AKSHAY VISHWAS DABHOLKAR

Office:
Institute of Software Integrated Systems 2015 Terrace Place Vanderbilt University, OBJECTIVE & CAREER GOAL Nashville, TN 37203, USA. Landline: (615) 322-7805 Email: aky@ dre.vanderbilt.edu 315, 37th Avenue North, Nashville, TN 37209, USA. Mobile: (615) 415-7440 Email: akshay.dabholkar@gmail.com

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OBJECTIVE & CAREER GOAL

To seek a part-time/full-time summer internship position that will broaden the scope of my research. Goal is to achieve broad expertise in the field of Distributed Systems and Standards-Based Middleware.

RESEARCH INTERESTS
Software Architectures, Patterns and Frameworks, Component Oriented Distributed Middleware, ModelDriven Engineering, Ultra-large Scale (ULS) systems, High Performance and Grid Computing, Multi-QoS provisioning in Heterogeneous Distributed Systems.

EXECUTIVE SUMMARY
Pursuing PhD in model-driven standards-based distributed component-oriented middleware One conference publication3 Research experience in software architecture and design of Distributed Systems1, 2, 4, 5 Professional industry experience with Software Product-line Development in a MNC6
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WORK EXPERIENCE
Graduate Research Assistant
Vanderbilt University (Fall 2006 present) Standards based QoS-enabled Distributed Component Middleware and Model Driven Engineering, Software Architecture, Design Patterns New Mexico State University (Fall 2004 Spring 2006)5 Distributed Systems, Communication Optimizations, Collaborative Virtual Environments, Graph Based Rendering Optimizations
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Graduate Teaching Assistant

New Mexico State University (Fall 2005 Spring 2006) Software Development, Introduction to CS Vanderbilt University (Spring 2007) Intermediate Software Development

Software Engineering Intern

Tech-X Corporation Research and implementation of local and remote interoperability between TAO (The ACE Orb) and Babel middleware components for the Distributed Parallel High Performance Computing domain
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Software Engineer
Caritor India Pvt. Ltd. (October 2003 May 2004) Worked in product R&D division working on an eCRM product called Certido (http://www.certido.com for clients like Honeywell, Amersham, Teradyne

EDUCATION
PhD - Computer Science1 (Spring 2010 expected)
Vanderbilt University (VU), Nashville, TN Advisers: Dr. Douglas Schmidt & Dr. Aniruddha Gokhale. MS - Computer Science2 (Summer 2007 expected) Vanderbilt University (Vandy), Nashville, TN Cumulative GPA: 3.6 Advisers: Dr. Douglas Schmidt & Dr. Aniruddha Gokhale. New Mexico State University (NMSU), Las Cruces, NM Cumulative GPA: 3.8 Advisers: Dr. Clinton Jeffery & Dr. Jonathan Cook. Thesis: Prototyping Service Oriented Collaborative Virtual Environments

BE Computer Engineering (June 2003)

K. J. Somaiya CoE (KJSCE), University of Mumbai (MU), India. Equivalent GPA: 3.92/4.0 Advisers: Dr. S. Biswas (IIT-Bombay) & Prof. Uday Joshi (Mumbai University). Project: Document Tracking and Information Access System

AWARDS & SCHOLARSHIPS

Ratan Tata Scholarship for securing distinction during undergraduate studies 2000-2001. JRD Tata Scholarship for securing distinction during undergraduate studies 2001-2002. Graduate Research Assistant Fellowship at New Mexico State University 2004-2006. Graduate Research Assistant Fellowship at Vanderbilt University 2006-present.

TECHNICAL SKILLS
Programming Languages: C/C++, Java , C#, GTK#, x86 Assembly, Cobol, Prolog, Pascal, Icon/Unicon, Java Swing, LINC (a 4GL for UNISYS Mainframes), LaTex, MPI, OpenMP Scripting Languages: Unix Shell Script, Perl, Windows Scripting Host, JavaScript Web Technologies: ASP, JSP, Java Beans, EJBs, Java Servlets, JMS, RMI, RMI-IIOP, and JTA, UDDI, Apache HTTP Server, Tomcat , Apache Web Server, XML-XSLT-XSD, XML Web Services, SOAP, PHP, DHTML and CSS Enterprise Platforms: CORBA, CCM, J2EE, .NET, Mono (Open Source .NET Implementation), BEA WebLogic Server. Software Engineering Techniques/Tools: OOP, Design Patterns and Frameworks, Component Based Software Development, Model Integrated Computing, UML, MPC, Make, Automake, CVS, SVN, VSS, ANT, JUnit, CPPUNIT, Eclipse IDE, Netbeans, VS7.0/8.0 Operating Systems: Unix, Linux, Windows NT/9x/2000/XP/Vista Databases & Query Languages: SQL, PL-SQL, MySQL, Oracle, MS-SQL Server 7.0

PUBLICATIONS
A Framework for Prototyping Collaborative Virtual Environments3
by Clinton Jeffery, Akshay Dabholkar, Kosta Tachtevrenidis and Yosep Kim Proceedings of the 11th International Workshop on Groupware (CRIWG 2005) September 25-29, 2005 Porto de Galinhas, Pernambuco, Brazil. Volume 3706 / 2005 of Lecture Notes in Computer Science Springer-Verlag

CURRENT & RECENT PROJECTS

Heterogeneous Deployment & Configuration: Investigating and providing solutions to issues arising in the deployment and configuration of heterogeneous systems composed using different component infrastructure platforms4, multi-QoS enforcement for heterogeneous systems4 Multi-QoS Interweaving: Developing a unified QoS modeling framework for DRE systems and providing an infrastructure that will enable to analysis, model checking, evaluation, simulation and verification of the effects of one QoS aspect on another4 Model-Driven Middleware Security: Security QoS Modeling of Enterprise DRE Systems 4 (SQML) & CCM middleware portable interceptor implementation Hybrid System Simulation of TCP Congestion Control: Modeled, Simulated and Verified using MATLABTM. Babel-TAO Interoperability: Local and Remote interoperability between both middleware components6 sVIEW - A framework for Service Oriented Collaborative Virtual Environments (MS Thesis)5 5 NETCAM (Reverse Engineered and Reengineered a Network Security Camera) 5 CIDE (Collaborative Integrated Development Environment)

CO-CURRICULAR ACTIVITIES
Won 4th prize in ACM programming competition held at New Mexico State University, USA. Won 1st & 2nd prizes at Abhiyantriki 2003, a technical festival at K. J. Somaiya College of Engineering, Mumbai.

Special interest in programming, hacking, assimilating knowledge on technology trends & transitions.

EXTRA-CURRICULAR ACTIVITIES
Project leader of GOAL (GO for Absolute Leadership), a project for nurturing & instilling leadership qualities in professional undergraduates at Vivekananda Seva Mandal, a students social organization. Secretary of Interact Club, a students social service organization, in school. Member, IEEE, ISTE (Indian Society of Technical Education), CSI (Computer Society of India). Founding Committee Member, ASCI (Association of Students of Computers and IT) at K.J. Somaiya CoE.