<p> POORNANANDA GADDEHOSUR</p><p>Address: 1802, E Helen St, Email: [email protected] B 101, Tucson, AZ 85719. Phone: 520 243 0828</p><p>Objective Internship position to work on challenging research problems that utilizes my algorithms, networking and systems programming background </p><p>Research Interests Approximation algorithms, Combinatorial Optimization, Parallel and Distributed Computing, Advanced networking paradigms – peer to peer, ad hoc networks Education</p><p>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)</p><p>Professional Experience</p><p>August 2001-July2006</p><p>Software Engineer II, Cisco Systems Global R&D Center, Bangalore</p><p>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.</p><p>Internship  Summer Internship (Feb to June2001) at Cisco Systems GRDC, Bangalore.</p><p>Publications and selected Technical Reports 1. A Protocol Adaptive Mechanism for Routing Information Exchange across Heterogeneous Ad Hoc Routing Domains, IEEE IPCCC 2004.</p><p>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</p><p>4. Testing considerations and approach for testing a dual OS system. EDCS-299116</p><p>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</p><p>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</p><p>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).</p>