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LAVANYA MUTHU

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*** *** ******, **** ***, University Place, Clemson – 29631, SC https://www.linkedin.com/in/lavanya-muthu-9b4327a9 ACADEMIC QUALIFICATION

Masters in Computer science, Clemson University, SC. Current GPA – 3.33/4. Expected graduation date - May 2016

Bachelor of Engineering in Information Technology, PSG Tech, Bharathiar University,Coimbatore,India, CGPA–7.78/10; 2003 SUMMARY

Software programmer with nine years of experience in mainframe technology in banking, healthcare, insurance domains. Over years I have gained more exposure in performance tuning, data handling, conversion and migration projects. I have worked on evaluating SparkR interface at Clemson University “Big Data Systems Research Lab” and have won best poster award for the same. I have exposure to Hadoop, machine learning courses and have implemented projects on them in python, java. I am looking for career in “Big Data”. ACADEMIC PROJECTS (Masters)

Dragon vs Man - 2D Gaming project (Aug – Nov 2015): Developed a game incorporating a theme and conclusion – Man Vs Dragon. The game is data driven and has parallax scrolling, painter’s algorithm incorporated to give depth to the game and object pooling and animations which includes projectiles, collision detection and explosions, HUD and health bar on current status of game. Game is developed in c++ using singleton and flyweight design patterns

Digit Recognizer (Aug – Nov 2015): Machine learning project to recognize digits from MNIST dataset. Hand Written Digits Recognition is done with algorithms – neural network, Naïve Bayes, KNN, SVM and a final comparison of prediction based on accuracy of results by these algorithms is done. Project implemented in java, R

Evaluation of Information Retrieval models (Jan – May 2015): Implemented Boolean, Ranked and Okapi retrieval models on Reuters’ XML parsed data and performed search query with models and evaluate their performance on factors like precision, recall. A web page was linked to the ranked retrieval system by fetching results from Hadoop. Project implemented in java

Instructor & course review portal (Aug-Dec 2014): A review portal attached to current online course selection process where current students can provide feedback on professors, which can be viewed by prospective students to get better picture on courses. Project implemented in java, MySQL, java script on apache tomcat server PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Big Data Systems Research Lab, Clemson, South Carolina (Jan 2015 to May 2015)

“Evaluation of R big data analytics framework”: This project is about the deployment and evaluation of interfaces between R and Hadoop eco system. R is a powerful statistical tool, but it cannot process data in parallel. Hadoop, big data infrastructure can process huge data in parallel. There are interfaces that can club R and Hadoop to enable a parallelism and powerful statistical computation.

Involved in installation, deployment and performance evaluation of interface SparkR

Have successfully tested statistical computation in spark

Currently working on fine tuning parameters set up in SparkR Project Lead, HCL Technologies, Chennai, India (Aug 2010 to Jul 2014)

‘SECORE - Asia Pacific (ASPAC)’ CITIGROUP, Asia Pacific: ASPAC has 18 Asia Pacific countries in its scope and offers a range of cash, trade, and securities solutions tailored to local markets settlement and corporate actions.

Involved in discussing business user in finalizing business requirements and project scope.

Conduct impact analysis on the same and create functional and technical design documents.

Responsible for code development, test case preparation and unit testing.

Provide technical support during various phases – User Acceptance Testing, pre- and post-production implementation.

Responsible for Korea region release coordination activities – consolidation of beta load to be promoted in Korea for release.

‘SECORE-Settlements’ for the client CITIGROUP, UK: This project deals with processing/validating/market matching/confirmation/settlement of trade instructions; includes enhancements, release activities and e2e support till implementation

Impact analysis on business requirements and analysis of the programs.

Creation of Major Project Design (MPD); code development, test case preparation and unit testing.

Provide support during the User Acceptance Testing, pre- and post-implementation phases of the project.

‘Strategic Payment Profiling’ for the client RBS, Scotland: Existing fraud engines for validating payments are to be replaced with common fraud engine – FALCON Fraud Manager;the project develops interface formats the data from other systems and sends to FFM.

Understanding gaps in business requirements and functionality and preparing gap analysis documents.

Designing integration layer for transmitting ledger and non-monetary updates to FFM fraud engine.

Knowledge transfer to team members on FFM; training and mentoring freshers on mainframe technology.

‘Fidelity’ for the client USAA, US

This project is developed to give offers to USAA-Bank IM account (Savings Accounts) members and ST (Fixed Deposits Account) members through online and batch. Project involves enhancement tasks and release on quarterly basis.

Understanding change requests and creating Technical Design Document (TDD).

Development of the code and preparation of test plan, perform unit and integration testing; peer review of programs.

‘Tax Information Reporting System (TIRS)’ for the client USAA, US: The project is a re-architecture of existing TIRS to enhance performance of the system; it automates existing balancing and verification of tax forms 1099R, 1099MISC, 1099INT.

Understanding the manual process involved in tax forms and creating Technical Design Document (TDD).

Development of code; preparation of test plan; unit testing and system integration testing; peer review of programs & test results. System Analyst, UST Global, Chennai (June 2009 to July 2010)

‘Express Scripts Inc Migration’ for the client WellPoint, US: WellPoint Pharmacy is acquired by ESI; the project analyzes and migrates existing WP pharmacy systems data to ESI.

Analyzed key files to be migrated to ESI.

Created technical design on the conversion process giving details on conversion wherever applicable.

Performed code development, test plan preparation, performing unit and system integration testing. Senior Software Engineer, Birlasoft, Chennai (Apr 2007 to May 2009)

‘Financial Accounting and Management Information System (FAMIS)’ for the client Tier Technologies, US: Tier Technologies is one of the leading financial solution providers catering to state, local, and municipal governments in US.

Analysis, coding and testing of defect cases in accounting, purchasing and system-wide applications.

VSAM to SQL database conversion; involved in load testing by loading data to SQL server.

Design and coding of code generators to automate creation of COBOL programs and PROCs for 200 VSAM files.

Mentoring freshers on mainframe technology and FAMIS products. Associate Consultant, Kanbay, Hyderabad (Nov 2004 to March 2007)

‘Infrastructure’ for the client HSBC, US:

Project experiments with features provided by FISERV’s product mortgage serv in every release to enhance system performance.

Fine-tuned the mortgage serv system according to the client’s needs and based on the options provided by FISERV.

Incorporated major code change in core modules of FISERV to reduce batch delay due to batch abnormal end.

Synchronized Global Transaction Manager programs across different projects in Consumer Lending Management System.

Co-coordinated with other teams in case of release contentions.

‘VRU-POQ (Voice Response Unit – Pay off Quote)’ for the client HSBC, US: A new Global Transaction Manager UPDATE view that will generate payoff quotes for customers.

Detailed pre-analysis on interaction between mainframe programs and scripts to be invoked; development and implementation;

Regression testing for the number of transactions that can be triggered on this view simultaneously.

‘SOLAR (System of Loan Accounts Receivables)’ for the client HSBC, US: Building a web browser based application to provide employees with a single interface to serve consumer lending customers.

Designing the update interface between the system consumer lending and mortgage serv; integration testing with other systems. Software Engineer, Scandent Technologies, Chennai (Nov 2003 to Oct 2004)

‘BOCOMP (Branch Office Compensation)’ for the client Liberty Mutual, US: Project assists in processing medical claims related to BOCOMP system.

Supported online application and solved work packets & production support activities; did internal review of code changes. INTERNSHIP

Trainee, NetGross Technologies, Chennai, India, March to May 2002

Received training on web-based solutions tailored to each customer’s need.

Worked on a project (“e-Results”) to convert data of a relational database to comma-separated variables file to upload exam results. IEEE POSTER – Best poster award

Won best poster award for poster on “Evaluation and comparison of R big data analytics framework” in IEEE Cluster 2015 held in Chicago from Sep 8-11, 2015

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Domains: Banking, Insurance, Healthcare, Trades, Securities, SWIFT transaction

Programming Languages: Java, JSP, C++, Matlab, R, Scala, COBOL, JCL, REXX, CLIST, QUIKJOB, IMS, JSON

Big data API: Spark, SparkR, Hadoop map reduce, R, Hive, Pig, HBase, Impala

Monitoring frameworks – Ambari, Ganglia, Yarn

Data Warehouse Reporting & Integration Tools: SSIS and SSRS

Databases: HDFS, MySQL, DB2, VSAM, IMS DB

Online Platforms: CICS, FAST, TELON, IMS DC;

Applications: FAMIS, FISERV, CII

Server: Tomcat, Microsoft SQL server

Framework: Hibernate, Spring

Monitoring tools – Control M, CA7

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