Ramon Aseniero
SiteCore Consultant
Professional summary
A Professional Software Engineer since 1998
A Sitecore Administration since December 2014
A Sitecore Developer/Architect since 2006
Sitecore Certified Developer since version 5.3 and has been recertified for five times in every major release of product including the latest version.
Certified on other Sitecore modules namely Sitecore DMS (v6.5), Sitecore ECM (v6.5), Sitecore Security Administration (v6.5) and Sitecore System Administration (v6.5).
Actively maintains a Sitecore blog http://sitecoreazuremvc.com to share his experiences and solutions to the Sitecore developer community.
Develop Sitecore modules available in the Sitecore Marketplace. https://marketplace.sitecore.net/Modules/S/Sitecore_Salesforce_Connector.aspx?sc_lang=en
Years of experience in leading, architecting and analyzing requirements to develop and deliver a Sitecore CMS solutions for the Enterprise.
Lead the implementation, architecture about 20+ medium-sized to large-sized Content Management System (CMS) projects using Sitecore, Ektron, Umbraco, SAP Portal, Zope/Plone, OpenCMS, DotNetNuke, Joomla, Drupal.
Delivered several Sitecore implementations in different vertical market namely in healthcare, schools & university, water district and telecommunication.
Software Design and Architecture using Object Oriented Analysis and Design, Design Patterns, Domain Driven Design, N-Tier design, SOLID Principles.
Experience in web development using Microsoft technology stack using ASP.NET, C#, Entity Framework, LINQ, MVC 3.5/4.0, WebApi, Windows Azure and Open Source technology stack using Java, Python, JSP, Servlet, Apache, Linux, MySQL, XML, HTML/HTML5, JavaScript, CSS.
Experience in Database technology using MS SQL Server 2000, 2005, 2010, 2008 R2, 2010, MySQL, Oracle 9i, SQL Azure.
Experience in Quality Assurance using Test Driven Development (TDD), NUNIT, JUNIT, Moq, Microsoft Test, Selenium IDE, Atlassian JIRA
Experience in developing successful n-tier software applications using variety of technologies such as Java/J2EE, Web Services/SOAP, RESTful API, XML and SQL.
Professional Experience
JairoSoft LLC, CA July 2015-Present
Sitecore Practice Lead
Client: Gilead Science
Roles: Sitecore Administrator (DEVOPS)
Manage Sitecore content releases and code deployments.
Coordinated the streamlining and standardization the IT Operation by documenting processes and operating procedures.
Manage new domain setup
Maintain 20 application and database servers in 3 different data center geographically disperse in North America, Asia and Europe.
Technology Used: Sitecore CMS, Asp.net/C#, MVC, MS SQL Database Server, Windows & Windows Server
Client: Kennedy Space Center (NASA US Government)
Roles: Sitecore Developer & Architect
Develop the website GPNAMO site using Sitecore CMS.
Develop a Sitecore deployment tool using XAML, Sitecore Service Client
Technology used: Sitecore CMS, Visual Studio, JIRA, Confluence, VPN, RSA KEY, Smart Card
Client: DOW Chemicals
Roles: Sitecore Architect
Provided Sitecore Coding Standard and Best Practices
Provided a solution for Language Fallback in a Multi-Site Sitecore environment.
Provided design for the Visual Studio solutions and project files for a Multisite Sitecore environment.
Technology used: Sitecore 8.0, Visual Studio, Sitecore Commerce, Asp.net/C#, Sitecore Standards & Best Practices, Language Fallback, VSIX.
Client: Cirque du Soleil
Roles: Sitecore Architect & Developer
Architected the production environment running on Windows Azure
Developed the Sitemap page for www.cirquedusoleil.com using the specification sitemap.org
Develop an Azure Web Jobs to import shows and events into Sitecore CMS.
Technologies used: Windows Azure, Asp.net/C#, Visual Studio, MS SQL Database, Windows Server
Client: Accenture
Roles: Sitecore Developer
Sitecore Maintenance project on www.accenture.com.
Redesign and development of the Meet Our Leaders page
Technology used: Sitecore CMS, Unicorn, Windows 2012, SQL Server 2012, Visual Studio, Team Development for Sitecore (TDS).
Client: Bank of the West
Roles: Sitecore Administrator (DEVOPS)
Maintain the corporate website www.bankofthewest.com running on Sitecore.
Manage Sitecore content releases and code deployments.
Maintain 10 application and database servers.
Standardize Sitecore Release processes.
Manage Sitecore Upgrades.
Participated on the relocation project to move to a different data center.
Develop PowerShell scripts to automate backups, disk cleanup, and deployments.
Technologies used: Sitecore CMS, PowerShell Scripting, Windows Servers, SQL Database Server
eDynamics LLC, NY January 2015-July 2015
Client: Gilead Science
Roles: Sitecore Practice Lead
Manage Sitecore Practice between New York and India team.
Facilitate Sitecore initiative within the practice.
Standardize Sitecore coding and processes.
Provided consulting advice to several clients.
Performed Sitecore audit work for one of the client.
Technology Used: Sitecore CMS, DMS, Visual Studio, Asp.net/C#, MVC, MSSQL Server, Windows Server
Corbus LLC, CA June 2013-March 2015
Client: Proctor & Gamble
Role: Sitecore Architect & Developer
Provide leadership for Corbus's Sitecore practice focused on developing a complete Sitecore service offering. Provide expertise in architecting Sitecore solutions to meet client requirements.
Establish internal development processes and best practices.
Build and create high-functioning Sitecore teams to meet market demand and client requirements.
Provide strategic and tactical Project oversight. Manage and support project teams to successfully deliver the client’s business requirements.
Participate in weekly project team, or steering committee, meetings, to keep current, spot trends, and review major project threads or critical path items with project manager.
Maintain effective relationships with multiple clients and vendors. Publish and/or present to user, industry, and vendor trade shows. Assist in maintaining a professional market image for Corbus.
Support Sales in identifying new opportunities.
Develop and present proposals, bids, RFPs, and statements of work congruent with the scale and scope of the sales cycle and eventual engagement.
Collaborate with sales to up-sell consulting services within existing engagements and lead the communication of when to fully engage sales in developing the opportunity. Lead the estimating process with account management buy-in, to ensure profitable delivery.
Expert knowledge and ability in .NET and Sitecore CMS.
Current Sitecore Developer Certifications
Monterey Bay Aquarium, CA September 2011-May 2013
Senior Manager of Web Development
Migration the main site to Sitecore CMS.
Analyzed, designed, coded, tested and deployed several projects.
Manage external software vendors.
Agile Methodology using SCRUM utilizing Atlassian Greenhopper for JIRA, SCRUM Board, Kanban Board, Product Backlog, Sprint Backlog, Burndown Chart, Sprint Planning, Atlassian Confluence.
Coded in C#.
Used Windows Azure, SQL Azure, and Amazon Cloud as deployment platforms.
Visual Studio 2010/2012, ReSharper, CodeMaid plugin.
MS SQL Server 2008 R2/2012.
SVN, Git, Mercurial as source code repository.
Continued to build Integration using Atlassian Bamboo.
JairoSolutions LLC, CA September 2005-September 2011
Director of Software Engineering
Built a team of .NET Developers, PHP, QA Engineer, Front-end developers and Project Coordinator.
Provided technical leadership to the development team.
Managed about 40+ team members consisting of Developers, QA, Designers and Project Coordinators.
Managed offshore resources.
Wrote project proposals and respond to RFQ, RFP.
Attended vendor selection.
Project Manage using SCRUM Agile methodology or traditional project management standards.
Performed code review.
Led a project team of 5 to 10 members to analyzed, designed, coded, tested and deployed Content Management System (CMS) using Sitecore CMS, Ektron CMS, Umbraco CMS, Drupal, and Joomla.
Coded in ASP.NET/C#, HTML, CSS, JavaScript, Visual Basic, XSLT and PHP, MS SQL Server 2005/2008 Stored Procedures.
Featured Sitecore CMS Projects: o www.verizoninsider.com, www.insighthealth.com, annenberg.usc.edu, globalhealth.usc.edu, www.lightsofamerica.com, www.vcmwd.org, www.travelofamerica.com, www.ufcw324.org, stjohnswomens.org/, www.newstjohns.org.
Lead a project team of 3 to 8 members to analyzed, designed, coded, tested and deployed about 40+ customized E-commerce sites using AspdotnetStorefront, osCommerce, Storefront.net and Yahoo Store.
Coded in ASP.NET/C#, HTML, CSS, JavaScript, Visual Basic, PHP, MS SQL Server 2005/2008 Stored Procedures. Featured Ecommerce Projects: http://oprahstore.oprah.com/, www.watchesonnet.com, www.kbellsocks.com, www.perfumersapprentice.com, www.itshot.com, www.samstailoring.com, www.tiffanycouture.com,
www.abigailsplace.com, www.larsonjewelers.com, www.outdora.com, www.1800battery.com, www.capeporpoiselobster.com, www.gplawn.com, www.gypsywears.com, www.onewayfurniture.com/, www.cnamart.com, www.worldoftiles.com, www.trailmix.net, http://www.showroom.co.nz/.
Worked with clients to build several custom ASP.NET web applications using ASP.NET/C#, MVC 3.5/4.0, Entity Framework 4.0/4.5, LINQ, and Repository Pattern.
Worked with SAP Portal/Java to add new feature for a Procurement System.
Worked on Onboarding System using Asp.NET/C#, MVC, Entity Framework, MS SQL Server 2008, and Team Foundation Server (TFS).
Featured Projects: http://www.jouercosmetics.com/, http://www.verametric.com
The Revere Group, CA March 2001-October 2008
Project Lead
Performed project management using PMI standards.
Analyzed, designed, coded, tested and deployed ASP.NET web applications using ASP.NET, C#, Visual Basic, MS SQL Server 2005, Sitecore CMS, Ektron CMS, Google Search Appliance, Microsoft Application Block SDK, XSLT, XML, XPATH, SQL, Stored Procedure, Able Commerce and MS Access programming, Design Patterns, SCRUM, XP Agile Methodology.
Featured Projects: 1105 Media (www.1105Media.com), Brookings (www.brookings.edu), Writer’s Guild of American (www.wga.org), Skidmore Owings & Merrill LLP (www.som.com), Your Spine (www.yourspine.com) Analyzed, designed, coded, tested and deployed several Java web applications using JAVA 2, Jakarta-Tomcat, Spring-Framework, MySQL, JSP, JDBC, Java Bean, JINI, iText PDF, Red hat Linux, ANT, CVS, XML, XMI, UML, JUNIT, WinCVS, IBM WebLogic, Introscope Client/Server, Oracle, Sybase SQL Anywhere, SQL, Stored Procedure, JavaScript, HTML, MS SQL Server 2000, JRUN 4.0, Active Directory, Perforce, Windows 2000 Server/Professional, Sun Solaris, Bugzilla, SSL, HTTPS, Embarcadero Describe, Apache Web Server, IIS, UML Diagram, Visio.
Featured Projects: The Annie E. Casey Foundation (www.aecf.org), Jellyfish LabVelocity, ViaMD (www.viamd.com), Guild Mortgage (www.guildmortgage.com).
Designed, coded, tested and deployed Python base CMS project using Zope/Plone.
Biowire September 2000-February 2001
Software Developer Java
Analyzed, designed, coded, tested and deployed web applications using Java 2 SDK, Sun Solaris, JavaScript 4.0, JDBC, Java RMI, JSP, Java Servlets, JavaBeans, Metrowerks Code Warrior, HTML 4.0, Oracle 8i, PL/SQL, Apache Web Server and CVS.
Apar Technologies, Singapore November 1999-August 2000
Software Developer Java Consultant
Analyzed, designed, coded, tested and deployed software applications using Java 2 SDK, Windows NT Workstation 4.0, JavaScript 4.0, JDBC, Java RMI, JSP, Java Servlets, JavaBeans, JBuilder 2.0, HTML 4.0, Oracle 8i, PL/SQL, Netscape Web Server 4.01, Macromedia Dream Weaver 2.0.
Mentored team on Object Oriented Programming, Analysis and Design using UML diagrams, class and sequence diagrams.
Mentored team on development processes using Microsoft Visual SourceSafe 5.0 as source code repository and using Forte for Java as development environment.
Lear Corporation, Detroit, Michigan and Cebu, Philippines Mar 1998-November 1998
Senior Applications Developer
Team lead with 4 direct reports.
Analyzed, designed, coded, tested and deployed application programs per functional specifications provided by Detroit Michigan (USA) associates using standard development tools to produce well documented source code in the following programming languages and technologies: Java, Visual Basic, C/C++, HTML, CSS, JavaScript, Oracle Web Tool Kit, Oracle 8i, Oracle PL/SQL, Unigraphics Integration tool kit, OOP, OOAD.
Ensured that all developers performed according to approved Application Development Standards, Test Specification and Standards for Internal/External Documentation, and workflow processes.
Participated on the Application Development Standard team.
Reviewed all new application development project requests as well as requests for changes to existing applications.
Assigned projects to team members and tracked through completion to ensure that project schedules were met. Used Microsoft Project and followed PMI standards.
Supported the organizations – Information Technologies continuous improvement initiatives through the development of matrices used to track progress in the areas of quality and timely completion of projects. Provided reports to management quarterly.
Jairo June 1995-May 19998
Software Developer
Client: Lucia Realty and Development Inc., Cebu, Philippines
Wrote project proposal and statement of work (SOW).
Analyzed, designed, coded, tested and deployed a Cash Disbursement System.
Project Manage.
Used SDLC approach.
Coded in Visual Basic 5.0.
Designed and built report using Crystal Reports 95 • Design and build database using Microsoft Access 95.
Trained users.
Provided support and maintenance.
Client: Forever-Living Products
Wrote project proposal and Scope for Work (SOW).
Analyzed, designed, coded, tested and deployed a Point-of-Sale System, Inventory System and Sales Commission System.
Performed requirement and business analysis.
Designed software architecture using 2-tier architecture.
Used Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) approach.
Designed and built database using Sybase SQL Anywhere Client/Server 5.0.
Designed and setup network topology (star) with Windows NT 4.0, Windows 95/98.
Coded in Visual Basic 5.0.
Design and built reports using Crystal Report 5.0.
Trained business users.
Provided support and maintenance.
Education and Certifications
Bachelor of Science in Information System Major in Computer Science University of Cebu (Philippines)
Project Management Review for PMP Certification CalTech
Project Management Certification (Fundamentals, Risk Management, Quality Management and Leadership) University of California Los Angeles
Project Management for Information Technology Professionals, International Institute of Learning
Sitecore DMS for Marketers 6.5, Sitecore Training Center
Sitecore ECM Fundamentals for Marketers 6.5, Sitecore Training Center
Sitecore CMS Security Administrator 6.5, Sitecore Training Center
Sitecore CMS System Administrator 6.5, Sitecore Training Center
Sitecore CMS Advance User 6.5, Sitecore Training Center
Sitecore CMS Certified Developer (6.5), Sitecore Training Center
Sitecore CMS Certified Developer (6.2), Sitecore Training Center
Sitecore CMS Certified Developer (5.4), Sitecore Training Center
Sitecore CMS Certified Developer (5.3), Sitecore Training Center
Sitecore MVP 2016
Ektron CMS Certified Developer, Ektron Training Center
Aspdotnetstorefront E-commerce Developer Course, Aspdotnetstorefront Training,
Interprise Solutions Accounting System Developer Course, Interprise Solutions Training
Java Programming, Eastern Michigan University
Object Oriented Programming with Visual C++ & MFC, Eastern Michigan University
Object Oriented Analysis & Design, Eastern Michigan University
Oracle PL/SQL Fundamentals,
Oracle Education Oracle PL/SQL Program Units,
Oracle Education Oracle Web Tool Kit (Application Server 4.0), Oracle Education