VASU RAMAN
P.O. Box 1652, Coos Bay, OR 97420
 [Send email to request phone number] 17.4515 * [Send email using form at bottom]


SENIOR SOFTWARE ENGINEER / LEAD SOFTWARE ENGINEER/
APPLICATIONS / GUI / EMBEDDED
Proven success leading teams and projects to deliver pioneering software
solutions
Accomplished software developer with expertise in all areas of project
management; proven ability to take complex initiatives from the planning board to
successful, on-time release. Recognized for outstanding problem-solving ability
and dynamic communication strengths; works effectively with customers, external
departments, and management to devise and execute inventive solutions that meet
market need, beat competitor offerings, and generate multimillion-dollar sales.

Areas of Expertise:
Agile / Lean Development ~ Rapid Application Development ~ Test Driven
Development ~ Capability Maturity Model ~ Configuration Management ~
Object-Oriented Programming ~ Technology Integration ~ High-Reliability Software
~ Performance Optimization / Memory Optimization ~ 2D / 3D Graphics &
Rasterization ~ Embedded Design / Embedded Programming ~ File Format Parsing /
File Format Processing ~  Security / Encryption Technologies ~ User-Interface
(UI) Design ~ Device Drivers ~ Algorithm Design ~ Cache Optimization ~ Expert
Debugging ~ Training & Mentoring ~ Test Fixtures

Keyword Summary:
Coaching, Code Design, Computer Programming, Customer Service, Debugging,
Embedded Design, Embedded Software Engineer, Encryption, Fixing Bugs, Lead
Software Engineer, Mentoring, Performance Tuning, RAD, Rapid Development,
Requirements Analysis, Sales Engineering, Security, SDLC, Senior Analyst, Senior
Software Engineer, Software Developer, Software Development Life Cycle, Software
Development LifeCycle, Software Release, Solutions-Oriented, Teaching, Team
Leader 

Technical Proficiencies:	
* Programming: C, C++, C#, MFC, ATL, .NET, Java, Javascript, Visual Basic &
VB.NET, Python, x86 & embedded processor (Microchip) assembly language, ASP &
ASP.NET, HTML
* Tools: MS Office Suite, MS Project, MS Visio, Visual Studio, SourceSafe, CVS,
Subversion, NuMega DevPartner, Microchip embedded development tools, Ghostscript,
Windbg, PCB Design Tools, Schematic Capture
* Platforms: Windows, UNIX, DOS  / Embedded / RTOS

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE	
PLP Digital Systems / NUVO Technologies, Scottsdale, AZ and Arlington, VA, 2003
- Present
-- Senior Software Engineer/Project Manager / VP Engineering
Earned steady career advancement with increasing responsibility for development
and enhancement of complex software packages; trained, mentored, and led teams of
up to eight developers to create new Web-based client / server products and
features that generated millions of dollars in business. 
Partnered with Xerox Engineering Systems and other reprographics industry
leaders to integrate hardware and software into revenue-generating solutions that
met customer needs. Designed strategies, attended conferences to gather market
intelligence, and forecasted industry trends. Spearheaded all phases of Agile and
XP project management; worked directly with customers, QA, and Customer Support
to define requirements, drive testing, resolve problems, and obtain feedback for
improving future releases. Set deadlines, coordinated schedules, produced
documentation, and kept key stakeholders in the loop at each stage of development
through daily meetings and progress reports.
Key Achievements:
** Led team to modularize technology components into new flexible architecture;
transformed essential parts of expensive, monolithic codebase resistant to change
into streamlined architecture offering flexibility to meet any customer or
management demand.
** Collaborated frequently with QA and Customer Support to promote reliability
and feedback into development process, substantially improving product through
many iterative releases.

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** Effectively tackled “unsolvable” customer issues to uncover solutions that
enabled product to fill unanticipated circumstances; leveraged intelligent
debugging techniques to identify and resolve difficult and elusive bugs quickly.

** Established coding standards and Agile organizational practices to manage
schedules, monitor progress on deliverables, and ensure quality results at each
stage of development.
** Developed high-quality tools and products that provide support for
large-format printers, folders, scanners, and file formats including TIFF,
Postscript, PDF, HPGL2 / HPRTL / PCL, VRF, DWF, Calcomp, and CALS.
** Transitioned easily between project/team management and “in the trenches”
development roles; assembled PCs for testing, built test cables for hardware, and
worked directly with embedded controllers on peripherals.
** Designed, laid-out and built and automated programming/test fixtures and
software for hardware assembly line, and developed test module to debug client
software as well as enhanced or branched embedded device software.
** Optimized and added to low-level x86 MMX SIMD rasterizer code to increase
performance.

Membership Office Western U.S., Los Angeles, CA, 1993 - 1996
-- Senior Software / Computer Engineer
Wrote high-reliability invoicing and recordkeeping accounting / CRM database
system that reduced errors, increased speed, and provided real-time intelligence.
Assembled, installed, and maintained 10-node network; developed software package
for word processing and recordkeeping, and improved office productivity further
by upgrading in-house software and adding Windows access.
Key Achievements:
** Delivered and maintained system that allowed for continual back-up and
upgrading while in place; successful design kept system active and responsive for
years afterwards. 
** Achieved significant cost benefits through custom software development,
eliminating need for expensive COTS products.

Micro House International, Boulder, CO, 1991 - 1993
-- Senior / Lead Software Engineer
Generated millions of dollars in revenue for company through high-speed software
development. Led four-member team to design DrivePro hard drive installation and
test software, and to create and implement spin-off software product EZ-Drive
that pioneered super-fast, fully automatic drive partitioning, formatting, and OS
installation, with hundreds of thousands of units bundled with retail hard drives
by Seagate, Western Digital, Maxtor (as MaxBlast), and others.
Key Achievements:
** Invented new technology to automatically disable and clean boot sector
viruses, and bypass motherboard limitations to support larger, newer hard
drives.
** Guided Agile development of software modules to meet market needs and to
anticipate future requirements, playing key role in bringing in millions of
dollars in revenue.
** Transformed barebones basic product into full-featured industry leading
solution, and delivered better spin-off product than competition, all while
saving hundreds of thousands of dollars in development costs through creation of
innovative technology.
** Created proprietary multi-layered encryption technology for DRM of company
products.

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Precision Diagnostic Technology, Clearwater, FL, 1989 - 1991
-- Software Engineer / Customer Support Engineer
Engaged on all fronts, with software, hardware, user documentation and customer
service processes, to deliver rapid solutions and bring in tens of thousands of
dollars of business. Prioritized feature lists according to return on development
investment and gain traction on implementation. Initiated customer follow-up,
anticipating bottlenecks and revising tools and resources to better meet needs in
real-time. Analyzed equipment failures to streamline repairs and devise
design-time responses for next generation products.
Key Achievements:
** Enhanced response time and reduced incident duration in Customer Support,
increasing customer satisfaction while virtually eliminating reversed sales.
** Utilized feedback from customers, completely revising software package to be
much more user-friendly and tolerant of user error.
** Proofread and heavily edited the product user manuals and documentation to
better fit use cases and help effectively train customers.
** Repaired and refurbished defective and returned product whenever possible,
decreasing customer wait times and salvaging thousands of dollars of shelved
product.
** Suggested improvements in hardware design based on repair records to the
design engineer and manufacturer.

EDUCATION & CREDENTIALS	
Space Studies (formerly Aerospace Studies)
2008 - present
American Public University, Charles Town, WV
* 4.0 GPA
* Eligible for Golden Key Honor Society
* Expected graduation in 2010

Computer Science / Astrophysics
1982 - 1986
Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, LA
* Scholarship for national 99th percentile score in American College Test (ACT)
- MENSA Eligibility
* Scholarship for First Place in State of Louisiana in Physics Competition
* Assisted Professors in Computer Science and Mechanical Engineering with
research involving AI & robotics lab, image processing, X-Ray diffraction, and
A/D acquisition software
* Performed lunar and stellar observations with Landolt Observatory 11.5"
Refracting Alvan Clark & Sons telescope

Publications
* Raman, V., Iyengar, S.S., “Properties and Applications of Forests of Quadtrees
for Pictorial Data Representation,” BIT (23), 1983, pp. 472-486. Cited in Chapter
19 of Mehta and Sahni's seminal work: Handbook of Data Structures and
Applications.
* Sitharama Iyengar, S., Raman, V., “Properties of The Hybrid Quadtree,”
7ICPR(84), pp. 824-827.