Software Architect

Srinivasa Rao Sodavaram E-mail: ***.*********.*@*****.*** Cell: +1-647-***-****

HIGHLIGHTS

Effective leader with 11 years of rapid advancement in digital innovation, cloud computing, DevOps, artificial intelligence, machine learning and product development leadership. Known for harnessing digital product, process and project in support of business strategy and for delivering cross-functional, rapid prototyping capability to push and test new value propositions in the market fast.

Experience in defining technical architectures for enterprise, products, services and technology that follow industry standard best practices, TOGAF methodologies, utilization of business process management, Certified ScrumMaster®.

Played various roles as Innovation Architect, Digital Architect, Solution Architect, Technical Manager, Scrum Master, Agile Coach, Technical lead, Application designer, Web developer, programmer and Business analyst. Managed and closed turnkey projects delivering different solutions in Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, MEAN, ELK, ECM, WEM, WCM, Spring and J2EE.

Specialized in Artificial Intelligence (AI), Machine Learning, Cyber Security and Risk Management, Business and IT Alignment with Enterprise Architecture, Innovation, Transformative IT and Modernization Technologies including Cloud Computing, Product development, Continuous Integration (CI) & Continuous Delivery (CD), Web Services, Web 2.0, Agile Coach and Social Media, Project/Program Management and Mentoring.

AWS Certified Solutions Architect

Certified TOGAF® 9 Enterprise Architect

Certified ScrumMaster®

Adobe Certified Expert

Certified Architect in Analytic.

WORK EXPERIENCE

Amazon Alexa - Software Architect, Aviva Agency Services Inc.

July 2017 – Present

To develop a new digital product to harness a voice user interface (VUI) for personal line auto insurance. To design and develop a brand new voice user interface using Artificial Intelligence & Machine Learning using world’s best intelligent personal assistant Amazon Alexa Platform, accessible via natural voice commands on Amazon Echo device. “Alexa, ask Aviva for an Auto Quote”. Using cloud-based voice service that interacts Aviva with on premise restful API to generate an Auto Quote and question and answering system.

Responsible for:

Artificial Intelligence – A question and answering system using machine learning, voice-first experiences with toolkit, voice enabled device, voice user interface (VUI) design pattern, text-to-speech (TTS), interaction model, webhook, chat bots, using Solr, MEAN stack, python, AI.api, Raspberry Pi, hosted on AWS Lambda, Self-hosted web service, Amazon Alexa.

Machine Learning – Amazon automatic speech recognition (ASR) and natural language understanding (NLU), natural language processing (NLP), Amazon Alexa platform.

Product Development – Lead creation of culture and solutions that deliver business value and strategic benefit with the help of agile, lean, and DevOps. New product development (NDP) through idea, research, develop, testing, analysis and introduction leads to quick to market. Harnessing the power of continues integration (CI), continuous delivery (CD) and continuous improvement (Agile) during the process of new product development.

API Development – To create a new API for personal line Auto insurance restful API’s using microservice architecture and to leverage and to integrate existing Guidewire policy center for quote creation.

Information Security and Risk Management – To ensure incompliance with information security, risk management, penetration testing and vulnerability testing, mitigation and remediation plan.

Cloud Computing & Environment Management – AWS Certified Solutions Architect using well-architected framework, in terms of security, reliability, performance, cost optimization. Creating repeatable test environment using Ansible, Amazon Web Service (AWS).

Continuous Integration (CI) & Continuous deployment (CD) – To integrate code into a shared repository several times building pipeline and to push code updates through a series of testing and then automatically releases.

Main Expertise: Alexa Developer, Software Architect, Innovation Architect, DevOps, Agile Coach.

Technical Skills Applied: Amazon Alexa, Amazon Developer Portal, TypeScript 2.4, AngularJs 2.0, NodeJs 6.0, MongoDB, Solr 6.5, Groovy, GIT, Jenkins DSL job, Confluence, Bitbucket, SNYK, CheckMark, Swagger, Jslint, Slack, JIRA, Nexus, and Aqasec, Ansible, Vagrant

Enterprise Content Management Architect, Aviva Agency Services Inc.

January 2017 – July 2017

Lead a strategic initiative by senior executive to harmonize two independent Aviva Canada’s web domains https://www.avivacanada.com and https://www.avivainsurance.ca each representing a Aviva broker’s channel and Aviva’s direct channel respectively into a single domain as https://www.aviva.ca/. Each independent domain and their microsites were being hosted in multiple platform such as Drupal, WordPress, and Adobe Experience Manager into single Adobe Marketing Suite using Adobe Experience Manager (on premise), Adobe Target, Adobe Analytics, Dynamic Tag Manager and Adobe Social, Digital Asset Management.

Responsible for:

Adobe Marketing Suite – End-to-end digital marketing experience for cross-selling and up-selling using personalized and tailored content for various digital personas using Adobe Experience Manager (AEM) 6.2, Adobe Reports & Analytics for customer intelligence, Adobe Target, Dynamic Tag Manager (DTM), Digital Asset Management (DAM), Adobe Campaign.

AEM Development – Design and develop various templates based on business need for authoring content and brand guidelines using Html Templating Language (HTL).

AEM training – To train development team and help them to ramp up with Adobe Experience manager and front-end development skill.

Microsites Framework – Developed a microsites framework for migrating around existing microsites in to AEM platform. To develop a client library to leverage the Aviva brand guidelines and also to support co-branding and white-labeling with the help of multiple plug and play ClientLibs.

Web Crawler – Developed a web clawer to know the current state and derive the future state and information architecture.

Content Adaptor – Design and develop content adaptor using Adobe Marketing Cloud using AEM 6.2, using Sling API, using custom sling selectors, such as language, province and product group.

Headless CMS – Design and build framework for content as service (CaaS), where content is separated from presentation using Adobe Experience Manager (AEM), AngularJS, NodeJs, ExpressJS, KeyStoneJS.

Web Analytics – Architect in Web Analytics using Adobe Analytics, Dynamic Tag Manager (DTM), Google Analytics, Tag Manager for single page application (SPA) and multiple page application.

Digital Asset Management – Global repository for marketing digital assets, including all creative files, brand guidelines and templates.

Information Security and Risk Management – To ensure incompliance with information security, risk management, penetration testing and vulnerability testing, mitigation and remediation plan.

Search Engine Optimization (SEO) – Empowering Internet marketing strategy using indexation strategy, sitemap domain merge, redirection rules, web crawlers, robots, organic search, AdWords, backlinks, inbound links, keywords, Google Web Master, Search Engine Console.

Web Accessibility – Digital product, lead generation portal, websites development in compliance web accessibility level, A, AA, AAA, WCAG 2.0, Accessibility for Ontarians with Disabilities Act (AODA).

Referral Marketing Platform – To helps businesses to acquire new customers using Genius Referral and Referral Candy for customer referral, employee referral, CSR/Agent referral, partner and affiliates programs for mulit-level campaign, social widgets, bonuses redemption, lead generation, advocate management, email marketing, social media marketing.

AEM Platform - Designed and containerized the entire AEM platform (i.e Author, Publish, Dispather) using docker and deployed within Kubernetes (k8s) container orchestration for automating deployment, scaling and management of containers hosted in Amazon Web Service (AWS) virtual private network (VPC).

Agile Coach – Help team to adopt and improve Agile methods and practice during the process of product development and Certified ScrumMaster®.

Main Expertise: Enterprise Content Management Architect, Digital Architect, DevOps, Agile Coach.

Technical Skills Applied: Adobe Experience Manager (AEM) 6.0, 6.2, 6.3, Adobe Target, Dynamic Tag Manager (DTM), Adobe Analytics & Reports, Digital Asset Management (DAM), CSS3, HTML4, AngularJs 2.0, ExpressJS, NodeJs 6.0, KeyStoneJS, RequiredJS, Twitter Bootstrap, handlebars, SCSS, NPM, bower, grunt, gulp, webpack, maven, GIT, Jenkins DSL job, Ansible, Docker, Vagrant, Kubernetes 1.5 (k8s), AdWords, backlinks, inbound links, keywords, Google Web Master, Search Engine Console.

DevOps Engineer, Aviva Agency Services Inc.

July 2015 – January 2016

DevOps engineer to transformative IT and modernization technologies including Cloud Computing, Product development, Continuous Integration (CI) & Continuous Delivery (CD), and extensive agile/scrum and experience working with various types of teams.

Responsible for:

Dockerizing Platform - Designed and containerized the entire Adobe Experience Manager 6.2 platform (i.e Author, Publish, Dispather) using docker and deployed within Kubernetes (k8s) container orchestration for automating deployment, scaling and management of containers hosted in Amazon Web Service (AWS) virtual private network (VPC).

Cloud Computing – Begin AWS Certified Solutions Architect for using Amazon Web Service (AWS) well-architected framework, in terms of security, reliability, performance, cost optimization.

DevOps – Aiming to unify software development (Dev) and software operation (Ops), by fully automating build, infrastructure and deployment, with the help of 12-factor application architecture and AWS well defined architecture.

Agile Coach – Help team to adopt and improve Agile methods and practice during the process of product development and Certified ScrumMaster®. Design and architect the JIRA project structure for a portfolio of products in Insurance domain, build various custom JIRA template, JIRA dashboards and filters for various feature teams.

Continuous Integration – To integrate code into a shared repository several times building pipeline.

Continuous deployment – To push code updates through a series of testing and then automatically releases.

Environment Management – Creating repeatable test environment using Terraform, Ansible, CloudFormation, Amazon Web Service (AWS).

Information Security and Risk Management – To ensure incompliance with information security, risk management, penetration testing and vulnerability testing, mitigation and remediation plan.

Main Expertise: Enterprise Content Management Architect, Digital Architect, DevOps, Agile Coach.

Technical Skills Applied: Kubernetes 1.5 (k8s), Jenkins 2.0, Ansible, Nexus, Maven, GIT, Vagrant, Confluence, Bitbucket, Docker, Docker compose, Terraform, Amazon EC2 Container Service (ECS), CloudFormation, Amazon Web Service (AWS), EC2, EC2 container registry, EC2 container Service (ECS), Virtual Private Gateway (VPC), Auto-scaling, Elastic Load balancing (ELB), Lambda, Route 53, CloudWatch, S3, EBS, EFS, CheckStyle, FindBugs, PMD, SNYK, CheckMark, Swagger, Jsdoc, Slack, JIRA, Aqasec and Rancher.

Digital Transformation - Solution Architect, Aviva Agency Services Inc.

December 2014 – July 2015

Lead an interactive team for Digital Transformation on iterative work processes, embracing agile methodologies and best practices to develop high quality, visitor-centered experiences in Personal Line Insurance.

Responsible for:

Digital Application Service – For direct digital channel to design and develop a mobile-first web application for online quote portal for Personal Line Auto and Property Insurance and Guidewire Suite (PolicyCenter, ClaimCenter and BillingCenter) using Edge 3.0 though JSON-RPC.

Portfolio Application – Design and develop MyAviva portfolio web application to support user registration, self service and quote portal.

Master Database Management (MDM) – Design and develop master database management for customers that provide a common point of reference.

White-labeling & Co-Branding – Product development using microservice, modular and skin able digital product to support co-branding and white labelling for various groups, affinities and partner. Developing multiple theme based web interface for co-branding digital application service and portfolio application. To develop a fully white-labeled application for new acquisition and new partners.

API Development – To create a new API for personal line Auto & Property insurance restful API’s using microservice architecture and to leverage and to integrate existing legacy application.

Guidewire Integration – Digital product development and integration of Guidewire Suite (PolicyCenter, ClaimCenter and BillingCenter) using MongoDB, ExpressJS, AngularJS, NodeJS (MEAN), Java Spring MVC, HTML Templating Language (HTL), Java Server Pages (JSP), Apache Tiles and Edge 3.0 though JSON-RPC.

Self-Service Application – Develop a complete insurance business transaction application for commercial line, for the policy life-cycle, custom product-model, integration with rating and underwriting rules engine, customized underwriting rules and kick-out, single sign-on (SSO), product search, product catalog, shopping cart, PCI compliance, hosted tokenization, lead generation portal, underwriter portal, broker portal, analytics, AODA compliance.

Enterprise Architecture – Structural design of shared information environments for the integration of Claims system, Policy system, MDM, SSO, Database, Ratabase, WEM, ECM, Email, Analytics, middleware.

Analytics – Tagging Quote portal using Adobe Analytics and Dynamic Tag Management.

Agile Coach – Help team to adopt and improve Agile methods and practice during the process of product development and Certified ScrumMaster®.

Main Expertise: Application Designer, Solution Architect, Enterprise Architect

Technical Skills Applied: Java, Spring MVC, Spring Security, Guidewire Suite (PolicyCenter, ClaimCenter and BillingCenter), Edge 3.0, Responsive web designing, MongoDB, ExpressJS, AngularJS, NodeJS (MEAN), KeystoneJS, Ratabase, message broker, Passport, Moneris, Stripes, Google Analytics, LiveChat, HTL, CSS3, HTML4, Twitter Bootstrap, handlebars, SCSS, NPM, bower, grunt, gulp, maven, Collaborator, Confluence, CheckStyle, FindBugs, PMD, Javadoc, Swagger, Mocha, Jasmine, Cucumber, Junit, Mochito, Slack, SVN, JIRA.

Technical Lead, August 2013 – October 2014, WSIB

Responsible for:

Content Migration – Migration of data from the Vignette CMS and file system to target WebCenter platform for Workplace Safety and Insurance Board(WSIB), Canada.

Portal Framework- Design, build, develop and test multi-lingual portal framework for eService portal and a public website.

Responsive Web Development – Design, build and develop responsive public website based on Java Server Faces. The WSIB portal and eServices portal developed using the principles of responsive web design using Bootstrap framework

Portal Legacy Integration – Design, build and develop eService portal and integration with existing legacy applications.

Microsite - Design and develop framework for microsites.

Portlet - Design, develop, integrate and test of ADF portlets for user credential management, news and announcements portlet, messaging portlet, using JSR 286.

Performance Tuning - Performance tuning of desktop and mobile versions of website and the eService portal.

Web Analytics - Setting up the required analytics and metrics for all the web pages, using WebTrends and Google Analysitcs.

Accessibility - Accessibility as per AODA and WCAG guidelines across Website and eService portal.

Deployment - End to End Oracle Enterprise Deployment.

Information Architecture - Implemented Information Architecture in terms of folder structure, metadata model, security model, contribution model, etc.

Adaptive Web Design - Implemented Adaptive web design to develop page templates, display templates, and navigation based on HTML5 and CSS3 using Bootstrap 3.0 framework.

Migration Utility - Design and develop migration utility to automate the migration process, using J2EE.

PDF Generation -To design and develop PDF generation for WSIB policy pages in a PDF friendly format and easy web accessible using iText.

Display Template - Redesign and migration of Vignette page templates to Oracle WebCenter Display Templates.

Agile Methodology : Participated in multiple sprints using Agile methodology.

Main Expertise: Technical Leadership, Portal Lead, Content Lead, Sub-domain Architecture, Migration Lead, Business Analysis

Technical Skills Applied: Java, JSPX, EL, JSF, JQuery, JavaScript, AJAX, SQL, JAXB, XML, CSS3, HTML4, AODA, WCAG, Content Presenter, WebCenter Portal, WebCenter Content, Oracle WebCenter Suite 11g, Vignette Content Management 7.6, DSM, Responsive web designing, WebTrends, Google Analytics, Bootstrap 3.0, JSR 286, WSRP, ADF, RIDC, IDOC, CMIS query, Unix, Web 2.0, RSS, iText, Agile, GIT.

Technical Lead, November 2011 – July 2013, KACST

Responsible for:

Custom Portal Framework- Creation of multi-lingual portals in WebCenter Custom Portals (NSTIP, Recruitment Portal, Landing Portal, KACST Portal).

Enterprise Content Management - End to End Enterprise Deployment of Oracle ECM as a central repository for all the applications and provides a single point to store and retrieve all the content..

ECM Integration- Number of integration is done between Oracle UCM and other applications E.g. HRMS, SIEBEL, Custom Applications, WebCenter and scanner.

Content Rendering - Oracle UCM contents (.doc, .ppt etc) rendered in the WebCenter portal page.

Integration Utility - Users from different applications should be able to upload, download, and update content. Oracle UCM RIDC API is used to achieve this integration.

Web 2.0 - Incorporating collaboration tools in WebCenter such as RSS, Blog, Wiki.

Content Presenter - WebCenter portal renders the contents stored in UCM using RIDC, Content Presenter.

Dynamic Conversion - WebCenter Dynamic Conversion feature is used in develop multiple portals to render MS Word documents from UCM into webpage.

Content Propagation - WebCenter content movement from one environment to another was done by the help of archiving.

Rendition - IBR is used for rendition of a particular type of content in different format e.g. MS word documents converted to PDF upon check-in.

Workflow - Development of approval process for contents using WebCenter Content Workflow.

Configuration - WebCenter Content configuration, creation of custom metadata, global rules, content type, security groups, etc.

Main Expertise: Technical Leadership, Portal Lead, Content Lead, Architecture, Business Analysis

Technical Skills Applied: Java, JSPX, EL, JSF, JQuery, JavaScript, SQL, XML, CSS, HTML, AODA, WCAG, Content Presenter, WebCenter Portal, WebCenter Content, Oracle WebCenter Suite 11g, ADF, RIDC, IDOC, Unix, Web 2.0, RSS, JDeveloper, SVN, MVC framework, EJB.

Technical Lead, July 2009 - November 2011, Global Web Support - Sun Life

To migrate existing seven internal and external countries web portals (Indonesia, Ireland, Bermuda, Hong Kong, Philippines, UK, Canada and US) of Sun Life Financials from their current web platform (Cold fusion, .NET, Static HTML) to single platform along with global redesigned branded Sun Life Financials web portals.

Responsible for:

Migration - To migrate existing seven external countries web sites (Indonesia, Ireland, Bermuda, Hong Kong, Philippines, UK, Canada and US) of Sun Life Financials from their current web platform (Cold fusion, .NET, Static HTML) to Vignette Content Management.

Web Development - Develop content and media rich web pages using multimedia for creation of Carousel, Video gallery, News archiving, Announcement list. Design and develop of CMS templates for seven external countries web sites of Sun Life Financials in order to achieve a uniform look and feel and browser support as Sunlife global site.

Web 2.0 - Design and develop of Vignette Content Management template using Web 2.0 collaborative features. To develop RSS feed, Survey, Poll, Stock ticker.

Leadership - Managed and successfully delivered all global web site involved in design, develop, coding, unit testing, system integration, review, build and deploy using Vignette Content Management. Creation of brand new Global Web Template based on Vignette Dynamic Site Module to reuse across all the Global external site. Global Web templates customization and enhancement using Java/JSP

Post-Implementation - Provided post implementation technical support for the delivered solutions for all Sun Life Global Web Sites.

Small Projects - Supported business needs by addressing their clients’ needs by understanding their requirements, position the right solution and feasibility assessment.

Main Expertise: Business Analysis, Technical Leadership, QA

Technical Skills Applied: Java, JSP, Servlet, JDBC, JavaBeans, JQuery, JavaScript, SQL, XML, CSS, HTML, WebTrends, RSS, Vignette Content Management (VCM 7.4.1) Dynamic Site Module (DSM 2.0.8), WebLogic 8.1, Unix, Oracle 10g, Eclipse.

Technical Lead, July 2009 - December 2009, Global Web - Sun Life

Responsible for:

Migration - To migrate existing seven external countries web sites (Indonesia, Ireland, Bermuda, Hong Kong, Philippines, UK, Canada and US) of Sun Life Financials from their current web platform (Cold fusion, .NET, Static HTML) to Vignette Content Management.

Template - Design and develop of CMS templates for seven external countries web sites of Sun Life Financials in order to achieve a uniform look and feel and browser support as Sunlife global site.

Web 2.0 - Design and develop of Vignette Content Management template using Web 2.0 collaborative features. To develop RSS feed, Survey, Poll, Stock ticker.

Web Development - Develop content and media rich web pages using multimedia for creation of Carousel, Video gallery, News archiving, Announcement list.

Analytics - Integration of analytics across all the Global Web Sites using WebTrends, generate reports.

Web Designing - To develop Session Cookies and Persistent or tracking Cookies based CMS pages to track or store user data across Sunlife Global web site.

Leadership - Managed and successfully delivered all global web site involved in design, develop, coding, unit testing, system integration, review, build and deploy using Vignette Content Management.

Dynamic Site Module - Creation of brand new Global Web Template based on Vignette Dynamic Site Module to reuse across all the Global external site.

Post-Implementation - Provided post implementation technical support for the delivered solutions for all Sun Life Global Web Sites.

Analysis - Lead the business and technical analysis for project for maintaining and supporting the Sun Life Global Web Sites in Indonesia, Ireland, Bermuda, Hong Kong, Philippines, UK, Canada & US.

Enhancement - Global Web templates customization and enhancement using Java/JSP.

Support - Provided support for customer reported issues and changes.

Authoring & Publishing - Extending Business Support for Content Authoring and Publishing for all the Sun Life Assurance Company of Canada Global Web Site in Production.

Small Projects - Supported business needs by addressing their clients’ needs by understanding their requirements, position the right solution and feasibility assessment.

Main Expertise: Technical Leadership, Software Programming, Unit Testing.

Technical Skills Applied: Java, JSP, Servlet, JDBC, JavaBeans, Cookies, JQuery, JavaScript, SQL, XML, CSS, HTML, WebTrends, RSS, Vignette Content Management (VCM 7.4) Dynamic Site Module (DSM 2.0.8), WebLogic 8.1, Unix, Oracle 10g, Web 2.0. Eclipse, Dimension.

Technical Lead, October 2008 - July 2009, STRATE

Carried different roles (technical lead, business analysis, design, development, QA) in this project.

Impact Analysis - Lead the business and technical analysis for project for maintaining and supporting the Front End of Strate. Strate is the authorised Central Securities Depository (CSD) for the electronic settlement of all financial instruments in South Africa. Supported business needs by addressing their clients’ needs by understanding their requirements, mitigate risk, position the right solution and feasibility assessment.

Front End Development- Enhancement and develop of Money Market Front End (MMFE) of the depository using Java, J2EE, Struts and Hibernate.

On-Call Support - Provided support for customer reported issues and changes of the Money Market Front End. Strate plans to settle money market instruments for which a front -end application to provide a means of communication with core mainframe system through SWIFT message.

Leadership - Managed and successfully maintained and supported front end for MMFE involved in design, develop, coding, unit testing, system integration, review, build and deploy.

Main Expertise: Pro Technical Leadership, Software Programming, Unit Testing, Business Analysis.

Technical Skills Applied: Java, JSP, Servlet, JDBC, Struts, Hibernate, JavaScript, SQL, XML, CSS, HTML, IBM MQ Series 5.3.0.2, SQL server 2005, Postgres 8.1, IBM WebSphere 6.1, JBOSS 4.0.1, Spring

Technical Lead, February 2008 - October 2008, SBSA.

Carried different roles (technical lead, business analysis, design, development, QA) in this project.

Analysis - Lead the business and technical analysis for project for maintaining and supporting the Standard Bank South Africa(SBSA) Intranet website and Internet websites in South Africa, Ghana and Botswana.

Enhancement - Vignette Portal templates customization and enhancement using Java/JSP.

Support - Provided support for customer reported issues and changes.

Authoring & Publishing - Extending Business Support for Content Authoring and Publishing for all the Standard Bank South Africa Web Site in Production.

Content Presentation - To separate out the current presentation logic from the CMS, which is actually related to content presentation and make the CMS a pure content repository.

Dynamic Portal Module - Creation of brand new template based on Vignette Dynamic Portal Module.

Content Publishing - The workflow will approve the content before it is published. Multiple delivery stage which the content needs to go through before getting published.

Performance Tuning - Performance tuning to enhancing the system performance of the SBSA production Web Sites.

Main Expertise: Business Analysis, Technical Leadership, QA

Technical Skills Applied: Java, JSP, Servlet, JDBC, JavaBeans, JavaScript, SQL, XML, XSLT, CSS, HTML, RSS, Vignette Content Management (VCM 7.3.1), Dynamic Portal Module (DPM 2.0.6), Vignette Application Portal (VAP 7.3), WebLogic 8.1, Unix, Oracle 10g, Autonomy search server, Sun LDAP, WebSphere 6.0.2.9, SVN.

Technical Lead, January 2008 - February 2008, HBS

Carried different roles (technical lead, Vignette SME, sub-domain architect, system administrator) in this project.

Platform Renewal - Harvard Business School(HBS) Executive Education wants Implement their web site in to Vignette Content Management for getting easy to manage the content. This Web site will have all the Information about the HBS Executive Education.

End-to-End Deployment - Primary task is to design the vignette architecture and creation of development, testing and production environments for Harvard Business School, Boston, USA.

Best Practices - Design of architecture and recommendation of V7 best practices.

Installation & Configuration - Installation and configuration of Vignette Content Management(VCM) along with Vignette Application Portal(VAP) in a clustered environment.

Main Expertise: Technical Leadership, Subject matter expert, Administrator, Architect

Technical Skills Applied: Vignette Content Management (VCM 7.4), Dynamic Portal Module (DPM 2.0.7), Vignette Application Portal (VAP 7.3.1), WebLogic 8.1, Unix, Oracle 10g, Autonomy search server, Sun LDAP, WebSphere 6.0.2.9, MS Visual Studio.

Technical Lead, January 2007 - December 2007, SBSA Vignette Upgrade

Responsible for:

Upgrade - Standard Bank South Africa(SBSA) wants migration of their internet and intranet sites to V7 vignette content management from V6. The proposed approach is to separate out the current presentation logic from the CMS, which is actually related to content presentation and make the CMS a pure content repository.

Websites Development - The project aimed at development of five Internet Sites for the Bank that corresponds to 5 geographical locations and one Intranet Site that provides all facilities to the employees. The Sites have been developed using Vignette Content Management and customized using Java, java beans, JSP, XSLT, CSS, etc.

Content Type Definition - Design and develop content type definition for Vignette Content Management.

CMS Presentation - Design and development of Content Presentation using JSP and CTD presentation using XSLT.

Infrastructure - Installation of the VCM and VAP followed by configuration of the DPM.

Dynamic Portal Module - Creation of VAP sites, styles, grids.

Content Publishing - The workflow will approve the content before it is published. Multiple delivery stage which the content needs to go through before getting published.

Documentation - Creation of Functional Scope document and design document.

Main Expertise: Technical Leadership, Administrator

Technical Skills Applied: Java, JSP, Servlet, JDBC

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