Engineer Software

APARNA RALLABANDI

**** ****** ***** **, 770-***-****

Cumming, GA 30041 ******@*******.***

Masters in Business Administration and Telecommunications Software with over 15 years’ experience in the complete software development life cycle, starting from requirements gathering through post release support, in wireless handset, wireless billing, financial, gaming industries and business support systems (BSS). Specialties in the root cause analysis of the issue to address the business challenge without any adverse effects on the existing system. Successful track record of on-time delivery. Expertise includes:

Root Cause Analysis

Business Analysis/Problem Solution

Software Engineering

Software Development Life Cycle

Video Gaming

Systems Architecture

SKILLS

Operating Systems: Linux, UNIX, Windows

Languages: C, C++, XML, SQL, Java/JEE, C#/.NET, Perl, Python

Databases: Oracle, Sybase, DB2, SQLite, PostgreSQL, SQL Server

Web/Application Servers: CherryPy, IIS, JBoss, Glassfish

Other Tools: Visual Studio, Gvim, Subversion (SVN), CVS, Clearcase

Soft Skills: Positive attitude, commitment to work, quick learning curve, good analytical skills, attention to detail, team player.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

BUSINESS ANALYSIS / PROBLEM SOLUTION

Worked in all stages of software development life cycle: Requirements Gathering, Design, Coding, Testing, Product Commercialization and Post Release Maintenance

Held positions of responsibility at the various places of work, which involved (1) eliciting the requirements from the client through a series of questions about the clients’ needs, understanding of the current system architecture and possible improvements to meet client needs;(2) designing a solution to meet the needs without adversely affecting the performance;(3) seeing the solution through deployment in the field;(4) post release maintenance.

Participated in the hardware requirement decisions using pricing/performance criteria for the embedded systems offering of the Video Gaming Division at Scientific Games.

MBA projects

o Created a business plan and a balanced score card for a non-profit Concierge Service. o Put together a strategic Human Resource plan analyzing the reasons for extremely high attrition rate in my department at Scientific Games and some solutions to combat it. o Financial Analysis of InBev’s (the behemoth formed by the 2004 merger of Brazilian brewer AmBev and Belgium-based InterBrew) buy of Anheuser-Busch (the dominant and iconic U.S. beer maker)

o Created a marketing plan with a SWOT analysis for the Reinhardt University’s Advantage MBA program.

o Analysis of Chinas Emergence as an Economic Power. o Created project documentation to plan several charity events leading up to the Susan G Foundation’s Race for the Cure in Atlanta and raise $10,000 to donate at the Race. SOFTWARE ENGINEERING / SYSTEMS ARCHITECTURE

As a member of the Custom Solutions team, learn .NET and support the custom solution offerings in C#/.NET/SQL developer/IIS

Researched and developed a variety of connectors for the CSG Invotas Security Orchestrator. Aparna Rallabandi

Provided a virtual machine with web based demo environment with all the scenarios of the activation software in use across all offices of CSG so the pre-sales can demonstrate canned request/response scenarios.

Participated in the requirements gathering/solution for a top Cable Providers’ service activation needs.

Involved in developing a Java/JEE based prototype of the Site Controller using the new gaming industry protocols: G2S, S2S while supporting the legacy C/C++ Site Controller components for the Video Gaming Division at Scientific Games.

Customized the fitpc2 running Linux (Ubuntu 8.04 LTS), to be the embedded site controller.

Participated in development of Cingular Internal Roaming Clearing House (CIRCLE). This application replaced the need for an external clearing house which charged for every record routed through it. The application processed billions of records per week and its downtime was a huge loss of revenue.

Enhancements to the Equifax Small Business Exchange (SBE). Just like people in US have a credit report, small businesses have a credit report too. SBE was responsible for it. I added two new attributes to show up on this report.

As a Technical Lead for the Cingular Pricing System, guided a team of developers through the complete development cycle in Cingular Process framework, contributed to the architecture discussions, and planned the development cycle timelines for all the features involved in the release.

Worked on the MMS feature for the Samsung phones based off of Ericsson Mobile Platform and the Qualcomm Mobile platform. These phones were among the first few high end 3G phones released by Samsung simultaneously in Europe and Singapore.

Worked on wireless network testing equipment at Ubinetics.

Worked on the first Motorola 3G phone’s MMS feature development (protocol and database). WORK HISTORY

INTEC BILLING /CSGI - ATLANTA, USA June 2012 – Current Software Architect / Software Dev Engr Lead

SCIENTIFIC GAMES - ATLANTA, USA June 2008 – June 2012 Software Architect / Developer

CINGULAR WIRELESS / AT&T - ATLANTA, USA Jan 2007 - May 2008 Senior Software Engineer

EQUIFAX - ATLANTA, USA Aug 2006 - Dec 2006

Senior Software Engineer

CINGULAR WIRELESS - ATLANTA, USA Feb 2005 - Aug 2006 Technical Lead / Software Developer

SAMSUNG - SUWON, SOTH KOREA Nov 2003 – Nov 2004

Development Engineer / Build and Release Manager

UBINETICS / CSR - BANGALORE, INDIA Jul 2003 - Nov 2003 Software Engineer

MOTOROLA - BANGALORE, INDIA Jan 2000 - June 2003

Software Developer

EDUCATION

Master of Business Administration (Management) - Reinhardt University, Waleska, GA

(Aug 2010 – April 2012)

Master of Science in Telecommunication Software - Illinois Institute of Technology, Chicago, IL

(Jan 2001 – Dec 2002)

Bachelor of Engineering in Electrical and Electronics - Birla Institute of Technology and Science, Pilani, Rajasthan, India. (Aug 1996 – Jun 2000)

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