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Ankita S. Desai

Address: **** * ******** **, *** # 39K Cell Phone: 979-***-****

Chicago-Il 60660 Email: *******.*****@*****.***

To seek a challenging Full Time position starting February 2011

Education:

• Masters in Information Technology and Management December 2010

Illinois Institute of Technology, Chicago USA GPA: 3.9

• Bachelors of Engineering in Computer Science May 2009

Marathwada Institute of Technology, Aurangabad, INDIA GPA: 3.9

Work Experience:

Illinois Institute of Technology, Chicago, USA Teaching Assistant, Project Management August 2010 – December 2010

• Responsible to assist professor to co-ordinate instructional efforts of Project Management course

• Tutor and assist students to reinforce learning concepts presented by professor

• Present subject matter to the students using lectures and discussions

• Grade assignments and record the relevant data to assess student’s progress

JPMorgan Chase & Co., Columbus, USA Summer Intern-Analyst, Retail Financial Services June 2010 – August 2010

• Prepared a High Level Loss Tracker based on six months of data (January 2010 – June 2010) using various data

sources from Enterprise Data Warehouse and Loss Accountability Warehouse to provide various Business metrics

- Targeted a bank/region with huge amount of losses

- Reported important and relevant findings by analyzing and manipulating the loss data

• Gathered and analyzed data to find the largest piece of Teller losses in April 2010

Illinois Institute of Technology, Chicago, USA Computer Lab Assistant, Office of Technology Services October 2009 – August 2010

• Assisted students and faculty members to help use wide variety of computer hardware and software

• Prepared training documents and conduct presentations on various software/packages

• Generated reports/statistics to track program and hardware usage

• Maintained an inventory of lab equipment and supplies; Collaborate with purchasing department to replenish needed

supplies

Illinois Institute of Technology, Chicago, USA Student Assistant, Graduate Admission Department September 2009 – May 2010

• Worked in a department that is responsible to process incoming student’s applications for all IIT departments

• Used Recruitment Plus software to retrieve the applications and the relevant documents from the IIT website

• Used and maintained a Visual Basic tool to verify and populate the application data into multiple MS Access databases

• Used a rules based Decision Management System to assign the completed applications to the concerned department

Academic Projects:

Risk and Financial Reporting Tool Data Financials

• Designed and developed an Oracle database to store Credit Card Portfolio Management data

• Developed reports and dashboards showing risk trends and financial information

• Technologies used: SAS, SQL and Oracle 9i

Helpdesk User Interface Object Oriented Programming: Java

• Developed a helpdesk system for a company, that generates incident tickets, documents incidents and provides solution

• The main focus was to develop system using Java swing and AWT functionalities

Website Project Implementation Plan IT Project Management

• Using Project Management principles created a RFP and project plan to design a Social Networking website

• Developed design requirements, milestones, potential risks and usage scenarios and performed cost/effort estimation

• Developed test and implementation plan and performed Earned - Value analysis to track the project progress

• Technologies used: MS Project and MS Visio

Face Morphing Bachelors Final Year Project

• Developed a face morphing tool using Control point extraction algorithm

• Applied multiple Gaussian filters such as sharpen and blur

• Created detailed user documentation for the tool usage

Informational Website Internet Technology and Design

• Designed and developed an interactive information website on the game of Cricket using HTML, Java script and Java

• Developed a web based cricket game using Flash

Hotel Management Software Software Development

• Re-designed the billing module of the existing hotel management software

• Designed the database schemas and front end user interface using MS Access and VB.net respectively

Technical Paper Presentation:

• Presented a paper on the evolution and applications of Nanotechnology on Cancer treatment devices and biosensors

• Presented a term paper on Optical Camouflage focused on invisibility cloak

Other skills:

• Completed one month seminar on SAS level 1

• C/C++, Java, SAS, VB.Net, PHP, HTML, Java Script, SQL, Oracle 10g, MS Office, Flash and UNIX

Courses:

IT Project Management, Process Engineering, Business Innovation, Incident Response Disaster Recovery and Business Continuity, Object Oriented Programming using Java, Data Financials, Computer and Data Networks, Internet Technology and Design, Software Development Life Cycle, Software Engineering, Database Management Systems, Artificial Intelligence, Professional Ethics and Cyber Laws, Software Testing and Quality Assurance, Linux Operating System

Extracurricular:

• Team captain for Stock Market Game during Internship program in JPMorgan Chase

• Actively involved in organizing social activities in MIT, India and IIT, USA

• Participated in various cultural and technical competitions like dance, quiz etc

• Lead organizer of technical events for IEEE organization and ACES (a college association) at MIT, India

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