Alexis's Ark

Resume

October 18, 1996 @ 01:07 pm·Filed under General
Updated on April 03, 2007 @ 10:23 pm

EDUCATION

Master of Technology in Industrial Engineering (First Class with Distinction), College of Engineering Trivandrum, Kerala University, 1991, India.
Bachelor of Technology in Industrial Engineering (First Rank with Distinction), College of Engineering Trivandrum, Kerala University, 1989, India.
Diploma in Computer Programming & PC Applications, Computer Point, 1990, Trivandrum, Kerala, India

EXPERIENCE SUMMARY

Over a span of 18 years associated with projects in the areas like Software Consultancy, Project Management, Software Configuration Management, Software Product Design, Systems Analysis, Systems Integration, Software Development Activities, Software Quality Assurance, Technical Documentation, Corporate Training, Career Guidance, Industrial Engineering, etc. Has authored many books on various computer science and management related subjects.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Period	Company	Designation
Nov 2005 Onwards	Leon-Leon.com	Webmaster
Jan 1997 Onwards	L & L Consultancy Services	Managing Director
Jan 1997 Onwards	Pegasus Book Club	Chief Reviewer and Webmaster
Dec 1995 - Dec 1996	Cybernet Software Systems	Technical Director
Oct 1992 - Nov 1995	Tata Consultancy Services	Sr. Systems Analyst
Jun 1991 - Sept 1992	Pond’s (India) Ltd.	Industrial Engineer

PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS

Life Member, Indian Institute of Plant Engineers (IIPE)
Life Member, Indian Value Engineering Society (INVEST)
Life Member, National Institute of Quality & Reliability (NIQR)
Life Member, Indian Institution of Industrial Engineers (IIIE)
Life Member, Computer Society of India (CSI)
Member, Association of Computing Machinery (ACM)
Member, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)
Member, IEEE Computer Society
Member, Institute of Industrial Engineers (IIE)
Member, Modern Language Association (MLA)
Member, Computer Assisted Language Instruction Consortium (CALICO)
Reviewer, Computing Reviews (Featured Reviewer, November 2007)

BOOKS

PUBLICATIONS

REVIEWS (Books)

Burger C., Creamer E., Meszaros P., Reconfiguring the Firewall: Recruiting Women to Information Technology across Cultures and Continents, AK Peters Ltd., 2007. 279 pp. Date Reviewed: Oct 31 2007. (Computing Reviews)
Manolopoulos Y., Nanopoulos A., Papadopoulos A., Theodoridis Y., R-trees : theory and applications (Advanced Information and Knowledge Processing), Springer-Verlag New York, Inc., Secaucus, NJ, 2005. 194 pp. Date Reviewed: Dec 5, 2006. (Computing Reviews)
Chen H., Intelligence and Security Informatics for International Security: Information Sharing and Data Mining (Integrated Series in Information Systems), Springer-Verlag New York, Inc., 2006. 182 pp. Date Reviewed: Jun 2, 2006. (Computing Reviews)
Berkun S., The Art of Project Management, O’Reilly Media, Inc., 2005. 392 pp. Date Reviewed: Sept 29, 2006. (Computing Reviews)
Whitehorn M., Zare R., Pasumansky M., Fast Track to MDX, Springer-Verlag New York, Inc., Secaucus, NJ, 2005, 310 pp. Type: Book, Date Reviewed: May 18, 2006. (Computing Reviews)
Meersman R., Tari Z., On the Move to Meaningful Internet Systems 2004: CoopIS, DOA, and ODBASE, OTM Confederated International Conferences, CoopIS, DOA, and ODBASE 2004, Agia Napa, Cyprus, October 25-29, 2004, Proceedings Part I (Lecture Notes in Computer Science 3290), Springer-Verlag New York, Inc., Secaucus, NJ, 2004. 823 pp. Date Reviewed: Jan 20 2006.(Computing Reviews)
Krug S., Don’t Make Me Think: A Common Sense Approach to the Web (2nd Ed.), New Riders Publishing, Thousand Oaks, CA, 2005. 224 pp. Type: Book, Date Reviewed: Dec 6 2005. (Computing Reviews)
Lahdenmaki T., Leach M., Relational Database Index Design and the Optimizers, Wiley-Interscience, New York, NY, 2005. 328 pp. Type: Book, Date Reviewed: Nov 30 2005. (Computing Reviews)
Spolsky J., The Best Software Writing I: Selected and Introduced by Joel Spolsky, APress, LP, Berkeley, CA, 2005. 328 pp. Type: Book, Date Reviewed: Sep 29 2005.(Computing Reviews)

REVIEWS (Articles)

Atluri V., Chun S., Mukkamala R., Mazzoleni P., A Decentralized Execution Model for Inter-organizational Workflows, Distributed and Parallel Databases, Vol. 22, No. 1, pp: 55-83, 2007. Date Reviewed: Jan 23 2008. (Computing Reviews)
Yu B., Baily T., Processing partially specified queries over high-dimensional databases, Data & Knowledge Engineering, Vol. 62, No. 1, pp: 177-197, 2007. Date Reviewed: Sep 10 2007. (Computing Reviews)
Jenkins S., The rime of the ancyent programmer, Communications of the ACM Vol. 50, No. 5, pp: 17-20, 2007. Date Reviewed: Jun 28 2007. (Computing Reviews)
Kang D., Chiang R., A Systematic Approach in Managing Post-deployment System Changes, Communications of the ACM Vol. 49, No. 6, pp: 91-96, 2006. Date Reviewed: Oct 12 2005. (Computing Reviews)
Morgan J., Why the Software Industry needs a Good Ghostbuster, Communications of the ACM Vol. 48, No. 8, pp: 129-133, 2005. Date Reviewed: Sep 2 2005. (Computing Reviews)
Raskin J., Comments are More Important than Code, ACM Queue, Vol. 3, No. 2, 2005. Date Reviewed: Aug 15 2005. (Computing Reviews)
Cohen J., Updating Computer Science Education, Communications of the ACM, Vol. 48, No. 6, pp: 29-31, 2005. Date Reviewed: Aug 1 2005. (Computing Reviews)
Moore J., and Love M., IT professionals as Organizational Citizens, Communications of the ACM, Vol. 48, No. 6 pp: 88-93, 2005. Date Reviewed: Jul 21 2005. (Computing Reviews)

REVIEWS (Proceedings)

Brewer J., Project managers: can we make them or just make them better? Information Technology Education, Proceedings of the 6th Conference on Information Technology Education, Newark, NJ, Oct 20-22, 2005, pp: 167-173. 2005. Date Reviewed: Jun 6 2006. (Computing Reviews)
Sweedyk E., Keller R., Fun and Games: A New Software Engineering Course, Innovation and Technology in Computer Science Education, Proceedings of the 10th Annual SIGCSE Conference on Innovation and Technology in Computer Science Education, Capacrica, Portugal, Jun 27-29, 2005, pp: 138-142, 2005. Date Reviewed: Oct 17 2005. (Computing Reviews)
Joshi K., and Kuhn K., Examining the masculinity and femininity of critical attributes necessary to succeed in IT, Computer Personnel Research (Proceedings of the 2005 ACM SIGMIS CPR Conference on Computer Personnel Research, Atlanta, Georgia, USA, Apr 14-16, 2005) 32-35. 2005. Date Reviewed: May 12 2005. (Computing Reviews)