EXPERIENCE SUMMARY

Name: Anuradha Shankaran, PMP Tel: 201-***-**** (Cell Phone)

412-***-**** (Home)

• PMI certified with over 12 years experience in Testing , Development and Maintenance of projects.

• Excellent communication skills, team player and goal oriented. Open to new and innovative ideas. Desire to learn new technologies. Good analytical, logical and design skills. Fast adaptation to new technologies and changing environments

• Involved in requirement analysis, project estimating, scheduling, tracking and resource management. Prepared functional design specifications, use cases, test plan, test cases. Coordinated testing and support of applications.

• Expertise in end to end management of software projects.

• Involved in offshore-onsite Coordination for projects in India, USA and UK. My six years stint in USA includes working for Fortune 500 companies like Northwest Airlines, Target and AT&T.

• Functional experience includes Telecom Inventory Solutions, Cellular Business Information System, and Financial Applications, Hospital Management system, Airline Reservations and Manufacturing systems.

SKILLS/TOOLS:

Programming Languages, Tools and 4GLs: PHP, VB.Net, C#, Visual Basic 6.0, VBScript, VBA, ADO, COM, ODBC, Java, Jython, Python, HTML, ASP, Cold Fusion, JavaScript, Cramer 4.0, Visual Studio, Visual SourceSafe, C, Crystal Reports, MUMPS..

Databases: Oracle 9i, MySQL, Access, SQL Server 7.0 Sybase 10.2, 11, FoxPro, XBASE, Database Programming and Administration.

Project Management: Synthesis, MS Project, SDLC, Visual SourceSafe, Visio.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Tecknologics, India : (January 2010 to date)

• Testing various applications- Leave management, Employee Resume Management, Bug tracker .

• Preparing and reviewing test cases.

• Facilitation and Coordination between development and testing team.

• Involved in understanding the requirements, design and developing the projects, preparing and executing test scripts.

• Involved in understanding and fixing bugs in projects using PHP, VB, Java scripts.

Mahindra British Telecom Ltd., Pune. India (June 2003 To Jan 2005)

As a Technical Project Lead Analyst responsibilities are as follows:

• To Test, Analyze and review Product by coordinating with teams developing the product framework. Providing suggestions on improvements and enhancements to product functionality.

• Involved in gathering requirements and developing detailed project plan including task breakdown, dependencies and resources. Developed project plan, use case diagrams, program specifications, mentoring technical developers, conducted code walkthroughs.

• Developing test plan and test cases.

• Review of the test cases written for unit and integration level. prepared unit test cases, co-ordinated testing efforts, tracked project progress and communicated with management on status of project.

• Customize Cramer. Environment: Java-JDK 1.3, Jython 2.1, XML, Cramer, Oracle 9i, PL/SQL, VB 6.0. MS Project 2002

Vertex Information Systems CA. USA (July 2001 to January 2003)

Projects:

1. Placement Portal

As a Sr.Consultant was:

• Involved in developing

• Responsible for conducting requirement analysis, preparing design documents, designing application in VB 6.0, ASP, ADO, Oracle. Also developed OCX Components.

• Tested and implemented the application and provided post implementation support.

• Environment: Visual Basic 6.0, ASP, VBScript, HTML, COM, ADO, ODBC, creating OCX, Visual SourceSafe, Oracle, PL/SQL

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Renaissance Worldwide Inc. Walnut Creek, CA. USA (June 1999 to June 2001)

Projects:

1. Cellular Business Information system –

AT&T Wireless Services, San Francisco, CA, USA

As a Sr.Consultant was:

• Involved developing and integrating Cellular Business Information system with CTI Server.

• Responsible for conducting requirement analysis, preparing design documents, designing application in VB 6.0, ADO, Oracle. Also developed OCX Components.

• Tested and implemented the application and provided post implementation support. Developed outlook forms in VBScript for customer feedback.

• Developed and modified Intranet Environment: Visual Basic 6.0, VBScript, HTML, COM, ADO, ODBC, creating OCX, Visual SourceSafe, Oracle, PL/SQL

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2. Develop Applications to Migrate Data from Mainframe to SQL Server -

Target Financial Systems, Minneapolis, MN, USA

As a Programmer/Analyst was:

• Was responsible for gathering requirements, analyzing, designing, preparing design documents, design tables, queries, forms, macros, modules, COM Objects, reports and developing critical and complicated screens.

• Developed application to extract data from Mainframe to MS Access and SQL Server. Maintained and modified Access database.

• Generated reports using VBA and Crystal reports. Support of the application.

• Worked as Liaison to customer providing technical support.

• Additional responsibilities included providing leadership and consultation as needed to the team throughout the project's lifecycle.

Environment: Visual Basic 6.0 - COM, ADO, ODBC, SQL Server 7.0, Access 97, DB2, VBA, Crystal Reports, Visual SourceSafe, MS Project

3. Data Conversion - ITI, North St. Paul, MN, USA

As a Programmer/Analyst was:

• Responsible for installing SQL Server 7.0, Creating Database, Analyzing Access Database, Migrating Data from Access to SQL Server,

• Database programming - Stored Procedures, triggers, constraints, defaults, rules.

• Implemented changes to VB procedures and functions, tested, implemented and conducted user training.

Environment: Visual Basic 6.0, SQL Server 7.0, ODBC, and Access 97.

4. Maintenance and Testing of existing Application - Metaphase Technologies, Arden Hills, MN.

As a Programmer/Analyst

• Made changes to existing code as per the trouble report.

• Was responsible for analyzing the code, identifying bugs, modifying source code, testing and installing changes.

Environment: C, C++, and Java

Patni Computer Systems, Pune, India – (March 1996 – May 1999)

Projects :

1. Reservation Automation - Northwest Airlines, Eagan, MN, USA

As a Software Specialist:

• Was responsible for the gathering requirements, analyzing, designing, coding and testing of various applications for reservation system.

• Was also responsible to analyze change requests or new requests given by customer and prepare design documents, make changes or enhance code.

• Develop new applications (this involved screen scraping); write Stored Procedures, Triggers, and Shell Scripts.

• Additional responsibilities included liaison with offshore team (sending design specifications to offshore team and to provide guidance in development), developing, testing, implementing, providing technical support to customers, and participating in code walk-through, testing, implementing and user training.

Environment: MS Project, C, UNIX, Sybase 11.2, PERL, CGI, Oracle, PL/SQL and SQL Server 7.0.

2. Develop GUI Interface - Program Standard, Germany

As a Sr.Software Engineer:

• Was Responsible for analyzing MUMPS routines, preparing analysis reports, preparing design documents, and specifications for GUI interface, rewriting the application in Visual Basic, making changes to MUMPS routines, creating GUI interface, testing application supporting onsite team.

Environment: Visual Basic 4.0, MUMPS, and ODBC.

Finolex Software Systems Pvt. Ltd, Pune, India – (February 1993 – February 1996)

Projects

1. EIS System - Global Telecom Ltd., Pune, India.

As a Group Lead:

• Coordinated a development team effort in building a distributed Client/Server environment. It included gathering requirements, system design and specifications for a manufacturer of communication products.

• Was also responsible for screen designs, report layouts and table relationships (which were used for distributed and financial applications which included systems like Purchase Order System, Inventory Control, Financial Accounting, Fixed Assets, Costing and Payroll). Performed database development which included database creation, devices, logs, defaults, rules, triggers, stored procedures, preparing test scripts, test data, prototyping of screens, and front end development in VB.

Environment: MS Project, Visual Basic, VBA, Access, Access reports, Sybase, ODBC, and Crystal Reports.

2. MIS System – Arvind Telecom, Pune, India

As a Senior Analyst:

• Was responsible for requirement analysis, system design and specifications. Designed screens, report layouts and table relationships.

Environment: MS Project, VB, VBA, Sybase, Access, Crystal Reports, and Synthesis.

3. Manufacturing System – Mahindra Engineering and Chemical products, Pune, India

As an Analyst:

• Was involved in developing Manufacturing System. Was involved in the complete life cycle of the project from Requirement Analysis to Implementation.

Environment: C, UNIX, ISAM, and BASIC.

4. Hospital Management System – Sancheti Institute, India

As a Programmer/Analyst

• Was responsible for system design, program specifications, and screen designs and report layouts for hospital management system. Was involved in complete project life cycle.

Environment: Xbase, FoxPro, and NetWare 3.2.

EDUCATION:

• Project Management Certification, Hampton Group, Co, USA

(Recognized by Project Management Institute -PMI)

• Advanced Systems Management, National Institute of IT, Pune, India

• Bachelor of Science, Pune University, Pune, India

TRAINING & CERTIFICATION:

• Project Management Training - 2008

• Project Management Professional (PMP), PMI, USA.

• Training in Project Management from PMI, Pearl city Chapter

• Cramer Core Developer Certification, Cramer Systems, Bath, UK

• Oracle Application Development, SSI & ORACLE Inc.

• Introduction to Telecom – Wireless and Wire line

• Java, HTML, Cold Fusion and ASP Training.

• Brainbench Certifications:

Visual Basic 6.0, HTML 4.0, RDBMS Concepts and

Project Management

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