SHIVA SANGAM
Contact # 979-***-**** Email: ******.*****@*****.***
OBJECTIVE:
To obtain full time position in the field of Information
Technology/Computer Science.
RELEVANT SKILLS:
. Professional experience at Oracle Financial Services Ltd.
. Excellent command over Relational Databases and Design Patterns.
. Excellent interpersonal, organizational, and communication skills.
. Excellent communication and problem solving skills.
. Experience in object-oriented design methodology and techniques.
. Ability to work independently as well as part of a team.
EDUCATION:
Master of Sciences, Computer Science Aug 2008-Dec 2010(Expected)
The University of Texas at Dallas GPA: 3.52/4
Bachelor of Engineering, Electronics and Instrumentation Aug 2002-
Jun 2006
Birla Institute of Technology and Science, Pilani GPA:
6.46/10
Computer Skills:
Languages & Technologies : C, C#, Java, SQL, PL/SQL, XML,
HTML, JavaScript, ADO, ASP
Operating Systems : Windows, UNIX, Linux
Development Tools : Visual Studio, SQL Developer,
Eclipse, Dreamweaver, Microsoft Visio
Databases : MS SQL Server, Oracle,
MySQL
Testing Tools : SilkTest (Black Box),
XSUDS (White Box).
Networking Skills : TCP/IP, DNS, UDP.
Relevant Courses:
Operating Systems, Software Testing, Verification, Validation and Quality
Assurance, Advanced Requirements Engineering, Software Architecture and
Design, Object-Oriented Analysis and Design, Database Design, Advanced
Software Engineering
Certifications:
Microsoft Certified Technology Specialist:
SQL Server 2008, Database Development Certification
Professional Experience:
Oracle Financial Services Limited, Bangalore
(2 years Jul 2006 - May 2008)
. Worked as software consultant for various African-European clients in
the support department. Responsible for supporting the day to day
issues in the databases, resolving production issues, taking backups,
basic Oracle DBA functions.
Projects Handled onsite
. Production Support for Commercial Bank of Zimbabwe (CBZ Bank), Harare,
Zimbabwe
Worked as software consultant and developed the scripts for fixing the
production issues encountered by the CBZ bank. I have done the retro work
changing the Oracle Forms in the banking application as desired by the
clients. The technologies I worked on were Oracle 10g, Oracle forms 6i,
Oracle (SQL, PL/SQL).
. I was in the implementation team as software consultant for Currency
Redenomination Project for Agricultural Development Bank (ADB), Accra,
Ghana Worked on this project developing the SQL/PLSQL scripts for ADB
as Central Bank proposed to re-denominate the existing currency at a
rate of 1:10000 to the existing currency. The technologies I worked on
were Oracle 10g, Oracle forms 6i, SQL, and PL/SQL.
. Currency conversion and redenomination project for Inverunion Bank,
Caracas, Venezuela. Have been made Single Point of Contact for that
site as I have already implemented the same at Accra, Ghana.Currency
upgrade and redenomination project for Federal Bank of the Middle East
(FBME Bank), Tanzania
Lanco Global Systems Ltd., Hyderabad. (Jan
2006 - Jun 2006)
. Worked as an intern on an internal project Business Accelerating Sales
Engine-BASE. Base is a web based application developed for LGS to track
and monitor the activities of sales and operations. The sales
activities go from the proposal initiation stage to the contract signed
stage, whereas the operations activities go with recruiting a candidate
for a requirement.
. I was responsible for developing and maintaining a contract module in
the application, and the technologies used were C#, ASP, ADO and
database like Oracle.
GRADUATE Projects:
. Implemented Nagamochi Ibaraki algorithm for calculating maximum flow
through an undirected graph and devised and efficient way to reduce the
cost. The technology used was Java.
Skills gained: Java
. Developed an "Online Meeting Scheduler System" as a part of Advanced
Requirements Engineering Course. Responsible for collecting the
requirements from the stake holders, forming the requirements
specification document, creating the software design, coding the
application and finally testing the same.
Skills gained: C#, Gathering Requirements, Testing.
. Developed an eCommerce website using Java servlets as a part of
Objected Oriented Analysis and Design course. Primarily responsible for
developing front end JSP pages. Also used Adobe Dreamweaver for
designing the pages.
Skills gained: Java, HTML
. Automated Black box testing of a hospital management system called
"Encore" using SilkTest as the testing tool. Responsible for
understanding the application, designing test cases based on the help
manual, running the test cases using a test suite. Added custom
verifications using 4Test scripting tool in order to validate certain
fields. Also performed Data Driven testing to check if the backend data
is in accordance with the front end screens.
Skills gained: using SilkTest, generating test scripts
. White box testing of an Unix utility called "PTX". Used XSUDS
testing tool in determining the coverage of the application based on
the designed test cases. The aim of the project is to maximize the
coverage with minimal test cases. Used inbuilt utilities like Xatac and
XRegression.
Skills gained: Using XSUDS, Analyzing code and writing test cases.
. Developed a web crawling software that fetches all the "Computer
Conferences" specific links along with their details like venue, date
etc, using Java/J2EE along with Google Ajax Search API and the concepts
of SVM classification(machine learning) for extracting domain specific
links and results. Development environment is Windows. Sponsor is Dr Yu
Qian from UT Southwestern Medical Centre. Also involves text mining
concepts.
Skills gained: Java/J2EE, Designing, Testing, Team work, good
communication skills
. Developed "Hotel Reservation System" as a part of Advanced Database
Design course. Responsible for writing the requirements, converting
them to ER model, converting the ER model to Relational model,
normalizing the tables to 3NF to reduce redundancies, creating tables
and populating tables using SQL, and finally creating a front end web
interface for operations like Creating an online purchase request etc.
Skills gained: ASP.Net, ADO.Net, C# technologies for front end coding and
SQL Server 2008 as the database server.
Achievements:
. Client appreciation for successful completion of currency
redenomination project in Ghana.
. Secured Second in APOGEE 2005, All India Academic Festival held at BITS
Pilani for developing circuit and program using tool VI LABVIEW and
presenting on 'Traffic Control Systems'.
. Received certificate for giving presentation on 'Finger Print Scanner',
All India Academic Festival held at BITS Pilani during APOGEE 2003.
. Received Pratibha Award, a National award, for achieving state 11th
rank in IPE 2002.
INTERESTS:
Software Testing, Object Oriented Programming, Design Patterns, Database
Design, Web Development.
AVAILABILITY: December 2010