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Portland, OR

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August 23, 2016

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Professional Summary

** ***** * ****** ** total project execution experience in IT. Broad technical expertise allows for innovative technical solutions with focus on user experience.

He is a seasoned Endeca lead who has worked on different Endeca versions and has been involved in consulting and architecting Endeca solutions for multiple large-scale eCommerce projects for the last 7 years.

Has primarily worked in the domains of designing and programming solutions and is skilled in Endeca, ATG Commerce Server, IBM WebSphere Commerce Server, core Java, JSP, Servlets, EJB, Spring, Struts, various Java design patterns, SQL Server, MySql, DB2, Oracle and RFID technologies. Worked in AWS, Windows, UNIX, Linux, AIX and Solaris environments.

He has extensive onshore/offshore experience of working in different countries & cultures and interacting with teams located in multiple geographic areas.

Possesses expert level aptitude in Object Oriented Programming in Java, Web site development using scripting languages and Application Software Development, Debugging and Implementation in Enterprise level applications.

Has multiple full life cycle development experience for couple of established software products participating both as a team member and technical lead and architect. Experienced in all aspect of the software development process such as requirement gathering, prototyping, use case scenario, coding, testing, and documentation.

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Education

BE – Bachelor of Technology from Kalyani University, India - 2004

Technical Summary

CORE Skills Java/J2EE, Oracle Endeca, XML, Retail e-commerce

Endeca-Specialization: Page Builder, Experience manager, CAS, Developer studio, Workbench, SEO

Generator and implementation, Page templates and cartridge, Integration with Hybris, ATG and WCS, Search tuning, performance tuning, Search relevancy, Endeca infrastructure design and setup

Application Server Weblogic, WAS,Tomcat, Jboss

Design OOAD,J2EE Design Patterns

Web-Server Apache

Database Experience Oracle10g/11g, SQL Server 2000, DB2 v8.0, MySql

IDE Eclipse

Web Technologies J2EE (Servlets, JSP), HTML, CSS, JavaScript, Spring Framework

Operating System Unix/Linux, Windows, AIX, Solaris

Certifications SCJP 1.5

Personal Details

Contact +1-646-***-****

Work Authorization US H1B visa - valid till Feb 2017

Email acwazj@r.postjobfree.com

Project Experience

Projects executed for TAISTech – Nov 2012 till date

Project Name: Endeca implementation for TaylorMade Golf B2B platform

Duration: May 2016 to till date

Environment: Java/J2EE, Endeca Commerce 3.2, Oracle EBS 12.1.3

Tools: Maven

Role: Endeca Architect / Senior Endeca Consultant

Project Description

TaylorMade Golf, use Endeca for their B2B platform that integrates Endeca with Oracle EBS and iStore. They use the platform for their US Operational Unit and planned to go global with the platform by integrating the European Operating Unit and supporting multiple languages and countries and thus making it scalable to support any Operating Unit in future.

As part of the B2B e-commerce channel platform redesign, Endeca was implemented as a tool to implement onsite search and browse and navigation engine for the website and was integrated with Oracle EBS.

Responsibilities

Was responsible for Planning and Design, Installation, Configuration and Development of

Endeca Search index with all the salient features of Endeca like guided navigation with facets, keyword search, Endeca records, dimensions, properties, browse and navigation, record sort, search interfaces and relevance ranking, filters, record manipulation that would support multiple Operating Units in EBS and multiple languages and countries.

Customized solution for Product catalog enrichment to integrate with the Product Catalog in Oracle EBS and manage the schema and taxonomy in Endeca to support multiple languages and Operating Units.

Planning and design setup Endeca Platform from with Oracle Commerce 3.x

Provide performance improvement recommendations to the team to implement and test to fine tune Endeca ITL process, indexing, keyword search, experience manager cartridges.

Architect the integration of multiple Endeca applications for each language with and single Oracle EBS platform, thus making the platform site-aware based on language ids.

Planning and design of the Endeca Experience Manager cartridges for the home page, gridwall and product details page

Sizing and planning for Endeca network deployment for better support of multiple Operating Units and languages for multiple countries.

Project Name: Endeca implementation for Agent Commerce platform in Verizon Wireless

Duration: Dec 2015 to March 2016 4 months

Environment: Java/J2EE, ATG 11.1, Oracle 11g, jBoss, Endeca Commerce 11.1

Tools: Accurev, Jenkins, Ant

Role: Endeca Architect / Senior Endeca Consultant

Project Description

The Verizon Indirect Channel has agents who are "Authorized Resellers" of Verizon products that are completely separate businesses and operate independently from Verizon and one another. Verizon’s top 6 agents (Cellular Sales, TCC Moorehead, GO Wireless, ATI, A-Wireless, and Diamond Wireless) or "The Big 6" have websites which are outdated, generate little web traffic and lack ecommerce functionality. The Big 6 have been interested in implementing Verizon’s ecommerce platform using Oracle Commerce platform to drive the incremental sales for years and fit within the Verizon brand standards. The platform will provide the agents the capability to merchandise and price their products however they desire while Verizon will provide the inventory and fulfillment.

As part of the e-commerce channel platform redesign, Endeca was implemented as a tool to implement onsite search and browse and navigation engine for the website and was integrated with ATG.

Responsibilities

Was responsible for Planning and Design, Installation, Configuration and Development of

Endeca Product Catalog Integration module was used to integrate with the Product Catalog in ATG and manage the schema and taxonomy.

Planning and design setup Endeca Platform from with Oracle Commerce 11.1

Provide performance improvement recommendations to the team to implement and test to fine tune Endeca ITL process, indexing, keyword search, experience manager cartridges.

Design and implementation of the type-ahead search feature for predictive search for devices and accessories as well as suggested and related terms in the website.

Implementation of term extraction and clustering for better keyword search experience through text enrichment tools.

Architect the integration of 6 Endeca applications with and single ATG platform, thus making the platform site-aware based on site ids.

Planning and design of the Endeca Experience Manager cartridges for the home page, gridwall and product details page

Development of data pre-processors to provide custom data feeds (Type Ahead, Suggested terms, Related terms, Relevancy Ranking, Delta feed for partial updates) to Endeca for indexing.

Project Name: Endeca implementations for TAISTech

Duration: June 2015 - Nov 2015 6 months

Environment: Java/J2EE, ATG 11.1, Oracle 11g, jBoss, Endeca 11.1

Tools: Jenkins, Ant

Role: Endeca Architect / Senior Endeca Consultant

Project Description

As part of the Endeca Competency group acted as architect and senior consultant providing guidance and direction for solution architecture for multiple clients of TAISTech varying from B2B and B2C e-commerce websites for a yoga-inspired athletic apparel major, a wholesale supplier of professional-grade products and nutritional supplements for long-term patient health and wellness and a nationwide footwear, apparel and general merchandise store.

Responsibilities

Was responsible for Planning and Design, Installation, Configuration and Development of

Endeca Product Catalog Integration module was used to integrate with the Product Catalog in ATG and manage the schema and taxonomy.

Planning and design setup Endeca Platform from with Oracle Commerce 11.1

Provide performance improvement recommendations to the team to implement and test to fine tune Endeca ITL process, indexing, keyword search, experience manager cartridges.

ATG –Endeca multisite design and implementation for most of the functionalities.

Planning and design of the Endeca Experience Manager cartridges for the home page, mega navigation and tertiary navigation menu, browse and product list page and product details page

Endeca personalization implementation

Project Name: Endeca implementation for TEConnectivity

Duration: May 2014 – May 2015 13 months

Environment: Java/J2EE, Endeca Commerce 3.1.2, Hybris, AEM

Tools: Git, Jenkins, Maven

Role: Endeca Architect / Senior Endeca Consultant

Project Description

As part of the e-commerce channel platform redesign in TEConnectivity, Endeca was implemented as a tool to implement onsite search and browse and navigation engine for the website and was integrated with Hybris in the back-end Adobe Experience Manager in the front-end.

Responsibilities

Was responsible for Planning and Design, Installation, Configuration and Development of

Endeca Search index with all the salient features of Endeca like guided navigation with facets, keyword search with internationalization, Endeca records, dimensions, properties, browse and navigation, record sort, search interfaces and relevance ranking, filters, record manipulation that would support 4 different languages – English, German, Chinese and Japanese.

Endeca Product Catalog Integration module was used to integrate with the Product Catalog in Hybris and manage the schema and taxonomy.

Planning and design for the upgrade of the current Endeca Platform from v2.1.1 to Endeca Commerce 3.1.2

Provide performance improvement recommendations to TEConnectivity for their team to implement and test.

Design and implementation of the type-ahead search feature for predictive search in the website

Architect the integration of content crawl for AEM front-end to develop the content index.

Also participated in planning, design, development and deployment of the consumer experience for newly migrated consumer sites.

The project was executed based on SCRUM based Agile Methodology following test driven development by an extended globally deployed implementation team.

Project Name: Endeca implementation for e-commerce projects in Knowledge Path

Duration: Nov 2013 to May 2014 7 months

Environment: Java/J2EE, Oracle 11g, Endeca Commerce 3.x, ATG 10.1.2

Tools: Saxon, XML, XQuery, XPath, XSL, Perl, Bash, Subversion, Hudson, Ant

Role: Endeca Architect / Senior Endeca Consultant

Project Description

As part of the Endeca implementation for multiple projects in Knowledge Path like Lowes Home Improvement, FurnitureRow etc., Endeca was implemented as a tool to implement onsite search and browse and navigation engine for the website

Responsibilities

Was responsible for Planning and Design, Installation, Configuration and Development of

Endeca Experience Manager for implementing page builder and make the website’s look and feel more data driven and easily customizable as per the requirement from the merchandising team

Conduct an assessment of the performance of the current Lowes.com Endeca application.

Provide performance recommendations to Lowe's for their team to implement and test.

Advise Lowe's in adding store-specific data to their existing e-commerce applications.

Advise Lowe’s in implementing the type-ahead search feature for predictive search in the website

Architect the integration of Endeca Experience Manager with the current Lowes.com application stack as well as integrate it with Adobe WEM / CQ

Planning and design for the upgrade of the current Endeca Platform from v2.1.1 to Endeca Commerce 3.1.2

Endeca Experience Manager cartridges and templates for Furniture Row using ATG-Endeca integration platform

Project Name: Endeca implementation for e-commerce projects in Amplifi Commerce

Duration: April 2013 to Sept 2013 6 months

Environment: Java/J2EE, Endeca Commerce 3.1.x, Oracle 11g, ATG 10.1.2

Tools: Saxon, XML, XQuery, XPath, XSL, Perl, Bash, Subversion, Hudson, Ant

Role: Endeca Architect / Senior Endeca Consultant

Project Description

As part of the ATG-Endeca implementation for multiple projects in Amplifi Commerce like Michael Kors, LeapFrog, Endeca was implemented as a tool to implement onsite search and browse and navigation engine for the website

Responsibilities

Was responsible for Planning and Design, Installation, Configuration and Development of

Endeca Experience Manager for implementing page builder and make the website’s look and feel more data driven and easily customizable as per the requirement from the merchandising team

Design of the various data feed ingested by Endeca from ATG BCC and Adobe CQ for both product data and content data using ATG PSOC configurations

Making changes in the CAS crawls, manipulators as well managing pipelines, baseline and partials, using Dev Studio.

Integration with ATG in the front-end and architecting the ATG based front-end API developed using Endeca presentation API

Customization of various components in AppConfig.xml making the system robust and fault tolerant powered by extensive exception handling along with development of various tools and scripts in bash and perl.

Administering the Endeca stack and managing various components from Endeca Workbench.

Automated build and deployment process for Endeca packages across multiple environments

Network infrastructure design for Endeca index in multiple environments encompassing development, qa, staging and production

Implementation of SEO URLs with the help of Endeca SEO Framework

Sitemap generation with the help of Endeca

Also participated in planning, design, development and deployment of the consumer experience for newly migrated consumer sites.

The projects were executed based on SCRUM based Agile Methodology following test driven development by an extended globally deployed implementation team.

Project Name: ATG-Endeca migration for Justice Clothing

Duration: Dec 2012 to April 2013 5 months

Environment: Java/J2EE, Endeca Commerce 3.1.0, Endeca MDEX 6.3, Endeca CAS 3.1.1, Oracle 11g, ATG 10.1.2

Tools: Saxon, XML, XQuery, XPath, XSL, Perl, Bash, Subversion, Hudson, Ant

Role: Endeca Architect / Senior Endeca Consultant

Project Description

As part of the PHP to ATG-Endeca migration initiative for shopjustice.com, the primary e-Commerce website for Justice clothing, Endeca was implemented as a tool to implement onsite search and browse and navigation engine for shopjustice.com

Responsibilities

Was responsible for Planning and Design, Installation, Configuration and Development of

Externally created taxonomy

Design of the various data feed ingested by Endeca

Making changes in the CAS crawls, manipulators as well managing pipelines, baseline and partials, using Dev Studio.

Integration with ATG in the front-end and architecting the ATG based front-end API developed using Endeca presentation API

Administering the Endeca stack and managing various components from Endeca Workbench.

Performance improvement of the Endeca stack using ENEPerf, ReqlogAnalyzer, jMeter and improved cache warming strategies

Automated build and deployment process for Endeca packages across multiple environments

Network infrastructure design for Endeca index in multiple environments encompassing development, qa, staging and production

Also participated in planning, design, development and deployment of the consumer experience for newly migrated consumer sites.

The projects were executed based on SCRUM based Agile Methodology following test driven development by an extended globally deployed implementation team.

Projects executed for Cognizant Technology Solutions – Oct 2004 till Nov 2012

Project Name: Endeca implementation for Nike - OneNike Pre-Holiday Launch

Duration: March 2012 to Nov 2012 9 months

Environment: Java/J2EE, Spring Framework 2.5.6, Endeca Commerce 3.1.0, Endeca MDEX 6.x, Endeca CAS 3.x, Endeca MWB 2.1

Tools: Junit 4, Selenium, Saxon, XML, XQuery, XPath, XSL, Perl, Bash, Subversion, Maven, TeamCity,

Jira, Fisheye, New Relic

Role: Tech Lead / Senior Endeca Consultant

Project Description

As part of the OneNike Pre-Holiday launch initiative Endeca was implemented as a tool to implement new page builder landing pages and cartridges

Responsibilities

Led a team of 8 and was responsible for Planning and Design, Configuration, development and changes to

The XML based JAVA service layer of the search platform that powered the Page Builder and navigation and search and merchandising of NikeStore.com to facilitate the NikeStore.com HTML conversion.

Creating new templates and cartridges and using customized editors in the workbench to cater the business requirements related to the OneNike Pre-Holiday launch.

Making changes in the CAS crawls, manipulators as well pipelines for the business requirement of OneNike Pre-Holiday launch.

Integration with CQ

Design for stabilization for the CAS 3.0.1 platform making the system fault tolerant.

Performance improvement of the Endeca stack using ENEPerf, YourToolkit profiler and NewRelic

Also participated in planning, design, development and deployment of the consumer experience for OneNike Pre-Holiday launch.

The project was executed based on SCRUM based Agile Methodology following test driven development by an extended globally deployed implementation team.

Project Name: Endeca implementation for Nike - OneNike Pre-Olympics Launch

Duration: Feb 2012 to June 2012 5 months

Environment: Java/J2EE, Spring Framework 2.5.6, Endeca MDEX 6.1.4, Endeca CAS 3.x, Endeca MWB 2.1

Tools: Junit 4, Saxon, XML, XQuery, XPath, XSL, Perl, Bash, Subversion, Maven, TeamCity,

Jira, Fisheye, New Relic

Role: Tech Lead / Senior Endeca Consultant

Project Description

As part of the OneNike Pre-Olympics launch initiative Endeca was implemented as a tool to implement new page builder landing pages and cartridges

Responsibilities

Led a team of 7 and was responsible for Planning and Design, Configuration, development and changes to

The XML based JAVA service layer of the search platform that powered the Page Builder and navigation and search and merchandising of NikeStore.com to facilitate the NikeStore.com HTML conversion.

Creating new templates and cartridges and using customized editors in the workbench to cater the business requirements related to the OneNike Pre-Olympics launch.

Making changes in the CAS crawls, manipulators as well pipelines for the business requirement of OneNike Pre-Olympics launch.

Planning, design and deployment for the CAS 3.0.1 Upgrade

Also participated in planning, design, development and deployment of the consumer experience for OneNike Pre-Olympics launch.

The project was executed based on SCRUM based Agile Methodology following test driven development by an extended globally deployed implementation team.

Project Name: Endeca implementation for Nike – Nike NFL Launch

Duration: Dec 2011 till Mar 2012 3 months

Environment: Java/J2EE, Spring Framework 2.5.6, Endeca MDEX 6.1.4, Endeca CAS 2.2, Endeca MWB 2.1

Tools: Junit 4, Saxon, XML, XQuery, XPath, XSL, Perl, Bash, Subversion, Maven, TeamCity,

Jira, New Relic

Role: Tech Lead / Senior Endeca Consultant

Project Description

As part of the NFL launch initiative Endeca was implemented as a tool to implement new page builder landing pages and cartridges for NFL products

Responsibilities

Led a team of 4 and was responsible for Planning and Design, Configuration, development and changes to

The XML based JAVA service layer of the search platform that powered the Page Builder and navigation and search and merchandising of NikeStore.com to facilitate the NikeStore.com HTML conversion.

Creating new templates and cartridges and using customized editors in the workbench to cater the business requirements related to the NFL launch.

Also participated in planning, design, development and deployment of the consumer experience for NFL launch.

The project was executed based on SCRUM based Agile Methodology following test driven development.

Project Name: Endeca implementation for Nike – Nike Experience Delivery Framework

Duration: March 2010 till Nov 2010 9 months

Environment: Java/J2EE, Spring Framework 2.5.6, Endeca MDEX 6.1.4, Endeca CAS 2.2, Endeca MWB 2.1

Tools: Junit 4, Saxon, XML, XQuery, XPath, XSL, Perl, Bash, Subversion, Maven, TeamCity,

Jira, New Relic

Role: Tech Lead / Senior Endeca Consultant

Project Description

As part of the new NikeStore.com framework driven by Experience Delivery Framework Search roadmap initiative Endeca was implemented as a tool to implement:

NIKEiD Whisper to Shout

Style based record roll-up

Development of new CAS based record stores and crawls

ColeHaan.com Page Builder Enablement

Various changes in the Endeca platform for NikeStore.com HTML migration

Various change in the Endeca platform to make it more stable and scalable

Responsibilities

Led a team of 4 and was responsible for Planning and Design, Configuration, development and changes to

The XML based JAVA service layer of the search platform that powered the Page Builder and navigation and search and merchandising of NikeStore.com to facilitate the NikeStore.com HTML conversion.

Cartridges and templates for ColeHaan.com Page Builder enablement catering a whole new consumer experience

Multiple Endeca pipelines to implement Style based rollup and NIKEiD Whisper to Shout – pairing of an inline and the corresponding iD products and promoting the iD experience all over the site

Existing and new CAS based record stores and crawls to improve the performance of the Endeca baseline jobs for various applications

Also participated in planning, design, development and deployment of a new network architecture of the Endeca platform in Nike which would make the Endeca baseline, partial and promote jobs more stable and the applications more scalable by improving performance.

The project was executed based on SCRUM based Agile Methodology following test driven development.

Project Name: Endeca implementation for Nike – NIKEiD Reset

Duration: March 2010 till Sept 2010 7 months

Environment: Java/J2EE, Spring Framework 2.5.6, Endeca MDEX 6.1.4, Endeca CAS 2.2, Endeca MWB 2.1

Tools: Junit 4, Saxon, XML, XQuery, XPath, XSL, Perl, Bash, Subversion, Maven, TeamCity,

Jira, New Relic

Role: Tech Lead / Senior Endeca Consultant

Project Description

The NIKEiD.Reset project was aimed to increase awareness of NIKEiD and to encourage participation with Nike’s Brand in order to drive a better conversion rate in the ecommerce platform and deprecate the NIKEiD.com platform in future by migrating to NikeStore.com. Replacing the NIKEiD.com experience within NikeStore.com with enhanced merchandising experience included new NIKEiD landing page and new product browse experiences and inspiration searches driven by Endeca page builder and a new build start pages to start product customization.

Responsibilities

As an Endeca Consultant was involved in Planning and Design, Configuration, development and changes to

Endeca Page Builder cartridges and templates as needed to support the expansion of the new landing pages and grid wall; and, Java XML servlet development to support additional cartridge and template delivery syntax.

Enhancement and development 3 existing and 1 new Endeca Pipelines, including Java XML servlets required supporting expansion of the PageBuilder

Development of new content crawls supported by Content Acquisition Server (CAS) to offload the data processing in the pipeline making them more stable and aligned to the future product roadmap plan of Endeca applications.

The project was executed based on SCRUM based Agile Methodology.

Project Name: Endeca implementation for Nike – Endeca Mdex v6.1.4 Upgrade

Duration: Jan 2010 till March 2010 3 months

Environment: Java/J2EE, Spring Framework 2.5.6, Endeca MDEX 6.1.4, Endeca CAS 2.2, Endeca MWB 2.1

Tools: Junit 4, Saxon, XML, XQuery, XPath, XSL, Perl, Bash, Subversion, Maven, TeamCity

Role: Tech Lead / Senior Endeca Consultant

Project Description

All the ecommerce web-sites in Nike, Inc. like NIKE Store (all regions), NIKEID (all regions), NikeFind, Nike Elite Client Services and ColeHaan use Endeca Search engine for their product search and site navigation. All the applications running on Endeca Mdex 6.1.3 platform were upgraded to Endeca 6.1.4 platform to utilize the new features like record boost and bury in merchandising products.

Responsibilities

As an Endeca Consultant was involved in Planning and Design, Configuration, development and changes to

Migration of all the applications, NIKE Store (all regions), NIKEID (all regions), NikeFind, Nike Elite Client Services and ColeHaan, from Endeca Mdex 6.1.3 platform to Endeca 6.1.4.

Involved in the like-for-like migration of existing functionality of the search and navigation functionality as served up to the Flash applications; product and inventory data feeds as consumed by the old Endeca data processor and data transformation functions via the Endeca applications.

Regression testing

The project was executed based on SCRUM based Agile Methodology.

Project Name: Endeca implementation for Nike – Nike Endeca PageBuilder Phase II

Duration: Oct 2009 till Dec 2010 15 months

Environment: Java/J2EE, Spring Framework 2.5.6, Endeca MDEX 6.1.3, Endeca CAS 2.0, Endeca MWB 2.0

Tools: Junit 4, Saxon, XML, XQuery, XPath, XSL, Perl, Bash, Subversion, Maven, TeamCity

Role: Tech Lead / Endeca Consultant

Project Description

Phase 2 of Nike Endeca Page Builder project encompassed a broader commitment to the Page Builder feature-set including template-based visual treatments and a further build-out of the cartridge library. Also within the scope of this project was an extension of the Endeca indexes to include a broader set of data not limited to documents, articles, videos and blogs. This was accomplished by expanding the usage of the Endeca Content Acquisition System (CAS). Endeca partial updates was also implemented across all Nike applications taking advantage of Endeca’s continuous query capabilities now packaged in version 6 of the Endeca IAP.

Highlights:

Visual templates, cartridges rendered in Flash front-end

Expansion of XML servlet to return template-specific syntaxes

Expansion of CAS crawled content including articles, documents, blogs, video

Upgrade of CAS to version 2.1

Implementation of Endeca partial update features across all Nike applications

Data-center migration for all the Endeca servers and applications.

Responsibilities

As an Endeca Consultant was involved in Planning and Design, Configuration, development and changes to

Endeca PageBuilder cartridges and templates as needed to support the expansion of the functionality set; and, Java XML servlet development to support additional cartridge and template delivery syntax.

New or existing Endeca Pipelines, including Java XML servlets required supporting expansion of the PageBuilder, Partial Inventory update, and Content Acquisition Server (CAS) functionality set.

Support the implementation of the Endeca Partial Inventory update functionality

Implement CAS as required.

Migration of the Endeca applications, configuration, and custom code from the HP Plano data center to the HP Sacramento Data Center

The project was executed based on SCRUM based Agile Methodology.

Project Name: Endeca implementation for Nike –Endeca Upgrade to v 6.x

Duration: June 2009 till Sept 2009 4 months

Environment: Java/J2EE, Spring Framework 2.5.6, Endeca MDEX 6.1.3, Endeca MWB 2.0

Tools: Junit 4, Saxon, XML, XQuery, XPath, XSL, Perl, Bash, Subversion, Maven, TeamCity

Role: Application Engineer / Endeca Consultant

Project Description

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