ORACLE  PROFESSIONAL SERVICES GROUP

Feb 2011 - Current

Sr. Principal Consultant / ATG Architect / Deployment Specialist

SHEL / HOLT

Architect

·         Work with Customer and Partner Sapient on Capacity planning and sizing site.

·         Identify issues with code base and recommend changes for stability.

·         Review environment and identify configuration issues and recommend fixes.

·         Finalize ear deployment.

·         Monitor site for 30-days after golive.

American Red Cross

Deployment Specialist

·         Capacity review and recommend sizing on yearly basis.

·         Planned capacity for high traffic events.

·         Identify latency issues in code, and recommend possible fix.

Jenny Craig

Architect

·         Jenny Craig experiences high number of NMC events. Identify issue and log, tie it up to code, and recommend fix.

·         Review provisioning for Datasources and latency issues. Recommend solution.

Sharper Image

Architect

·         Sharper Image migration plan from 10.2 to 11.1.

·         Endeca implementation review.

·         Endeca environment sizing and provisioning.

TBC corp

Deployment Specialist

·         TBC corp ATG search sizing and capacity exercise.

·         TBC migration plan to ATG 11.1.

·         TBC migration of search from ATG Search to Endeca Search.

·         TBC capacity planning.

SurfStitch, Australia

Architect

·         Manage implementing partner ObjectEdge deliverables by measuring code quality and environment setup quality.

·         Estimate traffic projections and capacity needed for SurfStitch expansion.

·         Create a detailed plan to migrate from JBoss to Weblogic.

·         Review plan to migrate database from SQL Server to Oracle.

·         Go live planning, and after golive support.

Brandsmart

Architect

·         Review implementation issues reported by implementing partner.

·         Provision environment, and validate connectivity over VPN to customer.

·         Provide fix for Axis library integrations with Weblogic.

·         Environment review and code review.

Michael Kors

Architect

·         Review implementation strategy provided by implementing partner.

·         Estimate infrastructure requirements, provision instances, and deploy.

·         Review ATG-Endeca implementation.

·         Review proposed environment.

·         Code review to evaluate code quality and guidance for improving code.

Games Workshop

Architect

·         Review ATG implementation strategy, and evaluate best coding practices.

·         Review cloud hosting environment setup and provide guidelines for proper ATG clustering techniques.

New York & Company

Architect

·         Review ATG implementation design.

·         Review Endeca integration and request processing pipeline.

·         Identify issues related to instance crashes, and provide immediate and long term remediation.

·          Code review and environment review.

·         Cloud environment setup review.

Lululemon

Architect

·         Review holiday readiness for Lululemon website.

·         Review load test results, analyze data, and provide recommendations for scaling during holiday season.

·         Identify issues pertaining to No managed Connection experienced on North America site.

BrookStone

Architect

·         Review Brookstone ATG environment, traffic and scalability for holiday readiness.

·         Code review to identify ATG coding best practices and impact on scalability.

Ashford.com

New London, RI

CSC Architect / Trainee

·         Guide Client on CSC best practices, and guide implementing partner on most effective strategies for implementing client requirements.

·         Guide business on upcoming strategies to drive business content on web platform.

·         Train customer service agents on how to use CSC application.

Peapod

Skokie, IL

Tech Lead

·         Review plan to migrate from ATG version 2007.1 to ATG 10.1

·         Review and implement user profile management.

·         Review and fix build script to build with ATG modules.

·         Endeca integration implementation review and guidance.

·         Web services integrations with backend systems.

Kohls

Menomonee Falls, WI

CSC Architect

·         ATG Resource on elaborations. Guide client regarding ATG technologies and business processes to handle ATG tasks.

·         CSC capabilities presentation to client, and guide client to map existing functionality to CSC.

·         Lead CSC Development team offshore of 50 developers, combined with a team of 6 onsite.

·         BCC gap document review.

·         Author CSC Gap document, provide man hour estimates and delivery timeline.

·         Review in-flight projects, and provide transition plan, and Integration documents to client/offshore.

·         Work with Offshore team to streamline inflight project, and CSC development.

·         Code Review.

AT&T

Seattle, WA

Tech Lead

·         ATT Active-Active configuration.

·         Review Workflow for delivering changes to both datacenters.

·         Review SQL JMS publishing technique to both datacenters.

Bed Bath

Union, NJ

Tech Lead

·         Provide active-active solution setup, and necessary code.

·         Review ATT implementation strategy.

·         Review workflow changes to accommodate Endeca indexing before publishing to production.

Charter Communications

St. Louis

Architect

·         Review implementation architecture, and setup.

·         Review migration plan provided by Accenture.

·         Review database setup, and efficiencies.

·         Lead a team of 2 to monitor go-live.

Exito

Columbia

Retail

Architect

·         Code Review for client.

·         Review ATG commerce and ATG CA implementation.

·         Provide architectural overview for implementing ATG CSC application.

Videotron

Montreal, CA

Telecommunications Industries

Architect

·         Review client requirements and provide implementation guidelines.

·         Consult implementing partner Nurun regarding Videotron’s requirements and best practices to implement platform.

·         Consult and train Operations in regards to ATG components and best practices to administer ATG platform.

·         Manage Deployment Specialist deliverables.

Medline Industries

Chicago, IL

Private Sector

Tech Analyst

• Medline has done ATG 10.0.2 implements on SQL Server 2008 R2 environment. Medline encountered some issues while importing CA projects using ProgramaticImportService.

·         Analyze code and collect logging data to identify root cause of CA import failure.

·         Provide client with a solution, test and verify implementation.

·         Advise client on decision regarding keeping SQL Server 2008 R2, or, migrate to Oracle database.

DirecTV

El Segundo, CA

Public Sector

CA Analyst

DirecTV plan to upgrade ATG 2007.1 environment to ATG 9.3.

·         Advise client regarding proper upgrade path to migrate from ATG 2007.1 to ATG 9.3

·         Provide a tool to migrate BCC open projects from 2007.1 to 9.3

·         Provide translations to import 2007.1 BCC CA customizations into ATG 9.3 Merchandising customizations.

·         Support client during upgrade process.

·         Lead a team of 6 consultants on BCC project migration effort.

Mead West Vaco

Sidney, NY

Private Sector

Tech Analyst

Trace bugs reported by Mead team, identify root cause, fix issue, test and deploy solution.

• CSC 9.1 bugs related to shipping, returns and exchange.
• Resolve ACI profile data export issue.
• Implement Cross-site scripting report recommendations.

Adobe Systems

San Jose, CA

IT Industry

Contribute in design phase of Cayenne project for Adobe systems. Analyze architectural requirements, and translate to technical design.

• Review ATG product versions 9.1 and 10 for Adobe’s proposed web architecture.
• Review ATG CSC architecture for proposed Adobe’s customer service application.
  • Propose Catalog structure for CSC.
  • Propose solution for checkout changes for CSC to incorporate Adobe education software requirement verification.
• Propose solution to integrate CXF and ATG and provide RESTful session management routed through Apache CXF.
• Propose solution for ATG pricelist management and mapping with Adobe price lists.
• Repository design to reflect product catalog changes.
• Estimate man-hours for ATG implementation phase.

Direct brands

Garden  City, NY

Media Company

Review source of delayed login. Identify issue and recommend fix.

Review web architecture for Bookspan incorporated.

• Identify source of delays for some sessions.
• Issue identified as non-indexed database column for active promotions.
• Write process to cleanup database of unused promotions.

ART TECH GROUP PROFESSIONAL SERVICES GROUP

Sept 2010 – Fwb 2011

Tech Lead Consultant.

o        Tech Lead consultant, responsible to design and document systems that will need to interact with E-    commerce solution.

o         Estimate project implementation timeline, and budget compliance.

o        Co-ordinate with partners like Deloitte and Acquity Group for Adobe project.

o        Analyze benefits of ATG product versions and recommend best suited version for a given project.

Work for clients like Direct Brands and Adobe Systems.

Chicos FAS Inc, Fort Myers, FL  

June 2009 – Sept 2010

Lead Java Developer

Design, develop, deploy, maintain and manage E-commerce sites on ATG 9.0 platform.

·       Design, develop, deploy, maintain and manage CSC E-commerce sites for brands including chicos, White house Black Market, and Soma.

o    ATG 9.0 running on JBoss Application server and Microsoft SQL Server 2005.

o    Liaison to a team of 5 contractors.

o    Development and compilation platform using Eclipse Ganymede.

o    Implement Address Verification for US and Canada addresses.

o    Resolve conflict issues between QAS address verification software and Vertex Tax Server libraries.

o    Implement backorder emails / postcard generation.

Footstar Corporation, Mahwah,NJ  

May 2001-June 2009

Systems Engineer

Expanded responsibility beginning 2006 included systems administration of Unix and Windows systems.

Web Architect

Design, develop, deploy, maintain and manage E-commerce sites on platforms including ATG Dynamo and Tomcat.

·       Design, develop, deploy, maintain and manage company E-commerce sites including Footaction.com, Feet.com, Actionplaybook.com and Thommcan.com.

o    ATG Dynamo 5.5 as J2EE application server. Apache 1.3 as frontend on Sun Solaris.

o    Manage a team of 5 developers’ onsite and 2 designers’ offsite.

o    Provide developers development and compilation platform using Oracle JDeveloper and ATG files.

o    Implement independent ‘Store Management System’ (SMS) for fulfilling orders and Customer Service on Apache 2.0 and Tomcat 5.2 platform.

o    Extend ATG Dynamo Commerce server to support Cryptography Encryption of Credit Cards, User Data in database. On the fly decryption of data in application.

o    Extend ATG DAS to support Integration with Google search engine, including tracking mechanism to measure clicks to order ratio.

o    Extend ATG DCS to Implement SOA integration to Kmart website including cataloging and pricing..

o    Implement indexed searching for products, and integrate AJAX based search assist.

o    Implement dynamic price update mechanism for better pricing control on website.

·       Lead a team of 3 developers, to implement, deploy and maintain B2B E-commerce website on ATG Dynamo 5.5. Modify DCS to support Dynamic pricing updates and, Differential pricing based upon client contract and volume.

·       Integrate B2B website with Lawson System to provide additional Billing support for Account Payroll, Corporate charge, credit card charge, or corporate billing.

·       Migrate ATG Dynamo Applications from Sun Solaris to Linux platforms. This migration saved company $250,000 in licensing and support fees.

·       Support and Maintain e-commerce infrastructure using BCC and website monitoring tools.

·       Design, plan and implement Lawson 9 environment on Websphere, AIX platform.

·       Design plan and implement user requirements of PMO department to develop SOX based application to manage IT projects, document management by projects, and co-ordinate approval of project by different teams.

o    Project implemented in Tomcat 5.0, Apache 2.0.

o    Encrypt documentation for each project.

o    Different IT teams notified by email of approval process.

o    IT teams (DBAs, SAs, Developers) could do their part, and update SOX document on intranet.

o    Automate Deployment of project to Servers.

·       Design, develop and maintain SOA project for HR Reports using Tomcat and Apache, providing support for cross-database queries between WebFLS and Lawson Payroll databases.

·       SOA Reporting tool supports additional output formats like HTML, Excel, PDF and plain text.

·       SOA Reporting tool is re-used to support inter-database queries across multiple departments, including sales, Accounting, Marketing and Merchandising.

·       Supervise Data-Center Migration from Dallas to Mahwah. Plan and calculate power requirements, alternate routes,  and setup Unix and Windows environment.

·       Manage Team of SAs to design migration and build Citrix XP farm on windows XP platform.

·       Manage Team of UNIX SAs, and consultants to design and deploy SAN implementation for AIX platform.  Plan and Migrate Data from ESS shark to DS8100.

·       Maintain  IBM TSM Tivoli backup system environment for UNIX and Linux platforms.

·       Liaison with Glasshouse, a system monitoring company, to monitor AIX and T