Sohel Merch
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Sohel Merchant
1014 Courtney Road, Baltimore MD, 21227
Phone (410) 455-2279 (O), 410 536-0010 (R)
E-mail sohelnmerchant@yahoo.com
Web page www.cs.umbc.edu/~smer1/
Objective Seeking a full-time position / internship as Bioinformatician / Software Engineer / Application Developer
Education Master of Science (Computer Science), University of Maryland Baltimore County (UMBC) August 2003
Post Bachelor's Diploma (Software Technology), NCST Bangalore - India August 2000
Bachelor of Engineering, Government College Of Engineering Pune - India August 1999
Certifications Brainbench Certified Java Programmer
Relevant courses Computer Applications in Molecular Biology, Health Care Information Systems, Artificial Intelligence, Mobile Computing, Databases Advanced Operating Systems, Multi-agent Systems, Advanced Computer Architecture, Analysis and Design of Algorithms
Work Experience

Bioinformatics Research Associate, Freeland Lab, UMBC, Oct 2002 - present
- Developing GeneCodeXML: An evolutionary XML bio-sequence data representation for bioinformatics research
- Designing a PHP based web service for a non standard genetic code database implemented in mySQL
- Conducting research on topic titled “Sequence analysis tools and role of web services in enabling extensible Sequence analysis tools”
Research Assistant, Multi-agent Planning and Learning Group, UMBC, Jan 2002 - Oct 2002
- Implemented XML based communication strategies for the foraging domain based on the TeamBots simulation environment
Systems Engineer/Web Application Developer, Howard Hughes Medical Institute, UMBC Jan 2002 - DEC 2002
- Designed and developed websites for HHMI and various Meyerhoff educational programs at UMBC
Research Programmer, Distributed Adaptive Discovery and Computation Group, UMBC Oct 2001 - Jan 2002
- Programmed an optimization module for stock mining application running on a hand-held device
Staff Scientist, National Centre for Software Technology Bangalore India Aug 2000 - July 2001
Designed and developed a Distributed College Examination Management System

Bioinformatics Skills Databases: GenBank ( DNA / RNA ), Protein, Structure, Genome (NCBI, EMBL)
Tools: GCG, BLAST, FASTA, CLUSTAL
Computer Skills Web Services Platform: J2EE, PHP( SOAP / UDDI / WSDL API's)
Languages: Java, C, C++, Perl
Web Technologies: HTML, XML/XSD/XSLT, JSP/Servlets, ASP, Javascript,
Databases: Oracle, MS SQL Server
Tools/IDE: Visual Studio .Net, Eclipse IDE, Forte Java IDE, UML/Rational Rose 2001, Dreamweaver Ultradev 4.0, Adobe Photoshop 6.0, Altova XMLspy, Macromedia Flash
Servers: Apache Web Server, Microsoft IIS Server, Apache Tomcat JSP/Servlet Engine
Projects • Compared and contrasted the effect of communication quality on multi-agent cooperative strategies (May 2002 - Aug 2002)
• Dynamic Bandwidth allocation in a combined Wireless and Optical network (Feb 2002 - May 2002)
• A high performance webpage caching proxy for a LAN (Aug 2001 - Dec 2001)Two Phase Trading Agent (Aug 2001 - Dec 2001)
• Soccer Tournament Scheduler (Aug 2001 - Dec 2001)
• Distributed Examination Management System (Aug 2000 - June 2001)
• e-business portal for selling computers(Jan 2000 - June 2000) TCP/IP stack simulation (Oct 1999 - Dec 1999)
• Multitasking Shell in Unix (July 1999 - Oct 1999)
Activities Served as a Senator to Graduate Student Association (GSA) representing UMBC's computer science program
References
Available on request