BADRI NARAYANAN CHAMPAKESAN
9 Sapling Circle, Apt# 14, Nashua, NH – 03062, USA
[Send email using form at bottom]; cbnram@yahoo.com 
512-657-2105

EDUCATION

The University of Texas at Austin	         
Masters in Computer Science (May 2008)                 
Major GPA: 3.60
(Open to relocation anywhere inside USA)

University of Madras, Chennai, India 	
Bachelor of Engineering in Computer Science and Engineering (May 2003)        
First class with distinction (top 10% of the graduating class)

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Platform                 : DotNet
Languages              : C++, Java, C#, Ruby, SQL, HTML
Operating Systems : Windows XP, Linux QUbuntu

EXPERIENCE
Enterasys – Siemens Inc.                                                        
               August 2008 – April 2009
Software Engineer
•	Designed Alarm tool event group synchronization with Network signature
libraries.
•	Modified code for dragon fire tools for summarization of output in a format as
requested by user.

Cisco Systems Inc.                                              					Summer
2007
Software Development Intern                                                     
                                Austin, TX, USA
•	 Designed and developed Network end-to-end services for retrieving the log
messages from the  
 Configuration server and recording them to the Log server.
•	 Built Locator server to identify other servers. Developed Authentication
server to authenticate users who  
 have rights to perform the operations on the servers using Java.
•	 Provided language support to Etch compiler bindings and transport modules
using C# and Ruby.

Infosys Technologies Ltd.        						
Senior Software Engineer				            October 2004 – December 2005
Southwestern Bell Corporation				        Chennai, India/ Connecticut, USA
•	 Designed, developed and tested applications for customer's service order
processing in mainframes environment using COBOL and JCL.
•	Conducted training on the organizational approach to the new joiners.
•	Implemented a new reporting process for the testing module on-site. Received
client's appreciation award for building a tool in Visual Basic for reporting the
results of test cases.

Aetna – US Healthcare and Insurance			                   August 2004 – October
2004
 Software Engineer                                                              
                                            Chennai, India
•	Migrated local modifications, interfaces in an old version of the IMS database
to the latest version of the DB2 database. 
•	Coordinated daily update of the databases with latest changes and development
of applications according to the customer specifications.

Software Engineer				                                         July 2003 – August
2004
Verizon Data Communications Inc.					               Chennai, India
•	Working on a team of approx. 200, black-box tested a single new application to
ensure seamless flow for processing the customer's orders using the DotNet
application.
•	Prepared test requirements from customer specifications, analyzed, designed
test cases & tested against the system.

RESEARCH EXPERIENCE

Unification of Verification and Validation of Software Systems              
June 2006 – January 2007
•	Built a model of the UT library, specified properties and tested them.
•	Formed a BNF grammar using the past-time temporal logic.
•	Added preconditions/postconditions to the I/O of components to the property
specification language

PROJECTS
•	Compilers: Implemented auto-vectorization in scale compiler using Java. The
project outperformed the optimization code produced by the gcc compiler.
•	Data Mining: Executed classification accuracy of the Latex dataset by
comparing and contrasting different classifier learning algorithms in Weka
package.
•	Machine Learning: Designed & developed Wireless Fault Diagnostics by
collecting data in real-time. Converting & classified them using the Weka
package. One of the first projects to deal with real-time data.