______________________________________

Pushpa Kumar
133 Oakbrook Drive, Coppell, TX 75019
Cell: 469.878.8026
Email: pkc8d112@westpost.net
______________________________________

OBJECTIVE
Seek a challenging position in Research and Development to improve an organizati
on's performance.

SUMMARY
Excellent background and expertise in the area of Computer Science and Engineeri
ng. Maintain a professional attitude in any situation.

SELECTED ACCOMPLISHMENTS
* Designed requirements, analysis and scoping of various projects.
* Vast variety of experience includes front-end visualization, systems and ma
intenance areas.
* Key member of team that implemented architecture redesign from TCL to C++, JA
VA in agile development process. Improved turnaround time of future projects by
20%.
* Analyzed and designed solutions for assembly line problems involving televisi
on printed circuit boards and systems.
* Underwent year-long training in Team Management and Leadership Program, by La
ndmark Education Corporation. Trained in building effective teams and establish
ing partnerships to produce powerful results. Leader for a team of 20 members.
* Technical lead for redesigning the travel hotels path for internationalizatio
n to generate revenue in Europe and Canada. Increased overall revenue by 8%.

TECHNICAL SKILLS
Internet: JAVA, XML, XAML, SAML, XSL, JSP, HTML, Java Scripts, Servlets, Tomcat
GUI: JAVA, Visual C+, VIGNETTE, TCL/TK, Avalon Struts Framework, PERL
RDBMS: ORACLE, SQL, PL/SQL, Stored Procedures, Triggers, TOAD
Operating System: Windows XP, MS-DOS, Unix/Linux, Solaris, Windows 7
Other: J2EE, EJB Session and Entity Beans, MATLAB, SOA, Webservices, TCP/IP, Ja
va Beans, SPICE, C, C++, FORTRAN, API, Microprocessor Emulators, UML, Eclipse, I
ntellij, PCSpim, Prefuse, Parvis

EDUCATION
University of Texas at Dallas - Richardson, TX
December 2009
PhD IN COMPUTER ENGINEERING
GPA: 3.7/4.0
University of Notre Dame - South Bend, IN
December 1997
MS IN ELECTRICAL ENGINEERING
GPA: 3.55/4.00
Delhi College of Engineering - New Delhi, India
May 1993
BS IN COMPUTER SCIENCE ENGINEERING
GPA: 3.88/4.00

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
University of Texas at Dallas, Richardson, Texas
08/06 - PRESENT
RESEARCH ASSISTANT
Travelocity.com - Sabre Holdings, Southlake, Texas
01/98 - 08/06
SENIOR SOFTWARE ENGINEER
Crowe Chizek LLP, South Bend, Indiana
05/97 - 08/97
SOFTWARE ENGINEER SUMMER INTERN
University of Notre Dame, South Bend, Indiana
01/96 - 12/97
GRADUATE ASSISTANT/INSTRUCTOR
Calcom Electronics Ltd., New Delhi, India
05/93 - 12/95
RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT ENGINEER

RELEVANT COURSES
* Advanced Operating Systems
* Web Application Design
* Computer Networks
* Web Technology
* Object Oriented Programming
* Programming in JAVA
* Computer Architecture
* Microprocessors
* Programming in C++
* Data Structures and Algorithm
* VLSI design
* Control Systems

TEACHING EXPERIENCE
* Computer Science I
* Computer Science II
* Computer Architecture
* Object Oriented Programming
* Operating Systems
* Computer Networks

RELEVANT PUBLICATIONS
* P. Kumar, "Visualization of Online Marketplaces using Hidden Web Services", Jo
urnal of Internet Business (JIB), Issue 6, 2009.
* P. Kumar and K. Zhang, "Node Overlap Removal in Clustered Directed Acyclic Gra
phs", Journal of Visual Languages and Computing (JVLC), Volume 20, Issue 6, 403-
419, Elsevier, December 2009.
* P. Kumar, K. Zhang, Y. Wang, "Visualization of Clustered Directed Acyclic Grap
hs without Node Overlapping," 12th International Conference Information Visualiz
ation(IV) 2008 IV, IEEE Computer Society, 38-43.
* P. Kumar and K. Zhang, "Social Network Analysis of Online Marketplaces", Proc.
IEEE International Conference on E-Business Engineering (ICEBE'07), Hong Kong,
China, 24-26 October 2007, IEEE Press, 363-367.
* P. Kumar, G.L. Song, and K. Zhang, "Towards A Unified View of Service-Oriented
Web", Proc. 2006 IEEE International Conference on Service Operations and Logist
ics, and Informatics (SOLI'06), Shanghai, China, 21-23 June 2006, IEEE Press, 86
2-867.

RESEARCH PRESENTATIONS
* Conference presentation at Annual ACM Symposium on Applied Computing (SAC '09)
, Honolulu, Hawaii, March 2009, "Visualization of Clustered Directed Acyclic Gra
phs with Node Interleaving".
* Conference presentation at IEEE International Conference on e-Business Enginee
ring (ICEBE '07), Hong Kong, October 2007, "Social Network Analysis of Online Ma
rketplaces".

HONORS AND AWARDS

* GAANN Fellowship recipient from UTD Department of Computer Science, August 200
6 - December 2009
* Hats Off for Initiative winner at Travelocity, Sabre Holdings, March 2003
* Scholarship recipient from University of Notre Dame, August 1996

PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES
Member of IEEE, IEEE Computer Society, Association for IT Professionals

STATUS
US Citizen