Rama M

ac2gfy@r.postjobfree.com

510-***-**** (M)

Professional Summary

7+ years of IT experience in requirement analysis, design, development, testing and implementation of Internet/Intranet/E-Commerce, Stand-alone, Client/Server and MVC architecture applications on Windows, Linux, UNIX environments.

Experienced in B2C, B2B and Extended Sites business models in IBM Websphere Commerce.

4+ years of Rich Experience in IBM Websphere Commerce Suites 4.1, 5.5, 5.6 and 6.0 and 7.0

Extensive hands on experience in IBM Websphere Commerce customization of Order management, Third party Tax Integration with Commerce, Shipping and Promotion Engine modules.

Very thorough understanding of Catalog and Order management modules.

Expertise on application servers like IBM WAS 6.0 (Web Sphere Application Server) and IBM Websphere Commerce Server.

Extensively used IBM RAD (Rational Application Developer), Eclipse for developing Java/J2EE applications.

Good understanding of RDBMS and database design using IBM DB2 10.1 UDB /Oracle 10g/8i and SQL-Server 2000.

Experience in using the version control tools like Dimensions, SVN, CVS

Experience on Apache Log4j Framework for logging and Validator Framework for validations.

Handling experience of Severity requests in support applications.

Professional Certifications:

IBM Certified Websphere Commerce Associate 6.0.

Technical Skills

Languages

Java 6, C, SQL

Databases

DB2 10, Oracle 10g, My SQL.

Web Servers

Apache Tom Cat4.0, IBM HTTP Server.

Application Servers

IBM Websphere (WAS 6.0)

Application Development Tools

IBM Websphere Commerce suite 5.5, 5.6 and 6.0, 7.0 WebSphere Studio Application Developer (/5.0) (WSAD), IBM RAD (RATIONAL APPLICATION DEVELOPER).

Web Technologies

STRUTS,J2EE,MVC, JSP, EJB, HTML

Scripting Languages

Java Script

Educational Qualification:

Bachelors in computer science from Jawaharlal Nehru Technological University, Hyderabad.

Professional Experience:

Scholastic Nov 2015- PRESENT

NYC, NY

Teachers-http://clubs.scholastic.com

Parents- http://clubs.scholastic.com

Description: Scholastic Book Clubs online is an online book selling application developed using IBM Websphere Commerce and IBM DB2. It has two online book stores called TCool used by Teachers and PCool used by Parents. Several book club catalogs like Honeybee (Age 2-4), Firefly (Pre K -K), Seesaw (Grade K-1), Lucky (Grade 2-3), Arrow (Grade 4-6), Tab (Grade 7 & Up) are available to the teachers based on the grades taught and to the parents based on the child's grade. These online stores are extensively customized in IBM WCS and enriched with features like Promotions, Shipping, taxation and Endeca search. TCool and Pcool applications use JSP as a front end and Ajax as a front end. A Teacher has the ability to enable catalog ordering process for Parents and also order Approvals. These stores are enriched with well messaging features to send the orders to backend systems and integrated with cyber source payments and LDAP for authentication.

Technologies: IBM Web Sphere Commerce Suite 6.1 and 7.0, IBM RAD, IBM DB2, Endeca, JSTL, JSP, Struts, Tiles and Validator Framework, SVN, IBM MQ, Cyber source, Vertex and IBM Management Center

Responsibilities: Senior WCS consultant

IBM WCS 6: Scholastic Book Clubs

Maintaining existing web site and implementing new requirements/features on IBM Websphere Commerce.

Created several access beans, data beans, custom controller commands and JSPs based on the Scholastic business requirements.

Developed Custom Commands by extending OOB OrderItemAdd, AddressAdd, InterestItemAdd, OrderCalculate, OrderPrepare, OrderProcess commands.

Designed and developed Order Checkout process including Order Integrations.

Involved in Vertex Tax integration and development through web services.

Customized Order Calculation framework to fit the scholastic shipping policies.

Designed and developed one click checkout functionality (buy now) specific to Scholastic Storia eBooks.

Developed Order History and Item history pages using custom data beans and custom Queries from Users, members, Orders and Order Item tables.

Enhanced of Single Sign on Filter, a Custom filter which intercepts all the requests/responses.

Used IBM DB2 as the database and wrote SQL.

Extended the logon related commands like ExtlogonCmd, ExtlogoffCmd to fit Scholastic logon requirements.

Handled Production support and troubleshooting issues.

Involved in SCRUM/Agile methodology.

IBM WCS 7: Scholastic mobile store and migration phase design.

Worked on IBM Websphere Commerce V7.0 for customer interaction platform for online and cross channel commerce.

Experienced in B2C and Extended Sites business models in IBM Websphere Commerce.

Developed Ant Scripts for the build process and deployed in IBM Websphere Commerce.

Created new checkout JSP pages and Struts configurations for mobile pages to fit the scholastic requirements.

Re-platform and customize site using IBM Websphere commerce extended sites model.

Provided expertise in the design and implementation of store functionality using IBM Websphere Commerce

Integrated Store locator based on Store Locator API

Used IBM RAD for writing code for JSP, Servlets, and Struts.

Assistance in end-to-end Application testing, IBM Websphere Commerce Enterprise for application deployment.

Implemented Core metrics in JSP for tracking purposes.

Wasserstrom Sep 2014- Nov 2015

Columbus, OH

Description: Wasserstrom, a leading restaurant equipment supply eStore is a B2B2C store developed in

IBM Websphere commerce. The primary objective of the eStore is to provide the buyers and chain store buyers/accounts to shop for restaurant equipments .Each business customers like Arby’s, Wendy’s, BJ’s etc is provided with their own catalog and price code to shop the items. Wasserstrom eStore is enriched with several features like FedEx Address validation, FedEx shipping charges calculation, and pay flow pro for Payment and Sabrix Tax calculation. This application is a rich blend of Out-Of-Box functionality provided by WCS and the custom features specific to Wasserstrom. This eStore is built on a very robust architecture essential for an application that supports critical business operations in the e-commerce domain dealing with huge number of products and users with maximum ROI.

Technologies: IBM Web Sphere Commerce Suite 6.0.0.7, IBM RAD 6.0.1, IBM DB2, JSTL, JSP, Struts, Tiles and Validator Framework, SVN, Sabrix Tax Integration, IBM MQ,

Responsibilities: Senior Websphere Commerce Consultant

Has been involved in the design, development and testing for Wasserstrom, a B2B2C store model based on WCS 6.0.

Customized OOTB commands OrderItemAdd, OrderItemUpdate for Wasserstrom specific requirements and to handle IE URL 2048 limitation issues in web sphere commerce.

Designed and involved in custom shipping algorithm development suits for Wasserstrom model and invoked using MQ.

Customized OrderProcess command for Wasserstrom specific requirements.

Created Custom tables like xSHIPTRACK, generated EJB’s and access beans to store the shipping tracking info for buyers and to avoid the FedEx web service calls.

Extended SummarizeShippingCalculateCmd to calculate Shipping charges.

Integrated with FedEx web services to calculate shipping charges and Common Carrier calculation where FedEx services are not available.

Implemented caching techniques to cache Product category, subcategory and brand pages.

Implemented Ajax technique to update mini-shop cart and certain features like Quick Order

Item Add and Easy Reorder etc.

Integrated WCS with SOA in Order management Subsystem.

Involved in the Sabrix Tax Integration to calculate Taxes.

Created e-Spots, web activities and WWCM spots on the product details pages and shopping cart.

Implemented Google ad words tracking to track revenues.

Implemented several shipping promotions like over free shipping over $400 etc...

Complete Understanding of B2B model and organization, account, buyer and contract model.

Experienced in working with Contract, Trading, Account, Prices and Offer, member data model.

Developed account selection module where Regional manager selects one of the chain accounts (stores) up on login to place an order and can switch between the stores.

Borders Ann Arbor May 2012– Aug 2014

Description: Borders.com Release 3 is an effort to augment the business to the internet users. The goal of Borders.com is to provide state of the art virtual place for users to shop for books, music, and video online. Release 3 focuses on the shopping cart, order creation and the order management system and integrations with various third party systems like Avalara for Taxation, Sterling Commerce for OMS and Cyber Source for Payment. This application is a blend of Out-Of-Box functionality provided by WCS and the custom features specific to borders.com. The Borders.com is built on a very robust architecture essential for an application that supports critical business operations in the e-commerce domain dealing with huge number of products and users.

Technologies: IBM WebSphere Commerce 6.0, IBM RAD 6.0, IBM DB2 8.1, JSTL, JSP, Struts, Tiles and Validator Framework.

Responsibilities: Websphere Commerce Consultant.

Has been involved in development of R3 phase for Borders.com, an E-commerce site based on WCS 6.0.

Developed Custom Commands by extending OOB OrderItemAdd, AddressAdd, InterestItemAdd, OrderCalculate, OrderPrepare, OrderProcess commands to meet the Borders Requirements.

Involved in a life cycle starting from a User’s Shop Cart to the Check out process till the

Order Confirms.

Developed Custom Data Beans by extending Smart Data Beans.

Customized address verification commands by integrating with Avalara a third party address verification.

Developed the Quick Checkout Profile and necessary commands for User’s quick check option.

Involved in catalog design model and developed custom tables to accommodate Border’s requirements.

Good Knowledge of WCS Shipping and Taxation Calculation Framework.

Very Good knowledge in Understanding and developing the OOB OrderItemDisplay,

SingleShippingAddressDisplayUsed, MultipleShippingAddressDisplay,

OrderSubmitForm and OrderConfirmationDisplay pages.

Involved in feeding of Data to Commerce database tables related to checkout.

Wrote the test cases for Custom Commands.

Good knowledge in implementing web services framework for Commerce.

Developed validation.xml file and validator-rules.xml classes for the validation framework.

Patni Computers, India Jan 2010– May 2012

Description: The online shopping is a virtual auction place to augment the e-commerce business on Internet. This is fully automated and integrated with back office infrastructure. It also is tightly integrated with multiple payment gateways. Auctions provide both B2C and C2C scenarios. It consists of user registration, catalog navigation, catalog management, shopping cart, auction creation, bidding and bid evaluation module, rollover of balance inventory facility, payment gateway integration, order servicing and accounting.

Technologies: JSP, JSF, Servlets, JavaScript.

Responsibilities: Java Developer

Involved in the design, development and testing using Consumer Direct store model of

Requirement gathering of different modules such as Catalog Navigation, Shopping flow (Shopping cart, address), Order Servicing...

Writing tasks (Classes) using the command framework for development of all batch feeds.

Writing commands and tasks to add custom functionalities by extending commands for the development of business logic of bidding, Authorization and Authentication of user.

Writing tasks for business logic of handling users account for order and bid history.

Involved in development Functional Mapping of the Auctions Portal available Database design of the features enhanced.

Access Control policy implementation.

Understanding and configuring XML based configuration files

MIS System to help user track sales, footfalls etc.

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