Project Manager Engineer

RITIKA DOGRA

**** ****** **, ***#*, Pittsburgh, PA 15232 * 412-***-**** * ******@****.****.***

EDUCATION

April 2010

Master of Business Administration

Joseph M. Katz Graduate School of Business, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh PA

• Concentration: Information Systems, Strategy; Dean’s list

May 2005

Bachelor of Engineering in Computer Science

Maharshi Dayanand University, Rohtak, Haryana, India

• Top 5% of the graduating class in college; GPA: 3.8/4.0

EXPERIENCE

2005-2008

HCL Technologies Ltd, India

HCL Technologies is one of India's leading global IT Services companies with revenues of US$5.0 billion and over

58,000 professionals.

April 2008-June 2008

Lead Engineer, Client: Department of Human Resources (DHR), Georgia, US

• Led a team of 4 software engineers for a web-based project leading to high customer satisfaction points.

• Gathered, refined and prioritized client’s functional and technical requirements.

• Optimized the web-based Case tracking system resulting in 15% increase in performance.

June 2007-March 2008

Lead Engineer, Client: Nevada State Government (US)

• Led a team of 6 software engineers for delivering child care solutions to meet the client’s unique business needs.

• Designed critical sections of the module involving financial transactions across the entire application.

• Managed client’s databases resulting in faster query performance and lower operational costs.

• Implemented security in the entire application leading to a much more secure and robust application.

• Rewarded as top performer by project manager for excellence in supervising quality processes and testing plans.

July 2006-May 2007

Software Engineer, Client: Oracle Corporation (US)

• Created Lotus notes crawler Plug-in for Oracle using C and JAVA for searching Enterprise repositories.

• Demonstrated leadership and team-building abilities by managing a team of 25 engineers.

• Conducted technical training for 15 team members for a new model (QTA - Query Time Authorization).

• Developed and implemented quality assurance practices and procedures, end user test plans and other QA

assessments, reducing the defect rate during the testing phase by 80%.

• Promoted to Lead Engineer based on exceptional problem-solving skills and analytical technical skills.

May 2006-July 2006

Member Technical Staff, Client: Seif Real Estate Group, Inc. (US)

• Analyzed the technical design of the product (Search Engine) which searches online properties for sale or rental.

• Developed GUI elements which gave user the option to search properties based on area, price, size, type etc.

July 2005-Apr 2006

Member Technical Staff, Client: Cadbury Schweppes (UK)

• Developed client’s websites for visually impaired people by integrating multimedia technologies.

• Collaborated with cross-functional teams to analyze potential problems, providing recommendations to

reduce average task completion time by 30% and improving communication between HCL and Cadbury.

• Strengthened my knowledge of system development lifecycle methodology and software development practices.

INTERNSHIPS

June 2004-July 2004

Trainee, Siemens Ltd.

• Trained in various modules and applications of SAP-ERP (Enterprise Resource Planning).

TECHNICAL SKILL SET

• Programming languages: JAVA 2.0, Enterprise Java Beans, JSP

• Tools/IDE: Oracle 8i/9i, DB2 7.1/8.1, Lotus Notes 6.0, Flash, Eclipse, IBM Rational Application Developer 6.0

• Technical Certification: Sun Certified Java Programmer (SCJP 1.4) – June 2006

ACTIVITIES

• EBDS Consulting Project, Value Chain Analysis: Product-Process Match (Summer ’09)

• Member, NAWMBA (National association of Women MBA), Consulting Club

• Member, NGO – Lion Blood Bank, GiveIndia, ASK-Association for Stimulating Know How

• Organized events obtained sponsorships for college cultural festival “Momentum”

VISA STATUS

• F-1; eligible for H-1B visa processing.

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