karthicashokan.com [email protected] linkedin.com/in/karthicashokan 120 E State St Apartment #3 Ithaca, NY 14850 [email protected] (607) 379 – 3110 Education: Cornell University May 2015 College Of Engineering, Ithaca, NY Master Of Engineering in Computer Science CGPA: 3.896 Notable Courses: Software Engineering, Designing Tech for Social Impact, Design Thinking, Information Retrieval VIT University May 2014 School Of Information Technology and Engineering, Vellore, India Bachelor Of Technology in Information Technology CGPA: 9.09/10 Notable Courses: Human-Computer Interaction, Software Project Management, Operating Systems Notable Projects: Tracking Community Guidelines on the Web Automatic tracking & visualization of Community Guideline changes for a predetermined list of social media websites. The project was undertaken as a team of 8 students and I was tasked with the UI design and development. Design Exploration: Persuasive Technology in Population Health The project was a Design Thinking based approach to Persuasive Technology for Innovative solutions in Population Health. The exploration identified possible user behavior that could be altered with technology for better living. Experience: Cerner Healthcare December’13 – July’14 Seasonal Intern - Bangalore, India. • Successfully Converted (uplifted) a .NET application from VisualBasic to C# as part of the Uplift Engineering process and handled testing (Unit, White-box and Black-box). • Recognized and appreciated for quick turnaround and on-time completion of assigned tasks CenturyLink December’12 – January’13 Intern - Bangalore, India. Reviewed the in-house resource management software and explored • opportunities for improving usability through better user-interface and design. • Explored opportunities to improve performance through ‘Rendering’ of a limited number of database records at a time Specialized Skills: Programming Languages: Web Development: Foreign Languages: Software: C, C#, Objective-C, C++, Java, SQL, Python, VB HTML, CSS, PHP, and JavaScript Hindi, French (Elementary), and Spanish (Elementary) Adobe® Photoshop & Flash, Balsamiq, Weka