Manager Management

Nishtha Sharma

****************@*******.***

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Houston – 77054, TX

Cell: 619-***-****

PROFILE – Pursuing Master in Computer Science at University of Houston, TX

• 2 years of experience at HEWITT ASSOCIATES India Pvt. Ltd. Promoted to Senior Analyst which held various responsibilities like coding,

testing & gradually the role offered opportunities to gather & analyze the requirements.

• Responsible for Test Planning and creating test cases depending on client’s requirements.

• Worked on implementation of Defined Benefits (US pension plans) for Fortune500 clients on Total Benefit Administration System & Calc

Engine.

• Worked in The Woodlands, USA for some period to work with Requirements Consultant (RC)/Benefits Service Manager (BSM) on

Requirements clarifications.

• Good exposure to Software Development Life Cycle.

• Experience in development & testing of Graphical User Interface, Web-Based Applications and Mainframe, SQL Queries.

• Experience in Functional testing, Black Box Testing, System testing, Unit Testing, Integration Testing and Regression Testing.

• Good analytical and communication skills and a team player.

EDUCATION

• Currently pursuing Master of Science in Computer Science from University of Houston, Main Campus GPA: 3.6

Graduation Date: MAY ‘2009

RELEVANT COURSES:

Management Information System, Data Mining, Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, Operating System, Compiler, Parallel

Computation, Computer Architecture, Bioinformatics, Computer Networks

• Bachelor of Engineering in Computer Science from Maharishi Dayanand University, India (2001- 2005) GPA: 3.8

RELEVANT COURSES:

Database Management System, Marketing Management, Data Structures, OOPS – Object Oriented Language, Software Development Life

Cycle Models

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

University of Houston August 2007- Present

Graduate Assistant at International Admissions Office

• Executing batch processes on PeopleSoft.

• Designing and Handling SQL Queries with People Soft HRM Module.

• Creating queries involves writing and executing the queries using the “Query Manager” in PeopleSoft. These processes are required to be run on

the scheduled time using “Application Load Processing”.

• Duties also include updating and maintaining student’s application database for admissions in People Soft.

Hewitt Associates India Pvt. Ltd. Sep, 2005 – July, 2007

Senior Analyst

Managerial Responsibilities

• Coordinated the Daily status reports and Weekly status reports for the client.

• Lead meeting calls with onsite team and clients.

• Took the initiative to act as configuration controller and achieved CMM level 5 for the project.

• Coordinated with clients and development teams for functional requirements analysis.

• Provided training sessions to New Hires in company.

Technical Responsibilities

• Requirement gathering and preparing technical manuals in order to deliver to development team.

• Worked on black box testing including GUI testing, system testing, regression testing and UAT support, Defect logging and tracking

• Dealing with Mainframes as back end tool and running queries to fetch data.

• Includes all responsibilities of Calc Engine Analyst in addition to Systems Analysis of Calc Engine System ( a proprietary tool of HEWITT)

• Systems Configuration of Calc Engine System, an in-house tool, Issue Resolution and Debugging, Test Plan creation and execution and to

provide ongoing support and maintenance of Calc Engine system.

• Systems Configuration of Total Benefit Administration System, an in-house tool, development and execution of detailed unit test plans to Test

all scenarios, Test Cases and Test Data, Issue Resolution and Debugging

• Requirements Analysis, Calc Engine Coding, Hand off analysis, Coaching Associates, Production Support – executing work flow and defect

management with Ongoing Delivery Group. Efficiently used the knowledge of Mainframe Applications like ADB2 tables, CICS.

Platform: Windows XP, Mainframes (TSO/ISPF, CICS)

Tools: Workbench, TBA, YBR, ADB2, Calc Engine, ECHO, ATTA for CE.

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SKILLS

• Technologies – People Soft HRM

• Operating Systems – Windows 9x/2000/NT/XP, Linux, UNIX.

• Programming Languages - C, C++, Visual Basics

• Databases - SQL Server 2005, Oracle 9i, DB2, ADB2, MS Access

• Publishing Languages- HTML, XML,CSS, Dreamweaver

• Tools - Eclipse, Minitab, Microsoft office Suits and Lotus Notes

• Web/Application Servers – Working knowledge of ASP.net

• Working knowledge of Microsoft Office Visio

• Experience in working under pressure and meeting deadlines.

GRADUATE PROJECTS

• Data Mining: Using various Data Mining approaches like K-Means, DB Scan to identify relevant data using Mini Tab and Eclipse.

• Compilers: Analysis of working of Front End and Back End in OpenUH compiler and study its various Optimizations approach.

• Bioinformatics: Analyzing various DNA, RNA, Amino Acid Structures, study there patterns and relates similarities among different structures.

Platform : Microsoft Visual Studio 2005

• Management Infromation System: Presenting case studies on various companies like Dell, Google.

UNDER-GRADUATE Internships & Projects

• Payroll Management System: Developed automated payroll systems of the employees of RITES INDIA LTD in order to search the

employee’s salary details. Visual Basic (Front End), Oracle 9I (Back End), ADO control (Connectivity Tool)

• Stock Management System: Developed an automated inventory transaction project for WAPCOS INDIA LTD, Delhi - India. Visual Basic6.0

(Front End), MS ACCESS (Database)

• Network setup b/w two computers with 9 pin port: A project to set up a channel to transfer and receive a file and to provide chatting facility

between two computers. C++, MS-DOS Operating System.

• Enterprise Resource Planning: ERP is the project to automate the organization and all of its departments. This project was made to automate

interaction between various departments of a Hospital. Java Platform (Front End) and MS ACCESS (Back End)

Co-Curriculum Activities

• Presented many Seminars in college level like Internet Storage, e-Business.

• Active participation in organizing Inter College Sports Competitions.

• Was Active member of NLM – National Literacy Mission.

• Actively participated in NIE – Newspaper in Education drive in Delhi.

References

Rama Mareddy

HEWITT ASSOCIATES, Global Technical Lead

Email id: ****.*******@******.***

Alternative: ********@*******.***

Victor Villarreal

University of Houston, Associate Director-Admissions-IT

Email id: ***********@**.***

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