Hema Pradhyumnan
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SUMMARY
• Over 9 years of full life-cycle software development experience.
• Extensive Object Oriented development experience with Oracle.
• Experienced in J2EE and development of web applications using industry-proven patterns and practices.
• Demonstrated ability to work independently.
• Capable team player who works well with people at all levels.
• Excellent customer interaction skills, worked with customers to determine requirements and application scope. Instrumental in coordinating translation of business requirements.
TECHNICAL SKILLS
Programming Languages Java, JSP, XML, XSLT,CSS, PL/SQL, JavaScript, HTML, PowerBuilder,
MS Access, Visual Basic, Oracle Forms/Reports
API & Library Servlet, JDBC, Struts Framework
Software Packages Microsoft Excel, Word, Visio, Oracle JDeveloper, Microsoft Visual Studio’s source control Visual SourceSafe, MS Project
Databases Oracle, SQL Server, Sybase, MS Access
Operating Systems
BA tools
Windows 2000/NT
Use Cases, Class diagrams
Present (2010) – Working towards Certification in Business Analysis from University of California at Irvine.
WORK EXPERIENCE
Child Fund Association, Bangalore, India (April 2008 – August 2009)
• Worked as a volunteer member in this Orphanage and home for the underprivileged children.
• Involved in management as part of the steering committee, responsible for collection of funds, tutoring children and recruiting new volunteers.
Office Depot, FL (April 2007 – March 2008)
• Senior Software Engineer & Business Analyst for Oracle-based application.
• Acted as the liaison between the User community & the IT department.
• Collected the user requirements from the business users for a complete rewrite of an existing old Inventory Management & Reporting Application. The old application was based on Ms Access and was being rewritten, updated and moved to an Oracle based system.
• Documented the requirements using Oracle’s AIM documentation format as BR.030 (Determine Data Gathering Requirements) and MD.050 (Create Application extensions functional design).
• Worked as a Project Lead and BA in a project that required data to be gathered from the mainframe and another system & finally fed to a web based system. This involved working with a BA from another department and engineers from various depts. Involved in the complete life cycle from Project Mgmt, requirements gathering to documenting and testing.
• Involved in software enhancement and support of prior versions of the Inventory Management Application using Java & SQL.
SunGard HTE Inc, Ft. Lauderdale (August 2002– December 2006)
• Senior Software Engineer and Business Analyst.
• Involved in the design & development of Oracle-based Web Applications for FEMA (Federal Emergency Management Agency).
• Worked on the design & development of an Intranet Application which is used to track and provide housing for people affected by a disaster. This application keeps track of the inventory of the Travel Trailers & Mobile Homes that are leased to applicants.
• Developed a number of key modules using Struts, Value Object & Data Access Object patterns.
• Worked closely with the client in collecting the user requirements & writing user requirement documents.
• Other responsibilities included Data analysis and Database design.
• Worked on converting an existing Applicant Inquiry application from PowerBuilder to Java.
• Worked on enhancements in the PowerBuilder version of the Applicant Inquiry application.
• Environment, API & Tools: Oracle, Java, JavaScript, XML, JDeveloper, SQL
Accenture LLP, Chicago Senior Programmer Analyst (April 1997– May 2001)
• Responsible for design & development of an insurance application for Policy Writing and issuance for Architects and Lawyers.
• Worked on enhancements of existing PowerBuilder based Insurance applications.
• Converted Policy writing applications from Sybase to Oracle 8i.
• Developed Oracle stored procedures and triggers.
• Worked closely with the users collecting User Requirements and in testing the applications.
• Environment, API & Tools: PowerBuilder, SQL, PL/SQL, Oracle, Sybase
PSI Engineering, Chicago Programmer Analyst (February 1997 – April 1997)
• Developed a Help Desk application using MS Access
• Involved in the enhancement of engineering applications
• Environment, API & Tools: MS Access, Visual Basic, OLE DB, ODBC, ADO, Active X.
EDUCATION
• B.S., Electronics , Bangalore University, India 1991
• One Year graduate study, Masters in Computer Applications, India 1994
• Diploma Certificate in Oracle , Java, PowerBuilder
• Certificate in Creating User Requirement Documents, Broward Community College