PERSONAL DETAILS

Name:         Rajiv Chaturvedi
Email:          rajivch@usa.net ; rajiv_chaturvedi@mumbai.tcs.co.in
Mumbai (Bombay) Address:
                   Flat No. 6, Powai Adarsh Co. Op. Housing Society,
                   In Front of IIT Market Gate, Powai,
                   Mumbai 400 076, India.
Office Location:
                Tata Consultancy Services,
                11th floor, Air India Building,
                Nariman Point, Mumbai 400 021, India.

Education Summary
 

           School
 

College
 

Degree	Discipline	College/ University	Date
B.Tech.	Mechanical Engineering	Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Kanpur, India	1984-1988
M.Tech.	Mechanical Engineering (Specialization in Thermal and Fluid Engineering)	IIT, Kanpur, India	1989-1991
Ph.D.	Mechanical Engineering (Thermal and Fluid Engineering / Computational Fluid Dynamics)	IIT, Bombay, India	1992- submitted 1999

 

Research Topic in M.Tech. :
        Augmentation of Heat Transfer using in-line propellers (Experimental work). (1 Paper Published)

Research Field in Ph.D. :
        Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD). (3 Papers Published, 1 communicated)

Research Topic in Ph.D. :
        Study of Non Reflecting Boundary Conditions ( NRBC ). The Ph.D. project consists of formulating, analyzing and applying Non Reflecting Boundary Conditions to achieve small size of the spatial domain in which we want to solve governing partial differential equations for a wave field numerically. The equations considered are compressible Navier Stokes equations and linearized wave equation.

Publications Summary :
        4 Papers published, 1 communicated.

(For details of M. Tech. and Ph. D. research topics and publications, please click here.)

Experience Summary

In reverse chronological order:

1. Tata Consultancy Services (TCS), Mumbai, India: As Assistant Consultant, from March 1998 onwards.  Involved in a variety of activities, viz.: (1)Software engineering (2)Oracle Applications training at TCS Corporate Training Center at Malad, Bombay, (3)an Information System and Technology Plan (ISTP) study for the Bilakhia group of companies, India, (4)on-site at Cummins Oil Engines, Inc., Columbus, Indiana, USA, devising structures and procedures for production support of Oracle Applications modules implemented at their Southern Indiana plants. I was also involved in sitting on interview panels for recruitment of experienced as well as fresh candidates for TCS.

2. Computervision (CV) Research and Development India (Pvt.) Ltd., Pune (India), the R&D excellence center of Computervision Corporation, Bedford, USA, in the capacity of Senior (Software) Engineer with the CAM group, from August 1996 to March 1998. CV and Parametric Technology Corporation (PTC) merged in December 1997 to form the sixth largest independent software company in the world, and CV now functions as a wholly owned subsidiary of PTC. Responsibilities included timely completion of software projects for NC machining and handling various software issues as and when they arose. CADDS5 and CVNC are well established CAD and CAM packages for the high end CAD/CAM market in the world. The software design, development and maintenance projects I did for CV/PTC on these packages required the use of software tools like OMTool for Object oriented analysis and design, Discover, Purify, debuggers (Workshop on Sun/Solaris), Version Control tools. Coding was undertaken in C, C++, Fortran, and company specific languages like NCGRAM. The platform used was Unix on Sun and SGI machines. Responsibilities also included training new joinees as well as the documentation group on basics of CAM.

3. Gas Authority of India Ltd., Baroda and Dibiyapur (India): Work on the construction site of UP Petrochemicals Complex, the gas cracker plant of GAIL. GAIL is the Public sector Company that handles natural gas distribution in India. The construction project mentioned above was being handled for GAIL by Engineers India Limited, and GAIL personnel worked in supervisory capacity. (May to December, 1991)

4. Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur (India): Setting up of experimental project later converted to M.Tech. Thesis. This experiment investigated heat transfer augmentation in cross flow heat exchangers by the means of in-line propellers placed in the flow. No external supply of energy was provided for these propellers. The flow caused them to rotate, thereby creating swirl and causing better heat transfer. Other researchers later continued the work with fluids other than water that had been used by me. I was employed as a Senior Research Associate in this project in late 1988 and early 1989, later I converted this work into my Master of Technology thesis.

5. Kinetic Technologies India, Delhi (India): (May to November 1988 as Design Engineer). The main responsibility was design of process equipment. The design involved use of codes like ASME, TEMA and Indian standards. I developed some software to automate the calculations being done there manually. One problem I worked on also required vibration analysis of a heat exchanger. Also Trained draftsmen in use of a drafting package (Cascade). Hence I helped moving the company from manually generated drawings to computerized ones.

6. I have undertaken small private ventures, viz., training of students/draftsmen on CAD packages like AutoCAD, and training of representatives of Machbow Pumps (Pvt. Ltd.), Suyog Industrial Estate, Vikhroli, Mumbai, India, in design of small centrifugal pumps.
 

        1. Lab classes and answer-sheet correction of undergraduate students as Teaching Assistant during M. Tech. and Ph. D at IIT, Kanpur and IIT, Bombay.

        2. Conducted training as part of the job responsibilities for TCS (please see item no. 1 above).

        3. Conducted training as part of the job responsibilities for Computervision  (please see item no. 2 above).

        4. Conducted training as part of the job responsibilities for KTI (please see item no. 5 above).

        5. Taught software packages and design of centrifugal pumps as a personal enterprise (please see item no. 6 above).
 

(For the details of projects undertaken for the companies listed above, please click here.)

Skills Profile in software industry

 Project Management

• Defining structure and processes for Oracle Applications production support at Cummins Oil Engines, Inc., Southern Indiana operations at Columbus, Indiana, USA, on-site, as the Production Support Coordinator. Assigning people to the structure.
• Project Leader for the Information Systems and Technology Plan (ISTP) study for the Bilakhia Group of companies (Mitsu Industries Limited and Hindustan Inks and Resins Limited, India).
• Handling of setting up of hardware, installation of software for Oracle Applications (ERP) training center at TCS Corporate Training Center, Malad, Bombay, India.
• Independent responsibility of software development and maintenance of CAM software at Computervision Corporation, Pune, India.
• Managing the work for Ph. D. and M. Tech.

• OOAD (Object Oriented Analysis and Design) of Turning and Facing and Grooving enhancements for Projects for Computervision Corporation using OMTool.
• Design and implementation of enhancements to the surface intersection machining algorithms in use with CVNC, Computervision Corporation's CAM product.

• SOS on Dec 10 mainframe.
• Different flavors of Unix on Dec alpha, Sun workstations, SGI Indy, Linux on PC’s.
• Windows 95 and 98, DOS, Win NT on Pentiums and PC networks.
• Novel Netware on PC LAN's.

• OMTool (for OOAD)
• Purify (for memory management)
• Prof (on Unix) for quantifying the performance of different modules of the code
• RCS and Version Control Tools on Unix
• Discover/Paraset (For visualizing the source code in C and C++ mainly in the form of flowcharts, etc.)
• Debuggers like gdb, dbx, with and without GUIs

• C
• C++
• Pascal
• Fortran
• Matlab
• Lisp (AutoLisp on AutoCAD)
• SQL
• Company specific languages like NCGram
• Basics of  Java and HTML.

• Various Oracle Financial modules (please click here for details).
• Basic concepts of RDBMS.  (Oracle)

Knowledge of SQL.

• Coding of numerical schemes for the research work during Ph. D., Finite Difference Methods (FDM), Finite Element Methods (FEM).
• Computer Aided Design (CAD)/ Computer Aided Machining (CAM), engineering and scientific software, numerical analysis software.
• Enterprise Resource Planning (Oracle Financials).

Computers worked on
 

S.No.	Computer System	Operating System	Programming Languages	Special Software
1	DEC 10 mainframe	SOS	Pascal, Fortran	-
2	Sun Ultra, Dec Alpha, Silicon Graphics Indigo	Unix variants	C, C++, Fortran, Java,  SQL, HTML	CADDS5, CVNC,  gnuplot, Latex, gdb,...
3	PC’s (Pentiums)	DOS, Win95/98, and PC LANs on Novel NetWare	C, Pascal, AutoLisp	AutoCAD, Matlab,…
4	''	on Win NT server and Win 95 clients	-	Oracle Financials