Gagan Kumar Arora
UNO PO Box ****, New Orleans, LA, 70148, accijm@r.postjobfree.com, mobile:
Education
Tulane University, Freeman School of Business New Orleans, LA, USA
Master of Finance, GPA: 3.5/4 June 2010-May 2011
Key Coursework: Mainly quantitative/programming focused such as Financial
Modeling, VBA for Financial Apps, and Excel modeling for Valuation.
Indian Institute of Technology, Madras Chennai, India
Masters of Computer Science and Engineering Aug 2003-May 2008
Bachelor of Computer Science and Engineering
GPA: 6.74/10; All India Rank 482 in IIT-JEE 2003 (99.76 Percentile)
. Key Coursework: Data Structures, Object oriented Programming in Java
and Artificial Intelligence.
. Product Development: Used MATLAB to develop statistical image
processing toolbox for doctors.
International Research intern at National University of Singapore on
full scholarship: Worked on the Statistical Image processing projects.
Professional Experience
Application Programmer, Financial Services (Full Time) New Orleans, USA
University of New Orleans June 2011-Present
. Working on ERP (Peoplesoft) Oracle product: Developing, designing and
testing PeopleSoft pages on the PeopleCode development platform.
. Programming languages used: SQR, SQL, PeopleCode and Python
. Developing, designing and maintaining online PeopleSoft pages which
facilitate Payroll transactions and other human resource business
processes.
Android Development: Working and developing android apps for android
market. My recent android app:
Stock Compare [Description & Demo:
http://mall.soc.io/apps/Stock+Compare] May 2013 - Present
Assistant Professor (Full Time) Punjab, India
LPU- Dept of CSE/IT Aug 2009-May 2010
. Course instructor for: Data Structure & Algorithms and Programming
Languages (Java)
Software Associate II (Full Time) Bangalore, India
Strand Life Science June 2008 - July 2009
. Developed and implemented algorithms for Computational Biology
Products in Java
. Worked and coordinated in International team(Developers in India and
Product Manger in USA)
. Key expertise learnt: Java Design patterns, Object oriented concepts,
Junit testing, Java Swing, Hibernate, LAMP technology, XML processing
and Linux.
Software Development Internship Chennai, India
Tata Consultancy Services (R&D) May 2006 - Aug 2006
. Developed software using C# that enables users to download media and
redirect the download stream from their mobile device to their home PC
or laptop.
. Key expertise learnt: C# and Networking concepts
ACHIEVEMENT
Common Aptitude Test-2009: Scored 98.38 percentile (out of 236,000
applicants) India
Microsoft Research Summer School Workshop Bangalore, India
Studied programming languages, analysis and verification July 2008 -
Aug 2008
SKILLS AND INTERESTS
. Computer Skills: MATLAB, Java, C++, SQL, Data Structure & Algorithms,
Script Languages, Data Mining Tools, Statistical Analysis, MS Excel,
Platforms - Linux, (Ubuntu, Debian), Windows
. Interests: Cooking Freak, love to cook! playing roulette, long drive
and solving mathematical puzzles