TECHNOLOGY PROFESSIONAL

Experienced GIS professional with history of enhancing system functionality and utilizing GIS tools for large-scale, long-term planning and development efforts. Proven track record of tackling and solving tough business and technical problems. Strong leader with demonstrated ability to work effectively with individuals at all levels and in all functional areas. Valuable technical experience managing full project lifecycle that require flexibility and ability to deliver projects of high standards and quality.

Highlights of Expertise:

• Project Management
• Strategy & Execution
• Client Relations
• Technical Writing
• Innovative IT/GIS initiatives
• Vendor Evaluation
• Quality Metrics
• Troubleshooting/resolution
• End-user support

Technical Expertise:

ArcMap 10/9.x, ArcCatalog 10/9.x, GDAL, QGIS, X-tools Pro 10

Remote Sensing Tools

ENVI/ IDL 4.7, ERDAS Imagine, IRI Data Library

Database Technologies

ArcSDE, GDB(File, Personal), MS Access 2003/07, SQL Server 2000

GIS Server

ArcGIS Server, Geoserver, ERDAS-IONIC

Web-GIS

ArcGIS JAVA WebADF, ArcGIS JS, OpenLayers, Google Maps API, NASA Worldwind

Programming Languages

Python 2.6/2.5, Enterprise JAVA, JAVAscript, C#

Web Technology

GML, HTML, XML, JS, JSP, JAVA, ASP, PHP

Analysis & Modeling Tools

UML (Rational Rose and MS Visio), MS Project

Operating Systems

Windows Server 2003 and Server 2008, XP, Vista, Windows 7,
Linux and MAC OS

Others

MS Project, Access, Excel, Word, PPT, Outlook, Eudora,
VMware Workstation and ESXi 4.1

Postbaccalaureate Studies - Remote Sensing and Applications

Master of Science in Information Systems, (GPA - 3.7/4.0)

Bachelor of Science in Computer Science

Confidential,Staff Associate
Project – NASA’s Global Climate Change and Human Health Impacts (GCCE)

• Interact and gather requirements from social science school teachers in New York for building an educational tool for high-school students to learn about the effects of global climate change
• Oversee project development in Worldwind according to client requirements, guide team of research assistants and interns to develop lesson plans & tutorials catering to high school students
• Perform usability tests with teachers and students to improve adaptability and end-user experience

Project – NASA’s SEDAC Global Rural-Urban Mapping Project (GRUMP)

• Guide project development capabilities involving external clients, internal clients, web-developers, web-designers, cartographers, remote sensing scientists and data archiving specialists
• Provide detailed documentation for quality control methods, process workflows and procedures resulting in improvement in efficiency of final project delivery.
• Disseminate data packages on a global scale at mixed spatial resolutions and multiple data formats
• Automate the data production service chain using geo-processing scripts and models

Project – NASA’s Land Atmospheric Near Real-Time Capability for EOS (LANCE)-SEDAC Integration

• Develop use case scenarios for near-real time disaster or incident response system leveraging the EOSDIS data and products for scientific research of the atmosphere, ocean and land.
• Document workflows for operational agencies, application users and scientific researchers to interact with LANCE and SEDAC to respond to disaster relief, forecast and predict outcomes.

Project – Africa Soils Information System (AfSIS)

• Design and develop an end-to-end web mapping application tool for visualization, sub-setting and downloading SRTM terrain model derivates as covariates for understanding key soil properties
• Ingest large satellite imagery into Geoserver and build pyramids to improve visual response time
• Infusing pixel height of the digital elevation model (DEM) into data layers to depict variation in tone from light to dark to delineate the form of land based on height

• Compiled quality metrics, performance reports and calculated profit margins for FY 06-07
• Developed web blog monitoring systems for cross hierarchy visibility
• Assisted team members with sales techniques and complex transactions
• Hosted daily project status meetings with cross functional and business teams on a global scale

Software Design Engineer

• Developed a client-server architecture for a US-based client using JSP and Oracle 9i
• Managed quality assurance and quality control tests for a live project using WinRunner.
• Trained in web application development using C#, HTML, XML, JAVA Beans, Servlets and JSP’s

Software Application Developer Intern

• Designed and developed a Code Generator for SQL Scripts using C# and SQL
• Designed the architecture using Rational Rose UML diagrams, DFD’s and ERD’s

• Instructed Labs for Introduction to JAVA/ Python
• Mentored students while recommending performance improvement strategies and assigning grades

• Liaison between school\'s student affairs administration and its student body
• Responsible for planning and facilitating events for the residents such as community service projects.
• Trained in emergency situations such as fire evacuation and Crisis control

• Marketed and Maintained customer account for public executive training courses
• Developed customized courses for mid to large scale companies