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Vivek Deveshwar's Resume

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IT Consultant/ Technical Architect/ Java Developer

• 14 years of experience in IT industry, since May 2001 as an independent consultant in roles of Technical Architect, Technical Management, and Senior developer
• Experience in industries -- Finance and Investment Banking, Mobile, Telecom, Healthcare, Travel, Airline
• 9 years of experience in developing and architecting E-Business, Banking/Insurance, and Network management applications on Java/J2EE and Microsoft platforms
• 5 years of experience in Networking, protocols stacks, distributed applications on UNIX platform in C, C++ etc
• Experience in managing client and end user requirements, writing specifications, system design, and architecture documents
• International work experience including travel to US, Germany, France, UK and Netherlands for client meetings and requirements analysis

Mode of engagement:

• what kind of work I do: on consulting engagement as architect, business and process analysis and documentation, system design, as developer, and reviewer
• what kind of work I don't do: refer to "Do not contact me..." below.
• duration of engagement: anything from 1 month to 6 months and sometimes more
• mode of work: can be at client site or from my own home office using own hardware, or vpn, remote login etc
• payments: based on time spent billed on hourly rate etc

Do not contact me if you:

• do not have a specific area of problem to be looked into, or a project you need help with
• want to meet and talk in general and see how we can work together.. Refer to above point again
• want me to start work first and sign up a contract later
• truly need an employee
• just want to check my availability without discussing the work and engagement
• will take more than 2 weeks to decide if you want my services... better contact me at later date again
• do not want to pay for my time spent on discussions and analysis beyond initial 4 hours

Career History:

Working as Software Architect and Consultant as an independent professional	May 2001 onwards
Eclaton eBusiness Development Unit India Pvt Ltd, subsidiary of Eclaton B.V., an Amsterdam based eBusiness company	May 2000 – Apr 2001
WebTek Software Pvt Ltd, Bangalore {subsidiary of Dresdner Kleinwort Benson (an investment bank), member of Dresdner bank group}	Mar 1999 – May 2000
Hewlett Packard India Software Operations, Bangalore	Jun 1995 – Feb 1999
Hughes Software Systems, Delhi	Nov 1993 – Jun 1995

Domain and Verticals Experience:

• Telecom/Mobile services
• Investment Banking/Finance/Insurance industry
• Enterprise applications, E-Business applications, E-Commerce
• Healthcare
• Travel industry

Technology Experience:

• Web services and SOA
• Network Management and Storage Area Network Management
• N-tier and Client-Server Computing
• Airline Reservation Protocols
• Networking protocols

If you are interested in technical project descriptions, please check here

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Work experience

Management console for SOA startup Jul - Oct 2006
Developed configuration module for web based configuration of an SOA system.

Device Management using Web services (www.mformation.com)  Oct 2005 - Jun 2006
Worked on Mobile services management and Device Management using web services. Wrote a framework for automated testing of web services using jython scripting.

Ayurveda and travel portal  Aug-Oct 2005
Worked on an Ayurveda and travel portal. Helped to hire client's team, did software architecture, set up development processes/tools, design database, and developed initial codebase.

C2Silicon (www.c2silicon.com) Jun 2004-Aug 2005
Developed framework for accessing SAN (Storage Area Network) management APIs through web services. Wrote several web services for SAN management. Also developed a command line interface (CLI) and scripting framework to manage SAN using scripts for provisioning storage, volume replication, monitoring etc

FirstApex Technologies (www.firstapex.com) Jan 2004- May 2004
The role involves analyzing the insurance components and product, and analyzing performance bottlenecks in application, persistence middleware, and database.  Also, to profile the applications for CPU usage, memory leaks, and recommending changes (if required) for making the application scalable.  Also involved in preparing performance tests, and a predictive model of performance over hardware with different tpmC

SG Software Asia Pvt Ltd(www.sgsoftwareasia.com) Jun 2003 - Dec 2003

Working as consulting technical architect on an Intranet based Application for monitoring Compliance to US SEC and NASD Regulations for Equity, Debt, and Derivatives business of the bank.

Lisle Technology Partners (www.lisletech.com) Feb 2003 - Apr 2003

Worked as consultant on an operational support system for a cellular service reseller based in US.

Metalearn (www.vcpl.org) Aug 2002 - Sep 2002

Worked as consultant on an E-learning product.

Impelsys (www.impelsys.com) May 2001 - Jan 2002

Worked as technical consultant on a healthcare e-commerce website. Did project management for a accounting module to reconcile supplier invoices with credit card payments. Did UML modelling for another project for a publishing site in US. Also did technical design on an online knowledge and learning site for physicians.

Eclaton eBusiness Development Unit India Pvt Ltd May 2000 - Mar 2001

Worked as project manager on projects like Nautical web-portal, Unified messaging service through web, and XML agent for shopping. I was also involved with making technical proposals and project feasibility analysis for customers ranging from a shipping/logistics company, a Chemicals marketplace, a major European ERP vendor, and a framework for Airline industry using Weblogic Collaborate technology.

Webtek Software Pvt Ltd(subsidiary of Dresdner Bank)Mar 1999 - May 2000

Worked as project manager on projects like Contact Management System for Global Finance division, Portfolio Management System, intranet application for Leasing, intranet application for Project Finance, Over the Counter Equity Derivatives, and several other small projects.

Hewlett Packard India Software Operations (http://www.hpindia.com/iso/) Jun 1995 - Feb 1999

Worked as developer on product/API implementing File Transfer and Access Management (FTAM) protocol of the OSI layer. Did multi-threading of XAP API for access to networking services by an application. Also worked as team leader on project involving porting of networking stack from 32-bit to 64-bit. Did work as team leader and developer on developing API for airline application for Amadeus airline reservation system.

Hughes Software Systems (www.hughessoftware.com) Nov 1993 - Jun 1995

Developed a test suite to test layer 2 protocol LAPF for Frame Relay implementation. Supported the X.25, Frame Relay product. Also worked on enhancement to enable the network to support 1024 nodes from then limit of 256 nodes.

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Technical Skills:

Programming Languages	C++, C, Java, C#, VB, VB.Net, VBA, UNIX Shell programming, Vbscript, Javascript, ASP, ASP.Net, VB.Net, PHP, Jython
Internet technologies	J2EE, EJB, Web Services, JSP, ASP, ASP.Net, COM, Servlets, JDBC, JMS, XML, XMLBeans, XSL, XPath, Web Services, SOAP, Apache Axis, Perl/CGI, RMI, J2ME
Application/Web Servers	Weblogic (4.5, 5, 6, 7, 8), IIS (4, 5), Websphere 3.x, Jboss 3, Tomcat 4.1, 5.x, Apache HTTP web server
Operating Systems worked on	Win 2k, Win NT, Win9x, HP-UX, Linux, VAX/VMS, Solaris
Development and Testing Tools	Visual Studio, JDK 1.x, NetBeans 4.1 and 5 , Eclipse 2.1 till 3.2, MyEclipse, OptimizeIt, OpenSTA, JMeter, Canoo Webtest, Htmlunit, Httpunit
Design, Case tools/Configuration Management, Software Tools	Rational Rose, Visio, Clear Case, Rational Purify, TogetherJ, CVS/WinCVS, Ant, Maven, Visual Paradigm, Subversion, Beyond Compare, Guiffy, NullSoft
EAI, SOA, Lightweight frameworks and Middleware	Web Services, JMS, JAX-RPC, SAAJ, SOAP, Apache Axis, Spring Frameworks, Reuters SFC, Tibco Rv
Databases and ORM	MS SQL Server 6.5/7/2000, Oracle 8i and 9, MS Access, Postgresql 8.x, MySQL 3.2x till 5.x, ERWin Tool, BusinessObjects and Webintelligence, SolarMetric Kodo 2.5, Hibernate
Modelling, Methodologies	UML, RUP, Object Oriented Programming, XP, Agile, TDD
Networking technologies	Layer 2 protocols like LAPF/LAPB, Layer 3 like X.25/Frame Relay, TCP/IP, Application level and Session level protocols of OSI stack

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Education:

Indian Institute of Management, Bangalore; MBA - graduated 2005
Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi; B. Tech. Electrical - graduated 1993

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