RESUME: DURGA ANANTHAN
	
Personal Data:

Present Address:

DURGA ANANTHAN
9958, WEST HAVEN CIR
APARTMENT A
INDIANAPOLIS
INDIANA – 46280-2775


Permanent Address:

DURGA ANANTHAN
NAMBIAR MADOM
SOUTH GATE, AMBALAPUZHA 
ALLEPPEY DIST - 688561
KERALA, INDIA

Office Address:

DURGA ANANTHAN
UST GLOBAL
5TH FLOOR , BHAVANI BUILDING
TECHNOPARK
TRIVADRUM KERALA,INDIA

PHONE: 
RES           +001-949-614-6766
MOBILE   +001-949-838-6220


Email
[Send email using form at bottom]
durga_ananthan@yahoo.co.in


Personal Details
Date of Birth-  15 February 1983
Sex 		- Female
Nationality	- Indian
Languages	- English, Hindi,
                      Malayalam, Tamil





















	Objective 
Continuous new learning drives me. My motive is to excel as a design and
development engineer in the field of Software Development. I feel that a growing
organization like yours, offers the right atmosphere and a wider variety of
challenges to keep me interested and positively productive. It will be an honor
to see my passion to find utility with you.


Abstract 
Well experienced in Web based technologies with strengths in Core Java, J2EE,
JSP, and Servlets. Responsibilities include requirements analysis, design,
development, testing, bug-fixing, releaseand configuration management.


Executive Summary
	Energetic and Enthusiastic IT Professional with 4 years expertise in
Web-based Technologies 
	A team player with excellent communications skills, strong analytical
and design skills, and problem solving abilities. 
	Sun Certified Java Programmer (SCJP 1.4)
	Sun Certified Web Component Developer (SCWCD)
	Sun Certified Business Component Developer (SCBCD)


Relevant I.T Experience  - 4 years
	Working as Senior Software Engineer in UST Global (formerly US
Software) a PCMMi Level 5 Company in Technopark Trivandrum. (www.ustri.com)from
1st September 2008 – till date
( on a long leave from 10th September 2008  to accompany spouse in US)

	Worked as a Assistant Systems Engineer in Tata Consultancy Services,
Asia’s largest software company,(www.tcs.com) from  
      May 30th 2007 till 29th August 2008

	Worked as a Software Engineer in US Technology Global (formerly US
Software) a PCMMi Level 5 Company in Technopark Trivandrum. (www.ustri.com) from
29th October 2004.- 24th May 2007. 

	Worked as a Lecturer in Electrical and Electronics branch in Carmel
polytechnic Alleppey, from May 30th 2004 – 15th Oct 2004

Technical Expertise
Operating Systems 	Windows 2000/XP, UNIX,IBM 4690
Languages	 JAVA/J2EE
Technologies	Core Java, XML, J2EE,  EJB, JDBC, Servlet, HTML, CSS, Java scripts,
CBASIC 
RDBMS/DBMS	Oracle 9i , MS SQL 
Development Tools	WSAD 5.1.2, RAD 6.0, Rational Rose, Rational Software
Architect(RSA), TCNT, FileZilla, SmartFTP, WinCVS, CMVC, Win CVS, SVN, CMVC, Argo
UML, RSA, Parasoft Jtest, Maven.

Frameworks	Struts 1.1
Application Servers	IBM Websphere 5.1 & 6.0
Web Servers	Apache Tomcat 5.0


Educational Strength
	B-Tech (Electrical and Electronics Engineering) (Mar Athanasius College
of Engineering, Kothamangalam, Kerala, India)
          2000 – 2004, Mahatma Gandhi University (Marks - 83%).

	Higher Secondary – CBSE – Central Board of Secondary Education
(St.Mary’s Residential Central School, Thiruvalla, Kerala, India)
2000 (Marks - 85.6%).

	Matriculation – CBSE – Central Board of Secondary Education (St.Mary’s
Residential Central School, Thiruvalla, Kerala, India)
1998 (Marks - 88%).



Certifications Summary
Year	Title	Certified by
2008	Sun Certified Business Component Developer
(SCBCD)	Sun 

2006	
Sun Certified Web Component Developer
(SCWCD)	Sun

2005	
Sun Certified Java Programmer
(SCJP)	Sun

2005
	
Brain bench Certifications	
Brain bench

2006
	
Certification in IBM 4680 BASIC Language	
IBM

2006
	
Certification in IBM 4680 -4690 Super Market Application	
IBM

2006
	
IBM Super Market Electronic Marketing	
IBM

2006
	
Programming User Exits for IBM 4680 -4690 Super Market Application	
IBM


Publications Summary
Year	Title	Published in

2006	Java  and OS4690 	Safeway Wikipedia site






Projects Summary

Next Generation Interactive – NGI 
Company	Tata Consultancy Services, Infopark, Cochin, Kerala, India
Client	AMEX, American Express 
Duration	April  2008  – Aug 2008
Team size	10
Role	Team member
Languages 	Java/J2EE
Web Technologies	JSP, Java Web Service, Servlets, XML Services.
Special Software	Argo UML, JDIE, JTest, Maven, RAD (Rational Application
Developer), SVN (Sub Version), FileZilla, RSA (Rational software Architect), WSAD
5.1(Web sphere Studio Application Developer)
OS 	Windows XP
Hardware	Intel Pentium PCs, 1.5 GB RAM, 3GB Page file size, 32 GB disk space	
Description	Next Generation Interactive or NGI is aimed at creating a
comprehensive integrated development environment for use on local machine,
thereby streamlining the number of membership card environments from development
through production. It uses the Light Weight Java components or LWJ, which
promotes better and cleaner application architectures, and make it easier to
reuse business components when vendors are switched. It also aims at providing an
isolated test environment for development teams, business partners and manual
UAT.
 
The following are the roles and responsibilities :- 	
	Requirements Analysis and estimation of effort for the application. 
	Gather domain knowledge 
	Involved in design of the project, using the design tools
	Creation of WSDLs and schemas.
	Involved in unit level testing using Jtest cases
	Maintenance the project by bug-fixing at System level and User
Acceptance levels.
	Ensuring quality of the deliverables by conducting the health check of
the deliverables 
	Preparing of test plan for unit level testing.
	Preparation of test cases using Parasoft Jtest tool for the NGI
pre-work activities


Manage Your Card Account – Membership Rewards (MYCA Redesign) 
Company	Tata Consultancy Services, Infopark, Cochin, Kerala, India
Client	AMEX, American Express 
Duration	June 2007  – April 2008
Team size	20
Role	Team member
Technologies Used	J2EE, Java, JSP, Struts, CSS, HTML, Java scripts.
OS 	UNIX
Tools Used 	Ant,RAD, SVN, CMVC, FileZilla, Putty
Description	American Express CRM portfolio includes the web-interfaces to the
various operations and services offered to AMEX card holders. The member gains
some points based on the nature of the different transactions he makes through
the card, and the accumulated points can be transferred to some other partners,
or he can redeem the points to gain some rewards.
These operations to be carried out in a satisfactory manner, needs web-based
interfaces/pages, using which the member can avail these facilities; which is the
area where we contribute in; and which is the playground of MR. This is a
development and maintenance project.
MR Redesign project is about changing the look and feel, and as part of this,
many of the existing functionality were also tweaked, introducing new components
in the page. The changes are being done for 10 markets, spanning all the three
regions.

The following are the roles and responsibilities :- 	

	Requirements Analysis and estimation of effort for the application. 
	Gather domain knowledge and pass it on to other team members. 
	Team guidance, tracking and progress reporting.
	Involved in design of the project, by recommending new ideas and
suggestions for site enhancement 
	Involved in Development of the projects, with code level changes.
	Involved in unit level testing
	Maintenance the project by bug-fixing at System level and User
Acceptance levels.
	Build and file check-in and project specific process for paving the way
for the code from development environment to production environment.
	Overall Project Monitoring and Control 
	Ensuring quality of the deliverables by conducting the health check of
the deliverables 
	Preparing of test plan for unit level testing.
	Preparation of test cases and test reports for unit level testing.
	Involved in code reviews.

Safeway - Point of Sales (POS)
Company	UST Global, Technopark , Trivandrum, Kerala, India
Client	Safeway USA
Duration	September 23 rd, 2005- May 24th 2007
Team size	15
Role	Developer
Technologies Used	Core Java (Swings, Reflections, Threads, Collections, Files)
CBASIC, XML Parsing.
Tools Used 	RAD, RSA, WSAD 5.1, Eclipse, TCNT, FileZilla, CVS
Description	SWYPOS is a project done for the Safeway USA and Canada. Safeway is
one of the leading Retailers in USA and Canada. It is an integrated fuel project
for Safeway. It involves the transfer of data from the fuel system in the pumps
or the kiosks, in Canada/USA. The project was a completely offshore one, which
involved, direct communication with the client.

Roles& Responsibilities:
	Direct client interaction for requirement gathering.
	Analysis of the requirements gathered
	Estimation of the time effort 
	Design of the application based on the requirement gathering
	Development of the application.
	Gather domain knowledge and pass it on to other team members. 
	Involved in design, development and testing of the application.
	Maintenance and Support of the application
	Involved in code reviews.



Safeway Car Wash 
Company	UST Global, Technopark , Trivandrum, Kerala, India
Client	Safeway USA
Duration	August 8th, 2005  - September 23 rd, 2005
Team size	5
Role	Developer
Technologies Used	Core Java (Swings, Reflections, Threads, Collections, Files)
CBASIC, XML Parsing.
Tools Used 	Eclipse, TCNT, FileZilla, CVS
Description	Carwash project is done for Safeway, a retailer client, which deals
with the addition of an extra option, for Car washing in the existing fuel system
in Canada. The project involves the enhancement of the existing Point of Sales
features for adding the Carwash option in all the involved modules.

Roles& Responsibilities:

	Requirements Analysis and estimation of effort for the application. 
	Gather domain knowledge and pass it on to other team members. 
	Team guidance, tracking and progress reporting.
	Involved in design of the project, by recommending new ideas and
suggestions for site enhancement 
	Involved in Development of the projects, with code level changes.
	Involved in unit level testing
	Maintenance the project by bug-fixing at System level and User
Acceptance levels.
	Build and file check-in and project specific process for paving the way
for the code from development environment to production environment.
	Overall Project Monitoring and Control 
	Ensuring quality of the deliverables by conducting the health check of
the deliverables 
	Preparing of test plan for unit level testing.
	Preparation of test cases and test reports for unit level testing.
	Involved in code reviews.


Infrastructural Resource Scheduler 
Company	UST Global, Technopark , Trivandrum, Kerala, India 
Client	UST Global, Techno park , Trivandrum( Internal Project) 
Duration	March 2005 - August 8th 2005
Team size	15
Role	Developer
Technologies Used	J2EE, JSP, Servlets JUnit, HTML, JavaScript.
Tools Used 	Eclipse, Rational Rose, Apache Ant1.6, VSS.
Description	It is an internal tool development aimed at automation of the room
and other resource blocking presently available in the company. Earlier it used
to be done manually, but this became a link to the company’s intranet service.

Roles& Responsibilities:
	Requirements analysis, Preparation of Design documents. 
	Coding, Construction and Testing of various modules.
	Test case and JUnit preparation.
	Involved in code reviews, peer testing.


US Technology Induction Training Program
Organization	UST Global, Technopark , Trivandrum, Kerala, India
Duration	October 2004 -  March 2005 
Role	Programmer Trainee
Description	Underwent three months of intensive induction training in C, C++,
Java, JSP, Servlets, and Oracle.


Lecturer (Non-IT experience)
Organization	Carmel Polytechnic, Kerala, India
Duration	May 2004 – October 2004 
Role	Lecturer
Description	Teaching in the branch of Electrical and Electronics.


References
Vinod Daniel
Business Analyst
UST Global
E-mail : Vinod.daniel@ustri.com

Abhilash Janardhanan
Project Manager,
Tata Consultancy Services Ltd
E-mail: abhi.pj@tcs.com


Personal Details
Sex		Female
Nationality		Indian
Marital Status	Married
Passport Details	F 1784933
Issued at COCHIN,KERALA,INDIA on 17/01/2005
Valid up to 16/01/2015
Visa Status	H4B
Driving License	License Number – A/1844/03
License Details	Issued at Alleppey,KERALA,INDIA on 16/6/2003
Valid up to 15/06/2023