Objective

Passionate in managing and working on high-level software development in a stimulating and challenging work environment that will provide ample learning, application and growth opportunities.

• Resourceful, high-energy software lead with 7 years of software design and development (SDLC) experience.
• 4+ year experience in software design and development using ASP.NET/C#/VB/Oracle/Crystal Reports/SQL Server/SSRS.
• 2+ years of extensive project management experience.
• 4+ years of experience in direct interaction with clients and end users.
• 3 years of experience in application development using Java/J2EE.
• Extensive practical and hands-on experience in designing, developing and implementing standalone and web-based applications.
• Participated in official trainings on team building, personal effectiveness, interpersonal skills, presentation skills, communication skills at Pegasus Institute, Bangalore, India.

Master of Science in Computer Science
Bachelor of Computer Science and Engineering

Confidential, Lead Role (March 2005-present) Confidential,MA, USA

• Responsibilities: Web design and development using .NET/Oracle/Crystal Reports/SQL Server/SSRS; Windows forms-based application development; release management; QA and production implementations; supervising team members and project coordination; project management.
• Projects: Listed later.

Teaching Assistant (August 2003-August 2005) Confidential, IL, USA

• Responsibilities: tutored students, graded lab and homework assignments, conducted tutorials and classroom sessions.
• Courses: Programming with data structures (using Java), Advanced data structures (using C++), Computer graphics (using OpenGL).

Lecturer (August 2002-July 2003) Confidential, India

• Responsibilities: taught Computer Science courses
• Courses taught: Introduction to programming (using VB), Digital electronics, Computer architecture and systems software, Computer programming (using C).

Software Developer (July 2000-Dec 2001) Confidential, India

• Responsibilities: Software development (including web and GUI development), writing functional and technical specifications, database schema design, code repository management, web development.
• Projects (Financial software development: investment banking, trade settlements, utilities/tools etc.): Listed later.

• Member of Project Management Institute (PMI), USA.
• Graduate Student Representative, Department of Computer Science, Southern Illinois University Carbondale (August 2004-August 2005).

• Awarded a Commonwealth Citation by Deputy Commissioner of Department of Local Services, MA, USA in August 2008 for contributions to DLS Gateway project.
• Recognized as one of the best Teaching Assistants in Department of Computer Science, Southern Illinois University Carbondale for academic year 2004-2005.
• Obtained a 100% tuition scholarship and 50% graduate teaching assistantship from the Department of Computer Science for the entire graduate degree program (2003-2005) at SIUC, IL, USA.
• Ranked in top 1% nationally in the engineering entrance examination (WBJEE 1996) for undergraduate studies.

Programming languages: C#.NET, VB.NET, PL/SQL, MySQL, Java
Systems: DOS, Windows XP/2000, Windows Server 2003/2008, UNIX
Databases: Oracle (8i, 9i, 10g), MS SQL Server, Sybase
Reporting: Crystal Report.NET, SQL Server Reporting Services (SSRS)
Technical Skills (contd…)

Development tools: ANT, CVS 1.9, MS VSS, MSDDK 3.0, FogBugz, JBuilder Professional 3.0, Visual Studio .NET, TOAD, SQL+
OOP Modeling: UML
Web programming: HTML, ASP.NET, ADO.NET, Crystal Reports, XML, Java, XSL, XML/XSL parsing APIs, CSS, Javascript
Security tools: PGP, AIDE, Sleuthkit

1. Department of Local Services Enterprise System (DLSGATEWAY) for DLS/DOR (Department of Revenue, MA)

• Company: Confidential,(2006-2009)
• Description: A massive web-based layered enterprise application that offers local officials of 351 cities/towns of MA an immediate way to enter data and verify submission status across all the regulatory review programs administered by Division of Local Services.
• Contribution: Gathered and analyzed requirements and business processes; designed and developed various modules/forms/reports; designed database; proposed enhancements to increase DLS work efficiency; coordinated with clients and release teams; managed, controlled and reported project progress and milestones.

2. Other projects at Stellar

• Company: Confidential, (2005-2009)
• Description: Worked on 6 other different projects with different Commonwealth agencies viz. EOT, SOMWBA, DOR, and DEP.
• Contribution: Designed, developed, tested, debugged, and deployed the applications (web-based e-Government initiative/ web-based public sites / forms-based applications). Proposed several enhancements to increase application usage efficiency.

7. UPM (Universal Processing Manager) at ADP-Wilco

• Company: Confidential, (2000-2001)
• Description: Enterprise level financial software that does complete processing and settlements of investment banking system. This project involved extracting functionalities and writing the erstwhile GLOSS software’s stored procedures in forms of Java classes.
• Contribution: Functional document preparation, development and testing. Proposed several enhancements to increase application usage efficiency.

8. Other projects at ADP-Wilco

• Company: Confidential, (2000-2001)
• Description: Worked on 4 other different projects including 2 projects to enhance the efficiency of the internal database monitoring and to automate the system inventory management.
• Contribution: Designed, developed, tested, and deployed the applications (web-based systems/ client-server systems). Proposed several enhancements to increase application usage efficiency.