DEV  RAVINDRAN

2549 Redbud Lane #3 
Lawrence,  Kansas  66046 
Phone: (785) 550 - 6156 
Email: devanand@ittc.ku.edu


OBJECTIVE 
To obtain a programming position using web-centric technologies in real-world applications

EDUCATION 

Master of Science - Computer Science 				     December 2003
University of Kansas, Lawrence, Kansas 				     GPA: 3.7 /4.0

Bachelor of Engineering - Computer Science and Engineering  	     May 2000
Shanmugha College of Engineering, Bharatidasan University, Trichy, India  GPA: 3.8 /4.0 

WORK EXPERIENCE

Research Assistant						     January 2002 - August 2003
Information Technology and Telecommunications Center, University of Kansas
* Coded extensive cgi scripts in C and HTML/JavaScript/Perl to provide personalized biological taxonomy information in Project BIOT (funded by the National Science Foundation)-http://ittc.ku.edu/BIOT 
* Designed a user-friendly HTML interface and developed back-end C++ programs to display Conceptual Search results to users - http://ittc.ku.edu/keyconcept 

Programmer Analyst						     July 2000 - June 2001
Silverline Technologies, Bombay, India
* Used JSP and EJB in a Weblogic Web server environment
* Implemented the search module for Click4Care - a multi-million dollar project for searching and generating viewer-specific reports for medical insurance organizations in the United States
* Designed Software Requirement Specifications according to ISO-9001 guidelines and performed unit tests

PROJECTS 

Nemos - Network Monitoring System				     April 2000 - May 2000
Q Soft Systems, Chennai, India
* Used Java RMI to obtain client information and Server Port Listening to monitor Internet Usage through a proxy server
* Designed a GUI interface using Java Swing to monitor the clients in a network

Design of RDBMS for Maintenance Management Systems                   April 1999 - May 1999
SSTP/Bharat Heavy Electricals Ltd, Trichy, India 
* Formulated and designed a full-fledged database for the maintenance department in a large industry

PAPERS
 
"KeyConcept: Exploiting Concept Hierarchies for Search" 
Susan Gauch, Devanand Ravindran, Subhash Induri, Juan Madrid, and Sriram Chadalavada,
ACM Trans. On Information Systems, (in preparation).

"Hyper-G - An alternative to WWW" 
VORTEX 2000, National level Technical Symposium, Regional Engineering College, Trichy, India

COMPUTER SKILLS 

Programming Languages : C, C++, JAVA, COBOL, JSP, EJB, HTML, JavaScript, Perl
Protocols             : TCP/IP, UDP
Platforms             : Windows 2000, Win NT, Unix, Linux, Weblogic Webserver
RDBMS 	  	      : SQL , Oracle, MS-Access
Other Tools 	      : Macromedia Dreamweaver, MS Office, ADOBE Photoshop