parul mittal
Author of "Heartbreaks & Dreams! The Girls @ IIT", MS from UMich, AA , BTech from India Institute of Technology. Worked with IBM India Research Lab as a Researcher for 7 years & NexTag as Project Manager. Currently she is a Drupal Freelancer
| Headline: | Entrepreneur |
| Skills: | AJAX, Business, Computer Engineering, Engineering, Entrepreneurship, HTML / CSS, Java, Javascript, Languages, Languages and Platforms, Leadership, Management, Software Engineering, SQL, System Administration, Unix, Web Development |
| Location: | Gurgaon |
| Groups: | Girls In Tech (GIT) |
| Interested in: | Brainstorming, Finding business partners, Meeting new people, Professional opportunities, Promoting my startups |
| Schools: | Indian Institute of Technology, University of Michigan System - Ann Arbor |
WORK EXPERIENCE
| Employer: | NexTag, |
| Position: | Project Manager, Engineering |
| Time period: | September 2005 - June 2008 |
| Description: | Nextag.com offers online comparison product shopping, in US, UK, DE and FR. Its catalogue has over 13 million SKUs across various categories and 8K merchants.
Role: Engineering Manager for development, enhancement and operational support of various tools and crawlers. Ensure timely, quality release - feature definition, scope management, coordination with US team, bug assignment and close monitoring, QA coordination, code review and build deployment.Meet SLAs to resolve operational issues and queries from content team.Measuring and improving the quality and productivity of the development team. Achievements: I am quite strong at execution. I have been able to run an extremely tight ship through the course of these projects closely monitoring progress to ensure timely delivery. I can take a rough design or a high level problem statement, break it down cleanly and design and implement elegant solutions. In real estate project, realizing that a large amount of work had to be accomplished in a short span of time, I played an inspired hands on role while project managing the rest of the team’s efforts. I set an example through never-say-die attitude devising customized ways of crawling complex county sites. The sense of urgency and motivation set the pace for the rest of the team. In Nextag Stores project, I did competitive analysis and product management. I did business metric analysis of the clicks to sales ratio and raised the conversion from .5% to 2% by buyer pipeline enhancements. I have worked with many fresh developers and taught them coding in a product-company environment, teach them about code reuse and thorough unit-testing, educate them on production and development environments and databases. |
| Employer: | IBM INDIA RESEARCH LAB |
| Position: | Research Staff Member |
| Time period: | June 1999 - August 2005 |
| Description: | Project: On-Demand Service Selection (April 2005 – August 2005)
The goal of this project is to enable on-demand service selection for the telecom service providers. Role: Defining, designing and developing the Multi-tier, Service Level Agreement Mapping tool for the telecom domain. Project: Healthcare – Clinical IT(October 2004 – March 2005) The goal of this project is to empower physicians with structured and unstructured medical knowledge and drug information, in the context of a patient’s current symptoms, diagnosis, prescription and past medical history. The system aims to provide an easy-to-use portal, automatic query generation with minimal inputs from the physician, based on Health Level 7 (HL7) standards. Role: Defining the lab roadmap in the area of Clinical IT. It involved integrating existing technologies from |
| Employer: | HUGHES SOFTWARE SYSTEMS |
| Position: | Senior Software Engineer |
| Time period: | January 1997 - May 1999 |
| Description: | Project: Internet Bill Presentment and Payment(June 1998 – May 1999)
It enables utility companies and banks to present bills to their customers and receive payments on the Internet. Role: Technically led the team during requirements and analysis, design, coding and integration testing. Responsible for coding and testing of the Open Financial Exchange server. Team Size - 6 Project: Mobile Satellite Communication(January 1997 – May 1998) The system provides global mobile telecommunications services through a network of geo-stationary satellites. Role: Development of platform software including real time message exchange, automated file transfer and network failure management. Team Size - 3 |
EDUCATION
| University: | University of Michigan System - Ann Arbor |
| Time period: | 1995 - 1996 |
| Degree: | Computer Science and Engineering, MSc |
| University: | Indian Institute of Technology |
| Time period: | 1991 - 1995 |
| Degree: | Electrical Engineering , BTech |
PUBLICATIONS
| Papers: | Papers and articles in IBM Journal of Research and Development 2004, First International Conference on E-Governance 2003, SIAM Data Mining Conference 2003, Electronic Commerce and Web Technologies Conference 2002, USENIX Annual Technical Conference 2001, IBM Think Research Magazine 2000 and Journal for Electronic Testing and Testable Architecture, 1997. |
INFORMATION
| Awards: | Received the Fourth Plateau Invention Achievement Award from IBM. Each Plateau recognizes 4 patents.
Best paper award at the First International Conference on E-Governance (ICEG), New Delhi, Dec. 2003. Received IBM Bravo Award for contribution to the eCoupon project. Rackham Fellowship for graduate studies at University of Michigan. Merit prizes for standing in top 2% of the class for 6 semesters at IIT National Talent Search Scholarship, awarded to less than 0.25% of 3,00,000 applicants |
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