Parag Shah
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Academic Information
Bachelor of Engineering (B.E) in Computers, University of Mumbai.
Higher Secondary Certificate (H.S.C.) Ramnivas Ruia Junior College, Matunga. Maharashtra State Board (Mumbai Division) Aggregate: 94.33% (8th rank in Mumbai Division)
Major Projects Undertaken
Ultrasonic Movement Detector: This hardware project could detect any moving object in the range of three metres and gives sound output. It was submitted as the final project for the vocational subject of Electronics. This project was done during the second year of junior college.
Olympics Database: This project was designed to maintain all the Olympics record held by athletes in various events in addition to other details. It was done in Oracle 8i as a back end. The project was done during the fourth semester in the second year of engineering.
Parallel Port Monitor: This project was meant to display the logic levels at the parallel port pins. It was also capable of changing the logic levels for the data pins. This project was done in java. It was done during the fifth semester in the third year of engineering.
Car Insurance Database: This database project was undertaken to provide useful data to the insurance company of the cars it has insured. This project was done in SQL. It was done during the sixth semester in the third year of engineering.
Multi Utility Sensor Network: This project is the final year project. It involves hardware and software co-design. The project uses RS485 network to communicate between the micro-controllers and the computer. Various sensors are connected to the micro-controllers to enable gathering of different parameters. Real Time OS concepts are used in programming the AVR micro-controllers. Host software is also designed to enable programming the micro-controllers directly from computer, to gather information from the micro-controllers and for easy debugging.
Co-curricular Activities and Achievements
1. Constructed two autonomous robots and one manual robot for participating in the national level contest of Robocon 2006 held at MIT, Pune on 4th and 5th March 2006. I was also the team leader for the team in this contest.
2. Mentored two hardware project groups for entering a hardware contest held by SFE.
3. Held an orientation lecture for students to introduce them to hardware. This lecture was organized by SFE on 23rd January 2006.
4. Participation in Elecrama – 2006, an International Exhibition of Electrical and Industrial Electronic Industry organized by IEEMA at Mumbai during 18th to 22nd January 2006.
5. Organized the hardware contest for Praxis 2005 during 24th and 25th September 2005 with the role of an Event Head.
6. Constructed three autonomous robots and one manual robot for participating in the national level contest of Robocon 2005 held at MIT, Pune on 24th June 2005.
7. Held a workshop for students to teach and help them build their own computer controlled robots. This workshop was conducted for IEEE.
8. Designed and constructed a computer controlled robot that can follow moving objects. This project won the 1st place in the Open Hardware Contest held by SFE.
9. 1st place in the Logic Quiz Contest held by SFMC.
10. 1st place in the Simulated Stock Exchange held by SFMC.
11. Designed and built a digital clock using simple hardware. This project won the 3rd place in the Hardware Contest held by IEEE.
Skill Sets
Hardware Skills
Atmel AVR micro controller programming
8086 assembly programming
Designing of PCB layouts using Eagle 4.11
Software Skills Programming languages:
C, C++, VB, BASIC, Java
Operating Systems: Windows 95/98/XP, Linux
DBMS: MS-SQL, Oracle, MS-Access
Applications: Adobe Photoshop, Corel Draw, Microsoft Office
Extra Curricular Activities
1. Acting and dramatics in religious and social events.
2. Donating blood at Blood Donation Camps since 2004.
3. Took training for MCC (Maharashtra Cadet Corps.)
4. Boy Scout and Patrol Leader in school.
5. Attended a Basic Outdoor Adventure Camp in 1997.
6. Completed a course in Physical Training at the highly esteemed Bhonsala Military School, Nasik.
Professional Memberships Active member in the following societies
1. IEEE since June 2003.
2. SFMC (Students’ Forum of Mathematics and Computation)
3. SFE (Students’ Forum for Electronics)
4. DEBSOC (Debating Society)
Hobbies and Interests
Numismatics (Collecting old coins)
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