Quality Assurance Management

ARUN PRAKASH

Address - Apt *A, **-**,**st Street, Woodside, NY 11377

Mobile - (347) -320-2718

E-mail -

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EDUCATION:

NEW YORK UNIVERSITY

New York, NY

School: Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences and Stern School of

Business

Degree: Masters in Information Systems (expected December 2010). Current

GPA: 3.2

Visvesvaraya Technological University

Bangalore, India

School: Atria College of Engineering

Degree: Bachelor of Engineering in Computer Science

GPA: 3.5

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Programming Languages: C, C++, C#, VBA, Java, Unix Shell scripting, AWK

Web Technology: HTML, CGI /Perl, UNIX, Net Beans 5.0, Visual Studio,

Eclipse

Database Systems: Oracle 8i/9i/10G, Microsoft Access 97/2000/2002, MySQL

Server 5.0, MS SQL Server 2005

EXPERIENCE:

Nikko Asset Management - Sumitomo Trust Bank New York, NY

Front Office Developer Intern

Nov 2009 - May 2010

Environment: Bloomberg Aim (OMS), SunGard Decalog,VBA (Excel),MS SQL

- Worked in a Rapid Application Development team in building data stores

for pre and post trade execution risk management processing and integration

of position detail into various risk management applications such as

Barra,and Wilshire.

- Built spreadsheet template via VBA,OLAP cubes and Fact and Dim tables to

allow portfolio managers to organize securities and view liability

structure in an integrated fashion

- Automated the cash ticket generation process for the fund managers using

Bloomberg API's and VBA

SOCIETE GENERALE Corporate & Investment Banking New York, NY

Derivatives Trade Support Intern

April 2009 - Oct 2009

Environment: UNIX, PL/SQL (Oracle 10G), VBA and Excel

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Provide technical and business support on post trade applications (PnL,

Risk Analysis, Pricing, Equity Finance and Client facing systems) in the

Equity Derivatives Perimeter application support.

- Liaise with development team (in Paris and NY) & perform Quality

Assurance: Non-regression and functional testing for new releases.

- Worked closely with the business, gathering their needs, provided

incident reporting and escalation, problem analysis and production

monitoring

SOCIETE GENERALE Corporate & Investment Banking Jersey City, NJ

Project Management/ Business Analysis Intern July

2008 - Sept 2008

Environment: VBA (Excel), SQL Server, SSIS, SSRS

- Worked with the development team in Paris to develop the compliance-

reporting tool called "Custody Transfer" in customization of the global

asset management application "Marley" to match SEC require.

- Optimization of manual operational processes through VBA and other rapid

application development tools like SSAS and SSRS.

Street Solutions Inc Jersey City, NJ

Software Engineering Intern May 2008 - June

2008

Environment: C#, VB.Net, ASP.Net, JavaScript, CSS, Visual Studio

-Worked as part of the product development team that designs, develops,

systems for the whole MBS loan trading and securitization markets. Was

involved with all areas of the system, including database, business logic,

and presentation

- Built web grid front end for company product Loan Management Server (LMS)

- Designed status graph allowing users to price synthetic CDO products in

LMS.

New York University New York, NY

Technical Assistant Jan 2008 -

May 2008, May 2010 - Present

Environment: Mac, PHP, MySQL, and Apache

- Webmaster for the Office of Student Activities (OSA) at NYU.

-Designed and supported the club,clubfest and club budgets websites of the

OSA

-Built a financial accounting system(BOS$) to replace MS-Access and Money

infrastructure allowing the provision of a slew of integrated web services

to the users.

-University wide IT liaison,making sure the interests of the Office of

Student Activities (OSA) are met

Research Assistant - Indian Institute of Science Bangalore, India

Environment: C, C++ Jan 2006 -

May 2006

Part of the Mathematics Department Research group in developing better and

cost efficient Anti-Piracy software that allows software firms in

developing country fight the problem of software piracy

PART-TIME INTERNSHIPS/ACADEMIC PROJECTS

Buzzd.COM New York, NY

Quality Assurance Intern Feb 2009 -

March 2009

Environment: QTP (Automated Testing Tool), Selenium

- Wrote, reviewed and implemented test plans and test cases (both manual

and automated)

- Worked directly with the main product manager in designing test cases.

TelMe Clothing New York, NY

Web Development Intern Oct 2008 - Dec

2008

Environment: Windows, PHP, MySQL, and Apache

-Built business networking site from scratch for start-up firm TelMe

Clothing (About TelMe Clothing: owner Kevin Shane is listed as top 25

Entrepreneurs in America by Businessweek Magazine.)

EXTRA CURRICULAR ACTIVITIES AND ACHEIVEMENTS

-Distributed Computing Final Project Contest Runner up at NYU.

-Represented my university as well as my state in tennis in various

national and international events, was ranked in the top 35 juniors in

India between 1995 and 2002

-Member of the Rotary Club to create social awareness on drugs and

substance abuse

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