Kartik Pandya
pandyakartik@yahoo.com | (617) 817 8980
100 Ocean View Drive, # 305, Boston, MA 02125

SUMMARY
@ Skilled Software Engineer with Masters degree in Computer Science and 6+ years of 
  professional IT experience. 
@ 5+ years experience in Full Life Cycle Software Development and delivering middleware 
  applications in various enterprise technologies J2EE, CORBA, and .NET.
@ 3+ years experience in developing solutions for integrating multi-transport/multi-protocol 
  applications
@ 2+ years experience developing WebService and SOA enabled enterprise applications.
@ Developed a migration toolkit to migration applications developed with Visibroker/TAO 
  to Orbix
@ Conduct architecture review of deployed enterprise CORBA and J2EE applications and propose
  refinements and extensions to these systems

EDUCATION
Masters degree in Computer Science, University of Massachusetts, Boston, 08/2000
Bachelors degree in Computer Science, Maharaja Sayajirao University, INDIA, 12/1997

SKILLS
 @ Java, J2EE, EJB, Servlets, JSP, Swing, JMS (6 years)
 @ C++, CORBA, Orbix, C (5 years)
 @ XML/SOAP WebServices (2 years)
 @ C#, .NET, Visual Studio .NET (2 years)
 @ XML, XSLT, Axis, Cocoon (3 years)
 @ Oracle, MySQL, PL/SQL, JDBC, OCCI (4 years)
 @ Perl, JavaScript, HTML (3 years)
 @ WebLogic, Tomcat, J2EE app servers (3 years)
 @ Unix (Solaris, HPUX, Linux, SGI, AIX) (5 years)
 @ Windows (NT/2000/XP/Server) (6 years)

 @ Development with SOAP, HTTP/S, IIOP, SSL, Tuxedo, JMS and MQ transports.
 @ Programming experience of protocols such as TCP/IP, IMAP, SMTP, LDAP, JNDI
 @ Knowledge of Rational products such as Rose, ClearCase, Purify
 @ Excellent presentation, communication and technical writing skills.
 @ Wrote white-papers, user guides, architecture documents and knowledgebase articles on 
   various technologies
 @ Actively participated in presenting brown-bag sessions and special interests discussions.

EXPERIENCE

SR. ENGINEER, IONA TECHNOLOGIES, WALTHAM [www.iona.com], 06/2001 - Present

Primary responsibilities include developing middleware infrastructure solutions for clients
from the Telco, Finance and Government verticals and to provide them with a superior product
and solution support.

Worked on usecase analysis, architectural design, iteration planning, modeling, 
core-development using object oriented practice and design patterns, debugging, unit/system 
testing, performance tuning and optimization, staging and deploying the developed components
on various platforms/containers.

Responsibilities also include working with customers directly via phone/email, identifying
and fixing product defects, suggesting and recommending product enhancements, designing and
developing reference implementations and providing in-depth feedback to the IDD team for
richer documentation. 

Requires extensive analytical, inter-personal and presentation skills and thorough technical
knowledge of Java, C++, CORBA, J2EE, WebServices, .NET, XML, multi-protocol/multi-transport
integration, ClearCase and debugging tools such as Purify, DBX and Unix tools on various
operating systems.


PROJECT HIGHLIGHTS

Activew/P2K Gateway Solution:
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Currently working on the development of Lucent Actiview/P2K Gateway solution for Sprint's 
SEFARI provisioning project.  The gateway acts as a bridge to integrate the CORBA servers
with provisioning clients using Tuxedo ATMI transport.
@ Contributed in designing mapping of integration components and defining them in a WSDL
  contract
@ Developing a reference implementation prototyping the solution.
@ Defining the interfaces for the existing upstream (CORBA) and downstream (Tuxedo) tiers. 
@ Designed Operating Delegation Components and Data Access Objects using C++, PL/SQL and
  ORACLE. 
@ Implemented a CORBA to Tux gateway that implements CORBA IDL on the upstream side and
  WSDL on the downstream side.
@ Exposed the operation delegates and DAOs as WebServices to integrate with pure Tux client.
@ Designed and developed test invocations to perform unit testing and performance measurement.
@ Skill-set: C++, WebServices, CORBA, Tuxedo administration and development on HPUX with aCC
  compiler.

IONA Medic:
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Contributed as a Team Lead in development of on IONA MEDIC.  MEDIC is a Swing based software
for application diagnosis, configuration management and basic troubleshooting.
@ Designed the software using Rational Rose and UML.  Designed the front-end usability aspects.
@ Developed Java packages to perform runtime checks, sanity tests and memory allocation graphics.
@ Skill-set: Java/Swing, JNI, XML, JavaMail, socket programming, bash and HTML.

IONA Telecom Kit:
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Contributed in the development of IONA Telecom Kit.  The kit provides standards-based 
implementations and a standards-based API to aid network application development.
@ Implemented the IDL interfaces defined by TMF814 and 3GPP specifications.
@ Developed Java CORBA middle-ware framework to provide interoperability between the device 
  software and CORBA legacy applications.
@ Skill-set: Java, CORBA programming and network specs.

Content Based Load Balancer:
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Developed a three-tier content-based Load Balancer Switch for SouthWest Airlines.  
The switch routes C# GUI SOAP client requests to C++ MQ servers, using HTTP, SSL and MQ 
transports. 
@ Implemented the load balancing tier of router to securely balance the incoming traffic amongst
  available MQ provisioning servers.
@ Implemented the switching tier of router to redirect inbound requests to outbound targets,
  based on switching policies (content or operation based)
@ Designed a service discovery framework in C++ and C#.NET 
@ Wrote prototype clients in C# using Visual Studio .NET.
@ Skill-set: C++, SOAP and C#.NET skills and familiarity of MQ protocol

CORBA Migration Toolkit:
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Designed and implemented a CORBA Migration Toolkit for porting CORBA solutions written for 
Visibroker and ACE TAO ORB to Orbix. 
@ Developed a toolkit for assessing and costing effort required for migrating CORBA applications
  from Visibroker and TAO ORB to IONA Orbix.  
@ Implementing Java modules to analyze the source tree and to determine the use of non-standard
  and non-portable API.
@ Developed PERL script to port the deployment descriptors, configuration and Makefiles.
@ Skill-set: Java, CORBA, PERL, Orbix, Visibroker and TAO ORB

ClearCase Testing Harness:
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Designed a ClearCase based Testing harness for BellSouth.  The harness is used for testing
WebService components developed in Java and C++. The system provides an automated unit/system
mechanism based on JUnit and CPPUnit.
@ Wrote test running scripts and reporting modules in TCL, PERL and bash
@ Developed code generators and transport neutral WebService wrappers for testing the target
  components.
@ Skill-set: Thorough understanding testing processes, JUnit, CPPUnit, Java, ANT and ClearCase

Enahncing CRM Infrastructure:
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Contributed in the Extensions to IONA's CRM infrastructure.  Solution provides enhanced
functionalities to the Sales and Partners' Portal.  
@ Developed a Java WebService to standardized various forms of input and output message formats
  from different data-sources such as CSV files, Databases, Emails and Web forms.  
  The WebService converts these messages to an XML document conforming a standardized schema.
@ Implemented a web based, task driven work-flow mechanism 
@ Designing XML schema and WSDL contracts for service endpoints.
@ Developed a basic EJB mechanism to add a Java persistence layer.
@ Automated the Emails/HTTP requests to Database conversion using stringified XML formats.
@ Skill-set: Java, XML, Oracle, PL/SQL, Servlets, Email protocols and WebServices.


SOFTWARE DEVELOPER, HARRISON & TROXELL, BOSTON [www.hnt.com], 11/1999 - 05/2001

MetaPortal Web application Project:
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MetaPortal development for Callino Inc., Germany. 
@ Designed and developed the application modules using Rational Rose, J2EE, WebLogic and
  ORACLE.
@ Implemented content management in Java to design add-in portlets and to provide contents
  from external sources into these portlets. 
@ Developed J2EE based workflow mechanism to provide web-interface to create, edit, review,
  approve and publish these add-in portlets.
@ Skill-set: UML, Java, EJB, JSP, XML, XSLT, WebLogic, JDBC, ORACLE, Windows 

BostonCaptital.com:
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Development of BostonCaptital.com web site development
@ Developed the 'Jobs', 'Brokers' and 'News' modules.
@ Skill-set: Java, Tomcat, Servlets, Cocoon, MySQL.

Newstream.com:
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Development of Newstream.com web site development
@ Developed content streaming modules for providing news content to external websites and
  news-agencies such as BusinessWire.com.
@ Skill-set: Servlets, HTML and ORACLE.


STAFF ENGINEER, INDIAN PETROCHEMICALS CORP. LTD., INDIA [www.ipcl.co.in], 12/1997 - 12/1998

ENGIC - Simulation System:
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Contributed in the development of ENGIC - a centralized server system running Unix (Solaris),
which provides simulation data of Carbon Fiber Synthesis, to end-users running Windows
operating system. The simulation provides data to Visual Basic Windows clients as a stream
of bytes and the client then displays the data to provide visual simulation of the full fiber
synthesis process.
@ Developed C++ classes to simulate the basic functionalities of synthesis.
@ Implemented the classes using Standard Template Library (STL).
@ Also worked on designing the byte-code format for sending and receiving data over an TCP/IP
  connection.
@ Contributed in the development of the Visual Basic application client to contacts the ENGIC
  server to obtain the simulation data through ActiveX components. 
@ Designed and implemented database access with MS Access to cache the incoming data.
@ Skill-set: ANSI C++, Visual Basic, ActiveX, Network programming, Database concepts, Solaris


MASTERS' DEGREE PROJECT, 08/1999 - 05/2000

InterConnect Portal System:
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Developed InterConnect - an intradepartmental portal developed using Java, J2EE and WebLogic.
The portal serves as a channel between students, faculties and staff.
@ Responsibilities included managing customer requirements, use-case analysis and designing
  the 3-tier MVC architecture.
@ Developed the portal practicing the concepts of Object Oriented programming, design patterns
  and SDLC techniques. 
@ Developed a wrapper for the Unix main system (PINE) to make it accessible on the Web. 
@ Skill-set: UML, Java, J2EE, EJB, JSP, XML, WebLogic, JDBC, MySQL, Linux, JavaMail, POP, IMAP
  and SMTP