1. If you do NOT have a CPT code then just discuss at the end of your Topic how the Topic related to your concentration in the Ph.D. program.

Proposed Topic

2. In 100 words or less, identify a proposed topic in your discipline.

Connection to program goals and core courses

My PHD is in infomation technology

I am attaching my current job description for second question

Dear Uma Saketh Gorrepati ,

VISTA APPLIED SOLUTION GROUP Inc. is pleased to offer you an internship
educational opportunity as Software Developer. Your schedule will be 40 hours per week,
beginning on March 1st , 2020 and ending on May 3rd , 2020. For this position, you will be paid
based on the performance.
[PLEASE NOTE: As per the nature of internships, annual salary amounts may not be
submitted and students cannot receive benefits as part of their internship program.]
For this position, your major responsibilities include but not limited
• Design, develop and modify highly complex applications such as Investment Decision
and Rate Reset using Java by applying the best fitting and cost-effective algorithms and
statistical models.
• Leading a team of 5 people directly and acting as a consultant for other teams in
analyzing, designing and developing code for the applications.
• By understanding the sensitivity of the problem and in-depth impact analysis on
ecosystems, develop the applications with in cost efficient constraints.
• Along with traditional technology eco systems such as J2EE, also working with the New
Generation Applications such as Spring Boot, RESTful, JPA, and Angular for best
customer interactive experiences, and AWS for the wide availability of services provided
and scalability of the application.
• Implement the best possible performance, quality and responsiveness of the applications
by doing aggressive system load tests and specific functional tests from both technical
and business stand point.
• As the infrastructure of the company evolves, automate the build process of the
applications using bamboo, Maven and GIT.
• Acting as a liaison between the management and the technology teams in understanding
the business opportunities and business requirements and relaying them to the
engineering teams in terms of sprints and stories.
• Address the database issues with fluency of innovative ideas from development point of
view as well as database administration point of view.
• Develop sophisticated strategies to be able to adapt to the changing environment
including new technologies, global information exchange and analysis.
• Implement policies, procedures to manage information risk in compliance with legal and
lawsuit demands, external regulatory requirements, and internal governance objectives.

Vista Applied Solutions Group, Inc
459 Herndon Parkway, Suite 16, Herndon. VA-20170
Phone: 703-481-8274. E-mail: info@vasginc.com
And utilizing information technologies to control, monitor, and enforce information
access and security policies.
• Security assessment of applications to identify the vulnerabilities and security threats in
different categories like Input and data Validation, Authentication, Authorization,
Auditing & logging and implement the counter measures with most recent network and
computing technologies.
• Conduct network security and vulnerability assessment of networks, operating systems,
and applications by monitoring, verify intrusion, and initiate validation process using
tools such as Splunk. Investigate network attacks against vulnerable services; host-based
attacks, unauthorized logins access to sensitive files and malware and data attacks on
applications
• Accomplish risk management objectives by implementing, and running, enterprise Risk
Frameworks complying with regulatory guidelines and applying state-of-the-art IT
innovations.
• Developing Datasets and Performing Data analysis which enables real-time business
requirements and applying transformations in data lakes which are distributed by setting
up an ideal environment. This high volume of data is managed through computing
platforms such as Hadoop, NoSQL databases and streaming engines.
• Understanding the constant growing need for large volumes of data and designing
architecture to address and meet the growing data requirements of the project.
• Leveraging the available big data platforms and technologies like AWS and Azure to
solve the data problems in a cost-efficient manner.
• Mapping business problems and requirements to available data by making use of a large
pool of data analytic tools and models. Using data science to predict business problems
and identifying a solution.
• Knowledge transfer to concerned parties and training new team members to maintain a
progressive environment.
• Coordinating onsite and offshore teams by conducting meetings for on-time tasks
completion.
• Lead and direct the team with extensive knowledge and innovation. Exceptional ability to
motivate others and help provide a highly productive development environment.
• Understanding the continuous changing trends in technology and staying up to date with
all the new technological solutions coming up constantly to be able to apply and use them
Your supervisor will be Sankari Chaganti, Senior System Administrator, Supervisor’s
phone number is 703-955-3937 .In addition, it is our understanding that you will be authorized to
accept this employment under US Citizenship and Immigration services (USCIS) regulations
governing non immigrant students. I certify that this position is not meant to be long term
employment for you but an internship position to be performed with in the regular class dates of

Vista Applied Solutions Group, Inc
459 Herndon Parkway, Suite 16, Herndon. VA-20170
Phone: 703-481-8274. E-mail: info@vasginc.com
the semester. Further, I understand that should we wish to pursue permanent employment for
you. There are viable options to easily achieve this (optional practical training and H1B visa) as
described in CPT employer brochure
Sincerely,
Pradeep Gourneni
President
Vista Applied Solution Group Inc.