Gauravkumar Patel
Phone: 704-***-**** Email: ******.*******@*****.***
Profile: Software Engineer
- DEDICATED SOFTWARE ENGINEER WITH A COMPREHENSIVE HISTORY OF ACHIEVEMENT
IN THE CONCEPTUAL DESIGN, DEVELOPMENT AND DEPLOYMENT OF INDUSTRY LEADING
PRODUCT SOLUTIONS.
- A diversified background in the design of telecom, financial, and
software marketing tools with experience collaborating with 3rd party
developers to design product integration solutions.
- Develop customized product solutions by effectively collaborating with
clients to understand internal business structure and operational needs.
- Experience incorporating ITIL standards and educating IT contributors on
the application of ITIL to streamline the software release process.
- Create and implement new features and product improvements that enhance
the client experience by improving the performance, scalability, and
stability of the product platform.
Core Competencies include:
REQUIREMENT ANALYSIS ( PROJECT PLANNING AND ESTIMATION ( TECHNOLOGY
RESEARCH ( APPLICATION DEVELOPMENT ( TESTING ( TECHNICAL DOCUMENTATION (
PRODUCT ENHANCEMENT
Technical Skills
OPERATING SYSTEMS: WINDOWS 2000/XP/VISTA
Languages: C#.Net 2.0/4.0, ASP.Net, AJAX, jQuery, JSON, XML, XSLT, Web
Services, JavaScript, HTML, CSS, SQL, PL/SQL, C, C++, WSDL, SSIS, Perl,
SOAP
Software: Visual Studio 2005/2010, DotNetNuke (DNN 6.0), Adobe InDesign,
Team Foundation Server, TortoiseSVN
RDBMS: Microsoft SQL Server 2005/2008, Oracle10g
Additional Tools and Methodology: Object Oriented Development, Entity
Framework, Test Driven Development, Agile Software Development, Software
Design Patterns, ITIL,SAAS
Software Engineering Experience
BRANDMUSCLE INC. - CLEVELAND, OH 2009 - PRESENT
Software Engineer
Design and implement enhancements and solutions in .Net architecture to
Brandmuscle's hosted Online Ad Builder Solution, "BrandBuilder". Initially
focused on client customization projects responsible for gathering internal
operational requirements from clients and creating and implementing
customized product solutions. Transitioned into the core development group
as a result of superior product knowledge. Partner with a team of 8
developers in entire software development lifecycle including requirements
gathering, design, coding, testing, documentation, integration, and
customer support. Partner with 3rd party vendors to integrate product
solutions to provide a comprehensive and industry leading marketing
solutions suite.
- Following the acquisitions of TradeOne Inc. and Centiv Inc., served as a
key developer in the integration of the BrandBuilder solution with
TradeOne and Centiv product platforms. Collaborated with TradeOne and
Centiv development teams on product architectures and in the integration
of 3 platforms into 1 solution. The new product is the largest suite
marketing solution available on the market.
- Reengineered and enhanced usability of BrandBuilder's core component,
'Composer Window'. Decreased rendering time by 15% for the design of
production ready marketing materials and reduced time of end user
customization of marketing materials by 20%.
- Integrated BrandBuilder with the national consumer and business mailing
list provider USADATA's web service. Communicated with USADATA developers
to gain an in-depth understanding of web service functionality. Developed
an integrated solution that allows BrandBuilder users to create mailing
lists for mass delivery of marketing materials.
- Incorporated BrandBuilder with ExactTarget digital marketing software.
Collaborated with ExactTarget developers to design a solution, which
allows clients to customize and publish digital marketing media. The
solution also allows the customer to produce reports for analysis of
digital marketing strategies. The partnership and enhanced functionality
positioned BrandBuilder in the market as the only ad builder solution to
support all available marketing media.
- Designed BrandBuilder's social media local marketing solution. The
solution included a template for designing, planning, publishing and
scheduling activation of corporate approved marketing offers to Facebook
and Twitter accounts.
- Enhanced the internal efficiency of the BrandBuilder product by splitting
creative material metadata and the InDesign document into 2 separate
entities. The redesign allowed the InDesign document to be reusable with
different metadata whereas in the past, the document had to be customized
for each client. The project reduced the graphic teams creative material
release time on client website by 60% and drastically decreased the cost
of creative material.
- Selected to lead a collaborative development project with Direct TV.
Designed and released a Direct TV Dealer Center portal system using DNN
6.0, which allowed Direct TV to communicate with more than 80,000 users.
Environment: Visual Studio 2005/2010, Microsoft SQL Server 2005/2008,
C#.Net 2.0/4.0, ASP.Net, Adobe InDesign, IIS 6/7
Halcyon Solutions Inc. - Dublin, OH 2009
Computer Programmer Trainee
Designed Oracle Business Intelligence solutions on schemas provided with
Oracle 10g. Installed and configured OBIEE server and web server, created
dimensions and views into repository and generated a set of BI publisher
reports and dashboards.
- Presented multiple interactive reports and dashboards which provided in-
depth insight into data and enhanced computer intelligence.
Environment: OBIEE 10g, Oracle 10g, IIS 6
TIAA-CREF - Charlotte, NC 2008
Process Engineer Intern
Spearheaded a technology reengineering process. Reviewed, analyzed and
reengineered the Change Management and Release Management system for the
Asset Management Information Technology Department.
- Introduced Information Technology Infrastructure & Library (ITIL)
standards, which reduced software testing and deployment time by 20%.
Environment: ServiceNow, ITIL
Bharat Sanchar Nigam Limited (BSNL) - Ahmadabad, India 2005 - 2006
Software Developer
Developed an 'Interactive voice response based system' using Telephony API
on a Windows system to automate the legacy manual fault registration
system. The system was designed to also gather data for analysis and
reporting of reoccurring issues. Designed the implementation code, lead all
testing and released the system into production environment.
- Designed 8 separate modules, which eliminated manual assistance and
significantly reduced manpower requirements. The new system also provided
valuable insight to customer's complaints via informative reports.
Environment: Visual Studio 2003, Microsoft SQL Server 2000, C#.Net 1.1, IIS
6/7
Education
2008, MASTER OF SCIENCE, INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY, UNIVERSITY OF NORTH
CAROLINA, CHARLOTTE, NC (GPA: 3.6/4.0)
2006, Bachelor of Engineering, Computer Engineering, Gujarat University,
Changa, India (GPA: 3.5/4.0)