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Software Developer / Advisor

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Full-time Delphi developer en technical advisor / supporter,
Ten Oever Advies Groep (ISO 9001 certified), Dordrecht, ZH, Netherlands
(27 January 2003 till date)
ć Developed a Strategic Business Management module in Borland Delphi 5 under Windows 2000. A plug-able framework was developed to link packages of Strategic Business Management module into it.
ć Further development of existing quality management softwares (to generate electronic custom ISO 9001:2000 handbooks), the softwares focus in the agro and other sectors (bug-fixing, updates and upgrades).
ƒá Giving technical support to the inhouse advisors en clients (Quality-Control Managers and System Administrators) ¡V from software installation to solving client-side ad hoc problems.
ć Part time project management, part time system administration and maintenance (network systems en workstations / laptops).
ć Streamlining processes within and outside de IT department.
ć Documentation and creation of technical designs of existing products.
ć Testing and checking of developed (internal and external) products en services (desktop programs en websites).
ć Quality-checking of IT and IT related tasks and processes, and making them error-free.
A wide variety of Delphi components en programming techniques and methods were used to develop various products and services. A good knowledge and experience in the areas of ISO, quality and quality related concepts were absorbed.


1st May 2001 to 6th May 2002
Landis Interactive Media (later CODIM Interactive Media BV), Eindhoven, NB, Netherlands. -
Full-time software developer
ƒá Developed multimedia software used by school students from Group 3 ¡V 6 using sprite and sound engines in Borland Delphi 5 under Windows 2000. Also involved upgrading of external unit library (writing additional functions ¡V token-based, etc).
ć Upgrading multimedia database program using MS Access, DAO Components in Borland Delphi 5 from its prior BDE version.
ć Upgrading existing script of an installer program into a new tri-lingual version, written in WISE Installer Master 8.3.
ć Tested, debugged and fixed WISE Scripts of CD-ROM installation programs.
ć Co-authored Reuse Process (Product building) and a part of the Test Plan related in-house documents along with other developers.
ć Developed skin-able and reusable components for a medium-sized desktop-internet project. XML-RPC layer was used via interface calls, for client/server communication. Significant use of Win32 API function and Windows messages were made.
ć Installed and upgraded Apple Mac systems with MacOS 9 & MacOS X and other Mac related software programs.
ć Involved in the process of testing, debugging and bug fixing of deliverable products.

15th Feb 2000 to 15th April 2000
Web Work India Consultants Pvt. Ltd., Bombay. - /
Full-time consultant
ć Technical brainstorming and advising with developers by delivering software ideas,
ć Interviewing and screening of candidates for selecting the right personnel for the right job function.
ć Web strategies for marketing, web-designs and recommending use of the relevant tools for efficient and performance-oriented web solutions for nomoreoops.com, nomorenews.com and clickadiscount.com.

April 1997 to July 1999
Sanjeonics, Boston, MA, USA
Visiting full-time software programmer
ć Further developed the Business listings management software (W311/W95/W98) for Business Brokers to enable exchange of listings over the telephone.
ć Later web-enabled the Business Listings database for public searching, viewing and contacting the Business Brokers via email, the web-aspect of the program was made using Borland Delphi 3, CGIExpert, MS SQL database via ODBC, HTML, and some Javascript,
ć Developed a Server and Client-based programs to communicate with mainframes (VT-100 terminal) via telephone lines to download secured personal and business information. User-friendly interface with good archiving, searching, printing and faxing features.
ć Developed a Billing software to enable efficient billing of clients and delivery of bills to clients via mail or fax.
ƒá Developed a desktop and web-based Amortization and Quick Business Evaluation program for Business Brokers and S/ME business owners to value of their business and to calculate to value of ¡¥businesses for sale¡¦.
ć Developed an Inventory and billing software for a Hair Salon.
ć Developed an Email Crawler, fax-mailing and sales cold-call programs to enable gathering email and fax information and sign-up new clients over the web, via telephone and fax.
ć Expected solutions were delivered, inspite of limited physical and technical resources. Technical troubleshooting of myriad and intricate problems, both hardware and software.
ć All of the above software were built using Borland Delphi 1/3, TurboPower Async Pro, DBASE IV database via BDE, QuickSoft Quickreport and some Internet communication components.
Note : Visit to Sanjeonics was made on behalf of Micro Bit Associates to complete and further develop projects developed at Micro Bit Associates.

1996 and 1997
Micro Bit Associates, Bombay
Software programmer (part-time and full-time, during summer vacations and while attending school/college)
ć Developed basic Business listings management software (W311/W95/W98) for Business Brokers enabling listings management and printing using Borland Delphi 1, DBASE IV database via BDE, QuickSoft Quickreport.
ć Picked up Borland Delphi 1 through self-study while coding above project.
ć Mini-sales, invoice, billing, software enabling creation of custom reports and on-the-fly printing developed in Borland Delphi 1 and QuickReport.

1994 (2 months during summer vacations)
M. M. Software, Bombay
Software programmer
Developed database application programs under DOS for desktop computers using DBASE, Clipper and Foxpro.

1-2 months (1992 and 1993, during summer and winter vacations)
Master in Computer Management, Bombay
Instructor / part-time Programmer
ƒá Primary task of educating the students in general purpose office based computer applications software like DOS, Wordstar, DBASE, Lotus, etc¡K
ć Text editor with various features written in Quick Basic 4.5.
ć Converter program written in Quick Basic 4.5 used for converting a flat-binary database into a Foxpro database, helping a bank vendor migrate from a dead-end banking system to a Foxpro-version of the banking system.



Education

ć Secured First Class in XII (HSC - Science) from R. D. National College, Bombay University. Graduated in March 1996.
ƒá Secured Distinction in Grade Xth (SSC) from St. Anne¡¦s High School, Bombay University. Graduated in March 1994.
ć Secured a dutch courses (for speaking, listening, reading, and writing) diploma -- NT-2 statsexamen, via ROC, in Eindhoven in December 2003.

Note: With respect to the Dutch Education system, the above qualification is between MBO and HBO levels.

Reserves plans to pursue higher studies and graduate, majoring in Computer Science and/or Information Technology with specialization in Artificial Intelligence, Neural Networks and Fuzzy Logic.



Skills

Operating Systems & servers
Microsoft DOS (Version 3 onwards up to version 6.22), Microsoft Windows 95 and 98SE, Windows 2000 and Windows NT, Linux Red Hat 6.0/6.1 (X-windows using GNOME, KDE and Next Level interfaces, installing, operating, configuring, 2+ months), MacOS 9.1 and MacOS X (< 1 month). Knowledge and experience with IIS 5.0 and Apache webservers (installation, configuration and maintainance).

Languages
Microsoft QuickBasic version 4/4.5 (2+ years), Visual Basic 6.0 (2+ maanden), Pascal, Dbase III+ (1+ year), Clipper (1+ year) and Foxpro (1+ year).
Scripting languages
HTML 3.0 (9 months), JavaScript (elementary, 3 months), WML, WMLScript. SQL (working knowledge of basic commands and statements). Working knowledge of PHP scripting language. VBA for Excel (Excel macros using VB).

DBMS/RDBMS
MySql 3.23 server, MS Access for Windows 95/97 (1 month), MS Foxpro, Dbase III+ and IV (2+ years), Paradox, Borland Database Engine (BDE) (2+ years).

Front-end tools
Good knowledge and experience of Borland Delphi 5.0, 4.0, 3.0, 1.0 (Standard, Professonal and Enterprise versions: 4+ years) since 1996-97. Would like to develop under the Linux environment using Borland Kylix (Delphi for Linux). Also would like to use Rational Rose for Delphi as an important pre-development, development and post-development tool. Eagerly awaiting to develop using Delphi.NET for the .NET framework.

Knowledge of additional software tools: Visual SourceSafe (1 year), Wise InstallMaster 8.03 (installation programs, 6 months), CodeSite (1 year), CodeRush (3+ months), TP Memory Sleuth QA (4 months), among others.



Languages

English (fluent), Dutch (spoken, written and read), French (studied 5 years ago), Hindi (national language), Marathi, Bangla (mother tongue).

Other

Training
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ć Followed a course in Powersoft PowerBuilder 5.0 in February 1997 at Silicon Chip Technologies, Bombay, India.
ƒá Followed a one-day Dr. Bob¡¦s Clinic on ¡§Delphi 6 Clinic: DataSnap¡¨. - 2001
ƒá Followed a short online course in Network Design and MS SQL Server 7.0 via Elan.nl (Elan IT is a concern of ManPower, the e-learning product was powered by SmartForce.com). ¡V September 2002

Other Interests & Achievements
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ć Computer networks and web security.
ć New technologies and concepts like Linux, Java, XML, UML, COM/DCOM, CORBA, Kylix, .NET, QNX (RTOS) and other emerging technologies are interest to a great extent.
ć Non-technical interests include spiritual subjects, self-improvement, other holistic topics, meditative music. Psychology, Mathematics (Calculus, Trigonometry & Vedic Mathematics) and Physics, debating or discussing about International Business & Economics, Stocks, brisk interest in Finance.
ć Learning new languages and about different countries and their cultures.
ć Written a detailed numerology program in Delphi in order to interface with the user's present reality using Kabalistic values.
ƒá Written a program in Delphi: "Motion Retro¡¨, it encapsulates an extra complex maths formula for an astronomical application.



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