Key Skills: Java, J2EE, JSP.
Total Years of Experience: 6+ years.
Current Industry: Software Products and Services.
Current Functional Area: Product Design and Engineering, Client liaison, Business Development, Business Analyst.
Current Sub Functional Area: IT Project Management.
Current Location: Phoenix, Arizona, United States.
Location Preference: India, Singapore, UK, United States.
Summary of Skills and Experience
2.5+ Years, as Technical Lead and Coordinator, in Sun Professional Services Division of Sun Microsystems. Sun Professional Services is the consulting division of Sun, which provides global expertise to architect new solutions or improve existing solutions for world-class clients. Sun is the pioneer company of hardware server technology, network storage solutions, Solaris Operating System and Java Technologies.
1.5 Years, as Assistant Systems Engineer, at P&O Nedloyd Offshore Development Center, Tata Consultancy Services (TCS), Gurgaon, India, the largest software consultancy company in India.
Education
· MBA in International Management, focus on Global Strategy/IT – Thunderbird, The American Graduate School of International Management, Phoenix, Arizona. ( Recipient of Entering Students Merit Scholarship Award Research Assistant Scholar Award & Continuing Student Grant )
· [login to view URL] (Electronics and Telecommunication) from REC, Kurukshetra in June 1999. ( Recipient of College Merit Scholarship Award for Continuing Students )
· Sun Certified Java Programmer – SCJP
Academic Activities/Achievements
· Recipient of Entering Students Scholarship award worth USD 30,000.
· As president of the ThunderVIEWS club at Thunderbird, organized Business Plan competitions, Debates and Quiz Events.
· As website Co-chair of the Consulting Club and Indian Sub-continent club maintained and developed website content for the clubs.
· Participated at the fashion show at the Asian Regional Fashion Night at Thunderbird.
· Active member of the Marketing and General Management Club at Thunderbird.
· Served as Research Assistant to Prof Andrew Inkpen (Head of Department – Global Strategy) Edited the Thunderbird Case Study: Time Marches on. (A strategic review of the World Watch Industry), Reviewed and edited a book (in pre-publishing stage ) by Prof. Andrew Inkpen : Globalisation : Symptoms and effects.
Other
· Recipient of scholarship award at Blue Bells Model School in Grade XI and XII.
· Topped the district of Gurgaon in Class XII CBSE Examination.
Other Qualification(s)/ Certification(s)/ Programme(s) Attended
Ÿ Candidate for Chartered Financial Analyst - Level 1 from ICFAI.
Ÿ Sun Certified Java Programmer.
Ÿ Sun Sigma Expert at Sun.
IT Skills
Skill Type Skill Name Proficiency Last Used Years of Experience
Tools/Others Java Performance Tuning, Applet programming, Design patterns, Best Practices Expert 2003 3
Tools/Others JDeveloper, Forte for Java, NetBeans, Jemmy, JProbe, MKS ToolKit, Ant, Exceed, ImageMagik, Expert 2003 4
DATABASE Oracle 8i Proficient 2002 2
GUI Java2D/Swimg 1.4 Expert 2003 4
LANGUAGE J2EE 1.3 Expert 2003 4
LANGUAGE Java 1.4 Expert 2003 4
LANGUAGE HTML, XML, Javascript 4.0 Expert 2003 4
OS Windows XP Expert 2003 4
SERVER Weblogic 7 Expert 2003 4
SERVER Tomcat, Apache, Oracle App Server , IBM Websphere Expert 2003 3
TOOLS JDBC. Servlets, Struts Expert 2003 3
TOOLS JSP, SunONE. Web Services Proficient 2003 2
TOOLS Java Webstart, Beans Proficient 2003 2
TOOLS Oracle ATS Framework, Java Mail API Expert 2003 3
IT Projects
As Sr. Engineer and Project Lead and Coordinator for Swedish Post, Sweden from September 2002 - August 2003
Project Name: SP's Web portal and e-shopping Website
Team Size: 14
Location: Sweden/US
Profile: Led and coordinated the efforts of a team of 5 people for design and development of an "email middleware" system using the JavaMail API. This system provides the architecture for delivery of value added hybrid mail services from the client’s portal. Conceptualised and implemented the e-shopping section of the website, using EJBs. The portal runs on BEA Weblogic application server. Reviewed the work of my team members and worked as supervisor of code workspaces. As independent technical contribution, reviewed and enhanced the client's proprietary XML-based framework. The framework lists different services that the portal performs and the objectives of the software components in the application. Helped set up and maintain a local repository for reusable software components and best practices in J2EE Programming. Presented and proposed the Sun Spectrum Platinum support agreement to the client on behalf of Sun Microsystems. The proposal was successfully accepted. Swedish Post is now a platinum support customer for Sun. Participated in designing and internal evaluation of specifications for new features (and JSRs) in J2EE API and Java Servlets API.
As Sr. Engineer and Project Lead for ArcCyber Thailand from February 2002 - August 2002
Project Name: Web Services Portal and internal accounts management Application
Team Size: 17
Location: Thailand/US
Profile: Jointly staffed in-house IT teams of the client. Contributed along with 7 colleagues to collect QoS (Quality of Service) requirements of the project with over 5,000 enterprise customers. Developed architecture plans for the client's Web Services portal. Employed most efficient and architectural design patterns in EJB technology to design middleware for the application. Identified potential implementation risks and offered mitigation strategies. Supervised the efforts of preparation of workflow diagrams and use case scenarios for the project. Evaluated several application servers and made recommendations to the client inline with the clients specific requirements. Also evaluated development frameworks and templates of third party tools for implementation of the design. Conducted design and code reviews for the "network monitoring web-service", a custom web interface application to the network failure backend. This was done in light of the stringent QoS requirements of 99.5% or greater availability. Contributed as a consultant to the design team. Reviewed and suggested changes in the "New Persistence Specification" in Java API.
As Module Leader for AB Watley Inc. , USA. from October 2001 - January 2002
Project Name: Ultimate Trader App
Team Size: 8
Location: USA
Profile: Assessed the performance capability of the UltimateTrader, a proprietary software application of the client. This study was done in light of the new service requirements, to complete a single trade in 1 second than the traditional 60-90 seconds. Prepared and presented recommendations for redesigning and recoding modules of UltimateTrader application. The front-end technology proposed was Java Swing/JFC. Analyzed and solved design culprits causing performance, stability or reliability problems in clients applications. Employed OptimizeIt and JProbe to diagnose and resolve both Java memory consumption and performance problems. Conceptualised and suggested to the client to migrate UltimateTrader to Java Web Start. This suggestion was in-keeping with the service requirements which was to avoid sending requests to the client to download the application each time of access. Provided a high-level plan for realization of the infrastructure, including recommendations for a next-stage detailed design service for migrating existing data server to J2EE Compliant Technology Server.
As Lead Engineer for [login to view URL] , Netherlands from July 2001 - September 2001
Project Name: The company's Web portal
Team Size: 8
Location: Netherlands/US/India
Profile: Was involved in preparing recommendations and reports for the diagnosis of the existing web portal of D-reizen. Analyzed, designed and developed middleware engines and platform/framework to exponentially increase efficiency with the use of best practices in Java coding. Developed and structurally tested the architectural prototype and high-level design specifications for the web application. Planned, programmed and implemented a browser-based reservation status module. A Java servlets based tool was designed .The tool generated forms and HTML pages to convey the status of reservations and accept complaints from users. Independently managed the efforts of the system documentation team (Strength : 3). Provide system level and user level documentation using DHTML and JavaScript technologies.
As Lead Engineer for Honeywell International, USA from November 2000 - June 2001
Project Name: Internal Web portals of the company
Team Size: 9
Location: US/India
Profile: Collaborated with 3 colleagues to identify and document requirements for the client’s internal MyHoneywell portal. Performed architectural assessment of the client's existing web site. Conducted comparative analysis of the replacement system for performance, scalability, reliability and maintainability capabilities. The replacement system uses Java servlets to process database requests. Lead, designed and developed key modules of the portal. Most components were implemented as EJBs, running in Websphere application server and exchanging XML messages. Presentation tier used JSP. Provided training/mentoring to employees of the clients Java Technology teams. Managed the architectural deployment including installation, test and integration.
As Programmer for P&O Nedloyd , London from June 1999 - October 2001
Project Name: ATLAS
Team Size: 22
Location: London, UK/India
Profile: Conducted the "Feasibility study and proposal preparation " for the Client (P&O Nedloyd) for use of emerging Web technologies in the "Help module" of ATLAS ( A Database Application linked to global databases of the client ). Independently designed, developed and deployed the " Browser based Help System " using XML, Java Servlets, Oracle Forms. Was responsible for migration of two project modules of the project to the J2EE Platform. Web-enabled the "Batch Request Facility" (A separate project of the same client), using Oracle ATS Framework (A framework of Java Servlets, HTML Templates etc. An active team member of the Core Technology Group in the Center for accessing and prototyping the emerging technologies for ready to use packages for new projects. Performance Tuning and optimizing Network Performance of the ATLAS Application. Actively involved in SEI-CMM initiatives and ISO activities for the Center.
