Bala Sambandam

U.S. Citizen

Experience

July 2008 to present
Parkland Hospital/UT Southwestern Medical Center
General Surgery Resident

June 2004 to August 2004
UT Southwestern Medical Center
Summer Research Student

I performed genetic linkage analysis of families suffering from Familial Spontaneous Pneumothorax. In the course of doing so, I also automated much of the analysis and management of the genotyping data with a web application built upon GENEHUNTER, PEDMANAGER, MySQL, Apache, Perl and Mason.

October 2003 to present
NuScribe, Inc., now owned by Vemics, Inc.
Director of Development, Consultant

I lead the development of a voice recognition enabled transcription solution called NuScribeSMR for the medical industry. The solution was built upon Dragon NaturallySpeaking, MySQL, Apache and PHP. In August 2004, I transitioned to a consultant role where I remain today. In October 2006, the company was purchased by Vemics, Inc for $9M USD.

March 2001 to May 2004
Idanim Solutions Inc.
Independent Consultant

Projects:

February 2004 to May 2004
Sears, Roebuck and Co.
Development

I developed collection and processing scripts for the purpose of generating reports on the performance and availability of network devices. The solution worked as both a standalone product and as one atop NetView. It was built with Perl. I also automated Tivoli deployment and maintenance processes.

November 2001 to April 2002
ADT Security Services, Inc.
Development

I developed a commercial quality web interface into the core Tivoli products. It was built upon Oracle, Apache, Mason and Perl.

June 2001 to October 2001
Gordon Food Services
Tivoli Implementation, Support and Training

I refactored and improved a three-year-old availability architecture. This task entailed a rewrite of the rulebase and the integration of TEC with HP OpenView, BMC Patrol, a homegrown notification database, and a homegrown impact assessment database.

May 2000 to February 2001
Nortel Networks
Senior Network and Systems Management Architect

I architected and implemented integrated solutions for the management of enterprise availability and network knowledge using Tivoli Enterprise Console, Tivoli Distributed Monitoring, Tivoli Netview and Visionael in Operations Support Systems (OSS) offerings for hosted solutions, colocation, application, and bandwidth providers.

July 1999 to May 2000
Y&L Consulting Inc.
Technical Consultant

I developed and deployed solutions around the Tivoli products for network and systems management for an online hosting service provider. The solution was to scale to 15000 systems at each site utilizing Tivoli Netview, Tivoli Enterprise Console, Tivoli Distributed Monitoring and Tivoli Software Distribution.

March 1996 to July 1999
Tivoli Systems, a wholly owned IBM subsidiary
Senior Developer

I worked in the quality assurance group and then in the development group for a product called the Tivoli Enterprise Console, which is used to gather, correlate and display network and system events from across the enterprise.

Awards

2007 Southwestern Medical Foundation Scholarship
2006 Southwestern Medical Foundation Scholarship
2005 Southwestern Medical Foundation Scholarship
2004 Southwestern Medical Foundation Scholarship

Education

2004 to 2008
University of Texas Southwestern Medical School

2002 to 2003
University of Texas at Austin
Bachelor of Science in Mathematics
Pure Math Option

1993 to 1997
University of Texas at Austin
Bachelor of Science in Computer Science

1991 to 1993
University of North Texas
Texas
Academy of Math and Science
High School
and University Combined Program