MANOJ PATEL

Technical Architect & Lead Developer (Java/J2EE/SOA/Portal)

https://www.linkedin.com/in/contactmanojpatel

E-mail: inbox.manojpatel@gmail.com

Phone: +1 925 336 4286 || Santa Clara, CA

Professional Summary:

“More than 8 years of extensive experience in web, Portal, Cloud application development on various technologies including Java, J2EE, JSP, Servlets, Struts, Spring, Hibernate, Web Services, HTML, CSS, JQuery, AJAX, JavaScript, Bootstrap and Agile software development using SCRUM methodology. I have hands on experience in Architecture, Solution & product designing of Desktop / distributed / web applications & SOA Components.”

 

·               Strong Architecture designing experience of 3 years including proficiency in various Data Structures, Design Patterns, and Enterprise application patterns, SOA, Cloud and distributed Multitenant architectures.

·               8 years of experience as a Java/J2EE expert in development of various Desktop, Web, Portal and SOA/Cloud Applications.

·               Strong software development expertise of all phases of Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) including requirement management, product designing, architecture development, modeling, programming, coding of various Software products and components.

·               Extensive hands on experience in designing, architecting and developing LifeRay Portal applications to implement JSR 168 & JSR 286 specifications of Java.

·               Developed Distributed & SOA based portal applications in Liferay including development of Ext, hooks, themes, layouts, custom portlets, SpringMVC portlets etc.

·               Hand on experience on Liferay administration including creation of Community/organization/hierarchical sites, maintaining users/groups/permissions & preferences, configuring Email server etc.

·               Strong experience of implementing SSO, LDAP, SSL, Load balancing, clustering, Lucene, EhCache etc.

·               Strong background of SOA and distributed applications/Components/Product designing.

·               Proficiency in developing database, File & Network system backed web & portal applications.

·               Expertise in programming on Core-Java, J2EE & SOA/cloud architecture using JSP, Servlets, Struts, Hibernate, Spring, HTML, JavaScript, JDBC, JNDI, XML, AJAX, Junit, TestNG and build tools like ANT, Maven, Hudson/Jenkins.

·               Experience with various Development tools like Eclipse, Netbeans, IBM RAD; Application Servers & Run-time like IBM Websphere Application & Portal Servers, Apache Tomcat, JBoss and various DBMS like IBM DB2, Oracle, MS SQL Server, Postgres and My SQL.

·               Experience in service oriented architecture including universal description and discovery integration (UDDI) lookups, web service description language (WSDL) using SOAP protocol, RESTful services and extended mark-up language (XML) and java XML parsers such as JAXB, SAX, DOM.

·               Extensive experience of MVC Architecture and possess design and development skills in J2EE & Spring, Struts, Hibernate, JPA, MyBatis frameworks.

·               Strong understanding of object-oriented design, reusable, scalable, robust, component-based development.

·               Proficient at documenting and understanding User requirements, System Specifications and various technical artifacts like Use-Case, Sequence, Component, Class, Entity-Relationship diagrams; Extensive experience of using design tools like Microsoft Visio, Visual Paradigm.

·               Strong experience of Performance Engineering, Auditing, Monitoring, Analyzing Memory footprints, performance optimization, JVM Tuning and Server Tuning using tools like, JConsole, JVisualVM, YourKit, JavaMelody, JProfiler, JaMon, PMD, FindBug, Cobertura, JaCoCo, Emma, EclEmma, SonarQube etc.

·               Extensive experience of Product/Project Management, Planning, Execution and Client Relationship Management.

·               Strong team building, People & Project Management skills and have good exposure to customer IT business in various projects.

·               A self-motivated professional with outstanding verbal and written communication skills, analytical, interpersonal, presentation, leadership, problem-solving skills and has proven to be a good team player.

·               Actively involved in all phases of Waterfall, Agile and iterative software development life-cycle methodologies and very well versed in implementing industry best practices and processes to ensure finest quality of work.

Technical Proficiency:

Programming Languages	Java (J2SE, J2EE, JDBC, JSP, Servlet, Java Beans, JNDI, JSTL, RMI, AWT/Swing, Applets, Portlets) C++, C
Frameworks	Spring, Struts, Hibernate, JPA, MyBatis, Apache POI, IText, DSFJ, EJPM, Web Services (SOAP, REST, Axis, WSDL, UDDI), JMS, SOARTM, IBM Websphere Portal & Liferay Portal development
Editors & IDE	IBM RAD, Eclipse, Net Beans, SoapUI, Notepad++, GEdit
Application & Web Servers	IBM Web-Sphere Application Server & Web-Sphere Portal Server, Apache Tomcat, JBoss, Jetty
Database	IBMDB2, MSSQL Server, Oracle, MySQL, PostgreSQL
Web Technologies	HTML / HTML5, XML / XSLT, JSP, Servlet, JavaScript, AlloyUI, CSS, Responsive-Web design, Ajax, JQuery
Data Visualization API & Tools	Tableau data visualization server & API, Fusion Charts, High Charts
Development /Deployment Tools	ANT/Maven, Hudson/Jenkins, WinScp, Putty, Filezilla
Configuration Management	Star Team, SVN, Perforce, VSS
Software Design & Architecture development	UML, Data Structure, Design Patterns, Enterprise Application Patterns, Service Oriented Architecture (SOA), Multitenent Architecture, Microsoft Visio, Visual Paradigm, Altova MissionKit & UModel, Quest Toad Data & UML Modeler
Performance Engineering Process & Tools	Run-time Memory footprint & processing analysis, JVM Tuning, Server Tuning, JConsole, JVisualVM, YourKit, JavaMelody, JProfiler, JaMon, PMD, FindBug, LAPSE, SonarQube
Testing API & Tools	JUnit, TestNG, JaCoCo, Cobertura, Eclemma, BPEL, HP Quality Center, JMeter, JIRA
Operating System	Linux(CentOS, Ubuntu), Win XP/7/8/10/2000/2003/2012, MSDOS
Development Methodology	Waterfall, Iterative,  and Agile

Projects Chronicle (Most Recent First)

NetApp OnCommand Shift 1.2 Duration: Oct 2015 – Present

Client: NetApp Inc, Sunnyvale CA      Role: Technical Consultant & Automation Engineer

The objective is to engineer (Design & Develop) Continuous Integration, Continuous Delivery & Test Automation infrastructure for development of an efficient & flawless quality product. The product which are developed using this infrastructure are the software to manage cross platform conversions of virtual machines & disks of the physical data center servers.

 

Environment: Java 8, Tomcat 7, SonarQube, Jenkins, Maven, JaCoCo, TestNG, Mockito, SpringMockMVC, Eclipse, Perforce, PowerShell, MySQL Server, Restful Services.

Responsibilities:

·                 Actively contributed in Requirement Gathering for the proposed product and analyzed the requirements and feasibility. Also, prepared document sets related to requirements, enhancements, functional & technical specifications.

·               Engineered the Design & Architecture of the proposed product and also contributed as a solution designer throughout the project development.

·               Designed HLD & LLD including various technical artifacts like Architecture diagram, class diagram, sequence diagram, use-case diagram, and component diagram.

·               Hands on developer of entire software infrastructure from start to end.

·               Setup SonarQube & Jenkins as a base platform and customize & extend its behavior.

·               Written wrappers of JaCoCo, FindBug, & SonarQube Rest WS API & Clients.

·               Implemented a framework to write Unit Tests in TestNG & Mockito.

·               Written Integration Test framework using SpringMockMVC & Mockito

·               Written a framework to write Smoke Tests in PowerShell.

·               Written utilities to orchestrate entire tool set and sub systems.

·               Written Unit & Integrations Tests.

·               Coordinated with QA team for smoke, system, regression, performance & load testing to ascertain quality.

 

ALM Legal Intelligence Duration: Aug 2014 – Oct 2015

Client: ALM Media LLC, New York NY        Role: Technical Architect & Technical Leader

Legal Intelligence offers detailed business & financial information and competitive intelligence about the legal industry like Firm Rankings from Media publications, Surveys & Studies and custom research of today’s legal market to top U.S. and international law firms and their clients.

 

Environment: Java6, Liferay6.0.5 Portal & Liferay SDK, JBoss5.1.0, Oracle10g, REST web-services, EHCache, Dozer, Gson HTML5, CSS3, JQuery, AlloyUI, Eclipse, WinSCP, Putty, SVN, Linux CentOS.

Responsibilities:

·               Proactively contributed & Lead the phases of Requirement Gathering, analysis and preparing functional & technical specifications.

·               Engineered the Design & Architecture of the proposed product and also contributed as a solution designer throughout the project development.

·               Designed HLD & LLD including various technical artifacts like Architecture diagram, class diagram, sequence diagram, use-case diagram, and component diagram.

·               Prepared project environment by setting up Liferay SDK 6.0.5, JBoss 5.1.0 and Java6 on 64bit Linux CentOS server.

·               Setup & used SVN (as source code control & repository), SSH & SFTP tools to connect deployment servers.

·               Setup build & deployment environment by writing ant scripts for ant build tool.

·               Developed framework API of the project that includes, Exception Handling, Logging, Property file management, bean mapper utilities using Dozer, common utilities for conversion of JSON & XML to Java Objects & vice versa.

·               Implemented custom Model-View-Controller (MVC) architecture for the application using concrete principles laid down by several design patterns such as Front Controller, Business service, Singleton, Data Access Object and Data Transfer Object. Also, Developed data access layer and integrated it with REST web services.

·               Developed the foundational Controller, Business service and DAO layers in the project.

·               Developed Ext & hooks plugin for third party SSO login & authentication, developed SpringMVC portlets, Themes, Layouts & site templates for community site using JSR 286 principle in Java/Liferay portal.

·               Implemented second level caching using EHCache to improvise the performance of the code.

·               Designed UI using JSP, HTML, CSS, AlloyUI and validation with JQuery for providing the user interface.

·               Coordinated with QA team for smoke, system, regression, performance & load testing to ascertain quality.

·               Performed JVM & Server tuning for ensuring optimum performance. Setup hardware load balancer & clustering.

·               Performed Lexical & security analysis & code review by using PMD & LAPSE tools.

·               Performed real-time profiling & monitoring using Java Melody tool.

·               Contributed in project coordination & communication in On-site-Offshore model.

·               Planning task assignments, deployment & delivery using Agile Scrum methodology.

 

ALM Rival EdgeDuration: Nov 2013 – Oct 2015

Client: ALM Media LLC, New York NY     Role: Tech Architect, Tech Leader & Senior Developer

Rival Edge is the 24/7 current awareness platform that monitors law firms, news, events, and social media sites to capture up-to-the-minute competitive business information, filter it according to user’s specifications, and deliver it instantly.

 

Environment: Java6, Liferay6.0.5 Portal & Liferay SDK, JBoss5.1.0, Oracle10g, Spring, MyBatis, High Chart data visualization tool, HTML5, CSS3, JQuery, AlloyUI, Eclipse, SVN, WinSCP, Putty, Linux CentOS etc.

Responsibilities:

·               Proactively contributed and lead the phases of Requirement Gathering, Analysis of the existing system & feasibility study. Prepared document sets related to requirements, enhancements, functional & technical specifications.

·               Audited architecture and source code of existing product using tools like, PMD, LAPSE and Visual Paradigm to propose solutions for identification/rectification of flaws in Design & Architecture.

·               Executed Performance Audit on the product using Java Melody, Yourkit & JaMon and suggested solutions to optimize performance of the product.

·               Implemented Server Load Balancing using NetScaler load balancer, JBoss 5.1.0 & Apache webserver and performed clustering. Performed JVM & Server tuning for ensuring optimum performance.

·               Created multiple community sites under single Liferay instance & configure multiple virtual hosts to access the same. Developed Theme, layout & site templates for all the community sites.

·               Implemented Spring MVC architecture and Spring Bean Factory using IOC to implement Spring MVC portlets and configured Bean properties using dependency injection.

·                 Developed Controller, Business service and DAO layers using Core & Liferay SpringMVC APIs.

·               Designed mappings and relationships of tables along with their Business & Domain objects using MyBatis Object Relational mapping framework.

·               Designed and developed queries & validations using MyBatis Query template.

·               Implemented the first & second level caching mechanism in MyBatis to load data from Oracle & My SQL databases.

·               Implemented new enhancements and fixed bugs in existing source code.

·               Designed UI using JSP, HTML, CSS, AlloyUI and validate with JQuery for providing the user interface.

·               Designed & developed various data visualizations charts like bar, stacked, Pie, line etc. using High Chart data visualization tool.

·               Performed Lexical & security analysis & code review by using PMD & LAPSE tools.

·               Coordinated with QA team for smoke, system, regression, performance & load testing to ascertain quality.

·               Contributed in project coordination & communication in On-site-Offshore model.

·                 Planning task assignments, deployment & delivery.

 

NetApp Config Advisor 4.0Duration: Feb 2013 – Sep 2013

Client: NetApp Inc, Sunnyvale CA      Role: Technical Architect & Technical Leader              

It is an embedded software product of a leading storage domain giant that scans all the physical and virtual IT infrastructure of organization worldwide and generates a report for tech support team describing the exact root cause and fault of the component and its location as well. This software is basically a bunch of APIs which will further be used by Organization’s Development team to create different products.

 

Environment: Java6, ApacheCLI, JAXB, XJC, Rhino, nSANity Data Collection Engine, Eclipse, Drools, XPath, XML, XSD, VTDGen XML parser etc.

Responsibilities:

·               Actively contributed in Requirement Gathering for the proposed product and analyzed the requirements and feasibility.

·               Prepared document sets related to requirements, enhancements, functional & technical specifications.

·               Engineered the Design & Architecture of the proposed product and also contributed as a solution designer throughout the project development.

·               Designed HLD & LLD including various technical artifacts like Architecture diagram, class diagram, sequence diagram, use-case diagram, and component diagram.

·               Hands on development of various key components and framework of the project.

·               Designed and Developed framework API of the project that included Exception Handling, Logging, Property file management, XML & XSD validation, common utilities for conversion of XML to Java Objects & vice versa using JAXB API.

·               Implemented reflection for dynamic class loading & instantiation of objects using XJC compiler.

·               Developed the command line interface using ApacheCLI.

·               Developed Rule Engine using drools rule language (DRL).

·               Implemented streaming & parsing of large volume XMLs using VTDGen parser API.

·               Implemented validation layer to execute embedded JavaScript in java using Rhino JS engine.

·               Coordinated with QA team for smoke, system, regression, performance & load testing to ascertain quality.

·               Contributed in project coordination & communication in On-site-Offshore model.

·               Planning task assignments, deployment & delivery.

 

John Deere Dealer Path Portal       Duration: Sep 2012 – Jan 2013

Client: Deere & Company, Moline, IL       Role: Tech Lead & Senior Developer

It is a Corporate Portal that manages Dealers information of John Deere USA (an International Agro-Manufacturing organization).

 

Environment: Java6, J2EE, Spring, IBM Websphere Portal Server 8.0, Portal SDK & Portlet services, IBM DB2, Jython, IBM RAD 8, HTML, CSS, Client’s framework DSFJ etc.

Responsibilities:

·               Proposed & implemented various innovative technical solutions like implementing Portlet service to ensure loose coupling amongst components etc. which were highly appreciated by Client.

·               Developed (coding & integration) & implemented features against requirements.

·               Implemented the John Deere’s framework DSFJ in Portal specification (Earlier DSFJ could not support portal specs).

·               Developed the site template of the web-portal in IBM portal CMS and developed/deployed portlets for the same.

·               Solely responsible to review the code and design implemented by other developers.

·               Played role of Build & Release manager for the project.

·               Coordinated with QA team for smoke, system, regression, performance & load testing to ascertain quality.

·               Contributed in project coordination & communication in On-site-Offshore model.

·               Planning task assignments, deployment & delivery.

 

John Deere Customer Information ManagementDuration: Jul 2012 – Nov 2012

Client: Deere & Company, Moline, ILRole: Senior Developer

Global Information Management Portal of John Deere USA (an International Agro-Manufacturing organization) that provides organizational level and product information to all of its customers.

 

Environment: Java/J2EE, spring, Java Restful Services, Jython, Velocity Search Service Integration, IBM Websphere Portal Server 6.1, IBM RAD 7.5 etc.

Responsibilities:

·               Participated in requirement gathering and analysis process for the project.

·               Implemented full text, binary & pattern matching searches using Velocity search engine.

·               Developed RESTful services and its client.

·               Implemented the John Deere’s framework DSFJ in Portal specification (Earlier DSFJ could not support portal specs).

·               Developed the site template of the web-portal in IBM portal CMS and developed/deployed portlets for the same.

·               Solely responsible to review the code and design implemented by other developers.

·               Played role of Build & Release manager for the project.

·               Performed unit testing to ensure quality.

 

John Deere Order PlanDuration: Jul 2012 – Jan 2013

Client: Deere & Company, Moline, ILRole: Senior Developer

Enterprise level Order and inventory management Solution for the smooth execution of global manufacturing business of John Deere USA (an International Agro-Manufacturing organization).

 

Environment: DSFJ, Java Restful Services, spring, JPA, IBMDB2, Deere i18n API, Jython IBM Websphere Application Server 7.0, IBM RAD 7.5 etc.

Responsibilities:

·               Participated in requirement gathering and analysis process for the project.

·               Major contribution in the design & implementation of SOA layer of the project using REST concept.

·               Developed MVC layer in the project using Spring MVC & Core.

·                 Implemented internationalization (i18n) for the entire project.

·               Implemented DAO layer using JPA ORM tool.

·               Assisted the build & release manager of the project.

·               Performed unit testing & coordinated with QA team to ensure quality.

 

John Deere RACF Group Mod Tool Duration: Jun 2011-Nov 2011

Client: Deere & Company, Moline, ILRole: Software Engineer

John Deere’s Siteminder Single Sign on, Security, authentication and User Random Access Control Facility Management Tool.

 

Environment: ZOS, Mainframe TSO Service, EJPM, Python, Jython, Java, JCL, IBM DB2, PHP, Mainframe Environment, XAMPP Server, SiteMinder RSA security.

Responsibilities:

·               Developed (coding & integration) & implemented features against requirements.

·               Implemented the code layer to consume Mainframe TSO service using Java, John Deere’s EJPM & Python in ZOS Linux environment.

·               Integrated & configured third party API (Siteminder) to support single sign-on functionality.

·               Designed & implemented the front-end UI layer using JSP & PHP.

·               Performed build & deployment using JCL scripts.

 

John Deere Quality and Production SystemsDuration: Apr 2011-Nov 2011

Client: Deere & Company, Moline, ILRole: Software Engineer

It’s an enterprise level quality and certification authorization solution for the quality assurance of John Deere’s global business products.

 

Environment: EJPM 2.x, SOAP Services, JMS, spring, hibernate, Jython, IBMDB2, Quartz API, IBM Websphere Application Server 6.1, IBM RAD 7.0, Adobe Flex 3.x etc.

Responsibilities:

·               Developed (coding & integration) & implemented new proposed features & enhancements in application including server side components using EJPM.

·               Designed & implemented UI layer using Adobe Flex.

·               Implemented & integrated Spring and Hibernate layers.

·               Implemented SOAP services and JMS middle-ware messaging framework.

·               Implemented batch job scheduler using Quartz API.

·               Performed Unit Testing and Deployment & maintenance of the application.

 

John Deere Management Reporting SystemDuration: Dec 2010 - Mar 2011

Client: Deere & Company, Moline, ILRole: Software Engineer

Executive Management Reporting System of John Deere, which produces many informative reports, data visualization and drill-down views to the executive line of business.

 

Environment: EJPM 1.x, Java SOAP Services, spring, hibernate, JMS, Jython, IBM DB2, IBM Websphere Application Server 6.1, and IBM RAD7

Responsibilities:

·               Developed (coding & integration) & implemented new proposed features & enhancements in application including server side components using EJPM.

·               Designed & implemented UI layer using JSP & JSTL.

·               Implemented & integrated Spring and Hibernate layers.

·               Implemented SOAP services and JMS middle-ware messaging framework.

·               Performed Unit Testing and Deployment & maintenance of the application.

 

John Deere Parts Retails Inventory Solution Management Duration: Aug 2010 - Nov 2010

Client: Deere & Company, Moline, ILRole: Software Engineer

It’s an enterprise level Parts Retail Inventory Management solution for the smooth & automatic execution of John Deere’s global business, where these operations support the parts assembly units.

 

Environment: EJPM 2.x, SOAP Services, JMS, spring, SQLJ, IBMDB2, JQuery, Jython, IBM Websphere Application Server 7.0, IBM RAD 7.5 etc.

Responsibilities:

·               Developed 3 of the 5 core modules in the application including server side components using EJPM & Java.

·               Developed message notification framework via push and pull using JMS middle-ware architecture.

·               Implemented SOAP services and also implemented object to XML and vice versa conversion using JAXB API.

·               Integrated RDBMS & java using SQLJ API.

·               Performed JUnit & Sanity Testing and Build & deployment of the application.

 

Distributed Service Manager (Java-RMI Server)Duration: Dec 2009 - Jun 2010

Client: A diamond manufacturing industryRole: Software Engineer

The application is based on Client Server Technologies and have been developed using RMI Guidelines. Some Servers are related to managing automated machines while some Servers are related to Information Processing of various departments etc.

 

Environment: Java, RMI, JDBC, Swings, HTML, JS, Toad Suit, Netbeans, MS SQL, Altova UModel.

Responsibilities:

·               Developed java server side components, viz. RMI stubs, skeletons and business layer.

·               Developed Object Request Broker framework using RMI.

·               Developed communication framework for alerts / notifications.

·               Developed desktop GUI clients using Swing API.

·               Performed JUnit & Sanity Testing.

 

Debaters & Creditors Accounting SystemDuration: Jul 2009 - Nov 2009

Client: A diamond manufacturing industryRole: Software Engineer

Debaters & Creditors Accounting System is an online accounting portal. The major benefits of this System are improved coordination across functional departments and Increased Efficiency of doing business. This software attempts to integrate business processes across departments into a single accounting system.

 

Environment: Java, Struts, JSP, JSTL, Toad Suit, Netbeans, Tomcat, MSSQL Server, Altova UModel, IReport etc.

Responsibilities:

·               Implemented UI layer using JSP & JSTL.

·               Implemented & configured Struts framework.

·               Implemented Action Classes, form-beans and related configuration using Struts.

·               Implemented report generation using IReport to generate PDF, WORD & Excel documents.

·               Developed email functionality for the project and also, performed Sanity Testing.

 

ERP for Manufacturing IndustryDuration: April 2008 - Jan 2009

Client: A diamond manufacturing industryRole: Software Engineer

ERP implementation of a Diamond merchandising firm utilizes various ERP software applications for resource planning, management control and operational control. It consist of multiple software modules for product planning, Parts purchasing, inventory control and product distribution, to order tracking.

 

Environment: HTML, JSP, Servlet, Java Beans, JS/CSS, Eclipse, Tomcat, MSSQL Server etc.

Responsibilities:

·               Implemented UI layer using JSP, CSS & JS.

·               Implemented a custom MVC using JSP, Servlet & java beans.

·               Performed Unit & Sanity Testing.

 

Qualifications:

·               Master of Computer Application (MCA) from India.

·               Bachelor of Science in Information Technology (B.Sc. IT) from India.