CurriculumVitae +1 3433331455 { [email protected] Monish Kumar Desai Kingston, ON, Canada }
Education Master of Engineering in Electrical & Computer Engineering
2011 - 2013 Queen’s University, Kingston, ON, Canada. Monish Royal Military College of Canada, Kingston, ON, Canada. Honours Bachelor of Engineering Degree in Computer Engineering 2007 – 2010 University of Limerick, Limerick, Ireland.
Diploma in Computer Technology 2004 – 2007 Sou. Venutai Chavan Polytechnic, Pune, India.
Volunteer Experience Jul 2011 - Aug 2011 Data Entry Personnel St. Mary of the Angles St. John of God, Beaufort, Ireland May 2008 –Jun 2011 SW Developer St. Francis Special School St. John of God, Beaufort, Ireland
Work Experience May 2008 – Jan 2009 Automated Testing Co-op Engineer Nortel Networks Galway, Ireland Nortel Galway is now part of Avaya Sales Internationals. Avaya delivers unified hardware and software solutions to reduce complexity, increase productivity and make communication cost-effective.
Key Project Automated testing of Nortel Contact Center 7.0 Multimedia and Communication Control Toolkit software. Limited manual testing of CC7.0, to verify testing infrastructure and product troubleshooting.
Main Responsibilities Nightly System Operations (SysOps) software builds. Automated testing of Contact Center software products. Manual testing & Quality Maintenance of Contact Center software DVD installer. Fault analysis, troubleshooting and test result documentation. Raising and managing Product Defect Notifications. Building test servers, installing patches and prerequisite softwares, installing and configuring Nortel products. Building and maintaining automated functional test beds – hardware and software. Maintaining critical servers like Microsoft Update Server, Windows Domain Controller and File Server. Hardware resource management. Local/Remote backup & restore, using Norton Symantec Ghost. Virtualization and remote accessibility to virtual servers. GUI enhancement and functionality optimisation in installer using C# .NET.
Achievements First Nortel Co-op to get “Excellence@Nortel 2 star Silver Appreciation Award”. Awarded in January 2009 by Nortel Networks Galway. “Annual International Education Division Merit Bursary Award 2009”. Awarded in February 2010 by University of Limerick. “Annual International Education Division Merit Bursary Award 2008”. Awarded in December 2008 by University of Limerick.
Skills Serial: C, C++, Visual basic & C# .net, SQL Parallel: MPI, Pthread & OpenMP with C Computer Languages Hardware: VHDL, MASM 8086 Web: HTML5, CSS3, JavaScript, jQuery, paperjs
Apache Tomcat, FileZilla, MySQL App Server, Windows External web server Application Servers and Windows Update server.
Proficient in server hardware and software installations, upgrades and Hardware network peripherals.
DOS, Windows 9x, XP, 7, 8, Windows 2003 Server, Windows 2008 Server R2; Operating Systems Mac OS X Lion; Ubuntu 12.10, fedora 13, Maemo, Unix; MicroC OS-II.
Software IDE’s Visual Studio 2010, NetBeans, CodeWarrior, XILINIX, Sublime Text, Balsamiq.
Clarify CRM, Net ID, Livelink, Sysinternal Process Explorer & Thread Monitors. Other Tools Adobe Photoshop and Macromedia flash. Basic knowledge of Oracle, Sybase, Clear Case and Crystal Report.
Automated installation and full NUnit-based automated functional testing. Manual testing – to debug product and test equipment issues. Quick-fire manual and NUnit-based sanity testing. Testing Test case generation, fault analysis, and Product Defect Notification management. Daily test result documentation and presentation.
Network routers, data switches, Nortel PABX telephony switches. Administered a lab with more than 60 servers, 2 routers, 4 Nortel PABX Networking telephony switches, a data store, domain controller, Web server and Mailing server across 2 different networks.
Microsoft’s Virtual PC & Virtual Machine. Proficient with VMware: ESX 3i server, Servers and Workstations. Virtualizations Have experience of installing, upgrading, maintaining, porting, networking, and maintaining ISO library of all of the above.
Experienced with backups, restore & recovery of critical servers. Backup’s & Recovery Proficient with Norton Ghost Server & Norton Ghost Suite. Maintained backups in a lab of 60 servers using various operating systems.
Environment & Proficient in doing Streamlined Life Cycle Assessments (SLCA’s) and Electronics observations of full Life Cycle Assessments (LCA’s).
Graphical Design (GD), User Interface (UI) & User Experience (UX) Design. Human Computer Computer Supported Collaborative Work (CSCW) Design. Interaction Ethnomethodological studies of work (Ethnography).
Research Interests Efficient wireless networking, Linux kernel & file system, file system based database, automated GUI testing, cost effective Cloud Computing, Real-Time embedded operating system.
Other Interests I enjoy exploring new electronic and computer technology. Blogging on the subject of environment & electronics. I am passionate about environmental and conservation issues. I support animal rights and I am a Care2 member.
Projects
Summer 2012 Human Computer Interaction design using web based graphical state machine. Master’s Project, HCI, Queens’s University & Royal Military College, Canada. Technologies used: UML, JavaScript, jQuery, paperjs, HTML5, CSS3.
Fall 2011 Comparative analysis of socket based Protocols-Ethernet versus InfiniBand Cluster Computing, Parallel computing, Queen’s University, Canada. Technologies used: MPI-2 cluster, QDR InfiniBand link, MellanoxMT26428 ConnectX, iperf and netperf. Fall 2011 Control Problem in Parallel Languages Discrete Event System, Queen’s University, Canada. Technologies used: Automata theory on JFLAP.
2009 - 2010 Secure Data Sharing and Storage Management System Final year Bachelor of Engineering project, University of Limerick, Ireland. Technologies used: Php, PhpMyAdmin, MySQL and Apache. Grade achieved: A2. 2009 - 2009 Time Critical Locator & Emergency Dispatcher Software specification, design prototype and estimated costing, University of Limerick, Ireland. Technologies used: 3 point tracking, GUI, database, mobile app, telecom application switch. Grade achieved: 24 out of 25. 2006 - 2007 Radio frequency identification device (RFID) for total automation of Supermarkets Final year Diploma project, Sou. Venutai Chavan Polytechnic, India. Technologies used: RFID, MASM, VB 6.0 and MS Access. Grade achieved: 92 out of 100.
Research
Fall 2012 Selecting RTOS for hard & soft Real Time Systems Real Time Operating Systems, Royal Military College, Canada. Research paper “Selecting Real Time Operating System for commercial product development”, p1-4.
Winter 2012 Cognitive Networks Wireless Mobile Communication, Queen’s University, Canada. Presentation and research report, p1-20.
Fall 2011 RMA in MPI-1, MPI-2, MPI-3 & PGAS Family Cluster Computing, Parallel computing lab, Queen’s University, Canada. Presentation and research paper “RMA in MPI & PGAS Family”, p1-6.
Fall 2011 MeeGo vs. Android Software Re-engineering, Queen’s University, Canada. Presentations and research paper “MeeGo vs. Android A case study of portability of Platforms”, p1-9.
Reference letters and transcripts are available on request.
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