Vibhor Goyal
BTech from Punjab Technical University, MS from Florida State University, Interned at HUGHES SOFTWARE SYSTEMS in 2006 & at PROONGO LLC in 2009, 2 years as Teaching Assistant at FLORIDA STATE UNIVERSITY, currently Contractor at WOLTERS KLUWER Chicago
| Headline: | Engineer |
| Skills: | Business, C/C++, Computer Engineering, Database Administration, Databases, Design, Engineering, Java, Languages and Platforms, MacOS applications, Management, Public speaking, Software Engineering, SQL, System Administration, Unix, Web design, Web Development, Windows, Windows applications |
| Groups: | Jules F. Knapp Entrepreneurship Center at Illinois Institute of Technology |
| Interested in: | Consulting opportunities, Finding team mates, Meeting new people, Providing services to startups, Trading services |
| Schools: | Florida State University |
WORK EXPERIENCE
| Employer: | WOLTERS KLUWER Chicago, Illinois |
| Position: | Contractor- Mobile Transition Architect |
| Time period: | September 2009 - Present |
| Description: | Wolters Kluwer started their Content Publishing Business with print media, and later on they
moved over to web-front ends to provide their customers with the content over the web. I have joined them as a part of effort to provide a mobile based end to various content. Roles Performed : Software design, development, testing and documentation. As of now I have completed one of the initial project of providing iPhone interface to one of well known Law School Exam Simulator, and would soon be starting to work on bringing it on other platforms like Blackberry and Windows Mobile. Platform: Various Mobile SDKs |
| Employer: | PROONGO LLC Chicago, Illinois |
| Position: | Intern - iPhone Application Development |
| Time period: | June 2009 - September 2009 |
| Description: | Primary Job function was to port a business oriented mobile application from Windows
Mobile to iPhone OS platform. Roles Performed : Software design, development, testing and documentation. Platform: Objective-C, Cocoa-Touch Tools : iPhone SDK, xcode, Mac-OSX. Various roles I performed in the Application development included: • XML parsing. • Generation of Excel spreadsheets over the phone. • In-App email. • In-App purchase. • Posting and receiving server responses. • Sqlite3 based data persistence. |
| Employer: | FSU CENTER FOR INTENSIVE ENGLISH STUDIES Tallahassee, Florida |
| Position: | Database Administrator |
| Time period: | May 2008 - July 2008 |
| Description: | Primary Job function was to re-structure the existing database and design front-end UI for
maintaining the records of current students and admitting the new students. Roles Performed: Database schema and relationship designing, UI designing, training. Platform: SQL. Tools: MS Acess 2007. My assigned role was to optimize the outdated database structure and provide easy navigation and data entry into the database. In order to achieve this I had to completely restructure the database schema in order to reduce redundancy and implement relational model. I further designed reports and forms to provide easy access to the data base. My secondary role was to introduce and train the staff to use the new interface and provide the documentation for detailed reference. |
| Employer: | FLORIDA STATE UNIVERSITY Tallahassee, Florida |
| Position: | Teaching Assistant – Object Oriented Programming in C++ |
| Time period: | August 2007 - May 2009 |
| Description: | Primary Job function is to design programming assignments and projects for the students to
work on and help them with programming during lab and recitation hours. Roles Performed : Programming, Teaching, Mentoring and Grading. Platform: C++. Tools : Microsoft Visual C++ Express and Linux. The job majorly focuses on assigning new and exciting projects to students, which includes programming the project myself at first, getting approval from professor and mentoring the students to work on it. The Secondary aspect of the job focuses on grading the assignments and projects. |
| Employer: | HUGHES SOFTWARE SYSTEMS Gurgaon, INDIA |
| Position: | Software Development Intern – Telecom Software Division |
| Time period: | January 2006 - August 2006 |
| Description: | Primary job function was to design and develop software modules as per the client
requirements. This includes requirement analysis, designing, programming, testing, and documenting for the assigned module. Secondary job functions included creation of Test plans and executing the pre-release Integration Testing. |
EDUCATION
| University: | Florida State University |
| Time period: | 2009 |
| Degree: | Computer Science, MSc |
