Bhaskar Bachalakura

San Francisco, CA

Cell # 425-777-5858

Email: bhaskar.raman@gmail.com  

 

 

Technical summary:             

·         Over 12 years of experience as an Enterprise Applications architect, designer, developer, WebSphere Commerce Architect, Developer, Enterprise Portal Developer, SOA Architect ,BPM Architect, Agile, SOA Developer, Integration, Testing, Performance  tuning, Securing and Administering full life-cycle of Enterprise Applications, eCommerce, Enterprise Portals, Business Intelligence and infrastructure

·         Extensive knowledge and experience in enterprise application architecture design and development using Service-Oriented Architecture principles, Agile Scrum developemt, J2EE, WebSphere, Oracle/DB2 and Legacy technologies

·         Domain experience in building mission-critical applications for Government, Finance, Banking, Retail, Insurance, Travel, Education and Health Care

·         Certified WebSphere SOA, WebSphere Integration Developer, WebSphere Commerce, Process Server, WebSphere Portal, and Application Server

·         Very strong programming experience in Java, J2EE, Servlets, JSP, EJB, Struts, Spring, XML/XSL, XPATH, XLST JavaScript, Hibernate, JPA, MQ and JMS

·         Extensive technical architecture experience with master data management, application interfaces, Data conversion, application framework, SOA and n-tier applications

·         Expertise in architect, design and implement WebSphere Commerce, WebSphere Process Server, WebSphere Integration Developer, WebSphere Business Monitor, WebSphere ESB ,Apache Service Mix, Mule ESB, IBM CastIron, Data Power, Enterprise Business Applications and Data Integrations

·         Agile Development helping developers and management negotiate Agile adoption.

·         Led a cross-brand extended architecture team with architects across business units

·         Developed Governance Guidelines and architecture for a system to allow 3rd party applications to be integrated into the IBM suite using SOA Governance methods

·         Diverse background experience ranging from technical management, designing Software using Agile, OOD/OOA methodologies and developing distributed applications using Web services and SOAP

·         Expertise in designing object oriented applications using Rational Unified Process(RUP), UML, Rational XDE

·         Business Analysis, proficient with Use Cases, requirement gathering & analysis, UML design

·         Technical lead for several large web applications defining architecture, developing coding standards and guidelines, and leading conversations between customers, management, development, test and operations.

·         Drove engagements to success with strong Customer facing skills and deep technical knowledge.

·         Provided architectural and design reviews for customers and business partners (ISVs and System Integrators).

·         Provided customer education on best practices for deployment and development WebSphere Products (Portal, Process Server, WESB, and Application Server).

·         Deployed complex integration solutions for WebSphere Portal in clustered environments.

·         Developed Struts based portlet applications in an Extreme Programming environment

·         Integrating Portal with Process Server, Lotus Connection Serer and Quickr servers

·         Experience with installing, clustering and administering RAD, WID, WebSphere Process Server, WebSphere Commerce, ESB and WebSphere Portal clustered servers

 

 

 

Technical Skills:

 

Languages:               Java, C, JavaScript, BPEL, PL/SQL, XML, HTML, WML, XSL, UML, Python and Ruby

Development Tools:               Rational Application Developer (RAD), RSA, RUP, WebSphere Integration Developer (WID), IBM Integration Designer(IID)7.5.x, Agile Scrum, CastIron Studio, Eclipse, WebSphere Portlet Factory, ANT, Subversion, ClearCase and CVS

Operating Systems:                             AIX, Linux, Solaris, HPUX, VMware, and Windows

 

Technologies/

Frameworks:               Agile, TOGAF, OAGIS, SCRUM, MVC, Waterfall, Servlets,JSP,JSF, EJB, JNDI, JSR 168, JSR286, Struts Framework, Web Services, Apex , Force, JMS, MQ, WAP, JUNIT ,Custom Tag Library, AXIS, Spring, Hibernate and JPA.

Middleware Servers:               WebSphere Application Server 7/6/5.x, WebSphere Portal 7/6/5.x,WCM 7/6/5x, WebSphere Process Server 7/6.x, WebSphere Commerce Server 7.x, WebSphere Enterprise Service Bus(WESB) 7/6.x, IBM CastIron 6.x, WebSphere Interchange Server 4.x, Data Power,Apache Tomcat 6.x and Jboss

RDBMS:                                           Oracle 11/10g, DB2 8.x & 9.x, MySql Server, and MS SQL Server

Other Tools:               Rational Team Concert Vignette, Filenet, WCM, Sub Version, CVS, Rational Clear Case, Visual Source safe, Cruise Control, Maven, ANT, JACL, Jython, Build Forge, RAFW, TOAD, Load Runner, SOAP Client, Siteminder, TIM/TAM, WebSeal, ITCAM and Crystal Reports

 

Professional certifications

 

·         IBM Certified SOA Associate

·         IBM Certified WebSphere Commerce 6

·         IBM certified WebSphere Integration Developer 6.2

·         IBM Certified WebSphere Process Server 6.2

·         IBM Certified WebSphere  Portal/WCM 6.1 Developer

·         IBM Certified WebSphere Application Server 7 Admin

 

Education

·         BS in Computer Engineering, BITS Pilani, India

 

 

Professional Experience:

 

HP, Palo Alto, CA                                                                                                              Jun 2013 to till

WebSphere Commerce Architect / Developer

·         Architect, design, document and implement B2C eCommerce site for HP products

·         Design Site Organization  and Master & Sales Catalogs

·         Conduct POC’s for WebSphere Commerce Features

·         Design and load structural, unstructured data, pricing data

·         Designing end-end order flows, integrating with Sterling OMS, Call Center using WESB

·         Implementing pricing rules engine  and solr search engine and SEO

·         Design Configurable Orders using Sterling CPQ and Visual Modeler

·         Integrating with SAP fulfilment center and Shipping & Tracking

·         Customizing WebSphere Commerce framework

·         Integrating Commerce with various backend systems using webservices with Address Doctor, Taxware, Bazaar voice, Inventory, Payment gateways, Shipment Tracking, Billing, Shipping fulfilment etc.

 

 

Environment: WebSphere Commerce 7.0.0.7, Sterling OMS 9.2.1 Sterling CPQ 9.2.1, Sterling Visual Modeler 9.2.1, WESB 8.1, Oracle 11g, IBM RAD 8.5 ,WAS 7.x, SVN, Windows and RH Linux 5.x.

 

 

Verizon, Seattle, WA                                                                                                              Dec 2012 to May 2013

WebSphere Commerce Solution Architect / Developer

·         Architect, design and develop and integrate b2b wireless commerce applications

·         Develop and Integrate Websphere Commerce with Sterling CPQ for product configuration

·         Customizing management center, control and task command BOD framework.

·         Design, develop and implement master and sales catalogs

·         Implement pricing rules engine and solr search engine

·         Develop models for dynamic-kits using Sterling Visual Modeler

·         Install and configure Sterling CPQ, and WebSphere Commerce on developer systems.

·         Customizing Sterling CPQ framework, and storefront pages

·         Implementing Solr search and SEO

·         Customizing WebSphere Commerce Storefront pages

·         Implementing Coremetrics  BI for analysis and reporting

·         Integrating Commerce with various backend systems using webservices with Address Doctor, Taxware, Order Management, Inventory, Tracking, Billing, Shipping fulfilment etc.

 

 

Environment: WebSphere Commerce 7.x, Sterling CPQ 9.2, Sterling Visual Modeler 9.2, IBM RAD 8.5 ,

WAS 7.x, SVN, Oracle 11g, Windows and AIX.

 

Costco, WA                                                                                                                                    Feb 2012 to Dec 2012

WebSphere Commerce Architect/Developer

·         Architect, Design, develop WebSphere Commerce B2B, B2C applications using WebSphere Commerce Server 7.x

·         Design, Develop and implement Master and Sales Catalog workflows for B2B and B2C store-fronts

·         Catalog Data-load customizations

·         Customize Storefront pages

·         Customize Management Center, BOD framework, Control and task commands

·         Install and Configure Sterling Foundation suite and Sterling Visual Modeler

·         Creating Dynamic-kits models using Sterling Visual Modeler

·         Implementing SEO, Solr search engine

·         Integrating commerce applications with various backend systems using WebServices.

·         Build and deploy commerce applications onto Staging and Productions env

 

 

·         Environment: WebSphere Commerce 7.x, Sterling CPQ 9.1.x IBM RAD  8.x, WebSphere Portal 7.x SVN, Oracle 11g, Scrum Rally, AIX

 

                                                                                                               

 

 

Interface Global Atlanta, GA                                                                                                                                       Apr 11 – Jan 12

WebSphere Commerce Architect/ Developer             

 

Architect, design, develop, WebSphere Commerce B2B and B2C stores, mediation modules to various backend systems

using WESB and IBM CastIron in SOA model.

 

·         Design and Develop data integration mediation flows between JDE order management system, Salesforce, Databases, .Net, WebSphere Portal, WebSphere Commerce, SAP, AS400 Legacy systems, iPpad/iPhone app ,Oracle CRM-OD, Master Product Systems, Order History, Inventory and Payment Gateway Partners using WebSphere ESB and CastIron

·         Architect and Design develop B2B eCommerce using WebSphere Commerce 7.x

·         Design and Develop and data loading  Master and Sales Catalogs

·         Install and configure Solr search engine

·         Customize B2B, B2C storefronts pages, shopping cart, commerce frame work.

·         Integrating B2B, B2C Stores with various backend systems using webservices and WESB for Order management, Billing, Shipping, Inventory and BI

 

 

·         Environment: WebSphere Commerce 7.x, WebSphere Enterprise Server 7.x, CastIron 6.x, RAD 8.x, IBM Integration Designer(IID) 7.5, Agile Scrum, SVN, AS400, Oracle CRM-OD, JDEdwards, ANT, WebSphere Commerce Server 7.x, DB2 9.x, Agile,  Windows, Redhat Enterprise Linux 5.x and VMWare

 

 

 

 

Republic Indemnity, Encino, CA                                                                                                                Jan 10 – Mar 11

BPM Architect/ Developer             

 

Architect, Design, Implementing and migrating long-running, micro flows business process, mediation flows, human task process for SOA implementation to address the business needs of RI with various business partners and Agencies

 

Responsibilities:

·         Designing, developing, implementation of micro and long running business process and mediation workflows in SOA model

·         Developing SCA modules and mediation modules, components, interfaces and exposing them as  web services

·         Integrating SCA modules applications with AS400, Messaging, Database Servers, IBM Mainframes and third party services using Web Services, JMS, CICS and JDBC, and JCA adapters

·         Securing Business processes and Web services using SOA security model

·         Handling of fault, events and error notification management

·         Deploying and Testing SCA modules to WID 6.2, WebSphere Process Server 6.2

·         Migrating WID 6.2 to WID 7 and WPS 6.2 to WPS 7 and all SCA composite applications on Dev, Staging and Production environments

·         Install and configure WSRR 7 and integrate with Process Server for SOA governance.

·         Design and implement scalable and high available solutions using Process Server Clustering

·         Implementing federated repositories for user databases

·         Implementing  WS-Security, SSO, SSL and Trust stores between BPM applications

·         Design, install, configure WPS, create profiles and WPS clusters for Dev, QA and Production environments

·         Design, create databases for WPS cluster server on DB2 9.5 database Server

·         Install Configure Business Space Manager

·         Monitoring Business Process runtime performance and improving the performance

 

 

Environment: WebSphere Process Server 6.2, WebSphere Process Server 7,  WSRR 7.x, RTC, WebSphere Integration Developer 7.x, Business Modeler 7,x, CVS, ANT, WCM, DB2 8.x/9.x, AS400, Siteminder, Web Sphere Portal 6.1, TDS, AS400, Mainframes, MQ, AIX 6.x, Redhat Enterprise 5.x and VMWare

 

 

 

 

 

Redbull, Santa Monica, CA                                                                                                                                       July 09 - Dec 09

Lead Portal Developer

 

Responsibilities:

·         Architect, Design and Develop B2B and B2C Portal/WCM solutions for various departments in Redbull and for its venders and partners

·         Develop, customize portal personalization, pages, portlets, themes, skins.

·         Develop UI framework using JSF, JSP, JSTL, Javacripts and Dojo

·         Integrate with Micro Strategy portal toolkit for BI

·         Design and Develop Lotus Conections and Quickr Applications

·         Migrating Portal Lotus Connections 2.0.1 to 2.5

·         Providing Scalability, Clustering and failover for Enterprise applications

·         Testing and deploying applications to DEV, QA and Productions environments

·         Integrating Portal, LC and Quickr applications

 

Environment: WAS 6.1, WebSphere Portal/WCM 6.1.x, WAS 6.1.x, CVS, ANT,RUP, RAD 6.x, Lotus Connections 2.5, Quickr 8.1.x, TDS, TAM and DB2

 

 

PETCO, San Diego, CA

WPS Architect/ Developer                                                                                                  Nov 08 to June 09

 

·         Developing, integrating and assisting in architecting Business micro, long running and mediation modules workflows

·         Implementing and integrating SCA components, interfaces, references and wiring them in BPEL

·         Exposing interfaces as web services, JMS, JCA and CRM and third-party external services

·         Install and Configure WSRR and Publishing Business services to WSRR for SOA governance

·         Testing, Performance tuning SCA applications in WID 6.2 test environments

·         Monitoring SCA applications with BPM and Portal dashboards for business process  performance improvement

·         Automating build process for SCA applications

·         Design WPS infrastructure for WPS

·         Install, configure, administer WPS 6.2 for Dev, QA and Production environments

·         Install and configure Business Process Monitor 6.2

·         Deploying SCA applications onto Integration, QA and Production environments

 

Environment: WebSphere Integration Developer 6.2 and Business Modeler 6.2, WSRR, Business Process monitor 6.2, WebSphere Process Server 6.2, Oracle 10g, WebSphere Portal 6.1ANT, CVS, Cruise control and AIX

 

 

ELM, Oakland, CA                                                                                                                                         Jan 08 - Oct 08

WPS Lead Developer        

 

Leading loan processing data exchange that provides real-time communications with the lenders and guarantors of users choice. Lender comparison website allows schools to display their recommended lender lists on their own custom web page for students. And Loan disbursement and returns platform that offers flexible choice including EFT, paper check.

 

Responsibilities:

·         Design and develop long running Business workflows, Human tasks using WebSphere  Process Server and ESB

·         Develop the SCA modules for loan processing business services

·         Develop and test micro and long running processes on WID 6.2

·         Integrate SCA modules/mediation modules with external Mainframes, AS400, Flat files, JMS, Database and CRM systems

·         Develop customised Portlets to business processes

·         Automate Build process for SCA applications using ANT, subversion and Maven

·         Automate WPS application deployment process using Jython and wsadmin

·         Test and Deploy SCA applications onto Process Server, ESB in QA, Stage and Production clustered environments

 

 

Environment: WPS 6.2, ESB 6.2, AIX, Oracle 10g, WebSphere Portal 6, WebSphere Application Server 6.1, WID 6.x, ANT, Maven, subversion and RTC

 

 

Ellie Mae, Dublin, CA                                                                                                                                                     June 07 – Dec 07

BPM Developer/Architect

 

Elle Mae is online enterprise software solution provider for mortgage industry by helping connecting fragmented world of mortgage bankers, mortgage brokers, credit unions, lenders and services providers

 

·         Architect and develop business flows for mortgage industry model by connecting vendors, service providers, bankers.

·         Modeling and developing micro and long running business processes and human tasks

·         Implementing WS-Security policies for business processes

·         Integrating with loosely coupled external services, CRM, Main Frames, Flat files, databases, Messaging systems

·         Designing Production infrastructure for WPS runtime environments

·         Testing and deploying business SCA applications

 

Environment: WebSphere Process Server 6.0.2, WebSphere Integration Developer 6.x, Business Process Monitor 6.x, Oracle Database 9.x, JMS, Apache and Linux and windows

 

 

 

 

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BCBS (Blue Cross & Blue Shield), Minneapolis                                                            Jan 07 – June 07

IBM WebSphere Architect/Developer

 

Architected, designed and developed Healthcare solutions BCBS using SOA based IBM WebSphre suite technologies including Portal, Enterprise Service Bus, Process Server and Application Servers

 

Responsibilities:

·         Architect, Design and develop  Internal and external portals and WCM

·         Design, Develop customized themes and skins for branding the look and feel of the portal as per client’s requirements.

·         Automating Business flows using BPEL, Process Server

·         Developing Mediation modules for ESB

·         Integrating Process Server, Portal Servers and ESB

·         Built and enhanced the existing functionalities of some legacy system into new Portal.

·         Led business analysis, preparation of BRD, SRS, and Infrastructure  Architecture Design

·         Coordinated between business users, business systems analysts and technology experts on WCM, process automation, SSO.

·         Managed customer expectations including scope, schedule, changes, and problem resolution

·         Customization and implementation of established project methodology and industry best practices

 

Environment/Tools: WebSphere Portal 6, WebSphere Process Server 6, RAD 6, RUP, WCM, Siteminder, Oracle Database, WebSphere Application Server 6.x, and WID 6.x

 

 

 

Intranet/Internet Portal (Semi.org), San Jose, CA                                                                                                Feb 06 – Nov 06

IBM WebSphere Portal Developer

 

Migrated and enhanced existing portal solution for global industry association serving manufacturing supply chains for the microelectronic, display and photovoltaic industries.

 

Responsibilities:

·         Requirement gathering and analysis

·         Documentation of the requirements, alternative solutions and recommendations

·         Changed existing code for performance improvement, and addition of new requirements.

·         Mentored client staff in developing, deploying, and maintaining the existing implementation

·         Migrated Portal staging and production environments from 5.x to 6.x

·         Performed code migration from 5.x to 6.x

·         Implemented and fine tuned VMWare for virtualization and efficient resource usage.

 

Environment/Tools: WAS 6.1, Portal 6.0, Oracle, RAD/RSA 7.0, Tivoli Access Manager, AIX, Windows, VMWare, virtualization, Java/J2EE, SOA, Win CVS.

 

 

Broadcom San Jose, CA                                                                                                                            July 05 - Jan 06

J2EE lead Developer

 

 

Responsibility:

·         Doing complete SDLC activities – Requirement Analysis, Design, development and support in various Testing phases.

·         Integration of web tier with Business tier, DB and BPEL Work flow application

·         Preparing FSD and TSD.

·         Used JSPs for dynamic representation of data on client side

·         Used AJAX to get the response from server asynchronously.

·         Used JQuery in Java script for ease of code and better performance.

·         Developing Controllers and Service classes using Spring Framework.

·         Design and development of DAOs using Spring JDBC.

·         Building and deploying the application on WAS 6.0 on various UNIX environments using BuildForge tool.

·         Doing peer code reviews, reviewing Test cases from Testing Team.CVS for source control.

·         Worked on the excel upload using JXLS & Apache POI.

 

Environment/Tools: J2EE, Java, Spring MVC, Spring JDBC, UML, Servlets, JSP, JSP Tag libraries, Free markers, WebSphere Application Server 6.1.x, Apache Tomcat 6.0, XML, Oracle 10g, Eclipse, AJAX, BPEL, Perl, JPub, JQuery, HTML, Ant, Log4j, Design Patterns, Unix, CVS, SQL, PL/SQL, XML spy, JavaScript, JXLS,Apache POI.

 

 

Retail Credit WebService (Ameriquest Mortgage Co), Anaheim, CA                                                                   Sept 04 – June 05

Portal Developer

 

Retail Credit WebService is a WebService Application which accepts the credit pull request from various applications; it then gets the supplemental information from database and sends to another application. The request is a web service request & the application generates MISMO (an XML document) & sends it to other application which in turns gets the Credit information from the various vendors like CHASE, EFX, CREDCO, and NMR. Once the credit information is received by other application they callback our application & we store the necessary information in the database

 

Responsibility:

·         Architected and developed CCS-Web-Services applications on WebSphere using SOA architecture.

·         Developed and deployed transactional stateless session and message driven (mdb) beans.

·         Used JAXP and XMLBeans to for parsing XML and converting it into java objects.

·         Develop ANT scripts to build, package and deploy web service application.

·         Develop persistence tier for communicating with Oracle database.

·         Log4J tool was used for logging purposes.

·         Performed unit and integration testing using JUnit

·         Used Spring and Hibernate extensively

·         GUI was developed in Struts

 

Environment/Tools: SOA, Java, XML, Web Service, WebSphere 6.x.,Struts 1.2 , Spring , Oracle 10g, RedHat Linux

 

 

APL Oakland, CA                                                                                                                             Feb 04 - Aug 04

IBM WebSphere Portal Developer

 

Architected, designed and developed much customized portal solution for Small and Medium Business customers to provide customized access to various resources like service manuals, customer details, coupons, discounts, etc.

 

Responsibilities:

·          Architected the SOA solution to integrate Portal with legacy applications and other Portal projects.

·         Developed customized themes and skins for branding the look and feel of the portal as per client’s requirements.

·         Coordinated between business systems analysts (BSA) and technology experts (SME) on Portal, WCM, J2EE, Web Designers, Creative Designers, etc.

·         Provided project leadership and management and communicate progress using various reports in driving toward on-time, high quality project outcomes.

·         Customization and implementation of established project methodology and industry best practices.

 

Environment/Tools: WAS 6.1, Portal 6.0, SOA, Java/J2EE, RAD, Oracle 10g, WCM, Tivoli Directory Server, Personalization, Tivoli Access Manager, Agile Scrum, Siteminder, Documentum, Domino Search, Google appliances, WebSphere Process Server, Message Broker, ESB, MQ, VMWare, Virtualization, Clustering, Load Balancing, IBM HTTP Server.

 

UBOC, Monterey Park, CA                                                                                                                                         June 02 - Jan 04

WebSphere Developer

 

Develop, testing, integration and, vignette content, deploying enterprise applications to QA, Stage and Production WebSphere environments for banking system.

 

Charles Schwab, San Francisco, CA                                                                                                                          Feb 00 - Apr 02

Middleware engineer/Developer

 

Develop, testing, integration and deploying and administer enterprise applications to QA, Stage and Production WebSphere environments

 

Satyam Computers, Bangalore, India                                                                                                                                    Nov 98 - Dec 00

Lead Java Developer

 

Develop, test, integrate and deploy Java, J2EE applications, web Applications for various clients in North America.