Meena Ambalam in 612-203-2006

Curriculam Vitae

Objective :

As a FullStack Developer, I collaborate with project teams, interface with clients, and use technology to build successful solutions for Clients.

Professional Profile:
  • • A fast track, highly motivated and team oriented professional with about 20years of total experience in Application System Analysis, Design, Development, Enhancement, Testing and Support. energetic and resourceful, self-directed with commitment to excellence.
  • • Recognized for innovative ideas, strategies, and practices. Follows the company standards, take utmost efforts in inquiry research and turnaround response.
  • • Efficiently and effectively prioritize a broad range of responsibilities to consistently exceed prescribed goals. Respond immediately to emergency situations and handle pressure with ease. Excellent ability to learn and assimilate new information and new technology.
  • • Exceptional ability to build productive relationships with colleagues, clients, and vendors across all functional and technical disciplines, providing focused, accurate and detailed system analysis and development.
  • • Hands-on experience in Legacy systems, Client-Server systems and Web Technologies.
Technical Experience:
  • • HTML, CSS, Javascript, JQuery, Node JS, MySQL, Express, Express Handlebars, Sequelize, ORM, MVC Framework
  • • AJAX, JSON, Bootstrap CDN, Materialize CDN, Local Storage
  • • MySQL, SQL Server, Oracle, DB2, IDMS, TOAD
  • • UNIX, SAS, COBOL, JCL, Easytrieve, VSAM, SPUFI, Xpediter, Panvalet, Endevor, CA7, CICS, TSO/ISPF, File-Aid
  • • TesserAct HR/PAyroll Package, Test Director

Professional Experience:

Santa's Bag! - A Gift Planning and Tracking App!, Sep'2020-Dec'2020
  • • A fun Gift Planning App perfect for the upcoming Holiday season, but can be used years around to pla gifting for many occassions.
  • • A MVC (Model, View, Controller) App that helps to add family/friends interest and budget details and save them. • I was a main contributor for the ideation, client-side and server-side API routing. • It allows to attach/delete gift to/from each person, the gift price, URL link for the gift. • If there are any regular gift favourites, you can add them to the Gift Repository to pull in the future. • As you add and remove gift person to your account, it will display the Total Gift Budget, to help your planning. • It also has API feature to search for gifts based on the interest and be able to attach the Gift to a Person.
  • • A Node JS App hosted on Heroku, with data persisted in MySQL and uses the MVC (Model View and Contol) framework. Uses express modules/packages for handling the REST API routes and endpoints for dynamic styling and page rendition. • It uses Bootstrap and Materialize libraries for styling. • Uses passport.js and Bcrypt.js for userid & password authentication and encryption. • Used dotenv to hide the APIKey from the public.
  • • Application URL: https://santas-bag.herokuapp.com/
  • • Github Repository: https://github.com/samergain/Santas_Bag/
Me-want-da-Burger!, Sep'2020-Dec'2020
  • • A fun restaurant App that let's users input the names of burgers they'd like to eat/devour and track the devoured Burgers.
  • • A MVC (Model, View, Controller) Framework App to track the bruger orders. Each burger can be devoured and dynamically moved to the devoured list. This is a great App that can be used for tracking food order and the fulfilled order. The order is persisted and also option to delete the fulfilled orders are available.
  • • A Node JS App hosted on Heroku, with data persisted in MySQL and uses the MVC (Model View and Contol) framework. Uses express modules/packages for handling the REST API routes and endpoints and express-handlebars for dynamic styling and page rendition.
  • • Application URL: https://me-want-da-burger.herokuapp.com/
  • • Github Repository: https://github.com/meenaambalam/Me_want_da_Burger/
Plan-Eat-Arium, Sep'2020-Dec'2020
  • • A dine-in helper App called as 'Plan-Eat-arium', which will ease the pain of adults who loving cooking.
  • • It will help to lookup recipes and pin the recipes that they like to their weekly menu calendar. And will allow to save all their calendar menu choices for later reference. When they click on the particular menu item, they will be taken to the recipe link. They can delete the pinned menu if there is change of plans or if there is change of mind.
  • • Application URL: https://meenaambalam.github.io/plan-eat-rium.io/.
  • • Github Repository: https://github.com/meenaambalam/plan-eat-rium.io/
Day Scheduler, Sep'2020-Dec'2020
  • • A day-scheduler is a very handy App for planning, saving and tracking your day-to-day activities.
  • • The day scheduler is a handy app that allows you to enter texts into hourly slots. ths information is saved locally for future retrival. The scheduler also provide visual cue on the past, present and future timeslots. It is a simple, but very handy application that can be used on a daily basis.
  • • Application URL: https://meenaambalam.github.io/Day_Scheduler/
  • • Github Repository: https://github.com/meenaambalam/Day_Scheduler
Weather Dashboard, Sep'2020-Dec'2020
  • • A Weather dashboard that canhelp you plan your trip, be it a short trip or a long one.
  • • The Weather dashboard can be your weather channel. You can lookup any city around the world to pull up temperature, wind, humidity and UV information. The App will give you both current and 5-day forecast with visual representation of the heat and the weather. The App also saves the history of the searched city, for easy access to those city forecast everytime you use the App.
  • • Application URL: https://meenaambalam.github.io/Weather_Dashboard/
  • • Github Repository: https://github.com/meenaambalam/Weather_Dashboard
Senior Business Analyst, Delta Airlines, 2015-2020
  • • As a business analyst, I worked with business liason group to enhance and support many inventory management systems.
  • • I was a go-to person for critical system called Market Fare Table, which was a critical piece with Seat Availability Calculation. It was a feed that was consumed by various external vendors like Google, Amadeus etc.
  • • It was a highly time sensitive application which required immediate attention and very detail analysis when issued occurred.
  • • As a BA, simultaneously managed various critical Inventory tools like RAIDER, Farelogix Availability Calculator, MFT
  • • As a BA, worked with product owners to understand the needs of products and took it from idea to fruition. QSI GUI (Quality Service Index) was one such application.
  • • Played Lead BA roles in very high visibility projects that span across multiple channels. 777Mod was one such multi-phase project, where all the fleets (DOM & INTL) were configured to have 5 cabin product structure
Senior Developer, Delta Airlines (premerger NWA), 2007-2015
  • • Acted as a Business Analyst representing all MAS subsystems in the CRJ Reconfiguration Project, acting as the Business Analyst. Completed Requirements Gathering and Designing phases on-time, before it got suspended.
  • • Acted as a Business Analyst representing all MAS subsystems in the CRJ Reconfiguration Project, acting as the Business Analyst. Completed Requirements Gathering and Designing phases on-time, before it got suspended.
  • • Acted as the System Owner of Booking and Ticketed Revenue System, a subsystem of Market Analysis System (MAS).
  • • Was involved in multiple highly visible CSRs from requirement gathering to Implementation.
  • • Have proven analytical skills and investigative skills in digging deep into problems and nailing down the root cause.
  • • Was involved actively in planning a recovery and reprocessing of Net-Ticketed-Revenue, when an implementation by a co-worker destroyed the integrity of the data.
Senior Consultant, Ecolab, 2004-2007
  • • Acted as a Business Analyst representing all MAS subsystems in the CRJ Reconfiguration Project, acting as the Business Analyst. Completed Requirements Gathering and Designing phases on-time, before it got suspended.
  • • Acted as the System Owner of Booking and Ticketed Revenue System, a subsystem of Market Analysis System (MAS).
  • • Was involved in multiple highly visible CSRs from requirement gathering to Implementation.
  • • Have proven analytical skills and investigative skills in digging deep into problems and nailing down the root cause.
  • • Was involved actively in planning a recovery and reprocessing of Net-Ticketed-Revenue, when an implementation by a co-worker destroyed the integrity of the data.