Vedic Technologies – Raleigh, NC

Technical Staff, Founding Member

4/2001 – Present

Software consultant at Allstate Insurance Company. Developing and supporting a production insurance policy management system. Optimized core rating software component to reduce memory usage by 95% and system initialization time by 50%.

Also a significant contributor in a small project team designing a Voice over IP (VoIP)-based telephony system. The system consists of an IP-based PBX software server and software telephony clients. The software clients run on Windows PCs and Pocket PC devices using wireless Ethernet (802.11x). Involved in all aspects of full software development lifecycle including creating specifications, design, programming, testing, and releases.

Tenfold Corporation – Raleigh, NC

Software Developer

7/2000 – 3/2001

Designed and developed process management infrastructure, middleware, and application servers for a large-scale transaction application. Wrote platform independent code to run on WinNT, Unix, Solaris, AIX, and HP-UX. Wrote multi-threaded code in full software development lifecycle.

The University of North Carolina – Chapel Hill, NC

Research Assistant, Teaching Assistant

8/1998 – 5/2000

Redesigned the messaging system for virtual reality infrastructure application using OO techniques. Developed platform-independent code to run on Unix, WinNT, and Linux. Taught Operating Systems, Data Structures, and Programming courses.

American Electric Power – Columbus, OH

Intern, PC/ Server Support Services

5/1997 – 8/1998

Worked in the UNIX system administration group on IBM AIX and HP-UX systems. Assisted with system backups and wrote shell scripts to generate nightly reports.

The University of North Carolina

Chapel Hill, NC

M.S. in Computer Science, May 2001.

Bowling Green State University

Bowling Green, OH

B.S. in Computer Science and B.S. in Mathematics, Magna Cum Laude, May 1998.
GPA: 3.82

Relevant courses

Advanced Operating Systems, Advanced Networking, Software Engineering, Parallel Distributed Computing, Computer Architecture, Algorithms, Numerical Analysis.

Phi Beta Kappa

Golden Key National Honor Society

National Merit Scholar