RESUME OF SHUAB KHAN Software Design Engineer (Microsoft Corporation,USA) Tel:+1-425-7224246, email: shuabk@microsoft.com EDUCATION Bachelors of Science in Electrical Engineering with Honors, Minor in Computer Science & Mathematics from University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign , UIUC, USA (Among top 5). Graduation: May, 2005. GPA-3.75/4.0 SCHOLARSHIPS & AWARDS -ADC Broadband Company Scholarship (Fall 2004 - Spring 2005) -Deans List at UIUC since Fall 2003 -Teaching Assistant (TA) and Grader (2003-2004) at UIUC -Descartes Contest Gold Medalist, May 2002 (Held by the Univ. of Waterloo, Canada) -AP Scholar with Distinction (May 2002) CAREER PROFILE Microsoft Corporation, Redmond, USA (www.microsoft.com) - Since July 2005, continuing Software Design Engineer since December 2006 – till date (Current Full Time Position) -Currently developing next generation of Exchange Server High Availability solution (World’s leading Enterprise Messaging solution). This includes Data Redundancy, Disaster Recovery and Active Directory Site Resiliency features. -Developed and maintained redundancy solution using asynchronous log file replication based on Microsoft Windows Cluster services. -Designed a solution for Installing the Exchange Server HA product in a delegated Active Directory permission model. -Designed and developed administration module for the replication solution. -Contributed in development of Site Resiliency feature. -Contributed in development of Remote Procedure Call (RPC) framework for the replication service. -Debugged various components of the High Availability solution. Software Design Engineer in Test – July 2005 till December 2006 (Full Time Position) -Primary tester for recently released Exchange Server 2007 - High Availability feature. Thoroughly tested the feature developed by a team of 8 engineers, and saw through its successful release (complete Product Life Cycle). -Designed, developed and implemented test plans using combination of automated and manual testing. -Designed and developed a Fault Injection remotable automation suite, using .NET technologies. STUDENT PROJECT EXPERIENCE (July 2004 - May 2005) -Designed, developed, constructed, tested and debugged a Voice Activated Calculator, using Speaker-Independent Speech Recognition algorithms (To recognize any person's voice without training time involved). Received ‘A’ grade. -Worked on a research project in the field of Digital Signal Processing: Non-uniform sampling and signal reconstruction, with applications in Image Processing (Summer Research Project) PRE-UNIVERSITY EXPERIENCE -Worked as a Trainee System Technician at Millennium Computer Systems, Abu Dhabi, during 2nd July – 23rd August, 2001 (Gained working experience in Hardware Troubleshooting) -Part of a student project team who collaboratively designed, created, tested, debugged, linked and maintained a software for simulating an interactive multiple choice testing environment (during December 2000 – June 2001) SOFTWARE TECHNOLOGIES Development Tools: -Enterprise .NET Technologies (Expert Level) -C/C++, C++/CLI, MC++, C# (Advanced Level) -XML technologies (Proficient Level) -COM Object model (Proficient Level) -Windows Installer XML (WIX) (Proficient Level) -SQL (Proficient Level) -Windows PowerShell scripting (Advanced Level) -Oracle 8 - SQL Programming and Developer 2000 (Basic Level) -Web Page Designing with HTML and DHTML (Basic Level) -VHDL Programming (using XILINX software, including ModelSim) (Proficient Level) -Assembly Language Programming (Proficient Level) Technologies: -Windows Cluster Services (Expert Level) -Windows Active Directory (Advanced Level) -JET/ESE Database Technologies (Advanced Level) -Microsoft Messaging API (Advanced Level) -Windows Remote Procedure Call framework (Advanced Level) PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT -American Management Association Certificate in Workplace Management Skills (1 CEU) -ISA Certificate in Feedback Control Systems (0.1 CEU) PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIPS -Member, ASIS (American Society for Information Science) -Member, ISA (Instrumentation, Systems & Automation Society) -Member, IEEE (Institute of Electrical & Electronic Engineering) -Member of HKN (Eta Kappa Nu) Electrical Engineering Honors Society PERSONAL INFORMATION Name: Shuab Khan US Driving License Valid till 2010 Languages: English (Read, Write &Speak fluently), French (Read, Write & Speak -Fairly), Hindi (Read & Speak fluently) Office Address (US): Shuab Khan, Software Development Engineer, MS Exchange Team,Redmond, WA 98052-6399,USA Mailing Address (UAE): Shuab Khan, S/O Mohammad Ali Khan, P.O.Box: 45178, Abu Dhabi,UAE Tel No. (US): +1 425 7224246 Tel No. (UAE): +971 50 4100420 / +971 4 3917144 Email1: shuab.khan@gmail.com Email2: shuabk@microsoft.com Contents last updated on September 4,2007