AKANSHA NEMA
*******.****@*****.*** ** Brainerd Rd, Apt. 3, Allston, MA 02134 Cell: 352-***-****
OBJECTIVE
To obtain a full-time position in the area of software development.
EDUCATION
Northeastern University, Boston, MA December 2013
Master of Science, Bioinformatics; GPA- 3.86/4.0
Courses (Currently Enrolled): Bioinformatics Programming
Courses (Completed): Database Management System, Enterprise Software Development, Component Software
Development, Bioinformatics Computation Methods I & II, Statistics for Bioinformatics, Bioinformatics Seminar, Ethics in
Biological Research
Jaypee University of Information Technology, Solan, India May 2010
Masters of Technology, Biotechnology; GPA- 3.2/4.0
Bachelors of Technology, Bioinformatics; GPA- 3.3/4.0
SKILLS
Database: MySQL, Oracle 10g
Languages: Java, J2EE, Perl, BioPerl, HTML5, CSS,
Technology: JSP, Servlets, Struts II, Java Swing, EJB, Struts II, JDBC
Applications/Tools: Eclipse, NetBeans
Web Servers: Tomcat Apache web server
Bioinformatics Skills:
Software Package: Geneious
Databases: NCBI, EBI, PDB, MMDB
Technology: BLAST, FATSA, ClustalX, ClustalW, TCoffee, Bioedit, MolQuest, ORFFinder
EXPERIENCE
IT Research Assistant, Progenika Inc., Medford, Massachusetts August 2012-December 2012
• Designed and developed an accessioning software solution to simplify record keeping.
• Focused on the design and development of user interface for the creating, reading, updating and deleting samples.
• Developed performance metrics to record and analyze the time taken in every step of the process.
• Conducted design reviews throughout the software development cycle for testing, problem analysis and resolution.
• Responsible for documentation of all User manuals, Standard operating procedure, daily backups and troubleshooting for the
software.
Junior Analyst, ZYG Pharma PVT. LTD., Indore, India December 2010-May 2011
• Handled preparation of various types of media for testing of raw material, in-process bulks and finished products.
• Assisted in calibration of Instruments used and documentation of all the microbial testing.
PROJECTS
“Online Patient Portal” (J2EE, StructsII, MySQL, Velocity, Tomcat, CSS, JQuery, HTML5) Spring 2013
• Developed web application to facilitate the interaction between patients, doctors and laboratories.
• Implemented Struts Validation Framework for Server side validation and developed interceptors for authentication and input
validation.
• Added functionality to view comprehensive information about a drug by linking the project to third party databases - KEGG,
PubChem, SwissProt and GenBank.
• Developed a tool to enable various actors of the portal to input data into the database and manage the Knowledge Base.
“GeneiousShare” (Java, PHP, BioPHP,MySQL) Spring 2012
• Created programs and plugins in Java for “Geneious” bioinformatics software product.
• Developed a Facebook application using PHP, BioPHP to enable Geneious users to collaborate on analysis projects.
“Hospital Database Management” (Oracle 10g, SmartDraw, Microsoft Visio) Spring 2012
• Designed and created a database in Oracle 10g for a hospital using SmartDraw and Microsoft Visio.
• Designed queries to insert and fetch the relevant data corresponding to given scenarios.
“Phylogenetic analysis using C++” Fall 2009
• Developed C++ code through which phylogenetic analysis of organisms could be carried out.
“Study of Biomedical waste management practices and Characterization of multi drug resistant bacterial strain
isolated from a surgical unit of a hospital”. Master of Technology Thesis, published in International journal of Waste
Fall 2009 – Spring 2010
Management Research (WMR-09-0376)
• Isolated and characterized a strain resistant to 13 different commonly used antibiotics.
• Evaluated methods used by the Hospital waste management team for effective waste disposal.
• Developed Regression Model between monthly intake of patients and waste generated for a year using Minitab.