HARISH GANESAN
********@*******.*** SAS Certified Base Programmer for SAS 9
**** ****** ******, *** *, Buffalo, NY 14226
http://www.linkedin.com/pub/harish-ganesan/45/635/a67/
EDUCATION
SUNY, University at Buffalo (UB)
(Expected) Feb 2014
Master of Science in Industrial Engineering specializing in Operations
Research (3.67/4.0)
Anna University
May 2011
Bachelor of Technology in Information Technology
(3.90/4.0)
EXPERIENCE
SUNY, University at Buffalo (UB)
Mar 2013 - Present
IT Consultant-Computing Information Technology
. Manage the Help Desk of UB Library and help with software and related
queries.
. Analyse the print server and assist in timely delivery of print jobs
serving almost 300 students per day.
Vaithisvaran & Co., Auditing Firm Internship
Jun 2013 - July 2013
. Automated Billing documents in Excel using VLookup Function, Macros and
Pivot Table.
Cognizant Technology Solutions
May 2011 - Jun 2012
PROGRAMMER ANALYST
. Coded a component using C# in RAVE tool for AZTRAZENECA and also provided
solutions to ABBOTT Vascular - a division of ABBOTT, leading
pharmaceuticals and healthcare companies.
. Earned Energizer of the Month appreciation for very quick delivery of a
component in 6 studies.
. Worked on Excel Macros and pivot table reports in a project.
. Won the paper presentation contest among 10 teams during Orientation
training; Team Size: 4
. Recovered critical data from a series of corrupted SharePoint lists by
working for more than 36 hours continuously and earned an appreciation
from the Project Lead.
. Organized a campaign called "The Helmet Campaign" during Orientation
training.
AWARDS, HONORS
. SPOTLIGHT AWARDS: Awarded certificate for my diligent effort in a
SharePoint based project at Cognizant. Also appreciated for my interest
to get trained on COGNOS reporting tool, Rave.
. COGNIZANT CERTIFIED PROFESSIONAL: Awarded e-certificate for completing
L0: Life sciences exam.
. CERTIFICATE OF MERIT: For being among the top 0.1% of successful
candidates in Mathematics among a pool of 85,000 students all over the
country.
PROJECTS: ? "Autogyro flight project" - Improved the Flight Time using
DMAIC methodology.
o Factors and their confounding effects were studied by Fractional
Factorial Experiment after measurement system's effectiveness
was validated by Gauge R&R study.
o Response Surface design was conducted to get optimum response.
Software used: Minitab
? "Low/Middle class restaurant's pricing of seats and food"-
Quoted a Business Proposal
? "Bus Reservation System" - implemented using OOAD
principles. Software used: C# and SQL
SKILLS: Microsoft Excel, Word, PowerPoint, SAS, Minitab, C# .Net, Visual
Basic, MySQL, ArgoUML
LEADERSHIP & COMMUNITY SERVICE
. Volunteered International Student Orientation programme during Spring
2013 and Fall 2013.
. Helped a dozen of old people in cutting the grass and other cleaning
activities in the Buffalo area.
. Treasurer of IT department cultural event-prepared budget and conducted
various events. Sep 2010
. Organized an awareness rally to ingrain the needs of compulsory education
for underprivileged. Aug 2010