term/100-yr archiving).



ENTERPRISE CONTENT MANAGEMENT ASSOCIATION (AIIM), Long Island Chapter

Participant