Bhaskar Kurravenkatamuni
Cypress, CA *****
(***) 216 - 7998 **********@*****.***
Summary:
. TEN YEARS OF EXPERIENCE IN INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY AND SOFTWARE
DEVELOPMENT FIELD WITH EXPERTISE IN JAVATM 2 PLATFORM, WEBLOGIC,
BROADVISION, ENTERPRISE EDITION (J2EETM) AND OPEN SOURCE
TECHNOLOGIES.
. Specialized in Object-Oriented Analysis and Design with extensive
experience in full software development life cycle including
requirements definition, prototyping and proof of concept, design,
interface implementation, testing, and maintenance.
. Analytical thinker that consistently resolves ongoing issues or
defects, often called upon to consult on problems that have eluded
resolution by others.
. Extensive experience in electronics, manufacturing, automotive,
semiconductor, financial and e-commerce domains
. Successful in meeting new technical challenges and finding solution
to meet needs of the customer.
. Dedicated, hard working individual with intercommunication skills
to work at all levels of organization.
. Demonstrated solid skills and proficiency in leading and monitoring
individuals to maximize levels of productivity while forming
cohesive team environments.
. Highly successful at collaborating with key end users and IS teams
to design and develop Technical and Business Requirements
. Works well in both team environments and individual assignments.
Education:
BACHELORS OF ENGINEERING (BE) IN COMPUTER SCIENCE & ENGINEERING FROM
UNIVERSITY OF MADRAS, INDIA
Professional Certification:
. BRAIN BENCH CERTIFIED OBJECT ORIENTED DEVELOPER
. Brain bench certified Java 1.2 Programmer
Technical Expertise:
TECHNOLOGIES JAVA, JSP, SERVLETS, JDBC, EJB, RMI, STRUTS, TILES,
SPRING, VELOCITY TEMPLATES, JAVASCRIPT, LOG4J, XML,
XSLT, ANT
OPERATING HP-UNIX, SUN SOLARIS, IBM AIX, MICROSOFT WINDOWS
SYSTEMS
LANGUAGES C++, JAVA, PERL, HTML
DATABASES ORACLE 9.1, MICROSOFT SQL SERVER
TOOLS IDEA INTELLIJ, ECLIPSE, PL/SQL DEVELOPER, TOAD,
BUGZILLA, TEST DIRECTOR, RATIONAL CLEARCASE, VISUAL
SOURCESAFE, SUBVERSION, CALIBER, QUICKR, FUSIONCHARTS.
WEB/SEARCH APACHE TOMCAT, JAVAWEBSERVER, INKTOMI ULTRASEEK SEVER,
SERVER VERITY, IPLANET
APPLICATION/POR WEBLOGIC SERVER 8.1, JBOSS APPLICATION SERVER 3.2.3,
TAL SERVER BROADVISION SUITE OF PRODUCTS, WEBSPHERE, IPLANET, SUN
ONE PORTAL SERVER
Professional Experience:
MASTECH HOLDINGS
APR 2007 TO PRESENT
Epson America Inc
Senior Application Developer
Project : EDM
MyEpsonPrinter.com is a web application for customers of professional
graphics printers to view their Professional Imaging Printers' usage across
the web. This includes ink consumed, media used, jobs performed on a
printer, costs calculated per ink and media, current ink level display,
printer alerts received among other things.
. Main modules involved are account and/or printer registration, printer
overview, cost settings, account settings, reports and support
application.
. Involved in full life cycle development from ground up including
requirements gathering and analysis of available open-source
framework, design, estimation, development, testing, QA, production
deployment and post-production bug fixes.
. Developed support for internationalization.
. Developed account and printer registration module that verifies
printer serial number with its activation code.
. Designed & implemented report generation work-flow that provides
reports on user consumption, summary statistics, ink and media used
and other business reports over a pre-defined or custom periods. The
reports generated using FusionChartstm received maximum appreciation
and high customer satisfaction.
. Provided post production support and enhancements to both customer
facing website as well as support application.
. Provided client with insight into customer usage by extracting data
and generating daily email to pro-imaging group.
Technologies: Java, JSP, Struts, Tiles, Velocity Templates, Spring, XML,
VSS, Subversion, BroadVision 7.1, Oracle 9.1, SQL Scripting, Shell
scripting, PL/SQL Developer, IntelliJ IDEA 8.0, Fusion Charts.
Epson America Inc
Senior Application Developer
Project : B2C Customer Extract
Internal reporting required customer and order data extraction from data
obtained through www.epson.com B2C site.
. Generated one-time and incremental customer data.
. Helped set up automation of incremental customer data on a daily basis
and email generated extract to e-marketing team.
Technologies: BroadVision 7.1, Oracle 9.1, SQL Scripting, Shell
scripting.
Epson America Inc
Senior Application Developer
Project : MyEpson Portal
MyEpson.com portal application is to be offered as premium service as part
of loyalty program that is activated when customer registers their Epson
product. Key goal is to develop stronger link and brand affinity with
customers by providing personalized web experience with fast access to
essential tools and compelling content.
. Key modules included registration, creative zone project with search,
how-to content, support content including downloads, documents and
FAQs.
. Involved in creating necessary skeleton architecture based on
requirements.
. Developed Support Documents and Downloads module that complies with
existing BroadVision system and content.
. Displayed relevant content based on product selected in MyEpson site
and user's underlying operating system.
. Updated existing scripts to track and record support FAQs that were
accessed by customers. This is later used to display Top 10 FAQs for
selected product.
Technologies : Java, JSP, Struts, Tiles, Velocity, Spring, XML, VSS,
BroadVision 7.1, Oracle 9.1, PL/SQL Developer, IntelliJ IDEA 6.0, Perl.
COGNIZANT TECHNOLOGY SOLUTIONS OCT 2004
to APR 2007
GMAC Financial Services
Module Leader
Project : GMAC-RSS
GMAC's Retail Self Service (RSS) initiative was part of web self-service
strategy to provide capabilities through self-registration, account
updates, pay-off quote requests, payment options and profile maintenance to
consumers of GMAC Financial Services (www.gmacfs.com).
. As a lead integrator for RSS application, ensured that application is
up and running at all times.
. Provided technical assistance for new changes and minor enhancements.
. Developed multi-lingual framework to support English & Spanish
language for US customers and English & French language for Canada
customers.
. Participated in activities like Disaster Recovery Drill and Network
Separation as an Application Owner.
. Interacted with upstream (GMACFS.com), downstream application teams
(GIF & CARS), hosting vendors and offshore team to bring the best to
the client.
. Provided guidance to phase II development team in deploying within
various environments and testing it.
. Provided client with insight into the application for developing
similar application for National Auto Finance.
Technologies: Java, JSP, EJB, XML, VSS, Caliber, BEA WebLogic 8.1, Oracle
9.1, Eclipse, Toad
GMAC Insurance
Module leader
Project : GMACI-RDM
Started as a pilot project for onsite-offshore model to web enable
Reference Data Management (RDM) for GMAC Insurance.
. Full life cycle development from ground up including requirements
gathering, design, estimation, prototyping, implementation, testing
and QA.
. Suggested a design approach to build common components that can reused
across modules.
. Responsible for leading a team for developmental activities and QA
process
. Helped set up environment and knowledge transfer for newly joined team
members
Technologies : Java, JSP, EJB, Siege Framework, XML, CVS, JBoss
Application Server 3.2.3, Oracle 9i, Eclipse, Toad, Test Director, Ant
scripts.
TRIGYN TECHNOLOGIES GmbH
JUN 2004 to SEP 2004
Infineon Technologies, Germany.
Senior Consultant
Project : Project Pin II
Redesign Infineon.com website based on BroadVision Portal functionality
with struts framework.
. Worked with BroadVision Europe team to develop code for project PIN II
and also for getting requirements for next phase.
. Involved in development of Header, Footer and Left navigation using
BroadVision JSP templates.
. Designed and developed micro-sites to be incorporated within Infineon
website.
. Developed Inbox messages for Portal Admin tool.
. Developed multi-lingual framework to support English and German.
Technologies: BroadVision 7.1 Portal, Java, JSP, Struts, XML, Clearcase,
HP-Unix, Oracle 9i, Eclipse, Toad.
DELOITTE CONSULTING OTG
JAN 2003 to MAY 2004
Agilent Technologies, USA.
Module Lead
Project : A.com
Agilent.com is a premier website for Agilent Technologies that decided to
move all five of its legacy modules into one Common Internet Architecture
(CIA). The work included moving to a new architecture and to offshore
development and maintenance activities.
. Led the team through detailed use case analysis, requirements
gathering, system design, and implementation of search module.
. Search was mainly divided into i) Indexing, to index content into
Inktomi server, ii. Accessing, to access indexed content from the
collection with the help of Inktomi XPA APIs.
. Involved in new release of the www.agilent.com website with updated
search functionality
. Addressed production issues on a priority basis.
Technologies: BroadVision 6.0 Enterprise, Inktomi Search Engine, Java
RMI, XML, Rational Clearcase, HP-Unix, Oracle 9i, JavaScript, Bugzilla.
KARNA GLOBAL TECHNOLOGIES APR
2000 to OCT 2002
Hewlett Packard, Latin America.
Java Developer
Project : Weblite
Weblite is an add-on to HP-Latin American website that helps Tele Sales
Representatives manage calls efficiently by cutting out on number of steps
required in the workflow.
. Responsible for developing User's account detail module.
. Worked as a test lead for performing testing activities.
Technologies: Sun Solaris 2.7, BroadVision 6.0, Java, JSP, Netscape Web
server 3.6, Oracle 8.1.6.
Verity GUI
Java Developer
Project : VerityGUI
Verity GUI is an in-house application primarily developed to replicate
current command-line interface provided for BroadVision database. With the
help of this application, user can setup and maintain collections used by
Verity to search contents in the BroadVision database.
. Involved in design and implementation of the project. Responsible for
writing beans which would create directory structure necessary for
building collections.
. Was responsible for running indexer utility for building collections &
scheduling collections so that they are up to date with BroadVision
database using the proposed Web User Interface
. Developed test cases for building, rebuilding, scheduling and deleting
collections.
Technologies: Sun Solaris 2.7, Windows NT, BroadVision 5.5/6.0
Enterprise, Java, JSP, XML, Java Web server, Oracle 8.1.6 and MS SQL
Server 6.5.