About Praveen A.
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Jan, 2016 - PresentFisher College
Associate Organizer
Dec, 2014 - PresentGoogle Developer Group
Interfaced with coworkers to provide technical training and guidance on all Google technologies. Contributed to leadership of cross-functional teams, which developed company branding strategy, communications and partnerships. Fostered united and team-oriented workplace by organizing DevFests to focus developers, designers, and product managers on emerging technologies including polymer, android wear, Google glass and cardboard.
Vice President of Software Development
Jan, 2005 - PresentH H Brown shoe company
Lead and coordinate software department personnel to complete development of sophisticated, large-scale PCI compliant HTML5 e-commerce projects within budget and ahead of schedule. Define company software requirements and design needs, leading to management of all aspects of an enterprise-wide CRM implementation and providing full access to inventory management, order fulfillment processes, marketing initiatives, as well as reporting and payment management systems. Aggressively recruit, hire and mentor both developers and interns to build a continuously improving, team-oriented and code compliant software department.
Research Scientist
Aug, 2003 - Jan, 2004Swiss Federal Institute of Technology
Contributed to European Union-funded MMAPPS project and liaised with scientists from research centers throughout Switzerland, Greece, Austria, Germany and UK as well as industry partners from British Telecom, HP Labs and Telecom Austria.
Teaching/Research Project Leader
Jan, 2002 - Dec, 2004Syracuse University
Directed all aspects of wireless grid applications that facilitated shared resources across devices in dynamic ad-hoc wireless networks. Designed advanced access control models for use in university p2p networks. Project Leader responsible for collaborating with developers at MIT, Harvard and Tufts to design and implement National Science Foundation project creating bandwidth management systems for the grid. Performed Webmaster duties and developed applications to integrate WebCT for personalized student access and instructor communications using Java.
Software Engineer
Sep, 2000 - Jan, 2002Yahoo! Inc
Utilized C/C++ for several projects targeted at enhancing experience of Yahoo! users. Improved Yahoo! shopping by deploying remote merchant interface to allow viable merchants to self-publish products. Designed API for developers to build wireless applications that would communicate between mobile device gateways and Yahoo! web properties. Enhanced search accuracy through monitoring system consisting of C++ base classes and virtual functions to check for site content, modifications and site traffic. Partnered with Google to implement Yahoo! wireless applications using HDML/WML.
Education
Bachelors, Chemical Engineering
May, 1992 - May, 1996Anna University
Masters, Information Management
Jan, 2002 - May, 2005Syracuse University
Masters, Computer Science
Aug, 1997 - May, 1999Syracuse University
Certifications
Project Leadership Course
Jun, 1999UTC Learning Institute
Awards
Grand Prize for Best App Developed from TVNext Hackathon
Apr, 2013Hill Holliday
Grand Prize for Best App Developed from TVNext Hackathon
Oct, 2015Hill Holliday
Grand Prize for Mashable Emirates Hackathon
May, 2014Mashable
Languages
English
Native Proficiency
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