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Kumaran Pandourangan
coumarane36@hotmail.com
Ph: 832-439-9918

Experience Summary

• Professional Software Engineer with 10 years of IT experience in software Architecture, design,

development & implementation.
• Around 7+ years of hands on experience in Microsoft .NET technologies using C#, VB.NET, ASP.NET
(Web Forms), .NET Win-Forms, ADO.NET, .NET Remoting and .NET XML Web Services.
• Database management experience using MS SQL Server and Oracle.
• Extensively worked on other technologies like ASP 3.0, MS Visual Basic 6.0 and MSMQ 3.0.
• Have been a successful Team Lead and Architect
• Expert architect, designer and developer of web based applications, stand-alone applications, client/server,
n-tier, and component based, Mission Critical Real Time Systems, intra/internet enterprise.

Technical Skills

MS-Windows 2003 Ent. Edition, Win-XP Professional, MS-Windows 2000

Operating Systems Advance Server, MS-Windows NT 4.0

.NET 2.0/3.0, .NET1.1, WSE2.0, Visual C#.NET, VB.NET, ASP.NET, Win-

.NET Framework Forms, ADO.NET, XML Web Services, WSDL, .NET Remoting, COM/COM+
Technologies Interoperability

Visual Basic 6.0, ASP, MSMQ, MTS/COM+, XML, VBScript, JavaScript.

Other Technologies
MS .NET IDE, MS Visual Interdev 6.0, MS Visual Basic 6.0, MS Visual
Developments Tools Source Safe

MS SQL Server 2005/2000, Oracle 9/10

RDBMS
Crystal Reports, SQL Reporting
Reporting Tools
.NET NUnit Testing
Testing Tools

Academic Qualification
Post Graduation : MS in computers (Bharathidasan University - India)
Graduation : BS in computers (Bharathidasan University - India)

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Current Project
Client Kellogg Brown & Root
Application http://www.kbr.com (eSpector, KBR University, Other
internal engineering applications)
Duration Nov 2005 – till date
Team Size 5
Position .NET Architect

Project Description
KBR is a leading global engineering, construction and services company supporting the energy, petrochemicals,
government services and civil infrastructure sectors.

As an Architect/Lead Software Developer involved in requirement analysis, creating design solution, technical
specification, design and development of .NET framework applications.

My Role
• Involved in the architectural design of many web and windows application.
• Designed and developed different layers of the application. Mostly involved in designing the base
framework of the application. Microsoft Enterprise library were used wherever necessary.
• Created reusable objects including custom UI controls.
• Created windows application for tablet pc using ink enabled InfoPath forms.
• Designed and developed the reporting object model using SQL Reporting services.
• Created custom Bootstrapper for ClickOnce deployment.
• Integrated with external systems.
• Designed and developed automated process that links multiple systems.
• Designed and developed MSMQ based systems.
• Extended the functionality of legacy applications.

Project Summary
Client Hewlett Packard, Compaq
Application http://www.hp.com
Duration Nov 2004 – Nov 2005
Team Size 40
Position Lead Developer

Project Description
HP is a major manufacturer of Computers and Printers. They have an online ordering system. This online
ordering system has been running on classic ASP but was being changed to .NET. HP has 2 types of ordering
systems. One is web based and the other is Windows Based which is the Call Center Tool. This is called the ICC
(Integrated Call Center). A base framework called ISCS (Integrated Simple Common Solution) was developed
using C# .NET which would be used by both web based and windows based applications. HP has divided its
market into regions. This base framework has to be consumed by the various regions to develop there regional
extensions of the web or windows application.

My Role
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• Played a major role in design and developing the web framework architecture for ISCS storefront (Web
based application)
• Designed and developed web user control with skin and master page concepts.
• Designed and developed the reporting object model for web based reporting using CrystalReport.NET
• Developed different web modules for ecommerce storefront.
• Used design patterns like factory pattern for developing the Base framework
• Involved in development of a windows base call center application by adopting the MVC pattern.
• Did unit testing using the Nunit GUI

Project Summary
Client DataCert
Application http://www.datacert.com
Duration Aug 2004 – Nov 2004
Team Size 25
Position Lead Developer

Project Description
DataCert is the industry leader in electronic invoicing and legal spend management solutions. Companies use
DataCert's solutions to strategically manage legal spend with their law firms and vendors. Originally, the company
was established to move and standardize data such as electronic invoices over the Internet.

Responsibilities:
• Designing and developing the entire report module for the web based product using C#,
CrystalReport.Net and ASP.NET.
• Successfully designed, developed and implemented a custom report module where the user can upload
their own designed report based on a given schema.
• Involved in development of a web service which does data integration between DataCert and other
external systems.

Project Summary
Client Sales Centric
Application http://www.salescentric.com
Duration Nov – 2001 till Jul 2004
Team Size 15
Position Module Lead for Team size 3

Project Description
SalesCentric is a suite of software and services designed to drive significant improvement in sales productivity.
The sales transformation tool that enables you to join your customer data with your people and business processes
to create a framework that delivers Repeatable Excellence in all customer interactions. SalesCentric products can
be used either as a standalone dedicated solution for sales forces automation and support, or as an extension to the
framework of existing CRM solutions.

Responsibilities:
• Involved in the architectural design of the SalesCentric framework.
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• Played a pivotal role in designing and developing the entire Business Object and the Data Layer with
ADO.NET and C# which supports Oracle 9i and Oracle Lite 9i database.
• Designed and developed the entire UI using ASP.net, .NET User Controls and .NET Server controls.
• Designed and developed a windows based mapping tool which is used to configure XML mapping
between SalesCentric and any external CRM system.
• Designed and developed a web service which is used as a part of data integration with external system.
• Designed and developed a windows service which is used to send notification for the integration system.
• Solely responsible for designing and developing a synchronization tool, as the system can work
disconnected from the server with the help of Oracle 9i database.
• Responsible for synchronizing database and documents used in the system. The documents in the system
were synced based on the time zone of the user.
• Designed and developed the entire Reporting Engine with Crystal Reports 9.0 using XML and .NET
User Controls
• Did complex data handling with Oracle 9i and Oracle Lite 9i
• Handled the versioning of the source with VSS
• Successfully created and maintained different environments for Testing & UAT, Development and
Production
• Effectively used the configuration & setting and handled the security of the whole site
• Interacting with end users and converting their wish list into code-able units or modules
• Extensively help in unit level testing and Integration testing
• Successfully allotted work team members and also managed to get it done on time
• Overseeing peers/Team Mates work and Mentoring
• Conducted user training by preparing User manuals in Power Point Presentation and word/excel
Documentation

Environment:
ASP.NET, ADO.NET, Web Services, XML, C# & .NET, Oracle 9i, Oracle Lite 9i, HTML/DHTML, VB
Script, Java Script, .NET IDE, Visual Interdev, Visual Source Safe and Windows NT Integrated
Authentication.

Project Summary
Client Compaq Computer Corporation
Application PIRS
Duration Nov – 2000 till Nov 2001
Team Size 10
Position Team Member

Project Description
PIRS (Product Information Repository System) was developed to store all product information manufactured by
Compaq. All newly created SKU details are pushed into this system every week. The data in this system is
shared by different regions around the world. Based on the regions, their respective product data will be shared.

Responsibilities:
• Involved in design and development of data integration between PIRS and other system.
• Designed and developed a separate module which handles transfer of data across platform and maintain
electronic data repository using .NET Windows Service.
• Designed and developed multi thread processor to handle load balancing.
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• Developed Business Objects and Data Layer using C# and XML.
• Handled Unit testing and integration testing

Environment:
.NET Beta, ADO.NET, Windows Services, XML, C#, Oracle 8, .NET IDE, Visual Interdev and Visual
Source Safe.

Project Summary
Client Travelanza.com
Application http://www.travelanza.com
Duration Nov 1999 till Nov 2000
Team Size 30
Position Lead Developer

Project Description
Travelanza.com is a travel portal which provides online reservation for flights, hotels and car rentals. The
travel portal can interact with different hotel management system and travel system to send reservation
and receive confirmation. The user can get instant confirmation on booking tickets through the portal.
The middle tire was done using visual basic 6.0.

Responsibilities:
• Involved in design and development public pages, secure pages, login restricted and shopping cart pages.
• Design user interface as well as navigation between pages using site diagram, passing parameters between
pages, develop ASP pages in VB script and define client-side validation using Java scripts.
• Solely responsible for implementation of MSMQ on both server side and client side which is used to
transfer reservation to different hotel system.
• Designed and developed an automatic web reservation download program, which was developed in
VB6.0 and SQL Server 7.0 which interact with Property Management System in the client side (Hotels).
This tool replaced MSMQ later.
• Responsible for design and development of COM components under MTS environment.
• Successfully developed and implemented a live customer support chat system. The chat system works as
“many to one” and “many to many” concept.
Environment:
ASP 2.0/3.0, Visual Basic 6.0, Visual InterDev 6.0, COM, JavaScript, VB script, HTML/DHTML, SQL
2000, IIS 4.0, Windows NT 4.0, Microsoft Transaction Server 2.0 and MSMQ.

Project Summary
Client Intellect Data Systems & Software
Application http://www.idsfortune.com
Duration Aug 1998 till Oct 1999
Team Size 50
Position Team Member

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Project Description:
PMS is designed as a total software solution to Hotel and Resort Management helping both Front Office and Back
Office operations. The software adopts a modular approach to implement the problem solving process in a fast,
efficient and thorough manner. PMS caters to the changing trends and technology of the Hospitality industry by
virtue of its scaleable design. The software can virtually act as the host of many Industry-related products such as
Telephones, Touch Screen, Point-of-Sale terminals, etc. Programs are organized into well-defined modules. Each
module caters to the operational requirement of a specific department or type of work.

Responsibilities
• Involved in design, development and implementation of Membership module (a part of property
management system)
• Involved in design, development and implementation of HRMS module.
• Developed COM components for different modules including Membership and HRMS module.
• ODBC connections were used to connect to SQL Server and Oracle database.
• All the reports for the Hotel Management System was developed using Excel objects in Visual Basic
• Did R&D of a DCOM application as a part of Front Office module. This is done to reduce traffic and
load for a particular module to make it scalable. The business logic was implemented using Visual Basic
5.0 COM components in Application Server

Environment:
Visual Basic 5.0, MS VSS 6.0, SQL Server 6.5, Oracle 7.0, Windows NT / 95

Project Summary
Client Intellect Data Systems and Software
Application Geographical World Time http://www.idsfortune.com
Duration Dec 1997 till Feb 1998
Team Size 50
Position Project Trainee

Project Description

Geographical World Time and places of interest is a part of PMS (Property Management System). This system
deals with time and places of all countries in the world. It gives the user the necessary information like the
current time of a particular country and the details of the country. All these information are provided when a user
moves a mouse on any part of world map.

Responsibilities:
•As a project trainee, involved in design and development.
•Collected all countries detail information including the time zone GMT difference.
•Necessary screen were created to feed-in the collected information for each country.
•The world map was divided into different coordinates for each country. When the mouse is moved on a
particular coordinate, the respective country information will be displayed.
•The detail country information can be printed which was developed using excel objects in visual basic.

Environment:
Visual Basic 5.0, RDO, COM, SQL 2000, Visual Source Safe, Windows NT 4.0

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