Software Professional

Posted on: 2007-03-28

ANNAPOORNIMA KOPPAD 49 Upper Merrimac Street, Buffalo, New York 14214 ● email: [email protected] EDUCATION M.S. in Electrical Engineering, Feb 2008 University at Buffalo, The State University of New York Concentration: Micro-electronics, GPA 3.0/4.0 B.E. in Electrical and Electronics Engineering, 2004 University Visvesvaraya College of Engineering, Bangalore, India Graduated in top 5% of the class Certificate Program in VLSI, Aug 2003 M.S. Ramaiah School of Advanced Sciences, Bangalore, India PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE Student Assistant, School of Public Health and Health Professions, University at Buffalo, New York, Current Job • General computer hardware and software setup. • Troubleshooting problems with various setup issues. • Basic user support of computer, software and interacting with Faculty/Staff/Students on various issues Software Engineer, Infosys Technologies Ltd, Bangalore, India, 2004 – 2006 • Underwent training in wireless mobile technologies that included GSM, GPRS technologies. • Worked as part of the Design Support Team of the Nortel OSDC handling change requests from customer sites, solving cases from customers. • Coded in PROTEL language for the Call Forwarding feature of mobiles as part of Fast Feature team of the Voice Core Design (VCD) team of the Nortel Offshore Development Centre. • Developed High Level Design (HLD), Detailed Design (DD) documents for the same. • Coded test cases to test the proper implementation and functioning of the written code. • Held code reviews and brainstorming sessions with peers to discuss the code. • Communicated with software professionals at all levels. PROJECTS UNDERTAKEN Cadence Projects, University at Buffalo, State University of New York • Designed a CMOS operational amplifier on 160um technology. • Designed a 16 bit Ripple carry Adder on 180nm technology • Performed DRC, LVS on the above mentioned projects Verilog Project, (Spring 2007), University at Buffalo, State University of New York • Designed a Linear Feedback Shift Register (LFSR) on Simvision with Verilog. • Implemented the behavioral as well as structural model for LFSR. Testing using ATALANTA, (Spring 2007), University at Buffalo, State University of New York • A combinational circuit was designed to get 100% fault coverage. • Netlist for the circuit was written. • Test vectors were generated using ATALANTA automatic test pattern generator (ATPG) Substation Fault Recording System, SUNLUX Technologies Ltd, Bangalore, India • Modeled a Substation fault recording system with VME bus hardware and RTOS OS-9 that operated in real time range of one millisecond. Super Conducting Oxides (Research Oriented Self Study), SSCU Department, IISC, Bangalore, India • Synthesized Lanthanum Oxides and tested them for superconductivity at room temperatures. RELATED COURSE WORK Advance Switching theory VLSI devices Micro-electronics Electronic circuits Power Electronics Microcontrollers Analog Circuits Advance VLSI Devices VLSI Testing Digital Signal Processing Micro processors Analog Integrated Circuit Layout MicroElectroMechanical Systems Micro electronics Device Fabrication Computer Organization and Computer Architecture COMPUTER SKILLS Languages: C, C++, Protel, PL/SQL, HTML, PHP, JavaScript, Flash, VHDL, Verilog Platforms: MS Windows 98/2000/XP, MS-DOS, UNIX, Linux and Switch Operating System (SOS) Software: Oracle, Visual Basic, Word, Excel, and PowerPoint. EDA tools: ANSYS, MATLAB, PSPICE, Electronics Work Bench, Cadence, Spectre, Hspice, Schematic capture, layout, LVS/DRC verification, Websites designed: www.uvce.in , www.pes.edu , www.geocities.com/mail_anpk , www.sphhp.buffalo.edu LEADERSHIP EXPERIENCE Member Development Officer, IEEE-UVCE Student Chapter, Bangalore, India, 2002- 2003 • Worked for “Impetus”, the annual IEEE-UVCE technical fest for two consecutive years. • Organized a symposium on “CDMA for Wireless Communications” by Dr. Rodger E. Ziemer. • Organized a Student Branch Leadership Workshop for the IEEE-Bangalore region in association with IEEE GOLD society. • Worked as part of team hosting the IEEE Computer Society at India’s largest IT extravaganza IT.com, 2002 AWARDS AND HONOURS • Awarded the H.K.Patil scholarships for Higher Studies in US based on good academic performance. • Awarded “Certified Student Leader” certificate from the Leadership Development Center at University at Buffalo. • Winner of the first part in the IBM Master the Mainframe Contest. AFFILIATIONS Member, Institution of Electrical and Electronics Engineers(IEEE) Member, Society of Women Engineers(SWE) Member, IEEE Women in Engineering(WIE) Member, International Engineering Consortium (IEC) Member, Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) REFERENCES Furnished upon request