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Bob Paulose Appackan

615/45 Victoria Parade, Collingwood Date of Birth: 23th January 1985

Melbourne, VIC 3066 Nationality: Indian

Tel: 0430885636

Email: appackan@gmail.com

PERSONAL PROFILE

I am a passionate and dedicated engineer with experience in digital signal processing and multimedia domains. I have good communication skills and a pleasing personality that would make me a good addition to a team of professionals. I am a quick learner with good organizational skills.

SKILLS

|Programming Language/Technology/Tool/Platform |Competency Level |
|C |Proficient |
|C++ |Proficient |
|MS Office suite |Proficient |
|OOP Concepts |Proficient |
|MS Visio |Competent |
|Matlab |Competent |
|Labview |Competent |
|Linux Platform |Competent |
|Windows Platform |Competent |
|UML |Competent |
|Gstreamer Framework |Competent |
|Qtopia Framework |Basic |

CAREER HISTORY

Engineer: Design and Development, TATA ELSXI LIMITED, India

June 2007 – June 2009

Tata Elxsi is a design company under the giant umbrella of the prestigious Tata Group. They provide customized design solutions from Automotive to Aerospace, Enterprise to Consumer Electronics, Entertainment to FMCG, Media to Storage, Semicon to Telecom, solutions to companies across the globe. I was working under the domain of Digital Signal Processing as design engineer.

PROJECTS WORKED ON (In Reverse Chronological Order)

|Project Name |UIE (User Interface Engine) Development for a set-up box (DVB-S) |
|Location |Tata Elxsi Ltd. Coimbatore, India |
|Client |CISCO |
|Duration |January 2009 – May 2009 (5 months) |
|Description |The team was a part of a project that developed a set-up box based on DVB-S technology. |
|Role |Developer |
|Responsibilities |Writing of an abstraction layer to enable to run the program on the PC for testing purposes, and later to replace the|
| |layer for porting to the embedded platform. |
|Team Size |10 |
|Technology |C++ |

|Project Name |Media Player using Gstreamer framework |
|Location |Tata Elxsi Ltd. Coimbatore, India |
|Client |Tata Elxsi |
|Duration |June 2008 – October 2008 (5 months) |
|Description |Design and implementation of a media player on both Windows and Linux platforms using the Gstreamer framework. |
|Role |Designer/Developer |
|Responsibilities |To study the Gstreamer framework and to design a media player on Windows platform. Developed plugins to use the |
| |company's audio/video codecs through Gstreamer. Later used the Gstreamer plugins to implement a media player on Linux|
| |using Qtopia. The work was to be well documented, first during the design phase and then as a reference document |
| |before submission to be included in a bigger project. |
|Team Size |3 |
|Technology |C, Gstreamer, Qtopia |
|Project Name |Entry level training at Tata Elxsi Ltd. |
|Location |Tata Elxsi Ltd. Coimbatore & Bangalore (India) |
|Client |-NA- |
|Duration |June 2007 – December 2007 (6 months) |
|Description |Technical and process foundation training for all fresh joiners. |
|Role |Engineer trainee |
|Responsibilities |Attending training, submission of assignments, passing exams |
|Team Size |15 |
|Technology |C, C++, Linux, UML, OOPS, Matlab, Advanced DSP: Audio and Video processing techniques, ARM, Japanese Language |
| |training. |

|Project Name |Micromouse |
|Location |Karunya Institute of Technology, Coimbatore, India |
|Client |Project deliverable for completion of Bachelor degree |
|Duration |December 2006 – March 2007 (4 months) |
|Description |It involved the design, construction and programming of an autonomous robot that navigates itself to the center of a |
| |maze. |
|Role |Student |
|Responsibilities |The robot was designed using stepper motors and IR sensors. A PIC microcontroller was used to implement the AI |
| |algorithm using C language. |
|Team Size |1 |
|Technology |PIC18F4550 Microcontroller, MikroC |

|Project Name |Real Time Operating System for a GPS module |
|Location |Ideonics Systems, Kochi, India |
|Client |Mini-Project as a deliverable for completion of Bachelor degree |
|Duration |June 2005 (1 month) |
|Description |It involved the development of a Real time operating system that accepts data from a GPS module, processes it, and |
| |displays the information as requested by the user. |
|Role |Student |
|Responsibilities |Involved the study of the GPS module and data format, to extract the data as per requirement. |
|Team Size |5 |
|Technology |C, RTOS, Trimble GPS module |

EDUCATION AND QUALIFICATIONS

Completed Masters course In Telecommunication Engineering at the University of Melbourne (Awaiting Results)

Completed Bachelor of Engineering Degree in Electronics and Instrumentation Engineering from Karunya Institute of Technology, Coimbatore, India (August 2003 – April 2007)

GPA – 7.5/10.0

Completed schooling from The Choice School, Kochi, India

12th grade - 80% marks ; 10th grade – 84% marks