Pavithra Chandrasekar

abm8cg@r.postjobfree.com

Cell Phone No: 1-651-***-****

Objective

To retain technical perspective, stay abreast with emerging technologies

and contribute my knowledge and expertise to enhance the bottom line of the

organization.

Summary

< About six and a half years of experience in Software design, coding,

testing and Implementation.

< Expertise in developing software applications using .NET technologies.

< Have successfully completed Microsoft .NET Framework 2.0-Web-based

Client Development.

< Worked extensively on WPF, VB.NET, C#. NET, ASP.NET, ADO.NET, XML,

IIS, .NET APIs and Web Services.

< Extensive knowledge in Front End Scripting Language.

< Worked in creating stored procedures, packages, triggers, functions

using Oracle and SQL server RDBMS.

< Strong analytical, communication and organizational skills.

< Self-motivated, with an aptitude for learning new tasks quickly and

independently.

Certifications

Microsoft Certified Technology Specialist - Web Based Client Development

.NET Framework 2.0

Education

Masters in Computer Science

Diploma in .NET Technology

Bachelors in Computer Science

Technical Skills

Languages C#.NET, VB.NET, Visual Basic 6.0, Java,

C++, C

Web Programming XAML, ASP.NET, ASP, VBScript, JavaScript,

HTML and XML

Databases SQL Server 2005, SQL Server 2000, Oracle

9i

Operating Systems Windows 2003/2000/NT/9x, Unix, Linux and

MS-DOS 6.0

Designing Tools Photoshop, Flash MX '04

Web Server IIS 5.0, IIS 5.1, IIS 6.0

Package Software SAP BW, SAP ABAP

Development Tools VS. VS.Net 2008, VS.NET 2005, VS.NET

2003, Microsoft Visual

Interdev 6.0

Reporting Tools SQL Server Reporting Services 2005 & 2000,

Crystal Reports

Component Technology COM, DCOM, COM+, ACTIVE X, DTS, .NET

Assemblies, .NET Framework 1.1, 2.0 and

3.5, .NET Security, .NET Remoting, XML Web

Services

Testing Tools Nunit, Ncover

Other Tools Visual source safe, MS Projects,

Subversion, HP Service Manager

Professional Experience

Client/Company: Northland Insurance - Travelers Insurance, St.Paul, MN

April '09 -Present

Role: .Net Developer/Team Member

Designation: Associate Information Engineer

Northland Insurance is a division of Travelers Company specialized in

providing property and casualty insurance products and services. Northlink

is a web application which was developed by Northland Insurance for use by

its agents and customers to meet their Business Insurance solution needs.

Project: LUC Project - Large Unit Count

This project was intended to enhance the Northlink website's capabilities

to issue bulk insurance for fleets managed by business customers.

Responsibilities:

. Part of a 3 member development team - Designed and Developed new UI pages

using ASP.Net and VB.Net 2.0 framework, with DB2 as backend

. Interacted with business users to translate the functional requirements

into technical design

. Managed documentation required for Design, Unit / Integrated testing and

requirements traceability

. Utilized Infragistics UI controls as needed to enhance the data display

format

. Focused on developing business objects that would enhance the re-

usability of code for future implementations

. Re-factored existing .Net code to improve application performance and

code re-usability

Project: Subversion Conversion

This project is about implementing Subversion for version control, moving

away from Visual Source Safe, to support customized build operations and

eliminate lot of manual effort in build that is subjected to defective code

promotion to Production environment.

Responsibilities:

. Understand the problem statement from IT division highlighting the

need for process improvement

. Evaluated Subversion tool as potential solution for problem on hand

. Highlighted additional features that could be brought on to table

through Subversion

. Architectured and executed the steps to move IT applications from

Visual Source Safe to Subversion

. Defined training modules and conducted training for all development

resources to help them understand the new process to be adapted

Project: Retire 1.1 pages

This project is about cleaning up the production build to eliminate the

redundant code related to prior application version (version 1.1) that is

not required for the current application to function as expected.

Responsibilities:

. Be a part of 2 member team that is chartered with the task of

cleaning up redundant code from the build

. Worked with AS400 team to ensure that cleanup activity related to

Stored Procedures does not impact the functionalities built in other

applications

. Manage Unit / Integrated testing on the changed code

. Worked with agents directly in identifying and removing any unwanted

security definitions (Authentication and Authorization) in Production

Project: Quote Letter Binder

This project is about building capability within Northlink application to

be able to generate customized Quote Letters for specific customers.

Responsibilities:

. Understand the requirement, Analyze the application to identify and

develop the technical design

. Focused on minimizing the UI changes to ensure lesser impact to

business users

. Only member of development team, managing the build, unit and

integrated testing

. Interacted with AS400 team to coordinate any backend changes

Project: Production Support Services

This is an on-going project intended to provide support on Production

application, to business users.

Responsibilities:

. Act as HPSM support coordinator working with agent and different

teams within IT department to identify the issue, define short term

and long term solution and ensure business could perform their

operations normally

Environment:

.Net framework 2.0 - Visual Studio 2005, Vb.Net, Sql Queries, DB2

Client Company: U.S. Bancorp, St.Paul, MN

Jan' 09 - Mar' 09

Role: Lead Developer / Project Manager

Designation: .Net Contractor

Project: Server Configuration Management

The Server Configuration Management (SCM) project is a multiphase effort to

combine multiple legacy data sources for server management data. This

project will also update and/or replace multiple non-standard web

interfaces and data sources with US Bank standard technology. This web

based interface and associated database will be used to inventory, manage

and operate all servers across the enterprise.

Responsibilities:

. Perform gap analysis by comparing the to-be system requirements and the

as-is legacy system

. Understand various Corporate Standards and prepare Architecture deck

. Collaborate and lead the Project activities, with 3 other team members

. Conduct weekly Project Status meetings and report the status to

Management

. Work with various teams / departments across multiple corporate locations

across United States

. Work on Vision document and Statement of Work with the help of other

Senior Project Managers

Tools Used:

Microsoft Office Suite: Project Plan, Excel, Word, PowerPoint and Visio

Client/Company: Lawson Software Inc, Saint Paul, MN.

Feb' 08 - Nov' 08

Role: .Net Developer / Team Member

Designation: Software Engineer

Project: LBI Product Development

Lawson deliver ERP software and implementation services to 4000 customer

sites in manufacturing, distribution and services industries across 40

countries. Lawson Smart Office is an intuitive product with personalized

user interface that allows users to directly access Lawson and Microsoft

applications and update data pervasively and instantly across the

applications. It brings together Microsoft productivity, mobility and

collaboration tools, such as Microsoft Excel, Outlook, Word, PowerPoint and

Groove, with Lawson enterprise applications and business intelligence

capabilities.

Responsibilities:

. Worked in an aggressive environment following agile development

methodologies

. Developed Lawson Smart Office product using some of the latest Microsoft

technologies - .Net Framework 3.5

. Actively involved in periodic discussions with Product Management group

to understand the customer needs and gave constructive feedback to

enhance the product that meet the customer needs

. Part of the team which developed user interfaces using WPF - XAML, that

reserved its place in Microsoft's PDC 2008

. Interacted with teams overseas to successfully integrate the developed

modules to the Product - Lawson Smart Office

. Has been part of two successful release of the product - Lawson Smart

Office

. Effectively created abstract classes and methods and Interfaces as and

when needed in the project

. Worked on code analysis tool - FXCOP, to analyze managed code assemblies

such as design, localization and performance

. Worked on test driven development methodologies - NUNIT and NCover for

Unit Testing

Environment:

.NET Framework 3.5, C#.NET, XAML, XML, SQL SERVER 2005, SVN.

Project: Insuquote

Apr' 06 - Oct' 07

Client: OWEN-DUNN Insurance company, Sacramento, CA.

Role: .Net Developer / Team Member

Owen-Dunn Insurance Services is a commercial lines agency representing most

major insurance carriers. Provides full service beyond what is

traditionally expected of insurance agencies, and offer the best

combination of coverage, service and price.

Responsibilities:

. Developed Health Quotes using ASP.NET for any front- end development, C#

.NET for any middle tier development with ADO.NET 2.0 for any data access

call to MS SQL Server 2000.

. Actively involved in design discussions to support the design team with

my inputs.

. Owned the development phase of the project and executed them

successfully.

. Reported directly to the team lead to get him updates on the progress of

the development phase.

. Developed a detailed test plan and did extensive unit testing.

. Developed, integrated and enhanced the entire system.

. Supported system testing and user acceptance testing phase of the project

by resolving any issues that were raised by the business users.

. Did extensive coding in ASP.NET using validation controls such as regular

expression validator, compare validator etc.

. Extensively used XML schema documents and table mappings to retrieve data

from the SQL Server 2000 database. Also used Datareader and dataset

objects for data retrieval from the database.

. Using Datagrid controls and data binding to display data obtained from

the database.

. Used Datasets to bind data with the reports and display them on web

forms. Also used crystal reports to generate various daily, weekly and

monthly reports in PDF format.

. Designing stored procedures, Triggers, and Functions in T-SQL.

. Designed various reports using Crystal Reports for Management.

. Inputs for the Design discussion were requirements represented in UML

diagrams like Activity diagrams or Sequence diagram and Use Case model.

. Design documents were created following object oriented design patterns

where we identified different objects and classes required, defined the

relation between them and also identified any components that are

potential candidates for reusability.

. Managed view state at the control levels and page levels and maintain the

state data during post backs

Environment:

ASP.NET, Visual Studio. NET, XML, Crystal Reports, C#.NET, SQL SERVER,

HTML, DHTML, Remedy, Microsoft IIS, Windows 2000.

Project: Cyber Korp Pro Man

Jan' 06 - Mar' 06

Client: Cyber Korp

Role: .Net Developer / Team Member

Software Development Process Management Solutions is a web-based

application designed to keep track of work assignments. This project is

developed for business perspective. The application is designed to help the

organization to keep track of assignments and tasks via a shared central

resource. The system is designed for quick access to shared data and

history is a requirement, from an organizational perspective, as well as to

fulfill the needs of the customers.

The following are the Functionalities of Process Management Solutions:

* E-Task

. Manage Customer

. Manage Project

. Manage Task

. Manage Profile

. Generate Report

* Project Monitor

. Manage Assignment

. Manage Customer

. Manage Project

. Manage Response

. Manage Priority

. Manage Status

. Manage Users

* Customer Support

. Manage Customer Assignment

. Manage New Assignment

. View Assignment

. Manage New Users

Responsibilities:

. Developed SDLC process management solution.

. All the functionalities were implemented as a solution using ASP.NET

2.0 for any Front-end development, VB.NET 2.0 for any middle tier

development with ADO.NET 2.0 for any data access calls to MS SQL

Server 2000.

. During the design phase of the project, I was involved in the

discussion with the designer.

. Created and managed the plan for development phase of the project.

. Owned and executed the development phase as the only developer

assigned.

. Reported directly to the project lead to get him updates on the

progress of the development phase.

. Developed a detailed test plan and did extensive unit testing.

. Supported system testing and user acceptance testing phase of the

project by resolving any issues that were raised by the business

users.

. Involved in development of application modules including screen

designs.

. Designed database schemas for all modules in all the three phases.

. Writing stored procedures and executing them.

. Dealing RDBMS concepts.

. Developed, enhanced and integrated all modules in all the phases.

. Successfully handled additional responsibility of managing parallel

development of modules in .NET

. Supported post-go live issues promptly.

. N-tier Framework development using ASP.NET, VB.NET, Web Services,

smart client architecture and Remote Proxies, SOAP Headers and SSL

etc. Winforms for Administration modules.

. Time estimation.

. File uploading and sending mails about the status of the project to

the Project Manager in each stage.

. Authorized users of the organization maintain response history, status

and priority for individual assignment of the project.

. Report of the assignments could be viewed in excel format or another

format.

. No standardized design patterns where followed. Due to time

constrains, simple diagrammatic representation of Psuedocode

(flowchart), Data Flow Diagrams and Entity Relationship Diagrams were

created during the design phase.

Environment:

All the functionalities were implemented as a solution using ASP.NET 2.0

for any Front-end development, VB.NET 2.0 for any middle tier development

with ADO.NET 2.0 for any data access calls to MS SQL Server 2005.

Dreamweaver and Photoshop were used for developing any cascading style

sheets required. Web Services were used for User Authentication and for any

Notification procedures required to implement the solution. WinForms were

used for Administration modules that controlled User Security definitions.

Project: E-Shock.org Feb '03

to Nov '05

Client: VCAP Engineering

Role: Developer

The phases of the E-Shock.org:

* Data Warehousing Phase

. Purchase

. Stock

. Sales

. Supplier Details

. Sales Sensex

* E-Commerce Phase

. Organizational Profile

. Personal Details

. Users

. Membership Form

Data Warehousing deals with the organization's Purchase, stock and sales. E-

commerce deals with online purchase. The Process of this Software is to

maintain the details of Raw materials, chemicals and Production. The actual

process of this software package is to maintain the Sales, Purchase and

Inventory Information. This Software enables to store, maintain, and

retrieve data efficiently; it also helps in mining the data from purchase

and stock. The product sales are also made online. System assists the

management on taking the right decisions at the right moment based on

statistical and managerial reports.

Responsibilities:

. Developed Order and inventory system using ASP.NET 1.1 as front end,

C#.NET 1.1 as middle tier and Oracle 9i as backend.

. Developed the entire system, as the only developer in the project,

based on the technical specification and the design patterns given by

the Architect.

. During the development phase of project, I was involved in the

discussion with Functional analyst and the architect on the functional

and technical specifications.

. Reported directly to the project manager to get him updates on the

progress of the development phase.

. Developed a detailed test plan and did extensive unit testing.

. Supported system testing and user acceptance testing phase of the

project by resolving any issues that were raised by the business

users.

. Worked in the extreme programming process.

. Web based and desktop based interfaces.

. Designed database schemas for all modules in all the phases.

. Dealing RDBMS concepts.

. Actively involved in unit testing and generate unit test plans.

. Developed, enhanced and integrated all modules in all the phases.

. No standardized design patterns were followed. Instead simple

diagrammatic representation of Psuedocode (flowchart) Data Flow

Diagrams and Entity Relationship Diagrams.

Environment: ASP.NET 1.1, ADO.NET 1.1, Oracle 9i, C#.NET 1.1

Achievements & Accomplishments

. Got Certified in Microsoft Technology Specialist - Web Based Client

.Net Framework 2.0

. Part of a successful team that developed a state of the art product

using latest .Net technologies, which got the deemed attention during

Microsoft PDC 2008

. Gained varied experience and knowledge on Development, Analysis and

Project Management using Waterfall and also Agile development

methodologies

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