Shankar Srinivasan

Location:

NJ, USA

Languages:

English

Experience Summary

I use open source software to build web sites that connect people and ideas. Drupal has been my CMS of choice since 2007. 12+ years of Experience in Digital Media, High Traffic Websites, Video Delivery, TV Everywhere, Drupal, Agile Project Management, Offshore Teams and I have worked on projects for clients such as NBC Universal, Major League Baseball, A&E, Hearst Corporation and The Walt Disney Company, Johnson & Johnson and Meredith Corporation.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Over 12+years of experience in development with Drupal (CMS), PHP, MYSQL & HTML5.

Extensive experience in Drupal 6/7/8 version. Module & Theme deployment

Experience in Drupal Deployment in PASS, CASS & SASS using COMPOSER and Continuous Integration.

Experience in End-to-End Drupal Application starting from Requirement Gathering, Project Planning, UI Design, Development, Lead/Managing offshore Development Team, Co-ordinating with different stakeholder, QA TESTING, Performance Testing, Performance Tuning, Security Scans & Review, UAT DEMO and Application Deployment automation and Hosting etc...

Experience in Drupal Deployment in AWS EKS, FARGATE & Pivotal Cloud Foundry

Experience in Project Management using JIRA & Microsoft (Sprint Planning and Execution)

Extensive in JQUERY, AJAX and JSON.

Experience in Drupal Continuous Integration in AWS EKS & FARGATE.

Experience in Integrating AWS S3 with Drupal for assets storage and AWS Cloud Front Integration for accessing both PRIVATE and PUBLIC Assets.

Experience in Acquia products (Acquia Cloud, Acquia Lift & BLT)

Experience in developing Headless/Decoupled Drupal Application using REST API

Experience in Integrating MailChimp with Drupal for Email Marketing.

Experience in with Search Engine Apache Solr, Elastic Search and FacetAPI

Experience in Video implementation with Drupal. Integrated videos from third-party like

Brightcove and MPX Platform.

Experience in TV Everywhere implementation in Videos.

Experience in Single sign-on implementation with Drupal.

Extensive experience with Drupal Views 2 & 3.

Experience in Responsive Design (HTML5 & CSS 3) with Drupal.

Experience in Drupal Bootstrap implementation. Used for Responsive Design

Experience in Drupal Custom Theme Development.

Experience in Caching Technique (MEMCACHE, REDIS, Drupal In-build Cache TAGS)

Experience in translating requirements, prototypes, and mockups into functional applications

Experience in building new custom modules, patches for contributed modules and custom themes in Drupal.

Experience with building sites like Responsive, Social Networking, Media, Mobile App integration.

Extensive experience in migrating sites from Drupal 6 to 7 and Drupal 7 to 8. Worked in Code and Data Migration.

Experience in SASS

Extensive experience in Form API, Drupal Services, Form Widget, WEBFORMS, CALENDER, REST API

Experience in Double click AD implementation with Drupal.

Experience in Omniture implementation with Drupal.

Experience in improving Site Performance. Configuring Akamai, AWS Cloud Front & limiting HTML Tags and using Sprit Map images.

Created Custom module like Videos, Photo Gallery, Omniture Tracking, Video Feed Importer, Video Import Services and Social Networking.

Experience in SEO techniques.

Experience in XML/JSON Feed Import and export with Drupal.

Experience in API like Google API.

Experience in Web services like REST/SOAP for Drupal resources using Service module.

Experience with Version Control: SVN & GIT.

Experience in LINUX commands.

Experience in setting up environment (Apache, PHP and MYSQL).

Experience

Client -NBCUniversal, NJ June 2015 – Present CAPGEMINI AMERICA INC

Project Lead

Environment: Drupal 8, PHP, MYSQL, JQUERY, XML, HTML 5, CSS3

Role and Responsibilities

Responsible for Drupal application development on PASS, CASS & SASS

Manage and developed several CMS (Drupal 8) portal for NBC Sports (Multiplatform Scheduling System, Olympics Research IT Mobile App, Sports Events, AD Sales Management Portal)

Responsible for operational, technical issues and translate technical blueprints into requirements and specifications

Responsible for development, Migration and release management, or technical and functional application management.

Supervises and reviews offshore team work.

Responsible for integration testing and user acceptance testing

Ensure pending issues are monitored, escalated and resolved

Lead code reviews and software optimization

Project#2

Client :Major League Baseball (MLB), NYC NY Cognizant US Technology June 2014 – May 2015

Technical Lead & Senior Developer

Environment: Drupal 7, PHP, MYSQL, JQUERY, XML, HTML 5, CSS3, JAVA, DB2, Vagrant

Role and Responsibilities

Developed Player Management portal using Drupal 8 FORMAPI’s.

Conduct Design discussions with MLB

Participate in requirements gathering

Periodically review project schedules and deliverables

Ensure pending issues are monitored, escalated and resolved

Obtain acceptance from MLB for all deliverables

Review with MLB all work-in–progress, participate in status meetings

Conduct regular status meetings with MLB and Cognizant

Handles Change Management

Handles PHP code reviews and software optimization

Project#2

Client : Meredith Corp, Des Moines, Iowa Dec 2013 – May 2014

Senior Developer& Technical lead

Environment: Drupal 7, PHP, MYSQL, JQUERY, XML, HTML 5, CSS3

Role and Responsibilities

Worked on Parenting.com Migration from Drupal 6 to 7.

Requirement gathering from business people

Analyzing the requirement

Sprint planning

Lead PHP code reviews and software optimization

Lead the team in Re designing and migrating magazine sites from Drupal 6 to Drupal7

Project#3

Client: A&E, My lifetime May 2011 – Nov 2013

Sr. Developer

Environment: Drupal 6/7, PHP, MYSQL, JQUERY, XML, HTML 5, CSS3

Project Description:

My lifetime is official website of Lifetime Television which has 3 million registered users. The main purpose of this site is to attract as many users as possible to view the site and its related networks. The goal of the project is to promote their shows, movies etc.,to the users. The site serves as community to the users. Site has various features like Movies Redesign, Games, Videos, Beauty and style, Quizzes, Astrology and sweepstakes.

Role and Responsibilities

TV Everywhere integration using Adobe Pass

SEO implementation

Video Re design implementation

Show Re design implementation

Responsive design implementation

Technology used–Drupal 6/7, Press flow, HTML5, CSS3, Video, Adobe Pass, Bright cove, the Platform, PDK, Omniture, Tealium, Double Click (DART, DFP), Gigya, Facebook, Twitter, Disqus, Single Sign-OnServer, Mobile, Responsive Design, Akamai CDN, RHEL, Amazon Web Services, GitHub, Bootstrap

Involved in Deployment

Code Review

Unit Testing

Assigning task to team

Interaction with Client

Sending Daily Status Update of team to PM

Leading the team

Estimation and Time management

Project#4

Johnson & Johnson, Jan 2011– Apr 2011

Sr.Developer

Environment: Drupal 6, MYSQL, JQUERY

Project Description

Realizes Healthcare website where people can find then earnest specialist surgeon and seminar of the surgeon. People attending the seminar by filling the request form in the site.

Role and Responsibilities

Requirement Analysis

Involved in Deployment

Code Review

Unit Testing.

Estimation and Time management

Project#5

A&E,My lifetime, Nov 2007 – Dec 2010

Sr .Developer

Environment: Drupal 5/6, PHP, MYSQL, JQUERY, XML, HTML 5,CSS3

Project Description:

My lifetime is official website of Lifetime Television which has 3 million registered users. The main purpose of this site is to attract as many users as possible to view the site and its related networks. The goal of the project is to promote their shows, movies etc. to the users. The site serves as community to the users. Site has various features like Movies Redesign, Games, Videos, Beauty and style, Quizzes, Astrology and sweepstakes.

Role and Responsibilities

Analysis the requirement.

Involved in Deployment

Code Review

Unit Testing

Interaction with Client

Sending Daily Status Update of team to PM

Leading the team

Estimation and Time management

Higher Education

Anna University– Bachelor of Engineering, Computer Science

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