Name

Vikram Rajan

Role / Designation

Senior Member Technical Staff

Educational Qualifications

1996 - 2000

BE (Computer Science)

Thapar Institute of Engineering and Technology, Patiala

               

Years of Experience

3 years

 

Experience summary

I have worked in various capabilities from developer to team leader to project lead. In addition, each of the projects I have worked on are vastly different from each other. This has given me the ability to work on any assignment in any required capacity. I have also worked on assignments for the sales and pre-sales team. My current role as a member of Planetasia Research Center has inculcated the ability to learn technologies very quickly and also work with vague project definitions.

Skills summary

Operating System:  UNIX (Solaris), Windows (NT, 9x), Linux

Languages:  Java, C++, C#

Scripting:  JavaScript/Rhino, Tcl/Jacl

App Servers: Weblogic Server, iPlanet Application Server, WebSphere, JBoss

Component Frameworks: EJB 2.0, Java Beans

Enterprise Frameworks: J2EE, .NET

Messaging Systems: Weblogic JMS, iPlanet Message Queue, JMQ, OpenJMS, Elvin

Database:  Oracle, DB2 UDB

Integration Technologies: XML, web services, SAP-Java Connectivity, SAP-Idocs, SAP-RFC, SAP-BAPI

Directory Technologies:  LDAP, Netscape Directory Server, JNDI

Others:     Workflow technologies, design & implementation of little languages, OLAP

 

Projects Undertaken

 

Current Project:

Project: StorePerform

Client: StorePerform Inc.

Position: Offshore Team Lead/Designer/Developer

Duration: March 2003 till date

Environment / Tools: Java, WebSphere, DB2, PostGreSQL, OLAP, MS Analysis Server, SQL Server 2000, MS Reporting Server

 

Brief description: StorePerform is an intranet-based software for task management, performance monitoring and process-driven analytics for stores. Planetasia does offshore product engineering.

 

Role: Design and development of the reporting engine. Offshore team lead.

 

Earlier projects (In descending order)

 

Project #1 HomeStore Data Aggregation System

Client: HomeStore

Position: Technical Lead

Duration: November 2002 to March 2003

Environment / Tools: .NET, C#, ASP.NET, SQL Server 2000

 

Brief description: The system collects data from a number of RETS and non-RETS data sources (MLS), transforms this data into a standard XML format and stores this data into an aggregated data mart. The system then provides a powerful mechanism for delivery of content to the system subscribers. The system is live in production and working well.

 

Role: Led a team of 8 developers. Work done included design, development, problem resolution, integration, testing, configuration management, release planning and user support. The last month was spent at client-site for deployment.

 

Project #2: MetLife Real-time Eligibility POC

Client: MetLife

Position: Project Lead / Developer

Duration: September 2002 to November 2002

Environment / Tools: PeopleSoft Business Interlinks, J2EE, XML

 

Brief description: The project was a proof of concept that MetLife’s claims processing systems can be integrated with PeopleSoft HRIS to get employee eligibility information in real time

 

Role: Project Lead, Functional analyst, Architect, Developer

 

 

Project #3: Transformation Engine

Client:

Position: Developer

Duration: August 2002 to September 2002

Environment / Tools: XML, Java

 

Brief description: The Transformation Engine is a data transformation product that can be used to transform between any two structured data formats. The software is being marketed as a customizable product by Planetasia

 

Role: Designed and developed the runtime engine for transformation of structured data. Involved in building the marketing collateral around the product including presentations, approach notes etc.

 

Project #4: IRIS

Client: Internal

Position: Project Lead

Duration: July 2002 to August 2002

Environment / Tools: XML, EJB 2.0, Java Server Pages, JMS, Elvin, Rhino, JBoss 3.0, MySQL

 

Brief description: IRIS is a highly reliable distributed workflow engine guarantees delivery of workflow messages within defined SLAs. It was built as a prototype for an electronic trading system. The project was run on XP principles

 

Role: Project Lead, XP Coach, Design, Development, Testing

 

 

Project #5: ASAT Enterprise Intelligent Network

Client: ASAT Ltd, Hong Kong

Position: Technical Lead

Duration: January 2002 to July 2002

Environment / Tools: J2EE, WebSphere 4.0, IBM DB2

 

Brief description: EIN is a ground-up MRP solution built for the semiconductor packaging industry. It has modules that cover all aspects of the business. The solution is designed to keep up with the dynamics of the industry

 

Role: Design & Development of 2 modules, user interfacing, conducting user training and UATs and system tests, deployment

 

Project #6: ASAT Reports Reconciliation Project

Client: ASAT Ltd, Hong Kong

Position: Business Analyst

Duration: June 2002 to July 2002

Environment / Tools:

 

Brief description: The project was auxiliary to the EIN project. It involved understanding the existing reports generated by BPCS and doing a GAP analysis vis-ŕ-vis the reports generated by EIN.

 

Role: Get the project off the ground and provide direction and support to the ASAT MIS team to conduct the GAP analysis

 

Project #7: SAP Adapter Prototype

Client: Reliance Infocom Limited

Position: Developer

Duration: October 2001 to December 2001

Environment / Tools: XML, EJB 2.0, Java Server Pages, SAP Java Connector, JMS, Java Mail API, XSLT, Rhino, Weblogic Server

 

Brief description: The prototype extends the Reliance SAP environment to include vendors. It involves extracting documents from SAP and sending them to the vendors in a common format. The system allows the vendors to reply/acknowledge the documents. The system has a configurable workflow to orchestrate the flow of documents.

 

Role: Designed and developed the runtime engine for transformation of XML documents to SAP RFCs and vice versa. Designed and developed the Idoc to XML transformation engine. Developed the web based user interface for the prototype

 

Project #8: WOLFTM

Client:

Position: Development lead

Duration: November 1, 2000 to September 30, 2001

Environment / Tools: EJB 2.0, JSP, Servlets, XML, XSLT, JMS, Weblogic Server, iPlanet Application Server

 

Brief description: WOLFTM is a multi-process workflow engine developed to work as an embedded engine, or as a stand alone application. WOLFTM  can plug into existing organization data models and  provides seamless integration with a variety of applications. It provides interfaces for monitoring & control, administration and process design.

 

Role: Was responsible for the development of the product. My role included conceptualizing new features for the workflow engine. Designed and developed the core engine, the escalation engine, organization links, split-join functionality etc.

 

Project #9: e-indiabiz

Client: e-indiabiz.com

Position: Developer, Technical lead

Duration: 15th January 2000 - 30th October, 2000

Environment / Tools: IBM WebSphere, Domino GoServer, IBM DB2 UDB, Java Server Pages, JSPs, Solaris

 

Brief description: e-Indiabiz.com is a B2B e-commerce portal that facilitates all aspects of business related to India. The portal provides customizable storefronts for merchants, auctions and reverse auctions. It uses a custom developed back end tools to provide targetted business information and news.

Role: Defined, designed and developed the content management application, archives module. Led a team of 4 developers for developing a sister website for business associates of the client. Responsible for technical interactions with the client, installation and configuration of the portal, evaluation of third-party products and payment gateways used in the portal