Loknath Bharanidhar Chadalavada

e-mail : abhgle@r.postjobfree.com

mobile : 678-***-****

Sr Vignette Consultant

Motivated and driven Vignette ECM and Portal Architect/Consultant offering close to seven years of hands-on

experience in architecting, designing, implementing, and enhancing enterprise content management systems

using Vignette Content Management Products. Assisted both fortune 500 and Public Sector clients in finance,

media, insurance, travel, manufacturing and health-care domains in the analysis, design and development of

fully integrated complex Vignette solutions. Solid track record of customer satisfaction and appreciation.

Have worked on 9 web implementations involving more than 22 sites. Experience in all aspects of Content life

cycle – content analysis, content taxonomy/tagging, content approval and deployment workflow, content

publishing and content archiving. Knowledge of search and analytics. Have extensive customization

experience of VCM and Portal. Experience with all phases of SDLC.

KEY VIGNETTE SKILLS

• Complex VCM Customization – Custom Listeners, Program Tasks, Workflows, Content Entry Form

• Cloning of entire Vignette/DPM/Portal complex environments.

• Installation and configuration of complete VCM/DPM/Portal products on different types of OS.

• Content Modeling – Content type definitions, Content type modeling using best practices

• Performance tuning of VCM/DPM products.

• Active directory (LDAP) integration for VCM or Portal

• Content Migration using VBIS or VCM CMA APIs

• Standalone java applications using Content Management APIs and Content Delivery APIs

• Extensive experience of troubleshooting VCM issues and publishing issues

• Access Control, Security and Information Architecture

• Custom JSR-168 portlets development and deployment

• Custom portal development – Grid, Theme, Secondary Pages, User Management

• DPM/DSM presentation override (JSP/XSL) and custom components

• Integrations using VBIS (Vignette Business Integration)

KEY TECHNICAL COMPETENCIES

• Enterprise Content Management Products : Vignette

• Vignette Product Suite: Vignette Content Management (VCM) 7.x, Vignette Portal (VAP) 7.x, and Vignette

Business Integration Studio (VBIS 7.x), Dynamic Portal/Site Module (DPM/DSM) 2.0.x and 7.5, Vignette

Workflow Modeler, Integration of Vignette with third party applications

• Knowledge of all aspects of Content Management Lifecycle : Content Classification and Taxonomy,

Defining Content Types (schema design and modeling), Designing Content Entry Forms, Content

Creation, Content Storage, Content Workflow (Approval and deployment), Content Retrieval and Content

Delivery/Presentation, Content Search, Content Access Control and Security, Content Personalization

• Enterprise/Content Search: Autonomy

• J2EE/Web Development Technologies : Java, JSP, Servlets, XML, XSL, JDBC, JavaScript, AJAX, HTML,

XHTML, CSS

• Application Servers : Weblogic, Tomcat, Websphere

• Web Servers: Apache, IIS, IBM HTTP Server

• Database Applications: Oracle, MS SQL Server, MySQL, PL/SQL, RDBMS

• IDE: Eclipse, WSAD

• Configuration Management and Version Control Tools: CVS, VSS

• QA/Testing Tools: HP Mercury Quality Center

• OS/Platforms : Solaris, Unix, Linux, Windows (XP, Vista, 2000, 2003), DOS

• Office/Productivity Suite: MS Office, Power Point, Visio

• Methodologies: UML, SCRUM

EDUCATION

• Bachelor of Technology -Jawaharlal Nehru Technological University, Hyderabad, India

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Datamatics Consultants Inc.

Aug 2010 to

Present

American Express

Build of NGSelects on V 7.6 Infrastructure

Senior Vignette Consultant

American Express is the most diversified global financial services company. The company is best known for its

credit cards, charge card and traveler’s cheque businesses. This project involves building of mobile version for

American Express offers site. American Express offers site lists all the current offers for its customers and

merchants. Infrastructure involves VCM 7.6 cluster as content repository and DPM for delivery application.

Responsibilities:

• Onsite Vignette lead for the project.

• SPOC for the customer on any Vignette architectural queries

• Maintenance and development of existing and new infrastructure and applications.

• Resolving, answering Vignette architectural queries.

• Development of custom event listeners and custom input forms.

• Development of Override JSPs, Styles and Grids using custom tags in Vignette portal.

• Leading build and code deployment using Maven in all environments.

• Administration and performance tuning of Vignette servers on all environments.

• Supporting Autonomy issues involving indexes and search.

• Installation of efixes and patches on Vignette components.

• Debugging day to day issues as a part of support.

• Coordination with all the concerned teams involved.

• Excellent documentation of all installations for future reference.

Environment: Intel & IBM clones, Solaris 9, Windows XP, Vignette Content Management 7.6, Vignette Portal

7.4, DPM 7.0, Websphere 6.x, Oracle 10g

Datamatics Consultants Inc.

Nov 2009 to July

2010

Travel Channel Media

Build of V7.6 Infrastructure

Senior Vignette Consultant

Travel Channel Media is the world’s leading travel media brand. This project involves building of V7.6

infrastructure, installation and configuration of VCM 7.6 in dev, QA, staging and production environments,

installation of content delivery services, DPM configuration. The production architecture involves V7 cluster as

content repository and DPM for delivery application.

Responsibilities:

• Onsite Vignette lead for the project.

• SPOC for the customer on all Vignette queries.

• Manual cloning of the VCM environments from one data centre to different data centre..

• Designed the best practice for the migration approach of DPM sites from VCM 7.4 into VCM 7.6.

• Use of command line utilities like configp, cfgedit, vgnimport, cfgaction for development and

administrative tasks.

• Development of VCM Custom listeners to implement custom functionality in VCM.

• Development of Custom content input forms as per business requirements..

• Resolving, answering Vignette architectural queries.

• Resolving complex publishing and cache issues as part of production support.

• Administration of Vignette servers on all environments.

• Performance Tuning of Vignette Environment.

• Leading deployment of code in QA, staging and production

• Debugging day to day issues as a part of supporting producers.

• Coordination with various teams in the process of resolving requests.

• Excellent documentation of all the installations for future references.

Environment: Intel & IBM clones, Solaris 9, Windows XP, Vignette Content Management 7.6, Vignette Portal

7.4, DPM 7.0, JBoss 4.2, Oracle 10g

Datamatics Consultants Inc.

Genentech Inc, SF, CA July 2009 to Oct 2009

WCM Development

Vignette Developer

Genentech is considered as the founder of the biotechnology industry. WCM development involved migrating

of site managed by VAP, CAM to VCM, VAP, DPM managed infrastructure. The production architecture

involves V7 as content management system and DPM as delivery application.

Responsibilities:

• Development of JSR 168 portlets, which communicate to different data sources like SFDC,

VCM.

• Developing VCM custom listeners to implement dynamic content into custom input forms.

• Developed override JSPs for DPM to render content from VCM.

• UML Diagram representation which included Activity Diagram, Class Diagram.

• Excellent documentation of components developed.

Environment: Intel & IBM Clones, Solaris 9, Windows XP, Vignette Content Management 7.6, VAP 7.3,DPM

7.6, Weblogic 10, Oracle 10g.

Datamatics Consultants Inc.

UTSW, Dallas, TX Jan 2009 to June 2009

Build of V7 Infrastructure

System Administrator and Developer

UTSW is part of University of Texas and is the leading hospital in Dallas. Building of V7 infrastructure involved

fresh installation and configuration of VCM 7.5 and upgrading to 7.5 in all environments, installation of content

delivery services, DPM configuration and architecture their design. The production architecture involves V7

cluster as content repository and DPM for delivery application.

Responsibilities:

• Design of UTSW V7 architecture.

• Installation and configuration of VCM 7.5, management cluster, split database, CCE 7.5 installation

and patching it to 7.5 on Solaris with Oracle server database.

• Installation and configuration of delivery components like configuration agents, multiple delivery

stages and custom static deployment in remote hosts.

• Development of custom Event Listeners.

• Installation Vignette Portal o all the environments.

• Configuration of services in portal.

• Developments of custom override jsps to render content from VCM.

• Development of Secondary Pages to extend portal functionality.

• Installation and configuration of Vignette Product Offerings (Extensions).

• DSM configuration on management and delivery stages.

• Use of command line utilities like configp, cfgedit, vgnimport, cfgaction.

• Development of customizations in VCM.

• Excellent documentation of all the installations future references.

Environment: Intel & IBM clones, Solaris 9, Windows XP, Vignette Content Management 7.5, DPM 7.5,

Weblogic 9.0, Oracle 9i

Datamatics Consultants Inc

New York Life Insurance, Inc. New York, NY Jan 2008 to Dec 2008

Build of V7 Infrastructure

Senior Vignette Developer

Building of V7 infrastructure involved fresh installation and configuration of VCM 7.3.1 and upgrading to 7.3.1.1

in all environments, installation of content delivery services, DPM configuration and architecture their design

The production architecture involves V7 cluster as content repository and DPM for delivery application.

Responsibilities:

• Design of New York Life Insurance V7 architecture.

• Installation and configuration of VCM 7.3.1, management cluster, split database, CCE 7.3.1.1

installation and patching it to 7.3.1.1 on Solaris with Oracle server database.

• Installation and configuration of delivery components like configuration agents, multiple delivery

stages and custom static deployment in remote hosts.

• Installation and configuration of Vignette Product Offerings (Extensions).

• DSM configuration on management and delivery stages.

• Use of command line utilities like configp, cfgedit, vgnimport, cfgaction.

• Performance Tuning of Vignette Environment.

• Leading deployment of code in staging and production.

• Development of custom Event Listeners.

• Developments of custom override jsps.

• Development of secondary pages.

• Monitoring publishing issues and resolving issues if any.

• Debugging day to day issues related to Management and Delivery stage.

• Coordination with various teams in the process of resolving requests.

• Excellent documentation of all the installations future references.

Environment: Intel & IBM clones, Solaris 9, Windows XP, Vignette Content Management 7.3.1, 7.3.1.1, DPM

2.0.5, Web sphere 6.0, Oracle 9i

Tata Consultancy Services Sep 2006 to Oct 2007

Saka Solutions Inc Nov 2007 to May 2008

Nielsen Media Research, Inc. Oldsmar, FL

Support and Maintenance of NMR Portal

Senior Vignette developer

Support and Maintenance of Nielsen Media Research Portal application involves managing the content for the

Nielsen Media Research website viz. www.nielsenmedia.com, which provides television audience

measurement and advertising information services worldwide. The architecture for the application is Vignette

V7 as the content repository and Vignette Application Portal for the display. Vignette VCM V7 handles the

content management and Vignette Application Portal handle the content display.

Responsibilities:

• Analysis and Study of Nielsen Media Research portal architecture from Vignette content

management and portal perspective.

• Design and development of various VCM objects such as Site, Channels, CTDs, Projects,

Presentation Templates to facilitate the implementation of NMR Portal application

• Installation and configuration of VCM 7.3.0.5, delivery stage, custom deployment agents, event

listeners, patching it to 7.3.1.1 on Solaris with SQL server database

• Administrating required servers such as VgnVCMServer and Admin server.

• Administrating Runtime services which included workflow email configuration, managing and

cloning JDBC components, JVM heap size and JTA transaction time out settings.

• Managing Users, Group, Roles and Capabilities.

• Configuring Autonomy with Collaboration.

• Administering Apache web server.

• Monitoring publishing issues and resolving issues if any

• Interacting with business users in resolving content issues as a part of production support.

• Building and deploying of code in Tomcat application server.

• Requirement gathering and analysis of change request.

• Coordination with business users and developers to prepare test cases.

• Prepared Application maintenance manual, Requirement documents, Status Reports as a part of

managed support.

Environment: Intel & IBM clones, Solaris 9, Windows XP, Java, JSP, Vignette Content Management 7.3.0.5,

DPM 2.0.4, Tomcat 4.5, Microsoft SQL Server 2000.

Tata Consultancy Services.

Motorola Inc. Chicago, IL Oct 2005 to Aug 2006

Migration and Support of Hellomoto Web 7.0

Vignette Developer and Administartor

Migration and Support of Hellomoto Web 7.0 application involves migrating and managing the content for

the Motorola Consumer website viz. www.motorola.com/consumer or www.hellomoto.com catering exclusively

to marketing of their Phones for 60 Locales. The architecture for the application is Vignette V7 as the content

repository and Jsps for the display. Vignette VCM V7 handles the content management and JSP Templates

and XSLTs handle the content display. The purpose of this project is to migrate the capabilities and “look and

feel” of the legacy platform in ASPs and SQL Server to a Vignette 7 CMS with web pages in JSPs.

Responsibilities:

• Involved in analysis and design of Migration Engine for importing the data from SQL into Oracle.

• Involved extensively in requirement gathering and analysis of change requests.

• Analysis and Study of Hellomoto Web 7.0 architecture form Vignette content management

perspective.

• Design and development of Content Type Definitions.

• Administration of Vignette servers in Production, UAT and development environments.

• Configuration of event listeners, management console extensions, file source scans.

• Managing users, groups, roles and capabilities.

• Deployment of code in Weblogic server.

• Configuration of web servers.

• Resolving content deployment issues as a part of production support.

• Created Application maintenance manual on the production environment.

• Was a team lead for the project and coordinated between different teams involved.

Environments: Intel & IBM clones, Linux 8.2, Windows XP, Java, JSP, Content Management 7.3, DSM,

Weblogic 8.1, Oracle 9i

Tata Consultancy Services

Motorola Inc. Chicago June 2005 to Sep 2005

Vignette Developer and Administrator

The project involves managing the content for the Motorola intranet and internet websites viz. www.mot.com

and Motorola.com respectively. The architecture for the application is Vignette V7 as the content repository

and Vignette V6 for the display. Vignette VCM V7 handles the content management and the content display is

handled by Vignette V6 – JSP Templates. This is a hybrid architecture involving both the V6 and the V7

versions of the Vignette tool.

Responsibilities:

• Involved with Business teams to understand the Business logic and to deliver best technical

solutions.

• Analysis and Study of Motorola architecture form Vignette Content Management perspective.

• Administration of Vignette servers in Production, UAT and Development environments.

• Involved in the design and development of Content Type Definitions.

• Monitoring content deployment and trouble shooting issues.

• Configuration of event listeners and management console customizations.

• Use of command line utilities like configp, cfgedit, vgnimport and cfgaction.

• Understanding and studying logs for debugging content issues.

• Resolved content issues as apart of production support.

• Involved in System Integration Testing and User Acceptance Testing.

• Worked with QA and provided test cases and user documentation.

Environments: Intel & IBM clones, Linux 8.2, Windows XP, Java, JSP, Vignette Content Management 7.3,

Weblogic 8.1, Oracle 8i

Tata Consultancy Services

Apr 2004 to June 2005

Design & Development of TCS- Vignette COE Portal

Developer

The project involved design and development of the portal for TCS’ Vignette COE. The portal uses Vignette

Content Management (VCM) for content management features. The project involved Customizations on VCM

and building of custom JSR-168 compliant portlets as well as Vignette Portlet Beans. The portal hosts all the

information related the TCS Vignette relationship across the corporate.

Responsibilities:

• Involved in understanding of the business requirements and existing systems.

• Designed application by implementing MVC architecture. Developed Controller Servlet which

acts as a application controller and developed web pages using JSP, HTML, and JavaScript.

• Build and deployed code in Tomcat Application Server.

• Used Oracle database for table creation and involved in writing SQL queries for data retrieve

from the database.

• Managed source code using Microsoft Visual Source Safe.

• Involved in Unit Testing and worked with Quality Assurance people.

• Installation of VCM 7.3 on Windows operating system.

• Creation of Content Type Definitions.

• Creation of XSLts for previewing the content in VCM.

• Import and Export of content into VCM using vgnimport and vgnexport.

Environments: Intel & IBM clones, Windows XP, Java, JSP, Vignette Content Management Suite, Weblogic

Server 8.1, Apache Tomcat 4.3.27, and Oracle 8i.

e-mug Technologies Pvt. Ltd Sep 2003 to March 2004

Design and Development of Turbines, Cylinders

Design Engineer Projects

The project involved design and development of turbines and cylinders for a major thermal energy producing

company. The CAD, CAM software include Unigraphics, PRO/E.

Responsibilities:

• Involved in analysis of 2d diagrams of the components.

• Designed the 3D views of the individual components

• Assembly of independent components.

• Testing of the individual and assembly.

• Preparing drafts for all the components.

Hyquip Systems Pvt Ltd Sep 2002 to Sep 2003.

Proposal Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Involved in study of the client requirements.

• Preparing Drafts for Conveyor Systems.

• Estimation of the Conveyor Systems.

• Involved in technical discussion during the proposal.

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