Rajkumar Mohanram Email: rajkumar@rajkumarmohanram.com Education : 1999-2001 Masters (M.S.) in Computer Science from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. 1995-1999 Bachelor of Engineering (B.E.) in Computer Science from College of Engineering, Guindy, Anna University, Madras, India Area of Interest : Computer Networks, Mobile Computing, Distributed Systems, Multimedia & Operating Systems Course Work done: Advanced Distributed Systems, Multimedia Operating Systems, Communication Networks, Computer Networks & Distributed Systems, Network Performance & Queuing Theory, Logic Design, Operating System & Combinatorial Algorithms. Work and Research Experience : 2002 - to date Microsoft Corporation Worked as a Software Design Engineer at Microsoft’s Windows Core OS Security Team.          Worked as the Software Design Engineer/Test of Kerberos Authentication protocol. Moved to take on the Lead role in Sept 2002 for the Windows Authentication Protocols Test Team Own all the authentication protocols which ship in Windows - Kerberos, NTLM, Negotiate, SSL, Digest, etc Working as a Lead Software Design Engineer since then 2001 - 2002 Microsoft Corporation Software Design Engineer at Microsoft’s MSTV Advanced Client System Software Group. Worked as the software architect of Client Configuration Architecture (CCA) and implemented the ability to target and broadcast DSM-CC content to MSTV clients using CCA. Summer 2000 Sun Microsystems Summer Intern in the Internet Engg. department of Solaris Network Technology (SNT) Group at Sun Microsystems. Worked with the Web Performance & NC support group on the Solaris Network Cache & Accelerator (NCA) present in the kernel and on updating the Solaris Modular Debugger (mdb). 1999-2000 University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign Teaching Assistant for CS 125 - Introduction to Computer Science and Engineering using Java at University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (Voted Excellent Teaching Assistant in 2000) 1999-2000 University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign Performed active research in the field of Multimedia Operating Systems and Networking, involving MPEG2 video streaming over the internet; with Prof. Klara Nahrstedt. 1995-1999 Active part time member of Research & Development at ICOMM Technologies, India. (ICOMM Technologies India is a subsidiary of ICOMM Inc. USA) Projects Completed : * Implemented targeting (content, software downloads and ads) and broadcast (ability to send content over a DSMCC carousel) support to client boxes using Client Configuration Architecture. (Microsoft) * Provided feature enhancements to Client Configuration Agent, RAM File System Driver, Compression File System Driver and other core Windows CE system components of the Microsoft TV Advanced Client (Microsoft) * Worked as a summer intern on the performance enhancements of servers running Solaris OS by using a new modified approach to the Network Cache & Accelerator (NCAv2) in Solaris OS. Also updated Mdb kernel debugging macros for easier Solaris bug debugging. (Sun Microsystems) * Designed a Video Conferencing System on the Sun Solaris platform. (Jan-May 2000) * Designed and Implemented a Bulletin board for chatting and file sharing using TCP.(Jan-May 2000) * Designed and implemented a Reliable file transport protocol, using UDP. (Jan-May 2000) * Designed and Implemented an Automatic Target Recognition and Gun Control System (ATRGCS) as part of the Final Year Thesis project of B.E. (Aug 1998 - May 1999) * Designed and Implemented a Compiler for C language using Lex and Yacc on a Unix platform.(1997) * Designed and implemented a Simulator and Assembler for a MC68000 microprocessor. (1997) * Redesigned the network platform at Silicon Studio Pentafour; Provided RAID technology solution for the www.cricinfo.com server; provided intranet solutions for Reynolds ball pen makers. (ICOMM Tech) Skills - Programming Languages, Interfaces and Operating Systems known : Operating Systems : Solaris, Linux, Unix, Windows 2000, Windows CE. Databases : Oracle, SQL Server, Developer 2000. Prog. Languages : C#, Java, C++, C, Pascal, Prolog, Unix Shell,80x86, Assembly. Others : .NET Framework, HTML, PERL, Java Script. Achievements, Awards and Honours : Best Teaching Assistant in Computer Science Department, University of Illinois 2000 Diploma in Advanced Java Programming 1999. Rajya Puraskar from the Governor in 1994. Government of India Merit Scholarship in 1995. Best Student Award in 1993. Permanent Contact Address : Rajkumar Mohanram 9265 227th Ave NE Redmond, WA 98053 rajkumar@rajkumarmohanram.com 425-836-9469 (H)