About Me

DEEPAK DHAKAL
285 Robins Rd Apt E7, Hiawatha, IA, 52233, (319) 210-7070
therisingdeepak@yahoo.com

Key qualification
• Over 3 years of experience in programming, testing, deploying and maintaining web /windows based applications; has contributed to full software development life-cycle.
• Strong technical background, interpersonal communication and project management skills, with ability to adapt to new technologies, environment and applications proficiently.

Professional Summary
• 3+ years of designing, developing and testing software using .NET 1.1/2.0/3.5(C#, VB.NET), NUnit, ASP.NET, ADO.NET, COM, WINAPI, MFC, C, C++, AJAX, XML, Web Services, Adobe Flash, VSTO, WCF, Mobile Web Development.
• 3+ years strong experience with Object Oriented Systems Analysis/Design, Test driven development, Multi-tier design, Design patterns and UML Diagrams with excellent knowledge of the software development life-cycle.
• 3+ years of hands on experience in Relational Database schema design using MS-SQL 2000/2005, Oracle 9i with Strong familiarity of relational database modeling principles/techniques and great experience in integrating views, triggers, cursors, indexes and stored procedures with development environment
• 6+ months of experience using Test Stand (LABVIEW) for testing test fixtures.
• 5+ years of engineering and software development experience using Microsoft Technologies
• 1+ years of experience in Java swing programming, PHP, JDBC and JUnit testing.

Professional Experiences

Fastek Intl, Cedar Rapids, Iowa March 2007-Present
Software Engineer
• Worked as a Software Engineer/team leader for Fastek International and its clients. Performed tasks including day-to-day development and maintenance of the web/windows applications, including web component creation and leading a team of programmers.
• Contributed as a team leader during the development of different web/windows based company management systems software as well as trained entry level programmers.
• Quality assurance testing of all the development prior to launch to ensure proper functionality, logics, coding conventions, and consistency with user interface.

Major Projects Summary

iPrsim Global (http://www.iprismglobal.com)
A Secure Virtual Office (SVO); real time collaborative Web Conferencing with a suite of high performance workflow tools, data integration applications.

Summary:
• Developed dynamic web pages using ASP.NET 2.0, ADO.NET, AJAX and Web Services with MSSQL 2005.
• Designed/developed Mobile web pages for www.iprismglobal.com for handheld mobile devices using MS Mobile Emulators.
• Implemented Dundas Chart, Gauge, and Digital Dashboard using Dundas 6.0 using ASP.NET.
• Designed/Developed Windows Prism Jabber Chat Application ( like Google Talk ) that supports link post, chat history, adding/deleting users, managing groups and offline messages using .NET web services, XMPP protocol and .NET Interop services.
• Developed Prism Outlook toolbar that facilitates to sync the MS Outlook Calendar Appointments to prism Web calendar using .Net add-on Projects (VSTO) for Outlook 2003 and 2007.
• Wrote testing cases and test procedures to test the above applications in NUnit and created documentations.
Development Tools: C# 2.0, ASP.NET 2.0 (AJAX), Dundas 6.0, VS 2005, SQL Server 2005 and Reporting Services, VSS, Windows forms, Office 2003/2007
ViconNet 4.0 Intregation for CCTV (www.vicon-cctv.com/viconnet-intro.html )
A Fully scalable networked video surveillance solution based upon ViconNet software that Allows for complete interoperability between all devices connected to the network.
Summary:
• Developed/Managed MFC layer application to connect to the Win32 C library that connects to the CCTV devices connected to the network.
• Integrate the .NET/CLR layer to the MFC layer that facilitates easy interface to the windows based application using .NET API calls.
• Developed and tested the Upper windows form layer that manages the Zooming, Rotating and storing the video frames to the database.
• Documented and managed the proposal estimation for the application.
Development Tools: C#, MFC, C++, WIN32 API, VS 2005/2003, VSS, Computer Workstation.
AIRport (University of IOWA, MBA)
AIRport is university of Iowa’s Admission, Information, and Registration portal to the MBA.

Summary:
• Developing N tier AIRport Web application and implementing UML classes and interfaces in ASP.NET 2.0 with full AJAX support.
• Writing DTS Packages, triggers, cursors and stored procedures in MSSQL 2000 and integrating them with the application.
• Documenting test cases/test suits and testing them in NUnit.
• Writing reusing components (SSH FTP client, .CSV Creator, Nightly processes using multithread, Reporting tool using Crystal Report) to support the main application.
• Communicating with the clients about the changes they desired as the project developed, including follow-up documentation.
• Provided Training to few entry level programmers.
Development Tools: C# 2.0, ASP.NET 2.0(AJAX), Visual Studio.Net 2005, ADO.NET, XML Web Service, SQL Server 2000, HTML, CSS.
J&P Cycles – E-commerce website & Internal Portal
“J&P cycles” is company that sells motorcycles part of various brands since 1979. J&P Cycles consulted Fastek for solution for the issues which they had with their E-commerce system. I was a member of the consulting team in upgrading and maintain their E-commerce system. http://www.jpcycles.com

Summary:
• Web Development using ASP.Net, ADO.Net & SQL 2000.
• Development in ASP, JavaScript, AJAX, XHTML, VBScript, XML.
• Integrating the e-commerce system to Controller+ using TCP/IP Socket Programming.
• Implementation and consumption of Web Services using SOAP, WSDL.
Development Tools: VB.NET 2.0, ASP.NET 2.0(AJAX), NUnit, XML Web Service, MSSQL 2000


FASePay Autobilling (PSO Canada)
An auto billing system for different restaurants in Canada to handle credit/debit card process, it manages payment history and billing processing with its own payment gateway.

Summary:
• Developing N tier Merchant Manager Web application with ASP.Net 3.0, Silverlight.
• Writing views, triggers, cursors and stored procedures in MSSQL 2005 and integrating them with Merchant Manager Web application.
• Designing and Implementing WCF (Windows Communication Foundation) services and testing them with service host and service clients.
• Documenting test cases for the services and testing them in NUnit.
Development Tools: C# 3.0(WCF), ASP.NET 3.0 (AJAX), SilverLight 1.0, Visual Studio.Net 2005 SP1, SQL Server 2005 and Reporting Services, Visual SourceSafe.

B787-Model 0877B1 Software verification
A Model 877B1 is the icing conditions Detector (ICD) for the BoeingB78. The software was from Goodrich and verification was done by Fastek Team. TestStand was the testing tool

Summary:
• Configure TestStand Enjoinment with hardware and other software Components.
• Assisted writing test sequences to test the hardware using TestStand.
• Tested and modified the basic C code for the hardware.
• Run and generated the reports for each Test case and documented it using VSS.

HRT (University of IOWA)
A Health risk tracking application with few flash animations to find the risk of dying within coming 10 year by heart attack.

Summary:
• Developing/ testing a flash animation using Adobe Flash CS3 (Action script 3.0) to track the 10 year risk to heart attack...
• Developing/ testing the main application in ASP 3.0 with SQL server 2000 backend.
• Writing DTS Packages, triggers, cursors and stored procedures in MSSQL 2000 and integrating them with the application.
• Documenting test cases/test suits and testing them in NUnit.
Development Tools: ASP 3.0, SQL Server 2000, Adobe Flash CS3, AS 3.0, CSS, VSS.

HitechValley iNet Pvt Ltd, Kathmandu Nepal Sept 2004- Aug 2006
ASP.NET Web Developer in C#

Major Projects Summary

Online Jewelry for Car
An E-commerce project, sells various parts of automobiles of different types. It has to handle millions of data and the project was from USA.

Summary:
• Converting existing VB.NET code to C# code and writing test cases.
• Implementing the UML classes and interfaces to the C# in VS 2003 and integrating them within the subsystem.
• Writing views, triggers, cursors and stored procedures in MSSQL 2000 and integrating them with .NET environment.
• Communicating with the clients about the changes they desired as the project developed, including follow-up documentation.
• Configuring and maintaining the source control CVS.
• Reusing components like Data access layer with XML.
• Documenting daily TODO tasks and submitting to the project manager.
• Finishing the project within time limit specified by client.
Development Tools: C#/ASP.NET 1.1, VS.Net 2003, ADO.NET, SQL Server 2000

Online used car management application:
An E-commerce project to sell and buy used cars. The client is UK-based and requires special handling and manipulation of postal code data

Summary:
• Communicating with the client to define the requirements for the application, including full documentation between the parties.
• Designing the use cases, class diagrams, and subsystem diagrams with full documentation using Rational Rose using RUP.
• Implementing the UML diagram to the code in C# and writing test cases using N unit.
• Communicating and coordinating with two new developers and assigning daily tasks to them.
• Integrating payment gateway PAYPAL to the application.
Development Tools: : C# 1.1, ASP.NET 1.1, Visual Studio.Net 2003, ADO.NET, XML, XSLT, SQL Server 2000, XHTML/DHTML, CSS, JavaScript and CVS.

Online DVD management system
An E-commerce project that helps to sell and rent various types of DVDs using web services and RSS Fee, the project was based on Nepal
Development Tools: C# 2.0, ASP.NET 2.0, VS 2005, ADO.NET, SQL Server 2005, CSS.

Maharishi University of Management, Fairfield, Iowa Nov 2006- Jan 2007
Teaching Assistant
(Software Engineering, Distributed computing, advanced software development)

Everest Engineering College, Kathmandu, Nepal Sept 2004 – July 2006
Project Instructor

Education
• Master of Computer Science, Maharishi University of Management, Fairfield, Iowa, GPA: 3.82 (Computer Science) currently enrolled ( one course remaining for the graduation)
• Bachelor of Engineering in Computer, Pokhara University, Pokhara, Nepal (2005) CGPA: 3.68

Certification
ASP.NET: Brainbench Certification, Score: 3.71, ID: 6663541
C#: Brainbench Certification, Score: 3.79

Technical Skill
Languages C# 1.1/2.0/3.0, J2SE, VB.NET, VB 6.0, C/C++, MFC.
Development Environments VisualStudio.Net 2003/2005, Eclipse 3.1/3.2 for Java, VS 6.0
Web-Development Technologies ASP.NET 1.1/2.0/3.0 (C#), ASP, ADO.NET, XML WebServices, SOAP, WSDL, XML, Servlets, Flash CS3, Action script
Scripting and Markup JavaScript, PHP, HTML,XHML, XML, XSL, XSLT.
Databases SQL Server 2005/2000, MS Access , MYSQL,Oracle
Operating Systems Windows 98/NT/2000/XP, Windows Server 2000/2003, Linux
OO Tools & Languages Rational Unified Process (RUP), Rational Rose 2000, Omondo.
Testing Frameworks NUnit, JUnit., NAnt, NDoc
Web/App Server Apache Tomcat, IIS 6.0.
Methodologies Rational Unified Process (RUP), Design Patterns.
Source Control CVS, Visual Source Safe.