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Boston, MA, US

• Program and project management for Research Computing, working with computing, clinical research and capital purchases. Vendor management and Procurement to acquire about 10 PB of research End to end encrypted storage.
• Championed Smartsheet as a primary project management tool within and across the Research Computing department to improve processes in the department’s chargeback model. This played a key role in the launch of 4 new.
• Leading project management for 700+ projects across the department, prioritizing based on customer feedback analysis on department’s applications and flagging at-risk initiatives for leadership input.
• Managing vendor partnerships across Research Computing and standardizing best practices around procurement, onboarding, and standard operating procedures.
• Managing operations and CAPEX budget of up to $4M, working with leadership to vet new software purchases. Resolved reconciliation issues with vendors for up to $1.1M.
• Co-leading various EDI initiatives for BCH-IT by partnering with Bunker Hill community college on a pipeline program for internships.

Chicago, IL, US

• Executing RFPs and managing vendors for data management and virtual machine support needs within the department and across the units such as UI Health Cancer Center (oncology bioinformatics) and Center for Clinical and.
• Assisting researchers in proving a write up for grant applications which require data hosting and storage.
• Support and advice on the existing infrastructure for the development and use of complex systems, which power clinical, translational, biomedical, and health science research.
• Creating strategies for hardware, software, network, and server security; managing these machines to ensure data retention, optimization of space utilization and ensuring systems meet necessary HIPAA and IRB.

Chicago, IL, US

• Leading the Girls Who Code program at UIC to teach 65 middle and high school girls computer programming in order to inspire, educate, and equip girls with the computing skills. * GWC UIC, is a part of the national.

Chicago, IL, US

• Leading the Scientific Computing and Services team of 4+, at the Research Resource center of UIC Medicine college to prioritize projects, analyze service requests, manage vendor and contracts and user requirement for.
• Liaison between brand management office and 27 departments within RRC to support initiative to standardize web structure and navigation of UIC.EDU.
• Modifying existing protocols as needed to aid researchers and to comply with advent of new technologies; maintaining virtual machines and virtual hosts using vSphere Client, moving legacy database from Access 2.0 to.
• Building in house e-commerce system, to replace current vendor provided tool, for Scientific Supply Center for users to shop for laboratory supplies.

Chicago, IL, US

• Developing revenue analysis reports, instrument usage report and submission forms for about 30 core divisions at RRC using SSRS, MySQL, C# and.net
• Maintaining, editing and testing Banner Feeder application for generating finance account files, updating and running scripts to provide 24X7 technical support on registration, data transfer and reconciling invoices.

• Developed websites for clients using social media API
• Networking consultant to acquire new prospects and increase user engagement.

L-1160 Luxembourg, LU

• Business Intelligence dashboards – Developed dashboards for performance measurement at analyst and management level using iDashboards and SQL Server 2012. Gathered requirements, created backend OLAP cubes and designed.
• Shipping Inventory – Maintaining a web based shipping inventory system to migrate from excel based maintenance. It has reduced administrative work to 50% and manual errors.
• Bomb Dropped Store Procedures – Developed stored procedure query to track number of bombs dropped in a furnace to generate heat. The output is used to reduce bomb consumption by continued tuning of underlying.

L-1160 Luxembourg, LU

• Performing disaster recovery on Virtual machines for Windows 7, XP and SQL servers using vSphere Client and EMC Networker. Project led to cost savings by reduction in number of machines purchased by 15%YoY, and.
• Designed a process yield information monitoring system in SSRS for real time and next day on turn process control and improvement management.
• Designed a Caster crane scale system to calculate yield, heat, weight of ladle, cover and slag by communicating between the PLCs and databases.
• Investigating cloud computing solutions for infrastructure and implementation on business structures, data storage and back ups.
• Replacing reheat furnaces HMIs with Rockwell Automation's Factory Talk application to increase tracking and logging of the processes at the mills.

L-1160 Luxembourg, LU

• Replaced PCM I/Os with Allen Bradley control logic I/Os to control the spray water pumps at the caster strands. This has significantly reduced the delay time on the production as there have been no card failures on PCMs.
• Implemented C++ code for the replacement of Caster 2 Level 2 to send messages to different systems for tracking slabs.Configured thin clients, tested communications to and fro Level 2 to PLC on Siemens VAI Process.
• Designed website for Quality Assurance Etch lab and Safety Inspections using VB.net and SQL 2008

Analyzed competing websites for benchmarking and enhancing efficiency of the websiteDeveloped frontend with Wordpress Thesis Theme using PHP, CSS, HTML and plugins including xilifoam slideshow, global translator, breadcrumb NavXTDesigned a relational database management system for quick query processing in MYSQLImplemented search engine optimization.

Specialized in Digital lab with concentration on 8051 Microcontroller, logic analyzer, Digital Modulator, QAM, QPSK and Fiber optics trainers kitFirsthand experience of Non Linear Editing System Software dps velocity 8.2 3DStudied Video, Audio mixers and TV Transmitters at the Studio and Transmission divisionsIntroduced to CCU, PTR, VTR, DTH, OB VAN, DSNG

Master'S, Electrical And Computer Engineering

Be, Electronics And Communication Engineering