Shivani Garg

Mobile: 571-***-**** Email: acfk5i@r.postjobfree.com

OBJECTIVE:

Seeking a full time, application development position to enhance my career and experience in the field of Information Technology

and Biosciences, leveraging my expertise and technical abilities.

PROFILE:

2+ years of Information Technology industry experience in software design, analysis, development, testing and

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deployment using industry best practices and tools.

Owned and operated a small business (proprietorship) providing services in software design and web application

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development using Eclipse IDE V4 (Juno), Java SE V5 with Object Oriented Design & Development, GUI

development using Swing, Java EE V5, Struts, JSP/Servlets, HTML/CSS, Perl, MySQL (WAMP), R Studio, Data

Structures and JavaScript (JQuery) on Linux and Windows OS.

Currently pursuing Master’s in Bioinformatics from the prestigious John Hopkins University (~ 50% completed).

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Demonstrated ability to learn and apply new technologies quickly with minimal supervision despite challenging

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deadlines. Very comfortable in a fast paced team oriented environment.

Strong communication skills with problem solving capability.

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Good understanding of Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC), MVC architecture and knowledge of project

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management methodologies such as Agile and traditional Waterfall.

Relational Database Management Systems (RDBMS) with hands on SQL query language while working with big

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scientific databases.

5+ years of bio tech industry experience.

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Certificate for Lectureship through National Eligibility Test held by Joint Council of Scientific and Industrial

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Research – University Grant Commission (Life Sciences), India in year 1999

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Java SE, Java EE, Struts 2.0, JSP/Servlets, Object Oriented Programming, JavaScript (Basic JQuery), Perl,

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HTML/CSS and database MySQL.

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Shivani Garg

Mobile: 571-***-**** Email: acfk5i@r.postjobfree.com

Operating systems Windows and Linux/Unix

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R studio, NetBeans and Eclipse IDE V4 (Juno)

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Bioinformatics tools: Clastalw, Blast, FASTA, HMMER and others.

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Biological research using online databases: EMBL, NCBI, PubMed, UniProtKB, PDB, GenBank, ENSEMBL,

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Biological lab techniques: centrifugation, PCR, electrophoresis, SDS PAGE, gel electrophoresis, Mammalian cell

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culture, bacterial cell culture, aseptic technique, sterilization, western blotting, DNA extraction

Histology lab technique including tissue fixation, paraffin embedding & sectioning and staining.

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PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Research Dataware, LLC. Cambridge, MA

Java/J2EE Application Developer March 2012 – present

Environment:

Java/J2EE 1.4, MVC, Struts 2.0, JSP, HTML/CSS, RDBMS/MySQL V5, JavaScript (YUI), Apache/Tomcat V5.5, Eclipse

IDE, Source Control System (SVN, CVS), Textpad

Responsibilities:

Apply software development and analytic skills using J2EE tools to help develop, QA and maintain the website

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(https://www.irbnet.org).

Used MVC architecture and Object Oriented concepts for the development & production support of various

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administrative modules for business functions, such as User Registration, Profile & Account Management,

Organizations & Study Management, etc.

Designed User Interface based on the business wire frame.

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Use of JavaScript for client side validations.

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Implemented server side data validations including use of pattern matching and regular expressions.

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Shivani Garg

Mobile: 571-***-**** Email: acfk5i@r.postjobfree.com

Working in a virtual team environment, following standards for code management and change control.

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Project documentation, code documentation, JavaDocs, user acceptance test cases & release notes.

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HISTOSERV Inc. Germantown, MD

Histology Technician Oct 2006 – Oct 2011

It was a rewarding experience working in a competitive, encouraging & challenging environment with some highly

qualified histo technicians in a histology service laboratory.

Responsibilities:

Data entry, establish & monitor processes for Quality Control.

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Used immunohistochemical staining techniques to detect specific antigens in the cells of the tissue provided by

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client.

Paraffin embedding and sectioning of tissue using microtome.

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H&E (Hematoxylin and Eosin) and other special staining of slides.

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Maharishi Ayurveda Products NEPZ Greater Noida, India

Microbiologist May 2000 – Dec 2000

New Delhi based company is a giant in Herbal Medicines & Tea.

Responsibilities:

Microbiological examination of raw material and products at different steps of production.

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Regular Microbial inspection of the production unit and decontamination using formaldehyde fumigation

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process.

Established and revised SOPs for microbiological testing.

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EDUCATION:

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Shivani Garg

Mobile: 571-***-**** Email: acfk5i@r.postjobfree.com

Masters of Science in Bioinformatics (2012 to present): Johns Hopkins University, Zanvyl Krieger School of Arts

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and Sciences, MD

Biotechnology certificate course, GPA 4.0 (December 2004): Montgomery College, Germantown MD

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Masters of Science in Microbiology (June 1998) – Kurukshetra University, India

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MAJOR UNIVERSITY ASSIGNMENTS:

Java:

Wrote several programs mastering concepts in Object Oriented Design and Programming, with use of inheritance,

polymorphism & data encapsulation.

Demonstrated use of Data Structures, Interfaces, Abstract Classes, Collections framework, single linked lists, doubly

linked lists, hash maps, etc. for the efficient storage and retrieval of data elements. Used GUI/Swing components to

implement User Interfaces & functionality.

Demonstrated use of Algorithms, O notations, Flow charting & Recursion.

Perl:

Wrote a program that accepts a DNA sequence as input from user and has three subroutines which report the length of the

DNA sequence, the percent GC content and the presence or absence of poly T sequence, respectively.

Bioinformatics Project: Wrote a program that reads a GFF3 file (biodata), finds the gene with the given ID in the file.

Uses the coordinates for that feature such as the gene start position, end position as well as the forward or backward orientation of the gene and the FASTA sequence given in the file to return the FASTA sequence for the gene.

REFERENCES can be provided where required.

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