Enthusiastic and reliable recent management graduate with 2 years of experience with helping deliver software products in a fast-paced environment. Highly organized and skilled in problem solving and Office suites. Appreciated by previous employer for optimizing workflows and helping reduce equipment cost by 30%. Ready to relocate to any place in Canada and start working immediately.
Notable Achievements
- As Project Associate: Reduced money spent on expensive equipment by 30%, by optimizing workflows and revamping the projects to support low cost devices, and ensured project delivery within all promised timelines, by contributing to all the development phases.
- As Project Intern: Developed a Python-based learning software in 4 weeks by collaborating with a multicultural team of developers to create an application to help the speech impaired learn sign language. Published a technical paper in the International Conference on Advanced Learning Technologies (ICALT), an IEEE conference, by providing documentation assistance to Senior Research Scientists.
- As Volunteer Project Leader: Engaged 300 participants by conducting an awareness seminar on eye donation. Received the Bhumi Earth Award and Bhumi 100% Award for the dedicated service by restarting and overseeing multiple volunteer projects and assisting the manager in training Project Leaders.
- Received funds by writing a project grant proposal to create an application that helps school children learn about historical monuments in a fun and immersive way. Led a team of talented engineering students to build, and deliver the software.
Skills
Hard Skills: Understanding of web development, conducting market research, requirements gathering, writing technical specs, generating reports, knowledge of User Experience practices, A/B testing, MS Office tools – Excel, Word, PowerPoint, Project, Visio, and Programming languages – Python, C#, JavaScript, HTML, CSS.
Soft Skills: Positive attitude, communication, active listening, team collaboration, leadership, diplomacy, organization, time management, critical thinking, flexibility, ability to work under pressure, problem-solving, and attention to detail.
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Publications
1. Fingerspelling – Indian Sign Language Training Tool
Developed a Python-based application to help the hearing impaired learn Indian Sign Language (ISL) by working in a team of software engineering students, under the guidance of two Senior Research Scientists at IIT Bombay.
Description: In India, about 12.3 million people are hearing impaired (moderate or complete). Indian Sign Language (ISL) which is developed specifically for Indians is taught in over 850 schools where few teachers have the task of training large class. Primary challenge is to have parity in terms of teaching ISL to entire class. Additionally, it is difficult to identify their mistakes and provide personalized corrective feedback. Fingerspelling is a gesture based animation app for teaching ISL. Fingerspelling consists of ‘Learn’ module: which demonstrates the ISL gestures; Practice module: which provides opportunity to the users to practice; and Test module: which checks the knowledge assimilation of the gestures. This app is built using free and open source tool: Blender. It has a desktop version and a web based version. Our preliminary user tests reveal that the hearing impaired students find this app extremely useful and friendly to use. They were pleasantly surprised to interact with an app which can speak ‘their’ language. We propose to address the technical issues and modify the app to train the hearing impaired in a better and more efficient manner.
Authors: T. Nanaware, S. Sahasrabudhe, N. Ayer and R. Christo, “Fingerspelling – Indian Sign Language Training Tool,” 2018 IEEE 18th International Conference on Advanced Learning Technologies (ICALT), 2018, pp. 330-334, doi: 10.1109/ICALT.2018.00083.
2. ArchViz: Incorporating Project Based Learning in a MOOC Setting Through Learning eXtension Trajectories
Built a VR application by using Project Based Learning (PBL) and published the benefits of Massive Open Online Courses (MOOC).
Description: In a Massive Open Online Course setting, the application of Project-Based Learning (PBL) strategy becomes challenging due to the asynchronous nature of the learning process as well as the high diversity among learners. One possible solution is to support the learner diversity by identifying different learning paths possible and pointing learners towards these. ‘Learning extension Trajectories’ (LxTs) from the Learner-Centric MOOC (LCM) model has an assimilation activity to ensure that learning loop gets closed for the learner. The assimilation activity can be provided in the form of quizzes, learning artefact submission or any similar activity that will indicate learner movement through the pointed learning trajectory. In this paper, we present different trajectories provided by the instructor of a 3D animation skill development MOOC. We also focus on a project, where the product is a methodology to create an interactive architectural visualization. Preliminary user tests reveal that the users find the intervention useful.
Authors: S. Sahasrabudhe, R. Christo and J. Madathil Warriem, “ArchViz: Incorporating Project Based Learning in a MOOC Setting Through Learning eXtension Trajectories,” 2018 IEEE Tenth International Conference on Technology for Education (T4E), 2018, pp. 203-204, doi: 10.1109/T4E.2018.00052.