OBJECTIVE: Seeking an Internship Position in Software Development EDUCATION: Master of Science, with Thesis (Major: Computer Science) Texas A & M University, Graduation Date: May 2006 GPA: 4.0/4.0 Bachelor of Engineering (Major: Computer Science Engineering) VNIT, Nagpur, India Completion Date: Jun 2002 GPA: 3.88/4.00 PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE: IBM Global Services India Pvt. Ltd, Pune, India Apr 2003 to July 2004 Software Engineer (IBM Tivoli Directory Integration) * Team Member of IBM Tivoli Directory Integrator Development team. * Team Leader of a group of 5 Quality Assurance Engineers. * Metrics (Review and Resource Utilization) Leader for development and test team. * Member of the CMMI Implementation team Cognizant Technology Solutions India Pvt. Ltd, Pune, India Aug 2002 to Apr 2003 Programmer Analyst (CSC-AT&T Project) * Team member of enhancement of the EOT-TRACS team. * Worked on various enhancements, Maintenance requests, Ad-hoc, Tickets and Production support for improving CSC-AT&T EOT application. SKILL SETS: Operating System: Linux, UNIX (Solaris, HP, AIX), Windows, zOS/Racf Languages: C, C++, Perl, UNIX Shell Scripting, Java, COBOL, ASP, Pascal, Pl-SQL, Pro*C, Assembly Language Programming (IBM -PC), X Windows Programming, SQL Databases: Oracle 8i/9i, Db2 Enterprise Edition, MySQL, PostgreSQL, Sybase, MS-Access Other Tool: WinRunner, LoadRunner, Rational Clearcase, Microsoft Project, Rational Robot Application Servers: IBM Websphere, Tomcat, JBoss, Orion Web Technologies: JSP, Servlets, Swing, Struts, HTML, PHP, CGI, Apache and iPlanet Webservers Expertise: Linux System Administration, Database Administration. PAPER PRESENTATIONS: [1] Kaustav Ghoshal, Swanand Gadre, “z/OS LDAP RACF password Synchronization with IBM Tivoli Directory Integrator”, IBM Redpaper. [2] Kaustav Ghoshal, “Autonomic Query Optimization in ORACLE 9i” at IBM TechConnect 2004 [3] Kaustav Ghoshal, Swanand Gadre, “Regression Framework: An Improved model for software testing” at IBM Sharenet. [4] Kaustav Ghoshal, Vishal Parihar, “Virtual Reality and its Applications” at Expressions at VNIT, Nagpur PROJECTS UNDERTAKEN: * A prototype for “My Workspace” (written in the Struts framework with JSP and Servlets) * “Optimizing Latency vs. Throughput in a Collaboratively Controlled Webcam System”- A term paper * Building a Digital Library of Indian temples. (Using Greenstone as tool and Dublin Core as Metadata Standard) * Development of a web based tool for Employee Time Tracking and Report Generation. (Using Perl, PHP, MySQL) * Development of a web based tool for Machine Reservation. (Using Perl, PHP, MySQL) * Development and Component/System/Global Verification Testing of IBM Tivoli Directory Integrator (Using C and Java ) * Designing of a 2pass Assembler for MC68000. (Using C) * User interface testing of Extended Terminating Point Manager (AT&T) using Rational Robot. * System/Functional Testing of Enhanced Order Tracker (AT&T) * Development and Maintenance of Charlotte Automation Platform-Bill verification Revenue Tracking (Using Perl, Pro*C ) * User interface Testing of Receivables Agency Audit and Tracking System (AT&T) (written in Perl, Pro*C ) * Tuning Transactions and Performance of Oracle 8i Replication, Standby and Parallel servers. * Designing of a Pascal to C translator and Pascal compiler. (Using C) * Implementation of simulation of Air Traffic Controller System and Air Reservation system. (Using C++ and Tcl/Tk ) * Design of customer interactive software system for a sales organization. (Using Visual C++, ASP) * Design of soft wares for the games like Kalah, 3D Tic tac toe. (Using C and X Windows Programming) * Projects in Query Optimization (Using Oracle 8i) HONORS: * Ranked 34th among 3, 00,000 appeared in Secondary School Certificate exam in West Bengal Board. * Awarded Outstanding Performer Award at IBM Software Labs * Awarded under National Scholarship schemes in high school and undergraduate study PROFESSIONAL ASSOCIATIONS: * Corporate member of QAI (Represented IBM at 4th Annual International Software Testing Conference, India, Feb 2004) * Member of IBM Linux Tech. * Member of Pune Linux User’s Group. * Regular Contributor to Technical Forums like experts-exchange.com, oraclenotes.com ,linuxquestions.org * Founding Member of Computer Society of India Student Chapter, VNIT Nagpur. * Member of IEE Student Chapter, VNIT Nagpur REFERENCES: References are available upon request WORK AUTHORIZATION: Eligible for Practical Training 503 Cherry Street, Apt#103, KAUSTAV GHOSHAL Email: kghoshal@tamu.edu College Station, TX – 77840 http://students.cs.tamu.edu/kaustav Phone: (979) 571 8874