Sr SAS Developer & Analyst,Bioinformatician, Research Associate.....

Ruchika Verma

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Career Objective:

To apply my knowledge and experience to solving biological problems and developing sustainable novel technologies.

Personal Skills:

• Competent knowledge in fields of Biology, Chemistry, Pharmaceuticals and Computer science.

• Proficient ability of applying the acquired knowledge to practical purposes.

• Strong analytical, problem solving, data evaluation and statistical skills.

• Ability to establish sound communication and coordination between personnel across various levels.

• Excellent presentation and report making abilities.

• Enthusiastic self starter, with excellent team skills and affective time management skills.

Bioinformatics skills:

• Ability to handle large data sets as microarrays, sequencing, proteomics and imaging data

• Extensive knowledge of current genomic technologies.

• Excellent learning experience at Biotech, Pharmaceutical and Drug Discovery.

• Data mining, Database management and maintenance.

• Adept with using tools:GenBank, EMBL, DDBJ, Ensembl, Contig, dbSNP, SwissProt, PIR, Pfam, PROSITE, BLOCKS, PRINTS, Interpro, SMART, STRINGS, DIP, BOND, SCOP, CATH, COG, KEGG, BRENDA ,OMIM, Entrez(NCBI),HMMer, BLAST suite, FASTA, CLUSTALW,TOF,HEX Protein Docking tool, AutoDock, FRED,FRAP etc.

• Rasmol, Spdbv, Swiss-Model, 3D-PSSM, GROMACS, Cn-3D etc.

• Statistical Packages: R Package, S Package etc.

Technical Competence:

• Knowledge of C, JAVA (Core), JAVA (Advanced), PERL, HTML, DHTML, XML, Visual Basics 6, SQL etc.

• Access, MS Office, Statistical analysis software-SPSS

• Excellent Website Designing and Development skills.

• Recently certified in Advanced JAVA by Department of Electronics, Government of India.

• Trained in Visual Basics 6 for a period of 3 months.

• Masters of Science (Bioinformatics)-Discretion project “Development of a Web based application to predict and mark Proteases’ cleaving site(s) in any given protein sequence”.

Project Supervisors-Dr. Nandita Bachhawat, Head Of Department, Department of Bioinformatics, D.A.V College, Panjab University, India.

Educational Qualifications:

• Masters degree in Bioinformatics

Panjab University 2011

• Bachelors degree in Life Science

Panjab University 2009

Conferences attended:

• Workshop on “Bimolecular simulations and its applications in biology” at School of Computational and Integrative Sciences, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi. (2010)

• International Conference on Open Source for Drug Discovery at Chandigarh (2009)

• Indo-US Symposium on Stem Cell Identification and Characterization: - Role of Molecular Markers at Panjab University, Chandigarh(2007)

• National Symposium on Pharmaceutical Sciences at Chandigarh(2007)

Work Experience:

Cashier, Shoprite Supermarket, Carteret, NJ 2011-Present

• Undertake all cash register responsibilities including balancing, handling customer purchases, and organizing cash register.

• Ensure that each customer receive an outstanding service by providing friendly environment, which includes greeting and acknowledging every customer, maintaining solid product knowledge.

• Operated the cash register in accordance with policies and procedures.

Research Associate, Bioinformatics Institute, Chandigarh, India 2010-2011

• Worked as a member of the team building a database ought to contain molecular alterations in Breast Cancer.

• Did extensive Data mining and analysis to generate content.

• Performed Computational programming for the same.

Computer Programmer, BIC (Bioinformatics Center), IMT 2009-2010

• Maintained protein modeling software packages at BIC.

• Specifically worked as a team member helping built CONFangle, a software package to generate phi and psi angles.

• Gained experience with Perl, XML and related tools.

• Predicted functions for proteins with unknown functions.

Life Sciences Teacher, DAV Senior Secondary School, Chandigarh, India 2007-2009

• Developed and initiated biology teaching materials and course content.

• Delivered lectures to students on living organisms and things

• Taught students on how cells function in relation to their environment.

• Designed and developed classroom assignments and programs in biology.

• Developed a curriculum involving laboratory experiments and science research for students.

Cashier, Albertsons, Irvine, CA 2007-2007

Cashier, Bargain Man Stores, Elizabeth, NJ 2005-2005

• Operated the cash register in accordance with policies and procedures.

• Helped consumers with general promotions in store and all store products.

• Understood all the responsibilities at work place including safety.

Sales Associate, Conway Stores, Newark Liberty International Airport, NJ 2005-2005

• Provided good customer service by greeting each customer, fostering a friendly atmosphere.

• Attended to customers and maintained good customer service in a retail environment.

• Did price changes or markdowns on seasonal or damaged items by changing the signs or tags to reflect the current price.

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