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Engineering Industries:
I have worked for about 5 years in engineering industries, roughly in late 1980s and early 1990s. Most of these years were actually spent for application engineering of sophisticated electronic instruments and systems for nondestructive testing (NDT). Thus, I would be expected to provide application engineering support, starting from concept-selling, to proving utility of the technique itself with initial trials, to installation and commissioning of these highly automated systems, to trouble-shooting, to engineering investigations arising in their usage. The engineering investigations were not limited to the NDT equipment--in fact that was a very minor part. Most often, the investigations had to be carried out for the manufacturing and quality issues faced by the clients in their own processes, to provide them those extra solutions that hardly had anything to do with NDT as such. That’s why I call it "engineering industries" experience, rather than "NDT" or "applied electronics" experience. I came across, and successfully solved problems in, literally more than a hundred industries of all shapes and sizes, including: heat-treatment shops; powder metallurgical components manufacturing units; tubes, bars and metal-strips making factories of all types of metals--ferrous, non-ferrous, special alloys and stainless steels (both seamless and welded tubes); foundries (ferrous and non-ferrous); electrical machinery manufacturing industries and workshops maintaining them; aerospace industries; automobile industries; machine tool industries; components manufacturing units; etc! In a way, it was not always the customers who were benefiting from my NDT and engineering knowledge; I was gaining a lot of knowledge in the sheer act of solving their diverse, multi-disciplinary problems too! Some valuable work in application engineering happened at this time. One was regarding crack detection using the rotating probe eddy current technique in industrial manufacture of seamless tubes; another was about crack detection in mass-produced powder-metallurgical parts while they still were in their un-sintered condition. The former was a new application for the first time in India (1989); the latter was an applied research result for the first time in the world (1988). Later on, in 1994, I wrote a technical monograph to summarize some of the theoretical and practical aspects that I had noted while conducting training for the customers’ engineers as well as during application engineering. I also helped with drafting of standard specifications in NDT field for Bureau of Indian Standards (1989). |
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Software Engineering:
I have about 9 years of professional software development experience--about 4 years in San Francisco Bay Area in the USA, and about 5 years in Pune, India. In software, I have mostly worked in the consulting mode, and most of it happened to have been on the Microsoft platform. The work was often at the cutting-edge of technology. The places of work have included start-ups as well as well established companies: Hewlette-Packard / Agilent Technologies; E-Stamp; SunGard; TIBCO; OpenSesame; Frontier Software; etc. Here’s a summary of my software skills:
Now, a word about ToneBrush--a small product that I brought out in 2002/3. While my computational mechanics related ideas (mentioned elsewhere on these pages) were taking shape, I also developed and launched a product called "ToneBrush." The idea here was to intercept the music being played on a PC in real time, and analyze it for its tone-contents. These tones would then be visually displayed in an informative manner. In short, use tones as if they were colors in a paint-brush! Hence the product name of "ToneBrush." This particular idea of thus combining tones and painting was not at all original--the visualizations in MS MediaPlayer from version 6 onwards obviously followed the same research leads that I did. But what I did succeed in achieving was a comparatively superior performance, allowing me to achieve a much finer resolution of tones. I also applied some ad-hoc or heauristic measures to get better differentiation in the painting process. And now, you know the rest of the story: Unfortunately, the product didn’t sell! |
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