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Sijin Joseph


Summary
7+ years of professional experience in designing and building products for startup companies and managing software teams. A total geek, extremely passionate about technology, computer science and software engineering. My main area of expertise is general software engineering, architecture, infrastructure and construction techniques.

My technological forte is C#/.Net/ASP.Net and WinForms, further I have good working knowledge of web technologies like JavaScript, Ajax, CSS and XHTML. I’ve also worked on products based on Java/J2EE stack and have good experience in most of the Microsoft technologies like COM, ATL, MFC, Win32 API etc. My other areas of interest are comparative language studies, algorithms and system programming.

I am also a Microsoft Most Valued Professional (MVP) which is a title awarded by Microsoft to members who contribute well to the development community.

I am an active blogger and maintain blogs at http://weblogs.asp.net/sjoseph and http://www.indiangeek.net
Experience
CoreObjects Software Inc.

October 2004 - Present
Architect

Boston, MA
I worked on several products as detailed below

Proto Software, NYC (www.protosw.com)

· The next generation visual programming platform. Ideal for developing mashups and data analysis and reporting applications. This is an IDE that allows you to build applications using a visual paradigm rather than writing code.

· Lead the team and designed the product from scratch through several releases over a period of 3 years.


· Best team of the year 2005 and runner up in 2006

· Windows, .Net, WinForms, C#, ADO.Net, Access, Web services, COM, Interop

Rezolve Group Inc. Boston (http://www.fafsa.com, http://www.fafsa.us)


· Built the customer facing websites, internal customer service applications and numerous tools and services to support business operations. The public sites get 6 million unique visitors per month. The website was developed in a data driven manner with a big chunk of the functionality derived from the data.

· .Net, C#, ASP.Net 2.0, MS SQL Server 2005, MSBuild, IIS 6.0

RxVantage LLC, Rhode Island (http://www.rxvantage.com)

· A startup product that solves a real problem of connecting pharma reps to doctors.


· Re-engineered platform to make it stable and performant. ASP.Net 1.1 to 2.0 migration.

· Defining product requirements and design.

· .Net, C#, ASP.Net, MS SQL Server 2005, IIS 6.0

CoreTalk (http://www.coretalk.info)

· A blogging and group calendar based social networking platform that was acquired by CoreObjects in 2007.

· .Net/C#, ASP.Net, SQL, Web Services

FaceBar

· This was an early stage startup that was to be a browser toolbar that in its first version would allow P2P music streaming and sharing with friends.

· Java, J2EE, Spring, Struts, Hibernate, MySql, .Net 2.0, C#, REST based web services, COM, XPXOM, Firefox and IE toolbars, C++, JavaScript, jQuery, NSIS

First Advantage


· This is a product that helps in litigation based document discovery and analysis.

· Researched Lucene based solution for semantic indexing and concept search of documents

· .Net, Java, Lucene

EncryptaNet

· Another early stage startup which was basically a Winsock network filter (LSP) that enables integration of payment to paid content. For e.g. you can pay to access documents, media, games etc. and our filter validates that you have paid and allows access to the content.

· ATL, WTL, C++, COM

Avery Dennison Format Manager


· This is a desktop application for Avery Dennison to design and manage the printing of labels from their vendors.

· Designed the initial framework on which the application was built.

· .Net, Winforms, GDI, GDI+
Creative Home

June 2003 - October 2004
Consultant

Delhi
· Created enterprise applications to manage creation of product prototypes and also calculate optimal pricing for the product based on similar products.

· Wrote custom printing component

· WinForms, .Net, C#, SQL Server
Innsol Technologies

June 2001 - May 2003

Software Engineer

Delhi
Worked on several products as detailed below

· Designed and built UniDocs, the first document management and workflow system written in .Net. Technologies used were .Net, Winforms, C#, SQL Server

· Call Data Record(CDR) Viewer, A generic viewer for reading call data records generated by various telecom equipment. Technologies used, C, VC++, MFC, Win32


· Network Visualizer, A tool to visually analyze and manage LANs using SNMP. Technologies used Tcl/Tk

· WelcomeSMS, A java based tool that analyzed input from telecom equipment and sent out welcome text messages to roaming users.
Education
Jawahar Lal Nehru University, India

June 2003

Master of Science


Computer Applications


Delhi
Delhi University, India

June 2000

Bachelor of Science

Mathematics


Delhi
Tidbits
· Microsoft certified system engineer(MCSE) and Microsoft certified solution developer(MCSD) since 1998

· Active contributor to tech newsgroups (

http://groups.google.com/groups?q=Sijin+Joseph)

· Design and code example available at http://www.codeproject.com/cs/miscctrl/messageboxex.asp

· Pushed for and setup subversion and community server based wiki for CoreObjects Software Inc.