Meha Ghadge is a database expert with over 8 years of experience in the IT industry. She has extensive experience designing, coding, testing and optimizing database performance. Currently she is a technical lead for Moody's Investor Services where she is responsible for analyzing database structures, mapping data fields, and documenting business rules and processes. She has led multiple projects involving database development, performance tuning, and coordinating with backend and frontend teams.
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Meha Ghadge
Contact No.: (404)539-7436
Email Id: mehaghadge@yahoo.com
www.linkedin.com/in/mehaghadge
Address: 25 River Dr S , Apt 403 , Jersey City , New Jersey - 07310
Experience Summary
Overall 8 years of experience in IT Industry, with strong database skills.
An Innovative thinker with extensive experience designing, coding, testing and
supporting database
Proficient in performance tuning complex stored procedures, have optimized
procedures to improve performance by 80%.
Good experience on handling development projects end to end while working and
coordinating with front-end teams.
Ability to analyze the business requirements and identify loop holes in them for better
performance and provide an efficient and effective solution.
Record of accomplishment of producing positive results in an efficient, quick and cost
effective manner within extremely tight time and quality objectives.
Ability to translate business needs to technical processes, to conceptualize systems and
to anticipate the impact of specific changes across these systems
Setup and maintain documentation/standards
Areas of Expertise
Extensive experience on performance tuning of stored procedures.
o Expertise in analyzing performance statistics like tables/index scans, work
tables, IO, CPU and elapse time cost.
o Reorganize queries or tweak logics to reduce execution time
Designing and developing applications and reports based on user specifications.
Proficient in writing an efficient code using triggers and cursors where ever applicable.
Handling a development project end to end
o Maintaining data integrity by providing validation checks and business rules at
each data entry operation.
o Creating test plans, test cases and test scripts/procedures for carrying out tests
of the software at various stages.
o Communicating with Business and Quality analysts during the process of a
release.
o Deploying and coordinating with DBAs and end users during QA and Production
Releases.
Expertise in preparing Proof Of Concept for a given business and technical requirement.
Leading team for effort-estimation, assigning tasks and ensuring timely completion of
the project and responsible for collating, analyzing & reporting project metrics.
Education
Master Of Computer Applications (Rajiv Gandhi Prodhyogiki Vishwavidhyalay)
Year of Passing: June, 2007 with GPA 3.5
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Skills:
Operating Systems : MS-DOS, Windows and UNIX
Content Management : MKS and APPM
Database : Sybase, SQL Server 2012 (Working knowledge)
Defect Tracking : MKS , APPM and QTrack
SDLC : SDLC and Agile
Others : Putty , OPAS , Service NOW and Share Point
ProjectExperience
Till date working for customer Moody’s Investor Services as consultant from Syntel Ltd.
Project : SRDS Phase2 Jul’15– till date
Role : Technical Lead
Team Size : 8
Responsibilities:
Analyzing and creating Field mapping documents for all table of 7 major databases
which are in future going be decommissioned and will be replaced by a completely new
centralized database.
Capturing all the derived logics which are used to populate fields of these tables.
Coordination with multiple App owners to understand the usage of these tables from
there system. Documenting the flow and proposing the new data access pattern
options for accessing futuristic centralized data.
Analyzing and capturing the control-m jobs reading and populating these tables for
filling up all the dependencies.
Participated in Creating Project Plan, HLD, LLD, PDLC and TOGAF document related to
project.
Project : ORP Jun ’15 – Jun ’15
Team Size : 4
Role : SME
Responsibilities :
Played role of SME of 3 major applications. Documented all business rules for the
current Major systems. It was input to build the upcoming centralized data system.
Project : RM Tool Apr ’15 – May ’15
Team Size : 4
Role : Technical Lead
Responsibilities:
Reversed engineered pre-existing stored procedures of RM tool and created supporting
documentation for the same without any assistance from the former development team.
Explained the logical flow of the procedures in detail through flowcharts created in Visio
Worked on data migration from legacy system to the new model specifically for ratios.
Project : SRDS (POC & Construction) July ‘13 – Mar ‘2015
Team Size :7
Role : Technical Lead
Responsibilities:
Key developer during SRDS Elaboration Phase and was involved in design and
development of Sybase, DVL and PiT integration components
Gave major inputs for preparation of low-level and high-level design of database
structure and schema. Extensively created data analysis reports using Sybase queries.
SME for accurate and core databases of SRDS. Worked as developer for POC.
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Participated in all the phase of the construction for three major components of the
system which gave exposure to coordinate for the team involved in MSP services and
DVL.
Project : AccuRate Jul ‘10 – June ’13
Team Size :12
Role : Developer
Responsibilities:
Worked as SME and Developer for AccuRate application
Key developer and co-coordinator for critical projects - Generic indicators , Dodd Frank,
insider list, 12-hour Rule, SFG Performance , French Liability, Muni-Research, Branching,
Rollup logics, Rating Stabilization and Rating Re-engineering.
Achieved timely completion of project despite of fluctuating requirements without
compromising on code quality.
Got good understanding of applications in short time period which helped in successful
rollout of tasks like ADL.
Interaction with other Systems and teams for designs and implementation
Responsible for Performance Tuning, rewriting SQL queries to reduce CPU and I/O
overheads. Performed index optimization.
Developed complex database queries with T-SQL to analyze different
data issues and generating reports for business users
Created UNIX and SQL scripts for Data cleanup for Production move and scheduled
Report Generation for compliance purposes.
Was involved in design, coding, testing, bug fixing, creation of test plans & reviews.
Worked closely with business users and technology managers to determine project
scope, estimate effort and timelines and also for re-viewing and finalizing requirements.
Coordination with the Front-End and the Middle Tier teams and at times going through
the application server logs to debug the data handover to the database. Gat hered basic
architectural knowledge of the Front End.
Taking care of the databases related escalations and issues of the L1 Production support
team. Interacting with the Analysts (End Users) on such instances at times. Explaining
the users the issues in less technical terms.
Performing Root Cause Analysis of existing Production issues and suggested the possible
efficient solutions.
Assisting the testing team during QA phases/UAT
Managing release to production environment.
Onsite Experience
Coordinated and technically lead a team of 5 members on a development project.
Worked with third party vendor and transitioned their resources as well on this project.
Was a database technical lead of both onsite and offshore team.
Worked with BA’s on Correction Sheet requirement updating as per Application,
suggested the approach for re-phrasing the requirements and development to meet the
system limitation with fulfilling the compliance requirement.
Worked closely with the clients to understand the requirements and simplify the
specifications for the development team.
Prepared technical and functional design documents.
Also worked on preparing unit test cases and test results documents.
Got opportunity to utilize my expertise in leadership and co-ordination by being backup
of key senior SME resources during their vacation over and above BAU.
Inputs in improving performance of system in SFG performance task
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Project : SFG/PFG System Aug ‘07 – Jun ’10
Team Size :10
Role : Developer
Responsibilities:
For Initial 6 months supported (L3) application which enriched knowledge of flow from
upstream to downstream across Moody’s
Performed development, analysis, design and unit testing for many requirements of the
same application.
Worked on creating complex stored procedures and UNIX shell scripting.
Involved in many M&E fixes and worked extensively as a developer on projects like EMEA
(database was created in SQL Server 2005)and analyst profile on Moodys.com(used
Sybase).
Went an extra mile and was solely responsible for creating the POC of Data Module for
Sybase 15 up gradation. The entire code was developed on Open Client Server
programming and Sybase, POC was done for the same.
Documented process flow for the entire Bridge system.
Participated in peer reviewing and testing of the application.
Transitioned peers and cross trained team members on application usage and backend
objects.
Mentored new team members and transitioned them on application usage
Achievements
Received monetary award from Syntel for excellent technical work in year 2010.
Recognized with Syntel’s Star Value Award of “Smart” for the year 2013.
Recognized with Syntel’s Star Value Award of ‘Smart’ in the year 2015.
Received Syntel Team award in year 2015.
Received multiple client appreciations over the years.
Visa Details
Valid H1 B Visa
References
Available upon request