COVER LETTER

From,
Manoj Kumar,
Lehener Strae 90, 10th floor ,1014,
Freiburg - 79106

Date: 25/04/2016

To,
Professor Christoph Scholl,
Albert Ludwigs Universitt Freiburg
Subject: Application for request to participate in the student projects
Respected Professor,
I, Manoj Kumar, have a work experience of more than 8 years in the automotive domain. I mainly
worked on the embedded systems software for cars.
I worked in Robert Bosch Engineering Solutions India as an architect for Park Pilot systems. I
was responsible to develop the AUTOSAR based service layers to implement the Virtual
Networking for Low speed CAN modules. The programing language used was C. I have
implemented mechanisms for wakeup, sleep and start/end of communication of low speed CAN
modules.
My first company was General Motors (GM). I have programming experience with C,VB and a bit
of python. I also have practical knowledge on UML modeling. I have worked on CAN protocol. I
have root caused issues like ECU gate-waying and transmission problems due to fixed priority of
CAN messages; both issues were with the Body Control Module for which I was the system
engineer. During my final years in GM, I worked on AUTOSAR CAN interfaces. I was responsible
to carry out tests on test-boards after implementing the AUTOSAR configurations for CAN. I have
done the concept for transmitting more than 8 bytes of CAN message using AUTOSAR transport
protocol layer and also Partial Networking concept for AUTOSAR.
I have a Masters in Software Engineering from Carnegie Mellon University, it was a distance
education course sponsored by GM. This was a course which I took alongside work.
With my experience and academic knowledge, I am confident that I can contribute to your projects
and help myself to learn more. I look forward to work with you.
Sincerely
Manoj Kumar
manojk.ram1984@gmail.com