Tevin Pathareddy

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Systems Engineer specialized in real-time modeling and integration.

Fluent in English, French, Creole and Hindi.
Intermediate Spanish.
Beginner Japanese and Italian.

• Profile
• Highlights of competencies
• Professional experience
• Technical skills
• Education
• Other professional development
• Additional information and interests

PROFILE

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HIGHLIGHTS OF COMPETENCIES

HUMAN
• Recognized as a creative, innovative and efficient engineer, with a sharp intellectual pace.
• Exceptional ability to analyze and troubleshoot problems.
• Customer-oriented mediator with a subtle social awareness.
• Excellent team-player as well as the ability to be autonomous with minimum supervision.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

CAE Inc, Montréal, Canada, June 2003 - Present
Integrated training solutions and advanced simulation and controls technologies
Avionic Systems Specialist II - Sound and Motion Cues

RESPONSIBILITIES
• Dynamic participation in the designing, programming and testing of Windows and Unix/Linux based C++ applications for the real-time reproduction of sound effects.
• Train junior engineers on flight simulator architecture, integration and design processes. Ensured their quick integration and skill optimization.
• Technical writing of software coding standards, design guidelines, software interface documentation and test procedures.
• Organize and perform off-site installations, updates and maintenance.

ACCOMPLISHMENTS
• Designed and created a graphic interface under Windows 2000 using DirectX to transfer the sound generated on DSP cards (TMS320C6000) to the PC sound card.
• Performed code design, optimization, integration, debugging and tuning of over 100 real-time software sound models on over 30 flight simulators, using C/C++ on TMS320C44x and TMS320C60x DSP based cards.
• Analyzed acoustic data of 7 different aircraft types, edited, and integrated the sounds into the simulation software models.
• Member of a team of 4 to 5 engineers who support the installation and certification of the flight simulators at the customer site, internationally.

CAE Inc, Montréal, Canada, January 2002 - Present
Integrated training solutions and advanced simulation and controls technologies
Aircraft Coordinator - Boeing B747, B757, B767, B777; Airbus A330, A340

RESPONSIBILITIES
• In charge of aircraft type research, flight tests, and data issues.
• Analyze, design, and integrate sound effects specific to each aircraft type.
• Supervise and coordinate the modeling and integration of systems on aircrafts that were under my responsibility.

ACCOMPLISHMENTS
• Designed and implemented new tools and more efficient work techniques that facilitated the analysis and integration of aircraft types under my responsibility, hence reducing cost.
• Developed and maintained excellent relations with our suppliers and clients.

CAE Inc, Montréal, Canada, July 2000 - January 2002
Integrated training solutions and advanced simulation and controls technologies
Avionic Systems Specialist I - Sound Cues

RESPONSIBILITIES
• Responsible for the analysis, design and integration of the flight simulator sound systems
• Analyze aircraft sound recordings in order to extract relevant spectral information.
• Design and implement real-time computer models for reproduction of the various aircraft sound effects.
• Implement and tune the simulated sound effects using both subjective and objective methods.
• Interact with the customer both at CAE and at the customer's site.
• Participate in flight test data gathering to perform the sound recordings on the actual aircraft.

ACCOMPLISHMENTS
• Increased the quality and efficiency of software model and design procedures.
• Designed a utility to automatically test speaker frequency response, for simulator maintenance and certification. Hence reducing time required identifying performance issues.

McGill University, Montréal, Canada, January 1999 – June 2000
Faculty of Arts Computer Lab
Computer Systems Consultant
• Provided technical advice and problem-solving services to users in response to identified difficulties
• Collected, organized and maintained a problems and solutions log for use by other technical support analysts
• Participated in the redesign of applications and other software.
• Implemented data, software and hardware security procedures
• Supervised other technical support workers in my group.

Self-Employed, Montréal, Canada August 1996 - January 1999
Computer Systems Consultant
• Provided technical support and training to clients in response to identified difficulties and questions with computer systems.
• Installed and configured computer systems and software.

Pricewaterhouse Coopers, Mauritius, June 1996 - August 1996
Consultants providing industry-focused assurance, tax and advisory services for public and private clients.
Computer Technician
• Maintained, troubleshoot and administered the use of local area networks (LANs), wide area networks (WANs), mainframe networks and computer workstations and peripheral equipment
• Evaluated and installed computer hardware, networking software and operating system software
• Developed and implemented software and information system testing policies and procedures
• Performed data backups and disaster recovery operations.

Fujitech Computerland Ltd., Mauritius, January 1996 – June 1996
Sale of Computer systems and equipments.
Computer Technician
• Installed and configured computer hardware, networking software and operating system software.
• Provided after-sale technical support to customers having computer systems difficulties.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

*Legend : 1=theoretical knowledge; 2=basic knowledge; 3=good knowledge;
4 =very good knowledge; 5=expert

EDUCATION

Concordia University, Montréal, Canada, 2001 - Present
Masters in Aerospace Engineering, avionics option

McGill University, Montréal, Canada,1996 - 2000
Bachelor in Electrical and Computer Engineering

OTHER PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT

• Advanced software development in Unix
• Unix commands
• Unix scripting
• C/C++ in Unix
• C/C++ performance optimizer
• C/C++ using visual studio
• C/C++ course in the .NET environment
• Object oriented analysis & design
• Object-oriented concepts & technologies
• Intro to Aviation (centre québécois de formation aéronautique)
• Perl
• Java
• Micrososft Office Suite
• Technical report writing

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION AND INTERESTS

• Earned four award from Alliance Francaise de l’Ile Maurice for excellence in French.
• Obtained first prize in Mathematics, Chemistry and Geography in high school.
• Coach and captain of my soccer team at McGill University, which I led to numerous “A division” titles.


** References available upon request