2007: Patent applicant, with a colleague, about a method and an XQuery Builder for dynamically generating an XQuery for an XML database storing a plurality of non-XML documents
Indian Patent Office application reference number: 1435/KOL/2007
European Patent Office publication number: EP2056223
United States Patent application number: 20090106186
2002: Scored 800 out of 800 in the Quantitative section of GRE and 290 out of 300 in TOEFL
Participated in and won many quiz competitions throughout academic life
2001: Managed an Indo-American fusion band from April to June and was responsible for its its publicity activities, including press releases
2001: Participated in organizing the first college fest as the Chairman of the Organizing Committee
1999: Puzzle solutions published in the daily The Asian Age, Kolkata edition
1996: Managed hall security and played an active role in collecting advertisements during our school's annual fest Opus
1993: Presented project report at the district level of the National Children's Science Congress
Details of Professional Experience
Counseling
Facilitate individual counseling sessions since July 2012
Facilitate a weekly occurring group counseling session with inmates experiencing relapse since February 2013
Co-facilitated a couple of group counseling sessions with Professor Christopher Rybak. These were sessions with the staff and were held during October 2015.
Co-facilitated/facilitated the following sessions with counseling students of Fergusson College's Post Graduate Course in Counseling Psychology (PGCCP) [earlier known as Post Graduate Diploma in Counseling Psychology (PGDCP)] course:
2 support groups in Aug-Sep 2015, and individual and group counseling sessions with 9 students as part of their clinical supervision during Dec 2015 to Apr 2016
2 group sessions related to Group Therapy in Nov-Dec 2014
3 group sessions related to Gender Aware Helping in Apr 2014
3 group sessions with the 2012-13 batch of students
Part of Saad project's counseling team since the project's inception in March 2014 till July 2015. Saad, a project of Lend a Hand India, provides group counseling sessions to ninth and tenth grade students mostly belonging to the rural areas of Maharashtra. The group counseling sessions facilitate the students in understanding themselves better and realising their true potential.
Facilitated the following with the employees and students of Seamedu:
A group counseling session on Women's Day 2016 with the female employees
Group and individual grief counseling sessions during Feb-Mar 2016
Part of a team of four counselors who facilitated two sets of group counseling sessions with the employees on Introduction to Emotional Intelligence. One set of sessions were facilitated in December 2013 and the other set in January 2014
Part of the counseling team providing psychological testing and counseling services at SkillsmartWorld. I was part of this team from January 2013 to July 2014.
Co-facilitated ten growth oriented group counseling sessions with fifteen employees of Sharvik Integra India. These sessions were facilitated during February to May 2012.
As part of my internship during the counseling course, I have provided counseling services at the boy's hostel of Fergusson College, two hours every week for a period of six months. I was also involved in setting up the counseling service at the boy's hostel
Part of a group of counselors who provided emergency grief counseling services to a group of students from Deccan Education Society's School
Provided counseling services at the Psychology Department organized counseling camp and PSY-FY in January 2012
Consulting assignment, in partnership with a colleague
Client: Lynx Healthplus Services Pvt. Ltd.
December 2010 - January 2011
Secondary data survey of 16 towns of Maharashtra; this survey was a part of the site selection process for the establishment of hospitals
Facilitated in improving IT infrastructure - which included re-designing Chaitanya's website, designing the National Conference's website, and setting up an intranet - and conducted training to increase awareness about the same
Actively involved in planning a new unit "Dream Facilitators", which aims to help the organization in managing its relationships better
Facilitated trainers in improving their training sessions
Actively participated in many strategic discussions, as I was working very closely with Chaitanya's founder
Taught "Communication in Resource Mobilization"module of "Fund Raising and Resource Mobilization" course to students of M. A. in Social Entrepreneurship at Tata Institute of Social Sciences, Mumbai, India
February 2008 – September 2008, December 2008 - June 2009
Reported to the Chief Operating Officer and Co-founder of Omniscient, based in Pune, the Director, Regional Service Delivery of NYSE Technologies, based in Singapore, and other members of the client based, mainly, in their Singapore, Hong Kong and Tokyo offices
NYSE Technologies was the most important client for our company; Omniscient was their technology partner in the APAC region
Was responsible for managing all activities of the 15 member team
Handled resource planning and played key role in recruitment activities across the organization
Participated in creating and validating project plans and negotiating delivery schedules
Coordinated analysis, development, QA and support activities across multiple projects for the client
Defined processes for workplace optimization including roles and responsibilities of team members
Identified risks and proposed possible processes for resolution; handled escalations
Mentored senior team members, especially Team Leads, and other potential group level resources
Played a key role in team member appraisals; helped in evolving appraisal process
Identified knowledge gaps in the team and planned training initiatives accordingly
Created training plan and presentations for new hires and took sessions to train potential interviewers
Coordinated travel planning activities for the group
Actively participated in organizational strategy discussions
Senior Developer and Team Lead in the Research and Development department
November 2004 – December 2007
Reported to the Country Manager, based in Pune, and simultaneously to multiple Project Leads, based at the company headquarters in Darmstadt, Germany
During tenure at Software AG, grew from the position of a Developer to that of a Senior Developer and successfully took over responsibilities as Sub Team Lead and, subsequently, as Team Lead
Frequently traveled to work with colleagues of our R&D department in Darmstadt
Mentoring difficult employees to be valuable assets for the company was one of my most satisfying contributions
Rewarded several times, including once for filing a patent with one of our colleagues
Coordinated activities of the 6 member development team in Pune with respective Project Leads
Participated in design discussions and assisted team members in technical matters
Involved in performance appraisals of team members
Key member in recruitment and training related activities; only employee from India selected to train colleagues at the R&D center in Sofia, Bulgaria
Involved in design, development and maintenance of various products including CentraSite Control, Localization Framework and Tamino X-Plorer
Technology/Product used: Core Java, XML, Tamino, SVG, XQuery, JAXR, JAXB, Tamino Non-XML Indexer, Text retrieval features of Tamino, Application Designer, Java Swing, Eclipse, CVS, Ant
Involved in two projects: CollabCAD and CollabLand
CollabCAD is a Java based distributed 2D and 3D CAD/CAM and CAE software
CollabLand is a software that graphically represents the boundaries of a piece of land in the form of a polygon
Appreciated for the implementation and documentation of the Point Cloud feature in CollabCAD; this feature was created to facilitate complex surface and curve generation from a set of imported 3D points
Only Programmer on contract to be involved in two projects simultaneously
Technology/Product/Platform used: Core Java, Java Swing, Java3D, XML, HTML, CVS, Red Hat Linux 8.0
Worked under the guidance of Prof. Nikhil R. Pal and was involved in implementing a feature selection algorithm on a RADAR data set using Artificial Neural Network techniques. Technology used included C, Matlab 5 (Neural Network Toolbox) and SUN Solaris
Appreciated for my work and was recommended for the upcoming project