Ronak Patel

Current

• Consultant at IBM

Past

• Web Developer at uShip
• Speed Team Software Engineer at IBM

Education

• The University of Texas at Austin
• Universidad de Salamanca

Connections

37 connections

Industry

Computer Software

Ronak Patel’s Summary

Interested in solving challenging business problems. I have experience in the design, development, and testing of web applications.

Ronak Patel’s Specialties:

Object Oriented Design, ASP.NET, VB.NET, Java, Struts, JSP, Ajax, PHP, XML, XSLT, JavaScript, CSS, HTML, UML, Agile Development, Test Driven Development, Ant, CVS, SVN, Visual Studio 2005, SQL Server 2005, Rational Software Architect, Tomcat, Eclipse, SQL Databases, Networking, Microsoft Windows 2000/XP/Vista, Unix/Linux

Ronak Patel’s Experience

• Consultant

  IBM

  (Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; IBM; Information Technology and Services industry)

  July 2008 — Present (3 months)

• Web Developer

  uShip

  (Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Internet industry)

  May 2007 — August 2007 (4 months)

  Designed and developed a mobile web presence which provides instant access to critical information over the phone. Designed and developed a product and location based portal so that uShip can present itself to different markets and enhance the value of niche markets. Using a .NET Unit Testing Framework, introduced Test Driven Development to improve code quality. Tools & Technologies Used: ASP.NET, VB.NET, Prototype JavaScript Framework, CSS, Visual Studio 2005, SQL Server 2005, NUnit, Selenium, SVN

• Speed Team Software Engineer

  IBM

  (Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; IBM; Information Technology and Services industry)

  May 2006 — January 2007 (9 months)

  Worked with a small team to build a web application that enables technical writers and developers to create, store, and access documentation resulting in increased productivity and collaboration. Designed and developed object oriented classes to standardize documentation in XML and to export documentation to HTML and PDF formats. Developed an Ajax-based prototype interface for retrieval of documentation. Utilized agile development with a small, highly productive team of interns to complete the project. Tools & Technologies Used: Java, Struts, DITA XML, XSLT, Ajax, DB2, Derby, Rational Software Architect, Tomcat

Ronak Patel’s Education

• The University of Texas at Austin

  Computer Science 2004 — 2008

  Vice President of Corporate Affairs for the Association for Computing Machinery. Officer for the Pratham Austin Student Chapter.

  Activities and Societies:

  Association for Computing Machinery, Pratham Austin Student Chapter

• Universidad de Salamanca

  Spanish 2006 — 2006

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