Development Manager

*ARUL JOTHI PARAMASIVAM*

*Address: ***** Laurelcrest Dr, San Diego, CA 92130 Tel: 858-***-*****

*SUMMARY OF QUALIFICATIONS*

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More than 20 years of IT experience and have worked as Consultant with

leading firms in the Technology, Financial, Insurance, and Banking,

Defense, and Manufacturing & Retail domains.

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Experienced in Architecture, Design and Development of multi-tier

distributed systems, Enterprise Application Integration systems, Web

Enabled Legacy Applications, Database applications, Security systems and

Web portals/services, SAAS, Web 2.0, Commerce Applications

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Proficient in Architecture, Design, Development, Analysis, Testing,

Debugging and Deployment tools for implementing large scale Legacy and New

Technology Transformations.

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Designed J2EE Solutions using J2EE design patterns/best practices,

Rational Rose/UML

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Designed a best practice build environment using Maven 2, Maven, ANT,

Test Regression using JUNIT, Code Coverage suite using Clover, Code review

automation using CheckStyle

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Successfully delivered Application Development, Product Engineering,

Build and Test Automation, Performance Engineering projects leveraging

global teams.

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Managed complex large scale projects using Scrum Agile Methodology, RUP,

OOAD, and SEI/CMMi with budgets often exceeding $2 million.

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Executed projects utilizing globally distributed teams ranging in size

from 20 to 50 at on-shore and offshore with the help of collaborative

process tools.

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Delivered Implementation of eBusiness solutions leveraging IBM Web

Commerce platform (Version 6.X, 7.X), Oracle Endeca (Version 6.X) for

engagements with Cadence and Quest, FAST search Engine.

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Effective in Analysis, Investigation of issues, successful selection of

technical solutions, implement effective strategy with pro-active and

collaborative team effort.

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Achieved cost effective quality results with efficient application of

technical knowledge, experience by leveraging team member’s strength

appropriately. Prioritize the tasks, allocate resource based on skills,

ability to produce the desired outcome, track and manage plan.

*TECHNICAL SKILLS*

*LANGUAGES*

Java, J2EE, C, C++, C#, JavaScript, JSP, Servlet, COBOL, PL/1, Fortran

*PLATFORM*

Glassfish, WebLogic, WebSphere, MQSeries, Apache, Tomcat, IPLANET,

NETSCAPE, BLUESTONE, INTEROVEN, LDAP, JBOSS, JMS, MDB, ORACLE

*COMMERCE*

WebSphere, Digital River, ATG, VCommerce, AbleCommerce, JBoss, MicroSoft,

OfBiz

*FRAMEWORKS*

JUNIT, CLOVER, COBERTURA, XMLBEANS, SWT/JFACES, .NET, MVC, ORM, Spring,

Struts

*SOA*

ESB, BPM, BPEL, AXIS, GSOAP, SEEBEYOND, TIBCO, ACTIVEMQ, JMS, MSMQ

*BUILD AND RELEASE*

Maven 2, ANTDEPO, ANT, NANT, CRUISECONTROL, HUDSON, CONTROL TIER, Make,

NMAKE, AUTOMAKE, YUM, Red hat Package Manager,

*SCRIPTS*

CSH, KSH, CLIST, PERL, PHYTHON, APPLESCRIPTS, MOCKOBJECTS, MOCQUER, SOX

*DEV TOOLS*

PERFORCE, PVCS, CLEARCASE, CLEARQUEST, TEAMTRACK, QUALITY CENTER, VSS,

ECLIPSE, VISUAL STUDIO, UML, Rational Rose, JDeveloper

*DATABASE*

ORACLE, DB2, MYSQL, SQL SERVER, MS ACCESS, INGRES, INFORMIX, DERBY, Stored

Procedure, Database design, Data Normalization

*OS*

Linux, AIX, SOLARIS, Windows Vista, 2000, NT, 95, MACINTOSH, MVS/XA,

MVS/ESA, OS/390

*EDUCATION*

*MASTERS IN ENGINEERING 1992 ANNAMALAI UNIVERSITY, INDIA*

*EMPLOYMENT HISTORY*

Petco Animal Supplies, Inc Lead Application Architect March 2013 to Sep 2013

Avalara, Inc Sr. Manager – Engineering June 2012 to March 2013

COGNIZANT TECHNOLOGY SOLUTIONS Principal Architect–Technology April 2010 to

June 2012

COGNIZANT TECHNOLOGY SOLUTIONS Sr. Architect – Technology April 2006 to Mar

2010

COGNIZANT TECHNOLOGY SOLUTIONS Asst. Manager – Projects May 2002 to March

2006

KEANE, INC Principal Consultant Nov 2000 to May 2002

SYNTEL, INC Sr. Programmer/Analyst Oct 1997 to Nov 2000

INFOVISION CONSULTANTS, INC Software Engineer Oct 1996 to Oct 1997

AERONAUTICAL DEVELOPMENT AGENCY Software Engineer Aug 1992 to Oct 1996

* EXPERIENCE*

*eCommerce development and support: PETCO Animal Supplies, Inc, San Diego,

CA, USA Mar 2013 to Sep 2013*

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Managed delivery of software releases using Cloud/SAAS oriented products

for eCommerce.

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Migrating product catalog from FAST search engine to Endeca.

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Re-architecting eCommerce platform on WebSphere/Sterling commerce

platform.

*SKILLS: Oracle, Fusion, AIX, WebSphere/Sterling Commerce, SOAP, REST,

Endeca, FAST*

*SalesTax SAAS Product Development and Engineering: Avalara, Inc, San

Diego, CA, USA Jun 2012 to Mar 2013*

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Managed delivery of software releases leveraging Agile methodology for

Cloud/SAAS oriented Sales Tax Products maintaining core compliance

management using exception certificates.

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Re-architecting product in to mobile platform using open source

technologies.

*SKILLS: J2EE, Oracle, Perforce, Linux, UML, Web Services, SOAP, REST,

Scrum/Agile, on site/offshore management*

*Saas Product Development and Engineering Nov 2010 to Jun 2012*

*Client: Intuit, Inc San Diego, CA, USA*

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Integration of Saas Products to Cloud Hosted Web Commerce Appliance for

SAAS oriented Consumer Products

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Implementation of eBusiness Commerce Solution using IBM Web Commerce

solution and integration of the Endeca for Search Engine Optimization and

marketing.

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Rationalization of Billing, Subscription business process for Web

Commerce Channel and Retail Channel partners to alternative Cloud Commerce

Platform

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Migrated and rationalized Commerce framework considering Websphere, ATG,

Microsoft and business process integration framework.

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Implemented the Channel Data Aggregation Services and proposed

integration solution for Consumer based Products and Solutions for Optimal

Supply Chain

*SKILLS*: J2EE, Oracle, Perforce, Linux, UML, Web Services, SOAP, REST,

Scrum/Agile, on site/offshore management

*Consumer Product Development and Engineering Nov 2009 to Oct 2010*

*Client: Cisco Consumer Products, Inc Irvine, CA and Intuit, Inc San Diego,

CA, USA*

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Architectural evaluation of Cloud Hosting Web Commerce Appliance for

SAAS oriented Consumer Products

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Rationalization of VCommerce, AbleCommerce Web Commerce Channel and

Retail Channel partners to alternative Cloud Commerce Platform

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Proposed Commerce Evaluation framework considering Websphere, ATG,

Microsoft and business process integration framework.

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Analyzed the Channel Data Aggregation Services and proposed integration

solution for Consumer based Products and Solutions for Optimal Supply Chain

*SKILLS*: J2EE, Oracle, UML, Web Services, SOAP, REST, Scrum/Agile, SOA

Architecture, FAST

*Internet Banking and Quicken Health Product Development Feb 2009 to Nov

2009*

*Client: Intuit, Inc San Diego, CA, USA*

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Design and Architectural evaluation of Portal, non-portal Frameworks for

Application Widget & Business Service Integration in multi tenancy internet

banking environment

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Executed the Performance Evaluation of the stack with representative

portlets

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Proposed Data Aggregation, Patient Portal Architecture and design for

Quicken Health.

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Analyzed the Data Aggregation Services and proposed solution for Hosting

Solutions

*SKILLS*: J2EE, Oracle, Liferay, Perforce, Linux, UML, Web Services, SOAP,

REST, Scrum/Agile, SOA Architecture, on site/offshore management

*Build, Test and Release Automation of TurboTax Products Feb 2008 to Feb

2009*

*Client: Intuit, Inc San Diego, CA, USA*

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Studied the current QA process and automation, documented and

transitioned knowledge to the team.

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Proposed improvements to the current QA process and automation using

Scrum.

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Proposed and got the approval for the projects and formed teams executed

the projects.

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Tracked the progress using Scrum Sprint planning, review and identified

the risks, implemented mitigation by engaging the team in positive

collaborative approach.

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Achieved the Quality results by developing automation solutions and

improvements to the manual processes with zero defects release season.

*SKILLS*: J2EE, C#, .net, Oracle, JUnit, Hudson, SQL/JPA/ORM, GlassFish,

Perforce, MAC, Linux, UML, Web Services, SOAP, REST, Scrum/Agile, SOA

Architecture, on site/offshore management

*Framework implementation of Trading and Banking Products May 2006 to Jan

2008*

*Client: E*Trade Financial, Inc Menlo Park, CA, USA*

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Managed number of Framework Projects for the Architecture Consortium and

Exchange Group and worked with many development project teams in getting

their Design and Architecture validated using Proofs-of-concepts, technical

discussions, brain storming, by iterative & increment development

methodology.

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Developed core components and frameworks that are used by many

developers across the organization both in on-site and offshore using

committer/contributor dev model.

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Trouble shot the technical issues faced by the developers on the

Development platform and provided fixes for the resolution.

*SKILLS*: Java, J2EE, JUnit, C, Maven 2, SOA, Tomcat, Apache, ActiveMQ and

Antdepo, XStream, SOX, PCI, ANT, ORACLE, Hudson, JDeveloper, Glass Fish,

SubVersion, Linux, UML

*Application Life Cycle Frameworks (ALF) May 2005 to May 2006*

*Client: Serena Software San Mateo, CA, USA*

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Identified and evaluated technology tools and frameworks for the ALF

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Built prototype and developed web services for integrating the ALM

products using ALF

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Planned and executed the open source development processes, release

processes, support processes, for the development of the Application

Life-cycle Framework.

*SKILLS*: Java, J2EE, SOA, SWT/JFaces, JUnit, SOX, AXIS, ActiveBPEL, Oracle

PM, JBPM, TPTP, Pubscribe, Apache, Tomcat, Mule, Oracle, JUnit, Hudson,

JDeveloper, PVCS, Windows, Linux

*Enterprise Application Re-engineering May 2004 to May 2005*

*Client: D&B High Wycombe, UK*

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Worked with D&B Business, Technology and Architecture teams in proposing

feasible solutions and created Service Oriented Architectural strategy for

re-engineering the D&B Legacy IT systems by working with distributed team

across USA, UK and India.

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Driven results for the adoption of the SOA for the implementation of

European partnerships system integration and accomplished the fulfillment

of the Quality targets.

*SKILLS: J2EE, JMS, MVC Struts, Velocity, Web Services, WSDL, XML, Oracle,

DB2, OS/390, CICS, Tomcat, JBOSS, Jdeveloper, BPEL, SOX, SOAP, REST, SQL,

Stored Procedure, UML*

*Development of Taxware Enterprise Jan 2003 to May 2004*

*Client: Taxware (Now Part of ADP) Salem, MA, USA*

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Managed and led the development and testing of Taxware Enterprise

Infrastructure sub systems, Licensing, Tax Data Management, Tax Audit and

Compliance Reporting, Logging, Monitoring and Security using

on-site/offshore delivery teams.

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Used Build and Test Automation tools and process to drive the quality

assurance at every sub system, unit and integration level by integrating

distributed source control systems.

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Integrated Defect Tracking, Quality Assurance processes and ensured

quality release cycles to customers; User issue tracking integrated with

development life cycle.

*SKILLS: *SUN Sparc, SOLARIS, Oracle, Java, Servlet, JDBC, WebLogic, EJB,

JAAS, Jasper, XML, JSP, Jprofiler, ANT, JavaNCSS, J2EE, JMS, SOAP, Detailed

Design Documentation, SQL, UML

*Plastic Level Processing May 2002 to Dec 2002*

*Client: First Data Resources, Ltd Basildon, Essex, UK*

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Migrated the Credit Card Processing on-line and batch systems for

processing transactions at individual card holder level with in an account.

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Managed the project and was responsible for the infrastructure setup,

resource planning, process and metrics planning, execution and knowledge

management and training.

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Supervised about forty associates at various levels across the on-site

and offshore locations and delivered the project as per the compliance

schedule.

*SKILLS*: OS/390, Windows NT, DB2, CORBA, MQSeries, COBOL/370, Assembler,

CICS, XML

*Application Development and Maintenance May 2001 to May 2002*

*Client: North Carolina Department of Transportation Raleigh, NC, USA*

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Developed, Tested and Deployed the image processing automation for the

DMV crash report by integrating the driver and vehicle registration data

from DMV online system.

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Designed and developed the interface from NC State Highway Patrol and

DMV systems.

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QA of the DOT Traffic Analysis system for the functional and

non-functional requirements.

*SKILLS*: OS/390, Windows NT, Oracle, DB2, CORBA, MQSeries, IIS, Java, C++,

J2EE, COBOL/370, Assembler, CICS, XML, XSLT, JMS, Stored Procedure, SQL,

Detailed Design, UML

*Network Storage System Performance Testing Nov 2000 to May 2001*

*Client: Data General, EMC Durham, NC, USA*

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Developed, tested and deployed the performance testing automation

scripts for the DG/UX Network Storage systems.

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Analyzed the performance analysis metrics with reference to bench mark

results and published the results to be included in the release

documentation of the product.

*SKILLS*: DG/UX, Windows, NUMA, Oracle, DB2, Java, C++, XML, XSLT, SQL,

Stored Procedure

*TIBCO Portal Builder Development and Testing Feb 2000 to Nov 2000*

*Client: TIBCO Palo Alto, CA, USA*

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Developed, tested and deployed the functional and performance testing

automation scripts for the TIBCO Portal Products with TIBCO message middle

ware.

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Customized the TIBCO middle ware and Portal products for the custom

project requirements and deployed the customer specific implementation

(Lehman Brother Bank, realm.com, realpulse.com).

*SKILLS*: Solaris, Windows, Oracle, Java, XML, XSLT, TIBCO Portal Builder,

TIBCO EMS, Struts

*Portal Development and Testing May 1999 to Feb 2000*

*Client: Premier, Inc Charlotte, NC, USA*

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Developed, tested and deployed the Health Care Portal systems and

integration with affiliated company’s web systems for B2B process

integration.

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Customized the Security Products for the single sign-on authentication

and authorization requirements and deployed the customer specific

implementation.

*SKILLS*: Solaris, Windows, Oracle, SQL, Stored Procedure, Java,

epicentric, securant, clearTrust, XML, XSLT, Netscape Directory Server,

Netscape Application Server and JRUN

*Performance Tuning and Testing Dec 1998 to May 1999*

*Client: American International Group (AIG) NYC, NY, USA*

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Measured the performance of on-line and batch application for Premium

Processing, Claim Processing, Loss Management, Re-Insurance and Corporate

Reporting systems.

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Tuned the performance, measured the resource utilization and arrived at

capacity planning by establishing operational baseline threshold,

throttling under threshold.

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Developed System Availability Dash board with resource utilization

collected from Production and QA Server environment, sent alter messages on

the subscribed events.

*SKILLS*: Solaris, Windows, Oracle, Java, SQL Server, OS/390, STROBE, XML,

XSLT, RMI-IIOP, JProbe, JMETER, SQL Access Path Analyzer, DB2, CICS, JCL,

COBOL/390, SAS

*Premium Regression System Oct 1997 to Dec 1998*

*Client: American International Group (AIG) NYC, NY, USA*

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Developed and Tested Premium Regression system for editing the Policy,

Premium issuing business rules and editing of the policy for errors,

validation and promotion of policy.

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Deployed the system to production by developing and testing deployment

scripts.

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Developed, tested and deployed re-insurance policy issuing conversion

process for adhering to the business rules of re-insurance policy system.

*SKILLS*: Solaris, Windows, Oracle, Java, SQL Server, OS/390, XML, XSLT,

RMI-IIOP, DB2, CICS, JCL, COBOL/390, SAS, Visual Basic, Crystal Reports

*Warehouse - Stores Interface Development and Testing Oct 1996 to Oct 1997*

*Client: CompUSA Dallas, TX, USA*

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Designed, Developed the Interface definition between Stores and

warehouse systems.

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Designed, Developed the RPC style events and methods for the calls made

to update the inventory based the POS Orders in the Stores.

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Designed, Developed Enque-Deque mechanism to send the messages from ware

house to the Stores POS system

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Integration Testing, Bug fixes, Deployment and Technical support for QA

*SKILLS*: AIX, Windows, INGRES, INFORMIX, C, Transac Encina, DCE, SQL,

Stored Procedures

*CFC Manufacturing System May 1994 to Oct 1996*

*Client: Aeronautical Development Agency Bangalore, KA, India*

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Developed the three dimensional modeling system by importing the

geometric configuration of non develop able surfaces such Aircraft Wings,

Fin, Landing Gear doors.

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Developed the layering system for carbon fiber composite fabric on the

three dimensional geometric models with import of material specification to

export of data for the machine.

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Developed the material catalog, and cost estimation for the materials

with quantity estimate for the purchasing, inventory and scheduling.

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Tested, Deployed, supported QA and production by fixing defects and

releasing patches

*SKILLS*: Solaris, AIX, Windows, MFC, Motif/X-Windows, Open GL, OS/390,

Ingres, DB2, Fortran, C, C++, CICS, JCL, COBOL/390, PL/1

*Dynamic and Static Analysis system Oct 1992 to May 1994*

*Client: Aeronautical Development Agency Bangalore, KA, India*

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Developed Finite Element Analysis for the static and dynamic pressure

characteristics of the supersonic fighter aircrafts components such as

Wings, Fin, and Landing Gear Doors.

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Analyzed the Stress and Strain patterns and designed the components for

with standing the Stress and Strain patterns of the Supersonic operating

condition of the Aircrafts.

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Developed components Availability Dash board with resource utilization

collected from Production assembly environment, sent order messages to the

procurement system.

*SKILLS*: Solaris, AIX, Windows, MFC, Motif/X-Windows, Open GL, OS/390,

Ingres, DB2, Fortran, C, C++, CICS, JCL, COBOL/390, PL/1

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