Ravi Kumar Alagappan, PMP, MBA                                                     ravikumar.alagappan@outlook.com

Experience Overview

§    Project Management Professional (PMP), Certified through Project Management Institute.

§    Having more than Twelve years of experience in design (OOA, OOD), development, testing and documentation of Enterprise applications using Java EE technologies, with 9 years of Architect and Team Lead experience.

§    Mentoring, Tutoring and Training experience in technical and non-technical subjects.

§    Knowledge in SEI's Capability Maturity Model (CMM).

§    Experience in Tools/Technologies like  IBM IIB, WAS, MQ, WTX, Datapower, ESB/BUS

§    Java Design Patterns (Business Delegate, Session Façade, DAO, Composite, Factory etc.).

§    Extensive experience in administering, programming, deploying, configuring, fine-tuning of middle-tier Java EE Application Servers.

§    Strong in Use cases, Sequence diagrams and Class diagrams using UML and Rational Rose.

§    In-depth knowledge of PL/SQL triggers, tables, collections, functions, procedures etc.

§    Highly self-motivated and able to set effective priorities to achieve immediate & long-term goals and meet project & operational deadlines.

§    Managing and coordinating projects across technical platforms and business units.

§    Performing liaison functions between clients and project players.

§    Experience in SDLC (Waterfall, Prototype, Incremental) and Agile (Scrum, Extreme) methodologies.

 

Skills Summary
Special Skills	SOA Design & Architect, Client interaction, Knowledge Acquisition, System Design, Production Support, Java -  SAP/Mainframe Integration
Programming Languages	JAVA, SAP R/3 – ABAP/4, C, C++, Perl
Frame Work	MVC, Struts 1.1, Spring, AngularJS
Databases	Oracle 11i, SQL Server 2005/2008, DB2 5.2
Operating Systems	Sun Solaris 8, Win NT/2000/XP, Unix AIX, z/OS
IBM Tools & Technologies	WAS, WMB, MQ, MQ Explorer, WTX, IIB7/9, JCN, DataPower, MQMFT, DB2
Software/IDE	Net Beans, Eclipse, WSAD 5.1,  Jbuilder 5, IntelliJ 2.0.3
Enterprise Server Apps	WAS 8.0/8.5.5, JBoss 7.1.1, Weblogic 5.x, Iplanet
Designing S/W	Rational Rose 2000, Enterprise Architect 6.5
Content Management Tools	Report Mill 8, FileNET, Documentum 4i, EDMS 98
Testing Tools	JUnit, JTest, TestNG, Rational Robot, Selenium
Defect Tracking System	JIRA, Element, Rational Clear Case 2003, Clarify
Version Management Tool	SubVersion, Rational Clear Quest 2003, Start Team, VSS

 

Major Projects              

 

WalMart,  AR – GIP EAI 2.0                                                                                                  May 2014 to Till Date

Solution Architect

 

EAI 2.0 designed to provide Three Flow reusable SOA/ESB/BUS solution to General Integrated Process (GIP) division. Any interface can use this FLOW logic to send messages and process all its services in framework and at the end data will be send to destination system using MQ Queue or HTTP/SOAP. All the JCN, HOP Sequence, Service Sequence, Replay message, Destination Queue/Type are configurable.

 

Responsibilities:

·              Lead development of service solutions with an emphasis of IBM IIB9/WTX/DataPower technology stack.

·              Provide highest level technical leadership in developing vision, strategy, architecture and overall design for assigned domain and for solutions.

·              Own delivery of SOA for assigned projects, providing end-to-end solution and design details.

·              Provide estimates to Demand Management process, consistently meeting or exceeding estimate quality metrics.

·              Provides expertise to identify and translate system requirements into software design documentation.

·              Design, Develop, Document service reference patterns as required to meet new use cases.

·              Ensure services meet function requirements (FR) and non-functional performance characteristics (NFR).

·              Collaborate with Project Managers and technical directors to provision estimates, develop overall implementation solution plan, and serve as a lead as required.

·              Build and maintain repository for deliverable, methodologies, and service solution patterns.

·              Responsible for interacting with Architecture Review Board to ensure that architecture risk is properly classified /mitigated and enterprise opportunities for leverage common reference architectures, standards and best practices are realized.

·              Adhere to enterprise architecture strategies, principals, standards, policies and procedures.

·              Provides consultation to application owners, business partners and peer groups regarding long and short-range architecture service solutions to meet business imperatives.

·              Leads teams, technical projects or programs, and has overall leadership responsibility for project architecture and design.

·              Actively facilitates complex design and technical discussions, reconciling differing opinions and drives decision making process.

·              Recommends solutions and develop business case alternatives which anticipate the future direction of the business, its drivers and technology strategy.

·              Enable competitive advantage via effective and consistent use of technology.

·              Reviews and ensures architectural designs are consistent, maintainable, flexible, and cost effective.

·              Proactively identify reuse opportunities.

·              Articulates the tradeoffs, benefits and risks of all architecture and design solutions.

·              Understands and ensures compliance with the SDLC project management governance and IT strategy.

·              Analyzes and leads and/or advises incident management swat team activity. Diagnoses problems, determines solution options with consideration to business impact.

·              Design and Develop IIB9 Global Cache.

 

Environment : IIB9, Java1.6/1.7, WAS 8.5.5.2, JCN, WTX, MQMFT, FTE User Exits, Java Script, MDB, Eclipse, AXIS2, WSDL, JMS, SOAP, REST, JUnit, IBM MQ,  ANT1.7, DB2, Enterprise Architect 7.5, XMLSPY, SVN, Share Point, MS Visio.

 

Wells Fargo, IA - CORE                                                                                                   Dec 2010 to Apr 2014

Team Lead / Architect

 

CORE (Common Opportunities Results Experience) is a multi-platform, multi-tier Java EE application for Sales and Fulfillment Mortgage Loan System. It is designed to bring all services under one umbrella. Wells Fargo was using different system like AW, LIPS, LIS in legacy system for Business Rules, Pricing, Credit, GRA, GAIP Stipulation, Funds disbursement and other services. CORE is developed to integrate them all in one web based system. Same system is used by sales user to sell loan and also used by fulfillment users to complete loan process.

 

Responsibilities:

·              Work with Business Team to identify system/application requirements.

·              Provide estimates on work requests.  Identify the risks to the delivery of the project.

·              Create High Level, Low Level technical design documents.

·              Review Technical Design Documents, Unit Test plan and system test strategy from team and other stakeholders.

·              Participate in the agile product development using test driven development methodology.

·              Provide technical leadership and mentoring throughout the project life-cycle.

·              Help triage and fix defects.

·              Design and implement Quartz Scheduler.

 

Environment : Java1.5/1.6, WebSphere App. Server 8.0.0.7, AngularJS, AJAX, HTML5, Java Script, JSON, JQuery, JBoss7.1.1/4.0.5.GA, MDB, Spring, Hibernate, Eclipse, AXIS2, WSDL, SOAP, REST, JUnit, TestNG, GWT, JIRA, IBM MQ, JSP, XML, XMI, Hibernate 3.0, ANT1.7, Maven 3.0.5/2.2.1, Cobertura Coverage, Oracle 11i/10g, Enterprise Architect 7.5, XMLSPY, SVN, Share Point, , PlUpload, Quartz Scheduler, Jython, Selenium, LDAP, Share Point, MS Visio.

 

Principal Financial Group, IA              - Wellness                                                        August 2010 to Dec 2010

Java Designer / Sr. J2EE Consultant

 

The purpose of this Program is to build a technological platform for the Wellness business which would enable Principal Financial Group (PFG) to present its clients with a complete Wellness package. Based on the scope Wellness Business is broken down into 5 work streams (Projects) as follows: Wellness Portal, Eligibility File Management, Wellness Coaching, Wellness Assessment and Screening and Customer Relationship Management. Project is being implemented using Agile methodology.

 

Responsibilities:

·              Elaborated use cases, interface definitions and web services specifications in collaboration with Business and System Analysts and Architecture Group.

·              Designed WSDL's and elaborated type definitions schemas based on corporate standards, integration and security specifications.

·              Configured and Implemented application security services and Web Services Security - Message-Level Security

·              Developed persistence layer for the web services and integrated applications and participated in data modeling

·              Integrated existing Web Services and applications components with the newly built ones.

·              Configured continued deployment build script using maven in Hudson build server.

·              Developed ETL process for Reporting.

 

Environment : Java1.5/1.6, J2EE1.4, JAXP, JAXB, SAAJ, Web Services, WSDL, SOAP, JAX-RPC, JAX-WS, REST, Axis, Apache, Web Sphere MQ, JSP, JSF1.0, EJB, RAD 7.5, Web sphere 6.0/7.0, Web Sphere Compute Grid (Java Batch Console), Spring 2.5, Hibernate 3.0, iBatis2.3, Hudson, ANT1.7, Maven, Junit 4.5, Cobertura Coverage, Oracle 10g, DB2, Life Ray Portal, Orbeon Forms 3.8, WinSQL, Enterprise Architect 7.5, ETL, SQL Server 2008, MQ, SVN, Rational Clear Case7.0, Clear Quest, Share Point

 

State of Iowa – Legislature, IA - LINCJan 2007 to August 2010

Sr. J2EE Consultant / Architect

 

LINC system is a XML content management system designed and developed for the ACO (Administrative Code Office) and ICO (Iowa Code Office) to improve, enhance, integrate and consolidate the tools it uses to produce documents with tools used by other legislative offices. The earlier system was implemented in 1997 using various Interleaf (later changed to BroadVision) software applications. Since the system's initial installation in 1997, various hardware and software upgrades or changes have occurred on the server and client PCs in 1999, 2002 and 2005. LINC system is a N-tier architecture which integrate with other system using only XML by web service. All the quick silver word contents converted into XML. System follows certain work follow rules by the content type.

 

Responsibilities:

§    Responsible for J2EE architecture, system design.

§    Responsible for Release Management, Environment setup. (DEV, TEST, PROD).

§    Applying Enterprise Architecture Frameworks planning and conceptualizing Applications.

§    Modeling business processes through Object Oriented Analysis and Design (OOAD).

§    Created functional specification, technical design specification.

§    Performed performance analysis and provide tuning recommendations.

§    Installed and configured Subversion, version control system.

§    Designed and developed workflow, User/Role management process.

 

Environment : Enterprise Architect, JDK1.6, J2EE1.4, JBoss4.2.3/5.0.1, SVN, Eclipse Link 1.0/2.0, EJB3.0, SWING, SQL Server 2005, Enterprise Architect, JAXPRC, WSDL, SOAP, Apache - Axis, ANT, Element Tool/Red Mine, NetBeans5.5/6, XML, XPATH, XSLT/XSD, Arbortext.

 

MERCK, PA – MLS Review System Mar 2006 to Dec 2006

J2EE/JAVA Lead

 

The Medical/Legal Schedule Review System automates the review, approval process of Promotional Materials (Developed by United States Human Health - USHH division of Merck & Co, Inc. These items can consist of traditional text and graphical elements such as advertising copy, logos, branding elements, and creative materials, as well as premium items such as pens, mugs, video, etc) by Medical/Legal team. It improves efficiency of the Medical Legal review process by reducing the review duration and iterations for each promotional piece. Improve effectiveness of the Medical Legal Review by supporting remote access by Physicians from other Merck locations (e.g. Rahway) that cannot currently attend. Capture metrics to give insight into potential future process improvements. Improve overall documentation of Medical Legal Review of each promotional piece. MLSR System is fully compatible for IBM Tablet PC.

 

Responsibilities:

§    Actively participated in business requirement gathering.

§    Responsible for functional specification, technical specifications.

§    Used rational rose for creating use cases, class diagrams, activity diagrams and collaboration diagrams.

§    Implemented java beans representing models in Struts framework.

§    Designed and Developed PL/SQL stored procedures and functions.

§    Involved in Design/Development of server side components of handling the requests and responses using Java servlets.

§    Responsible for e-Mail functionality of the system using java mail API and Oracle mail capability.

·         Designed and development of the Data Access layer using JDBC classes.

 

Environment : JDK1.4.1, Eclipse3.2.0, Struts 1.1, Oracle 9i, PL/SQL, Tomcat Apache 4.0.4, Rational Clear Case 2003, Rational Clear Quest 2003, Documentum4i,  Rational Rose 2003, SQL Navigator 4.5.0,

 

Countrywide Home Loans, CA - Demand Payoff Automation Reports  Feb 2005 to Feb2006

Team Lead & J2EE Architect

 

Responsibilities:

§    Responsible for third party (Report Mill) vendor communication and tool selection.

§    Used rational rose for creating use cases, class diagrams, activity diagrams and collaboration diagrams.

§    Responsible for functional specification, technical specifications.

§    Implemented java beans representing models in Struts framework.

§    Used value object and session façade design pattern for improving the performance of the system.

§    Used struts tiles for JSP page layouts. Utilized struts validates for client side validations.

§    Developed server side functionality of handling the requests and responses using Java servlets.

§    Designed, prototyped, and implemented Java Struts and JSP front-end of web application.

§    Designed and developed AS400 connectors.

·         Involved in the design and development of the Data Access layer using JDBC classes.

§    Written Integrated Test Plan and System Test Plan.

§    Utilized VSS as a version control system and for code management.

 

Environment : J2EE 1.3, WAS 5.1, WSAD 5I, IBM A/S 400, ReportMill 8

 

Best Western International,              AZ - Web Packages                                                         July 2004 to Jan 2005

Team Lead

 

Responsibilities

·              Lead the team of On-Site/Off-Site model.

·              Lead the development of the application using Service Oriented Architecture with J2EE technologies and Struts Framework.

·              Played a key role in the development of server side functionality of handling the requests and responses using Java Servlets.

·              Responsible for the development of Action Classes, Form Beans, Dyna Form beans in Struts MVC framework. Played a key role in configuring Struts Components.

§    Created Data Access Object (DAO) which is used by the EJBs to interact with the database.

§    Responsible for the development of servlets for validating the requests.

 

Environment : J2EE 1.3, Eclipse 3/3.1, Oracle 9i, Struts, EJB, JSP, JSTL, XML/XPATH/XSD, Start Team, UML.

 

Whirlpool, MI                                                                                                                May 2003 to Jun 2004

Team Lead

Responsibilities:

§    Lead the team of On-Site/Near-Shore/Off-Site model.

§    Interface effectively with other teams, as necessary, to implement projects per schedule.

§    Communicate and work with members of other teams to maintain the availability and reliability of the systems and servers. Interaction with business client and end users.

§    System study. Business understanding. Assist in training of team members

§    Maintain and enhance existing software. Environment Setup and Deployment at Unix Servers

 

Environment : SAP R/3 ABAP/4, BAPI, RFC, BDC, ALV, Lists, Java, Java-Script, VAJ, LDAP, IBM WAS 3.5, AIX, Servlets, JSP, Oracle 8i, XML, Documentum EDMS98, Documentum 4I, Net Commerce, VB, ASP, Web stat, Web Trend, Power Builder, Clarify.

 

American President Lines (APL), CA              - CSS                                                        Dec 2001 to May 2003

JAVA/J2EE Programmer

Environment : Java, Java Script, VJ, IBM Websphere 4.0, Servlets, JSP, ASP, FileNET, Oracle8I, CICS, Web Focus Reports, Perl, ANT Build, JAM

PMI Inc.Sep 2001 to Nov 2001

Environment : Sun Solaris 8, Oracle 8I (Cluster), Weblogic Cluster, iPlanet Enterprise Server (load balanaced), Jintegra, SQL Server

 

GE, UK – e-Travel May 2000 to Aug 2001

 

Pradam Tech., Accurate, India                                          Sep 1998 to Apr 2000

Environment : Java, Apache Servlets, Oracle 7.3, D2K

Educational Qualification

Ø      Master of Business Administration (MBA).

Ø      Bachelor of Sciences.