Girish Chavan
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EDUCATION & HONORS
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Six years of experience as a User Interface Architect/Usability Engineer/UI Developer with hands on experience in User Interface Design, usability evaluation and UI development.
Experience developing successful applications for the mobile platform.
Five years of experience leading small and medium(20 members) teams in all software lifecycle activities including, requirements elicitation, architecture and UI design, testing, deployment, marketing, user community building, and maintenance.
Advanced Java software development experience building cross-platform Bioinformatics and Natural Language Processing systems using technologies like Apache UIMA, GATE, JDOM XML, Apache Axis, Apache Lucene, Hibernate with MySQL and Oracle, Java Swing, SWT, Eclipse RCP, Google Web Toolkit, JSP, Javascript, XHTML, CSS 2.0..
Expert level knowledge in think aloud usability, cognitive walk through, and usability heuristic evaluation techniques.
Experience managing open source software development efforts, marketing and supporting user and developer communities.
A proven leader and team player with a results oriented approach and successful track record for increasing productivity.
Outstanding written and oral communication skills.
Have an aptitude for learning new technologies and producing high quality results in a short time.

Skills

UI Design

Contextual Inquiry, UML, UX Storyboards, wireframes, rapid prototyping

UI Evaluation

Cognitive Walkthrough, Think-Aloud Usability evaluation, Heuristic evaluation

Languages/Frameworks/
Toolkits

Java, Objective C, Swing, SWT, Eclipse RCP, Apache UIMA, GATE, Apache Lucene, Apache Axis, Hibernate Core/Annotations/Search, Apache ANT, JGraph, JFreeChart, GlazedLists, IZPack, JDOM, XPath, Globus Toolkit 4, caGRID, OGSADAI, WSRF, Microsoft Visual C++, MFC.

Web Technologies

GWT, JSP, Servlets, AJAX, XHTML, JavaScript, CSS 2.0.

Mobile Technologies

Apple iOS SDK

Development Environments

Eclipse, Netbeans, Microsoft Visual Studio, XCode, Dreamweaver, Apache Tomcat 5.5, Sun ONE, Enterprise Architect, MySQL 5.1, Oracle 10g, Windows XP/2000/Vista/7, Ubuntu Linux, Mac OSX

Graphics Software

Gimp, Adobe Photoshop, Jasc Paintshop Pro

Management

Cost Estimation, Change and Risk Management, Problem Management, Skills & Performance Management, Quality Control, Conflict Resolution