INTRODUCTION:

Proactive, self-motivated Sitecore Architect & Developer excels in .Net development of web portals and Sitecore Customization and Development. Possesses excellent communication skills and a strong, analytical mind with terrific attention to detail. Has been a certified Sitecore Developer for 12.5+ years and has a Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science.

Around 19+ years of experience in Web development and implementation of complex large scale IT systems on .NET Platform.

SUMMARY:

Certified Sitecore CMS developer with 12.5+ years of experience in Information Architecture, development & Sitecore customization on 9+ Versions.

Microsoft Certified Professional (MCP) for Developing and Implementing Web based application with C# .NET

STREGTH:

Hands on experience of Information Architecture Designing, development & customization along with maintaining enterprise web sites/portal on Sitecore 9 on Azure PAAS Platform.

Highly motivated team player & team leader with strong communication, organizational and analytical skills

Coordinated software development internationally.

CERTIFICATION:

Certified in Advance Computing (C-DAC), Pune University, India.

EDUCATION:

Bachelor of Engineering, Computer Science, Goa University, India, 2001.

COMPANIES WORKED FOR:

Wipro Technologies, Horizontal Integration, ICF Next, Definition 6, Intellinet Inc, EPAM Systems, Avanade, RockFish Digital, Adecco Group NA, Cognizant, Vertex Software (NTT Data Company), Sapient Corporation, SoftPros Inc, Clarion Technologies

CLIENTS WORKED FOR:

Humana, Inc, CALottery.com, Seminole Hard Rock Hollywood, Seminole Hard Rock Tampa, Stuytown.com, Subway Feed & Authoring, Subway Remote Order, CHOA.org, WakeForest, FM Global, Duke Energy, Valvoline, Judd Farrishttps://retire.massmutual.com/participant/public/login.aspx, Modis, Self Service Portal, B & C, MassMutual Participant Portal, MassMutual Advisor Portal

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

CMS Tools:

Sitecore CMS 5.3, 6.0, 6.2, 6.4, 7.0, 7.2, 7.5, 8.1, 8.2, 9.0.1, 9.1.0 + SXA, Sitecore MVC, JSS, Sitefinity 3.5, MOSS 2007

Sitecore Modules:

Sitecore Shell Wax, Active Directory, WFFM, Poll, 301 Redirect, WeBlog, Language Resolver, AD, Excel Transfer Utility, Not Found Item, Index Viewer, Language Content Editor Warning, SharePoint Connector, Brightcove Connector, Sitecore Entity Service, Sitecore Commerce (Beginner), SiteCron, Tealium, Coveo Connector

Sitecore Sync Tools:

Hedgehog/Sitecore TDS, Unicorn

S/W Dev Methodology:

SCRUM Agile, SDLC, Agile with Pair Programming and Test-Driven Development, JIRA

Code Repository Tools:

GIT, TFS, TortoiseCVS, TortoiseSVN, WinCVS, PVCS, BitBucket

Advanced Technologies:

.NET 4.5, C#, ASP.NET, ADO.NET, TDS, RAZL, nUnit, SlowCheetah, Metalogix Tool, Cusible & FishEye, NodeJS, Bower, Gulp, SQL Profilers, Jenkins, PowerShell, Artifactory, SOLR, Azure PaaS, ReactJS, Azure Search, Azure DevOps, Sitecore PowerShell Remoting, TeamCity, Coveo Search

ETL Tools:

Informatica 7.1.4, Informatica Power Exchange, RAZL.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Wipro Technologies [Humana, Inchttps://retire.massmutual.com/participant/public/login.aspxhttps://retire.massmutual.com/advisor/public/login.aspx] Oct 19 to Jul 20

Sitecore Architect

Worked as a Sitecore Architect for Wipro Technologies client Humana, Inc to help strengthen their Sitecore CoE Team.

Worked on below components/features:

oFixing Analytics issue in Production because of Shard DB getting 100% full.

oAnalyzing & Defining Indexing Strategy for Humana.com & its tenant [Medicare, MyHumana]

oAnalyzing & Defining set of recommendations for Sitecore Load & Warmup process to improve time to readiness.

oFixing SiteCron module issues in Production along with defining recommendation & training members of the Digital Foundation team. It also involved defining Tenant Specific targeted publishing using PowerShell scripting & Auto Scheduling using Cron expression.

oInstalling & Configuring Coveo Connector in Sitecore Environment & Using Coveo Component for Searching content involving creating custom Coveo Index.

oInvolved in evaluating Tealium-Sitecore POC recommendation by a vendor.

Horizontal Integration [Seminole Hard Rock Hollywood, Seminole Hard Rock Tampahttps://retire.massmutual.com/participant/public/login.aspxhttps://retire.massmutual.com/advisor/public/login.aspx] Apr 19 to Nov 19

Sitecore Consultant

Worked as a Sitecore Consultant on Horizontal Integration’s elite client Seminole Hard Rock Hotel & Casino to help them launch their new digital experience for Hollywood & Tampa on Sitecore 8.1.0 CMS.

Helped Testing team with testing User Stories

Used BrowserStack for Mobile Testing on Android & iOS platforms

Added Defensive coding to entire code base to avoid Runtime Exceptions & meaningful logging.

Worked on below components/features:

oCreating a Custom Workflow to support business requirements.

oCustomization to display Workflow State & Locked status in Sitecore gutter by default

oSetting up Sitecore Permissions across the Property Websites for Editor Roles

oDeveloped custom WFFM Send Email Action based on the Department selected during form submission.

oBug Fixing & Support Business Requirements discussions.

oDeveloped components from scratch using FED Markup:

Events Module

Event Content Cards

Event List View Cards

Event Details Page

Promotions Module

Promotion Content Cards

Promotion List View Cards

Promotion Details Page

ICF Next [CALottery.comhttps://retire.massmutual.com/participant/public/login.aspxhttps://retire.massmutual.com/advisor/public/login.aspx] Apr 19 to Jul 19 / Jan 20 to Jul 20

Sitecore Consultant

Worked as a Sitecore Developer on ICF’s Client CA Lottery to re-platform their new digital experience to Sitecore 9.1.0 CMS with SXA.

Helped Testing team with testing User Stories

Used BrowserStack for Mobile Testing on Android & iOS platforms

Worked on below components/features:

oCreating SXA Variations of Content Block, Carousel components.

oMaking all the developed components ADA Compliant

oCreating Personalization Rules for Logged in & Non-Logged in user

oDeveloped components from scratch using FED Markup:

Scratcher’s Carousel

Scratchers Filtered List with Client Side Pagination

2nd Chance Draws & Winners Accordion with Pagination

2nd Chance Draws & Prizes Accordion with Pagination

Definition 6 [Stuytown.comhttps://retire.massmutual.com/participant/public/login.aspxhttps://retire.massmutual.com/advisor/public/login.aspx] May 18 to Mar 19

Sitecore Technical Consultant

Worked as a Sitecore Solution Architect on Definition6’s Client Stuytown (Subsidiary of BlackStone) to re-platform their new digital experience to Headless Sitecore 9.0.1 CMS hosted on Azure PaaS using Sitecore Javascript Services (JSS).

Created below artifacts for the Architecture Toll Gate:

oSitecore 9.0.1 Deployment Model on Azure PaaS for DEV, QA, UAT & PROD along with Sizing

oComponent Model depicting all the components & their interactions at system runtime along with version information

oSitecore Content Model/Information Architecture for Multi-Property architecture

oData Ingestion Activity Flow for Initial Load & Schedule Load to import Properties, Buildings, Unit Amenities, Unit Finish, Unit Style, Unit Class, Available Units & Unit Rates.

Involved in End-To-End discussion with Data Team on providing requirements from Sitecore for Data Ingestion

Developed an entire Initial & Scheduled Data Ingestion Module for Above Property using below Sitecore Features & Best Practice:

oDefining Above Property Sitecore Information Architecture for Data Ingestion to import:

Properties

Buildings per Property

Amenities per Property

Unit Class, Style & Finish per property

Available Units per Property

Unit Rates for 12 & 24 months term per Property

Pre-assigning Class, Style, Finish, Building etc upon Unit Creation.

oSOLR & Azure Search

oGlass mapper auto generated models.

oCreating Custom Index for SOLR & Azure Search

oCreating Custom Computed Fields to Store custom values used for Unit Search & Facets

oSitecore Buckets

oPipeline to re-arrange Units under appropriate Building

oSitecore PowerShell remoting to trigger Sitecore Command remotely

oUsing Sitecore Shell Wax Module to Schedule Data Ingestion

oSending Data Ingestion report at the end of every run.

oImplemented Defensive development/Best Practice for:

False match result from Azure Index Search

Configurable attempts to connect to remote DB

Exit while loop for matching Units from Sitecore & Azure Index after 5 mins.

oSitecore Rebuild Index, Bucket Sync & Auto Publish

Intellinet Inc [Subway Feed & Authoring, Subway Remote Order, CHOA.orghttps://retire.massmutual.com/participant/public/login.aspxhttps://retire.massmutual.com/advisor/public/login.aspx] Mar 17 to Apr 18

Sitecore Technical Consultant

Worked as a Sitecore Architect on Intellinet’s Client CHOA (Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta) to enhance their overall Site Search experience & importing all 2K+ doctors into Sitecore.

Worked as a Sitecore Technical Consultant on Intellinet’s Client Subway Project (CIP & RO) right from the beginning of the project and involved following tasks & activities:

oDesigned Information Architecture(IA) for Authoring & Feed website

oDeveloped Content, Distribution & Segment Dashboards in sync with Workflow states.

oDeveloped on Content Flow in Authoring to create Item’s viz. Article Pages, Call To Action, Notifications in Feed using Sitecore Entity Service

oWorked on Distribution Flow in Authoring to create Distributions for created content.

oWorked on Segment Builder to create Segments for the Distribution to distribute content.

oImplemented Dynamic Pages rendering Dynamic Sections at runtime

oModified Sitecore Domain dictionary implementation to display the Item path when item is not found

oImplemented 401 & 404 pages for Authoring & Feed

oIntegrating Feed with Subway’s Asset Management Platform(AMP) for all Images

oSynching & Searching Documents from Sharepoint into Sitecore using SOLR

oSynching & Searching Videos from Brightcove into Sitecore using SOLR

EPAM Systems [WakeForest, FM Globalhttps://retire.massmutual.com/participant/public/login.aspxhttps://retire.massmutual.com/advisor/public/login.aspx] Mar 16 to Mar 17

Sitecore Solution Architect

Worked as a Solution Architect on WakeForest Client Project right from the beginning of the project and involved following tasks & activities:

oWireframe & Design Reviews

oCreating DEV plans outlining list of 46+ Page types and 120+ components, System Integrations, DEV Efforts & Estimations including resource requirements

oCompleted complex integration modules for importing People Data & Press Release data into Sitecore

oSetup entire project with multiple sites using Scaffold and been involved in setting up DEV, QA & CI/CD Environments.

oGate keeper for merge requests and Sprint management in GIT

oDeveloped Content Author Friendly Carousel components which received lot of appreciation from other non-Sitecore Teams.

oDrafted entire Security Model including AD Roles & Permissions for WakeForest Sites (Hospital, School & Newsroom)

Worked as a Technical Lead on FM Global’s Custom Workflow Solution which involved Technical Solution Design, Hands on development, code reviews.

During a downtime, worked on Sitecore Competency tasks viz:

oDefined On-Premise Content Delivery (CD) server requirements based on Clients Page Views

oOutlined comparisons between Sitecore XP 8.2 vs Adobe AEM 6.2

oSitecore PXM PoC involved multiple technologies viz. Adobe InDesign, Windows Services, Adobe Server Configuration, Sitecore Service Configuration. Also developed code using PXM module to generate on demand PDF’s.

oListed out all 301 & 302 Redirect capabilities of the Sitecore 301 Redirect Module

oDefined a list of deliverables/artifacts for the Sitecore Project Delivery

oSitecore Blogging Capabilities & Recommendations

Resolved Client’s PROD issue with custom reporting returning 1.5mil records to few thousand correct records and ensured the performance improvements.

Helped pre-sales activities by providing architectural information on IaaS Vs PaaS difference

Avanade, NC [Duke Energyhttps://retire.massmutual.com/participant/public/login.aspxhttps://retire.massmutual.com/advisor/public/login.aspx] May 15 to Feb 16

Sitecore Technical Architect

Organized series of technical Workshops to isolate gaps in the current implementation

Prepared Remediation and Recommendation proposals for the gaps identified during transition phase

Laid out the POC & Work plan for consolidating WFFM forms from 95 to 16 by introducing multiple custom Save Actions

Designed Content Author Friendly Components with appropriate Information Architecture

Presented Market best practices of CDN, Flexible Publishing Targets to Duke Stake holders

Involved in estimation, work scheduling for remaining work

Involved in defining Analytics, SEO & ADA requirements.

Creating a Product Backlog for the Iterative Model

Defining Roles & Responsibilities across Application Tower

RockFish Digital, AR [Valvolinehttps://retire.massmutual.com/participant/public/login.aspxhttps://retire.massmutual.com/advisor/public/login.aspx] Apr 15 to Jun 15

Sitecore Solution Developer

Defined Information Architecture for the entire site in line with Sitecore best practice for Data Templates, Page Layouts, and Components etc.

Developed Store Locator & Promotion Finder View Models & View Renderings using Sitecore MVC

Defined Product Hierarchy in Sitecore and imported product data.

Adecco Group NA, NY [Judd Farrishttps://retire.massmutual.com/participant/public/login.aspx, Modis, Self Service Portal, B & Chttps://retire.massmutual.com/advisor/public/login.aspx] Sept 13 to Apr 15

Sitecore Solution Specialist

Defined Information Architecture for the Global Platform to host Multi Lingual, Multi Site on Sitecore CMS 7.0

Integrated ShareThis, Google Drive, DropBox & “Apply with LinkedIn” features.

Customized Sitecore Pipelines (404, Item Resolver, URL Resolver, Language Resolver)

Customized Sitecore WFFM Actions, 301 Redirects modules, Poll Module, WeBlog Module

Created Custom Lucene Search indexes for Site Content Search.

Performance Tuning of Sitecore Control by using Sitecore Caching Mechanism.

Designed Find & Replace utility for replacing Environment specific settings.

Coordinate Sprint Tasks & Stories with Functional Team.

Technical designing of all stories and preform IA & Code Reviews for every sprint.

Troubleshoot Build/Sitecore Configuration issues across all environments along with Support releases.

MassMutual, MA [Participant Portal, Advisor Portal] Feb 11 to Aug 13

Lead Sitecore Designer & Architect

Defined global Sitecore Information Architecture to be reused across multiple portals and efficient management.

Designed and architected Legal Compliance Workflow using Sitecore Workflow to implement Content & Document approval process via FileNet (P8).

Conducted UX Sessions to capture Business User Experience. Got these added to SDLC process with help of Process Analysts.

Planning & Conducting Technical JAD sessions with Lead Designers & Business and offshore team to detail out the Sitecore Technical Design.

Streamlined Code review process to deliver high quality code.

Acted as a final gate between Cognizant & MassMutual for all offshore deliverables.

TFS Code Merges (Forward & Backward).

Introduced Security for the portal using TAM/WebSeal integration & RSA along with LDAP Integration

Merck & Co., NJ Sept 10 to Jan 11

Sharepoint Migration Lead

Deploying the exported eRoom from Staging Servers to Production using Backup-Restore, Export-Import methods or by using Metalogix Tool along with New Teamsite creation.

Lead Post Migration Issue resolutions team.

Interacting with business users to resolve their queries pertaining to usability of Teamsite.

Creating an Automated script to Deploy Teamsite from Staging Servers to Production using stsadm commands for backup-restore & export-import.

LexisNexus Group, NJ [Page Designer 4] May 09 to Aug 10

Sitecore Lead

Developing the enhancement and new features for PD4 on Sitecore CMS 5.3

Creating a new design template for PD4

Migrating PD4 on Sitecore 5.3 to Sitecore 6.2

Implement and integrate new security module for Sitecore 6.2 to PD4 Application running on Sitecore 5.3

Developing the Design Manager for Dynamic Site Templates

Managing the team, abiding to SLA commitment, prompt daily & weekly reporting of Project Status.

Revere Group, CA [Quest POC, HKI POC, ULI, CareMore] Aug 08 to Apr 09

Sitecore Project Leader & Architect

Create a Sitecore Workflow to approve the content.

Design and Create the replica of Quest.com, HKI.org website for POC in Sitecore 6.0

Design the Registration page for enrollment for Quest.

Design the Quote Engine for the HKI website.

Create custom 404 Redirect Page for ULI.

Create Email a Friend module for ULI.

Creating a SiteMap & Breadcrumb for the website for ULI.

Omniture integration for MyULI site.

Designing and developing of Member Application along with ULI Admin module.

Developing Health Plan and Benefits section of the ULI Site in Sitecore CMS 6.0.

Atlas Solution, WA [Atlas Publisher] Nov 06 to July 08

Project Leader

The project is Web application in Ad Serving domain. Following are the sub projects implemented:

Creative Submission Wizard: Advertiser can submit the various types of creates and those are validated against defined specification.

Creative Assignment: The submitted creative can be assigned to placement (the location where the ad will be served) with the help of this application. There is background windows service which periodically does the assignments.

Revenue Sharing: Using this application user can create/edit a revenue sharing deal. A deal typically have duration, rate and other details.

AGL Resources, GA May 06 to Oct 06

Infrastructure Specialist/Informatica Developer

Maintaining Infrastructure and administrating Informatica Server on different environments.

Creating Labels, Queries, patches, Builds & Releases in Informatica.

Developing, Debugging and testing of Informatica mappings using Designer, Workflow Manger and Workflow Monitor modules to extract data from IBM DB2 systems and load the same into SQL Server staging tables.

Setting Configuration Standards, Coding Standards for Informatica Mappings, Session & Workflows

Executing Short Data Pull (Initial Load & Bulk Load) to extract data from CIS => Staging DB => CMA DB.

Maintaining the infrastructure for end to end RTR (Real Time Replication).

Registering new tables for RTR with Informatica Power exchange.

Popeye’s, GA [Spice Rack Portal] Mar 06 to Apr 06

Senior .NET Programmer Analyst

Developed Custom web parts in .NET 2.0 for Birthday Calendar, Workstation Inventory, and Certified Training Location.

Created & Published InfoPath forms on SharePoint Form Library along with JavaScript Validations.

Developed Registration forms & Employee Directory Web Parts.

Integrating Nested Grid Infragistics components across the custom web parts.

TOTO USA Inc, GA [Toto Partnershttps://spicerack.popeyes.com/] Apr 05 to Feb 06

.NET Programmer Analyst

Modified & developed a FTP module to FTP CSV files from MS Access file periodically.

Migration of Best of Show (BOS) module to .NET Platform (ASP.NET & C#).

Designing a system based on OOAD and N-Tier Architecture.

Created Stored Procedures for accessing the SQL Server 2000 Data Base.

Also was responsible for making modification to Database Schema and DBA Activities.

PDI, Inc., NJ Jan 05 to Mar 05

.NET Programmer Analyst

Developed an entire Admin section of SSPAR for adding Org Chart, Clients Info, Product Families, Products, Announcements, Instructions and Maintenance information.

Designed and developed a complete workflow for List Calls and Add/Edit Calls page. It involved developing the object class, Business Object Class and a Data Access Class along with the Front view ASP.NET Pages.

Prime Network International, GA Mar 04 to Dec 04

.NET Technical Lead & Configuration Manager

Created Database Architecture in SQL Server Database.

Developed a complex health portal catering to multi company domains with facilities like compare health plans, enrollment to the health plan, and admin section for the company administrators.

Written dynamic JavaScript tree view Menus and menus calling in ASP.Net Pages.

Worked on XML & XSD (reading DOM Objects); and DTD Development (understand how to build a solid XML Schema)

Written File Upload component using C# in ASP.NET pages for uploading the image files.

Provided the Paging facility in the Data Grid to view the data and manipulating the same on the fly.

Provided the facility to compare N-number of health plans and perform Hide, Move Left and Move Right operations using JavaScript.

Avantium Technologies, Netherlands Jan 03 to Feb 04

Senior Programmer Analyst

Developed Project workflow for SQL Server Applications and GUI Screens.

Developed complex logistic modules for Equipment booking, Personnel booking and Project booking with Summary & Detail Reporting facilities.

Designing a system based on OOAD and N-Tier Architecture.

Developed File Upload component using C# in ASP.NET pages for uploading the document files.

Developed Custom Error Handling using web.config file.

Worked on XML & XSD (reading DOM Objects); and DTD Development (understand how to build a solid XML Schema)

Developed Database design in SQL Server 2000.

Developed Database Modeling Using VISO and SQL Server Diagrams.

Did cross browser testing and Server load testing and Application performance testing.

Gathering Business and Customer requirements according to implement functionality in web site.

North Eastern University, MA Mar 02 to Dec 02

Senior Programmer Analyst

The project was developed Java Struts and JSP.

Designing Core components of the system.

Reviewing the system design.

Reviewing the code of other team members.

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