BIO-DATA

E . BOOPAL

Personal Data

Age	:	28 yrs
Date of Birth	:	04-06-1970
Passport Number	:	A3852824, valid till 2007
Nationality	:	Indian
Father's Name &
Occupation	:	M.ETHIRAJAN, Business
Marital Status	:	Single
Height	:	182 c.m.
Weight	:	85 kg.
Eye Sight	:	Normal
Interests	:	Cricket, Table Tennis

Office Address

Theoretical Computer Science Laboratory.
Department of Computer Science and Engineering.
Indian Institute of Technology, Madras 600 036, INDIA.

Phone	:	(091)44 - 445 8331 � � � Lab : 5344 (Internal)
E-mail	:	[email protected]
Homepage	:	http://www.cs.iitm.ernet.in/~tcslab/boopal

House Address

E.Boopal,
No. 24, Kamaraj Street,
West Tambaram,
Chennai - 600 045, INDIA,

Phone : 2362239.

Educational Background

M.Sc.(Mathematics)	1992	71.88%	Madras Christian College,
�	�	�	Tambaram
Honours Diploma in Information &	1994	82.13%	Aptech Computer Education,
and Systems Management	�	�	Tambaram
Diploma in Computer	1994	81.6%	National Computing Centre,
Programming & Applications	�	�	UK

Projects Completed in Aptech Computer Centre

Inventory Control System
- A project on Inventory Control System for Saravana Bava Traders, Tambaram, in dBASEIV language.
- The project includes purchase of raw materials from suppliers, keeping in account the wearhouse, and sales.
- Handled many queries and have presented some reports.
Library Management System
- A project on Library Management System for the Department of Mathematics, Madras Christian College, Tambaram, in COBOL language.
- The project includes (i) maintaining master files for books, students, professors and journals, (ii) maintaining daily transactions as issues and returns of books, (iii) answering queries about books, students, professors and journals, and (iv) some reports to the Librarian and the Head of the Department.
- I worked as the Project Leader for the group consisting of 7 members. I have alloted programmes to the members, created the screen format and linked all the modules.
Unix Utilities to DOS
- A project on Unix Utilities to Dos for the Aptech Computer Education, Tambaram-Centre in C language.
- The programs will work under the Disk Operating System. We have selected few commands from the Unix Operating System which was useful for the standalone DOS systems. These programs are similar to the Unix commands.
- I worked as the Project Leader for the group consisting of 9 members. I have alloted programs to the members, created a main program and created links to all the programs.

Professional Experience

Systems Analyst

Worked as Systems Analyst in the Computer Centre, Department of Mathematics, Madras Christian College, Tambaram, one of the best colleges in India, an autonomous college which is affiliated to the University of Madras, from August 1992 to November 1995.

Responsibilities held
- Created and maintained accounts for the students in the system.
- Troubleshooting of students programs.
Projects done
- Automated students time table.
- Computerized students mark sheets.
- Computerized college attendence maintenance.
Senior Project Officer, Gr.II

Working as Senior Project Officer in Theoretical Computer Science Laboratory, Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology, from December 1995 to till date.

Responsibilites held
- Maintained Linux Platform and Windows 95 Platform systems connected with Networked File Sytems.
- Created and Maintained Users Accounts.
- Updated the technical reports database and maintained it.
- Created a shell script package for the technical reports database available in the lab which will have a query on author name and book name.
Projects done
- A Computer Based Teaching System for Foundation Courses of Computer Science which contains a Computer Aided Language Tool package.
- Incharge of the home page for the Theoretical Computer Science Laboratory and updating it regularly.
  
  Home page address : http://www.cs.iitm.ernet.in/~tcslab
- Created a Web Machine in the Department for the Courses conducted in the Department and placed few courses in that machine.
  
  Courses Web page address : http://courses.iitm.ernet.in
- Created a Web site for the International Symposium on Algorithms and Combinatorics (ISAAC '99).
  
  Conference Web page address : http://www.cs.iitm.ernet.in/~tcslab/isaac99

Computer Languages Known :

C++
C.
JAVA.
Visual Foxpro 5.0.
CLIPPER.
COBOL.
dBASE (III & III+ & IV).
FORTRAN.
FOXBASE.
FOXPRO 2.5.
PASCAL.

Computer Packages Known :

LATEX 2e.
WINWORD 7.0.
POWERPOINT.
WORDSTAR 6.0.
LOTUS 1-2-3.
WORDPERFECT 5.1.

Operating Systems Worked :

Disk Operating Systemi 6.22.
Linux 5.2.
Unix.
WINDOWS'95.
WINDOWS'98.

Internet Languages Known :

HTML.
CGI-BIN.
PERL.

Personal Skills :

Highly experienced in organizing team work.
Have confidence to carry out any challenging assignment. Creative thinking and ability to do any kind of assignment with in the time schedule are my personal asserts.
Can accodomate any working environment since I can adjust with down the line workers and higher ups.

Personal Quality :

Dependable.
Persuasive.
Hard working.
Highly conscientious about quality.

Other Distinctions / Activities :

Was awarded "Venkateswara Iyer Prize" for the best student in Mathematics in I year of B.Sc.
Was awarded "Certificate of Distinction" for excellent performance in Semester I exam conducted by Apple Industries Ltd, Tambaram.
Was the Secretary of Mathematics Association, Dept. of Mathematics, Madras Christian College, Tambaram, Madras.
Was the Organizing Member, National Seminar on Theoretical Computer Science, held in the Dept. of Mathematics, Madras Christian College, Tambaram, Madras.
Was the Organizing Member, Pre Conference Workshop on Molecular Computing for the conference FSTTCS'98.
Was the Organizing Member, Foundations of Software Technology and Theoretical Computer Science 1998.

Extra Curricular Activities :

Swimming
Football
Kabbadi

Reference :

Dr. C. Pandu Rangan
Professor & Head
Department of Computer Science & Engineering
Indian Institute of Technology, Madras
Chennai 600 036, INDIA

Mailing Address :

24 KAMARAJ STREET
WEST TAMBARAM
Chennai 600 045.