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Swapan Kumar Nandi

Education:

B.Tech. (1st class with Hons.) in Instrumentation & Electronics Engg. from Jadavpur University, Calcutta in 1984.



Experience Summary:

- Architecting and Designing Object Oriented/Component based Systems
- Tools, Frameworks, Embedded / Real time system, Enterprise Applications
- Software Project Management and QA


- 1 year on C#, .NET/WebServices, XML, ASP, COM/DCOM,
- 3 years in Java/J2EE, XML
- 5 years in Oracle, Sybase Sql AnyWhere, PowerBuilder, Rose
- 10 years in C++, C, Intel 8085/x86 Assembly Language, Embedded System



Technical Skill set:

· Operating Systems Windows 2000/NT/9x, VxWorks, Linux, Solaris, OS/2
· OOA/OOD Rose 2002
. Process RUP
· Languages Java, C#, C, C++, PowerScript
· GUI Frameworks Swing, AWT, MFC, OWL, X-Motif, PM, PFC
· GUI Tools VS/.NET, JBuilder, JDeveloper, VC++, Borland C++, IBM C-Set++, SunSoft ProWorks, PowerBuilder
· Scripting languages JavaScript
· Component Standards SOAP/WebService, EJB, COM/DCOM, CORBA
· Middleware WebLogic, MTS,
· RDBMS Oracle, Sybase SQL AnyWhere, MS SQL Server
· Web Technologies XML, WebService, ASP, JSP, Servlet
· Other tools VSS, Optimise it, MS Project
· Knowledge of J2ME, OS/400, RPG













Training:



- In house training on software development using .NET/CF on Pocket PC 2002
- In house training on Java/J2EE
- In house training on C#/.NET
- In house training on Web technologies
- OOAD using UML and Rose from Rational Corporation
- In house training on Java 2
- 'ORACLE 7.0' from CSI, during Jan. to May 1995 (part time)
- 'Programming under MS-WINDOWS 3.1' from CMC Ltd. during Aug. 1994
- 'AS/400' from DPS Software Ltd. in Jul. 1993 (3 wks full time)
- 'UNIX & C' from CMC Ltd. in Dec. 1989 ( 2 wks full time)




Experience:


b. Bandana Infotech, Calcutta
- December 1997 to till date
- Principal Architect

c. ADA Software & Services Pvt. Limited, Calcutta
- Oct. 1994 to Dec. 1997
- Manager (Object Technology)

d. Mishanti Engineers Limited, Calcutta
- Aug. 1990 to Sept. 1994
- Manager, Industrial Systems

e. Ramtech Industries (P) Limited, Calcutta
- Feb. 1989 to Jul. 1990
- Senior Systems Engineer

f. Levcon Controls Pvt. Limited, Calcutta
- Mar. 1988 to Feb. 1989
- Development Engineer

g. Incotech Electronics Pvt. Limited, Calcutta
- Aug. 1984 to Feb. 1988
- Systems Engineer
















Professional Experience:
The following section provides the details of various projects handled.


Serial No : 27
Title: ‘Sales Force Mobile Solution’
Client: British American Tobacco, Singapore through Elecom Software Pvt.Ltd, Kolkata.

Duration: July 2004 to October 2004
Description:

‘Sales Force Mobile Solution’ takes care of information processing support to its mobile sales force. It runs under Pocket PC 2002 and uses Oracle Lite database that gets synchronised with the Oracle based main information system through mobile server.


Platform: VS.NET, C#, .NET Compact Framework, Oracle Lite, Oracle 9i Release 2
Team Size: 5
Role: Technical Architect / Designer


Serial No : 26
Title: ‘Training Tracker’ and ‘Program Information Report’
Client: CSM Software Solutions Inc. USA
Duration: January 2004 to June 2004
Description:

‘Tracking Tracker’ is an web based solution to take care of the business activities of a Software training organisation.

‘Program Information Report’ is an web based solution to input, store, manage and analyse data of various social welfare programs.

Platform : Java/J2EE, JBuilder, MySql, Tomcat, JBoss
Team Size: 5
Role: Technical Architect / Designer


Serial No : 25
Title: Development of ‘Sitecom’ an ‘Witsml’ Compliant System
Client: SENSE Technology, Norway through APT Software Avenues P. Ltd.
Duration: November 2002 to December 2003
Description:

WITSML stands for ‘Wellsite Information Transfer Standard Markup Language’ – is a standard (ref. http://www.witsml.org) for transferring rig-site data. Sitecom is designed for acquiring, distributing and managing rig-site data. This involves transferring real-time and historical data between offshore drill sites, onshore control centers, head quarter offices, remote export sites, etc. All data is transferred as WITSML documents, and is retrieved using SOAP.
The goal of the project is to ensure 'right time' seamless flow of well site data between operators and service companies to speed and enhance decision-making.

Platform : C#/.NET, SOAP/XML, Oracle 9i, Rel. 2, MS SQL Server 2000, Visual Studio .NET, VSS, Rose 2002
Team Size: 7
Role: Technical Architect / Designer






Serial No : 24
Title: Development of ‘Withering System’ for use in tea processing
Client: Realtime Microsystem Pvt. Ltd. Kolkata
Duration: June 2002 to October 2002
Description:

The project involved development of a PC based ‘Withering System’ that measures and controls temperature and moisture during tea processing.

The activities included design, development of various modules e.g. GUI, I/O, Driver, Configuration, Diagnostic, logging and Real time Graph.


Platform : Windows 2000, MSVC++, Rose 2002, VSS
Team Size: 4
Role: Architect / Designer



Serial No : 23
Title: Development and Support of Web Portal
Client: Innovative Solution Systems Inc. USA.
Duration: October 2001 to April 2002
Description:
Development of an Web portal ‘www.amantran.com’ and providing maintenance services. This portal is targeted to Non Resident Indians (NRI) to provide various kinds of services e.g. –
- News
- Travel
- Gift online (E-Commerce)
- Phone card
Platform : Visual Interdev 6.0, ASP/IIS 5.0, VB Script, Java Script, MS SQL Server 2000, VSS.
Team Size: 7
Role: Project Manager. Taking part in the design and managing development.


Serial No : 22
Title: Development of Web Operating Panel (WOP)
Client: Systemme LAUER GmbH & Co. KG, Germany through Elecom Software Pvt.Ltd, Kolkata.
Duration: January 2001 to August 2001
Description:
Development of an Operating panel for use in control system of Process industries and also as operator interface of big machineries. The various modules of the system with short descriptions are given below -
- Design & development of Gui Editor, Functional editor
- Design & development of Variable editor for managing variables that maps to PLC variables
- Design & development of Gui & Functional elements
- Design & development of run time for Gui and Functional Kernel
Development of other modules, e.g. Configuration, Communication, User management, Internationalisation, Logging , Messaging , Recipe management, PLC drivers
Platform : Java 1.1.8/1.2.2, JBuilder 3.0, Visual Source Safe, Rose 2000, Optimise it , Java Embedded Server, Windows 95/98/NT, VxWorks
Team Size: 34
Role: Architect. Taking part in the Architecture and design team. Also included in the QA team.







Serial No: 21
Title: Multimedia version of CAN-SCAN.
Client: Mishanti Engineers Limited, Calcutta
Duration: January 2000 to December 2000
Description:
The project involves development of Windows/Multimedia version of
'CAN-SCAN' - a medical utility for Breast Self-Examination with Expert
System.
Platform: Visual C++/MFC 6.0, MS ACCESS, Rational Rose 98
Team size: 5
Role: Architect and Designer. Designing the above system.


Serial No: 20
Title: `SWELOG` System.
Client: Swedish Logistic Systems AB, Sweden
Duration: January 1998 to November 1999
Description:
The project involves redesigning/porting of 'SWELOG' ERP System from
Cobol to Client-Server environment. The system comprises mainly of the
following three modules, each having further sub modules :
1. Sales
2. MPS System
3. Financial Accounting

Platform: PowerBuilder 5.0, Object Cycle 2.0, Sybase SQL Anywhere 5.5
Team size: 17
Role: Designer. The responsibilities included the design and development of the following subsystems for 'SWELOG' ERP System-
- Security Subsystem
- Printing Subsystem
- EDI interfacing Subsystem
- Actual Cost module


Serial No: 19
Title: ‘ZIDEM’ System
Client: ARBOR Integrated BV, Netherlands
Duration: July 1997 to December 1997.
Description:
'ZIDEM' is a firmware based real time embedded system to run on 80386SX under DOS and it is used as a decoder in Radio transmitting stations in Europe for implementation of Radio Data System (RDS). The data format processed by ZIDEM is the ADR (Astra Digital Radio ) data format used by ASTRA satellite.
In addition, ZIDEM System has three sets of Windows based
management softwares to provide the following facilities –
a. To configure ZIDEM
b. To monitor ZIDEM
c. To log any error reported by ZIDEM

Platform: Borland C++ 4.0 under MS-WINDOWS 3.X running on PC 486
Team size: 4
Role: Designer/Project leader, the responsibilities included -
- Interaction with the client
- Design and development of ZIDEM firmware and the Windows
based management software
- Communicating with the client
- Managing the development







Serial No: 18
Title: `Terminal Loading System (TLS)` system.
Client: Mannesmann Datenverarbeitung GmbH, Germany.
Duration: January 1997 to July 1997.
Description:
The project involves the design and development of a container handling
system. The developed system would conform to the OMG`s CORBA 2.0 architecture.
Platform: MSVC++ 4.0, Tif library, Informix, NEO ( Sun`s ORB)
Team size: 17
Role: Team leader. The responsibilities included the development of the user
interfaces for the above system leading to the following activities-
- Preparation of specifications of the user interfaces
- Design of user interfaces
- Implementation
- Managing the development



Serial No: 17
Title: Design & Development of graphical Class Library (Gwi)
Client: Mannesmann Datenverarbeitung GmbH, Germany.
Duration: September 1996 to January1997.
Description:
The Project involved the design of the graphical class library (Gwi) and its
implementation on Solaris 2.5 ( X86), WINDOWS 3.51/4.0 and OS/2 3.0/4.0
using SunSoft ProWorks 3.0.1, MSVC++ 2.0 and IBM C-Set++ 2.01
respectively.
The library deals with various kinds of Graphs, Bar, Bar Charts etc.
Team size:6
Role: Project leader, the responsibilities included -
- Designing the class library
- Providing training to the team members
- Managing the development
- Interaction with the client



Serial No: 16
Title: Porting of a Class Library from X-Motif to WINDOWS NT
Client: Mannesmann Datenverarbeitung GmbH, Germany.
Duration: February 1996 to August 1996.
Description:
The class library has been used to develop a GUI for process control
application. The library is built around system provided objects, therefore,
porting of the library will make the application which uses it directly
portable.
Platform: MSVC++ 2.0 under WINDOWS NT 3.51 running on PC 486
Team size: 7
Role: Project leader, the responsibilities included -
- Interaction with the client
- Redesign of the event handling of the library objects on
WINDOWS NT 3.51
- Communicating with the client
- Managing the development









Serial No: 15
Title: Porting of a Class Library from X-Motif to OS/2- Presentation Manager
Client: Mannesmann Datenverarbeitung GmbH, Germany.
Duration: April 1995 to January 1996
Description:
The class library has been used to develop a GUI for process control
application. The library is built around system provided objects, therefore,
porting of the library will make the application which uses it directly
portable
Platform: IBM C Set++ 2.01 under OS/2 3.0 running on PC 486
Team size: 5
Role: Project leader, the responsibilities includes -
- interaction with the client
- redesign of the event handling of the library objects on OS/2-
Presentation Manager
- communicating with the client
- managing the development



Serial No: 14
Title: ‘AllTrade’
Client: Billiton Marketing & Trading BV, The Netherlands
Duration: October 1994 to March 1996
Description: The development of the trading system 'AllTrade' based on Client Server architecture with ORACLE 7.0 at the back-end and Power Builder 4.0 at the front-end.
Platform: ORACLE 7.0 under Netware 3.12 running on PC 486 as the server and
Power Builder 4.0 under MS-WINDOWS 3.1 running on PC 386 as clients.
Team size: 10
Role: The responsibilities includes -
- installation of Netware 3.12 , ORACLE 7.0, Power Builder 4.0
- performance tuning
- providing on-going technical support



Serial No: 13
Title: Porting of CAN-SCAN to MS-WINDOWS 3.1
Client: SBS GmbH, Germany
Duration: June 1994 to September 1994
Description:
Porting of the Medical expert system 'CAN-SCAN'
Platform: TURBO C++ 2.0 under MS-WINDOWS 3.1 on PC 386.
Team size: 3
Role: Project leader. The responsibilities included -
- to help the team members to understand the object-oriented
design of the user interface
- communicating with the client
- managing the porting activity











Serial No: 12
Title: CAN-SCAN
Client: SBS GmbH, Germany
Duration: April 1993 to May 1994
Description:
The development of the Medical expert system 'CAN-SCAN' for early
detection of breast cancer. Knowledge base and Inference engine were
coded around VP-Expert shell and the user interface had been developed
using TURBO C++ 1.00.
Platform: VP-Expert, TURBO C++ 1.00 under MS-DOS running on PC 386
Team size: 4
Role: Project leader. The responsibilities included -
- interaction with the client
- design and validation of knowledge base
- design of inference engine
- design of object oriented user interface
- design of driver for .dbf database.
- communicating with the client
- managing the development



Serial No: 11
Title: ‘THERM’
Client: Tata Iron and Steel Company Ltd, Jamshedpur
Duration: October 1992 to March 1993
Description:
The development of the thermal modelling software 'THERM' for reheat
furnace of bar & rod mill.
Platform: Foxbase, TURBO C++ 1.00 under MS-DOS on PC 386
Team size: 3
Role: Project leader. The responsibilities included -
- interaction with the client
- design of thermal model
- design of user interface
- design of 'shankey diagram'
- communicating with the client
- managing the development



Serial No: 10
Title: Feasibility study for implementation of a Voice Mail System.
Client: Webel Electronic Communication Systems Limited, Calcutta.
Duration: June 1992 to August 1992
Description:
The scope of the feasibility study was -
- to find out a vendor who could supply a voice mail system conforming to the specification given by Mahanagar Telephone Nigam Limited (client of Webel) so that it can be interfaced with the Alcatel E-10B switch.
- to build a tie-up between the identified supplier and Webel
so that the latter could address the voice mail market in India with the product of the former.
Team size: 3
Role: Team member.













Serial No: 09
Title: Feasibility study for upgradation of Instrumentation, Automation and Optimisation system of Jamul cement works.
Client: ACC Limited, Bombay.
Duration: October 1991 to March 1992
Description:
The scope of the feasibility study was -
- to study the existing systems in various sections of the plant such as raw material processing, coal mill, slag drying, kiln, cement mill, packaging.
- to identify the suitable optimisation systems for kiln and cement mill and requirements of added instrumentation in various sections.
- to estimate the cost of the project and preparation of the schedule of its implementation.
Team size: 3
Role: Team member.



Serial No: 08
Title: Development of protocol driver software
Client: Venturon, UK,
Duration: April 1991 to August 1991
Description:
The development of protocol driver software for Allen Bradley's DATA HIGHWAY LAN. The DATA HIGHWAY uses modified Token passing ring protocol at the media access level and HDLC at the link level. The driver would be integrated to the 'Dexterity' SCADA system of Venturon so that the system could communicate with the Allen Bradley group of
PLCs.
Platform: C under Interactive UNIX 2.1 running on PC 386
Team size: 3
Role: Team member. The responsibilities included the design and implementation of the protocol driver software.



Serial No: 07
Title: Marketing and Support of Industrial Systems.
Client: Keltron, Kolaghat Thermal Power Station, NELCO.
Duration: August 1990 to July 1991.
Description:
Marketing and Technical support of -
- 'Dexterity' SCADA Systems, a product of Venturon, UK.
- Boiler Tube Leak Detection System of LintValve, UK.
Team size: 5
Role: - Pre-sales technical support to the marketing team.
- Leading a team involved in -
- System design, Software Development and commissioning of
the systems.
- Post-sales support of the above products.
















Serial No: 06
Title: Manufacturing & export of PCs and peripherals to the erstwhile USSR.
Client: Clients based in the erstwhile USSR.
Duration: February 1989 to July 1990
Description:
The project involved procuring components/sub-assemblies from Taiwan, Singapore, assembly of the components and testing at the manufacturing works at FALTA export processing zone and then exporting to the erstwhile USSR.
Team size: 40
Role: Team member. The responsibilities included -
- to provide technical support to production, QA and marketing
- to participate in the systems study group for the development of Inventory Control System, Production Planning and Control System for internal use.



Serial No: 05
Title: Development of Level monitoring system.
Client: Levcon Controls Pvt. Ltd.
Duration: March 1988 to February 1989
Description:
The project involved design and development of microprocessor based
Level monitoring system using :
a. Capacitance type sensor and
b. Ultrasonic quartz crystal for use in process industries.
Platform: SIM 85, MASM under MS-DOS running on PC-XT, and Intel SDK 85
Team size: 4
Role: Project leader. The responsibilities included -
- to design analog electronic circuits to interface with the sensor
- to design digital electronic circuits to interface with the microprocessor
- to develop software using assembly language
- to conduct laboratory, environmental and field testing



Serial No: 04
Title: Blast furnace charging control system automation.
Client: Indian Iron and Steel Co., Burnpur
Duration: January 1987 to February 1988
Description:
The project involved the development of PLC based automation system to replace the existing relay logic based charging control system.

Platform: Allen Bradley PLC, model 2/20, PC-AT 286
Team size: 4
Role: Team member, responsibility included -
- to study the existing relay logic control system
- to prepare the I/O charts for the PLC interfacing
- to develop the ladder diagram
- commissioning the system











Serial No: 03
Title: Ash handling system automation
Client: Calcutta Electric Supply Corporation Limited.
Duration: August 1986 to December 1986
Description:
The project involved the development of PLC based ash handling automation system for Titagarh thermal power station of Calcutta Electric Supply Corporation Limited.

Platform: Incotech PLC - model Procon 85
Team size: 3
Role: Team member, responsibility included -
- to prepare the I/O charts for the PLC interfacing
- to develop the ladder diagram
- commissioning the system



Serial No: 02
Title: Dumper traffic control automation in Coal handling plant
Client: Heavy Engineering Corporation, Ranchi. (End user - Jayant Coal
handling plant)
Duration: January 1986 to June 1986
Description:
The project involved design and development of dumper traffic control system in coal handling plant. The presence of dumpers at the dumping location as well as in the entry point were sensed using infra-red sensors. The system used to guide the newly arrived dumper at the entry point by displaying the empty dumping location code, the way to reach the location
and the exit path.
Platform: SIM 85, MASM under MS-DOS running on PC-XT, and Intel SDK 85
Team size: 3
Role: Team member. The responsibilities included -
- to design analog electronic circuits to interface with the sensor
- to design digital electronic circuits to interface with the microprocessor
- to develop software using assembly language



Serial No: 01
Title: Development of Programmable Controllers.
Client: Not applicable.
Duration: August 1984 to December 1985
Description:
The project involved design and development of Programmable Controllers based on Intel 8085 and 8086 microprocessor with provision for both analog and digital I/O s.
Platform: MASM under MS-DOS running on PC-XT, and Intel SDK 85
Team size: 4
Role: Team member. The responsibilities included -
- detail engineering of the design of analog and digital electronic circuits.
- to develop software for Intel 8085 and 8086 microprocessor using assembly language
- to develop driver software using MASM for communication
between Programmable Controller and the PC.

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