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Houston, Tx, Us

Houston, Texas, United States

- Spearheaded the transformation of a legacy Oil & Gas ERP platform to a web-based SaaS product, enhancing functionality and user experience, resulting in a 30% increase in user adoption.- Collaborated with C-suite executives to define product strategy, leading to the development of a 2-year product vision that aligned with customer needs and market trends.- Directed cross-functional teams, ensuring the seamless translation of technical requirements into actionable tasks, which improved project delivery timelines by 40%.- Expanded expertise in AI/ML by developing and deploying Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) models to improve customer help experience.

Houston, Texas

- Working with a global team of 10-15 developers, UI/UX designers, engineering team and business users.-Technical Product Lead for natural gas scheduling platform that supports NRG's retail business across US and Canada.- Experience with driving user engagement & adoption of the platform using user personas leading to current user adoption of ~90%.- Create long-term strategy for extending adoption of software platforms to multiple business segments, building roadmap for technical implementation; aligning with the business team and defining the timeline.- Spearheaded testing plans; identified & presented KPIs to support successful platform rollouts and reduced direct-to-business release time.

- Build core functionality for Retail gas scheduling application in tech stack of Angular, WebAPI and SSQl- Developed business case, gathered requirements for the enterprise gas scheduling/forecasting platform.- Design solutions with UI/UX designers; create actionable items in JIRA/Azure for the engineering team.

Houston, Texas Area

- Automation of powerpoint/word documents for investment bankers; improved user efficiency by 50%.- UX/UI and solutioning in WPF/C# with tight client requirements and data governance methods. - Developed scalable backend Microsoft services in .NET to be used across multiple applications.- Spearheaded unit testing plans; reduced direct-to-business release time by streamlining deployment processes.- Resolved production issues and future risks by doing code reviews with developers to encourage ownership of products.

Houston, Texas Area

• Led effort in requirements gathering, designing and developing UI centric and high impact (.NET/WPF) application for measuring temperature variations in drilling resources using Distributed Temperature Sensing Technology. • Developed an application that presents the temperature data spread out over several days in various graphical variations for better understanding of the wellbore scenarios.• Designed a custom database for handling vast amount of data storage and effortless retrieval. Developed efficient algorithms for retrieving data at specific points in time. • Used Team Foundation server for version control and for tracking project progress.

• Designed, Developed and Tested software application that interfaces with CMOS imaging sensors-on-chip (iSOC). Developed using C# in Visual Studio 2008. DevExpress used for rich user interface experience.• Implemented the core logic of the application that analyzes real-time performance of the sensor using complex mathematical calculations. Developed and maintained the backend in Sqlite.• Enhanced existing C based application in LabWindows/C.• Created software application using Microsoft Foundation Classes (MFC) to perform post capture analysis on data using ROOT libraries.

• Developed a guidance package for Schlumberger framework that provides tools to automate key development tasks from within VS environment using Visual Studio templates, recipes, etc.• Developed SQL reports in SQL Reporting Services using Visual Studio reporting designer with SQL server 2000 as the back end. The reports handle complex and conditional calculations using C# and VB script to code the business logic in VS environment.• Created a software application in procedural VB for Kinder Morgan to handle printing of complicated Infragistics grid.

Software Developer

Ms, Computer Science

Bs, Computer Science

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