1. Curriculum Vitae Monish
{
M onish K umar D esai
}
Gender: Male Current Location
Nationality: Indian* Kingston, ON, Canada
Mobile: +1 3433331455 Willing to relocate
Email Address: monishkumardesai@gmail.com
Driving Licence: Full Indian, Irish Provisional
 Home Address
Milltown, Kerry, Ireland
Languages: English, Hindi, Gujarati, Oriya, Marathi  +353 669765465
Education
Master of Engineering in Electrical & Computer Engineering
2011 - Now Queen’s University, Kingston, ON, Canada.
Royal Military College of Canada, Kingston, ON, Canada.
Honours Bachelor of Engineering Degree in Computer Engineering
2007 – 2010
University of Limerick, Limerick, Ireland.
Diploma in Computer Technology
2004 – 2007
Sou. Venutai Chavan Polytechnic, Pune, India.
Work Experience
Jul 2011 - Aug 2011 Volunteer: Database St. Mary of the Angles
St. John of God, Beaufort, Ireland
Basic database entry for County Kerry behavioural database.
Killorglin Community services
Oct 2010 - Jun 2011 Volunteer:S/W Developer Killorglin, Ireland
May 2008 –Jun 2011 Volunteer: S/W Developer St. Francis Special School
St. John of God,Beaufort, Ireland
Developed educational applications for people with learning difficulties to help them manage and learn
money handling& counting skills, to make them independent in their day to day life.
May 2008 – Jan 2009 Automated Testing Co-op Engineer Nortel Networks
Galway, Ireland
Nortel Galway is now part of Avaya Sales Internationals. Avaya delivers unified hardware and software
solutions for reducing complexity, increasing productivity and making communication cost-effective.
Key Project
Automated testing of Nortel Contact Center 7.0 Multimedia and Communication Control Toolkit software.
Limited manual testing to verify testing infrastructure and for product troubleshooting.
Main Responsibilities
 Nightly System Operations (SysOps) software builds.
 Automated testing of Contact Center software products.
 Manual testing & Quality Maintenance of Contact Center software DVD installer.
 Fault analysis, troubleshooting and test result documentation.
 Raising and managing Product Defect Notifications.
 Building test servers, installing patches and prerequisite softwares, installing and configuring Nortel
products.
 Building and maintaining automated functional test beds – hardware and software.
 Maintaining critical servers like Microsoft Update Server, Windows Domain Controller and File Server.
 Hardware resource management.
 Local/Remote backup & restore using Norton Symantec Ghost.
 Virtualization and remote accessibility to virtual servers.
 GUI enhancement and functionality optimisation in installer using C# .NET.

2. Achievements
First Nortel Co-op to get “Excellence@Nortel 2 star Silver Appreciation Award”.
Awarded in January 2009 by Nortel Networks Galway.
“Annual International Education Division Merit Bursary Award 2009”.
Awarded in February 2010 by University of Limerick.
“Annual International Education Division Merit Bursary Award 2008”.
Awarded in December 2008 by University of Limerick.
Skills
Serial: C, C++, Visual basic & C# .net, SQL
Parallel: MPI, Pthread & OpenMP with C
Computer Languages
Hardware: VHDL, MASM 8086
Web: HTML5, CSS3, JavaScript, jQuery, paperjs
Apache Tomcat, FileZilla, MySQL App Server, Windows External web server
Application Servers
and Windows Update server.
Proficient in server hardware and software installations, upgrades and
Hardware
network peripherals.
DOS, Windows 9x, XP, 7, 8 CP, Windows 2003 Server, Windows 2008 Server
Operating Systems
R2; Mac OS X Lion; Ubuntu 12.10, fedora 13, Maemo, Unix; MicroC OS-II.
Software IDE’s Visual Studio 2010, NetBeans, CodeWarrior, XILINIX, Sublime Text, Balsamiq.
 Clarify CRM, Net ID, Livelink, Sysinternal Process Explorer & Thread
Monitors.
Other Tools
 Adobe Photoshop and Macromedia flash.
 Basic knowledge of Oracle, Sybase, Clear Case and Crystal Report.
 Automated installation and full NUnit-based automated functional testing.
 Manual testing – to debug product and test equipment issues.
 Quick-fire manual and NUnit-based sanity testing.
Testing
 Test case generation, fault analysis, and Product Defect Notification
management.
 Daily test result documentation and presentation.
 Network routers, data switches, Nortel PABX telephony switches.
 I administered a lab with more than 60 servers, 2 routers, 4 Nortel PABX
Networking
telephony switches, a data store, domain controller, Web server and
Mailing server across 2 different networks.
 Microsoft’s Virtual PC & Virtual Machine.
 Proficient with VMware: ESX 3i server, Servers and Workstations.
Virtualizations
 Have experience of installing, upgrading, maintaining, porting, networking,
and maintaining ISO library of all of the above.
 Experienced with backups, restore & recovery of critical servers.
Backup’s & Recovery  Proficient with Norton Ghost Server & Norton Ghost Suite.
 Maintained backups in a lab of 60 servers using various operating systems.
Environment & Proficient in doing Streamlined Life Cycle Assessments (SLCA’s) and
Electronics observations of full Life Cycle Assessments (LCA’s).
 Graphical Design (GD), User Interface (UI) & User Experience (UX) Design.
Human Computer
 Computer Supported Collaborative Work (CSCW) Design.
Interaction
 Ethnomethodological studies of work (Ethnography).

3. Research Interests
Efficient wireless networking, Linux kernel & file system, file system based database, automated GUI
testing, cost effective Cloud Computing, Real-Time embedded operating system.
Other Interests
 I enjoy exploring new electronic and computer technology.
 Blogging on the subject of environment & electronics.
 I am passionate about environmental and conservation issues.
 I support animal rights and I am a Care2 member.
Projects
Summer 2012 Human Computer Interaction design using web based graphical state machine.
Master’s Project, HCI, Queens’s University &Royal Military College, Canada.
Technologies used: UML, JavaScript, jQuery, paperjs, HTML5, CSS3.
Fall 2011 Comparative analysis of socket based Protocols-Ethernet versus InfiniBand
Cluster Computing, Parallel computing, Queen’s University, Canada.
Technologies used:MPI-2 cluster, QDR InfiniBand link,MellanoxMT26428 ConnectX, iperf and netperf.
Fall 2011 Control Problem in Parallel Languages
Discrete Event System, Queen’s University, Canada.
Technologies used: Automata theory on JFLAP.
2009 - 2010 Secure Data Sharing and Storage Management System
Final year Bachelor of Engineering project, University of Limerick, Ireland.
Technologies used: Php, PhpMyAdmin, MySQL and Apache.
Grade achieved: A2.
2009 - 2009 Time Critical Locator & Emergency Dispatcher
Software specification, design prototype and estimated costing, University of Limerick, Ireland.
Technologies used: 3 point tracking, GUI, database, mobile app, telecom application switch.
Grade achieved: 24 out of 25.
2006 - 2007 Radio frequency identification device (RFID) for total automation of Supermarkets
Final year Diploma project, Sou. Venutai Chavan Polytechnic, India.
Technologies used: RFID, MASM, VB 6.0 and MS Access.
Grade achieved: 92 out of 100.
Research
Fall2012 Selecting RTOS for hard & soft Real Time Systems
Real Time Operating Systems, Royal Military College, Canada.
Research paper “Selecting Real Time Operating System for commercial product development”, p1-4.
Winter 2012 Cognitive Networks
Wireless Mobile Communication, Queen’s University, Canada.
Presentation and research report, p1-20.
Fall 2011 RMA in MPI-1, MPI-2, MPI-3 & PGAS Family
Cluster Computing, Parallel computing lab, Queen’s University, Canada.
Presentation and research paper “RMA in MPI & PGAS Family”, p1-6.
Fall 2011 MeeGo vs. Android
Software Re-engineering, Queen’s University, Canada.
Presentations and research paper “MeeGo vs. Android A case study of portability of Platforms”, p1-9.

4. References
Dr. W. Greg Phillips Dr. Donal Heffernan Dr. Colin Fitzpatrick
Associate Professor, Senior Lecturer, Lecturer,
Software Engineering Group, Computer Engineering, Electronic Engineering,
Department of Electrical and Department of Electronic and Department of Electronic and
Computer Engineering Computer Engineering Computer Engineering
Royal Military College of Canada University of Limerick University of Limerick
Kingston, ON K7K 7B4, Canada Limerick, Ireland Limerick, Ireland
Email:greg.phillips@rmc.ca Email:donal.heffernan@ul.ie Email:colin.fitzpatrick@ul.ie
Phone:+1-613-541-6000 ext. 6491 Phone: +353-(0)61-202372 Phone:+353-(0)61-213561
James Duggan
Senior Software Engineer,
Communication Control Toolkit
Nortel Networks (now Avaya),
Galway, Ireland
Email:dugganj@avaya.com
Mobile: +353-(0)86-8544266
* Please note, no permit or documentation is required to employ me in Canada.
Reference letters and transcripts are available on request.