Manager Developer

POOJA SINGH

*****.*.*****@*****.*** **** N Lake Shore Dr #1908B

Phone: 312-***-**** Chicago, IL 60613

CAREER SUMMARY

• Experienced Web Developer with extensive programming skills and specialization in RedDot CMS,

LiveServer, PHP (Zend Framework), JAVA, MySQL and ASP.NET.

• Demonstrated expertise managing high end projects in deadline oriented environments.

• Over 5 + years of IT experience that includes 4 years as RedDot/Live Server Developer and Product Specialist, 2 years

as PHP/ASP.NET Developer, 1 year as a JAVA Programmer and around 1 year as a SAS Programmer and Data

Analyst.

• Proficient in various Content Management systems including eZPublish, Drupal and Ektron along with introduction to

SiteCore, Serena Collage & Hannon Hill.

• Expertise in RedDot Content Management System, RedDot Live Server and various modules which includes RedDot

CMS Architecture and functionality, Content Import Manager, Navigation Manager, Server Manager, Publication, User

Control and Workflows.

• Strong programming knowledge of PHP, Zend framework, ASP.NET, JAVA, AJAX, JQuery, JavaScript, DOM, BASE/

SAS, SAS/GRAPH, SAS/ODS, SAS/MACROS, SAS/CONNECT and all the phases (I-IV) of clinical trials.

• Knowledgeable about SDLC (Software Development Life Cycle), Agile/SCRUM Development, Object Oriented

Principles, UML.

• Adept at creating rich user experience focused websites by following industry best practices for Search Engine

Optimization (SEO), Social Networking across versatile industries like Law Firms, Fashion, Financial, Education &

Pharmaceutical.

• Collaborative team player with excellent verbal and written communication skills, analytical and problem solving skills,

detail oriented, abstract thinking and a positive work attitude.

• Self-motivated and able to work independently as well as in team.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

• Programming Languages PHP, Zend Framework, ASP.NET, Java, J2EE, C/C++, VB.NET, JSP, HTML,

XML/XSLT, JavaScript, AJAX, JQuery, SAS.

• CMS & Software eZPublish, Drupal, Ektron, RedDot CMS, LiveServer, Visual Studio 2003/2005,

Websphere, MS Office, MS Project, PC SAS V8.2, SAS Enterprise Guide V2.

• Operating Systems MS Windows, Linux, HP UNIX, DOS.

• Databases SQL Server, MySQL, Oracle, MS Access.

• Design/Modeling UML and Use Case Modeling, IBM Rational Rose, IBM Rational Software Modeler

V6.0, Microsoft Visio Professional 2002.

PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY

Duo Consulting, Illinois May 2008 – Current

Web Developer (PHP, ASP.NET, eZPublish, Ektron & Drupal)

Duo Consulting is one of the most reputable and established Chicago based web development firms with

Professional Services, Law Firms, Non-Profits and Business clients nationwide. Duo Consulting provides unparallel

expertise in web development, design and client services. Career Builder, Northwestern University, Chicago Public

Library, McDermott Will & Emery are some of the leading names in the list of Duo Consulting’s clientele. As a

RedDot, PHP and ASP.NET Developer, I have been involved in the development of websites for a wide range of

clients and responsibilities included everything from simple HTML websites to ground-up custom programming to

complex CMS integrations with several third party systems like Salesforce and data APIs including eBay and

TicketsNow.

Responsibilities:

Extensively involved in supporting and maintaining websites for clients on RedDot Content Management System.

Using the shared content class module in RedDot created several community sites based off the main site for an

educational website.

Involved in interacting with clients and providing online support for RedDot CMS.

Excelled in the design, development and maintenance of custom web development applications using PHP, Zend

Framework, AJAX, JavaScript and JQuery.

Involved in complex integration of a travel based website with third party data API systems such as eBay, Stub

Hub, Razor Gator and TicketsNow using Web Services.

Participated in research, evaluation, functional specification and identification of suitable web development tools/

Content Management Systems and design of back end server and database architecture.

Lead a team of developers to build a law firm website with the PHP based eZ Publish Content Management System.

EZ Publish is one of the leading Content Management systems which helps to achieve a clear separation between

content and design. Mastered the eZ Publish templating language, concepts of content objects and content classes

and built several law firm and education websites to meet client needs and allow the client to gain full control of

their content.

Developed and designed enhancements for a leading insurance business client using Ektron Content Management

System which is ASP.NET based and provides a complete platform along with all functionality to create, deploy

and manage a website accompanied by writing complex stored procedures/functions.

Involved in conversion of Duo Consulting’s website from ColdFusion to Drupal.

Assisted with building a Drupal based scheduling website for a leading company in Chicago land area with complex

integration with Saleforce, SEO and Ubercart modules.

Built social networking into the user experience across multiple properties.

Identified and implemented missed SEO opportunities that increased site traffic exponentially and improvised

online marketing.

In addition to code development, maintained appropriate project documentation and followed best practices like

Continuous Integration, Error Handling and checking in code to Source Control at least once a day.

Freelancing, Illinois Aug 2008 – Current

PHP Developer

Responsibilities:

Single handedly lead the effort to convert a static HTML catalog website into a full fledged e-commerce application

using PHP, MySQL, JavaScript and JQuery.

Responsible for all phases of the development life cycle including requirements gathering, functional specification,

information architecture, design/architecture of the database and implementation of the website.

Involved with integration of website with payment gateways over secure server using https and UPS modules.

Stored all assets of the website on Amazon Cloud thereby enhancing the performance of the website.

Scripted PHP photo gallery allowing non-coders to upload folders of jpegs to the site and be integrated immediately

to the site.

Helped with Search Engine Optimization and online marketing thus increasing sales by 25%.

Used best practices, error handling and adhered to coding standards.

Post-coding was also involved in Unit testing and Load testing and thorough documentation.

Bridgeline Software Inc., Illinois Apr 2006 – May 2008

(Formerly Purple Monkey Studios Inc.)

RedDot/LiveServer Developer/Product Specialist

Bridgeline Software is a thriving digital media development company that creates imaginative and technically sound

Web sites, software and specializes in eLearning, content management systems, marketing, ecommerce, and website

consulting. As a result, clients like Marriott International, World Library Publications, Discovery Education, the

McGraw-Hill Companies, Lettuce Entertain You Restaurants, and Dominican University continue to choose Bridgeline

Software Inc. as a partner. As a RedDot and Live Server Developer responsible for creating templates and pages using

best practices, propose and implement solutions, troubleshoot customer problems and create new custom tools to fulfill

customer needs. Communicated directly with customers to resolve and explain issues and developed various custom

extensions to meet technical challenges.

Responsibilities:

Developed websites using RedDot CMS which are easy to create, review, manage and archived web content from

various sources in many different languages.

Imported and Exported RedDot CMS projects.

Designed and administered templates using best practices which were used to create pages in RedDot CMS.

Implemented a variety of site architectures and navigation structures in RedDot CMS.

Created site navigation using the Navigation Manager module as well as custom ASP code.

Integrated RedDot CMS with various other modules like the Content Import Manager, Server Manager, Workflows,

Publication and User Control.

Migrated existing content into a new RedDot CMS project using the Content Syndication module.

Created an end-user editing environment for authors and editors to easily manage the content of the website.

Developed strategies for implementing web-standards compliance and user interface consistency.

Established strategies to manage digital assets in RedDot CMS.

Helped rollout project to end users and establish project maintenance guidelines.

Used RedDot LiveServer to develop enterprise-scale web applications with dynamic, personalized content for the

users.

Developed intensive search and custom applications using RedDot LiveServer dynaments.

Integrated RedDot CMS and LiveServer and created publishing targets and publication structures in RedDot CMS

to publish the website to LiveServer environment.

Configured the content servers to publish from RedDot CMS to LiveServer using the Server Manager module.

Verinon Technology Solutions, Illinois June 2004 – Oct 2004

SAS PROGRAMMER/ANALYST

Verinon Technology solution Ltd is a leading, innovation-driven corporation committed to system-integration and

customized consulting services to health care clients around the globe. As a SAS Programmer responsible for analysis

and integration of data for clinical trial of Oncology, worked with technical design documents of Clinical Trial to

extract the data and imported the data to the central reporting database. Major responsibility included making the

clinical trials’ data available to the SAS system, participating in business requirement discussions and performed

feasibility studies on complex data obtained from call centers. Extensively involved in creating listings for Phase I of

clinical trial. Generated reports and tables using the report generation and statistical procedures of SAS programming.

Conducted validations and edit checks on the output data.

Responsibilities:

Designed Flow charts indicating the input datasets and techniques to get the desired output and extracted data from

technical design documents using SAS/ACCESS and SAS/CONNECT and imported it into SAS datasets.

Also involved in analysis of raw clinical data and imported data from Oracle clinical.

Created datasets and generated reports using PROC TABULATE, PROC REPORT, PROC UNIVARIATE, PROC

FREQ, PROC MEANS, PROC SQL, MACROS, SAS ARRAYS and DATA _NULL_.

Also created listings, tables and reports for electronic submissions.

Participated in writing of clinical trial reports for Phase I, analyzing and presenting trial results and generated

efficacy and safety reports for Phase II and Phase III studies.

Developed and debugged SAS Macros for Reporting, cleaning of data and testing and moved data sets across

platforms (UNIX to WINDOWS and Vice Versa).

Followed directions and prioritized tasks to meet deadlines and provided intelligent technical support to our project

managers, account executives, and business analysts. Also produced Documentation for every phase of the project.

IT Solutions, India Dec 2001 – May 2002

JAVA DEVELOPER

IT Solutions is a pioneering IT consulting company in India providing excellent and quick solutions in the field of

Telecommunications, Insurance, and Manufacturing. The primary objective of my project was to create an application

which provided approved users with access to reports, metrics, and Enterprise Elements data via a Graphical User

Interface. These metrics were carefully designed to measure and track the enterprise wide performance on different time

dimensions such as Daily, Weekly, Monthly, Quarterly and Yearly.

Responsibilities:

Followed SDLC approach for performing the requirement analysis, business requirement analysis, design, coding and

testing the GUI system and also worked in close association with the ETL team to ensure the flawless interfacing

between GUI and reporting tables along with the business requirements.

Implemented the GUI design in development phase using IBM Websphere and also designed and created the Oracle

database which stored the information which was the backbone for GUI navigation.

Performed unit testing on all the Classes, actions, services and JSP’s before handing over the ‘Web solution’ to the

testing team and also created the Documentation for GUI as a part of design phase which covered the development

and production standards of JAVA. Used ChangeMan as a Version control Software.

ACADEMIC EXPERIENCE

Illinois Institute of technology, Illinois Jan 2004 – May 2004

JAVA PROGRAMMER

Responsibilities:

Designed and Implemented an Automated Airline Reservation system using Java, MS Access database, Apache

Tomcat on a Windows platform. The system was developed in two phases, the first phase was a Java Applet and the

second phase required to create an Intranet that operates between an RMI Server and number of internal clients

within the Airline system where the clients were implemented as Java application programs.

The RMI server could communicate over the Internet with web servers via http protocol but the clients could not

connect directly to the Internet but only via the RMI server.

A GUI was created using Java Servlets and JSP to allow the users to login into the system to perform various

activities like booking tickets, canceling reservations, editing reservations etc.

Indian Institute of technology, Mumbai July 2002 – May 2003

JAVA DEVELOPER

Indian Institute of Technology is recognized as one of the centers of academic excellence in the country. Implemented

an On-line education system for Indian Institute of Technology, Mumbai, India as an integral part for the software

implementation of the Distance Education Program launched in May 2003 by KReSIT.

Responsibilities:

Developed a system using JSP, Apache Tomcat, J2EE engine, POSTGRESQL database together on a Linux

platform for a Distance Education Program.

The system dealt with three basic actors’ viz. students, faculties and administrators who could login into the system

and access functionalities like online lectures, course materials online, change in examination dates, frequently

asked questions, and online quizzes.

The UML standards (Use cases, Sequence Diagrams, Collaboration Diagram) were followed and SRS and SDS

were created using Rational Rose. The SDLC approach was the guiding factor for the project.

EDUCATION

Bachelor of Engineering (Computers) University of Mumbai, Mumbai, India GPA 3.91/4.0

Masters of Computer Science Illinois Institute of Technology, Chicago GPA 3.70/4.0

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