SIDDHARTH CHAHAR
Aptt. #****, **** Waterview Parkway,Richardson, Texas, 75080
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Strong foundation in the software industry, performing various operations within the Software Development Cycle. Excellent experience in JAVA J2EE application development as well as in data analysis domain, interfacing with international clients, writing/presenting project updates and proposals. A fast learner and a good communicator, have ability and intent to learn new technologies and concepts, assimilate complex technical information, analyze problems and provide comprehensive solutions.
EDUCATION: University of Texas-Dallas, School of Management, Richardson,TX.
Master of Science in Management Information Systems, December 2009. GPA: 3.92/4.0
The Technological Institute of Textiles and Sciences, Bhiwani, Haryana, INDIA.
Bachelor of Technology, Computer Science, May 2006.
EXPERIENCE: McManus Software + Consulting (11/09 - Present)
ROLE: Software Engineer
Multiple Projects which involve in developing a Web Based BI Reporting tool.
Involved in creating Design Documents and maintaining the incremental versions of technical documents.
Developing a product which uses Business Object’s exposed APIs to create a web based BI reporting tool on top of Business Objects system.
Created an automated standalone reporting system in Crystal Reports.
Created DB queries in Oracle and MySQL.
The HERSHEY Company (05/26/09 – 08/19/09)
ROLE: Web Development INTERN
PROJECT: ENTERPRISE CALENDAR Web Portal and COST SAVINGS Web Portal
Project involved creating web applications to streamline internal processes of the organization like cost savings accounting and Enterprise Calendar.
Developed websites using JSP, Servlets, JQuery and AJAX.
Developed technical design documents and project proposals for the project using MS Visio and UML Modelling.
Used CVS and Subversion to maintain the versioning of the files and project documents.
Accor Hospitality Services, North America (01/09 - 05/09)
Role: Business Consultant
PROJECT: Accor Academie
Project involved developing and implementing marketing plan and implementation strategy for an online university that supports around 20,000 of ACCOR employees
Project demanded Interacting with the vendor’s Program manager and Accor Project manager for the requirements gathering and assessing the proposed solutions.
WIPRO Technologies Pvt. Ltd. India (12/06 – 07/08)
CLIENT: INTEL DHEG
ROLE: SOFTWARE DEVELOPER
Project involved working on an open source ESB product ServiceMix and to develop web services by implementing J2EE concepts and methodologies.
Involved in the Requirements gathering, Technical Architecture and the Design phase of the project
Contributed to End to End testing of the product and design and documentation of Technical Description Document.
CLIENT: NORTEL NETWORKS
ROLE: SOFTWARE ANALYST
Framed and documented Feature Document and High Level Design Document for a Web based product.
Created a web UI, based on the concept of Java Server Faces (JSF).
Responsible to maintain product sanity and to carry out customer transitions in the existing product and implying them in the latest product version.
ACADEMIC PROJECTS:
PROJECT: Business Intelligence Analytics
This Project covered various aspects of Business Intelligence using standard industry methodologies and tools like Weka and SAS, SAS Base, and SAS Macro
Business data analytics - data imputation (missing data), data cleansing (noise data), feature selection, active learning, model enhancement (boosting, ensemble).
Customer analytics - consumer choice, counting & timing, loyalty, life-time value, profitability, survival etc.
Business performance analytics - innovation management, risk analysis, business process management, IT productivity analysis, firm efficiency analysis/DEA etc.
PROJECT: Business Intelligence Techniques
Projects emphasized on extracting business intelligence from business data for various applications, like customer segmentation, customer relationship management (CRM), customization, product assortment, web mining and social networks.
Various business intelligence software and techniques primarily data mining techniques such as clustering, classification and personalization were covered using various standard industry algorithms and techniques.
CERTIFICATIONS & AWARDS:
Sun Certified JAVA Programmer (SCJP1.4)
SAS Certified Professional in 2009
Awarded Dean’s Scholarship by Dean of School of Management, UT Dallas as a recognition of my academic and extracurricular achievements.
TECHNICAL SKILLS:
Tools & Applications: XL Miner, WEKA, Eclipse IDE, RAD, Web Sphere IDE, CVS Subversion, Maven, JBoss, Apache Tomcat ,ServiceMix, SAP 6.0 system, Crystal Reports 11.5.
MS Products : MS VISIO, MS Word, MS Excel, MS Project, MS Powerpoint
Databases: Teradata, Oracle, MS Access, MySql
Languages: Java, JavaScript, JQuery, PL/SQL, HTML/CSS, JSP.
Concepts: Data warehousing/Business Intelligence, UML, Database Systems, Service oriented Architecture, ERP, Middleware Technology
ADDITIONAL:
Member of SAP User’s group, an internationally renowned consortium for SAP users.
Active member of the Graduate Business Society at SOM, University of Texas at Dallas.