N I V E D I T H A
Holly
Hall
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705-
8115
P R A S A N N A K U M A R
Apt
1702
Houston
TX
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77054
EMPLOYMENT
Technology
Analyst
BlackRock
January
2015-
May
2015
• Responsible
for
operational
support
and
maintenance
of
Global
UNIX/Linux
environments
running
on
RedHat
Linux
and
Solaris,
including
server
builds,
administration,
configuration
and
ongoing
maintenance
of
servers.
• Interacted
with
other
teams
(Network
Operations
and
Storage)
to
resolve
customer
issues
on
Linux/Solaris
Servers.
Helped
in
resolving
customer
issues
with
a
turn
around
time
of
48
hours.
•
Develop
and
implement
UNIX
related
projects.
• Generated
reports
for
performance
monitoring
of
Unix
service
requests.
Helped
analyze
the
requirement
queue
and
update
trouble
shooting
documents
for
the
top
10
most
frequent
issues.
•
Maintained
and
monitored
alerts
raised
by
Linux
and
Solaris
servers.
•
Analyzed
requirements
for
data
backup
remediation
projects.
Worked
on
requirement
gathering,
documentation
and
process
execution
for
the
Unix
team,
also
worked
with
other
teams
to
effectively
co-
ordinate
backup
process
for
200
servers.
Data
Analyst
ALK
Technologies
July
2014
–
December
2014
• Performed
software
testing
simultaneously
to
validate
geospatial
data.
Contributed
to
increase
data
accuracy
by
44%.
• Diagnosed
problems
experienced
with
GIS
and
related
software.
• Analyze
business
requirements
and
design
user
stories.
• Designed
and
maintained
documentation
for
all
in-
house
designed
products.
• Engaged
with
product
owners
to
understand
requirements
and
design
test
cycles
accordingly.
Helped
analyze
a
raw
data
project
and
saved
15%
of
testing
time
for
project
of
2
months.
Research
Assistant,
Rochester
Institute
of
December
2013-
May
2014
Intrinsic
Motivation
Technology
Design
use
cases
and
class
diagrams
for
the
project.
•
Design
and
develop
personas
for
the
project.
•
• User
interviews
for
data
collection
and,
modeling
of
the
obtained
data.
Mobile
Developer,
Intern
Constant
Contact
June
2013
–
November
2013
• Designed
and
developed
an
Android
application
for
creation
of
new
user
accounts.
This
helped
in
providing
new
user
account
creation
capabilities
for
4
mobile
products.
• Performed
quality,
parity
and
usability
testing
on
Android
and
iOS
apps.
Helped
increase
the
product
usability
by
55%.
• Conducted
market
research
on
competitive
products
and
created
a
detailed
report
comparing
trends
and
features.
• Performed
qualitative
analysis
for
potential
new
features
in
the
app,
based
on
data
collected
from
analytics
and
companied
internal
analytical
tools.
The
reports
generated
during
the
process
helped
in
the
project
management
committee
in
feature
upgrade
process
for
the
new
version
of
the
mobile
app.
Participated
in
design
sprints
and
developed
working
prototype
of
the
featured
product.
•
Conducted
customer
interviews
as
a
part
of
design
sprints.
•
Worked
closely
with
invocation
analysts
to
design
and
deploy
customer
surveys.
•
EDUCATION
Rochester,
NY
Rochester
Institute
of
Technology
Fall
2012
–
May
2015
• M.S
in
Information
Science
and
Technology
December
2014.
GPA:
3.84
• Graduate
Coursework:
Java
Programing,
Android
development,
User
Center
Design,
Web
Technologies,
Geographic
Information
Science,
Design
and
Modeling
of
Data
and,
Human
Computer
Interaction.
Mysore,
India
Vidya
Vikas
Institute
of
Technology
June
2007-
June
2011
• B.E.
in
Information
Science,
June
2011.
GPA:
3.7
TECHNICAL
EXPERIENCE
Projects
• Occupation
Fatality
Mapping
(2012)
Geospatial
modeling
of
the
occupational
fatality
data
obtained
from
OSHA
using
ArcMap.
My
Role:
Data
Collection,
normalization,
geocoding
and
generating
maps
using
ArcMap.
• Geometric
modeling
using
Python
(2013).
The
goal
of
the
paper
is
to
present
a
hypothetical
model
of
oil
spread,
which
checks
for
possible
spread
conditions,
and
evaluates
the
after
effect
of
the
spread
on
marine
mammals
stranding’s
in
the
Gulf
of
Mexico
and
human
population
in
the
coast
of
Louisiana.
My
Role:
Data
collection
and
cleaning,
user
experience
design
in
terms
of
map
projections
and
color
scheme
of
the
maps,
project
deployment
and
report
presentation.
• Android
Applications
(2014)
Designed
and
developed
a
native
mapping
application
using
Esri’s
ArcGIS
Android
API’s.
The
application
helps
user(s)
create
polygons
and
build
mental
maps.
My
Role:
Data
collection,
coding
and
testing.
Followers
Across
the
Globe
(2015)
Spatial
representation
of
profile
data
to
analyze
and
visualize
geo-
spatial
patterns
between
vocal
and
non-
vocal
followers.
The
project
used
python
scripts
to
access
API(s)
and
Tableau
was
used
for
Analysis
purposes.
My
Role:
Data
Collection,
Scripting,
Data
Cleaning,
Design
and
Analysis.
Languages
and
Technologies
• C++;
C#;
Java;
R;
Android;
JSP;
HTML;
CSS;
Python;
SQL;
MongoDB;
JavaScript;
XML
(XSD)
Schema,
Unix/Linux
• Android
Studio;
QGIS;
ArcGIS
;
Eclipse;
XCode;
Visual
Paradigm;
Visual
Studio;
Photoshop;
Balsamiq;
Protoio;
Tableau;
SQL
Server;
SSRS;
SSIS.