Parul Dhingra

E-mail: parul.dhingra@live.com Mountain View, CA 94041 Phone: (650) 576 1743 (M) (650) 969 1592 (H)

SUMMARY A highly flexible and seasoned professional; able to multitask and thrive in a fast paced environment. A quick learner; possessing strong analytical and problem solving skills, with the ability to guide, motivate, inspire and lead a team. 2012: Ventured into recruitment. Find it extremely exciting to look for the right candidates for job openings and find it equally exciting to present the right opportunity to the right candidate. Creatively utilizing internet search techniques and social media to identify, source and recruit. 2006-1998: A results driven professional with 7.5 years of experience in software development in the Finance-Securities (GE, Friends Provident, Farmers Insurance, Putnam investments) and Retail (Tesco) domains.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE UrpanTech, San Francisco Bay Area Sourcer and Talent Search Executive

Sep 2012 to Present

Responsible for sourcing, screening, qualifying and recruiting for a wide range of positions for technical, non-technical and functional areas Understanding client requirements mentioned in the job description Sourcing resumes through job boards (Monster, Dice, Indeed, etc.), Internet and social media (LinkedIn, Twitter, Quora, etc...) using Boolean logic Shortlisting and qualifying the profiles as per clients requirements, after a thorough screening of the candidates profile/ resume Cold-calling; contacting (both, active and passive) candidates via email and / or phone Pre-screening interested candidates and accordingly updating the internal ATS (Application tracking system) with the qualified resumes for each requirement, in the appropriate folders; avoiding duplication. Submitting qualified candidates, after pre-screening Reviewing/ screening resumes sourced by peers and providing feedback on job-fit

IT / Technical area: # Software Engineers, Middleware Administrators # QAs, SAP (ABAP, HCM, FICO, etc.) Consultants, # Architects # BI Leads, System Analysts, Business analysts # Program/ Product/ Project Managers # Data Modelers, Data Migration Managers # Manufacturing Engineers, Design Engineers # Production Support, SQL Developers, and many more... HR Sourcing: # Sourcers, Recruiters, Recruiting coordinators, etc...

Tesco (HSC), Bangalore, India (HQ: UK, Tesco is one of the world's leading retailers) Team Lead Feb 2006 to March 2006 Managed a team of 7 developers Point of contact for the client to discuss and understand requirements Reviewed requirements with the team members and delegated the tasks (enhancements and modifications to existing code) to the team members Tracked and reported progress/completion of tasks to the client Contributed technically to the project Prepared and maintained all required documents, configuration management Reviewed and tested code enhancements/modifications Wipro Technologies, Bangalore, India Project Lead August 2004 to January 2006 Monitored jobs in production and acceptance environments and fixed any abnormal ends after reviewing the error codes/logs Maintained the job logs with fixes provided, for future reference and resolution Responsible for requesting one time runs (termed ADHOC jobs) Point of contact for client interaction - to gather and understand requirements Worked on special requests needed by clients Delegated work; mentored and provided technical guidance Tracked and reported the teams progress and efforts Reviewed and unit tested the programs Implemented Wipros quality process and procedures Project Engineer January 2004 to July 2004 Analyzed existing programs and new requests Prepared program specs and coded the enhancements and modifications Performed unit and system testing of the programs and jobs

Performed peer reviews for the program spec and unit test plan/ unit test cases documents and also reviewed the code changes Maintained and updated the various checklists and quality documents after review as per Wipros quality process

Programmer January 2000 to December 2003 Analyzed and prepared program specs for the client requirements Coded new programs and also enhancements or modifications to the existing programs Unit tested the programs Provided production support once the programs were moved to production Completed my dissertation (as part of the M.S. program) - Connecting to Mainframes from Open Systems using MQ Series to test data sent to the Web Applications from Mainframes. AT Labs Pvt. Ltd., Chennai, India Software Engineer Trainee August 1998 to December 1999 Trained in Microsoft Technologies Developed modules based on component model (COM/DCOM) from Microsoft, for the modules library to be used for building various applications

COMPUTER SKILLS

Operating Systems: ES-9000, IBM-MVS, OS390 Programming Languages: COBOL, CICS, PL/I CASE Tool: CA-TELON Databases: DB2, MS SQL, IDMS, VSAM Testing Tools: Xpediter, SmartTest Version Control: SCLM, Endevor Middle-ware Technologies: COM/DCOM, MQ Series Web Servers: MS IIS, Apache, iPlanet Basic Knowledge of: Java/JSP, HTML, C++, VB 5.0, SQL 6.5, DHTML/VBScript

EDUCATION AND CERTIFICATION BITS Pilani (in conjunction with Wipro Technologies, India) MS, Software Engineering, 2000 - 2003 Mount Carmel College, Bangalore, India BS, Computer Sc/Math/ Statistics, 1995 - 1998

Activities and Societies: Intercollegiate Dance Competitions, Final Year-Dance Club Secretary Independent Coursework NIIT, India : Sybase, C, UNIX, Linux

HONORS AND AWARDS GE Scholarship for College fund 3rd in Inter-School Karate tournament (in my weight category)