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Vancouver, Bc, Ca

Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

Burnaby, British Columbia, Canada

Burnaby

Vancouver, Canada Area

• Led R&D efforts on a Carbon capture and utilisation (CCU) technology.• Collaborated with external contractors to finalise CCU plant design.• Boosted efficiency of CCU reactors under harsh operating conditions by 50%.• Demonstrated feasibility of a formate salt enrichment process.• In a team, developed a formate fuel cell with the highest reported power density.• Supported IP generation by providing key experimental data and process analysis.

• Investigated semiconducting electrode suitability for bacterial protein solar cells.• Investigated stress fracturing of Li-ion battery electrodes using GITT and EIS.• Initiated a project on 3D printed photogalvanic solar cells in collaboration with the Univ. of Wollongong, Australia.• Regularly presented the lab’s technical projects to visitors to UBC.• Lectured on microfluidic device physics for a course on BioMEMS.

Southampton, United Kingdom

• Fabricated and characterised Carbon nanotube transistors with electrodeposited PdNi contacts using standard cleanroom and Si wafer processing techniques.• Developed low power electrodeposited Schottky barrier Hydrogen sensors employing a two layer microelectronic fabrication process with optical lithography, wet etching, metal evaporation and electrodeposition.• Working with a patent attorney, authored a European patent application by providing experimental data and theoretical models.• Software consultant for a human factors team in the Transportation Research group, Univ. of Southampton. Developed a serial port interface and Adobe Flash front end for the STISIM driving simulator to investigate the effect of visual feedback on driving behaviour.• Mentored international postgraduate students in academic writing.

Hyderabad Area, India

• Part of a 130 member team that developed a cell phone software suite with UI framework and 17 applications from requirement gathering to market in 1.5 years. • Senior software engineer with technical ownership of four applications (~10000 SLOC of Objective C) on the Ericsson Mobile Platform for the Sagem myW-7 cell phone.• Designed, coded, unit tested and debugged the UI, SIM card and network access functionality of the SIM handling application.• Developed tools in C to extend SIM handling testing with simulators, eliminating the need for expensive hardware and improving the testing process.• Coded, unit tested, and debugged Calendar and To-do applications. Subsequently, led a team of 3 engineers maintaining these applications in addition to Cell broadcast.• Collaborated with testing and development teams to integrate applications into a production package.• Drove the effort to achieve GCF compliance by extensively testing the phone with network simulators and resolving issues that stalled acceptance.• Contributed to the successful acceptance testing with major European cell providers.• Established myself as Fortuna’s sole expert in SIM Application Toolkit (SAT). Mentored other engineers and helped build a core team of SAT experts to drive future projects.

Mangalore Area, India

• Secured top rank among 100+ trainees in the Open systems programme.• Full cycle experience as team leader on multiple training projects (~1000 SLOC, 3-7 team members) using Oracle RDBMS, SQL, C, Bash scripting and Visual Basic. Gathered user requirements, defined user experience, designed databases and applications. Developed unit, module and integration test plans. Allocated tasks to team members, tracked progress and provided support till deployment. • Maintained information systems for an insurance firm. Performed impact analysis of client change requests. Implemented and tested functionality and resolved any bugs.

Doctor Of Philosophy (Phd), Nanoelectronics

Master Of Science (M.Sc.), Nanoscience

Bachelor Of Technology (B.Tech.), Electrical And Electronics Engineering

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