PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, Carmel, IN

Workplace Web Content Management Architect

Responsibilities:

• This project involved migrating over 50,000 pieces of content from Lotus Domino to Workplace Web Content Management (WCM).
• Developed custom JSP components for content rendering and transformation.
• Designed and implemented a framework to generate RSS feed for newly published content pages.
• Designed and developed custom Portlets that interfaced with WCM.

Confidential, Purchase, NY

WebSphere Commerce Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Implemented all phrase 3 functionalities for an existing E - Commerce web site using WebSphere Commerce 6.0 framework. Functionalities include complex search capabilities provided to users to access historical purchase information and export search results into Excel. The system interacted with backend DB2 database using EJB.
• Integrated other open source technologies such as Display Tag, Apache POI, etc. into the framework.

Confidential, Carmel, IN

WebSphere Portal Solution Architect

Responsibilities:

• Implemented Allied Solution Employee Portal from the ground up utilizing WebSphere Portal 6.0 technology.
• Migrated Allied Solutions existing Client Portal from WebSphere Portal 5.1 to WebSphere Portal 6.0.
• Installed and configured a WebSphere Portal 6 development environment. Guided developers to create a local environment where they can easily perform development tasks within Rational Application Developer (RAD) 7 and deploy and test in a full Portal 6 environment with Web Content Management (WCM) enabled.
• Architected WCM implementation for Allied to manage web contents for multiple web sites. Setup workflow and security to ensure contents are protected, yet flexible to migrate from one environment to another.
• Migrated many existing company documents, such as HR forms, into Portal Document Manager and integrated document browsing and searching capabilities into Portal.
• Developed Portlets using JSR 168 API as well as utilizing WebSphere Portlet Factory 6.0. Incorporated Open Source frameworks such as Struts, Hibernate, Log4J, into Portlets.
• Developed Dashboard pages on Client Portal using Workplace Dashboard Framework 6.0.
• Defined an SDLC process for Allied Solutions and followed this process in each Portal project.
• Defined version control strategies and implemented them in CVS.
• Defined architecture and coding standards to ensure all development tasks were performed consistently.
• Mentored other developers on WebSphere Portal architecture and best practices. Trained developers many useful features in RAD to use this powerful tool more effectively.
• Conducted a week long training course on Workplace Web Content Management. Developed course materials and delivered the course to a group of content editors and web developers.

Confidential, Fishers, IN

WebSphere Portal Architect

Responsibilities:

• Led many web projects to port existing web applications from J2EE web architecture to WebSphere Portal architecture. Many Portlets used Struts framework to manage page flow and business logic and communicated with legacy loan origination system through web service and EJBs. Used Hibernate framework for data retrieval and persistence. Portlets that shared common functionalities were designed to be easily deployable into different web sites hosted on different Virtual Portals. Utilized WCM extensively for content management.
• Managed multiple Portal development and test environments. Defined streamlined process for Portal migration across different environments. Used XMLAccess extensively in Portal deployments.
• Mentored a group of offshore developers from IBM Global Service located in Bangalore India on design and development. Conducted code review on components developed by offshore resources to ensure the highest level of quality. Provided technical solutions and directions on challenging technical issues offshore staff encountered.
• Led Irwin Mortgage to Freedom Mortgage web transition project. This project involved re-branding all external customer facing web sites as a result of the merger between Freedom Mortgage and Irwin Mortgage. Delivered the project successfully in aggressive time line with no impact to existing production environment.
• Converted newly acquired companies’ web sites into WebSphere Portal. Migrated static content to WebSphere Content Management Server. Developed technical design specifications on application components.
• Conducted many training sessions to Progress developers on J2EE and WebSphere Portal technologies.

Confidential, Fishers, IN

WebSphere Portal Solution Architect

Responsibilities:

• Confidential is an IBM Business Partner specialized in WebSphere product family. Confidential was selected as the preferred vendor to help WSSC implement their WebSphere Portal infrastructure from the ground up.
• Worked with LDAP, database and network administrators and setup the whole WebSphere Portal infrastructure for DEV/QA/PROD environments.
• Architected a Service Oriented Architecture to integrate core business functions running on Mainframe. These business functions were exposed as web services via IBM HATS (Host Access Transformation Services). Portal environment communicated with these web services hosted on a separate WebSphere farm.
• Configured Portal to use ADAM (Active Directory Application Mode) as LDAP repository for Portal security and user registry.
• Tailored WMM configuration to support additional user-defined attributes. Developed customized Registration, Edit My Profile, and Forgot Password Portlets. Coached content developers on how to create customized themes and skins.
• Created architectural, development, deployment, and version control standards following industry best practice. Mentored junior level developers on how to follow these standards to achieve successful WebSphere Portal development and deployment.

Confidential, Woodberry NY

WebSphere Portal Solution Architect

Responsibilities:

• Recovered a production WebSphere Portal clustered that was down due to hardware failure.
• Made recommendations to Confidential on backup and recovery strategies for WebSphere Portal.

Confidential, Fishers, IN

Technical Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Architected many J2EE web and CORBA applications in clustered environments that provided high availability and scalability. Possessed in-depth knowledge of WebSphere, WebLogic, Orbix, MQ-Series, Site Minder and Apache Tomcat administration. Actively participated in capacity planning and cost saving initiatives to deliver cost effective solutions.
• Developed many J2EE based applications that integrated with existing legacy systems using MQ-Series based Service Oriented Architecture. Continuously evaluated new technologies and incorporated them into existing applications.
• Developed many customized applications in Java and UNIX shell scripts for application migration team to stream line migration process and provide audit capability.
• Developed a complex J2EE monitoring application that integrated with UniCenter TNG system to provide dashboard reporting, alert notification, and event correlation.
• Led many infrastructure related projects such as data center relocation and consolidation, disaster recovery, application server upgrades, etc.
• Worked effectively with offshore team members in India for application development and testing efforts.
• Participated in 24x7 on-call rotation to support mission critical applications and infrastructure.

Internship

Confidential, Indianapolis, IN

Responsibilities:

• Worked in the Systems and Programming Department on the “Year 2000" team.
• Modified existing COBOL programs and copybooks. Ran JCL scripts to test modified programs.