Software Developer/Engineer Resume

Desired Industry: Information Technology	SpiderID: 5983
Desired Job Location: Houston, Texas	Date Posted: 3/16/2006
Type of Position: Full-Time Permanent	Availability Date: asap
Desired Wage:
	U.S. Work Authorization: Yes
Job Level: Experienced with over 2 years experience	Willing to Travel: Yes, 25-50%
Highest Degree Attained: Masters	Willing to Relocate: Yes

Objective:
Seeking responsible fulltime/part-time position leverage, enhance and build upon my current skills. Strengths include excellent problem solving and design skills, verbal and written communication skills, teamwork, commitment to achievement, diversity of knowledge and technical skills.

Experience:
1)
EPCON International
Houston, Texas
08/2002 – cont.
Software-Developing Engineer/Project Manager

Main responsibility:
* Designing, developing and improving Pressure Relief Valve (PRV) application/simulator. I worked as Project manager, lead developer/ designer of PRV. PRV is a network application which uses an Oracle, SQL Server or Access database. Database was design to enhance high performance and efficiency. I designed PRV such that customer can connect to central database or work with local database.
* Working with different consultants and clients to improve PRV application, thermodynamics engine. Worked closely with flash/Thermo experts. Most of these consultants are PhD in Chemical Engineering with more than 20 years of experience.
* Developed an equipment server, which can connect to client equipment database. During this time, I developed a custom ADODB Connection/Recordset object to implement Zerget Patent.
* Designed and developed plug and play thermodynamic database system that can be used for all applications of EPCON. The database was design to hold thermodynamics data of components such as physical properties, binary interactions parameters for SRKKD, SRK and NRTL.
* Deploying applications to the client company and provided technical supports on PRV and THERMA. Responsibility also includes developing the licensing strategy, developing installation of the application and generating scripts for the database.
* Designing strategies to integrate all these simulators together to create a final product for chemical process simulation.
* Designed a THERMA application, which runs flashes using SRKKD or NRTL.
* Developed advanced feature to APITECH application for API (American Petroleum Institute). Integrated THERMA with APITECH.
* Developed Custom simulators for specific clients.
* Developed advanced feature for GPA (Gas Processing Association).
* Resolved Patent conflicts with competitors’ application.

2)
Kellogg Brown & Root – Halliburton
Houston, Texas
08/2001 – 08/2002
Associate Application Developer/Analyst

* Coded macros and stand-alone applications on VBA & VB 6.0 to interface Visio.
* Developed utilities to generate various comprehensive reports for Process Design.
* Designed, Tested Applications to provide high performance, efficiency, & user-friendly environments.
* Modified and maintained the database to ensure high performance and less maintenance.
* Reported and evaluated issues with Project Managers, Development Engineers, and Team Leads.

Education:
Master of Electrical and Computer Engineering
University of Houston
* Graduated in December 2004.

Computer Engineering, B.S.
University of Houston
* Graduated in December 2002 with Magma Cum Laude.
* GPA: 3.5/4.0.

Skills:
* PROGRAMMING LANGUAGES: Visual Basic 6.0(Excellent), .NET VC++, VBA (Excellent), C, C++ (Excellent), JAVA (Excellent), FORTRAN (Excellent), Prolog, Verilog, HTML.
* DATABASE: Oracle 8.7 and 9i, SQL Server 2000, MSDE 2000, Access
* OPERATING SYSTEMS AND NETWORKS: All versions of Windows, DOS, NT 4.0, UNIX, VMS, TCP/IP, and Macintosh.
* MICROPROCESSORS AND ASSEMBLY LANGUAGES: Intel 8086 & Pentium Pro, Motorola HC6811, Lego RCX, MIPS.
* SOFTWARE: Source Safe, MATHCAD, Mathlab, AutoCAD, MS Office all versions: Word, Excel, Access, PowerPoint, Outlook, Outlook Express, Electric workbench, Visio, and FrontPage.

Additional Information:
* Graduated with Honors: Magma Cum Laude
* Dean's list – During Freshmen and sophomore years (1998-2000).
* Member of Tau Beta Pi, IEEE (Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineering), Golden Key, National Society of Collegiate Scholars.
* Franklin Maguire Scholarship, Softlane Paper Scholarship.

Candidate Contact Information:

Name: Bhavin Patel
Street:	Phone: 281 313 3068
City: Sugar Land	Fax: -
State: Texas
Zip: 77478
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