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Analyst-Applications Development, United Airlines Inc., Elk Grove Village, IL
Involved in the design and development of web based intranet projects.

Key responsibilities
Analysis and development of middleware modules in Tuxedo and Java servlets.

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Projects

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Employment History

United Airlines Inc., Elk Grove Village, IL, USA
Analyst - Applications Development - since Oct 1999

Involved in the design and development of middleware pieces in Tuxedo, that talk to a legacy systems and processes data that are handed over to Java servlets to populate a web page. The requests apart from just being display of static pages could also include transactions, and the information displayed pertains to the schedule, trading and bidding details for pilots and flight attendants. Playing a key role in effecting coordination within the team as well as between teams to ensure completion of the project within acceptable timeframes.  This project resulted in several hundred thousand dollars in cost savings as a result of streamlined communication with all of United's workforce as well as in paper, printing and other cost savings.

Played a key role in the support and maintenance of United's revenue management system.  Entrusted with the task of evaluating competing graphical reporting solutions to generate graphs for Region managers to analyse and capture trends.  Subsequent to the cost cutting that came into effect as a result of the sad events of September 11th 2001, the project had its budget cut.  I designed an in-house solution using Excel and VBA to effectively accomplish almost all the capabilities that were expected in a commercial solution.  The tool is currently being used on a daily basis to observe trends and implement actions and measures.  This effort resulted in exceptional cost savings, both from an operational perspective as well as from a capital budget perspective.

Currently involved in the design, development and maintenance of Avolar.com - the website of United's Business Jet subsidiary.  Current projects include building the website as well as several other tools to capture operational data for tracking various events, both internal as well as external.

Sunrise Logistics Inc., New York, NY, USA
Consultant - Nov 1998 to Oct 1999

Consulted for Avon Products Inc., in Rye, NY. Participated in the analysis and design of modules for PC-Avon for Windows, a software used by the Avon Representatives to send their orders to Avon and also to maintain their client information.

Designed and Developed a Database Update Utility (DUU), that reads information from a script file (that is modelled after an INI file) and performs all the actions specified there. This utility can also spawn external programs and is capable of handling a host of keywords and also supports chaining and error recovery.

Sofist India, Madras, India
Analyst/Programmer, Oct 1995 to Oct 1998

Started off as a programmer in FoxPro. Handled a host of projects for a lot of clients including Orient Longman and Arvind Enterprises. Involved in the development and enhancement of SofAcc™, an accounting solution for small and medium sized companies. Developed a module to add custom fields to tables and an automatic screen generator program that would permit entry into these fields.

Headed a team in the development of a Legal Information System - ITR OnLine. This was a query tool that would read information from databases on CD-ROM (over 600MB of data) and perform complex querries. Completely involved in the development of this product. Was also involved in the development of an earlier release of the same product.

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Contact Information

Email [email protected]
Work 847-331-6963
Home 847-258-3145
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