Bharathi Palle

Email: b_palle@hotmail.com

OBJECTIVE

A challenging position in speech application development.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

UNISYS Corporation, Malvern, PA, USA

August, 1998 - Present: Software Engineer, Natural Language Business Unit

  • Design and coding of C/C++, Visual Basic and COM objects that integrate automatic speech recognizers (ASR) into a variety of applications. Currently I am working on the Unisys CAP (Communication Application Platform) – NLSR (Natural Language Speech Recognition) project to integrate ASRs onto telephony platforms for France Telecom.
  • Speech Application Development - I work on integrating ASRs, voice boards, and interactive voice response systems (IVR) systems to create complete speech applications.
  • Other responsibilities include bench marking speech recognizers, grammar design, recognizer testing laboratory maintenance.
  • Awards: Short Term Achievement Awards for
  • Successful integration of NLSR with Unisys CAP, 2000
  • Website design for the Unisys/Microsoft SpeechDepot effort, 1999
  • Successful Parity VOS RLL (Runtime Link Library) implementation for Swiss Telecom, 1998
  • Speech recognizers I have experience with: Lernout & Hauspie, Nuance 7.0, Philips SpeechPearl, Telisma PhilSoft, Syrinx, SpeechWorks, Lucent LSPS
  • Text-To-Speech: Lernout & Hauspie, SAPI
  • Voice Boards: Dialogic family, Natural Microsystems AG family
  • IVR: Parity VOS, Unisys CAP

I/G Openware (now MailOne Corporation), West Chester, PA, USA September, 1996 to June, 1998: Software Engineer

  • Project Leader, for the project to upgrade the Vault Executive (UNIX/C) software for larger account numbers and extend its database, as part of a new release of the product.
  • Webmaster, for the I/G Internet and I/G Intranet. I was responsible for the design and maintenance of these websites. This includes cgi programming in PERL.
  • Worked on the Brandt to develop and maintain bank vault management systems (UNIX/C/Borland C) including setup and programming for peripheral devices like terminal servers, printers, modems, fax machines, etc.
  • I was responsible for licensing in the design of a mail server project. This involved investigating different licensing schemes for a mail server being ported from a Digital Equipment Corporation [DEC] product, written in C and C++, to various non-DEC platforms.
  • Awards: I received the Employee of the Month award for completing the design and implementation of the company's new website ahead of schedule.
Brandt, Inc. (now De La Rue Corporation), Bensalem, Pennsylvania, USA

March, 1995 - August, 1996: Programmer/Analyst

  • Maintained and upgraded a voice response (device drivers/ Borland C) currency/coin ordering and shipping system (TELENTRYTM) that interfaces between a telephone and UNIX machine. The voice response board used is from Dialogic Corporation, New Jersey, USA.
  • Designed a TCP/IP network based client server system (UNIX/C/Borland C) to enable deposit processing on cash settlement PCs to communicate with and immediately update databases on UNIX systems.
  • Designed and maintained vault management systems (Vault Executive/UNIX/C) used by major US banks and departmental stores.

EDUCATION

University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA

  • Sept. 1998 to Present: MS Computer Science (Part Time) - Concentration in Natural Language Processing
  • Course work and Projects in: Artificial Intelligence, Computational Linguistics

Villanova University, Villanova, Pennsylvania, USA

  • MSCE (Master of Science in Computer Engineering), 1995, GPA: 3.78/4.00
  • Jan. 1993 - Feb. 1995 - Graduate assistant/Programmer in the Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE) department - creation and maintenance of student databases
  • May 1993 - Jan. 1994 - Research assistant in the ECE department. Wrote algorithms and a user interface for a neural networked based design for synthesis of antenna arrays.
  • Aug. 1992 - Dec. 1992 - Computer consultant, VLSI design laboratory, worked on UNIX based SUN workstations and helped users use the various software packages on the system.
  • Course work and Projects in: Operating Systems & Programming, Computer Architecture, VLSI Design, Microprocessors, Neural Networks, Digital and Statistical Signal Processing
Andhra University, Visakhapatnam, Andhra Pradesh, India
  • BE (ELECTRICAL & ELECTRONICS Engineering), 1992, 1st class with distinction

COMPUTER SKILLS

  • Languages: C, C++, Java, HTML, XML, Python, Visual Basic, 680x0 assembly language
  • Systems: Windows NT, UNIX (Sun Sparcs, DEC Alpha, RISC, Micro VAX, SCO UNIX, IBM AIX)
  • Software: CISAM (Database APIs) from Informix, Intelligent Query from IQ Corporation, Matlab, NeuralWorks Professional II, UIMX (GUI builder)
  • CAD Tools: Hardware design tools from Mentor Graphics like Lsim, Schem, Led, M, Lx, GENIE

References and transcripts furnished upon request.

January 15, 2001