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KAUSHIK RAMANATHAN
Houston, TX - 77059 USA
Expertise :CCNA
Status :needworkvisa
Job Type :
Permanent
Position :

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Summary

Seeking a challenging Information Technology/Engineering position with an emphasis on design, research and development. Willing to relocate

Cisco Certified Network Associate

Problem solving and analytical skills ; ability to prioritize work to meet established deadlines

Highly self-motivated, quick learner, organized, written and verbal communication skills


Employment

2007 -  Present
CO-OP RFID Application Engineer

CO-OP RFID Application Engineer Infodat International Inc

Test and troubleshoot the RFID circuits using software development kit

Tracking equipment and vehicles using Web Services, GPS, RFID Tags and RFID Readers

Working on the rugged/embedded computer RLC X-Scale Lite to integrate with the RFID developer kit


2005 -  2007
Graduate Research Assistant

Graduate Research Assistant University of Houston Optical Research Networking Lab Houston , Texas

Responsibilities include leading projects, conducting experiments, data acquisition and statistical analysis

Experience with RFID network analysis and design of a RFID module

Conduct experiments with optical fiber, fiber Bragg gratings and analyze using Optical analyzer

Worked on the development of the remote lab access for various courses


2005 -  2007
Teaching Assistant

Teaching Assistant University of Houston Graduate Research Assistant University of Houston Optical Research Networking Lab Houston , Texas

Developed manuals for the labs using Pspice, Multisim and MatLab

present lectures on various topics and organized various technological events.

Configure, test and troubleshoot the routers and switches inside the lab


2006 -  2006

SBC AT and T Labs College of Technology University of Houston

Prepared weekly reports and network documentation, diagrams

Knowledge of Frame Relay, ATM, DSL, Gig-E, MPLS and VLANs


2004 -  2004
Network Engineer

Network Engineer Trainee Maples ESM India Configured and Troubleshoot of Routers and Switches .

Assisted in the installation, maintenance and monitoring of the local area network

Assisted in the development of the LAN network and resolving LAN issues

Extensive exposure to various networking technologies

Troubleshooting hardware and software failures

Design tools

Multisim, Pspice, Opnet, MatLab
Tools Packages

MS office, MS Visio, Ethereal, Knoppix, Auditor
Statistical Software

MathCAD, Minitab, Weka
Operating System

WindowsXP, 200098, NT, MS server 2003

Communication Protocols

RS 232 GPIB, PCI, TCP/IP, Telnet, Ethernet

Convergence of layer 2 and layer 3 devices, need for convergence and the converged network infrastructure.

Effect of Ethernet over the future networks and Ethernet over offerings LAN, MAN and WAN

Simulation and analysis of a network run OSPF and measure the control traffic by changing the HELLO timer and effect of other timers with respect to the control signal traffic using OPNET

Analyze various network intrusions and detection methodology, design and model a network intrusion detection system using various classification algorithms with the KDD cup dataset 09 in Weka

Email security threats and solutions using Microsoft Exchange server 2003. Design and deploy an email system with defined attacks and provide solutions to them

Wired Equivalent Privacy security threat analysis : This project involves WEP password cracking of wireless secured network using Kismet an Auditor based tool in Linux. The Kismet analyzer tool was used to sniff and crack the WEP key of the access point

Muscle Stimulator- microcontroller based external stimuli generation which uses LCD interface


2005 -  2007
Awards and professional

Awards and professional membership University of Houston Graduate Assistant Tuition Fellowship




Education

MT Network communications, University of Houston, USA May 2007 GPA 3.6/4.0

BE Electronics and Communication, University of Madras, India June 2004 GPA 3.6/4.0
Design of a MPLS test bed interconnecting the College of Technology buildings which integrates an OC-3 Ring at the core, MPLS routing at the provider edge and IP routing on the customer edge



Miscellaneous

Member of Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers organization

Program chair 2006 and member of ISA University of Houston chapter