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Current Work

I've not yet updated my résumé. The main change is that I am now located in Bangalore, India, since February 2004. I work as a Product Development Manager, responsible for a P&L division in charge of two *nix products, one Oracle based product (VLDB), a web based product, a Windows desktop product and a subscription service.

From December 1999 to February 2004, I work as the web technologies lead (my title is Sr. Technology Architect) for a very large non-profit organization. You can download my skill sets inventory as of January 2001 in Microsoft Excel 97 format.

Things I've done in the recent past include:

1. A complete remake of the intranet site. Includes a very nice photoarchive, personally manageable albums (and you can make screen savers out of it, if you use IE), pesonal asset management etc. Framework for any future applications where a login is needed using RADIUS.
2. Newsletter management.
3. Web portal and automated newsletter for personnel changes from staff data.
4. Web services for license tracking, HTML Tidy and search (like Google service).
5. Generic survey tool builder using Oracle.
6. A Visio based tool that scientists use to chart out different threats to environment. Reports are made from the Visio diagram.
7. Configuration management using CVS for web development.
8. A remote publishing tool using Zope and Oracle 8i, which enables non-skilled users to make web sites for internet, intranet and extranet. All branding initiatives like style guide and templates are enforced and are rippled down through the subsites. Redesign time of a site with around 12000 pages came down from 1 year (and many expensive consulting firms) to 2 weeks (which was for content conversion into Oracle). Any content in the tool can be used to publish in any layout (look/feel) in an hour. It was developed in 400 man hours, when another big consulting firm quoted a little more than million dollars for something far less powerful and which needed 18 servers to run on.
9. A useful WYSIWYG editor for IE 4.0+ users, along the lines of Ektron WebEditPro .

A typical workday includes using ASP, PHP, Python, Zope, CSS, Oracle and XML. At the moment I use Python to process XML, but once time, money and other resources at work justifies investing in Java, I plan to turn to Java based XML tools, of which I think tools from IBM Alphaworks are the best available now.

Looking to hire me?

I'm an Oracle professional, experienced in application design/development using Designer/2000 and Developer/2000. I've extensive experience in Forms4.0, Pro*C and PL/SQL. I finished my engineering course in one of the top engineering colleges in India in 1993.

I've pretty good knowledge on the functional aspects of business systems like sales and distribution systems, data warehousing and project management. First hand knowledge of developing customisable systems is also one of my plus points since I've worked in applications catering to European markets.

I prefer open source software and LINUX. In general I like all flavours of UNIX. I would like working in Oracle, Unix and Intranets. My strong point is my learnability. I'm very quick at learning things.

I've been a configuration controller for almost an year and so I am very familiar with QA and QSD. Though I don't prefer taking up a QA job, I like doing that as an additional work. I've seen many a sterling effort go waste by poor organisation!

To summarize, I would like to work in application design and development using Oracle on UNIX, with as much automation on system maintenance as possible, and to let the users make use of Intranets more fruitfully. I'm very keen on web technologies, especially in making community systems on the web - like acs .