SUMMARY

• Confidential is a WebSphere Commerce Architect who has over 19 years of experience in Design, Development and Testing of Object - Oriented Multi-Tier Business applications using IBM WebSphere Commerce 8.0 / 7.0 / 6.0 (WCS 8.0 / 7.0 / 6.0), IBM Workplace Web Content Management 8.0 / 6.0 (WCM 8.0 / 6.0), WebSphere Portal 6.0, Java, Servlets, Java Server Pages (JSP), Enterprise Java Beans (EJB), Java Messaging Service (JMS), Struts, Spring, Hibernate, RMI, JDBC, Rational Rose, IBM Rational Software Architect for WebSphere, IBM Rational Application Developer (IRAD 7.5 / 6.0), IBM WebSphere Studio Application Developer (WSAD 5), IBM WebSphere, BEA Weblogic, Oracle, DB2 UDB, MS SQL Server 2005 Reporting Services (SSRS), XML, UML, PL/SQL Web Toolkit, Selenium and other open source testing tools.
• Extensive working proficiency in IBM WebSphere Commerce V7.0 / V6.0 (WCS 7.0 / 6.0), IBM Workplace Web Content Management 6.0 / 8.0 (WCM 6.0 / 8.0) and IBM WebSphere Portal 6.0 (WPS 6.0).
• Extensive Retail Domain experience with wide spread knowledge across various retail clients such as Confidential + Outdoors, Men's Wearhouse and KGStore.
• IBM Certified Application Developer - WebSphere Commerce 7.0 & 6.0 (WCS 6.0 and WCS 7.0)
• IBM Certified Application Developer - IBM Workplace Web Content Management 6 (WCM 6.0)
• Extensive working proficiency in J2EE programming and developed applications for Intranet and Internet usage.
• Strong Analytical Skills, ability to learn quickly and apply knowledge effectively.
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

• IBM WebSphere Commerce 8.0 / 7.0 / 6.0 (WCS 8.0 / 7.0 / 6.0)
• WebSphere Portal 6.0
• IBM Workplace Web Content Management 8.0 / 6.0 (WCM 8.0 / 6.0)
• Portlet Factory 6.0
• Dashboard Framework 6.0
• IBM Digital Analytics
• IBM Product Recommendations
• Google Analytics
• Google Tag Manager with Data Layer
• Bazaarvoice
• Akamai Luna Portal
• Bloomreach
• SearchDex
• Cardinal Cruise 3D Secure
• Agile
• Vertex
• J2EE 1.4
• JavaScript
• JQuery
• HTML
• CSS
• JSTL
• XML
• XSL
• Ajax
• JSON
• Websphere Commerce DOJO Ajax framework
• SalesForce REST API
• EJB 2.1/2.0/1.1
• JMS
• Servlets 2.4
• JSP 2.0
• Struts 1.1
• Tiles
• JDBC 3
• JNDI
• JAAS
• Xerces Parser
• Java Mail
• Spring 2.1
• Hibernate 3.2
• PL/SQL
• Endeca Workbench
• Solr
• OOPS
• MVC
• J2EE Design Patterns
• EJB Design Patterns
• Web Services
• SOA
• UDDI
• WSDL
• SOAP
• Log4j iText
• Oracle PL/SQL Web Toolkit
• TOAD
• Oracle SQL Developer
• Oracle
• DB2 UDB
• Sybase
• MySQL
• MS SQL Server
• Microsoft SQL Server 2005 Reporting Services
• IBM Rational Application Developer (RAD 9.5 / 7.5 / 6.0)
• IBM Rational Software Architect for WebSphere 7.5 (RSA)
• IBM WebSphere Studio Application Developer 5 (WSAD 5)
• Eclipse
• Endeca Merchandising Workbench
• IBM WebSphere Application Server 8.5 / 7.0 / 6.0 /5. x
• BEA WebLogic Application Server
• JBOSS Application Server
• IBM WebSphere Portal Server
• IBM WebSphere Commerce Server
• Apache Web Server
• IBM HTTP Server
• Tomcat Server
• Rational Rose 2000 EE
• MS Visio 2000
• MS Visual SourceSafe 6.0 (VSS)
• Clarify
• CVS
• PVCS
• Serena Dimensions
• ANT
• Eclipse Subversion
• StarTeam
• SVN
• Selenium IDE
• Selenium RC
• PushToTest
• JMeter
• JUnit
• Pentaho BI
• IBM Digital Analytics Plugin TagBAR
• Windows XP
• Windows 2000
• Windows NT 4.0
• Windows 98/95
• RedHat Linux 7.X
• SUSE Linux 7.3

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential

Lead WebSphere Commerce Developer

Responsibilities:

• Responsible to install WCS 8 Mod Pack 4 Fix Pack 11 in development environment and migrate WCS 7 Feature Pack 8 code base into the WCS 8 environment. Responsible to migrate database, EJB project, Commands, Stores project, custom CMC changes, Solr projects from WCS 7 to WCS 8 environment and setting up IBM HTTP server plugin in the WCS 8.0 development environment.
• Responsible to lead WCS product team which includes onsite and offshore developers.
• Responsible for the role of architect / lead to design and lead the Cardinal Cruise 3D Secure payment plugin project.
• Responsible for the role of architect / lead to design and lead the SearchDex project.
• Responsible for the role of architect / lead to replace IBM Digital Analytics and implement Data Layer with Google Tag Manager.
• Responsible for the role of architect / lead IBM Digital Analytics and Recommendation project. Worked with IBM Digital Analytics team, Business Analysts, Merchandising team and Managers and resolved key issues.
• Responsible for the role of architect / lead Bazaarvoice implementation project.
• Responsible for creating / updating CMC commerce composer template, layout, widget and slots and familiar WCS data load process.
• Responsible for managing WCS Community Product Team and implemented key functionalities. Worked with SEO product team and resolved the key issues.
• Responsible for leading WCS SEO Product Team.
• Responsible for conducting code review sessions for SEO and Analytics product teams.
• Analyzed and implemented BVSEO feature on PDP page for both desktop and mobile.
• Analyzed, designed and implemented Bazaarvoice in-line ratings on Grid, Quick View and recommendation pages for both desktop and mobile without affecting the site performance.
• Implemented Bazaarvoice Questions & Answers feature for mobile platform. Analyzed this feature deeply and provided the solution to the business to implement this feature without creating new commerce composer widget and avoided the extra development work.
• Coordinated with Bazaarvoice support team and implemented Ask a Product Owner feature.
• Automated Bazaarvoice Spotlight feature by creating a new widget and reduced the manual work being done by the business. Also provided the solution to automate the Bazaarvoice Spotlight feed.
• Worked with SEO product team and implemented critical tasks such as creating custom related category and link widget, fixing canonical URLs across the site for both desktop and mobile platform, fixing SEO friendly category and static page URLs.
• Responsible for mentoring Analytics product team members and provided solution for the issues where the help was needed.
• Responsible for creating technical document for coremetrics most viewed product feature and responsible for creating knowledge transfer and support documents for Digital Anaytics project.
• Worked with IBM and fixed out of box related issues in IBM Digital analytics and product recommendations.
• Responsible for opening multiple PMRs with IBM and coordinated with the team to apply the fixes.
• Coordinated with team to provide Aurora Go-live related items for IBM Digital Analytics and Recommendation project.
• Responsible for creating product recommendation zones for both desktop and mobile and tested across the site before Aurora project went live. Found issues in OOB code in product recommendations widget and provided the fixes to IBM.
• During the development phase of IBM digital Analytics project, we had to replace omniture "most viewed product" feature with coremerics. There was no straight forward way to implement this feature in coremetrics. Analyzed all the existing report in coremetics and provided the better solution to IBM to use OOB report. Also provided the detailed technical solution to Academy's content team.
• Involved in regular communication and daily scrum call adhering to the agile methodology
• Expertise in digital analytics and IBM product recommendation tool.
• Expertise in SEO and the underlying data model of SEO.
• Responsible to make configuration changes in Bazaarvoice configuration tool and propagate the changes to production environment.
• Attended Solr training and conference and learned the high level features of Solr.
• Responsible to make Akamai configuration changes such as setting up visitor prioritization page, caching rules, redirect rules, etc.
• Responsible to design and implement local browser caching for static URLs such as CSS, JavaScript and images to improve site performance.
• Responsible to debug and fix Bloomreach thematic pages and widgets.
• Responsible to assess the LOE to replace BloomReach with SearchDex.

Confidential

Manager Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for proactively leading the development, implementation, and integration of innovative IT commerce solutions including methods, techniques, tools designed to enhance the value of technology to the client businesses using OOTB techniques.
• Responsible for the implementation of a new commerce sites for the same client one based on Madison store front and other based on Aurora store front.
• Part of the team for implementation of international shipping functionality integrating with the third party Border Free.
• Responsible for setting up cookie based eSpot, activities and Recommended Content for the domestic and international customers and also documenting the steps involved in CMC to setup these activities for the business.
• Responsible for the implementation of the next generation new store front website replacing existing Madison based store front using Aurora Store front as base.
• Responsible for Re-architecture of checkout pages to single page checkout flow extensively using WCS Ajax DOJO framework using DOJO widgets and refresh handlers.
• Usage of Page layout in CMC and required changes enabling business team to have the control over designation of home and category landing pages.
• Responsible for migrating Google Maps API from V2.0 to V3.0.
• Responsible for migrating IBM WCM 6.0 to WCM 8.0 and configured new Authoring and Presentation Templates.
• Responsible for developing WCM feed XMLs to integrate WCM Content pages into WebSphere Commerce environment using IBM Workplace Web Content Management API.
• Responsible for integrating Coremetrics tagging into commerce storefront pages.
• Responsible for creating many customized tables, Entity beans, Accessbeans and its Finder methods, Databeans, Controller commands, Task commands, JSP Views and access control.
• Extensively worked on UI changes, fixes and strong knowledge in jQuery framework.
• Extensively worked on the support and bug fixes for the sites for the entire tenure with the company with SharePoint and JIRA are the tracking tools.
• Involved in regular communication and daily scrum call with the client adhering to the agile methodology
• Responsible for support activities, monitoring and execution of Tidal and UC4 Job schedulers.
• Responsible for leading and integrating commerce customer support pages such as Ask A Question and Live Chat with the third party SalesForce using REST API and external JavaScript calls.
• Responsible for creating IBM WCM contents, Authoring and Presentation Templates, Workflow, etc using WebSphere Portal Web Content Management tool.
• Responsible for creating and updating the commerce site landing pages using Endeca Page builder tool.
• Responsible for working on the assigned issues on daily basis.
• Mentoring team members and business users in the use of Endeca Workbench Tool, WCM tool and WebSphere Commerce Workspace Tool.
• Responsible for leading and creating workspaces, Task Groups and Task to control the workflow of WebSphere Commerce.
• Analyze problems, developed technical solutions and deliver the solution independently.

Confidential

Senior Technical Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Worked as a consultant constantly providing solutions for clients on business and technical implementations on WebSphere Commerce and WebSphere Portal.
• Responsible for customizing a retailer commerce site JSP pages using WebSphere Commerce.
• Responsible for creating IBM WCM contents using WebSphere Portal Web Content Management tool.
• Responsible for working on the assigned issues on daily basis.
• Analyze problems, developed technical solutions and deliver the solution independently.
• Responsible for proactively leading the development, implementation, and integration of innovative IT commerce solutions including methods, techniques, tools designed to enhance the value of technology to the client businesses using OOTB techniques.

Confidential

Senior Technical Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Automated functional, smoke and performance test cases using Selenium IDE, Selenium RC and Java.
• Developed various reports to provide testing feedback to the customer.
• Mentored team members in the use of Open Source tools like Selenium.
• Customized retail commerce site JSP pages using WebSphere Commerce.
• Customized Marketing, Catalog and Member subsystems in Websphere Commerce.
• Created WCM Workflow items such as workflows, workflow stages and workflow actions, WCM design components such as authoring templates, presentation templates, menu components and navigator components using WebSphere Portal.
• Created WCM local rendering portlets and integrated with WCM components and content items using WebSphere Portal.
• Installed different IBM fix packs and fixes for WCM using WebSphere Portal
• Created theme and virtual portal.

Confidential

System/Programmer Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Developed components such as DAOs, Business Objects, JSP, Java Script and CSS for different projects.
• Created Activity and class diagrams for different systems using Enterprise Architect and UML.
• Used Hibernate to create persistence data objects.
• Externalized application error and status messages using Application Resources feature of the struts framework.
• Developed DB2 z/OS and UDB compatible SQL queries and tuned them to improve performance.
• Documented Test Cases and Scope documents.
• Responsible for Unit, System/Integration and Regression testing.
• Developed complex PDF reports in multiple formats using Java and iText.
• Responsible for migration of the application from WSAD 5 to IRAD 6 in development environment.
• Used Log4J logging utilities effectively to log the debug and error messages.

Confidential

System Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Performed in-depth troubleshooting, problem resolution, and root cause analysis for application issues including code reviews, code fix and script analysis.
• Performed Application monitoring utilizing notification tools. Documented customer problem information, recommendations, and resolution utilizing specific call tracking methodology (Clarify).
• Provided technical assistance/support to internal business partners regarding application issues.
• Reviewed error log information for issues/performance validation.
• Worked with escalation groups, developers, Engineering, and/or consulting teams to resolve customer issues.
• Coordinated software bug fixes with the product Development teams.

Confidential

System/Programmer Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Identified and documented Classes, their Responsibilities, Attributes and Operations using UML and Rational Rose.
• Responsible for creating relationships such as Aggregation, Generalization, Association between Classes and Interfaces for different modules.
• Created class diagrams for Form Beans, Command Beans, and DAO classes for different modules using Rational Rose.
• Responsible for creating the XML schema outbound feeds for POLK database.

Confidential

Programmer Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Responsible in the development of Electronic Rental System for web based systems.
• Responsible in the development of Issue Tracking System.
• Responsible in Module Level and System Level Testing.
• Used different Normalization techniques to normalize the database while designing the tables and their relationships. Performed Query Optimization to increase the performance of the SQL queries used in this application.

Confidential

Software Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Responsible in the development of paper inventory control system.
• Responsible in the development of health guide track line system.
• Responsible in the development of deployment of manpower system.