SALIM
Email : salim.meetme AT gmail.com

Objective :
Seeking assignments in Project Management / Software Development with a growth oriented organisation.

PROFESSIONAL SYNOPSIS :
- A dynamic professional with over 4 years of experience in Software Development and Project Management.
- Presently working with Verizon Data Services India as Senior Analyst.
- Worked with American Megatrends India Pvt. Ltd. as Senior System Software Engineer till Jun 2010
- Adept in end-to-end development of software products from requirement analysis to system study, designing, coding testing, de- bugging , documentation and implementation.
- Comprehensive knowledge and proficiency in working on C, C++, Visual Basic, Visual C++ and WinCE platform.
- Deft at mapping the requirements, custom designing solutions & troubleshooting for complex software & application problems.
- Master’s Degree in Computer Science (M.Sc.) from Pondicherry University.
- Excellent communication & interpersonal skills with proven abilities in resolving complex software issues.

IT SKILLS :
Operating System : MS DOS, Windows, EFI, Linux, WinCE
Languages : C, C++, Visual Basic, Visual C++
Source Control : MS Visual Source Safe and Smart CVS.

ORGANISATIONAL EXPERIENCE :
Since July ’10 with Verizon Data Services India Ltd., [current working]
Jun ’06 – till date - As Senior Analyst
Since June ’06 with American Megatrends India Private Limited
Growth Path :
Jun ’06 – Nov ’06 - As System Software Engineer Trainee
Dec ’06 – May’08 - As System Software Engineer
Jun ’08 – Jun ’10 - As Senior System Software Engineer

Key Tasks Handled Across the Tenures :
Project Management :
o Conducting Case / System / Process Study for project planning, scoping, estimation, tracking.
o Implementation of project plans within deadlines.
o Team mentoring, deployment, monitoring and development.
o Defining best practices for project support and documentation.

SDLC Planning & Management :
o Client interaction for requirement gathering, system study & analysis.
o Understanding the technical & functional specifications.
o Design, development, testing, troubleshooting and debugging of the application.
o Manage smooth implementation and testing of the application at client location.
o Provide post-implementation, enhancement and maintenance support to client for application.

PROJECTS HANDLED :
- Title : AMI Provisioning
Environment : C, C++, UEFI
Scope : AMI Provisioning tool is a UEFI shell graphical solution that provides the user to configure the firmware, updating the firmware with the available BIOS images, running diagnostics, configuring the network and
localizing the tool with the desired language.

- Title : AMI Flash Utility (AFU for WinCE)
Environment : C, WinCE Kernel driver, WinCE
Scope : This utility was developed as a DLL that exposes APIs to read/write BIOS ROM binary into the system firmware under WinCE environment. This was specifically developed for our client Mobis/HACO.

- Title : BIOS Utilities
Environment : C++, C, VC++, Windows
Scope : Support and maintenance of a set of various OEM tools like MMTOOL, ChangeLogo, AMIBCP, FwBuild, AMISDE, AMISLP and Setupitem. Most of these tools will be shipped with AMIBIOS to its customers who can customize the ROM binary at different levels.

- Title : AMIDiag (DOS)
Environment : C, C++, Assembly, DOS
Scope : The project was executed for diagnosing the PC hardware in DOS Operating System. It involved fixing the bugs sent by the clients (Wipro, HCL and HP) who test it on the different motherboards.

- Title : ROMDiag
Environment : C, Assembly, DOS
Scope : ROM based pc hardware diagnostic solution that fits into the BIOS ROM chip. When the system boot, user can invoke ROMDiag before s/he get into the OS. This was developed for HP – Bangalore, and all their new systems were shipped with ROMDiag.

- Title : LinuxDiag (Prototype)
Environment : C, Assembly, wxWidgets, Linux
Scope : The output of this project was a live Linux diagnostics CD that runs on any x86 platforms. This was OS independent diagnostics solution, developed with rich user interface using the cross platform library (wxWidgets).

- Title : AMI Support Express (prototype)
Environment : C, C++, Assembly, DOS
Scope : A menu based diagnostic solution interacts with user about their problem and diagnoses their hardware based on their problem. After completion, it generates a unique key which the PC vendor can encrypt using a special tool to understand the complete test log.

- Title : Bluetooth Audio Streaming (academic project)
Environment : VC++, Bluetooth SDK, Win32, Windows
Scope : Customized the existing Bluetooth communicating protocol to control remote media player using Bluetooth Audio Streaming technology. Two computers were involved in streaming the audio packets from one PC to another via Bluetooth. This is my final year project of M.Sc. Computer Science.

NOTEWORTHY MILESTONES :
- Recognized with the “Outstanding Performance Award” from American Megatrends for the year 2007, 2008 and 2009.
- Functioned as placement coordinator cum class representative during M.Sc. course in Pondicherry University.
- Contributed to the College magazine by writing a small funny article “Cheating Computers”.

TRAININGS ATTENDED :
- “Project Management” Spark IT 2010, 2 day conference conducted by CIOL and PCQuest in Bangalore.
- “Device Driver” conducted at AMI in 2006.
- “Win32 programming” conducted at AMI in 2007.

ACADEMIC QUALIFICATIONS :
- Master’s Degree in Computer Science (M.Sc.) with 80.4% from Pondicherry University in 2006.
- Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science with 75.3% from Tagore Arts College in 2004.

PERSONAL DETAILS :
- Date of Birth : 4th July 1984
- Marital Status : Married