Rajesh Lal

Senior R&D Engineer at Nokia

San Francisco Bay Area

Current
  • Senior R&D Engineer at Nokia
Past
  • 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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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 UI/UX Engineer at Sony Electronics San Diego, California.

• Demonstrated Leader with experience of 40 projects
• Excellent knowledge in C#, ASP.NET SQL 2000
• Experise in client side technologies DHTML, CSS, AJAX, JSON
• Expert in RIA design and User Experience with Silverlight and WPF
• Experienced in System Development Life Cycle(SDLC)
• Expertise in Install shield deployment package, ORCA etc
• Expertise with graphic sw Photoshop 6.0, Help workshop
• Exposure to Business to Business(B2B) development
• Versatility with platforms UNIX, Windows 95/XP and Vista
• Detail oriented, excellent communication and presentation
• Believe that both quality and time is important in development

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 (4 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)

  • Senior 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

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Rajesh Lal’s Interests:

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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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