NEERAJ  SHODHAN
733 Alvarado Court,						                    Phone : (650) 493-8796
Stanford,						                e-mail : shodhan@cs.stanford.edu
CA  94305					          http://www-cs-tudents.stanford.edu/~shodhan
Objective	To obtain a challenging position as a Software Design Engineer

Education 
9/96 – 6/98 	Master of Science in Computer Science  [GPA 3.7]
		Stanford University, Stanford, CA
8/92 - 9/96	Bachelor of Engineering in Computer Engineering   [GPA 4.0]
		L.D. College of Engineering, Gujarat University, Ahmedabad, India
•	Top 5% of the Engineering class, all semesters
•	Gold Medal awarded by Gujarat University in Engineering Mechanics [12/93]
10/93 - 12/95	Honors Diploma in System Management
		National Institute of Information Technology (NIIT), Ahmedabad, India

Work Experience 
6/97 – 9/97	Software Engineer, Rockwell Palo Alto Research Laboratory, Palo Alto, CA
•	Designed and developed a CORBA/JAVA based interface for "Design-Sheet", an engineering trade-off analysis tool 
•	Designed and implemented Database connectivity to MS-Access using JDBC
1/97 - present  Research Assistant, Center for Design Research, Stanford University,  CA
•	Software development in JAVA for Agent Based Engineering Environment 
•	Wrote a Parser/Translator that converts a file from HTML to KQML syntax
10/96 - 12/96	Teaching Assistant, Stanford University, Stanford, CA
•	CS193U - Software Engineering in ‘C/UNIX’
7/95 - 8/96	Intern / Trainee, Space Applications Center (SAC - ISRO), Ahmedabad, India
•	Project Leader for developing a replica of Matlab 
•	Developed 2D and 3D graphics routines using Borland C++, under MS-Windows

Relevant Courses 
Distributed Systems, Internet Technologies, Electronic Commerce, Computer Networks, Relational Databases, Distributed Databases and Transaction processing, Database System Implementation, Operating Systems, Object-Oriented Programming: A Modeling and Simulation Perspective, Business Management for Computer Science Professionals

Computer Skills 
•	Languages 
•	Expert in C, C++, JAVA (including JNI, JDBC and IDL for CORBA)
•	Experience in SQL, CGI, PERL, HTML, COBOL and BASIC
•	Exposure to Embedded SQL, Library SQL, x86 assembly level programming
•	Operating Systems 
•	MS-WINDOWS : API and GUI programming 
•	UNIX : system level and socket programming 
•	DOS : system level programming