October' 2001 - October' 2003   Softtrends Software Pvt Ltd
Software Engineer

Works at Softtrends Pvt Ltd:

Telephony Plug In For MobileVB Booster in PalmOS 4.0 and higher:

The Appforge mobile booster facilitates applications developed by Mobile VB to run on palm os based pdas. Tungsten and Treo devices are palm os based pdas which support telephony facility also. The aim of this project was to write a plug in for the booster which interpretes MobileVB telephony objects and execute its methods for underlying c++ methods to send, receive and store sms messages and make and receive telephone calls. The underlying c++ code exploits the palm telephony manager APIs to execute telephony functions. The booster plugin was also developed to store messages in default system database of palm os in different categories such as inbox, outbox, sent, trash, draft and personalized folders.

Team Size : 4
Duration : 4 months
Role : Analysis, Design, Proof of Concept and Coding.
Software Used : Metrowerks Codewarrior (c++ based) in palm OS ver 9.0, PiedMont SDK version 1.0

Vivonic Fitmess Planner:

This product is a Fitness planner for palm users to keep track of their dieting and exercise routines. Several feature trackers are there for viewing data progression in charts and bars. Data reports enable usewr to adjust its performances according to need. The PC side application keeps track of all these data and synchronizes with PDA when required. The PC side is being upgraded for being web enabled and synchronize the palm data through web.

Team Size : 7
Duration : 6 months
Role : Analysis, Design and Coding.
Software Used : Metrowerks Codewarrior (c based) in palm OS, VC++ for Windows 2000

OurAgenda:

A break-through in the field of Personal Information Management for Palm and PocketPC. OurAgenda for is an easy to use Event manager that helps the user keep track of all its important events such as holidays, vacation, Birthdays for its entire family or group. With OurAgenda, it is easy to enter new events, remove past events, and plan vacation taking important dates into consideration. Support for multiple profiles and "Vacation planner tool" are the most striking features of this application. It also facilitates the importing of already entered birthdays and anniversaries from Palm Contact Manager. It also includes Purging of events already passed, thus ensuring effective memory utilization. It allows importing any available CSV formatted holiday list into the application. The application provides synchronization of events in between PDA and Microsoft Outlook through a sophisticated conduit. It is easily customizable for cross interest events like, COMDEX, CES2002 etc. OurAgenda has another Plugin which enables the user to calculate arithmetic, scientific and financial calculation and view through a virtual paper tape. The tapes are allowed to be saved. The user can store them in different formats to modify and recalculate, export to memopad and other applications by beaming or may synchronize with the PC.

Team Size : 2
Role : Analysis, Design, Coding, Testing
Duration : 2 months
S/W Used : Falch.net and CodeWarrior (c++) for palm OS 5.0

PDA Messenger:

PDA messenger is a chat engine application that allows the user to convey instant messages between two hand held devices. The application consists of two major components, the server and the client. The server component resides in a Linux server in the network. The client side components will be in the hand held devices, which are running on a hand held with palm OS, Sony Clie, PocketPC, PocketPC2002, WinCE devices, Casseiopeia or NOKIA (EPOC). When user executes the client program, it will connect to the Linux server executing the server component of the application through a preset IP and Port Number. The server present in this application serves as the user status informer to the client. It also gives the present IP address of the required online user to the client. The server does the authentication check of the user logging in. It also registers a new user with valid identification. The client provides the user interface through which the user enters the information. The client extracts this information and based on the context the processing is done. A list of required valid users are maintained in the user's device. A facility is provided for adding and deleting the users from this list. A window displays the status of the listed users and it allows sending message to the online users. The messages sent and received will be displayed in the same window. Thus, single window allows the sending of messages to the different users. The conveyance of the message is faster and reliable. All sort of communication is done through packets. The application allows the user to connect to the user to whom the message is to be sent through the server. The server will be periodically refreshing the status of the users listed in the client's machine as well as the client UI.

Team Size : 5
Role : Analysis, Design, Coding, Testing
Duration : 2.5 Months
S/W Used : Faltch.net for PALM PDA, eVC++ for PPC and Cassieopeia as client and ANSI C in LINUX for server

Automated Battery Tracker:

The Palm OS has a system trap mechanism that works much like interrupts on MS-DOS systems. This mechanism, popularly known as HACKs in palm OS, has been successfully used here in this application for monitoring battery usage by every application that runs on the device. Taking sufficiently large number of data, it generates a statistical report on demand highlighting each applications battery and memory consumption capacity. It requires Hack Master to identify proper trap codes generated.

Team Size : 2
Role : Analysis, Design, Coding, Testing
Duration : 2.5 Months
S/W Used : Faltch.net for Palm OS . Runs successfully on Motorola processors and sony clie devices.

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1991 - 1993   S.C.S. College, Puri
Counsil Of Higher Secondary Education ( 10+2 )

Secured 83.33% and placed with first division. Majored in Electronics and Mathematics.

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