LOKESH KUMAR

Determined Business Owner with commitment to excellence and more than 15 years of experience. Firm believer in learning by doing and not spending too much time in mere planning. Incremental improvement is my preferred development strategy and I believe less in the theory that all problems should be solved in the most efficient and perfect way in the first attempt as this approach tends to increase the development time. Adaptable Software Engineering Manager keen to wrangle multiple simultaneous projects into streamlined, cohesive and profitable efforts. Firm believer in holistic and collaborative management strategies. Thrives on providing exceptional oversight and hands-on guidance guaranteed to improve throughput figures and quality metrics.

• Received SFB scholarship for summer internship at ITB, Humboldt University, Berlin from May 2005 to July 2005.
• Received Yamagata prefecture grant for my work at IAB Keio University, Japan from July 2006 to Jan 2007
• Got 3 publications in international journals with first authorship.

• Familybook Android Application: An application which enables families connect digitally.
• Razorbee Quick Info: This module was developed to add internet search capability to Razorbee. It includes web search, video and image search, wikipedia search and how stuff works search. For the search results to be properly displayed on TV, the UI components were specifically designed so that the results look intuitive and easily readable in a TV. The most value added part was AriemWiki, its wikipedia part. The application resembles to the Wikipanion application for iPhone. The article is split in such a way that each content item spans a number of pages containing text and image(s). The content is browsable and a simple image + text view pattern was developed to properly render each page’s content in a TV-friendly way.
• Web Channels (Android):The concept of a web channel is similar to TV channels. They are created from web content relevant to the user. The project consisted of creating web channels out of internet feeds such as News feeds, Facebook data streams, Twitter data streams and various other video and audio feeds. The end product enables the user to watch a slide show of the above data sources on TV giving a feeling similar to browsing through a magazine on TV, flipping/scrolling screen after screen. One screen may show news headlines, another may show the recent activities of their friends on twitter and Facebook. Google reader integration has also been added. The content adds a lot of value when text is combined with images and videos which are an integral part of most of the above mentioned web content.
• Android Home Application: Custom home applications were developed for each device type starting from ADW launcher open source Android application. Each home application supported some of the standard features such as multiple home screens, configurable shortcuts for native applications and
  addition of widgets etc. Additionally, each software was customized for various products being
  offered by Ariem Technologies including Razorbee Internet Set-top box, the flagship Razorbee
  Teacher's Aid device and Razorbee TV Banking device.