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Gayatri Mantra
om bhoor bhuva suvah
tat savitur vareNyam
bhargo devasya dheemahi
dhiyo yo nah prachodayaat

Gayatri Mantra (the mother of the vedas), the foremost mantra in hinduism and hindu beliefs, inspires wisdom. Its meaning is that "May the Almighty God illuminate our intellect to lead us along the righteous path".

Translation : Oh God! Thou art the Giver of Life, Remover of pain and sorrow, The Bestower of happiness, Oh! Creator of the Universe, May we receive thy supreme sin-destroying light, May Thou guide our intellect in the right direction.

Origin and Benefits of the Gayatri Mantra : Rishis selected the words of the Gayatri Mantra and arranged them so that they not only convey meaning but also create specific power of righteous wisdom through their utterance.

All the problems of a person are solved if he/she is endowed with the gift of righteous wisdom. Once endowed with far-sighted wisdom, a man is neither entangled in calamity nor does he tread the wrong path. A wise man finds solution to all outstanding problems. Only those persons who do not think correctly find difficulty and take wrong steps due to foolishness.

Chanting of Gayatri Mantra removes this deficiency. The teachings and powers incorporated in the Gayatri Mantra fulfill this purpose. Righteous wisdom starts emerging soon after Jap(recitation) of the Gayatri Mantra is performed.

WORK EXPERIENCE

Southern Illinois University at Carbondale, Carbondale, IL, USA.

Aug 2007 - Dec 2008

Graduate Assistant - Institutional Research & Studies

development and designing of website - www.iseg.siu.edu using asp.net and oracle
job included generating dynamic graphical reports using crystal-reports from a large database
build search facility for extracting data from huge iseg database
dynamically exporting the search results and reports in various format viz. doc, excel, and pdf

Amba Tech., Adalaj, Gandhinagar, India.

Jan 2007 - May 2007

Programmer trainee

developed a comprehensive system for middle-sized hospital using vb.net, c#, MS-SQL server, MS-access and oracle
developed a generic solution for the hospital form managing patients, employees, pharmacy, and OPD to managing doctors and theirs account
developed a generic front end that can work on three major back-ends ms-sql server, oracle and ms-access also
generating reports with the help of crystal reports

Websites Maintained/Developed

For KIMAS 2009 - http://www.cs.siu.edu/~kimas/index.html
For SIUC ACM Student Chapter - http://www.siuc.edu/~acm/
For Nautam Vakil & Co. - http://www.nautamvakil.com/about.php

UNDERGRADUATE COLLEGE PROJECTS

MISS (Management information system for promoting & nurturing sports)
Client: Sport authority of Gujarat (IBM‐GIL)
Description: The objective of project was to provide an online as well as client management system to aid sport authority of Gujarat to manage their scholarship schemes.
Technologies Used: java, JSP, tomcat‐apache, MYSQL

Revised DOS (Disk Operating System)
Description: The objective of project was to develop a simulation of classic dos environment. In addition to regular text interface it provided an enhanced graphical interface to create a good look and feel.
Technologies Used: c/c++

Online Merit List Generation
Description: The objective of project was to develop an online system to generate merit list for admission committee. It also provided interface for viewing results.
Technologies Used: JavaScript, html, tomcat‐apache, MS‐Access

Online College Admission
Description: The objective of project was to provide an online management of admission in a commerce college which facilitates various jobs from filling up of the forms to getting final admissions.
Technology Used: vbscript, ASP, IIS, MS‐Access

Othello vs. computer
Description: AI was implemented to let the user play with computer. It convincingly defeated human players.
Language: java

Artificial Chat
Description: The objective of this small project was to demonstrate Human Computer Interaction as a demonstration of my Seminar on HCI, It simulated the artificial chat with the user and was designed such that it will learn new words like a baby learns new words.
Language: java

Medical Store Management
Description: The objective of project was to develop a MIS for medical store management and provide a user friendly interface for the user.
Tools/Language: Visual Studio 6.0, VB

Online results on Mobile
Description: This project provides cell phone users to view their results on their cell phones. Given the seat number and class users; will be displayed their results.
Technologies used: WML, Nokia web browser, IIS, MS‐Access

WORK EXPERIENCE

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UNDERGRADUATE COLLEGE PROJECTS