Resume

OVERVIEW

  • Experience in programming using C, C++ and Java over 3 years
  • Good working knowledge in SVN
  • Expertise in building web sites using PHP and MySQL
  • Hands on experience with Google API and IBM Tools

EDUCATION

Master of Science, Computer Science, University of Illinois at Chicago, USA

Expected graduation: May 2012

Bachelor of Engineering, Computer Science, Anna University, INDIA

2004-2008, First Class Degree with Distinction

EXPERIENCE

Product Analyst Intern, Quodient Inc. (Aug 2011 – present)

  • Involved in defining the system of an event management application
  • Gathering user requirements and designing the use cases for the application
  • Designing the DB schema of the application
  • Developing prototype of the product using PHP and MySQL

Software Engineer Intern, Motorola Solutions Inc. (May 2011 – Aug 2011)

  • Unified Network Controller is a User Interface, governing communication of public safety devices
  • UNC assigns jobs to routers for device communication through a manual process
  • Developed a process automation for scheduling the router jobs in the network, using Java
  • Querying the database for the devices and channels and displaying it in the front end using struts framework

Research Assistant, College of Education, University of Illinois at Chicago (Aug 2010 – May 2011)

  • Developing applications using Java for the department of Early Reading First at UIC
  • Enhancing the User Interface of the ERF website, www.uic.edu/educ/erf

Associate System Engineer, IBM, India (Dec 2008 – July 2010)

Application developer, Partner commerce – E-commerce web application

  • Designed a new architecture for User Interface and Database connection in the application
  • Involved in design phase of the release, containing accessible features for the application
  • Modified the application into visually challenged users friendly
  • Implemented AJAX in the ordering and shopping cart pages of the application
  • Involved in development of the account level social media which is used in Agile process for tracking meetings and project members’ contribution and progress
  • Part of the Agile team of the account, IBM Geno

Developer, Blue Dreams – Research Team

  • Developed Same Time (Instant Messenger) Plug-in for run time translation of messages
  • Designed the architecture for interaction between IBM tools – Team Concert and Blue Sheet

SOFTWARE PROFICIENCY

Programming Languages : C, C++, Java, Python
Web Technology Tools : HTML, CSS, Java Script, PHP, AJAX, jQuery
Data Bases : MySQL
IBM Tools : RTC, RSA, CMVC, Rational Rose
CMS : WordPress, Drupal, MS Sharepoint

COURSE WORK – Computer algorithms, Database systems, Data and web semantics, Information Retrieval, User Interface Design, Distributed Object Programming, Secure computer systems and Advanced software engineering

TALKS / PRESENTATIONS

  • Presented talks and ideas about developing “social media’s influence on group projects” and “communities and collaboration across horizontals” at IBM
  • Presented seminar on user friendly websites and “How to build Visually challenged users friendly web applications” at IBM India, Chennai
  • Presented technical seminars on Python and Ajax implementation in all forms of web applications for IBM Global Account audience
  • Presented the “Newly deployed UNCW features”,  emphasizing the UNCW product of Motorola Solutions Inc. to Global clients at Motorola Solutions, Schaumburg, IL

Data-driven Test Suites for Websites (Oct 2011 – Dec 2011) – Java, Selenium

  • Developing test suites for testing the functionalities of orbitz.com, kayak.com using Selenium
  • Coding the test cases using Java with the help of Selenium IDE

Stock Ticker –https://chrome.google.com/webstore/search?q=nse(Sep 2011) – jQuery, Yahoo API, Google Chrome

  • Stock Ticker is a simple Google Chrome extension for NSE stock market
  • Implemented the interactive stock ticker using jQuery and AJAX
  • Designing the html and css files for the extension’s look and feel

Clustering Business – Information Retrieval (Feb 2011 – Apr 2011) – Java, MySQL, Weka, Opinion finder

  • Clustering business is information retrieval technique to form clusters of restaurants based on the features, similarities, differences and user reviews
  • Coded the information extraction part using Java from MySQL
  • Coded the polarity assignment part of the reviews using the wordnet polarity and opinion finder

Project Squirrel – Android Application (Apr 2011) – Java, Android SDK, SVN

  • Project Squirrel android application is the app for the website, http://projectsquirrel.com
  • The android app contains features, like taking photos, storing user survey in file and mailing it
  • Designed the user interface and the file structure (xml) for the app

Survey Engine – http://funkysurveys.heroku.com(Mar 2011) – Ruby on Rails, Heroku, Passenger

  • Survey Engine is a web portal used to take surveys, design them, manage them and view results
  • Designed the user interface of the web portal and the database for the application
  • Deployed using Heroku and also separately deployed using Passenger

Semantic Relatedness using Wordnet and Wikipedia (Oct 2010 – Dec 2010) - Java, Agreement Maker

  • Determining the similarity between different ontology concepts, based on semantic relatedness
  • Coded the application for calculating the degree of relatedness between various search terms

DVD Rental System – http://rajak.me/code (Oct 2010 – Dec 2010)- PHP, MySQL

  • DVD rental system is an online portal for browsing and ordering movies from the store
  • Coded the front end pages of the website using CSS and PHP
  • Designed and created the database for the backend using MySQL

HONORS

  • Runner-up in the global IBM level designing competition in Hackday -7 (Technical symposia)
  • Awarded as ‘Tech Innovator’ by IBM India Pvt. Ltd.