Arun Karthick Manoharan

5030 Apt-751 Centre Avenue, Pittsburgh, PA 15213 E-mail: aruncarthick@gmail.com Phone: 201-850-9399
Website: http://www.aruncarthick.com

Objective
To make the best use of my technical, professional and communication skills to serve in a challenging
environment and to constantly leverage knowledge.

Education
Master of Science in Telecommunications & Networking
University Of Pittsburgh Expected May, 2010
*GPA - 3.85/4.00

Bachelor of Engineering in Electronics and Communications Engineering

Kumaraguru College of Technology, Coimbatore, India May, 2007
*Class - First class with Distinction

Work Experience
 IT Intern at Vivisimo Inc, Pittsburgh Jan ’10 – Present

• Involving in IT infrastructure development projects and maintaining the web, mail and dhcp servers in the
enterprise level multi-tier architecture.
• Exploring the versatile capabilities of MOSS in the field of Enterprise Search.

 Database Analyst at School Of Nursing-University Of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh Jan ’09 – Present

• Involved in Design and maintenance of the Oracle database and Oracle 10g application Server.
• Performed functionality, Ready For System (RFS) testing and performance testing for the java application.

 Software Analyst at Infosys Technologies Limited, Mysore, India May ’07 – October ‘08

• Responsible for maintaining the most critical application called OSS-MEDIATION of a Telecom Client
based at UK.
• I was responsible for developing and testing highly critical patches and QA processes. During my tenure I
had tested around 75 patches with 99% accuracy. Automated different scenarios for functionality testing
which reduced the TAT by 15%.
• The application had interfaces with clustered networks across different geographies in EU. I was
responsible for communicating with business teams during critical down hours and provided them with
Tier I support.
• Suggested changes to the QA processes to suit the cultural context, reducing UAT errors by approx. 20%
by involving in the Change Management.

 IT Training Intern, Infosys Technologies Limited, India Jun ’05 – Aug ‘05

• Involved in developing an interactive banking application using C++ and oracle to facilitate easy
maintenance of customer and transaction details in a bank.

Relevant Course Work

• Application of Networks • Distributed Databases
• Network Management • Technology Enabled Business
• Information & Network Security Transformation
• Network Performance • Web Technologies and Standards
• Network Design • Web Engineering

Technical Skills
Programming Languages: VB, PL/SQL, Perl and PHP.
Database: Oracle 11g, Microsoft SQL server, Basics of Microsoft SharePoint Server.
Virtualization Packages: VMware Systems, Linodes etc.
Areas of Special Interests

 Cloud Computing*
Worked Closely with companies like Rackspace and Amazon EC2 for deploying the applications in the
cloud. I was responsible for designing the functional specifications and security features. Also played a
key role from a business perspective by representing our development team during initial stages.

 Long Term Evolution (LTE)*

Performed a detailed analysis of various literature releases of LTE technology by 3GPP community and
presented a paper based on the credibility of LTE and effects of transitioning from GSM and CDMA to
LTE by envisioning the changes in the backhaul network and as well as the technology.

 Distributed Databases
My interest towards distributed databases started when I was working at Infosys Technologies
wherein my client who was based at UK had servers at various locations across Europe but the
data was only 46% replicated. We did a complete analysis on network performance and provided a
statistical data that proved effective utilization of networks will be achieved at higher level of
replication and distribution.

 Linux and Web server Environments

Configured a Linux development server virtually and powered a LAMP server system to explore
various functionality tradeoffs and performed a complete analysis on the system performance.

Projects & Papers

 “Learning Abilities by a Speech Enabled Robot”
Presented a technical paper based on the concept of Object extraction and Coordinated mechanical arm
movement. The paper was awarded 2nd prize at two different national level symposiums.

Designed and developed a working model of speech enabled robot using Object extraction features in
MATLAB and Electronic circuits for the simulation of Coordinated mechanical arm movement.

 Replicated and Distributed Database

Explored and Implemented various functional and system properties of MS SQL Server in Replicated
and Distributed environment which is the main component in cloud computing.

 Write Symptoms Study

Played a vital role in designing, developing and testing a java application for a research study.
Configured and managed the Oracle10g Application and Database server for the web application.

 Mediation (BSS-OSS)
Worked on various projects at Infosys Technologies Limited for a Telecom Client based at UK. I was
involved in development activity using cgi scripting and functionality testing procedures. Received
many accolades from client business managers for reducing the work around and rework procedures.

 Network Management
Managed a virtual private network between nodes in Pittsburgh and Italy using an SNMP based
Network Management System. Optimized the usage of network elements across the tunnel and
increased the throughput from 75% to 90%.

Course Related Works/Achievements

 Awarded Tuition scholarship by School Of Information Sciences - University Of Pittsburgh for all the
semesters.
 Recipient of the Graduate Student Book Scholarship for all the semesters.
 Presented a paper titled “Learning Abilities by a Speech Enabled Robot (LASER)” at two different
National level technical symposiums and was awarded 2nd Prize each time.