Project Development

Pratima Rao

**** ********* **. *** #**, Columbia, MD – 21045 Cell: 716-***-**** Email: y37hjg@r.postjobfree.com

Seeking an opportunity in software development where my skills and experience would be utilized and enhanced in developing innovative and efficient solutions to interesting problems.

Educational Qualifications:

• State University of New York, Buffalo (2010-2011)

Masters in Computer Science

• University of Pune, India (2004-2008)

Bachelor of Engineering in Computer Science

Software Skills:

Languages : C, C++, JAVA, PL/SQL, Groovy, Microsoft Visual Basic 6.0

Databases : Oracle, MS Access, MySQL, PostgreSQL

Web : HTML, CSS, JavaScript, PHP, JSP, XML, XPath, XSL, ExtJS, Web Services, JQuery

Frameworks : Grails

Tools : Rational Rose, Embedded Wizard, Enterprise Architect, DreamWeaver, Gimp, Doxygen

IDE : Microsoft Visual Studio, Eclipse, NetBeans, IntelliJ, FreeScale CodeWarrior

Continuous Integration Tools : Ant, Maven

Testing : JUnit

Operating Platforms : Windows, LINUX, UNIX

Professional Experience:

Message Systems Columbia, MD

Web Developer (Feb 2012 – Present)

Development and maintenance of GUI for the product “Momentum” – which is a message management platform.

• Development and maintenance of the solution

• Design of databases

• Testing of the system

Project Skills: PHP, MySQL, JavaScript, JQuery, XPath, HTML, CSS

Installs Inc Buffalo, NY

Software Development Intern (Sept 2011 – Dec 2011)

Development of browser-based communication system that allows instantaneous communication of new orders, escalations, completions and reporting between the company, clients and technicians

• Development and maintenance of the solution

• Design of databases

• Testing of the system

Project Skills: PHP, PostgreSQL, JavaScript, XML, XSL, JQuery, XPath, HTML, CSS

DaVinci Concepts LLC Flemington, NJ

Software Development Intern (May 2011 – August 2011)

Web Service development to automate and streamline all aspects of the Broker/Dealer business model which gives instant access to the reports brokerage firms need

• Assisted in the overall design and planning of the Graphical User Interface layout

• Design of the databases and the relationships among them

• Development, optimization, testing and deployment of various modules of the application

• Development of the Graphical User Interface

Project Skills: Groovy, Grails, ExtJS, Javascript, PostgreSQL, MySQL, CSS, IntelliJ, Ant, Maven, JUnit

State University of New York, Buffalo, Dept. of Nutrition & Health Buffalo, NY

Web Development Intern (June 2011 – August 2011)

• Prototyping, design and layout, graphics creation for the complete website

• Design with standards compliant code with emphasis on browser compatibility

• Testing, training and hosting of the website

Project Skills: HTML, CSS, JavaScript, DreamWeaver, Gimp, Adobe Photoshop

Pratima Rao

Tata Consultancy Services Pune, India

Assistant System Engineer (Dec 2008 – July 2010)

Infotainment System for high end luxury cars

Infotainment system is an entertainment system comprising of Media Player (CD/USB/DVD), Amplitude Modulation/Frequency Modulation (AM/FM) Tuner, Bluetooth Module and Navigation Module.

• Designing of the high level design specifications and system test plan

• Implementation of layered architecture (master-slave) for Media Player and AMFM Tuner

• Implementation of abstract layer for communication between architecture and hardware for AMFM Tuner

• Development of Human Machine Interface

• Actively participated in every phase of Software Development Life Cycle

Project Skills: C/C++, Embedded Wizard, CodeWarrior, Enterprise Architect

Academic Projects:

• Implementation of keyword search in XML Data using the Indexed Stack Algorithm based on the notion of Least Common Ancestors

Project Skills: Java, XML, DTD, XML Schema

• Designing and deploying service based distributed system – Built a multi-tier distributed system comprising of:

1. Data acquisition from XML feeds of yahoo weather and storing parsed XML data in MySQL.

2. Web Services based web application that processes and serves the above collected data.

Project Skills: Java RMI, MySQL, DOMParser – XML Feeds, JDBC, Web Services with NetBeans IDE, JQuery,HTML,JSP

• Designed and implemented text based information retrieval system used in search engines – Included tokenizing of Wiki Documents, Index creation (Forward and Inverted Index), Ranking of the documents

(Boolean Model, Vector Space Model and Okapi Model) and assigning global scores to documents using link analysis. Depending on the query, system listed top k documents. This retrieval was based on the model chosen by the user.

Project Skills: C++ STL, Doxygen Tool

• Cognizant Technology Solutions Pune, India Project Intern (June 2007 - June 2008)

Networks Operations Centre (NOC) is responsible for reporting errors in network to the NOC Operator in the form of emails. NOC Operator analyzes these emails and takes appropriate actions. Designed and developed software, Incident Escalation and Tracking System (IETS), for providing a reliable and secure service to NOC by automating the functionality of NOC Operator.

Assisted in requirement analysis, design of high level and low level specifications, design of database tables and their normalization, developed of Graphical User Interface (GUI), development of interface between GUI and databases, generation of error reports.

Project Skills: Microsoft Visual Basic 6.0, Oracle 8i, Microsoft Outlook

• Developed software to book hotel rooms. Interface was designed in Java and backend in Oracle 8i. Software listed all types of rooms available in hotel. Customer could choose any type of room. Based on customer’s choice, software would check for availability of rooms. Upon booking a room, bill would be generated based on the number of days it was to be occupied.

Project Skills: Java Swing, Oracle 8i

Extra Curricular Activities:

• Presented a seminar on ‘qMail’ at SKNCOE, Pune

• Organizer of National Conference on Best Practices in Engineering Education organized by Sinhgad Institutes

• Event Coordinator – College Fest 2007

• Presented a paper on Artificial Intelligence MITCOE, Pune

• Participated in Intercollegiate Group Discussions

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