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[thenationaltreasuregazette]

Does Ben Gates have Ph.D?

It depends who you ask.

The textual evidence in the first National Treasure movie suggests no. (Or at least doesn’t present direct evidence for yes.)

As we discussed in the Navy article, the first film lists Ben’s education as follows:

degree in American history from Georgetown

degree in mechanical engineering at MIT

Navy ROTC, Naval Diving and Salvage Training Center

Like I argue there, my instinctual reaction is that the degrees are read in order of acquisition. That’s just the most common way to read them, especially when you’re constructing the history of a person, be that on a resume or an FBI profile.

That would suggest that American history a bachelor’s degree and mechanical engineering is a masters.

But wait there's more! Text, drafts, titles, and headcanons below!

As I point out:

There’s also the difference between a bachelor’s and masters’ degree to consider. The higher you get in higher ed, the more specific you get. A bachelor’s in American history would give Ben the greatest breadth of study, and the freedom to explore any and all topics he was interested in. A masters’ degree in the same field would ask him to zero in on a topic, perhaps more than he’d want to. Likewise, I think that depth over breadth would benefit him in his engineering degree. That way he could focus in on the areas most relevant to him and treasure hunting.

It’s also plausible to read this list in reverse order. That would suggest Ben got a bachelor’s degree in mechanical engineering (perhaps in an attempt to get Patrick off his back by making it appear he was not directly pursuing treasure hunting?) and then master’s or doctorate in American history.

While this is completely possible, I don’t consider it as likely based on the way it’s presented in the movie. The inclusion of the Navy stuff last makes it sound like Ben is progressively narrowing his field of study as he hones in on his Charlotte-was-a-ship theory. He starts with a broad foundation in American history, then proceeds on to the more specialized technical skills once he realizes the ship is lost/sunk and he’ll need them.

I also think it squares with Ben’s personality and interests. I just

don’t see Ben putting off the history degree. It’s his real passion, and there’s always the risk that he wouldn’t get to go back for a second degree for any number of reasons.

That said, the 2003 script does make it clear that in that version Ben does have a Ph.D in history.

When the treasure hunt seems to be at a Declaration of Independence-induced halt early on, Ian says

IAN You have your PhD in History. Maybe you can teach high school history.

The National Treasure Wiki lists Ben’s education history as:

Ben went on to receive a Bachelors degree in archeology and cryptology at the University of Philadelphia, a Masters degree in mechanical engineering degree from MIT and a Doctorate in American History from Georgetown University. While in Georgetown, Ben also enlisted in the US Navy Reserve Officer Training Corps for the next four years and received official certification from their Naval Diving and Salvage Training Center before continuing the six generation family tradition of treasure hunting. 

But I don’t see a source for this, so take it as you will.

Ben having a degree in archeology and cryptology seems important for the FBI to mention in their profile of him. Also if he went to the University of Philadelphia that seems relevant to the Philadelphia foot chase? But it’s Ian and crew who seem to be familiar with the streets. Ben doesn’t try to lead them anywhere tricky or clever that would suggest he’s familiar with the area. Even Abigail and Riley go to the more Philadelphia-specific location of Reading Terminal Market than Ben, who seems to be running toward any random place he might be able to hide or escape.

Titles

There’s also the matter of how he’s addressed.

In the first film, the only time anyone calls Ben by a title is when he’s being arresting him in Philadelphia.

SADUSKY Hello, Mr Gates. AGENT JOHNSON Mr Gates, face your father's car and put your hands behind your back, please.

The rest of the time he’s simply “Ben” to his friends and “Gates” to his enemies.

Now, not everyone with a Ph.D uses the title “Dr.” Not using it would fit with Ben’s personality as both a pretty humble person (he doesn’t flaunt his other degrees either) and someone on the outs with the academic community. More on that later.

However, I don’t know that that’s the case based on how other people are titled in the film.

Abigail is always “Dr. Chase.”

Her assistant, Ben, Agent Johnson, and Ian all refer to her as “Dr. Chase” at various points throughout the movie.

Ben obviously starts calling her “Abigail” as they get to know each other better, but even when he’s listing his requests to Sadusky at the end, he refers to her by title. And damn right. Respect her.

Maybe Abigail simply uses the title—as a result of her job, personal preference, or both—and Ben doesn’t. It does seem like the kind of thing that would come up both to her and in general to establish Ben’s credibility though.

There’s also the potential to ready Sadusky’s line as knowing Ben has a Ph.D but choosing to be disrespectful. As in:

SADUSKY Hello. Mr. Gates (derogatory)

This, I think, is the least likely option, though, because Peter Sadusky is unfailingly polite, even regarding the people he’s pursuing.

For example, he also always calls Ian "Mr. Howe." In the surveillance van near the Intrepid he says

SADUSKY If that's not Mr Howe, I want to know who it is.

And when he’s arresting Ian in Boston he says

SADUSKY You're under arrest, Mr Howe.

So my reading is that Sadusky always uses someone appropriate title. If he knows Ben has a Ph.D, I think he’d refer to him as “Dr. Gates” because he has no reason to know if Ben prefers not to use the title.

Book of Secrets

There is one time where Ben is referred to as “Dr.” on screen, and that’s in Book of Secrets.

When Abigail meets Mitch at the restaurant, she receives a call from Ben, finishes decoding the “Laboulaye Lady” clue, and hangs up because she can tell Mitch is overhearing. Regarding the call, Mitch then asks

MITCH Dr. Gates?

There are four possible readings of this line that I can think of.

Ben does have a Ph.D, it just wasn’t mentioned in the first movie for whatever reason

Ben does not have a Ph.D, but Mitch incorrectly assumes he does

Ben does not have a Ph.D, but Mitch is attempting to flatter Abigail by flattering her (ex) boyfriend*

*Is this a good strategy? No. Do I find it a plausible character action? Sure.

And finally there’s my preferred reading

Ben did not have a Ph.D during the events of National Treasure, but was awarded an honorary doctorate after finding the Templar treasure.

Why does he need one?

Ben is clearly piecing together a custom-built treasure hunting resume. It’s logical to me why he would want to start out studying history then pivot to more specific technical and engineering disciplines once he realized he would need those skills. I’m not sold on why he would go back for his doctorate.

A Ph.D is an incredibly specialized degree. Ben would be spending years writing a thesis on a single topic.

If that topic is the Templar treasure, Ben would have a nearly impossible time defending his thesis. We know that his surname alone is well-known enough in the historical community that Abigail knows about his family’s reputation just from hearing his name. Ben would be subjecting himself to years of derision, skepticism, and humiliation on a thesis he is not able to defend because we know he has yet to convince anyone but Ian and Riley of the existence of the treasure.

Or the topic is not the Templar treasure, in which case, what is he doing there? He’s spending years of his life studying a thing that he does not want to be studying. Maybe he thinks he can do his treasure hunting on the side, but graduate school is a black hole like no other.*

There’s the classes, papers, research, readings, not to mention that he’d probably be expected to teach as well. He’d might also need a part-time job to make ends meet, because while most Ph.D programs provide a stipend, it’s usually barely enough to live on and definitely not enough to fund treasure hunting on the side. Given the way Patrick frames the family's finances, I don't get the impression that Ben's big on saving up.

*I have a less intensive graduate degree in a less intensive field, and I could barely keep my head above water doing the literal thing I was there to do. I cannot fathom attempting to run another massive project on the side.

That’s not to say, however, that Ben didn’t attend a Ph.D program at some point though.

Headcanon time

First of all, I think the story is funnier the more Ben is just “some guy.”

Similar to how I think that “retired Naval officer Ben Gates” changes the flavor of the story for the worse, I think “rogue historian Ben Gates” changes the flavor, if not for the worse than simply for the less interesting.

My personal reading of the situation is this:

Ben gets his bachelor’s in American history, develops his Charlotte-is-as-ship theory while in school, then proceeds directly into the engineering degree + Navy ROTC because he’s discovered that the Charlotte wrecked and knows he’ll need to salvage her. (When he goes to MIT Patrick’s like, thank god he’s finally doing something sensible. When he learns Ben’s doing salvage diving he’s like, well fuck.)

After school Ben salvage dives to pay the bills, and treasure hunts in his spare time. At some point either the money or his free time takes enough of a hit that Ben needs to make a change. Thus, he starts applying to Ph.D programs. And/or he needs particular resources or expertise at this point and additional study is the best way to get them.

He stays in the program for a few years, but not being able to truly pursue the treasure grates on him. Constantly being told—directly or not—that you’re stupid for what you’re interested in or for the way you want to pursue the subject absolutely sucks. (See also: my time in academia.) The derision and the strain on his treasure hunting time ware down on him until the program isn’t worth it anymore. He got what he came for, so he leaves. Ben briefly wonders if finishing with a non-treasure thesis would finally make Patrick proud of him, but decides against it.

It’s during these next years that he refines his theory, discovers critical information needed to realize that the Charlotte never actually sunk, but went adrift in the Arctic circle, recruits Ian to finance the search now that he as a tangible plan, and pulls in Riley to do the computer modeling that Ben can’t do on his own.

After he finds the treasure, his undergraduate alma matter Georgetown awards Ben an honorary doctorate. Patrick, Abigail, and Riley attend the ceremony. They’re all very proud. Ben gets unexpectedly emotional, at least on the inside. He hadn’t realized before that moment that this actually was something he wanted, and that he’d actually felt pretty torn between academic study—which he does excel at and enjoy—and treasure hunting.

Conclusion

So, there you go.

Does Ben have a Ph.D?

Only if you want him to.

[beardedmrbean]

A bill creating a $2,500 income tax credit for new teachers, nurses, and law enforcement officers in Pennsylvania passed the state House of Representatives on Tuesday.

House Bill 1249 would grant the tax credit to workers newly certified in those fields – or who are already certified in another state and move to Pennsylvania – for a period of three years after they begin working in the commonwealth.

The credit was first pitched by Gov. Josh Shapiro in his budget request earlier this year; Shapiro and lawmakers have another 10 days to negotiate the budget before the 2023-24 fiscal year begins July 1.

Although a tight labor market and worker shortages have affected nearly every field, education, healthcare, and law enforcement are the “backbone of a well-functioning society,” said Rep. Brian Munroe, D-Bucks County, and thus of particular interest for the state to prop up.

The tax credit will allow companies and government agencies “to attract more, better-qualified candidates,” Munroe continued.

HB1249 ultimately passed the House, where Democrats hold a majority, on a vote of 137-to-66.

Some Republicans voiced concern that the bill’s language goes beyond Shapiro’s budget estimates; the House’s fiscal note on the bill shows an impact of $64.6 million in foregone tax revenue for the 2023-24 budget, if the credit goes into effect for the current tax year.

Shapiro’s budget proposal had shown this at $24.7 million, with the difference due to HB1249 including “more certification types than the initial estimate included in the budget proposal,” House Appropriations Chair Jordan Harris, D-Philadelphia, said in Tuesday’s committee meeting.

HB1249 would cover several nurse certifications as well as nurse’s aides and some other ancillary roles; the bill also includes state troopers, which Republicans said were not in Shapiro’s initial numbers.

House Minority Leader Bryan Cutler, R-Lancaster County, criticized the measure as “unfocused” and lacking incentives for existing nurses, teachers, and police.

House Democrats said Tuesday that the credit is intended to be refundable – meaning taxpayers could get a refund from the state for the amount that their credits exceed their liabilities – although it was not immediately clear what mechanism would be used to do this.

At a personal income tax rate of 3.07%, few entry-level teachers, nurses, and police would make enough money to have $2,500 in state income tax liability, meaning they would get cash back if the credit were refundable in the way some federal credits are.

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Lt. Governor Richard Howell Gleaves (July 4, 1819 - November 1907) was a merchant, lawyer, politician, and the 55th Lieutenant Governor of South Carolina. He was born free in Philadelphia to a Haitian father and an English mother. He first worked as a steward and trader on steamboats running on the Mississippi River. He was active with the Prince Hall Freemasons and assisted in the development of lodges throughout the North. He served as the sixth Grand Master of the Prince Hall National Grand Lodge of North America and established the first Prince Hall Lodge in Ohio.

He married Georgianna (1866-1907). He practiced law and entered into business with Robert Smalls. He helped to organize and form the South Carolina Union League, as well as the Republican Party of South Carolina and served as the president of the State Convention.

He served as a trial justice, probate judge, and commissioner of elections. He was elected as the 55th Lieutenant Governor of South Carolina in 1872. He was re-elected in 1874 and served as President Ex Officio of the South Carolina senate and as a state executive committeeman. He was a trustee of the South Carolina Agricultural College and Mechanics Institute and worked as a warden before serving in the South Carolina state militia as a major and judge advocate in the 1st Brigade, Colonel and Aide to the Governor, and Colonel and judge advocate with the 2nd Division.

He ran for re-election in 1876 and won, presided over the first session of the fifty-second General Assembly, and served as a delegate to the 1876 RNC. He resigned due to massive fraud in the election and left South Carolina after being indicted by a Richland County grand jury for issuing false pay certificates to state legislators. He was the last Republican Lieutenant Governor of South Carolina until 1994.

He worked as a clerk in the Treasury Department. He returned to South Carolina when President James A. Garfield appointed him to the position of Special Customs Inspector. He retired from his government service, moved to DC, and worked as a waiter at The Jefferson Club. #africanhistory365 #africanexcellence

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WASHINGTON (AP) — Getting nowhere in the courts, President Donald Trump’s scattershot effort to overturn President-elect Joe Biden’s victory is shifting toward obscure election boards that certify the vote as Trump and his allies seek to upend the electoral process, sow chaos and perpetuate unsubstantiated doubts about the count.

The battle is centered in the battleground states that sealed Biden’s win.

In Michigan, two Republican election officials in the state’s largest county initially refused to certify results despite no evidence of fraud, then backtracked and voted to certify and then on Wednesday flipped again and said they “remain opposed to certification.” Some Republicans have called on the GOP statewide canvassers to so the same. In Arizona, officials are balking at signing off on vote tallies in a rural county.

The moves don’t reflect a coordinated effort across the battleground states that broke for Biden, local election officials said. Instead, they seem to be inspired by Trump’s incendiary rhetoric about baseless fraud and driven by Republican acquiescence to broadsides against the nation’s electoral system as state and federal courts push aside legal challenges filed by Trump and his allies.

Still, what happened in Wayne County, Michigan, on Tuesday and Wednesday was a jarring reminder of the disruptions that can still be caused as the nation works through the process of affirming the outcome of the Nov. 3 election.

There is no precedent for the Trump team’s widespread effort to delay or undermine certification, according to University of Kentucky law professor Joshua Douglas.

“It would be the end of democracy as we know it,” Douglas said. “This is just not a thing that can happen.”

Certifying results is a routine yet important step after local election officials have tallied votes, reviewed procedures, checked to ensure votes were counted correctly and investigated discrepancies. Typically, this certification is done by a local board of elections and then, later, the results are certified at the state level.

But as Trump has refused to concede to Biden and continues to spread false claims of victory, this mundane process is taking on new significance.

Among key battleground states, counties in Michigan, Nevada and Wisconsin have all made it through the initial step of certifying results. Except for Wayne County, this process has largely been smooth. Arizona, Pennsylvania and Georgia still haven’t concluded their local certifications.

Then all eyes turn to statewide certification.

In Wayne County, the two Republican canvassers at first balked at certifying the vote, winning praise from Trump, and then reversed course after widespread condemnation. A person familiar with the matter said Trump reached out to the canvassers, Monica Palmer and William Hartmann, on Tuesday evening after the revised vote to express gratitude for their support. Then, on Wednesday, Palmer and Hartmann signed affidavits saying they believe the county vote “should not be certified.”

Time is running short for Trump. Across the nation, recounts and court challenges must wrap up and election results must be certified by Dec. 8. That’s the constitutional deadline ahead of the Electoral College meeting the following week.

Matt Morgan, the Trump campaign’s general counsel, said last week the campaign was trying to halt certification in battleground states until it could get a better handle on vote tallies and whether it would have the right to automatic recounts. Right now, Trump is requesting a recount in Wisconsin in two counties, and Georgia is doing an hand audit after Biden led by a slim margin of 0.3 percentage points, but there is no mandatory recount law in the state. The law provides that option to a trailing candidate if the margin is less than 0.5 percentage points.

Some in the Republican president’s orbit have held out hope that by delaying certification, GOP-controlled state legislatures will get a chance to select different electors, either overturning Biden’s victory or sending it to the House, where Trump would almost surely win.

But most advisers to the president consider that a fever dream. Trump’s team has been incapable of organizing even basic legal activities since the election, let alone the widescale political and legal apparatus needed to persuade state legislators to try to undermine the will of their states’ voters.

Lawsuits have been filed by Trump allies in Michigan and Nevada seeking to stop certification. Trump personal attorney Rudy Giuliani argued to stop vote certification in Pennsylvania on Tuesday, the first time he’d been in a courtroom in decades. And the same day, the Arizona Republican Party asked a judge to bar Maricopa County, the state’s most populous, from certifying until the court issues a decision about the party’s lawsuit seeking a new hand count of a sampling of ballots.

The party is also putting pressure on county officials across the state to delay certification, even though there hasn’t been any evidence of legitimate questions about the vote tally showing that Biden won Arizona.

“The party is pushing for not only the county supervisors but everyone responsible for certifying and canvassing the election to make sure that all questions are answered so that voters will have confidence in the results of the election,” said Zach Henry, spokesman for the Arizona Republican Party.

While most counties in Arizona are pressing ahead with certification, officials in Mohave County decided to delay until Nov. 23, citing what they said was uncertainty about the fate of election challenges across the country.

“There are lawsuits all over the place on everything, and that’s part of the reason why I’m in no big hurry to canvass the election,” Mohave County Supervisor Ron Gould said Monday.

Officials in all of Georgia’s 159 counties were supposed to have certified their results by last Friday. But a few have yet to certify as the state works through a hand tally of some 5 million votes.

“They are overwhelmed, and they are trying to get to everything,” said Gabriel Sterling, a top official with the Georgia Secretary of State’s Office. “Some of these are smaller, less resourced counties, and there are only so many people who can do so many things.”

In addition, a few counties must recertify their results after previously uncounted votes were discovered during the audit.

Once counties have certified, the focus turns to officials at the state level who are charged with signing off on the election. This varies by state. For instance, a bipartisan panel in Michigan certifies elections, but in Georgia it’s the responsibility of the elected secretary of state, who has already faced calls by fellow Republicans to resign.

In Nevada, Secretary of State Barbara Cegavske’s role in certification is largely ministerial, but she still got a batch of emails urging her not to certify “potentially fraudulent election results,” a spokeswoman said Wednesday. The Justice Department had been looking into one potential case of fraud in the state over voter rolls, but an AP analysis found the case doesn’t appear to hold much water.

In Pennsylvania’s Luzerne County, a Republican board member, Joyce Dombroski-Gebhardt, said she will not certify the county’s election without an audit of at least 10% of the votes to ensure that some voters did not vote twice.

Trump won the county, where the election board is made up of three Democrats and two Republicans. A Democrat on the board, Peter Oullette, said he had no doubt that the rest of the board will sign the certification on Monday.

Philadelphia also had plans to certify results on Monday.

And some delays could still happen given the crushing workload election officials faced this year during the pandemic, according to Suzanne Almeida with Common Cause Pennsylvania, a good government group that helps with voter education and monitors election work in the state.

“A delay in certification doesn’t necessarily mean there are shenanigans; sometimes it just takes longer to go through all the mechanics to get to certification,” Almeida said.

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Cassidy reported from Atlanta. Associated Press writers Bob Christie and Jacques Billeaud in Phoenix; Marc Levy in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania; Scott Bauer in Madison, Wisconsin; Kate Brumback in Atlanta; and Ken Ritter in Las Vegas contributed to this report.

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[roguexwrites]

→ general information

full name: camila barkan

nickname(s): cam; cami, barkan

age: 37

date of birth:  april 08th, 1984

nationality: american

occupation: mechanic

religion: jewish

pronouns: she/her 

sexuality: homoromantic homosexual

hometown: philadelphia, pa

financial status: lower middle class

educational level: ase certification

→ personality

positive traits: proactive, dedicated, outgoing

negative traits:  crass, irreverent, pessimistic

→ potential plots/connections

Bad boy meets bad girl

Crime verse plots

“I didn’t know where else to go”

Stole my brother’s girlfriend

F/f plots

“Not dead, let’s have dinner.”

[pttedu]

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[pttiedu]

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[ak-adidap]

Email:amitmk.jobs@gmail.com              Phone: +91-9638 646 124                 LinkedIn

Amit Kolvekar has over 12 years IT industry experience in India and the United States. He worked on critical projects and programs for the leading IT Telecom clients and received appreciation for commitment and productiveness. He has experience in project management, cloud technologies, agile development,  front end UI, backend API, and database development. He has extensively worked for the Telecom clients in India and abroad throughout his career.

SKILLS

PSM-I certified, Scrum Master, Agile Development, Project Management, AWS Solution Architect, DevOps, SDLC, Communication Skills, Documentation, Linux, JavaScript, Shell Script, Python, PHP, PL/SQL, MySQL, MongoDB, Web Applications, REST APIs, Apache Web server, DBA, Production Support, Network Automation, Network Discovery.

Tools

Service Now, Smart sheet, Jira, Rally, GitHub, Splunk, Putty, WinSCP, Wireshark, SQL developer, MySQL Workbench, Postman.

Domain

Telecom OSS/BSS, Network Devices & Protocols, Software Development, Service Assurance, Software Quality Assurance.

EXPERIENCE

PROJECT MANAGER • TCS – COMCAST, Gandhinagar, India • Nov-2018 TO PRESENT

As a project manager, I am responsible for the delivery of an application for the Billing team used for automating the PDF bill validation process.

My responsibilities include

Coordinating with team

Planning and estimations

Tracking and mitigating the risks

Recommending best practices

Answering client inquiries

Overseeing the development of technical solutions

Running scrum meetings reviewing technical documentation

Guiding and motivating the teams

Liaising with stakeholders

PROJECT MANAGER • TCS – COMCAST, PHILADELPHIA, PA • JUL-2015 TO Nov-2018

As a project manager, I am responsible for the delivery of a suite of business-critical applications for the network engineering team used for configuring the network devices.

My responsibilities include but not limited to

Coordinating with multiple teams

Planning and estimations

Tracking and mitigating the risks

Recommending best practices

Answering to client inquiries

Overseeing the development of technical solutions

Running scrum meetings reviewing technical documentation

Guiding and motivating the teams

Liaising with stakeholders

I was also involved in identifying the potential customers, arranging presentations and responding to RFIs and RFPs.

LEAD DEVELOPER • TCS – COMCAST, MT.LAUREL, NJ • NOV-2013 TO JUN-2015

Comcast has application suite used to generate and push configurations, monitor and manage network devices. Discover network devices and services. Run the performance tests on the circuits deployed for the business customers.

As lead developer, I was responsible for

Understanding the technical and business requirements from the product owners

Documenting and expanding user stories

Assigning tasks to the onshore and offshore developers

Presenting product demo

Troubleshooting and fixing production issues

Managing the databases and application servers

Provide regular reports and metrics to the management

Attended Cisco Interconnected Network devices training.

DEVELOPER • TCS – ERICSSON, RICHARDSON, TX • JUL-2011 TO OCT-2013

As an onsite developer, I was developing and maintaining the web-based application used by the Emergency Recovery team. The application used for managing the high severity issues happening in the various customer locations across the globe. There were about 600 users across the US, Europe, and China.

This tool used to

Keep track of issues and the engineers could update the status

Add notes as engineers troubleshoot the issue

The hand-off between the engineers working in shifts

Send SMS and Email alerts to the customers

Generate reports for the management to review

My responsibilities include adding new features and functionalities, answering user queries, coordinating with offshore team. Writing technical documentation and code review.

DEVELOPER • TCS – NORTEL NETWORKS, RALEIGH, NC • OCT-2010 TO JUL-2011

Nortel Network sold its business to Ericsson, Avaya, and Ciena. This project was to extract and migrate the business data to the buyers.

I was working with the team at onsite to perform the following activities.

Write and execute jobs that scan the document repository

Extract the relevant data,

Encrypt and package the data

Using Java and PowerShell and Documentum.

DEVELOPER • TCS –TATA COMMUNICATIONS, MUMBAI• MAR-2008 TO SEP-2010

At Tata Communication I was working on the development and maintenance of business critical Operations and Business process application. This application was developed in Linux, Apache, MySQL, and PHP (LAMP) with a user base of over 300 across India. This application used for presale, order management and provisioning of the various services provided by the Tata Communications.

My responsibilities include

Discuss new requirements with product owners and developing the features.

Troubleshooting the production issues in L3 support

Generating reports based on customer requirements using PL/SQL.

Working with other groups and assist them in understanding business data.

Document various aspects of the application and business cases.

Set up MySQL replication for redundancy and reports.

Trainee • TCS, coimbatore• Oct-2007 TO dec-2007

At Tata Consultancy Services, we were trained in Java, Oracle RDBMS, and Linux. Along with programming skills we were also trained in written and verbal communications. Email and telephone etiquettes in the business environment.

EDUCATION & Certifications

BACHELOR OF ENGINEERING – Mechanical Engineering • 2007 • VTU BELGAVI KARNATAKA

AWS Certified Solutions Architect  – Verification code: F6H2Z3J2LBFQ1RGJ

PROFESSIONAL SCRUM MASTER™ I

  Amit Kolvekar – Technical Project Manager Email:amitmk.jobs@gmail.com              Phone: +91-9638 646 124                 LinkedIn Amit Kolvekar has over 12 years IT industry experience…