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GRADUATE RESEARCH ASSISTANTSHIP
Career Overview

Currently pursuing Master of information systems & working as a Research assistant for Illinois state university in school of information technology. 2.8 years of experience as Software engineer/System Analyst in design, development, testing and deployment of applications build on top of Oracle Database. Experience with writing complex SQL statements and processing large data sets. Experience with relational databases concepts & design. Strong knowledge of software testing methodologies. Understanding and experience of agile development methodologies, waterfall and V model. Able to work independently .Strong communication and customer service skills for working with internal and external clients. Ability to translate complex business requirements into detailed functional and/or technical specifications Multi-task-oriented and Performance driven ability to prioritize multiple projects at any given time .Strong analytical and problem solving skills . Ability to work within a strong team structure. Technically-advanced information technology specialist successful in software administration and data communications.

Highly dependable Software Engineer successful at troubleshooting and debugging. Supportive and enthusiastic team player dedicated to streamlining processes and efficiently resolving project issues.

Qualifications
  • Project management
  • GUI and tools
  • Storyboarding
  • Troubleshooting proficiency
  • Windows XP/Vista
  • Unix
  • Oracle (SQLPLUS)
  • MS Office proficiency
  • Optimizing and performance tuning
  • Complex problem solver
  • Strong decision maker
  • Excellent communicator
  • Structured query language (SQL) expert
  • Project management
  • UNIX/LINUX
  • Strong collaborative skills
  • Document management
  • Testing
  • Excellent problem solving skills
  • Programming and design skills
  • Strong analytical skills
  • Information security
  • MySQL
  • Efficient data management
  • Data warehousing and analytics
Technical Skills
Skills Experience Total Years Last Used
Oracle SQL, Pl/SQL, JavaWindows, Unix, Mac OSX, VMWare 3
Accomplishments
  • Exceeded monthly goals by successfully handling more than 20 tickets per week..

Reduced technical escalations to management by 65% to only 20% per day.

Work Experience
Graduate Research assistantship 08/2014 to Current Illinois State University Normal, IL
  • Assisting two professors at ISU in their Research work.
  • Responsible for Hadoop administration task such as installing a distributed, multi-node cloud era Hadoop cluster backed by the Hadoop Distributed File System (HDFS), running on red hat centos 6.
  • Assisting in Data Analysis & predictive analysis of the survey data for National Science Foundation Grant.
ACTIVITIES & ACHIEVEMENTS
  • Received Star of the Month award for significant contribution in collaborating effectively to deliver value to Accenture clients.
  • Received awards for excellence in people development activities such as publishing monthly newsletter which provides updates on health care news and major team activities in the project and conducting recreational events for the team in 2012 Accenture.
  • Received Wall of Fame Award for adding value by conducting Knowledge sharing session and trained the peer group in 2011 as an Associate software engineer for Best Buy project.
  • Worked as a Chaperone for CEMAST Illinois Summer Research academy 2014 Earned Gold Medal in Accenture Life Science Chess Competition 2013 1.
System Analyst/Software Engineer 01/2012 to 12/2013 Pfizer New York, USA
  • Project & Key Responsibilities: Worked as a System Analyst, primarily responsible for supporting client's application, CDH & CDW.
  • Provided production support & resolved critical tickets related to PL/Sql and SQL database objects.
  • Designed, created, altered database tables, views, materialized views, database links, indexes and triggers.
  • Gathered requirements from users; design and develop PL/SQL Batch programs.
  • Created and modified Oracle Stored Procedures and Functions for loading data into database tables.
  • Generated SQL scripts for data staging, loading, and cleanup to import and convert data from other applications to Oracle.
  • Bulk Copy, Insert & Updates.
  • Created numerous simple to complex SQL queries involving self joins and correlated Sub queries for generating views and materialized views.
  • Created triggers to keep track of changes to the fields of tables; alert specified power users of certain transactions taking place within the database; insert, update specific tables by invoking procedures from a trigger across different schema Performed backup of database tables and views during QA and Dev refresh.
  • Created model of tables using Visio and design flowcharts to model business rules.
  • Set up and maintain database environments with schema compare to support production, QA and development activities.
  • Imported production data to lower environments for testing purpose; also import data into lookup tables from lower to higher environments when projects go live.
  • Conducted system integration and regression testing.
  • Experienced in running and scheduling jobs from UC4 in production environments.
  • Worked on UNIX environment.
  • Created many value adding documents, trackers and individually led the daily status calls with onshore and offshore teams.
Role - Tester 05/2011 to 12/2011 Accenture /Project- Best Buy Services
  • Project and Key Responsibilities: Created test Scenarios and test cases.
  • Executed test cases.
  • Performed end to end testing.
  • Performed GUI testing.
  • Conducted integration, system and regression testing as per the new changes and defect fix.
  • Conducted client reporting & defect management.
  • Graduate Academic Project & Research paper: Created a Business Intelligence Dashboard Application for Admission office which includes Dimension modelling, cubes and data visualization.
  • Submitted Research Paper on Business Process Modelling during System Analysis & design course work.
Education and Training
Bachelors of Engineering: Electronics and Communication 7 2010 Rajeev Gandhi Technical University INDIA Electronics and Communication
Master of Science: Information Systems Systems Development 12 2015 Illinois State University GPA: GPA: 4.0/4.0 Information Systems Systems Development GPA: 4.0/4.0
Skills

Business Intelligence, Business Process Management, Data Analysis, Data modelling, Dimensions, ETL, Information security, Java, Microsoft Excel, office, PowerPoint, Microsoft Project, Windows 7, Word, Millennium, newsletter, Operating System, Oracle, PL/SQL, Oracle SQL, Programming, Project management, Quality, QA, Quest, RDBMS, red hat, reporting, Research, scheduling, scripts, script, SPSS, MS SQL Server, SQL, System Analysis & Design, System Analyst, system integration, tables, Telecommunication, Toad, UNIX, Visio, visual design.

RDBMS, Toad, MS SQL Server ,IBM SPSS, Microsoft Project 2013, Microsoft Excel, Word, PowerPoint, MS Visio, Dimensions ,HP Quality Center and Clear Quest, Cerner Millennium & Azure.

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Resume Overview

Companies Worked For:

  • Illinois State University
  • ACTIVITIES & ACHIEVEMENTS
  • Pfizer
  • Accenture /Project- Best Buy Services

School Attended

  • Rajeev Gandhi Technical University
  • Illinois State University

Job Titles Held:

  • Graduate Research assistantship
  • System Analyst/Software Engineer
  • Role - Tester

Degrees

  • Bachelors of Engineering : Electronics and Communication 7 2010
    Master of Science : Information Systems Systems Development 12 2015

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