Candidates About

 

Abhijit Mazumder

PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY

·         TOGAF 9.1 Certified Architect with 14+ years of experience in IT and 12+ years in Java/J2EE.

·         Vast experience in working with US based clients with 5+ years of onsite experience.

·         Successfully lead teams in technical roles working closely with business, architectural board, change management, security and operations.

·         Vast experience in implementing and governance of RESTful API Services supporting best practices of re-usability, separation of concern, consolidation of functionalities and common standards.

·         Vast experience in delivering n-tiered web-based business service applications/components across Insurance, Retail and Ecommerce domains.

·         Conversant in Requirement Gathering/Analysis, System Analysis, Architectural artifacts and Systems Integration

·         Vast experience in establishing Development and Deployment environments/processes.

·         Proficient in Technology/Tool selection in J2EE and open-source stack for development, deployment, and operation of web based solutions.

·         Expert in Java, J2EE, Hibernate, Spring, ExtJS, Ajax, JSON, RDBMS, Restful etc.

·         Proficient in UML diagrams like Use Cases, Activity, Flow chart and Process Flow Diagrams.

·         Expert in Performance Tuning, Trouble Shooting and Load Testing.

 

EDUCATION

Bachelor of Engineering in Electronics (1999 pass out batch) from Visvesvaraya National Institute of Technology, Nagpur, India.

 

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Languages	Java, Groovy
Technologies	J2EE, JSP, Servlets, EJB, JMS, SOA, XML, XSL, XSLT,  XML Schema / XSD, HTML, DHTML, JavaScript
Frameworks	Hibernate, Spring, SOAP, RESTful, EXT-JS, Grails, GWT, JUnit, Mockito, Struts
Tools	Maven, Jenkins, JMeter, SOAPUI, JConsole, Nagios, SVN, Eclipse, Spring Tool Suite (STS), JDeveloper, Visual   Paradigm, MS Visio, MS Project, JIRA, Oracle / SQL Client
Servers/OS	JBoss, Apache, Tomcat, Jetty embedded, Oracle AS, WebLogic, Windows, Linux, Ubuntu
Databases	Oracle, MySQL, SQL Server, H2

 

EMPLOYMENT HISTORY

Fulcrum World Wide, India	Technical Architect	from Nov 2013 till date
Randstad Technologies, US	Java Consultant	from Feb 2012 till Sep 2013
Wipro Technologies, US	Technical Analyst	from Jan 2010 till Jan 2012
West Coast Consulting, US	Java Consultant	from Dec 2007 till Jan 2010
Talentica Software, India	Software Professional	from Feb 2004 till Nov 2007
ITB-India, India	Software Engineer	from May 2001 till Jan 2004

 

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

 

Employer: Fulcrum World Wide, Pune, India                                                                            Nov 2013 – Till Date

Client: IndiaFirstLife Insurance, Mumbai                                                                                    Nov 2013 – Till Date

Project: RAPID Online Sales

Role: Technical Architect

Description: System being built to be used by employees, agents and customers of IFLI to buy/sell insurance products and manage pre-sales / post-sales business process like lead management, call center etc. It’s a large enterprise system distributed and will replace 30+ applications for IndiaFirstLife.  JAVA is the primary programming languages used with Spring as the framework. The database layer is abstracted (currently it is SQL Server) using Hibernate for data-access. Business logic is encapsulated through RESTful Web Service layer and used across both Web and Mobile platform.

Responsibilities:

·         Defined RESTful API components on these design principles - separation of concern, proxy layer between client interface & service implementation, secure access and SQL injection preventions

·         Enforced Governance of RESTful API components following common standards, re-usability and consolidation of functionalities.

·         Defined Business Flows and validate Use Cases along with BA and Business Users.

·         Defined Tech stack on tools and frameworks for the project based on client requirements.

·         Created Technical Design documents – High and Low Level Design Document.

·         Defined Interfacing document with external systems like Payment Gateways, Workflow and Document Mgmt.

·         Created estimations based on client requirements.

·         Designed Sync capabilities between Mobile devices and Application server.

·         Defined Coding standards and setup code analysis tools for monitoring and review

·         Did RCA on critical show stoppers like performance issues, functionality breakage, memory issues etc.

·         Coding extensively on critical functionalities like bulk data sync / upload making sure Hibernate associations and Spring Transactions are properly defined to avoid Database slowness and locking

·         Setting up Development environment (eclipse, maven and its plugin)

·         Defined Coding standards and setup daily code monitoring both manually and using automated code review tools like Sonar and Findbugs.

·         Setting up Automated build and deployment environment through tools like Jenkins, Nexus, Build scripts and Application Server (JBoss) environment.

Tools & Frameworks: J2EE, Hibernate, Spring, Maven, Jenkins, Eclipse, SOAPUI, JBoss, JUnit, RESTful, SQL Server, Apache CXF, Liferay, JQuery, Quartz Scheduler

 

Employer: Randstad Technologies, Woburn, MA                                                                    Feb 2012 – Sep 2013

Client: Lifetouch, Eden Prairie, MN                                                                                             Feb 2012 – Sep 2013

Project(s): Core Systems, Merchandizing & Pricing

Role: Consultant (Onsite)

Description: Lifetouch is an employee owned Photography Company which provides photography for families, schools and places of worship. I have worked across two projects – core systems and merchandizing & pricing. Core systems consists of critical systems which supports order processing both online/offline; each of these is highly scalable and zero downtime application. Merchandizing & Pricing is a web based application to set-up Visual Merchandizing and Pricing information for Lifetouch products.

Responsibilities:

·         Successfully created a Web based application from scratch using Grails/Groovy technology.

·         Created stories based on User requirements.

·         Along with PM, provided estimates and made implementation plans based on business priority.

·         Created Technical Design documents for offshore development team and QA

·         Coded the critical functionalities and created and the base framework.

·         Did Performance tuning and reviewed test coverage.

·         Improved the defect rate for releases by writing effective unit tests.

·         Setup live monitoring system. It analyzes data flow across integrated systems; helping identify possible issues based on throughput, latency etc.

Tools & Frameworks: J2ee, Hibernate, Spring, Graphite (monitoring system), Groovy, Grails, ExtJS, Spock, Maven, Jenkins, JMeter, SOAPUI, Tomcat, Jetty, RESTful, Oracle

 

Employer: Wipro Technologies, Bangalore, India                                                                     Jan 2010 – Feb 2012

Client: Best Buy, Richfield, MN                                                                                                          Jan 2010 – Feb 2012

Role: Technical Analyst/Lead (Onsite)

Description: Best Buy is an American multinational consumer electronics corporation headquartered in Richfield, Minnesota. Best Buy sells consumer electronics and a variety of related merchandise, including software, video games, music, DVDs, Blu-ray discs, mobile phones, digital cameras, car stereos and video cameras, in addition to home appliances (washing machines, dryers, and refrigerators), in a non-commissioned sales environment both through Brick & Mortar and Online channels.

Projects Worked On:

1.      Dotcom Mobile Web: It is a hybrid mobile platform for online sales which closely follows the product lifecycle of the web version i.e. bestbuy.com

1. Accounts Receivable Transformation: It was an initial Scoping and Solutioning project to transform Best Buy’s current manual effort in creating invoices, track receivables and manage collections into a fully automated business process using Oracle Financial Tools (primarily Account Receivable).
2. Kiosk Integration: Systematic integration of sales, inventory and pricing data between Best Buy systems and Kiosks which are run by third party vendors. It was needed to optimize inventory stock and increase sales.

Responsibilities:

·         Worked with Business Stakeholders to gather System or Application requirements.

·         Create Functional and Technical Design documents.

·         Solution Architecture and Design.

·         Guide offshore development and testing teams.

·         Code review.

·         Created Java standalone tool to validate XML files based on XSD schema definition.

·         Worked with Security Group to provide project relevant information, discuss the security concerns, close the gaps in the design and get approval prior to starting implementation

·         Worked with Disaster Recovery Group to make that new applications are added in their landscape for DR activities

·         Worked closely with Architecture Governance Board along with Business Stakeholder, PMO and Chief Architect to make sure solutioning is in compliance with Architectural requirements and guidelines.

Tools & Frameworks: C# 3.5, ADO.NET, Win Forms, WPF, MVC, Dev Express Charts 9.3, WCF, IIS, SQL Server 2005/2000, TFS

 

Employer: West Coast Consulting, California, US                                                                      Feb 2008 – Jan 2010

Client: Thomson Reuters, Eagan, MN                                                                                               Nov 2009 - Jan 2010

Project: FindLaw

Role: Java Consultant (Onsite)

Description: FindLaw is a business unit of Thomson Reuters that provides online legal information and online marketing services for law firms.

Responsibilities:

·         Design and develop independently based on user stories and requirements using agile methodology.

·         Participate in Design review and UAT testing

·         API integration with third party to retrieve Thomson’s video content.

·         Performance tuning to reduce response time.

·         Implement Selenium to identify valid URLs and retrieve the response.

Tools & Frameworks: Google Web Toolkit (GWT), Hibernate, TestNG, JUnit, Maven, Eclipse, RESTful, Multi-threading, JSON, JDK 1.6, Tomcat.

 

Employer: West Coast Consulting, California, US                                                                     Feb 2008 – Jan 2010

Client: Water Management, Palatka, Florida                                                         _           Feb 2008 – Oct 2009

Role: Java Consultant (Onsite)

Description: SJRWMD looks into water supply, conservation and irrigation of the Northern part of Florida. For this purpose, it has multiple web-based applications providing services into Human Resource, Water Resource, Land Acquisition, Budget Allocation and Permitting departments.

Responsibilities:

·         Code Refactoring: Refractor the library services to integrate with the latest Log4j, XML configuration, Mail Service, Anti-Virus Scan capabilities, LDAP authentication, JNDI Service Locators (including JMS services), NIO functionalities etc. JDK 1.5 features like Generics, Auto-boxing, and Annotations etc. have been used.

·         Designed and implemented XML based framework for loading XLS/CSV files.

·         Implemented Single Sign-On functionality of Oracle AS using LDAP.

·         Integration with Enterprise Content Management (for document storage) through Web Service using SOAP protocol.

·         Chainsaw implementation to monitor log files.

·         JMeter implementation for performance monitoring.

·         Maintenance, bug-fixing and enhancements of existing projects.

Tools & Frameworks: Oracle AS, OC4J, JDeveloper 10.1.3.3, Oracle 9i, Windows, Linux, LDAP, JSP, Struts Tiles, Spring/Hibernate, EJB, JMS.

 

Employer: Talentica Software, Pune, India                                                                                Jan 2004 – Nov 2007

Client: VCnity, San Jose, US                                                                                                         Jan 2007 – Nov 2007

Role: Team Lead

Description: VCnity is a social networking start-up. We worked on a pilot project which will help you search friends nearest to you current location and network with them.

Responsibilities:

·         Understand customer requirement and create user stories.

·         Estimate and prioritize stories.

·         Create technical design documentation and implementation plan.

·         Involve in development and functionality Testing.

·         Environment set-up and deployment.

Tools & Frameworks: Ruby-1.8.6, Rails-1.2.3, EXT JS, MySQL 5.0, Windows, Linux, VMware, Yahoo/Facebook Integration

 

Employer: Talentica Software, Pune, India                                                                               Jan 2004 – Nov 2007

Role: Software Engineer

Projects:

• eService7
  • Client: eGain, Pune, India                                                                                   May 2006 – Jan 2007
  • Description: Web-based product which transforms call centers into multi-channel customer interaction hubs.
• MindFlow
  • Client: MindFlow, US                                                                                           Oct 2004 - May 2006
  • Description: It is a web-based SRM product to evaluate suppliers and their products before placing orders. MindFlow had Coke as one of its customer on its Beta version.
• Mediaport
  • Client: MindFlow, US                                                                                             Jan-2004 - Oct 2004
  • Description: It is a web-based application to buy music as well as rip songs from jukeboxes of local artists.

Responsibilities:

·         Coding to transform the application to n-tier standards.

·         Code ORM mapping framework and used DOM XML parsers.

·         Performance tuning of SQL Queries.

·         Implement i8n internalization.

·         Implement framework classes for Data Access, XML parsing etc.

·         Create database schemas.

·         Implement Payment Gateway and SSL certificates.

·         Migration of J2EE based application from BEA WebLogic to JBoss 4.0.1.

·         Standardize coding standards for EJB and JMS.

·         Database migration (SQL Server) using DTS packages and batch/shell scripts.

Tools & Frameworks: Ruby-1.8.6, Rails-1.2.3, EXT JS, MySQL 5.0, Windows, Linux, VMware, Yahoo/Facebook Integration

 

Employer: ITB-India, Pune, India                                                                                                  May 2001 - Jan 2004

Project: iMedOne

Role: Software Engineer

Description: ITB-India is a product based company. iMedOne is a web-based application to enable doctors or nurses to capture and transform audio recordings giving details about medication, patient condition etc.

Responsibilities:

·         Develop as per design document.

·         Write unit test cases as per use case scenarios.

·         Regression and Device performance testing.

·         Performance tuning to reduce PDA response time.

·         Provide client demonstrations.

Tools & Frameworks: .Net Framework, C#, Oracle, Windows CE

 

CERTIFICATIONS

·         TOGAF 9.1 Certified by “The Open Group” - registration number 101077

 

RECOGNITIONS

·         Fulcrum: Recipient of “Rising Star” award for significant contribution amongst new joiners.

·         Wipro: Twice recipient of “Feather-in-My-Cap” award for most significant contribution in my projects.

·         Randstad: Twice recipient of “Programmer of the month” award from Lifetouch for improving code quality and test coverage by the highest percentage margin.