OBJECTIVE:

Seeking a Solutions Evangelist position in the IT industry that will leverage my Technical Skills (Perl Expertise) to support organizations in successfully leading their strategic initiatives.

EXPERIENCE SUMMARY:

• 10+ Years of thriving IT experience in Perl Development and Scripting on UNIX/Linux platform.
• Have worked primarily in the domain of Health care, financial services and Banking, and Telecom.
• Professional experience involving designing, development, testing, implementation and support of applications programmed in Perl, mod perl, Object Oriented Perl, LAMP, Apache, Sybase, MySQL and Oracle.
• Excellent in writing customized Perl scripts for automation, data parsing, database operations, data extraction, text manipulation, files parsing and reports generation.
• Good hands on experience with Relational databases (RDBMS like Oracle/MySQL/Sybase), well versed with SQL as well as Dynamic SQL.
• Familiar with Perl Frameworks like Dancer and CPAN modules like DBI, DBIx::Class, WWW::Mechanize, LWP::Simple, XML::Simple. Test::Harness etc.
• Good hands on experience in Object Oriented Programming using Perl.
• Expertise in creating packages, writing Perl modules for re - usability. Proficient in installing and configuring CPAN modules.
• Delivered many freelance and in house Perl Training and Unix Commands Training for freshers and experienced people.
• In-Depth understanding of multidimensional data structures, references, expert in Perl regular expressions.
• Extensively used Perforce as versioning system/SCM/revision control tool. Worked on Git as well.
• Experienced in Automation using Perl, specifically automating unit/manual test cases.
• Good experience in command line interfaces (CLI), third party APIs and integration.
• Worked on generating web pages using Perl, CGI, HTML and JSON.
• Great ability to write clear, maintainable and efficient codebase.
• Experienced using Autosys and knowledge of Job Information Language (JIL). Using AutoSys for defining, scheduling and monitoring jobs.
• Proficiency working in a Unix/Linux environment; have good Unix shell scripting skills.
• Knowledge of DevOps work, Jenkins.
• Managed a team being senior resource and imparted knowledge transfer and other trainings for all the new joiners in the project.
• Contributed in streamlining the code migration process by syncing up the application scripts between different environments like Production, QA, Dev and UAT
• Full exposure to SDLC (Software Development Life Cycle) Gone through complete implementation cycle (Waterfall) of building new business initiative projects from Application Development Side including Business Requirement Analysis, Logical design, Writing technical specs, Development, Analysis, Maintenance & Enhancements
• Quick at identifying errors and debugging code, doing bug fixes and enhancements to legacy code
• Self-starter, self-motivated with excellent communication, interpersonal and facilitation skills
• Ability to multi-task and work against deadlines/priorities - possess a sense of ownership and desire to take on an expanded role over time
• Capable of working independently as well as with a global team development environment
• Demonstrated work in a dynamic and agile environment with minimal documentation 
• Served as primary customer contact and liaison person
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills       

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Technology: Perl, OOPerl, Unix Shell scripting, SQL, HTML, JSON, CSS, XML

Data Bases: Sybase, Oracle, MySQL, MS SQL Server, RDBMS

Application Servers: Apache

Tools: Eclipse, Putty, TextPad, EditPlus, DBArtisan, Rapid SQL, HPQC, TFS

Operating Systems: UNIX, Linux, MS Windows 2000/2003/NT/95/98/XP/Vista/7/8

Version Control: Perforce

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential

Senior Perl Developer

Environment : Perl, OOPerl, Unix, SQL Server, Windows 7, TFS

Responsibilities:

• Modifying the existing legacy DOL Portia code base written in Object Oriented Perl, to accommodate the new Fiserv product.
• Enhancing the SQL Server database schemas as per the required specifications
• Unit testing the code changes and making sure correct reports are generated
• Working in Agile mode, attending daily scrum meetings and weekly sprint grooming sessions, updating TFS on day to day basis for the assigned tasks and user stories

Senior Perl Developer

Environment : Perl, Unix, XML, HTML, MySQL, Windows XP

Responsibilities:

• Web development using Perl, Unix, XML, HTML, MySQL
• Studying the existing code framework, code base and develop different Perl modules based on the requirements.
• Primarily involved in coding web pages for dashboards and backend data processing/scripting/cronjob activities
• Debugged the existing code to identify the root cause of few complex issues.
• Created PERL/UNIX scripts for processing the incoming feeds and generating feeds/reports for the downstream applications
• Creation of new Perl classes
• Contribution was also there in teambuilding activities and in improvement of project related process.
• Development of test scripts using Shell (bash) scripting and Perl scripting.
• Assisting junior Perl developers in the development of scripts
• Enhancement of existing functionalities to meet user’s changing need
• Independent unit testing and UAT support
• Demonstrated initiative and team work competencies

Confidential

Perl Developer

Environment : Perl, Sybase, Windows XP, Unix

Responsibilities :

• Writing PERL scripts to extract the various types of contacts (Prodids, Persons, mail groups) and their information like departments emails from LDAP using data from sources CIDB, SYBMON, SYTS, ARA. Then I also did insertion of this data into their respective tables.
• Contact and maintain the email communications of these users in MS Excel sheets daily.
• Daily updating in tables using SQL and DBArtisan
• Automation of unit test cases using Perl, writing Perl modules for re-usability
• Worked and managed a team being senior resource and imparted knowledge transfer trainings for all the new joiners in the project.

Confidential

Perl Developer

Environment : Perl, mod perl, Unix, XML, HTML, Oracle, Windows XP

Responsibilities:

• Worked on the given data files like patients, appointments, Referring Providers etc. from various practices registered with Athena Net and convert those files into Athena Canonical Format using PERL.
• Extensively used PERL Regular expressions in this file parsing.
• Written Perl scripts to manually parse few files. All file formats like .TXT, .TAB, .CSV, .XLS were accepted. Couple of times its .DOC or .PDF too.
• Parsing using an automated tool ‘DO IT YOURSELF IMPORT TOOL’.
• Was also responsible for efficient workflow of the Import wizard. If any issues faced by PS team, worked on the front end user interface to solve the problems.
• Daily tasks also included database related operations. Using SQL wrote queries to manipulate the existing data as per client’s requests.
• Used Sugar CRM application as a communication tool for client interaction.
• Worked as a part of Bug Queue Team.
• QADEVing a task in Athena Net refers to white box testing. Active involvement in the QADeving.
• Perl Scripting and White Box Testing
• Team Lead of Imports@ Confidential, Managing three resources
• Handling relevant Technical Communication with Client
• Deputed to Confidential, Chennai (Client side) for three weeks on a Business Assignment
• Also I was Perl Trainer at Cybage Training Department