Adwait Joshi

Current

Chief Technology Officer at Adapsys Incorporated
Software Architect at Podo Technology
Founder and CEO at SwarGanga Incorporated & SwarGanga Trust India

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Past

Senior .NET lead at Mindspan Systems, Inc.
Application Developer at Chemtex
Software Engineering Intern at Intel

CAE Intern at Fisher-Price

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Education

State University of New York at Buffalo
Sardar Patel College of Engineering
South Indian Association High School

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Industry

Information Technology and Services

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Adwait Joshi’s Summary

Software Architect with solid experience in the following industries :
Touch screen kiosk applications, Digital Content Management, Data Center and Reporting, Web Services, .NET Remoting, RFID, Biometric recognition, Software Research and Development.

Excellent communication skills and experience in managing (and technically mentoring) an on-shore and off-shore team of developers.

Intrested in new and exciting opportunities in architecting .NET applications using WPF/WCF/Silverlight.

Adwait Joshi’s Specialties:

Programming
ASP.net, VB.net, C# on .NET 1.1, 2.0, 3.0, 3.5 (WPF/WCF/Silverlight 2)
XML, XAML, AJAX, JSON
C, C++, VC++(MFC) & VB 6.0
Sharepoint Server 2007
LAMP (Linux, Apache, MySQL, PHP (4 & 5))
HTML, CSS, JavaScript, VB Script

Databases
SQL Server 2005, MySQL, MS Access, LINQ

Reporting
Crystal Reports, SQL Reporting, Integration Services (SSIS)

Graphic Editing
Adobe Illustrator & Photoshop, Flash CS3, Expression Blend, Zam 3D

Adwait Joshi’s Experience

Chief Technology Officer

Adapsys Incorporated

(Information Technology and Services industry)

August 2008 — Present (1 year)

Adapsys Incorporated and Adapsys Technologies India started in 2008 offers Software, Engineering and Marketing Services to various clients in India and USA.
Software Architect

Podo Technology

(Privately Held; Information Technology and Services industry)

May 2005 — Present (4 years 3 months)

Working as a Software Architect to create a framework for a suite of solutions in the retail sector to enhance shopper experience at the point of decision. The entire solution includes various products at different levels, front end engagement solution where people can interact with a touch screen, Back end synchronization services to constantly capture interaction data, Reporting services and Executive dashboard to provide the client 24/7 access to the data in the form of various reports, Management solution to constantly monitor and manage the end point solutions for problems, Content Management System to manage the upload and delivery of the most relevant content to the endpoints on the shop floor.

I am also involved in researching new software products and technologies that can be implemented into our exisiting solution. These technologies include but are not limited to Facial and Biometric Recognition, RFID, Speech Recognition, Security, Audience Measurement etc.
Founder and CEO

SwarGanga Incorporated & SwarGanga Trust India

(Music industry)

October 2004 — Present (4 years 10 months)

Successfully established two organizations SwarGanga in Atlanta GA and SwarGanga Trust in Thane, India to promote young and upcoming artists in the field of Indian Classical Music (ICM). Through the unique blend of my expertise in Indian Classical Music and Software Technology I have created one of the most popular websites on the Internet today, with over 500,000 hits every month from nearly 126 different countries.

I am responsible for all the activities of the organization in US and India. I also organize various shows in the US throughout the year and an annual event in Thane, India each year. The annual event is a two day festival featuring four ICM artists from all over the world.

I volunteer to teach Indian Classical (Vocal & Harmonium) at the SwarGanga School of Music in Atlanta.
Senior .NET lead

Mindspan Systems, Inc.

(Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Information Technology and Services industry)

February 2005 — March 2008 (3 years 2 months)

Designed and developed various winforms and web based applications using Microsoft Technologies and Flash. Designed various touch screen applications for managed interactive customer experience on the retail floor to enable the customer to make a better, informed purchase decision, Data center and reproting portal for management of the kiosk data, a digital signage application and a Media Management & Distribution application.

Technologies used :

WPF, Silverlight, C#, Flash, Web Services, .NET Remoting.
Application Developer

Chemtex

(Privately Held; 501-1000 employees; Oil & Energy industry)

June 2004 — February 2005 (9 months)

Worked in the Project Engineering and Project Controls department to develop tools for cost estimation and scheduling. Responsible for managing databases, writing automated tools to import export data from a legacy database management system ZIM. Developed front end interfaces using VB and reports using Crystal Reports.
Software Engineering Intern

Intel

(Public Company; INTC; Semiconductors industry)

August 2003 — December 2003 (5 months)

Single handedly ported an engineering version of a Digital Content Creation application from IA32 to IA64 (Itanium2) using Intel 8.0, .NET compiler, C, and C++.

Won a Spontaneous Recognition Award for completing the project 4 weeks ahead of schedule.
CAE Intern

Fisher-Price

(Public Company; 501-1000 employees; MAT; Consumer Goods industry)

January 2003 — June 2003 (6 months)

The project involved development of new and improved CAD methods in a product engineering environment. The purpose of the project was to automate the application of Pro/E technology using ASP, C++ and JLink

Adwait Joshi’s Education

State University of New York at Buffalo

MS , Design & 3D Visualization using Virtual Reality , 2001 — 2003

Submitted a thesis titled Visualization Techniques for a Prototype Anthropometric Database.

The thesis focussed on capturing anthropometric and reach data of wheelchair users using a FaroARM. And translating that into a relational database and later on developing a software application using C++ and OpenGL to visualize the complex data with the help of various 2D and 3D techniques including 3D modelling of the human & the wheelchair, 3D reach envelopes and allowing importing of 3DS architectural scenes to assist in the concept of Universal Design.
Sardar Patel College of Engineering

BE , Mechanical Engineering , 1997 — 2001
South Indian Association High School

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Adwait Joshi’s Interests:

New technology research, software consulting opportunities, custom software development opportunities, business & marketing strategy, new business opportunities.