Ramia Pichumani *****.******@*****.***
Total of 14+ years of experience in software development and integration using various technology
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stacks
Hands on design and development expertise in creating fail safe, high available software systems
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using .Net, SOA, XML, MySQL, MSSQL, Web Services and MSMQ
Architected and designed web services/portals for property management and channel management
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across OTA like Expedia, Booking.com, etc using Service Oriented Architecture
Designed and developed patient management solutions for small and medium sized clinics
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Strong expertise in integrating Oracle SOA suite and Business Activity Monitoring application based
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on Java using J2EE, Apache Tomcat, Eclipse, Oracle WebLogic
Designed and developed various projects for investment banking and market research for Thomson
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Reuters using technologies like CORBA, COM/DCOM, C/C++, ATL/MFC
Dependable team player, well versed in both small company and large enterprise environments
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Ability to quickly master new concepts, applications and have good communication skills
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Highly self motivated and experienced with mentoring novices into great team players
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Strong analytical and problem solving skills
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Good at Design patterns, Data structures and algorithms.
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Experienced with project scheduling, tracking and managing globally distributed teams
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2 SOFTWARE SKILLS
Languages: C, C++, VC++, Java, C#.Net, SQL
Object Oriented Design: UML, Design Patterns
Platforms: J2EE, .Net framework
Operating Systems: Windows, Solaris, AIX, Linux
Database Systems: Sybase, Oracle, MySQL, MS SQL
Internet Technologies: ASP.Net, XML, XSD, XSL, Web Services, JavaScript, jQuery
Middleware: CORBA, COM/DCOM, COM+, WCF, MQ Series
Application Servers: Apache Tomcat, Oracle Web Logic, IBM Web Sphere, Oracle SOA Suite
Tools & Frameworks: ATL/MFC, RougeWave, NUnit, JUnit, log4net, Visio, Rational Rose, XML
Spy
Domain skills:
Investment Management & research
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Business Activity Monitoring
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Clinical Management
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Hotel Management & Channel Management
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e Commerce Web site development
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3 E D U C AT I O N
Education Name of Institution Year of Percentile
Passing
Bachelor of Government College of Engineering, Coimbatore 1999 83.83
Engineering, Computer
Science
Standard XII CSI Jessie Moses Memorial Mat. & Higher 1995 94.33
Secondary School, Chennai
Standard X CSI Jessie Moses Memorial Mat. & Higher 1993 83.50
Secondary School, Chennai
4 PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
Last Designation Name of Organization Work Location Duration
Architect HourglassIT Solutions Chennai, India Nov 2011 May 2014
Free Lance Corporate Free Lance Chennai, India Jun 2010 – Oct 2011
Trainer
Architect Advantix Technologies Bangalore, India Jun 2008 – May 2010
SMTS Oracle IDC Bangalore, India Apr 2006 – July 2007
Chennai, India
Project Lead HCL Technologies Jul 1999 – Mar 2006
London, UK
Maryland, USA
Denver, USA
5 RECENT PROJECTS
HourglassIT Solutions– As an Architect (Nov ‘11 – May'14)
Location: Chennai, India
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Architecting systems for various domains, I helped put together a small team of dedicated engineers with a vision
to penetrate UK and Indian markets. All of these products were developed, architected, managed
simultaneously.
Hotel Management and Channel Management:
(Nov'11 May'14)
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Bookon4d is a complete property management and channel management system built with .Net technology. It is
a quick solution for hotels, guest houses, cottages, bed and breakfast rooms to get connected instantly to the
online booking world.
Roles and Responsibilities:
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Requirement gathering, planning, monitoring and risk management
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Design and architect the PMS and channel manager
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Implement billing and preferential rates management
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Lead a team of 3 members
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Single point of contact for issues with performance, development and testing
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Provide technical leadership, process standardization and improvements
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Technologies Used:
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ASP.Net, C#, MS SQL, Web Services, JavaScript, jQuery
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Garage Management Software:
(May'13 May'14)
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Garage Management Software allows MOT garages to manage their business online with an online booking
diary.
Roles and Responsibilities:
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Requirement gathering, planning, monitoring and risk management
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Design and implement the MOT diary
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Lead a team of 3 members
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Single point of contact for issues with performance, development and testing
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Provide technical leadership, process standardization and improvements
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Advocate use of Agile methodology as a standard for the project
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Technologies Used:
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ASP.Net, C#, MS SQL, Web Services, JavaScript, jQuery
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Pet Management Software:
(Aug'13 Jan'14)
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Pet management software allows managing pet services like Pet/Dog grooming, dog walking, micro chipping, etc
to be managed over the internet. Scheduling/re scheduling online appointments is the key feature apart from
billing and invoicing.
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Roles and Responsibilities:
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Requirement gathering, planning, monitoring and risk management
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Design and implement a personal online diary
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Lead a team of 3 members
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Single point of contact for issues with performance, development and testing
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Provide technical leadership, process standardization and improvements
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Advocate use of Agile methodology as a standard for the project
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Technologies Used:
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ASP.Net, C#, MS SQL, Web Services
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Advantix Technologies– As an Architect (Jun ‘08 – May'10)
Location: Bangalore, India
Advantix Technologies is a software development company based from Australia. I joined this startup and help
build their flagship product PracticeBee.
PracticeBee:
(Jun'08 May'10)
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PracticeBee is a comprehensive practice management software. It reduces paperwork and aids in clinical note
taking. This scalable software has multiple specialized versions for Physiotherapy, Chiropractic, Podiatry,
Osteopathy and Psychology areas.
Roles and Responsibilities:
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Lead a team of 8 members
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Design and architect the fail safe database
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Design and implement Bulk appointments and recurring appointments
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Integrating with HICAPS and Medicare insurance providers
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Incorporating waiting room, enabling SMS and Pocket PC integration
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Provide technical leadership and mentoring team members
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Technologies Used:
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Win Forms, C#.Net, MySQL, ASP.Net, Web Services
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Oracle IDC– As a Senior Member Technical Staff (Apr ‘06 – Jul'07)
Location: Bangalore, India
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Oracle is a multi million dollar company with diverse products. As a part of Oracle, India Development Center,
Bangalore, I was involved in the Business Activity Monitoring (BAM) application which is a part of Oracle SOA
Suite.
Oracle Business Activity Monitoring
(Jun'08 May'10)
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Oracle BAM gives business executives the ability to monitor their business services and processes in the
enterprise, to correlate KPIs down to the actual business process themselves, and most importantly, to change
business processes quickly or to take corrective action if the business environment changes.
Roles and Responsibilities:
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Creating operational dashboards, monitoring and alerting applications
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Completely responsible for the alert feature
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Enable calling Web services from BAM alerts
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Enable calling Oracle Data Integrator (ODI) from BAM alerts
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Migrate spreadsheet and external content reports
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Mentoring team members across locations
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Technologies Used:
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Java, JSP, Oracle, Apache Tomcat, WebLogic, JUnit
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HCL Technologies– As a Project Lead (Jul ‘99 – Mar'06)
HCL Technologies is a public company involved in service thousands of clients in various domains and verticals. I
joined HCL as a campus recruit and grew up to become a Project Lead. During my seven years in HCL, I worked
on multiple projects in different domains and technologies. I have traveled multiple time to UK and US for
Thomson Financials. Below is a snapshot of a few of these projects.
As Filed Document Server
(May'03 Aug'04)
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Location: Denver, USA and Chennai, India
Thomson Research product delivers investment research content over the Internet. Companies publish their
reports electronically in various formats like HTML, DOC, and PDF. These reports are made available to users in
the Thomson Research product. This project aims at automatic conversion of HTML EDGAR filings to DOC or
PDF format on the fly. The application was developed as a web service load balanced over multiple web servers.
Global Access Direct is a desktop application for viewing the headlines and EDGAR filings as and when they
arrive.
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Roles and Responsibilities:
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Implement generation of linearized PDF
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Implementation of conversion to DOC format.
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Develop Global Access Direct application using Windows sockets.
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Technologies Used:
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VC++, MFC, COM, Windows sockets
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C#.Net, ASP.Net, XML, XSL, HTML
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Thomson Knowledge Optimizer
(Jun'00 Apr'03)
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Location: Maryland, USA and Chennai, India
Thomson Knowledge Optimizer is a concordance engine used to concord multiple data sources. These COM
based APIs were developed to retrieve concordance information from the TKO database. The COM APIs needed
to failover to secondary database if the master database is down.
Roles and Responsibilities:
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OO Design and implement COM APIs
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Implement failover using a "controller", a watch dog application
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Develop and publish XSD schema to allow the APIs to be deployed on COM+
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Onsite acceptance testing and client management
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Mentoring team members
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Technologies Used:
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COM, VC++, ATL, XML, XSD
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Enterprise and PFID APIs
(Oct'99 May'00)
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Location: London, UK and Chennai, India
Enterprise was a data feed application to the Primark data source. The application was developed on AIX using
Orbix 3.1, Rouge Wave Tools and C++. The target platform was Solaris 2.6. The application consisted of dynamic
and statically linked libraries. The project acceptance in London consisted of migrating to the live environment
and fixing the functionality bugs.
Roles and Responsibilities:
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Part team involved in porting the libraries from AIX to Solaris
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Onsite acceptance testing at London, UK
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Interfacing with customers and preparing a transition plan
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Technologies Used:
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C++, RougeWave library, Orbix 3.1, Sybase, AIX, Solaris 2.6
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30 P E R S O N A L D E TA I L S
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