Noumika Balaji Email & Phone Number

Richardson, Texas, United States

The University Of Texas At Dallas

• Developed the website for the Venture Mentoring Service of North Texas (VMS NTX) (https://www.vmsntx.com)
• Responsible for handling web development and WordPress hosting for the Institute of Innovation and Entrepreneurship website.
• Developed content for news articles about student startups and pitch competitions. (https://www.innovation.utdallas.edu)

Allen, Texas

• Improved the time taken by end-users to fill forms on the website by 40% and reduced the number of clicks to get to a page by 2.
• Created a global landing Confluence page for the Enterprise Architecture team by collaborating with stakeholders in various locations and gained hands-on experience working with a plugin ‘Brikit’ to incorporate regular.
• Re-designed specific forms and screen layouts to improve workflow, UI design, color impact, content positioning and Usability testing.
• Created various design artifacts (mockups and prototypes) to improve UX by iterating and deploying over Agile sprints.
• Re-structured the subscription form by trading off between displaying additional info for users and making the UI usage elegant and easy.

Dallas, Texas

• Managed tasks in an Agile framework, complete Sprint tasks and participate in Sprint and story points planning, using PlanITPoker.
• Re-designed the ‘Network Settings’ and ‘Advanced Settings’ screens of the ePhone7 app by incorporating Material Design into the UI.
• Responsible for writing unit test cases for certain modules using Mockito and built the ‘Release Notes’ feature of the ePhone7 app.
• Worked with the PM to design the primary icons, based on Material Design, to be used in the conference call screen of the ePhone7 app.
• Gained a deeper understanding of MVC and MVVM patterns while working on unit test cases and worked with Retrofit to understand how to interact with APIs, handle network requests and parse JSON responses.
• Documented the working of the ePhone7 Audio module, fixed bugs and crashes (Crashlytics) along with peer review of code.

The University Of Texas At Dallas

My responsibilities included handling IT Logistics, software-related maintenance and updates. I also assisted in optimizing the process of inventory control and management for large-scale exhibits and kits that are loaned for free to high schools, libraries and non-profit organizations that work with children from K-12.

The University Of Texas At Dallas

I have worked as a Staff Writer for The Mercury - UTD's bi-weekly student newspaper. I have written News articles and Life & Arts feature articles so far. You can find the links to my articles in this section.

• I have worked as an Advisory Analyst for the Deloitte US-India office at Hyderabad as part of the CSV team in the Life Sciences sector. My work entailed validation of computerized systems and documents during various.
• Provide Computerized System Validation (CSV) for client-specific web, mobile and cloud applications in accordance with FDA regulations and GxP (Good Practice), specifically, 21 CFR Part 11.
• Develop and review SOPs for SDLC processes, CAPA Management, IT Compliance audits, External Inspection Readiness, etc.

I have worked for Binox.me - a start-up organization based in Bengaluru, India. As an intern, I have worked on matters pertaining to Journalism and Content Writing. My work included writing 11 articles on different genres for their website https://binox.me/. You can find the link to all my articles in this section.

Hyderabad Area, India

I interned at the Defence Research & Development Laboratory (DRDL), Ministry of Defence, Govt. of India, in the summer of 2015. I completed a study project titled "Understanding SAR images and SAR-SIFT algorithm" under the guidance of P. Lakshmi Madhavi, Scientist 'E', DRDL, Hyderabad.

Sreenidhi Institute Of Science And Technology

I have spearheaded the organizing teams for two major cultural festivals in college that saw a turnout of close to 4000 people. My overall responsibility was to initiate and ensure the continuity of workshops and weekly practice sessions for the various platforms of the club such as Dance, Music, Art, Theatre, Photography, Debate, Virtual Parliament, MUN.

Master Of Science - Ms, Computer Science

Bachelor Of Technology - Btech, Electronics And Computer Engineering