MANIKANDAN ANANDAN
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M.C.S (Big Data Systems) Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ Expected: May 2017 CGPA – 3.8/4 B.E – Computer Science College of Engineering, Guindy, Anna University 2005-09 CGPA – 7.14/10 PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
Verizon Data Services India Private Ltd, Chennai, India Feb 2015 - Jan 2016 Specialist – System Development
Took complete ownership of design and development of Reporting and Metrics framework using Oracle 11g and PHP through which the IVR system performance can be monitored effectively.
Collected data from diverse sources, cleaned, analysed and organized data as per its relevance and built interactive visual reports to infer the precise significance of the data.
Supported refactoring of existing database schemas and thereby improved the IVR call retention rate from 86% to 92%.
Prepare, understand the technical Design documents and to produce logical and physical data models as well as package/procedure specification documents.
Designed parser to analyse the logs and dumps and fixed 100+ bugs from the result of analysis. Altimetrik India Private Ltd, Chennai, India Feb 2014 – Feb 2015 Senior Software Engineer
Worked on team and individual development projects for VISA to deliver secure, robust and scalable DBMS/BI solutions using Oracle 10g that helped improve efficiency, information security, data integrity and customer satisfaction.
Fine-tuned database queries and built dashboards for data reporting from the query results. Client Network Services India Private Limited, Chennai, India Aug 2013 – Feb 2014 Software Engineer
Played a significant role in designing data model for the fraud and abuse detection system AuditStudio using Oracle 11g, Microsoft Visual Studio and Teradata.
Cognizant Technology Solutions India Private Limited, Chennai, India Nov 2009 – May 2013 Programmer Analyst
Partnered with Web developers to create database-backed tool "What-If" which accelerated customer order fulfilment six fold and elevated sales by $850K in three months.
Identified and rectified a programming flaw in core JP Morgan & Chase PRMS risk engine. Prevented the irretrievable data loss of dozens of product orders totalling more than $150K. TECHNICAL SKILLS
MAJOR ACADEMIC PROJECT WORK
Stack Overflow – Interactive Visual Recommender R, D3.js, HTML5, JavaScript, SVG, DOM Built a personalized interactive visual recommender by collecting, cleaning data from Stack Overflow dataset and by conducting data analysis, prototyping visualization and implemented interactive visualization. Data Mining – Syndrome Predictor using Random Forest Java, Python, PostgreSQL A biomedical dataset containing features extracted from the image set. The data contained information regarding symptoms of a certain kind of disease. We implemented a mathematical model using Random Forest to predict the existence of any disease. Geo Spatial Operations on Hadoop Distributed File System Hadoop, Apache Spark, Java, Python Configured Hadoop and Apache Spark in various virtual machines and developed library operations like Geometry convex hull, Geometry union, Geometry closest pair, Geometry farthest pair, Spatial range query and Spatial join query. Minibase Java
Built a simple relational database management system using minibase and developed various page replacement algorithms, join operations, query optimization and query plan generation as a part of Database Management System Implementation course. Web service based Shopping Portal C#, .Net 4.5, Visual Studio 2013, IIS 6.0 A web based application equipped with concurrency control to enable the users to buy variety of products from the vendors. The authentication files and the data files for the application are stored in the distributed file system as XML and JSON. All the e- commerce operations are implemented as web services developed using RESTful API and SOAP. COURSE WORK
Distributed Database Systems, Statistical Machine Learning, Cloud Computing, Database Management System Implementation, Data Mining, Data Visualization, Fundamentals of Statistical Learning, Distributed Software Development, Software Security Programming Languages SQL, PL/SQL, Java, C#, Python Database Oracle, Teradata, PostgreSQL, MySQL, MongoDB Web development ASP .NET, XML, SOAP, RESTful Services, HTML, CSS, D3, JavaScript Big Data Ecosystems Hadoop, MapReduce, Apache Spark, Hive