Rajesh Lal

Current

• Senior R&D Engineer at Nokia

Past

• Senior UI/UX Engineer at Sony Electronics
• Senior Solutions Engineer at Entriq Inc
• Software Engineer at ImageWare Inc

• Web Developer at Lamar University
• Programmer Analyst at AmericomLP
• Project Manager at Infinity Data
• Project Leader at Innovatif Data Technologies

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Education

• Lamar University
• Nagpur University

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Industry

Information Technology and Services

Rajesh Lal’s Summary

Author:
1. Creating Vista Gadgets using HTML, CSS, and JavaScript - Sams
2. Professional Web Widgets with CSS, DOM, JSON and AJAX - Wrox

A decade of experience in IT industry in progressive roles from designer, developer, architect, team lead, project leader to independent consultant, I specialize in Windows, Web and Mobile applications.

MS in computer science, from Lamar University, Texas and currently working as a Senior R&D Engineer at Nokia, Mountain View, California.

• Demonstrated Leader with experience of 40+ projects
• Expert in client side technologies HTML, CSS,& JavaScript
• Expert in User Interface & User Experience Design
• Experience in RIA design with Silverlight and WPF
• Excellent knowledge in C#, ASP.NET SQL 2000
• Experience in complete System Development Life Cycle
• Excellent communication and presentation skills
• Believe that both quality and time is important

Rajesh Lal’s Specialties:

CERTIFICATIONS
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• Code Project Most Valuable Professional (MVP) 2008
• Microsoft Certified Application Developer MCAD.NET - 2004
• Microsoft Certified Solution Developer MCSD - 2001

DESIGN INVENTIONS
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* Honeycomb User Interface design for Mobile devices
* Two Thumbs User Interface for Digital Photo Frames

Rajesh Lal’s Experience

• Senior R&D Engineer

  Nokia

  (Public Company; NOK; Telecommunications industry)

  April 2009 — Present (8 months)

• Senior UI/UX Engineer

  Sony Electronics

  (Public Company; SNE; Consumer Electronics industry)

  May 2008 — January 2009 (9 months)

  Roles and Responsibilities
  
  • Mentoring software engineers and developers for best practices for user interfaces
  • Designing and development of User Interface for multiple Rich Internet Applications (RIA)
  • Responsible for User experience for Widgets and Rich Internet Applications
  • Prototyping User Interface for numerous future products in WPF
  • Prototype of web based implementation of Silverlight DeepZoom
  • Active Participation in a team of four for a big Mobile device project
  • Extensive technical documentation, requirement analysis and UML diagrams
  • Developed multiple widgets for Sony Mylo device, Windows Mobile 6.1/6.5
  
  Technologies
  
  • Web based Rich Internet Application in Silverlight 1.0 and 2.0 & Flash
  • Windows application in C#.NET, WPF
  • Widget development using HTML, CSS, JavaScript and Ajax
  • Prototyping with Expression Design and Blend
  • Extensive use of Photoshop and Image Ready
  • Technical documentation with Visio
  
  Achievements
  
  • Invented Honeycomb User Interface for Mobile devices – Patent pending
  • Invented Two Thumbs User Interface for Digital devices – Patent pending
  • Multiple presentation on User Interface design/ User Experience: View at http://abcofdesign.com

• Senior Solutions Engineer

  Entriq Inc

  (Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Computer Software industry)

  July 2007 — April 2008 (10 months)

• Software Engineer

  ImageWare Inc

  (Computer Software industry)

  2005 — 2007 (2 years )

• Web Developer

  Lamar University

  (Educational Institution; Higher Education industry)

  October 2003 — December 2005 (2 years 3 months)

  Website designing and development for different departments in Lamar University
  
  Recreatinal Sports http://dept.lamar.edu/RecSports/
  Student affairs http://dept.lamar.edu/studentaffairs/
  Montagne Center http://dept.lamar.edu/montagne
  Student government association http://dept.lamar.edu/studentaffairs/sga/
  
  Description: This involves complete designing and development of Websites as mentioned above. All the requirement analysis, database designing and everything was done by me for all the above websites.

• Programmer Analyst

  AmericomLP

  (Computer Software industry)

  January 2004 — December 2004 (1 year )

  Project: Cyber Lock Box www.cyberlockbox.com
  
  Responsibilities
  
  * Participated in a team of four in all phases of development(SDLC)
  * Developed UML, Use case and class diagrams using Visio
  * Involved in creation and design of database and its normalization.
  * Developed data access interface layer using ADO.NET and C#
  * Designed and developed GUI with C# Forms & ASP.Net
  * Use of CRC 32 hashing function for security
  * Used Compression Zip Library ICSharpCode.SharpZipLib.Zip
  * Used XML web services for authentication
  * Use of Rijndael Encryption Managed Object
  
  Environment: C#, ASP.NET, ADO.Net, SQL Server2000, XML Web Services, Windows 98/2000/XP.
  
  Features used :
  * Visual Studio .Net IDE for development and deployment
  * MS SQL server 2000
  * Use of XML web services
  * Visio for Use cases and documentation.

• Project Manager

  Infinity Data

  (Information Technology and Services industry)

  June 2002 — December 2003 (1 year 7 months)

• Project Leader

  Innovatif Data Technologies

  (Information Technology and Services industry)

  June 1997 — May 2002 (5 years )

  Multiple Windows and Web Application using Microsoft Visual Basic, Classic ASP, ActiveX COM and C++
  
  Video Caster & Video Edit Magic - Project Leader - C++, DirectX, VB COM
  
  Backup software for Outlook - Lead Developer - Visual Basic, Active X COM/
  
  Betting Exchange Software - Lead Developer - Visual Basic, Active X COM.
  
  GPS software Track 1.0 - Lead Developer - Visual Basic, WMF, AutoCAD
  
  Image Data Entry software - Project Leader - Visual Basic/Active X COM/ Ms Access/XML

Rajesh Lal’s Education

• Lamar University

  MS , Computer Science , 2003 — 2005

• Nagpur University

  BS , Computer Science , 1994 — 1997

Additional Information

Rajesh Lal’s Interests:

Puzzles http://trickofmind.com

Rajesh Lal’s Groups:

http://codeproject.com
http://windowsvistamagazine.com

•    Mobile Insiders
•    Interaction Design Association
•    MobileMonday
•    MobilOpen :: the mobile business group
•    Web 2.0
•    UX Professionals
•    Nokia World
•    Nokia Alumni
•    .NET People
•    Linked.NET Users Group (LIDNUG)
•    Mobilists (Innovators in mobile industry - 3900+ members)
•    Mobile Content
•    Mobile Marketing & Advertising
•    Silverlight Professionals
•    Qt Centre
•    Mobile TV
•    Streaming Media Professionals
•    Senior .NET Developers
•    C# Developers / Architects
•    PresentationTips
•    Rich Internet Applications (RIA)
•    Silverlight Experts
•    SONY
•    maemo.org
•    Mobile start-ups - 7,000+ members and growing!
•    TED: Ideas Worth Spreading
•    Silverlight Developers
•    Indian Authors Around the World
•    Qt by Nokia
•    Handsets World
•    Mobile Phone Design
•    The San Francisco Bay Area Innovation Group
•    WeboWord Power
•    Mobile Conference: InsideMobile
•    Mobile User Experience
•    Software and Web Conference Alerts
•    Mobile Games and Applications

Rajesh Lal’s Honors:

• National Merit Certificate in Mathematics
• Code Project MVP 2008
• First Prize Creative Web design Contest Lamar
• Winner Vista API Competition
• Winner Secure App Competition
• Winner Windows Vista Mobile PC Competition
• Grand Winner Vista Gadget Competition

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