Latha Venkatashamaiah has over 15 years of experience in .NET development including C# and ASP.NET. She has worked on projects for clients such as Walmart, Payless ShoeSource, and Catalyst Paper. Her technical skills include C#, ASP.NET, SQL Server, and Agile methodologies. She has experience in various roles including technology lead, developer, and analyst.

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Professional qualifications/key skills
• Bachelors Degree in Engineering, Microsoft Certified Professional in C#.
• 12 years experience in .NET Development (versions 3.0/3.5/4.0)
• 7 years experience developing applications in C#.net and 4 years in ASP.net.
• 5+ years experience working with SQL Server versions 2005, 2008, 2010, and currently using 2012.
• 5 years experience working with Web Services & WCF.
• 6 years experience with Source Control Tools like SVN, VSTS, etc.
• 4 years experience working with the Release Management Software Team and deploying/packaging
software solutions for release. Very familiar with those processes.
• Experience working within an Agile development environment and managing code reviews for other
developers.
PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY:
• 12+ years of Cumulative IT experience, 8 years in Microsoft Technologies(C#, ASP.NET,
VB.NET, WCF), 2+ years in C, C++,VB, ASP, Java Script, extensively used web services
• Worked on Forefront Identity Manager (FIM 2010) to integrate and sync HR systems.
• Domain expertise in Retail industry, having worked in the areas of Point Of Sale (Fujitsu and IBM),
Merchandise Planning, Pharmacy Systems and Store Applications
• Experienced in Design, Development, Testing and Implementation of web based client server and
standalone models, N-Tier architecture for Retail Management Software
• Involved in all the stages of Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) - Requirements, Analysis,
Design, implementation, integration, testing, deployment and maintenance
• Experience in C#, ASP.Net, VB.Net, WCF, WPF, Win Forms, Web Services
• Expertise in developing Web applications using HTML, JavaScript, XML, XSLT, XSD
• Good in writing SQL Queries, Stored Procedures, Triggers, Views and TSQL
• Experience in design using Object Oriented Principles[OOPS], Design patterns, UML Diagrams
• Proficiency in writing system test plans, integration test plans and unit test scripts
ACADEMIC QUALIFICATION:
• Bachelors in Engineering - 4 years
• 16 Years of total Education [10(Schooling)+2(Inter-College)+4(Bachelors)]
• MCP certified C#
TECHNICAL AND FUNCTIONAL EXPERTISE:
• Programming Languages: C#, VB.NET, C, C++, VB, XML, HTML, XHTML,.NET 4.5+,
ASP.NET MVC, Visual Studio 2015
• Functional Knowledge: Authoring of Use Cases, Class, Object, Sequence and State Diagrams
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• Other Tools: Web servers (IIS), Microsoft Visio, Visual Source Safe, Accurev, Power configuration
tool, Quality Centre , Service Centre and BMC Remedy
• Scripting: Java Script, VB scripting, UNIX Shell Scripting, JavaScript frameworks like Angular,
Knockout or Backbone, HTML, JavaScript, jQuery and CSS, Node.js
• ORM technology (Entity Framework, NHibernate, Code First,etc.)
• Cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, etc.)
• SQL Server Reporting Services
• Database:- MS SQL Server (2000, 2005, 2008, 2012), Informix, DB2.,Oracle, NoSQL
• Software Engineering Methodologies/Tools/Technologies: MS Project, Iterative Model (SDLC),
Agile, Continuous Integration and Continuous Deployment
• Design Tools: MS Visio
TECHNICAL AND PROCESS TRAINING UNDERGONE:
• .Net Framework 3.0, 3.5, 4.0, C#, ASP.NET, VB.NET, ASP.Net, JQuery, Angular JS
• Software Project Estimation using FP and Delphi Techniques
• Quality of Service principles
• Share Point 2003 for Project management and creating Dashboard
• Software Engineering and Design Patterns, MVC, MVP, MVVM Patterns
• Database Technologies, MS SQL Server 2000, 2005, 2008, 2012
• Infosys sponsored – National Retail Federation Retail Domain certifications(Point of Sale,
Warehouse Management, Merchandise Planning)
• Training on Project Processes and SQC
• Effective Test Planning & Strategy , Testing Metrics
• Satellite communication course from Indian Institute of Science
• Training in Embedded system technologies
• Satellite communication training in Indian Institute of Science[IISc]
• Software Project Estimation using FP, WBS and Delphi Techniques and PMI techniques
• Software Engineering and Design Patterns, MVC, MVP Patterns
• Successfully completed PM elite internal Infosys certification course for Project Management
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:
Catalyst Papers; Richmond, BC, Canada May 2013 – Present
Role: Sr. Developer and Analyst
Client: One of the largest paper manufacturing company in west coast
Scope:
Develop interfaces for Fore Front Identity Manager ( FIM 2010) to sync multiple systems( Sharepoint,
Telephone Directory, Active Directory) to Vista HR .
Manage data and create HR reports
Build views, User defined functions, stored procedures, tune SQL queries for efficient data transfer for
corporate HR application.
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Responsibilities :
 Requirement analysis, High Level and Detailed level design
 Develop .net interfaces for HR system
 Development and maintenance of FIM system
Environment: MS Visio, C#.NET 3.5, Visual Studio 2010, WCF, SQL Server 2012, FIM 2010,
Sharepoint 2010, ASP.Net, JQuery, Angular JS
Infosys; Richmond, BC, Canada Jan 2013 – April 2013
Role: Technology Lead
Client: Allscripts Healthcare Solutions, Inc
Scope: Developing/Enhancing features for Health care product module which deals with reconciliation of
medical records from various internal and external sources. Ensuring data complies to various industry
format/message.
Responsibilities :
Requirement analysis, sprint planning, creating user stories
 Coding on Enterprise application built on WPF( MVVM pattern), using SOA services.
 Coordinating with offshore team of 5 members (Development and QA)
 Working on a highly Agile project and ensuring deliverables from offshore
Environment: MS Visio, C#.NET 4.0, Visual Studio 2010, WPF, WCF, SQL Server 2010, ASP.Net,
JQuery, Angular JS
Infosys; Toronto, ON, Canada Sep 2012 to Dec 2012
Role: Technology Lead / Design Analyst
Client: Vale Inc
Scope: Design of interfaces for legacy application as part of SAP implementation. To provide an
integration of process and information from different areas in a single technological platform.
Responsibilities:
 Created process definition flow for the project
 Involved in project planning, risk identification and vendor process management
 Interacting with various service lines to understand requirements
 Created functional design documents for Interfaces
Environment: MS Visio, C#.NET 4.0, Visual Studio 2010, WPF, WCF, SQL Server 2010, ASP.Net,
JQuery, Angular JS
Infosys; Ottawa, ON, Canada July 2012 to Aug 2012
Role: Technology Lead / Functional Consultant
Client: Costco WholeSale
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This project involves building mail order pharmacy website for Costco Canada Pharmacy. This project
aims provide patients a convenient way of ordering drugs, refills, transfer and other special services.
Responsibilities:
• Requirements gathering, Functional analysis, Wireframes and Business requirement docs .
• Responsible for Mapping Requirements to technical specifications and Documenting them using
data flow models and object models
• Prepare functional and non-functional requirements and use cases .
• Responsible for Planning, Estimation, Scoping, Work delegation to team members,
Design/Analysis,
• Preparing RFI questionnaire to evaluate vendors for Implementation phase
• Dealt with multiple stake-holders – Business, IT, third party hardware and software vendors,
external consultants to analyze and understand the interfaces and integration options with existing
Pharmacy management system
Environment: MS Visio, MS Word, Excel, PowerPoint, MPP, C#.NET 4.0, Visual Studio 2010, WPF,
WCF, SQL Server 2010, ASP.Net, JQuery, Angular JS
Infosys, Bentonville, AR, USA Oct 2009 to June 2012
Role: Technology Lead
Client: Wal-mart
Worked on maintenance and support of Wal-Mart’s Pharmacy application built to cater to its business
needs. It is used at pharmacy stores by pharmacists and technicians. This application covers all the
business processes involved in US pharmacy ranging from prescription drop-off till customer pick up
Production tickets assigned to Pharmacy support team would be taken up for analysis and closure.
Normally, these tickets are related to day-to-day problems faced by technicians and pharmacists with Rx,
fills, orders and other maintenance information. This project covers all the data fixes, enhancements,
performance analysis/improvements and procedures related to Pharmacy systems
Also, worked on ‘Specialty system’ application domain of Wal-mart. This mainly included support and
enhancements to Optical, Jewellery, Tire and Lube applications.
Merchandise Order Management system (OMS) for Apparels: This project involved development and
enhancement of web and windows applications used by buyers, suppliers and order specialists in
Apparel domain. This OMS tool allows apparel merchants to systematically change the store/quantity
information based on the latest information available. With the enhancements provided, the tool
increased its efficiency from 75% to 95%.
Other enhancements were done on Dynamic Store Collection and Assortment Detail applications to help
buyers plan merchandise accurately for new stores. This development gave an edge to reduce the
overstocking of merchandise for new stores by over 90%.
Responsibilities:
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• Requirements gathering, Functional analysis, Solution Design, Software Development, Acceptance
Testing, Accountable for all project deliverables, software documents and training
• Analyzed Software Requirement Documents and Business Requirement Documents to get a better
understanding of the system on both technical and business perspectives
• Project Management and activity tracking, work planning and Resource planning
• Data analysis – Cause and Effect Matrix, Process Mapping Techniques
• Actively involved in client interactions during UAT and final sign-off, Preparation of User Manuals &
Users training,
• Dealt with multiple stake-holders – Business, IT, third party software vendors, external consultants,
Onsite / Offshore, involved in Multi countries and Multi Vendor engagements
• Training and Mentoring the team to adopt the Agile methodologies (Scrum)
• Involved in Project Review meetings, Effort, Cost estimation & Budgeting
• Was involved in creating design documents based on MVP pattern for Merchandise apparel
planning applications.
• Factory and Façade design patterns were used in Business logic layers
• Authoring of Use Case Diagram, Class Diagram, State Diagram, function specifications, Design
documents, test plan and test cases
• Extensively used Web services, XML, XSLT,ASP.Net 3.0
• Performed Unit Testing and Integration Testing on the modules according to the requirements and
development standards
• Handled Run Time Errors & Design Time Errors by using appropriate Error Handlers in C#
• Designed the tables in SQL Server, normalized them catering to the specific requirements
• Actively involved in client interactions during UAT and final sign-off. Prepared User Manuals
• Responsible for doing Design Reviews, Code Reviews and Documentation Reviews
Environment: Agile, MS Visio, MS Word, Excel, PowerPoint, C#, .NET 3.0/3.5, Visual studio 2005,
ASP.Net 3.0/ 3.5 and Web Services, SQL Server, IIS 6.0, MS Project
Infosys, Topeka, KS, USA April 2007 to Sep 2009
Role: Technology Lead
Client: Payless Shoe Source
Worked on Point of Sale (POS) project for large specialty footwear retailers in the North America. They
operate in all states in US and Canada along with some Central and South American countries.
Has expertise in POS and Back Office systems (Fujitsu, IBM) and a good understanding on Retail
Framework architecture. Has a very good understanding on Retail domain concepts.
The project involved development and enhancement of applications and included globalization of
applications, creating web based solutions for transferring data between stores and their corporate office.
It also involved maintenance of applications and fixing any issues that might occur at a store like storing
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employee work details, opening and closing of store, offline scenarios etc. Projects were implemented
using Waterfall, Iterative and Agile methodologies depending on the project requirement.
Central and Latin America stores upgrade: This project involved upgrading the CASA (Central and South
American) stores from IBM POS systems to faster Global Store systems. They were migrated to Fujitsu
POS. It involved creating new custom images for 9 countries. The image was built on a layered
architecture giving a flexibility to adapt to any new upcoming stores in different countries. This was
implemented using Agile methodology.
Successfully implemented PCI complaint project for US and International store systems.
Responsibilities:
• Requirements gathering, Functional analysis, Solution Design, Software Development, Acceptance
Testing, Production launch
• Responsible for Mapping Requirements to technical specifications and Documenting them using
data flow models and object models
• Authoring of Class Diagram, Object Diagram, State Diagram, Sequence Diagram,
• Designed using Model-View-Controller (MVC) pattern.
• Used Enterprise library for logging and exception handling.
• Responsible for Planning, Estimation, Scoping, Work delegation to team members,
Design/Analysis, Provided leadership and technical direction to a group of engineers
• Developed technical designs and establishing standards and principles for design, development,
testing and implementation
• Configured the Web.Config file for Session Management, Profile and trace
• Used functionality of GridView, DataList, DataReader, Paging, Sorting for records display and
update
• Accountable for all project deliverables - software, documents and training
• Responsible for doing code Review and Review of documentation
• Worked on Global Delivery Model(GDM) with offshore team of 7-10 people
• Was the face of client interaction for POS support
• Was a part of BEA portal (Aqua Logic) team and was responsible for content management
Environment: MS Visio, MS Word, Excel, PowerPoint, C#.NET 2.0, Visual studio 2005, ASP.NET 2.0,
Web Services, SQL Server, IIS 6.0, Windows-XP, MS Project, Word, Excel, Power Point
Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO/ISTRAC), Bangalore, India Feb 2004 to October 2004
Role: Apprentice Engineer
Started career with Indian Space Research Organization in the year March 2004 and worked with them
until October 2004. During this period she was assigned to work on Satellite Communication project. The
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project involved augmentation, operation and maintenance of satellite based communication networks
operated with Very Small Aperture Terminal. As an Apprentice Engineer her responsibilities included
testing of the data link for the expected bit error rate performance
Responsibilities:
• Communication system configuration and Operations, Trouble shooting abilities
• Knowledge of RF system installation
• Maintenance of the existing satellite communication links between ISTRAC and others ISRO
stations
• Operations and maintenance of VSAT based hub station for ISRO network that facilitates STAR
and MESH network (DAMA and PAMA)
• Testing of the Data link for the expected bit error rate performance
• Spectrum Analyzer operation and Optimization of antennas
• Trouble shooting Multiplexer, Modem
• Base band system (Mux) configuration and operation
• Involved in Sky link Calculations
• Created application in VB to calculate sky link data
Environment: C, VB6, Windows XP, MS Visio, MS Word, Excel, PowerPoint
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