Quality Assurance Oracle

Ravishankar Ramanathan +1-650-***-****

**** ***** **, *** *** ***********.*.**********@*****.***

Palo Alto, CA 94304

Qualifications Summary

. Highly motivated, independent and creative software architect with over

ten years experience in academic web deployment and enterprise web

application development

. A results-oriented professional experienced in managing

multidisciplinary teams across global locations, developing simplified

methodologies, analyzing problems and finding unique solutions

. Extensive knowledge of multi-tiered application architecture,

deployment, content management system design, portal repository data

model and database tuning

. Hands-on expertise in Oracle technology including SQL, RDBMS, Application

Server, Internet

Directory (LDAP) and other Oracle products

. Excellent understanding of software development lifecycle, change control

and project management

Accomplishments

. Worked as an independent contractor on mashup technologies and planner

for decommissioning web project

. Architect and project lead for development of Oracle Portal migration

utility (Export/ Import); responsible for all aspects of the feature from

database schema design to patented framework architecture including, API

and web user interface design

. Led a team of developers, testers, writers and product managers in

implementing new features, improvements and bug fixes to the migration

utility for multiple major and minor releases of Oracle Application

Server (9iAS, 10g AS)

. Acted as point-man for high priority bugs from fortune 500 companies

and resolved them expeditiously

. Reduced overall bug count in component area from over 16% of product's

total bugs to less than 2% from 2002 to 2004

. Trained support personnel and bug defect escalation engineers on

migration framework and diagnosing issues in portal deployment code by

holding Support Masterclasses at regular intervals

Technical Skills

. Oracle 9i, 10g and 11g Server, MySQL, FileMaker Pro, SQLite, Microsoft

Access, Microsoft

SQL Server

. Enterprise Web Applications, Identity Management and Security, User

Interface Design, Deployment & Migration

. SQL, PL/SQL, C, Shell, JAVA, JSP, ASP, JavaScript, jQuery HTML, CSS,

XML, PHP, CGI, Perl, Visual C#

. Eclipse, JDeveloper, Visual Studio, ADF, .NET, Oracle Application and

WebLogic Server, Tomcat, Apache Web Server, UNIX Solaris, Linux

Patent & Publications

Approaches for Migrating Portal Objects From Source to Target

InstallationU.S. Patent #7346627

Oracle Application Server Portal Configuration Guide

Oracle Application Server Portal Installation and Upgrade Guide

Oracle 9iAS Export-Import White Paper

Employment History

Independent Contractor, Bronx, NY. Mar 2006 - Feb 2007

. Designed and developed a real estate lead generation mashup using

services from Trulia.com, Homegain.com, Reply.com and Zillow.com using

LAMP, XML and REST

. De-commissioned german based New York Broker's (a financial services

firm) web and network infrastructure as part of the company's closing down

their online web presence

Oracle Corporation, Reston, VA. Feb 1998 - Aug 2005

Principal Technical Staff, Oracle Server Technologies Division.

. Responsible for analysis, design and development of new features and

improvements to Oracle Portal export-import; responsible for requiring buy-

ins from disparate groups that owned the sub-systems that required

deployment functionality and oversaw their implementation in their

respective areas

. Designed the framework and the web-based user interface for migration

utility and communicated the requirements for implementing the feature

in various sub-systems to its owners

. Consolidated various sub-system's migration and deployment features

that varied wildly in functionality and scope into a uniform portal-wide

migration utility with consistent features and common framework

. Designed and built data validation feature for addressing

inconsistencies found in the content and meta-data being migrated which

was later spun off into its own entity (schema validation utility)

handled by schema design team

. Performed root cause analysis on bugs to identify base issues and

recommended system-wide improvements to address the effects of those

issues on migration feature

. Analyzed meta-data repository cloning requirements for Oracle Portal

and provided Oracle Application Server team step-by-step instructions

for successful cloning of Oracle Portal and essential external

applications such as, Single Sign-On, etc

. Coordinated activities of development and quality assurance teams

with Oracle Support for prompt resolution of escalated issues from

customers

. Oversaw test suite automation by quality assurance team and provided

suggestions on staged implementation of the feature

. Authored sections of portal installation, upgrade, and configuration

and application server cloning documentation

Senior Technical Staff, Oracle Tools Division.

. Implemented enhancements to design-time web-based user interface for

content management features including content typing, classification,

security, translation, versioning, custom typing and attribution

. Wrote navigation code for browsing content management objects in Oracle

Portal

Senior Consultant, Advanced Technologies Division.

. Built a web-based process management application using Oracle Workflow,

WebDB and

SiteBuilder; features included document management, routing, and

approval

. Maintained UNIX and Windows scripts for installation and setup of

development environment used for various miscellaneous internal projects

and administered their release management

George Mason University, Fairfax, VA. Jan 1992 - Oct 1997

Systems Manager, Instructional Resource Center.

Systems Administrator, School of Information Technology and Engineering.

Lab Coordinator, Graduate School of Education.

. Created policies on the use of internet technologies in classroom and

integrated online collaboration software (http://townhall.gmu.edu) and e-

learning courseware (http://webct.gmu.edu) with university's web

infrastructure

. Setup a web-based collaboration software using WebCrossing for classroom

and departmental forums; setup a self-registration process for access to

the discussion forums and created a process for managing that access

through school's main login server

. Designed the top-level taxonomy for the web-based virtual learning

software WebCT; assisted faculty in creating course-specific content

classification and provided training, administrative, and technical

support for managing the online course during the academic term

. Developed a web-based reservation system for handling educational

workshops using FileMaker

Pro, Lasso and WebSTAR

. Created self-contained instructional aids for teaching, quizzing and

grading students using

Macromedia Authorware

. Identified hardware and software requirements for the laboratories and

managed their acquisition, installation, and administration

. Trained lab assistants on software and hardware management and

scheduled lab activities

Education

PhD Candidate in Computational Sciences & Informatics, George Mason

University, VA.1995 - 1997

MS in Electrical & Computer Engineering, George Mason University, VA.

1995

Bachelor of Engineering in Electronics & Instrumentation, Annamalai

University, INDIA. 1990

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