SUMMARY

• 11 years of IT experience 9 years in the US in client-server, middleware software projects as a Programmer Analyst - Websphere Portal Content Management Developer , Websphere Portal Administrator and IT Consultant .
• Extensive experience in development, testing, and implementation of Telecom, Healthcare, Insurance and Financial based applications using IBM WebSphere Portal Server JSR 286 and 168 , Portal Administration, Java, JDBC, J2EE technologies like JSP, Servlets.
• Implementation experience using J2EE platform and IBM WebSphere Family products Websphere Portal Server 8/7/6.1/5.x/4.x, RAD 7.x/6.0, WCM - WebSphere Content Management 7/6.1.5, WAS 4/5/6/7, DB2 and Collaboration Services Lotus Domino LDAP, QuickPlace, SameTime .
• Experience in Installation/Administration/Configuration of IBM WebSphere Portal Server on Windows platform.

Skills/Tools Profiles

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential

Role : Senior Websphere Developer

Duties:

• Worked on Change Requests, analyse develop new requirements by working closely with business users for existing portal sites.
• Developed Captcha functionality in BYOP CDMA registration page.
• Developed Shops Phones, Activation, Re-activation, Transfer porting , Refill portlets for Straight Talk.
• Create CBO web services to interact with other business components and portlets.
• Created workflows, authoring template, presentation template for WCM contents.

Tools used:

IBM Websphere Portal Server 8, IBM WebSphere Content Management 8, Java, JSON, JQuery, Javascript, CSS, XML, Oracle 9i

Confidential

Role : Senior Programmer Analyst - WCM Portal Developer

Duties:

• Took over the content migration activities from IBM team who implemented the producer code for migration.
• Leading a team of 8 resources offshore and parallel working on development, administration and configuration of WCM design elements and components.
• Requirement gathering, analysis, re-Design and develop external and internal sites with new look and feel. Develop modules News, Events, Feature Story, All media videos
• Actively involved in upgrading portal artifacts from version 6.1.5 to version 7, and 7 to 8
• Building enterprise search using Google Connectors for LiveText, Documentum, Oracle Database. Also working on Google Onebox module for quick search.
• Integrating Omniture site analytics using appropriate variable settings.
• Consume Projects and Press Release feeds hosted on Lotus Notes servers.
• Custom workflow actions for adding dynamic approvers, reference check from internal to external libraries, assign content expiry and deletion date, dynamically assign approvers to a content
• Setting up Syndication and Workflows using WCM.
• Mulitilingual sites by setting 'lang' attributes and handling banner, footer, top navigation for language sites.
• Writing URL re-direction rules.
• Using Modernizr open-source javascript library to detect HTML5 and CSS3 browser support
• Designing and Developing Portal Themes
• Form based email using worklow email action to send email to content approvers.
• Build and test portlets using Websphere Portal 7 for investment project
• Training, mentoring, co-ordinating and monitoring offshore team's site migration activities.
• In Websphere Experience Portlet Factory used WCM Web Content Management Authoring builder to create a custom portlet for creating and updating content stored in WCM.
• Integrate portlets that display content from IBM Web Content Manager WCM and portlets that are developed using Web Experience Factory WEF.
• Using the REST Service Call builder in WEF
• Worked on Discussions creating, notifiying and following discussions using IBM Connections server 4
• Worked on Follow Community functionality

Tools used:

IBM Websphere Portal Server 7 8, IBM WebSphere Content Management 7 8, JQuery, Javascript, Websphere Experience Portlet Factory, IBM Connections Server 4.5

Confidential

• The new Employee Portal will feature a completely redesigned, user-centric design and interface, and will include the following features:
• -New information architecture and navigation.
• -Use of a content management system, including templates for all content.
• -New search functionality.
• -New governance process for decisions about technology Content Management tool from Interwoven Teamsite to IBM Websphere Content Management , navigation, information architecture, etc.

Role : Programmer Analyst - Websphere Portal Developer and Websphere Portal Administrator

Duties:

• Design, develop and implement portlet components using IBM Websphere Portal Server, Java, and J2EE technologies.
• Worked on Development, administration and configuration of the following :
• - Portal component deployment to Sandbox, Dev, QA, UAT, PROD environments.
• - XML Access Scripts Themes, Skins, Web applications, Pages, URLs .
• IBM WebSphere Portal migration from 6.0 to 6.1.5
• Developing News module News Detail, News Publication, Dynamic news module in right rail, creating Menu-dynamic news, Navigator and JSP components using IBM WebSphere Content Management WCM .
• Set up Syndication also troubleshooting syndication errors and Workflows also developed custom workflow action for content approvals Joint/ Single User approval through email using IBM WCM.
• Developed in-context portal preview functionality to allow embedded URLs in workflow email notifications that enable direct access to the content item.
• Developed WCM Inline Editing functionality by using remote actions used in the query string of a URL to trigger actions from the IBM WCM application to perform inline editing of the content item displayed in a Web page also know as hot changes directly on subscriber machines.
• Site navigation changes to the current KP Vine 2.0 and National Portal web site which includes modifications to Page Sitemap 2.0, Grid structure Page layouts , Friendly URLs, Theme and Skins and Breadcrumbs behaviors in Portal.
• Build and automate deployment process.
• Content mapping to portlets, personalization rules and pages mapping.
• SVN code repository merging branch release code to the Head trunk.

Tools used:

IBM Websphere Portal Server 6.0/6.1.x JSR 286 , IBM WebSphere Content Management 6.1.5, RAD 7.5, IBM DB2, Websphere Application Server 6.0/7.0