Vignette ... Portal..... Content Management
Resume:
Sanjay Sinha
* ********** **., ********* ********, NJ 08550
******@*****.***
Objective
To obtain a challenging position in the Date Warehousing/E-Commerce/E-Business/Information Management segment by providing high quality services in Implementation of Business Applications utilizing advanced technologies leveraging my varied experience.
Career
Profile Around 22 years of Information Technology experience in the areas of Pharmaceuticals, Finance, Insurance, and Manufacturing etc. I have worked as Technical Architect, Project Lead, Technical Lead, Sr Developer and Developer profiles.
Have successfully completed projects for prestigious clients like NBC Universal, New York Life, UBS PaineWebber, Bristol Myers Squibb, The Port Authority of NY & NJ, Kids “R” Us, Citicorp etc.
Areas of Expertise
Web Experience Management 8.1
Vignette Application Portal 8.2
Vignette Dynamic Portal Module
Oracle 11g
Sencha ExtJS Framework
Tomcat
Education:
Masters in Computer Applications ’90 – BIT Mesra, India
Training
Vignette Content Management Developer Foundation (V7.3)
Professional Experience:
OpenText - Jan 2012– Present
Open Text WWW Transformation Project. The site http://www.opentext.com is being migrated to the Web Experience Management Suite. I was involved in the development of the Portal grid , regions, layouts and the presentation templates.
Customer Self Service Portal: This portal is used by the OpenText customers to create tickets and view their contracts and accounts. This was developed using the Spring Portlet MVC framework. There was extensive use of the ExtJS framework.
The Web test cases were developed in Selenium.
Skills: Web Experience Management 8.1 (VCM), Vignette Application Portal (VAP) 8.2, Vignette Dynamic Portal Module (DPM), Oracle 11g, ExtJS, Selenium, XML, Tomcat, Maven
Metlife - Nov 2011– Dec 2011
I worked as a Vignette SME with Microsoft Consulting Services to assist Metlife in Discovery/Plan/Analyze activities for their global intranet migration from Vignette 7.3.4 to Sharepoint 2010. Also worked on a POC to evaluate the effort for a possible migration to V8.
Skills: Vignette VCM 7.3.4, Oracle 10g, Sharepoint 2010
Time Inc. - Sep 2009 – Oct-2011
Time Inc., a Time Warner company, is one of the largest content companies in the world. With more than 115 magazines, it is the largest magazine media company in the U.S. and a leading media company in the U.K. and Mexico.
Responsibilities as a Team Lead include
Participating in project requirement gathering and review meetings
• Providing production on-call content support for our sites like http://www.people.com, http://www.thisoldhouse.com,http://www.health.com/,http://www.peopleenespanol.com/, http://www.time.com, http://sportsillustratedeverywhere.com
• Optimize and improve performance of core Vignette Application TCL templates in V5 and V6 environments after analyzing existing code and configuration
• Code review of People, TOH, Health, People En Espanol publication template builds in vignette V6, V5 CMS
• Suggest performance improvements in slow rendering Vignette TCL templates, Sybase SQL queries, Precache application in Java
• Troubleshooting and resolve complex content rendering issues in a fast paced environment.
• Development, support and enhancements of sportsillustratedeverywhere.com (SIE) site in Drupal 6
• Content imports into Drupal CMS using PHP, MySQL and UNIX shell scripting.
• CMS and Feed generation for Golf9 in Drupal
• Deploy code to production environment upon approval from client
• Working with the client business team to get sign off on quality
• Porting of hosting services of all titles from AOL to Savvis
• Worked on a prototype of Time.com on V8 as part of evaluation of a new CMS for the title.
Skills: Vignette 7.3.x, Vignette Application Portal 7.3, Dynamic Portal Module 2.0.6, Tomcat 5.5, Apache Web Server, Oracle 10, JDBC, Servlets, Linux, Java, Struts,JSP, Tcl, JavaScript, HTML, XML, Perl, PHP, Drupal 6, AJAX, JSON
The Travel Channel - May 2009 – Sep 2009
As a Team Lead, I was working on the redesign of the site travelchannel.com. This involves working with an external vendor in implementing the new design. I am currently involved in the analysis and design phase of the project. I have developed, Content Type Definitions, Override JSPs and Portlets.
Skills: Vignette 7.3.x, Vignette Application Portal 7.3, Dynamic Portal Module 2.0.6, Tomcat 5.5, Apache Web Server, Oracle 10, JDBC, Servlets, Linux, Java, Struts,JSP, Tcl, JavaScript, HTML, XML, Perl
NBC Universal - Oct 2007 – May 2009
As a Team Lead, I was working in the iVillage.com group of NBC Universal. This group manages / supports the portal ivillage.com and yourtotalhealth.com
I was supporting both the sites and technologies involved in V6 and V7. I am involved in the Design, Development and Maintenance of the current site and all its enhancements.
Skills: Vignette 7.3.x, Vignette Application Portal 7.3, Dynamic Portal Module 2.0.6, Tomcat 5.5, Apache Web Server, Oracle 10, JDBC, Servlets, Linux, Java, Struts,JSP,Vignette 6.x, Oracle 9i, Tcl, XSLT, JavaScript, HTML, XML, Perl
UBS PaineWebber - Apr 2006 – Oct - 2007
As a Sr. Consultant, I was working in the Research Group of UBS. This group provides research information to the customers and financial advisors on a variety of platforms. It actively manages research information from the Swiss office. I have been involved in a variety of projects (Ratings Changes, Wealth Management Integration, Manage Restrictions etc). I am also involved in the rewrite of the CDA and the CMA application as the group is moving from Vignette/Tcl based Web Sites to a J2EE (MVC) architecture.
I have also developed standalone Java applications to manage file feeds to and from the Research project.
Skills: Vignette 6.x, WebSphere, Java, Struts,JSP, Sybase, Tcl, Java, JavaScript, HTML, XML, Perl
New York Life Insurance Company - Aug 2005 – Apr 2006
As a Technical Lead, I was involved in the project that will bring New York Life’s public websites’ external hosting environment in-house and make use of the new dual data centers. Besides the creation of the production and model environments that house the websites, this project will ensure that the website applications can perform well in the new environments. I am also involved in the upgrading of applications from Autonomy 4.0 to 5.0.
Skills: Vignette 6.x, Oracle 9i, Tcl, JavaScript, HTML, XML, Autonomy 5.0
New York Life Insurance Company - Oct 2003 – Jun 2005
As a Technical Lead, I was involved in the Design, Development and Implementation of the Agency Portal project. It involved managing and developing the Content Management Application and the Presentation Layer. This had integration with external agencies e.g. CBS MarketWatch for financial data and Hitbox for tracking hits.
I was also involved in the Design and development of the Life & Annuity Marketing project.
In both the projects, I interacted extensively with the different groups involved in the implementation of this project. I was also involved in the setting up of both the applications on the native application “Tonic” to monitor the web applications.
I was also involved in the study and design of porting the Vignette V6 applications to a J2EE environment.
Skills: Vignette 6.x, WebSphere, JSP, Oracle 9i, Tcl, Java, JavaScript, HTML, XML, Perl
UBS PaineWebber - Apr 2003 – Oct 2003
As a Sr. Consultant, I was involved in evolving and implementing a strategy to migrate from Tcl based Web Sites to a J2EE (MVC) architecture. Redesigned and developed the CDA and CMA components to implement J2EE solutions using Vignette 6.0.5, IBM WebShere 4.0.4. Etc. I was involved in the design, development of the UBS Mortgage site right from its inception. I was also involved in the re-branding of the UBS PaineWebber sites to UBS.
Skills: Vignette 6.x, WebSphere, JSP, Oracle 9i, Tcl, Java, JavaScript, HTML, XML, Perl
New York Life Insurance Company - Oct 2001 – Feb 2003
As a Lead Consultant, I was managing and developing the Content Management Application and the Presentation Layer. This had integration with the Ad Management Servers, Autonomy Search. Worked on the following applications: Intranet Portal, Newyorklife.com public site, Kansas City Brokerage, Individual Annuities Department.
Skills: Vignette 6.x, Oracle 8i, Tcl, JavaScript, HTML, XML, Perl
UBS PaineWebber - Jul 2001 – Aug 2001.
This project involved redesigning and converting the existing static public web site to Vignette’s Story Server. It involved development of a CMA to manage role-based data. It also included all the workflows therein. A CDA was developed to publish the data on the public Web site. It involved extensive caching strategy and interacting with external vendors for stock quotes data. I was involved in the design of the database and the storage strategy for integration with the pre-existing data warehouse.
Skills: Vignette 6.x, Oracle 8i, Tcl,JavaScript, HTML, XML, Perl
Ohio state University Mar 2001 - Jun 2001
As the project lead, I was involved in the analysis, design and development of an application, which allows system administrators to provide single sign-on solutions for all the web and legacy systems.
Skills: Coreport
UBS PaineWebber – Jun 2000 – Feb 2001.
The application allows individual Financial Advisors (FAs) the ability to create their own Internet web home pages as part of www.painewebber.com (but not linked directly from it).
The system consists of several components:
An administrative function allowing the Lincoln Harbor based business user the ability to control some of the content the individual FAs may select as the content of their home page.
A workflow component allowing the business user to define and modify workflow - with approvals that are necessary prior to the FA page going live.
The system will interact with the Paine Webber public web site.
Skills: Vignette 5.1, Oracle, Tcl,JavaScript, HTML, XML, Perl
New York Life Insurance Company - Nov 1999 – May 2000
Developed parts of the Content Management and Content Display Applications for the New York Life Asset Management Site. The sites are built within the framework of New York Life’s Methodology. Developed reusable database and string procedures and functions in TCL.
Skills: Vignette 5.1, Oracle, Tcl, JavaScript, HTML, XML, Perl
Starmedia Enterprises Inc. – Sep 1999 to Nov 1999.
Developed parts of the Content Management and Content Display Applications for the Latin American portal.
Developed customized mini-sites for Starmedia and its partners and integrated it with their main portal.
Skills: Vignette 4.x, Oracle, Tcl,JavaScript, HTML, XML, Perl
Playboy Enterprises Inc. – Apr 1999 to Sep 1999.
Developed parts of the Content Management and Content Display Applications for Collector’s Choice Music and Spice Video catalogs.
Developed reusable database and string procedures and functions in TCL. These procedures and functions can be utilized throughout the application to extract the relevant pieces of data for display and entry applications.
Wrote SQL procedures in Oracle 8.x to handle back-end jobs.
Skills: Vignette 4.x, Oracle,Tcl, JavaScript, HTML, XML, Perl
Bristol Myers Squibb – Nov 1996 to Mar 1999.
Demand Management
• This system integrates the forecasting of sales based on past sales details.
• It involved the integration of all offices of BMS.
• Develop strategy to centralize data from multiple sources and applications
• Develop and implement strategy to store and extract data.
• The front-end Interfaces were in Manugistics V5.3, the back end jobs were handled with intensive shell scripts and Oracle stored procedures.
• Many Interfaces were built with the existing SAP R/3 systems.
Time Allocation System, Project Program Interface
• This system tracked the time spent by the respective departments in the development of a new drug.
• This is essential to estimate the cost of production of a new drug.
• This system has been implemented across all the offices of BMS.
Skills: Unix, Oracle, Oracle Forms, Oracle Reports
The Port Authority of NY & NJ – Apr 1995 to Nov 1996
• As a Sr. System Analyst currently involved in the design, development of integration of a security system for VISITRAK system of The World Trade Department of the World Trade Center.
• Evolve a database storage/extraction strategy to ensure the centralization of data.
• Successfully designed, developed and implemented a monthly reports module for the Records Management System for the Public Safety Department of the Port Authority of NY & NJ.
Was involved in the development, implementation and maintenance of the Contracts and Firms (ConFirm) application for “Office of Business and Job Opportunity.”
Skills: Unix, Oracle, Oracle Forms, Oracle Reports
New Jersey Natural Gas – Feb 1995 to Apr 1995
• As a Sr. System Analyst was involved in the design, construction and interfacing the system to the existing module.
• The system was used to maintain monthly contracts detailing the proposed nominations of gas shipments.
• The purpose of the nominations contract was to provide a tracking mechanism for proposed and actual deliveries of NJNG city gates by shippers and the imbalances involved therein.
Skills: Unix, Oracle, Oracle Forms, Oracle Reports
Kids “R” Us – Sep 1994 to Feb 1995.
• Kids “R” Us primarily advertised through booklets 10-12 times a year. Kids “R” Us increased the amount of advertising and experiments with changes in the lists used, number of booklets mailed, and the number and type of promotions included in the booklets every year.
• The system included computerizations of activities related to planning for the booklets, tracking the delivery of advertised merchandise, and evaluating the booklets’ success effectively.
• The system facilitated Kids “R” Us to increase market share, lower expenses, improve operations and result in the success of its advertising program.
Worked as an Analyst/Programmer and was involved in the design, strategy formulation and construction of the system
Skills: Unix, Oracle, Oracle Forms, Oracle Reports
Citicorp – May 1994 - Sep 1994
Euro CPC was the customization effort of the CPC system for the East European Citibank branches.
CPC system offered a comprehensive set of products and services for clearing related transactions of bank customers.
EuroCPC was the front-end clearing application system for a backend banking system of Citibank worldwide. As an Analyst/ Programmer was involved in reengineering an existing system into an open product, having components like Anchored lookup and facilities for field enrichment.
Tata Steel – Jan 1990 - May 1994.
Bar and Rod Product Process System
• This system comprised of around 450 programs and a database of 2 GB.
• The business system was implemented on an Oracle platform.
• The automation system for field level devices was developed using Base Star as the data manager and VAX C as programming language. Product Profile and Executive information system was an integral part of BRPPS.
Corporate database related interfaces were developed on the IBM ES-9000 using CSP, COBOL and DB2. As a Programmer/Analyst was involved in the design, Strategy formulation, development, implementation and maintenance of the system.
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