MANJUNATH KUSTAGI 224-A, Donor Ave., Elmwood Park NJ 07407 201.475.0319 (H), 347.451.5364 (C)

MANJUNATH KUSTAGI 224-A, Donor Ave., Elmwood Park NJ 07407 201.475.0319 (h), 347.451.5364 (c) [email protected]

Objective: Scientific/Senior Scientific Programmer with a biotechnology /research company focusing on development of software for biological data analyses.

HIGHLIGHTS OF QUALIFICATIONS Highly inquisitive, creative and resourceful. Excellent skills in communication and collaboration. Skilled in all phases of software design and development (Rational Unified Process). Good working knowledge of Drug discovery, design and development. Excited by the challenge of research and experimentation.

RELEVANT SKILLS and ACCOMPLISHMENTS Job / Research Accomplishments  caWorkbench: Open source software development of Gene Expression Analysis and Visualization system for the National Cancer Institute in a team of three people. http://ncicb.nci.nih.gov/download This is ongoing work with NCI’s regarding ‘caBIG’ cancer Biomedical Informatics Grid efforts.  enTrust: Extensive multi-year state of art multi-tiered IT infrastructure development involving large team of offshore developers. ‘enTrust’ is FGT’s proprietary online genetic databank for conducting clinical trials in accordance with FDA’s 21 CRF Part 11 regulations. http://www.firstgenetic.net  System administration: In-charge of the Computational Genetics Groups’ computer hardware configuration, software installation and internal website management, source code and revision control management  putative cDNA assembly from raw genomic data obtained from NCBI.  arraySCOUT: A proprietary software from LION dealing with Microarray data. Involved in customizing it for a client. Extensive writing of new code and modifying written code.  Sequence Retrieval System: Administered proprietary file based Gene and Protein sequence storage system from LION.  Web development: Enterprise level Web site development at TIS.  A Fuzzy, Artificial Neural Network System for Control of the Beer Brewing process. VMSRF, India  Applet for querying a patient database on Fresenius’ intranet. SQR reports for formal presentation Innovation/Exploration Pursued unique opportunities for experimentation, for example: -- Genotype Simulation software: Simulating pedigrees and populations based on stochastic models in coordination with Director at FGT; --plasmid expression vector transformation experiments with E.coli at IIT; --Java RMI based chat client; --A geographical Maps database at UMass

Software and Wet Lab Skills Rational Rose UML, Use Software development life Recombinant Cases, Code generation cycle, CVS administration, DNA Java: JDBC, RMI, EJB, BEA Weblogic (5.1, 6.0, technology, Servlets, Swing 7.0), Weblogic Process SDS- C/C++, XML, SQL, PL- Integrator, iPlanet LDAP, Polyacrylamide SQL,Lisp,Scheme,Pascal, Oracle database Gel Fortran, Python, JSP, administration (8i), Eclipse, Elecrophoresis, CORBA, Perl(BioPerl), JBuilder Cell culture, YACC/LEX Fermentation

EMPLOYMENT HISTORY Mar '01 - Dec ‘03 Programmer First Genetic Trust Inc., Rutherford, NJ-07070 Computational Genetics Group May '00 - Dec ‘00 Scientific Lionbioscience Research Inc., Applications Cambridge, MA-02139 Developer Jan, '00 - May '00 Software Transaction Information Systems, Inc. Developer Boston, MA June, '99 - Jan, '00 Internship Fresenius Medical Care. Lexington, MA Sept, ’98 - June, ‘00 Full time University of Massachusetts, Boston, MA student June,1996 - Aug1998 Research Vittal Mallya Scientific Research Foundation, Associate Bangalore, India

EDUCATION Sep, 1998 - May, 2000 University of Massachusetts, Boston. Master of Science (Computer Science), Department of Math & Computer Sciences. Aug,1991-May,1996 Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi, India. 5 Year Integrated Master of Technology, Biochemical Engineering & Biotechnology. STATUS Citizen of India. On H1-B (work permit) in the US.