Kapil Gagneja

  • Lead Adobe Experience Manager
  • New York City, NY
  • Member Since Mar 27, 2023

Candidates About

 

Kapil Gagneja

  

             Career Objective

 

TO SUCCESFULLY ACHIEVE MY TARGETS THROUGH HARDWORK.I WANT TO USE MY POTENTIAL AND SKILLS FOR THE BETTERMENT OF THE COMPANY WITH WHICH I AM ASSOCIATED.

 

              Current Roles and Responsibilities

                                         

1.    Six years and five months experience in Sapient Nitro ( Senior Associate technology) , HCL Technologies(Lead Engineer) and Birlasoft India Ltd/Birlasoft Inc working as a Software engineer respectively.

2.     Hands-on Working experience on Adobe CQ5.x/AEM and DAM as content management systems.

3.     Experience in developing Day CQ/AEM Components, Page Templates, Workflows and Custom widgets.

4.     Worked on design and implementation of modules on Adobe CQ 5.4 and Adobe CQ 5.6 and AEM 6.1. Have a solid understanding of CQ5 building blocks, CRX repository, leveraging web content management components for customization and porting of websites.

5.     Working in the Digital System environment for 4 years, creating digital content for mega brands like GE, McDonalds, H & M  and Diageo. Experience on domain like: Retail /Financial Banking, AML ,E-commerce and Retail.

6.     Total working experience includes hands-on work on Adobe cq5/AEM, WCM, Java/J2EE, JSP, Servlets, Struts, spring and SQL server.

7.     Good understanding of Day CQ WCM capabilities including Multi-site manager and Blueprinting, and the use of online marketing components such as advanced targeting / personalization, and multi-variety testing.

8.     Hands-on experience in HTML,CSS and Javascript.

9.     Hands on Analysis experience in Business analytics, Digital marketing, Web-Analytics, SEO etc.

10.  Extensive programming in Web Technologies likes JSP, XML, AJAX, Adobe CQ5 APIs, Apache Sling, OSGi bundles.

11.  Was deputed to onsite for project work in Danbury, CT, USA for six weeks from Birlasoft.

12.  Performed Requirement Gathering and business analysis for web content management (WCM) for eight weeks with the client.

13.  Excellent facilitation skills in conducting walk-throughs, demo, surveys, questionnaires, interviews, brainstorming sessions.

14.  Strong experience in conducting UAT and documentation of test cases. Familiarity with designing and developing manual and test cases and test scripts.

15.  Well versed in different management scenarios Defect Tracking, System Integration, and Scheduling.

16.  Experience includes working on WCM, WXM, WAS, WPS, Eclipse, CRXDe and Tomcat

17.  Experience includes working with OOPS, algorithmic logic, data structure concepts, multithreading and collections.

18.  Simultaneously handling various projects in various verticals like development, support and maintenance.

19.  Trained on IBM BPM V7.5 by IBM certified Trainer (Vijay Hubert).

20.  Having a H1B Visa valid till Sept 2014.

 

 

 

             Work Experience

 

Company : Sapient Nitro

Client: Diageo

Project Name:  Diageo PLC

Role: Senior Developer/Track Lead ( Adobe Experience Manager)

Duration: Nov 2015- Till date

Roles and Responsibilities:

·         Working as a Senior Developer for Diageo project and leading a team of 10 AEM developers.

·         Created AEM framework/skeleton for the project using AEM 6.1

·         Worked on the design for migration of existing website on AEM platform.

·         Designed and developed, AEM building blocks including templates, components, dialogs, Widgets, workflows.

·         Interacted with java controllers (Ajax, and JSON to write/read data from back end systems) using RESTful Services.

  • Implementation of Search mechanism using Oak Index.

·         Worked on Asset Migration framework to integrate with CQ5 platform.

·         Handling Client on day to day basis for requirement understanding and implementation.

·         Creation of Customized templates and components.

·         Creation of 15 mega websites with various customized components and services

·         Upgrade from 5.6 to 6.1 version of AEM.

·         Implementation of Agile methodology in the whole project.

 

Client: H&M

Project Name:  H&M Backstage

Role: Track Lead Adobe Experience Manager

Duration: Nov 2015- Till date

Roles and Responsibilities:

·         Working as a Track lead for the H&M project and leading a team of 8 AEM developers.

·         AEM integration with Clay Tablet and ADFS( LDAP) Configuration.

·         Worked on several complex and critical frameworks such Login/Registration integrating with DB and LDAP modules for the project.

·         Created and maintained customer-facing AEM content management systems.

·         Creation of Customized templates and components.

·         Creation of Customized publish login module.

·         Handling Client on day to day basis for requirement understanding and implementation.

·         Implementation of Agile methodology in the whole project.

 

Company : HCL Technologies Ltd

Client: McDonald's

Project Name:  Digital Engagement Platform

Role: Lead Engineer/Business Analyst ( AEM)

Duration: Feb 2014- Nov 2015

 

Roles and Responsibilities:

·         Developed custom CQ components on top of JCR (Java Content Repository) and Apache Sling (A REST based web development framework on top of JCR), CRX (Day's commercial JCR Implementation), and CQ5 (Day's latest suite of WCM, DAM and Social Collaboration applications).

·         Involved in CQ upgrade process from 5.4 to 5.6.1 technically as well as managing the process.

·         Interacted with java controllers (Ajax, and JSON to write/read data from back end systems) using RESTful Services.

·         Implementation of Multi-lingual sites for various locales for sites across European region using MSM.

·Micro Managing the project which involves a mixture of 3 teams, Adobe CQ Dev/admin, Java and Infrastructure ( JBOSS)

·Being the first point of contact for the client in case of requirement gathering, estimations, technical assistance and delivery.

·         Understanding requirements from client and explaining to technical team on how and what to execute.

·         Understanding and analyzing the business and resource requirements for WCM.

·         Estimation/Design Components.

·         Development of Customizable components.

 

 

 

Company: Birlasoft India Ltd

 

Client: GE Capital Americas (Domain: Commercial Finance)

 

  • GE Capital Americas e-exit Portal:

                

Role: Java/J2EE and  Adobe Cq5 Developer

Duration: Oct 2012- Feb 2014

 

Exit process for a GE Employee was automated with this project using Adobe Cq5 and Core java. This involves the creation of Workflows and process designs with the help of the Java and the whole application was backed up by JBoss. Oracle is used as the database.

 

 

Roles and responsibilities:

 

·         Design and Implementation of several complex workflows for digital assets and content approval process.

·         Performed CQ5 customization on foundation components, core CMS and work flows to extend functionalities, improve performance as per the requirements.

  • Developed core Components using the CRX and JSP framework to felicitate the client needs and requirements.
  • Composed the pages as the content author along with using technologies like JSP's and core java apps
  • Implementation of Search mechanism using Lucene.

 

  • Was deputed to onsite for six weeks for requirement gathering and business analysis for the enhancement.

·         Installation of CQ5.x instances on Linux boxes.

·         Development of templates and components.

·         Development of Customizable components.

·         Front End and Back End development of different modules.

·         Configuration of replication and reverse replication agents.

  • Worked on integration with Java and spring.
  • Oracle DB handling.

 

 

  •  Wilber (Workflow Initiated Legal Billing Expense Reporting):

 

Duration:     Nov 2010 – Oct 2012

Role:           Developer

 

·         The WILBER application centralizes tracking of legal expenditure by interfacing with other existing applications and manages all legal expenditure to reduce the opportunity of loss against legal spending.

·         I was actively involved in architecting various Business Layer and Presentation components of this web based system over J2EE architecture.

·         It uses Java/J2EE and JSP/Servlets as the source code technologies.

·         I was an active participant during the designing and code development of the Spring MVC architecture and integration with Hibernate.

·         Handled various presentation components i.e. the JSP’s during development phase and Validation Framework

·         Handling the Back end data processing using SQL server.

 

  • CS Enabling HR and Legal Functions(Anti-Money Laundering):

 

Duration: June 2010- Nov 2010

Role: Developer

 

·         In this project I worked on core java concepts as a junior developer. I was asked to learn and grow in Java by maintaining the code which involved struts as the framework.

·         The web based tool was designed to create workflows and manage important data features.

·         Supported a WebService which was consumed by this tool.

·         I handled the coding and design parts of a few modules which involved implementing basic functionalities of collections and multithreading.

 

 

 

             Educational Qualifications    

 

 

Examination

 

Discipline/

Specialization

School/college

Board/

University

Year of

Passing

%

 

 

B.Tech

Electronics and

Communication Engg.

Guru Premsukh Memorial College of Engg.

Guru Gobind Singh Indraprastha university

 

2010

73.62

 

XII

 

Science + Computers

Doon Public School, Paschim Vihar, New Delhi

C.B.S.E

 

 

2006

90.40

X

English, Math’s,   Science, Social studies, Sanskrit, Hindi (add.)

Doon Public School, Paschim Vihar, New Delhi

C.B.S.E

2004

90.80

 

             TECHNICAL PROFECIENCY

 

OPERATING SYSTEMS

 

·          DOS, WINDOWS 98, WINDOWS XP, Windows 7

 

LANGUAGES

 

·         C, C++, JAVA (Core Java/J2EE, JSP, Servlets, Struts, IBM WPS and WID (BPM V7.5 ), ASSEMBLY, EMBEDDED C.

 

SOFTWARES

 

·          MS Office (WORD, EXCEL, POWERPOINT, OUTLOOK), KEIL C, TURBO C++, JAVA, BOSON NET-SIM, P-SPICE, MATLAB 6.0, Eclipse.

                                                         

 

             Extra Curricular Activities

 

Ø  Acted in various plays and dramas for school’s annual festival.   

Ø  Participated in various quiz competitions.

Ø  Member of school, college and corporate cricket teams for HCL and Birlasoft.

Ø  Did cricket commentary for interschool cricket matches.

 

             Personal Skills

 

Ø  Willingness to take initiative.

Ø  Excellent communicator.

Ø  Sincere, suitable while working in a team and accept any criticisms and take the positive out of it.

Ø  Assertive, Energetic, Imaginative, Reliable and Team spirited.

 

Personal achievements

 

Ø  I was awarded Employee of the quarter in Dec 2014 for excellent delivery in all the project undertaken by HCL technologies.

Ø  I was rewarded with the ‘Employee of the Month’ award in May 2012 ( Birlasoft)

Ø  Top scored with 90.4% in science stream in class 12 in school.

Ø  Participated in science exhibitions held in school.

Ø  Got scholarships worth Rs 7250 in class 12 from school.

Ø  Got scholarships worth Rs 800 in class 10 from CBSE.

Ø  Got 96 percentile all over India in NIIT IT aptitude test (NIITAT 2012)