Graduate Research Assistant

NIVEDITA PAL

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EDUCATION

George Mason University, Fairfax, Virginia 22031 May 2010

Master of Science in Information Systems (MSIS)

Fr.C.Rodrigues Institute of Technology, Mumbai University, Mumbai, India June 2008

Bachelor of Engineering, major in Computer Science; GPA: 3.3

• Vice-President, Active member, CSI (Computer Society of India)

• Second runner-up, Personality contest, Intra-college cultural festival-2007

• Class representative, Elected, Three consecutive semesters

• Volunteer, Publicity of inter-college Technical festival

EXPERIENCE

Graduate Research Assistant, George Mason University, Virginia September 2009-Present

• Athletic Training Program Assistant.

• Communicate with athletes and dancers for experimental research regarding their health.

• Assist the supervisor for analysis of the research experiments.

Hexaware Technologies Ltd, Mumbai, India August 2007 - May 2008

Trainee

• Assigned to software development role supporting a global auto insurance client

• Assembled Hardware along with OS

• Managed Software packages, Software installation and troubleshooting.

• Analyzed and formulated the database rules for evaluating insurance claims

• Implemented the Rule manager application, reducing the processing time by 40%

George-Babu-Matthew Classes, Mumbai, India June 2002-July 2004

• Assisted the Physics and Math’s professor in grading junior students

TECHNICAL SKILLS

• Concepts: Databases, Software Project Management, Software Engineering, System Security, Computer Organization, Intelligent Systems, Operating Systems

• Languages: C, C++, VB.NET, C#, PHP, Visual Basic, HTML

• Technology: .NET framework

• Databases: SQL, Microsoft Access, XML

PROJECTS

• SQL Database: Build an SQL database for Fashion Institute project.

• E-Commerce: Handled a website and presentation for buying and selling music online.

• Website: Built a Party invitation website using Java servlets and JavaScript including XML as database.

• UML: Worked in a project that involves UML, Excel Macro’s and PowerPoint Presentation.

• XML: Research paper and PowerPoint Presentation.

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