Devesh's Resume

                                Devesh Khatu

                   1100 Gough St #16D, San Francisco CA 94109
                               (415) 775-5825 
                              devesh@rahul.net



OBJECTIVE

A challenging position in software design and development. (Not looking 
presently).


EXPERIENCE

Cogit Corporation, San Francisco, CA                       April 1997 - Present
Senior Software Developer.

* Head of User Interface development at Cogit Corporation, a rapidly growing
  software startup in San Francisco that specializes in Marketing Automation.
  Responsibilities include designing and developing front end client products
  on the Windows 95/NT platforms for visualizing the output of the two engines
  that the company has: one for market basket analysis and the other for
  predictive modelling. The client products are developed in Visual C++ 5.0.


Informix Software, Inc., San Francisco, CA                July 1995 - April 1997
(formerly Stanford Technology Group)
Senior Software Developer.

* Designed, developed, tested and released version 3.0 of MetaCube Explorer,
  an ad-hoc query and reporting tool for end users to query the data warehouse.
  Explorer is an OLE Automation client that connects to MetaCube, the data 
  warehousing engine that provides multidimensional access to Informix databases.
  Explorer was written in Visual Basic 4.0 and Visual C++ 4.1 on Windows NT/95,
  and I was the lead developer on this project.

* Designed, developed, tested and released OLE Custom Controls (OCXs) that are
  used by MetaCube Explorer, as well as by other applications.

* Designed, developed, tested and released version 2.1 of the client products 
  for MetaCube. The client products include MetaCube Explorer, MetaCube 
  Warehouse Manager, an administrative tool for managing the data warehouse, 
  and MetaCube Agent Administrator, a tool to administer intelligent agents. 

  Stanford Technology Group was acquired by Informix in November 1995.


Oracle Corporation, Redwood Shores, CA                     June 1992 - July 1995
Technical Staff.

* Designed and developed part of the UI subsystem along with a team of 4 other 
  developers for a new object-oriented application development tool, using
  Visual C++/MFC on Windows NT. The project is known as Sedona. My role in 
  the team involved evolving the architecture of the UI subsystem, geometry 
  management, implementing widgets including Windows Common Controls, etc.

* Developed an internal WWW page for the above project using HTML.

* Designed and developed a prototype GUI for Sedona,  using Objective C and 
  NeXT's Interface Builder and Appkit on NeXTStep. I was the sole implementor 
  of the prototype, and we demonstrated the prototype to the CEO of the 
  company, as a result of which the full-scale project was conceived.

* Designed, developed, tested and tuned a new financial application, Oracle 
  Commissions. Involved E-R modeling of the application in CASE, writing 
  PL/SQL stored procedures and Pro*C programs on top of  ORACLE7, and 
  profiling and performance tuning of the code.


The University of Texas, Austin, TX                         Sept 1991 - May 1992
Teaching Assistant.

* Taught classes, conducted laboratory hours and graded exams for Computer 
  Science I, an introductory course on computer programming.


Microelectronics & Computer Technology Corp, Austin, TX   June 1991 - Sept 1991
Summer Intern.

* Developed a query optimizer for LDL++, a rule-based query language for 
  relational databases, using C++.  


EDUCATION

The University of Texas, Austin TX                                   1990 - 1992
M.S. in Computer Sciences. (GPA 3.82/4.00)

* Courses included advanced databases, multidatabases, systems programming, 
  distributed computing, advanced operating systems, programming languages, 
  networks, algorithms and computer graphics.


Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay, India                        1986 - 1990
B.Tech. in Computer Science & Engineering. (GPA 8.84/10.00)


TECHNICAL SKILLS

* Software/Languages:
  C, C++, Objective C, Visual C++/MFC, Visual Basic, ODBC, OLE, SQL, PL/SQL,
  Oracle 7,  HTML, Pascal, UNIX shells and utilities.

* Systems/Environments:
  Windows NT 3.51/4.0, Windows 95, Windows 3.11, SunOS/UNIX, NeXTStep, 


MISCELLANEOUS

* Former member and officer of the Oracle Speakers Club, affiliated with 
  Toastmasters International.

* Recipient of MCD Fellowship from the Dept of Computer Sciences at the 
  University of Texas at Austin.

* GRE scores: 2400/2400 (aptitude), 870/870 (computer science).

* US permanent resident.