Sql Server Software Engineer

Vinay Kashyap Email:

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*** ******* ***, *** *** Indianapolis IN 46202 Mobile:

917-***-****

CAREER OBJECTIVE

Looking for Human Factors/Usability Research position that employs my user-

centered research and design skills to help improve user interactions with

devices and interfaces.

USABILITY SKILLS

. Design thinking - Ideation, brainstorming, challenge mapping

. Conduct user and market research

. Derive user needs and business requirements, develop personas, user

scenarios.

. Create detailed storyboards, mockups, and wireframes using Balsamiq,

MockFlow, and Visio.

. Usability study - usability inspection, testing and evaluation.

. Document and present design recommendations

COMPUTER SOFTWARE SKILLS

. Programming Languages: C/C++, C#, ASP.NET, VB.NET

. Database: Microsoft SQL Server 2008/2005/2000

. Web Programming: HTML/XHTML, CSS, PHP, AJAX, JavaScript, Adobe Flash

EDUCATION

Indiana University, Indianapolis

May 2011

Master of Science in Human-Computer Interaction

GPA: 3.64

Visvesvaraya Technological University, Bangalore, India

May 2006

Bachelor of Engineering in Computer Science

PROJECTS

. Final Project - Usability study of clinical data mining interface

V Requirement modeling - problem space revaluation, interview

stakeholders

V Mixed method usability approach

V Recruit participants - snowball sampling

V Usability testing - user scenarios, post-task & post-test

questionnaire

V Data collection and analysis - task success, time on task,

perceived difficulty

V Suggest design recommendations

. Usability analysis of IUPUI website

V Usability inspection, based on scenarios and heuristics

V Usability testing

V Overall evaluation and recommendation.

. High level prototyping of kitchen digital message center

V Build conceptual model, importance to prototyping

V Basic paper prototypes (sketches), interactive paper prototypes

and digital prototypes using Balsamiq and Adobe Flash.

. Information kiosk at Indianapolis International Airport

V Contextual Inquiry and design modeling

V User research - Observation, survey, interview

V Develop new design model, suggest recommendations

EMPLOYMENT HISTORY

. Research Assistant at Logical Semantics Inc., Indianapolis

March 2009 - May 2011

V Analysis, enhancement of clinical text data mining application

V Build stored procedures on Microsoft SQL Server 2008

V Perform regular SQL server maintenance

. Associate Software Engineer at Perot Systems India

June 2006 - July 2008

V Web application migration from VB6 to .NET using C#

V Database design for windows-based application for the HR

recruitment team

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