VIVEK BALAKRISHNAN
ADDRESS: 9-Elberon Place, Apt #2, Albany, NY 122203
PHONE: 347-524-9937/518-426-4057
EMAIL: vivekvpb@rediffmail.com
PROFILE
Highly motivated student with academic experience in Computer Science and Engineering,
currently seeking Graduate Assistantship where skills in communication and teamwork can be
utilized to compliment the knowledge gained at the University level.
EDUCATION
 University at Albany - SUNY, New York, USA
M.S in Computer Science
Graduating May 2005
 Bachelor of Engineering(Computers): Ramrao Adik Institute of Technology, Mumbai
University, INDIA
May 1998 – May 2002
 HSC: Atomic Energy Junior College (AEJC), Maharashtra State Board
Aggregate: 80.83% PCM(Physics,Chemistry,Maths avg.): 96%
 (All India) Secondary School Examination: Atomic Energy Central School(AECS), Central
Board of Secondary Education(CBSE); Aggregate: 77%
WORK EXPERIENCE
 Technical consultant at SUNY Albany(ITS department) – since Sep 2003
Job Profile: Helping users(students) of Suny Albany with computer related problems such as
working with various software packages and using operating systems like UNIX. My job also
involves helping professors setup the latest equipments for use in their lectures.

Systems Engineer at NUCSOFT Ltd. - from Dec 2002 to March 2003.
Job Profile: IBBS (International Branch Banking Solution) is the software used by Citibank for its
banking operations. It is the central system with which all other modules of the bank interact.
There are innumerable programs that are run to do maintenances on various files and to effect
critical operations (such as Funds Transfer). These programs may abort. When aborted, my job
was to go through the source codes and debug them.
ACADEMIC PROJECTS
 Final year (B.E.) project, “Real Time Data Transfer”, implemented using C and VC++, done at
BARC (Bhabha Atomic Research Centre) in the Computer Department (NETWORKING
Section) under Mr. Kaura. Project done entirely using C and VC++

Library Management System – implemented using Visual Basic and MS Access, as part of
the subjects Structured Systems Analysis and Design and Software Engineering
SKILL SET
 Programming Languages: C , C++ , JAVA , Advanced Java , JavaScript , HTML, Visual Basic
Pascal , COBOL.
 Operating Systems: UNIX , LINUX, Windows XP/NT/98/95
 Database: ORACLE 8i, MS-Access
 Software Packages: Knowledge of all major Office and Application packages including MS
OFFICE, MS Front Page, Macromedia Dream Weaver and Adobe PhotoShop
ACADEMIC COURSES
 High Performance Computing-I and II
 Algorithms and Data Structures
 Operating Systems (involves modifying the Linux kernel)
 Topics in Database Systems-XML
 Database Systems, Programming Language Design
HOBBIES
 Sports: Basketball, Tennis, Cricket
 Reading Books on Physics, Biographies of famous scientists
 Listening to Music
REFERENCES: Available upon request.