KAVITA AGARWAL

2831 Ellendale Place Apt # 11, Los Angeles, CA 90007

(323) 698-6336,

OBJECTIVE

To obtain a Full-Time position as a Software Developer allowing me to apply my knowledge and skills in the field of Computer Science and also me with an opportunity to strengthen my technical expertise

EDUCATION

Master of Science, Computer Science 2005 - 2007

University of Southern California Los Angeles, CA

Bachelor of Technology, Information Technology 2001 – 2005

Anna University Chennai, India

RELEVANT COURSEWORK

Computer Communication, Security Systems, Information Retrieval and Web Search Engines, Analysis of

Algorithms, Database Systems, Computer Networks, Operating Systems

COMPUTER SKILLS

Languages: C/C++, Java, SQL, HTML/CSS, XML/XSD/XQUERY, JavaScript, JSP, PHP

Platforms: MS-DOS, MS-Windows (95, 98, 2000, ME, XP), LINUX, UNIX, MAC

Web Apache HTTP Server 2.0.58, Apache Tomcat 5.0

Technologies: Web Services: SOAP, WSDL, UDDI and others

Databases: MySQL Server 5.0

WORK EXPERIENCE

University of Southern California, Student Programmer, USC Libraries Los Angeles, CA

Web Developer – USC Digital Archive Spring 2007

  • Used Java for building Web applications in the Spring MVC framework
  • Added view and search features to the web pages and used JavaScript to perform validations

Pentasoft Technological Solutions Chennai, India

Software Intern – LAN Monitoring System Nov 2004 – May 2005

  • Implemented a Java program where a server keeps track of its clients (classroom environment)
  • Captured the screen images to track client’s activities and control the transfer of files to/from any client

GRADUATE-LEVEL PROJECTS

  • I-Mage – Image Web Search Engine Spring, 2007

Implemented a search engine using Nutch to crawl web pages and Lucene to index text and images

Actual content of the fetched images were analyzed (supported identifying similar images), color histogram information was stored and indexed, and used JSP to implement the UI

  • Web Services Summer, 2006

Built an online shopping website with shopping cart feature using JSP on the server side and used MySQL to store the product/user data at the backend for a company using Web Services and linked it to multiple Clients/Suppliers

  • Web-Based Information System Summer, 2006

Designed a server side system using PHP to allow the customers to place orders at site, check order status and also developed an administrator module having access to MySQL database storing user information

  • Border Gateway Protocol Spring, 2006

Simulated a network of routers running the Border Gateway Protocol using a Discrete Event Simulator in C++ on a UNIX platform to study Delayed Convergence and Oscillations behaviors of BGP

  • Operating Systems – Team Project Fall, 2005

Built an operating system in four phases: thread management, multiprogramming, virtual memory and networking. Implemented in C++ a distributed OS allowing communication between the branches of a grocery store sharing a common database

EXTRA CURRICULAR ACTIVITIES

  • Vice-President of Information Technology Department, Easwari Engineering College 2003-2005
  • Joint Secretary of Computer Society of India, Easwari Engineering College 2004-2005

REFERENCES

Available on request