Student Highlight: Aditya Chouhan

Full Name: Aditya Chouhan
Masters Degree: MS in MIS (Management of Information Systems)
Hometown/Country: Indore/ India. Indore is in the central part of India.
Undergraduate University/degree/location: RGTU/ B.E in CS/ Indore (India)

Q: Congrats on your new job offer! Tell us a little bit about where you’re going and what you’ll be doing.
I am joining Conductix Wampfler. Its manufacturing company present in over 50 countries around the globe. I would be working as 'Full Stack Web Developer' in IT department of the company. As part of my job there, I would be working on the development of their web applications.

Q: Sounds like you got a lot of experience working with Dr. Fruhling in our Health Informatics lab. Could you talk about your work there, and how it helped you in your future career?
I started working with Dr. Fruhling in Feb 2016. During my tenure of 19 months with Dr. Fruhling, I worked on 'Optimizing EHR/ PHR systems' project. This research project is a collaboration between UNO and UNMC with Dr. Fruhling as Co-Principal Investigator of the project. My job here was to design and develop PHR web application. Talking about how this job helped me in my career-

• - I am well aware of working culture in India as I had worked for almost 5+ years in Indian IT before coming here to the USA but this job at UNMC helped me in understanding the work culture of USA. How differently things work here.
• - I got to learn the importance of teamwork as we are a team of 10-12 people with each one of us bringing lots of experience and knowledge to the table. It was very interesting to work with such diverse and intelligent group.
• - Most important of all, this job acted as a turning point in my career because prior to this I had always worked as Backend Developer but here I started working on front-end development which made me a Full Stack Developer (someone who can work in any area of software development). Full stack development is in huge demand in the industry right now. Me getting offer letter from three companies proves the same.
• - I got to learn Angular, Bootstrap, HTML5 which are trending skills in IT. (Angular ranks third in the list of top job skills).
• - I also got to explore the new dimension of myself- 'Research'. I realized the importance of research and learned how patient one needs to be for doing research. In development, you see instant results but research demands more time and tests your patience.