MITEN H. PARIKH

3616 Baring Street, Email:

Apt 1R, Philadelphia, PA – 19104.

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SUMMARY

  • Proficient designer programmer well versed in Database Systems & Artificial Intelligence.
  • Domain Knowledge in Healthcare and Medical Informatics.
  • Knowledgeable of Algorithms and Algorithmic complexity.
  • Excellent business, leadership, analytical and communication skills.

OBJECTIVE

To acquire a challenging position as a Software Developer

WORK EXPERIENCE

  • Intern June 2001 – May 2002

Project Leader in Developing a Pest Control Database for a Bio-Tech (India) Ltd. System involved development of entire database from resource acquisition to the sale of the finished product. The aim was to convert the old manual system of assigning jobs, billing procedures, inventory management and other transactions into fully automated system designed on the client server architecture and having a graphical user interface. The designed system was tested and then implemented successfully. Microsoft Access used as a database backbone and visual basic used for User Interface design.

  • Research Intern January 2003 – June 2003

Design and Development of a Software Testing Tool using Case Based Reasoning (AI) in collaboration with the National Institute of Systems tests and Productivity (NISTP) and Dr Rosina Weber (Drexel University). The project involved the design of a Knowledge Management Tool to test software modules automatically on development. The tool was developed in Java.

  • Database Manager March 2003 - Present

Working at Renal Transplant Department (HahnemannUniversityHospital) on Clinical databases of transplant patients. Creating multiple tables of patient databases with 400 attributes, creation of reports summaries and using data mining tools like Weka and C4.5 Decision tree analysis. Research papers submitted to the American Transplant Congress(ATC).

  • Database Designer September 2004 - Present

Design and Development of a Complete Patient Database at the Liver Transplant Department (HahnemannUniversityHospital) using Microsoft Access and SQL Server.

COMPUTER EXPERTISE

Software Development–C, C++, Visual Basic, PL-SQL, Embedded Visual Basic

Database design and optimization - Oracle, MS-SQL Server, MySQL, MS-Access, FileMaker Pro

Data WarehousingandMining– Dimensional Modeling, Analysis using OLAP Tools,Market Analysis, Bioinformatics and Genetic Databases (Human Genome Project).

Analysis and Design – Object oriented Systems analysis and design using UML, ER-Modeling.

Management and Analysis Skills - Project Management, Information Systems Analysis, Business Analysis.

Tools - MS-Projects, Rational Rose, ProCube, Erwin, MS-Visio, SPSS.

EDUCATION

Bachelors in Computer Engineering from MumbaiUniversity, Bombay, India June 2002

M.S Information Systems fromCollege of Information Science and Technology (IST),

DrexelUniversity, Philadelphia June 2004

PROJECTS DONE

Database Design Project for a Hospital Management System

January 2002 – May 2002

Database Design Project for a Hospital Management System, was a project undertaken for my Software Engineering Course during my Undergraduate Study.

Database Management System for a College bookstore

September 2002- December2002

The strategy was to have a Software solution, which will ensure the smooth functioning of the warehouse operations, which will primarily cover the operations of the entire store like generating purchase orders, daily sales, stock monitoring and mainly inventory management.

Research Project on Customer Relationship Management: Segmentation

January 2003 – March 2003

The project was a research on the latest trends and developments of the customer segmentation techniques used by major corporations. The result of the project was to creation of a taxonomy of Customer segmentation, also included the use of data mining for CRM.

Design of a Supply Chain Management System using UML

January 2003 – March 2003

The project was to design a successful Supply Management System for a Soda giant from the step of acquiring raw materials to the production of finished product. The development of the project was based on use of Unified Processes.

Challenges in Data Integration of Gene Expression DBMS

September 2003 – December 2003

The data integration challenges involved in building a system for managing gene expression data were discussed, these challenges have been addressed in our system and in the context of several system integration projects.

A data warehouse approach and tools were used in developing the system and were found to provide an effective environment for developing a system to support the integration and management of data from diverse sources, in which data was imprecise and was in the process of evolving over time.