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Location:
Houston, TX
Posted:
June 14, 2015

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N I V E D I T H A

****

Holly

Hall

***-

705-

8115

P R A S A N N A K U M A R

Apt

1702

Houston

TX

*********.******@*****.***

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

Google

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.

• Twitter

Followers

Across

the

Globe

(2015)

Spatial

representation

of

Twitter

profile

data

to

analyze

and

visualize

geo-

spatial

patterns

between

twitter

vocal

and

non-

vocal

followers.

The

project

used

python

scripts

to

access

Twitter

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.



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