MURUGAPPAN NACHIAPPAN **** W Taylor St, Chicago, IL 60607
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Computer Science graduate student with 3+ years of experience in software development.
Full Stack developer with strong knowledge in Java web applications, Object Oriented concepts and Data Structures.
EDUCATION University of Illinois At Chicago Chicago, IL
8/14 – 6/16 M.S. degree in Computer Science, expected May 2016. GPA: 3.5/4.0
8/08 – 8/12 College of Engineering Guindy, Anna University Chennai, India B.E. degree in Computer Science, June 2012. GPA: 8.23/10
EXPERIENCE Bluestem brands Inc. Eden Prairie, MN
5/15 – 8/15 Software Developer Intern
Developed modules for shopping, checkout pages of e-commerce website fingerhut.com using Java Springs framework, in a Scrum based Agile software development methodology.
Focused on front-end web development with CSS, jQuery and knockout.js for better user experience.
Involved in JUnit testing and automation of User Interface testing in Groovy using Geb Framework.
Integrated fingerhut.com product recommendations in desktop/mobile website using richrelevance API.
8/14 – 5/15 University of Illinois Chicago - Academic Computing & Communications Center Chicago, IL
8/15 – Present Graduate Assistant
Developed, maintained and tested new features of internal ACCC website using Java, HTML, CSS.
Monitored UIC Network traffic and performed troubleshooting during network malfunctions.
1/13 – 7/14 Deloitte Consulting Hyderabad, India
Business Technology Analyst
Developed Web application for financial management service in Java and Oracle Database 11g.
Designed interactive webpages using HTML, CSS, jQuery, jqGrid, AJAX for cross browser compatibility.
Worked in .NET based HIX application (Health Insurance Exchange Plan Management) to generate XML files, print and electronic correspondence to beneficiaries of HIX.
SCHOOL University of Illinois, Chicago Chicago, IL
PROJECTS Energy Data Analyzer: Web application to study energy data of major countries and project future energy demands based on historical data. Implemented using JSP, jQuery, d3.js, AJAX, MS SQL Server.
MS-GSP Algorithm: Implemented a Generalized Sequence Pattern with minimum item support for individual data items as a part of Data Mining course work. Developed in Java.
Twitter Sentiment Analysis: Analyzed tweets based on 2012 US Presidential election to predicted percentage of candidate supporters using SVM and Naïve Bayesian Classifier in Python.
College of Engineering Guindy, Anna University Chennai, India
Dead Code Elimination: Console Application to reduce the input C Program’s size considerably by eliminating unreachable and dead code. Implemented with lexical analyzer tool – Lex and parser generator – Yacc (Yet Another Compiler- Compiler) in Linux environment.
Recognition of Human action under view change: Designed an automated surveillance camera system that reduces human intervention. This is a real time application that can be installed in private properties with some enhancements. Coded in Java and Java Media Framework to process the video footage.
COMPUTER Programming Languages: Java, C, C#, Python, SQL, Groovy
SKILLS Operating Systems: Windows, Mac OS X, Linux
Framework: Java Springs, ASP.NET 4.0
Database: Oracle 11g, Microsoft SQL Server 2012, MySQL
Web Technologies: JavaScript, jQuery, Knockout.js, d3.js, JSP, HTML, CSS
SCM: GitHub, Tortoise SVN
IDE: IntelliJ, Eclipse, Visual Studio 2012
Miscellaneous: Maven, Jenkins, Docker
AWARDS Spot Award at Deloitte Consulting as outstanding 1st year employee in 2013.