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Cypress, TX, US

Rockville, MD, US

• Architecting secure, robust, scalable web applications, mobile applications, enterprise integrations, and other custom software solutions required by the business
• Leading & managing the development team to deliver secure, scalable, and resilient system designs.
• Leading and mentoring the development team in technical discussions, solutions, and design.
• Assisting teams with advice and knowledge on technical design best practices, platforms, and technologies that align with core Customer Experience (CX) principles

• Providing architectural guidance for various IT initiatives covering the entire spectrum of business, such as: Sales and Pricing re-architecture, Middleware replacement, and Indirect Retail customer process.
• Collaborating with business teams throughout the company to identify their current pain points across various systems and coming up with innovative solutions to help them
• Leading the technical design in a Subject Matter Expert role, providing conceptual design and conducting high-level analysis to create the most efficient solution
• Presenting solutions to the Leadership team and engaging in the business approval process with them
• Communicating with diverse technical and business teams to come up with integrated solutions
• Delegating solutions to different technical teams and providing them guidance on decision-making

Houston, Texas, US

• Analyzed, developed and modified the power load forecasting system
• Led the design team on re-architecting the power forecasting system
• Designed and developed changes for the load forecasting system to transfer from one ETRM system to another
• Mentored new hires and helped them get up to speed with the load forecasting processes and system
• Developed new applications within the Electric & Gas Forecasting group, the Energy & Trading and Risk group, and the Product Control group, and supported the existing forecasting applications
• Worked closely with forecasting business partners to understand the business and its underlying processes and used their feedback to design appropriate technical solutions

Houston, TX, US

• Worked on the application called RAMP (Research and Management Portal) used by the division of Research for tracking all research projects at the University of Houston
• Developed functionality to create and submit various grant applications thru RAMP, increasing the submission rate of applications by 50% compared to the previous year’s paper submissions.
• Created the mobile version of RAMP for researchers and staff to submit and approve their applications using a smartphone
• Created an Intranet message board for the research members including a module for inter-departmental process review

College Station, TX, US

• Involved with the development/maintenance of various projects for different departments of Texas A&M University such as:
• Worked on the University’s emergency notification system called Code Maroon. Worked on the website for user registration, windows service for sending the alerts to the University’s Twitter & RSS accounts, and the.
• Worked on creating PICA(Personalized Instructor/Course Appraisal) system for the Office of Institutional Effectiveness and Evaluation
• Worked on an appointment scheduling system called Cleopatra for the University Writing Center

• Developed and enhanced RiskLink, RiskBrowser and RiskOnline using C#,.Net, C++, ASP.Net, JavaScript, WCF, COM and SQL Server
• Identified need to reduce computation time in RiskLink and implemented a new component which reduced runtime by more than 45%
• Implemented the account access restrictions feature for RiskBrowser, which restricted user access based on authorization level. Developed a user-friendly reporting system
• Utilized and implemented a service-oriented architecture (SOA) for RiskBrowser using WCF to replace Orbix
• Worked on all stages of the Software Development Life Cycle and created technical specifications and documentations with inputs form Product Management and QA

Developed an information gathering tool, to locate executable, gather associated files, create a system information report with a log file, and generate data in compressed format file

Developed a Book Purchase System using COBOL and JCL. Also, worked on Mainframe testing tools Hyperstation and Playback

Ms, Computer Science

Masters Degree, Computer Applications

Bachelors Of Science Degree, Electronics