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LAVANKUMAR MUVALLA

**** ***** **** **, ********* No. 116, Houston TX, 77054

617-***-**** *****************@*****.*** https://www.linkedin.com/in/lavankumar-muvalla-98536242 Available: June- 2016

OBJECTIVE

Application Designer with seven years of work experience in Application Development, proficient in industry practices, standards and other methodologies seeks a full-time opportunity where every day is a challenge to learn, perform and deliver with excellence.

EDUCATION

University of Houston, Houston, TX May 2016

Master of Science in Information Systems (GPA: 3.61) Relevant Coursework: Algorithms, Advances in Data Sciences and Architecture, Application Engineering Development, Software Design, Big Data Analytics, Project Management

Teaching Assistant: Database Management and Database Design, Enterprise Application Development Workshop Leader: Machine learning algorithm K-Means implementation Jawaharlal Nehru Technological University, Hyderabad, India May 2009 Bachelor of Technology in Computer Science and Systems Engineering (GPA: 3.6) Relevant Coursework: Object Oriented Programming through C++ & Java, Computer Networks, Operating Systems, Software Engineering

WORK EXPERIENCE

University of Houston System (UHS), Houston, Houston, United States Jan 2015 - May 2016 Instructional Assistant - Application Designer

● Developed E-Forms for HR Applications and student services Applications using PeopleSoft Application Designer.

● Streamlined payroll processing system to avoid payroll errors and provided technical support.

● Developed web forms to fetch data from the user using HTML, CSS and JavaScript and passed to PeopleSoft Applications. Computer Sciences Corporation (CSC) Pvt Ltd, Chennai, India & Bonn, Germany Nov 2009 - Aug 2014 Application Designer – Professional 1

● Led a dedicated three-member team of developers to provide end-to-end support for a suite of insurance products delivered by a top insurance company that caters to more than a million public and business clients.

● Developed online services programs in Java and Java Script using Eclipse 3.7. This included analysis, design and development of the code.

● Migrated Mainframes applications to UNIX systems and developed many batch programs using COBOL language.

● Proficient in Agile methodology, for the implementation of SDLC, and involved in code auditing and debugging activities.

● Analyzed and communicated business requirements to project teams and reviewed results; reduced defects in implementation by 50% and incidents by 80%.

● Specialized in analysis and modelling of data base designs, extracted data using JDBC with DB2 as primary database.

● Functional experience in Life, Health and Retail Insurance, Banking and Manufacturing domains.

● Worked in varied work culture environments, including international exposure through assignments in Germany, and Switzerland.

Achievements

● Received SPOT LIGHT performer award for the innovation made to simplify a complex process by introducing an automated process.

● Received EMPLOYEE OF THE QUARTER award for exhibiting exemplary technical proficiency.

● Received Certificate of Appreciation (COA) twice for excellent analysis in solving complex problems. ACADAMIC PROJECTS

Walmart Store Sales Forecasting- Northeastern University, Boston, MA Aug 2014 – Dec 2014

● The goal of the project is to predict the Walmart stores sales using historical data, collected historical data for all different segments in 45 Walmart stores which constitutes 421 thousand records.

● Performed data preprocessing to identify key metrics using R, SAS and Microsoft Excel, built data visualization boards using Tableau, Spotfire and R and also developed MLM and Random Forest regression models with high sales prediction accuracy of 95%.

Stock Price Tabulator- University of Houston, Houston, TX Sep 2015 – Dec 2015

● Developed a software application to calculate the stock price by interacting with real time stock data from Yahoo Finance by using the object oriented programming language Java and used HTML, CSS, JavaScript and frameworks such as Bootstrap for frontend UI development.

● Used Test Driven Development (TDD) methodology throughout the development of the software application and also used Junit framework to perform the test operations.

IP Anonymizer- University of Houston, Houston, TX Sep 2015 – May 2016

● Developed a software application for College of Technology, University of Houston to anonymize the IP Addresses of source and destinations involved in a recorded network traffic, which is recorded using Wireshark tool.

● Built the software application using Java as the primary programming language and performed command prompt operations on Java application to alter the IP Addresses information in the recorded traffic file using Bit-Twiste Tool.

● Handled the entire IP Anonymizer SDLC process using the tools such as MS Project, and handled all the risks in application development using tools RiskyProject and Risk Register. SKILLS

Programming Languages : Java, SQL, COBOL

Scripting Languages : Java Script, Python, JCL, REXX, CICS Web Technologies : HTML 5, CSS 3, XML, JSP, JQuery, REST, Angular JS, Node JS Frameworks : Junit, Mockito, Spring MVC

Databases : IBM DB2, IMS-DB, Oracle 10g/11g/12c, MySQL Version Controller : Subversion SVN, GIT, Endevor, Changeman Modelling Languages : UML, Rational Rose, Argo UML Tools : Eclipse 3.x, NetBeans, Gradle, MS Project, Sublime Text, MATLAB, Tableau, Remedy Operating Systems : Win 1 0 / 8 / 7/ XP/VISTA, Mac OS X, Linux/Unix CERTIFICATIONS

● Achieved certification on DB2 730 fundamental level conducted by IBM.

● Certified ISTQB Tester, conducted by Indian Testing Board (ITB).

● Achieved certifications INS 21 and INS 22, certificate in General Insurance conducted by “The Institutes”.

● Achieved LOMA 280, Certificate in Life Insurance conducted by LOMA. ADDITIONAL INFORMATION

● Presented more than 10 plus number of papers in various national level technical symposiums, and received awards and rewards.

● Participated in Work shop on Excitement of Research at Indian Institute of Information Technology (IIIT), Hyderabad, India.

● Worked as General Secretary for Systems Engineers Association SEA during the period 2007-2009.

● Worked as Group Leader of National Service Scheme (NSS), which is an Indian government initiative to provide service to the community.

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