POORNANANDA GADDEHOSUR

Address: 1802, E Helen St, Email: [email protected] B 101, Tucson, AZ 85719. Phone: 520 243 0828

Objective Internship position to work on challenging research problems that utilizes my algorithms, networking and systems programming background

Research Interests Approximation algorithms, Combinatorial Optimization, Parallel and Distributed Computing, Advanced networking paradigms – peer to peer, ad hoc networks Education

Fall 2006- University of Arizona, Tucson  Master of Science, Computer Science Courses: Design and Analysis of Algorithms, Parallel and Distributed Computing, Optimization problems in Sensor and Ad Hoc Networks – Advanced Topic in Algorithms 1997– 2001 University of Mysore, Mysore, India  B.E (CS&E) [The National Institute of Engg.] First Class with Distinction in all 8 semesters & an impeccable aggregate of 83.8% (converted GPA 4.0)

Professional Experience

August 2001-July2006

Software Engineer II, Cisco Systems Global R&D Center, Bangalore

Summary- Experience in embedded software development and networking in areas such as Device Drivers- [Communication Controllers, ASICs, FPGAs], IP Switching & Routing-[OSPF, BGP, ISIS, EIGRP…], TCP/UDP stacks, IEEE Ethernet and Bridging(STP, RSTP), and SONET/SDH standards.

Internship  Summer Internship (Feb to June2001) at Cisco Systems GRDC, Bangalore.

Publications and selected Technical Reports 1. A Protocol Adaptive Mechanism for Routing Information Exchange across Heterogeneous Ad Hoc Routing Domains, IEEE IPCCC 2004.

2. The Patricia Trie on the Catalyst 8540 Layer 3 cards EDCS-417744 3. Methods for system recovery and system debugging in a dual OS system. EDCS- 417519

4. Testing considerations and approach for testing a dual OS system. EDCS-299116

Academic Honors 1. Graduate Teaching Assistantship, Graduate Registration Scholarship Fall 2006 2. Graduate Tuition Scholarship for the year 2006-2007 3. Sri Chandrashekar Memorial award for securing the highest aggregate marks in Mathematics from I to IV semesters at the University of Mysore engineering exams 4. Sri Narasimha Prasad Memorial award for being the Topper of second semester University of Mysore engineering exams. (Secured a record score of 940/1000) 5. Secured state rank of 209 (top 0.5%) in the 1997 Common Entrance Test exams of the state of Karnataka. 6. Merit award for standing first in school in the Class 10th CBSE exams

Skill Sets Languages, Scripts, S/W Management Tools  C, Java, ML  Bash, TCL, Perl (basics)  GNU Make, Advanced ClearCase, DOORS(Requirements Management) Web Technologies – [Basics]  Java Servlets, Java Server Pages on Apache Tomcat 5.5.16 (on WinXP)  MySQL 5.0 and PHP 5.1.14 with Apache 2.0.55 (on WinXP)  HTML, CSS, JavaScript Platforms  Linux, Solaris, VxWorks, Cisco IOS  IXIA traffic generator, Agilent Test Set, Omniber Optical Test Equipment, Cisco Pagent packet generator

Other Achievements  Awarded 6 CAP awards at Cisco Systems for exceptional performances in projects  Worked towards setting up the first IEEE student chapter of NIE & served as Chair of membership committee. The NIE-IEEE Student Branch won the “Exemplary Student Branch” Award for the entire Region 10 (for the year 2001).