Resume - Ahmad Ladhani

AHMAD AMIRALI LADHANI

****, ***** ***** *******, ***. #304, Fremont, CA-94536

Email: ************@*****.**.**

Phone: 678-***-****

Education:

• University of Maryland, College Park, MD

GPA: 3.8/4.0

Masters in Information Management

May 2008

• University of Mumbai, India

Bachelors in Information Technology

Aug 2006

Computer Skills:

• Languages: SQL, PL/SQL, T-SQL, MySQL, C, C++, HTML, XHTML, Basic JAVA.

• Database Systems: Oracle, SQL Server 2000, MS Access.

• Office Applications: MS-Office 97/2000/XP, MS Word, MS Excel, MS PowerPoint, MS Visio, MS Project.

• Methodologies: OOAD, UML, Rational Rose, Software Engineering.

Work Experience:

Washington Mutual Card Services (WaMu)

June 2007- Aug 2007

• Worked as a University Intern in Quality Management group involving team of project managers.

• Worked on following projects :

Auto Purge for Test Region:

• Successfully completed the design and analysis of the purge criteria, revised the purge criteria and got the number of accounts down by 52% without any business impact, thus bringing about a significant reduction in the total maintenance cost.

• Analyzed and translated the business requirements into technical details and developed a database system based on SDLC (System Development Life Cycle) methodology using Excel, SQL and use case analysis.

• Used MS Visio for describing the revised purge criteria.

WaMu Statement Workflow :

• Created the WaMu monthly statement flowchart explaining the monthly statement process, from transactions and reward calculations to fulfillment(final output).

• Used MS Visio and MS Powerpoint for explaining the process.

Corporate Credit Card :

• Was involved in the project planning phase for the launch of the new Corporate Credit Card project for all WaMu employees.

• Used MS Project for project planning and tracking.

Projects:

NAMI (National Alliance of Mental Illnesses) at Montgomery County, Maryland, Helpline Web-Enabled Database

• Designed a Secure database to log NAMI’s helpline calls.

• Translated the business requirements into technical details, developed new SQL/PLSQL scripts and packages in Oracle and database objects like tables, views, and indexes and provided technical documentation.

• Reporting, being a very important aspect of the project, was done taking into account various parameters for which the database was developed and various statistical analysis that needed to be conducted based on these reports. The database helps produce reports including the details of the calls, the reasons for calling, consumer/patient illnesses, caller's age range, tracking the exact time of each call for purposes of grant writing and advocacy and generates statistical reports based on the search query results.

Online Bookstore

• Identified requirements, performed analysis and documented the technical specifications.

• Involved in database design, data modeling and application design.

• Created database objects like tables, views, synonyms, indexes and sequences.

• Developed procedures, functions and packages.

• System provides capability to keep track of all customers, their daily requests and records and provides a shopping cart feature for purchase items. Implemented different authorization mechanisms and capability to search and purchase books based on different search criteria.

Expertise @ Maryland

• Expertise @ Maryland, an Information Retrieval System for The University of Maryland, College Park allows users to identify research faculty at the University of Maryland based on students’ areas of interests.

• Query --> Documents --> People.

• Implemented Advanced Search similar to Google’s advanced search for specific queries.

Previous Undergraduate Projects:

ATM System- Developed a prototype of the ATM machine as part of a class project including all the ATM functions where the student ID was used as ATM card. All the backend was done using SQL in Oracle with Visual Basic as the front end. Was declared as the ‘Best Class Project for 2003-2004’.

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