SHANMUGAVADIVU KOOTHANAINAR

                                                                                                                   Email: shanmu18@gmail.com

                                   Cell: +91 819 730 2730 (Int’l)

 

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PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY

 

·               Highly skilled IT professional having 9 years of experience in design, development, integration, implementation and testing of software applications in Client/Server, Object Oriented and Enterprise Web based environments using tools/technologies such as Java, Servlets/JSP, Struts/iBatis/Spring/Hibernate frameworks, Java Web Services (SOAP & RESTful), JUnit, EasyMock, JDOM, Eclipse IDE, IBM RAD, Oracle/MySQL database, JBoss/Tomcat/Websphere Application Server, Apache HTTP Server Web Server.

·               6 years of J2EE Project lead experience working with Business and Technology clients (3 Years for American Express at Florida and 3 years for United Business Media at New York).

·               Extensive knowledge of building and deployment of J2EE enterprise applications using ANT and Maven.

·               Hands on experience with databases including Oracle PL/SQL, Postgres, MicrosoftSQL and MySql involving stored procedures, triggers, functions, indexes, and packages.

·               Ability to work effectively while working as a team member as well as individually.

·               Extensive trouble-shooting and tenacious problem solving skills along with excellent communication and interpersonal skills.

·               Experience in onshore-offshore model and effectively coordinating technical work with offshore by providing technical guidance on design, development, testing and production support. 

·               Experience in Agile and Waterfall methodologies.

·               Exposure to use Mainframe environment to access IMS screens, MQ setup and job details.

·               Received multiple awards and recognitions for excellent technical skills and quality project delivery from Clients.

 

TECHNICAL SKILLS

 

Skills
Programming Language	Object Oriented		Java 1.4/5/6
	Scripting		Unix Shell Scripts, Ajax
	Database		PL/SQL, Stored Procedures
	Logging		Log4j, slf4j
Database	Oracle 9/10g
	DB2, MySQL 5.x, Postgres
	IMS
Operating system	Windows, Unix, Linux
Design Patterns	JAVA	Singleton, Factory, Abstract Factory, Service Locator etc
	J2EE	DAO, Session Facade, Value Object, Business Delegate, Adapter, MVC, Proxy etc
Web Server	Apache HTTP Server
Application Server	Tomcat 4/5.x
	JBoss 4.x
	Websphere
J2EE	Web		HTML,CSS,JavaScript,AJAX,XML,XSLT,Servlet,JSP
	MVC		Struts  1.1, Spring
	ORM		iBatis 2, Hibernate 3.0
	Web Service		Java Web services, Apache CXF, Axis
	Messaging		Active MQ, IBM Websphere MQ
IDE	Eclipse, IBM RAD, NetBeans
Build and Deploy	Maven 1/2x, Ant
Version Control System	VSS, SVN
Testing Tools & Utilities	JUNIT 3/4x,  SOAP UI 2/3x, TOAD, Edit Plus, TextPad, winSCP

 

CERTIFICATIONS

·               Sun Certified Java Programmer 1.4

·               IBM Certified Solution Implementer - WebSphere DataPower SOA Appliances Firmware V3.8.1

·               Java EE 6 Web Services Developer Certified Expert

 

EDUCATION                  

·               Bachelor of Engineering  (B.E.)  in Electrical and Electronics Engineering from Government College of Technology, Coimbatore, India

 

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

 

Client	American Express Technology
Employer	Syntel Inc
Work Location	Miramar, Florida
Duration	May 2013 – Jan 2014
Role	Technical Lead / System Architect
Application/Project	GNA IMS Connect
Domain	Banking and Finance

 

IMS Connect is an integrated TCP/IP gateway for accessing IMS database residing on IBM Mainframes. As part of Mainframe Modernization initiatives, GNA IMS Connect application is designed to migrate the Legacy transactions into SOAP based web services.

 

·   Effective participation in the GNA IMS Connect Technical discussions for developing new web services as Proof of Concept.

·   Involved in the review of detailed design of the various components that make up the final application.

·   Test the web services using SOAP UI, also perform the integrations testing from Front end screens.

·   Configure and deploy the application in Linux servers.

·   Involved in optimizing the IMS connect services. Identified opportunities for fine tuning the application based on performance statistics derived from multiple load tests.

·   Monitor day-to-day activities on these projects particularly those relating concerns/issues raised by the customer.

·   Raise change management request, to deploy the changes in QA and production environment.

·   Provided suggestions to improve the coding standards, based on reference architecture and best practices.

·   Involved in technical and effort estimation for new services.

 

Environment: Java, Spring, IBM IMS Connect, SOAP UI, Web services, Linux, DB2, IMS DC Screens, IBM WebSphere 7.

 

Client	American Express Technology
Employer	Syntel Inc
Work Location	Miramar, Florida
Duration	Dec 2010 – Jan 2014
Role	Technical Lead / System Architect
Application/Project	GDHU/GNA Test Simulator
Domain	Banking and Finance

 

Global Data Handling Utility is a data integration application primarily used in Global New Accounts portfolio.  It is a Web based portal which enables easier implementation for establishing connectivity between Amex systems.  GDHU is capable of integration using SOAP Web Service, XML Service, JDBC and MQ Services. 

 

GNA Simulator is an in-house testing tool, to reduce the Testing downtime due to unavailability of interfacing systems and services. It is based on open source technologies like Java, Spring, Hibernate, PostgreSQL database.

 

·   Handled more than 25 development projects over a period of 3 years in GDHU application.

·   Design technical solutions for business requirements. Oversee Architecture Point of Departure (POD) & Point of Arrival (POA) & fine tune POA to align with business strategy.

·   Involved in the review/approval of detailed design of the various components that make up the final application and ensuring that these individual components are in-line with the broader architecture of the application.

·   Worked in Reference Architecture Uplift from 1.5 to 1.6 for GDHU.

·   Conducted Disaster recovery exercises, to be in compliance with Business Continuity plan.

·   Involved in the DC2015 server migration for GDHU with IBM and other required teams.

·   Monitor day-to-day activities on these projects particularly those relating concerns/issues raised by the customer

·   Review ongoing projects for conformance with architecture standards and provide mandatory design recommendations.

·   Provided suggestions to improve the coding standards, based on reference architecture and best practices.

·   Mentor the team on a number of engineering skills, including technical and process oriented education.

·   Involved in technical and effort estimation of Simulator and GDHU projects handled by Syntel in my portfolio.

 

Environment: Java, Spring, MQ, JDBC, , XML, XSLT, XPath, SOAP Web services, Linux, DB2, IMS DC Screens, ISPF, IBM WebSphere 6.1.

 

Client	United Business Media US, New York
Employer	Cognizant Technology Solutions
Work Location	Long Island, New York
Duration	June 2009 – March 2010
Role	Technical Lead
Application/Project	Member Data Services
Domain	Media

 

Member Data Services project is a technology initiative to develop a centralised services infrastructure that will allow data to be posted to it and capture that data in a central registration database. This system is built as a set of web services that have been developed using Apache CXF framework and relies on a back end Oracle database. It also includes technologies like Apache ActiveMQ, Struts and IBatis.

 

Roles and Responsibilities:

·   Responsibilities include discussions with various stakeholders from the client side, identifying technical objectives based on business requirements and detailing the high level architecture for that meets these objectives. 

·   Developed various HTML, JSP pages and implemented validations  using Struts framework

·   Performed Client side validations using JavaScript and Server side using the Struts Validation framework

·   Developed Business Logic Java Classes that interact with Action Classes for admin use cases in the application

·   Also involved in the review/approval of detailed design of the various components that make up the final application and ensuring that these individual components are in-line with the broader architecture of the application.

·   Monitor day-to-day activities on these projects particularly those relating to onsite offshore coordination and concerns/issues raised by the customer. 

·   Performed code reviews for the code delivered by the offshore team.

·   Design and implement test suites for data synchronization via JUnit and SoapUI.

·   Involved in optimizing and improving the performance of the existing application using Query tuning techniques.

·   Mentor the team on a number of engineering skills, including technical and process oriented education.

 

Environment: Java, Struts, iBatis, JSP/Servlet, Active MQ, Apache HTTP Server, JBoss, Oracle 10g, Java Web Services, JUnit and SOAP UI.

 

Client	United Business Media US, New York
Employer	Cognizant Technology Solutions
Work Location	Long Island, New York
Duration	December 2006 – June 2009
Role	Senior Java Programmer /Technical Lead
Application/Project	Audience Registration System
Domain	Media

 

UBM used an external vendor to host all of its print based subscription forms. This project was initiated for the migration of these print based subscription forms to an Open Source Java based platform. This includes a new administration tool to create and manage the products, forms etc. and additional reporting features to find out the leads generated out of the subscription forms. This project was developed within 6 months followed by production support and ongoing enhancements.

 

Roles and Responsibilities:

·               Implemented Struts framework components: Controller, Validator, Action Forms, Action Mappings and Action Forwards for the Presentation layer

·               Developed various HTML, JSP pages and implemented HTML, Bean and Logic Tag libraries of Struts framework

·               Performed Client side validations using Java Scripts and Server side using the Struts Validation framework

·               Developed Business Logic Java Classes that interact with Action Classes for all the use cases in the application

·               Implemented the application based on the MVC design pattern using JSP, Servlet, HTML, CSS and Java Classes

·               Involved in the review/approval of detailed design of the various components that make up the final application and ensuring that these individual components are in-line with the broader architecture of the application.

·               As onsite coordinator for these projects, monitoring day-to-day activities on these projects particularly those relating to onsite-offshore coordination and concerns/issues raised by the customer. 

·               Manage a team of software engineers; controlling bug flow, resourcing and general oversight of projects.

·               Maintain technical documentation of all applications and projects.

·               Troubleshoot issues concerning all facets of the front end from development environments to version control.

 

Environment: Java/J2EE, JSP, Servlets, JDBC, AJAX, Struts, iBatis, Eclipse, HTML, CSS, JDOM, Maven, Tomcat, UNIX, log4j, SVN, MySQL

 

Client	Dun & Bradstreet
Employer	Cognizant Technology Solutions
Work Location	Chennai, India
Duration	June 2004 – November 2006
Role	Java Programmer Analyst
Application/Project	NextGen
Domain	Information & Media

 

NextGen is a new match environment which can be accessed via existing EM06 protocol or a Web Services layer. NextGen will also be accessible through existed CFP (batch) portal. This match engine provides customer information based on the search keywords in online and batch mode. Improvements to candidate retrieval, modular approach facilitates specialized approaches for future applications Enhanced decision criteria and communication about how and why a match was performed.  There were certain functionalities which were just migrated to new countries (Netherlands, Belgium, Iberia, Luxemburg etc) other than US and Canada.

 

Roles and Responsibilities:

·               Analyze the new requirements and existing functionalities to find out the changes.

·               Developing Software Requirements and Design Specifications using Use Cases and UML Diagrams.

·               Modified the front end JSP's and business classes for java code.

·               Helped in optimizing and improving the performance of the existing application.

·               Worked on SQL queries and stored procedures.

·               Responsible for any ongoing issues and provide support to sister applications in D&B which are dependent on NextGen.

 

Environment: Java, JSP, Servlet, JavaScript, JDBC, Eclipse, HTML, CSS, log4j, Tomcat, UNIX, VSS, Oracle 9