Anna Shara Varghese

**D Flickinger Court, Amherst, NY-14228

716-***-**** • ac7yih@r.postjobfree.com

PROFILE

Engineer with over fifteen years of full-time experience in Software Design, Client

Management, Documentation, Content Creation, Database Administration, and

Implementation.

EDUCATION

College of Engineering, Trivandrum, University of Kerala, India 1991

oB.Tech, Electronics and Communications Engineering

Sun Certified Java Programmer 2000

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Investment Research Venture Partner 2011-2018

-- Partner at a sole proprietorship primarily doing investment research. The

activity involves monitoring hedge fund activity, fundamental analysis, and

accurately determining fair values of potential investment opportunities.

Skills: Excel

Background research work and editing of the following book published by Wiley in

2013: Profiting from Hedge Funds: Winning Strategies for the Little Guy.

Editing articles that monitor hedge funds run by super investors. Most of the work is

available through the Seeking Alpha platform.

Background research work and editing of articles published at our related web-site.

Project Manager - KEMA Inc., Oakland, CA (now DNV GL) 2007 – 2010

-- Our Unit ran energy efficiency programs for various utilities all over the country. The energy savings small commercial businesses experienced by installing energy efficient equipment were tracked and reported to the utilities. Every aspect of these projects were undertaken by our unit and recorded by the system.

Skills: Project Manager, Database Administration (SQL Servers), Software Implementation, Technical Support.

As Project Manager, coordinated software development with the off-shore group in Russia by providing detailed specification and functionality requirement. Ensured the work completed met the project requirements and was within the timeline and budget.

As database administrators, we were responsible for creating and managing the databases for various utilities and running reports based on the specifications of the Product Managers (Excel).

Coordinated testing of every major software release before they went live.

Documented the criteria and savings calculations unique to each utility to facilitate seamless operations for the entire Team.

Implementation Specialist - Schneider Electric, Alameda, CA 2000 – 2007

-- Our Unit offered an array of Energy Management Software Solutions which were configurable per the utilities requirement. My area of expertise was in EPO (Energy Profiler Online - an energy data visualization and analysis application tool), which ran and managed the time-sensitive curtailment program for the utilities among other things.

Skills: Implementation Specialist, Database Administration (SQL Server), Software Implementation, Technical Customer Support, Utility Rate Design.

As Lead Implementation specialist, identified client requirements and configured software according to those requirements, integrated EPO with other enterprise systems, and managed the technical release schedule for over 20 utilities.

Managed databases in development, testing, and production environment. Provided Technical Support and managed Database Projects related to Support. Identified ease-of-use-functionality recommendations by evaluating end-user concerns and suggestions.

Analyzed, designed, and modeled complex utility rates in EPO’s back-office rate-design software. Managed the bill estimation process to ensure that utility bills calculated by EPO matched bills supplied by the client-utilities (Excel).

Consistently upheld Team Effort and Values mitigated customer concerns by encouraging and sharing information with colleagues.

Software Engineer - Quantitative Medical Systems, Emeryville, CA 1997 – 2000

-- Provides Software Billing Solutions for the dialysis industry

Skills: Software Developer using PowerBuilder against Oracle

Part of the development Team that provided Billing Solution.

Involved in the design and documentation of the Clinical Side Application.

Software Engineer - Avirnex Communications, Novato, CA 1997 – 1997

--Global Telecommunications startup.

Skills: Database design and Normalization

Applied expertise in migrating the legacy database from Foxpro to SQLServer.

Software Engineer - Valley Oak Systems, Danville, CA 1995 – 1997

-- Insurance Claims Management Software

Skills: Software development using PowerBuilder against SQLServer.

Involved in the design and development of the application.

ADDITIONAL EXPERIENCE

Teaching Teaching Assistant, Electronics Engineering. 1993 – 1994

Researcher Electronics Research and Development Center, India, System Analysis 1992 – 1993

Internship Indian Space Research Organization, India, Radar Angle Simulation 1991 – 1992

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