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Niladri Sekhar De

+91-8686-57-4121 Tasavoor.khan@gmail.com

Executive Profile
Niladri, a Sun-certified Java Enterprise Architect, and an IIT Kharagpur graduate, has more than 15 years of experience in architecting, designing, and leading development of IT solutions, mostly focused around JavaEE and web. His wealth of experience comes from working with both big corporations like Oracle, IBM, PricewaterhouseCoopers, and small companies like Core Objects, and Westbase. He has dealt with big clients like ExxonMobil, CIBC, Sky, Raytheon, and also founded and worked in start-up companies like TripVerde.com and Dhishum.com. He not only possesses significant experience as an employee, but also as an employer and entrepreneur, gathered when he founded his start-ups. Presently, Niladri is working as a development manager in Oracle, where he is managing development of project management applications.

Employment / Venture Details


Oracle, Hyderabad, India - Development Manager - Nov10 to Present Dhishum.com, Kolkata, India - Owner and Founder - July09 to Oct10 TripVerde.com, Austin, USA - Founding Partner - July08 to Jun09 Core Objects, Pune, India - Engineering Manager - Nov06 to May07 Westbase Technology, Pune, India - Technical Manager - Aug05 to Sep06 IBM Global Services, Kolkata, India - Consultant (Adv.) - Oct02 to Jul05 (contd) PricewaterhouseCoopers, Kolkata, India - Consultant - Feb97 to Sep02 Duet Technologies, Noida, India - AMTS Trainee - Jul96 to Jan97

Education
Bachelor of Technology from Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Kharagpur,

India, Instrumentation Engineering (Electrical Engineering Department), 1992 to 1996

Professional Certification
Sun Certified Java 2 Enterprise Architect (SCEA) Sun Certified Java 2 Programmer (SCJP)

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Niladri Sekhar De
+91-8686-57-4121 Tasavoor.khan@gmail.com

Relevant Experience
Project Plan Management Application Development
Development Manager @ Oracle, Hyderabad India Nov'10 - Present

Being part of Primavera Business Unit (PGBU), Niladri is managing development of project plan management application for Projects vertical in Fusion Applications. He is also managing the sustenance effort for the integration gateway between Fusion Project Financials and Primavera P6.

Responsibilities and Tasks

All management tasks for the development work, including estimation, planning, monitoring and control, execution, and reporting Shared effort for functional and technical design Working on performance analysis and optimization of different flows of the application
Technology Stack Java, J2EE, ADF and Fusion Middleware, Weblogic, JDeveloper, Eclipse, Ant, Oracle DB, XML, Linux July'09 Oct10

Android / J2ME Mobile Apps and Website Development


Owner @ Dhishum.com Softwares, Kolkata India

As the sole proprietor of Dhishum.com Softwares, Niladri was engaged in design, development, and maintenance of Dhishum.com website, and design and development of Android and J2ME-based mobile apps, based on his own ideas.

Responsibilities and Tasks


Conceptualization, design, and development of all the Android apps Developing equivalent of some of the Android apps in J2ME, and in Java applet Website design, development, including CMS (Drupal) integration, and search engine optimization (SEO) Administration of development environment, domain, domain server, and Drupal
Technology Stack Java, J2ME, Android, Java Applet, Antenna, Ant, ProGuard Obfuscator, Eclipse, Drupal, MySQL, PHP, Linux

Rideshare Service for TripVerde.com, USA


Founding Partner @ TripVerde.com Inc., Austin TX USA / Bangalore Kolkata India July'08 - June'09

TripVerde.com Inc., an Austin TX head-quartered internet startup company, founded by Niladri and a few of his former colleagues and their friends in USA, offered ridesharing service, where customers' rideshare requests were matched by proprietary ridematching algorithm, charging commission on the savings made by ridesharing partners. Offering was later extended to matching cab rides to / from airport, through AirportShareACab.com.

Responsibilities and Tasks


Architect, design, and co-develop the rideshare ride-matching solution Website design, development, integration with business-tier, paypal Administration of development environment, application server, and domain
JSP, Struts, JSF, Hibernate, JBoss, Maven, Ant, PostgreSQL, GMap API, Paypal integration, Eclipse, Linux

Technology Stack

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Niladri Sekhar De
+91-8686-57-4121 Tasavoor.khan@gmail.com

Dynamic Content Engine for Jacked.com, USA


Engineering Manager @ Core Objects Pvt. Ltd., Pune India Nov'06 - May'07

For Jacked.com, an internet startup company, a dynamic content engine was developed, to "push" various types of relevant content dynamically, through to user's browser, in real time, in synch with the TV channel content, which the user is probably also viewing. Initially the service "synched" different live US basketball games, and "pushed" game and player stats to the users' browser.

Responsibilities and Tasks

Functional requirement management, including breaking down for iterative delivery Project management, and management of technical scope
Technology Stack JSP, JSF, OpenLaszlo, JBoss, JGroups, PostgreSQL, SVN, Ant, Eclipse, Linux

Education MIS Softwares for SEEMIS, UK


Technical Manager @ Westbase Technology, Pune India Aug'05 - Sep'06

Westbase Technology made a suite of education-related MIS softwares, to help SEEMIS, the apex body controlling all the government funded educational activities of the various educational councils in Scotland. Click-N-Go, ASN, EMA, CSP, and ScotXEd are just a few examples.

Responsibilities and Tasks


Technical architecture and design of the new and ongoing projects Management of all projects from the Indian delivery center in Pune, including functional requirements management, gap analysis, technical scope management, resource management, and delivery management
JSP, Struts, Tiles, Java Swing, Spring, EJB2, Hibernate, JBoss, MS-SQL, CVS, Eclipse, Linux April'04 - July'05

Technology Stack

Chordiant CRM Solution for CPCT, CIBC, Canada


Consultant @ IBM, Toronto Canada / Kolkata India

CIBC's Card Products and Card Technology Division (CPCT) employed IBM Canada to implement Chordiant package-based CRM solution, in which IBM India was the technology implementation partner. In addition to inbound call and outbound campaign management, requirement was also to integrate the plastic card issue / re-issue process.

Responsibilities and Tasks


Technical architecture and design of the new and ongoing projects Management of all projects from the Indian delivery center in Pune, including functional requirements management, gap analysis, technical scope management, resource management, and delivery management
Rational Suite (Rose, Requisite-Pro, ClearCase, CleaQuest), JSP, Servlet, EJB2, WebLogic, Web Service, JMS, SOAP, MQ-Series, Oracle, Eclipse, and Chordiant

Technology Stack

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Niladri Sekhar De
+91-8686-57-4121 Tasavoor.khan@gmail.com

Chordiant CRM Solution for BSkyB, UK


Consultant @ IBM, Edinburgh Scotland UK / Kolkata India Jan'03 - March'04

British Sky Broadcasting (BSkyB) UK, employed IBM UK to implement Chordiant package-based CRM solution, in which IBM India was the technology implementation partner. The CRM system was also to integrate with existing systems like Field Management System (FSM), which tracks dish installation activities, Billing System, and Pay-Per-View ordering system.

Responsibilities and Tasks

Design, data modeling, and co-development of Order and Billing use cases, including web-based orders As part of the architecture and design team, took part in design and data model refinements, and performance tuning of the overall application
Technology Stack Java Swing, JSP, Rational Rose, JSP, EJB2, WebSphere, JMS, SOAP, MQ-Series, Oracle, IBM Visual Age IDE, and Chordiant Jan'02 - Jan'03

Tax Advisors' Web Portal eAdvisor for TLS PwC, USA


Consultant @ PwC, Kolkata India

The portal website was to allow the Tax and Legal Services (TLS) advisors of PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC) USA, to advise their clients more effectively, by maintaining repositories of advices, and client queries, indexed by various categories, and to allow further automation of the query-advice process.

Responsibilities and Tasks


Design and co-develop UI, and EJB middle tier, integrate Documentum Design and development of special JSP UI for automating batch upload and other data administration tasks
JSP, Epicentric Foundation Server, XML / XSLT, Documentum, EJB2, WebLogic, Toad, Oracle

Technology Stack

iTap eLearning Solution for ExxonMobil, Japan


Project Lead, Technical Architect @ PwC, Philadelphia USA / Kolkata India Dec'00 - Dec'01

iTap was a custom Java Swing application, which allowed authors to create interactive eLearning content without any programming knowledge. It stored the content as pure XML, and then also allowed batch-processing of these into a full-blown interactive website. The website design was also an input to the batch process, allowing for completely pluggable look-n-feel. iTap enabled ExxonMobil Japan to convert a huge cache of existing English eLearning content into fully interactive Japanese eLearning website.

Responsibilities and Tasks


Innovate, conceptualize, and architect the complete solution Prototype, and win the project through international bidding Manage developmental activities spread across Philadelphia USA, Kolkata India, and Tokyo Japan Coordinate with client content authors while onsite in Tokyo, and manage final delivery
Technology Stack Java Swing, Java Applet, HTML, JavaScript, XML / XSLT

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Niladri Sekhar De
+91-8686-57-4121 Tasavoor.khan@gmail.com

Web eLearning Solutions for Agilent, Covisint, Raytheon, JCPenney


Project Lead, Technical Architect @ PwC, Philadelphia USA / Kolkata India Jan'00 - Dec'00

Individualized web-based interactive eLearning solutions were developed for various corporate clients in USA like, Agilent, Covisint, Raytheon, JCPenney etc. The solutions also included student progress tracking, and associated reporting. Some clients also required integration to other standards-compliant (AICC or SCORM) learning systems like Saba and Docent.

Responsibilities and Tasks


Design and manage development of eLearning authoring tool in Visual Basic Design and develop web framework for the eLearning courseware Design and develop student progress tracking and reporting mechanism Integrate with other learning management systems (LMS) Manage graphics and other web media development for the courseware
Java Applet, Java Swing, Visual Basic, Flash ActionScript, Saba, Docent, HTML, JavaScript

Technology Stack

Web-conversion of CD-ROM based Training Materials, for Oracle USA


Project Lead, Technical Architect @ PwC, Philadelphia USA / Kolkata India Jan'99 - Dec'99

More than 20 CD-ROM based interactive training courses (CBT) on Oracle Financials, created in proprietary software Authorware, were to be batch-converted into web-based eLearning materials (WBT), keeping all the content, and interactivity intact. This was achieved by creating a Visual Basic based batch-conversion engine, and the webenabled courseware runtime engine. Both had to be flexible enough to accommodate the existing variations in different courseware.

Responsibilities and Tasks


Study all existing courseware for scope analysis of features to be supported Design, and develop the DHTML and Applet based web-engine Design and manage development of VB-based batch conversion engine Manage graphics and other web media development for the courseware Technology Stack Java Applet, Visual Basic, Authorware, dBaseIII, HTML, JavaScript

Contact Information
Name Email URL Niladri Sekhar De tasavoor.khan@gmail.com Phone Address +91-8686-57-4121 (Mobile) +91-9830-47-49-43 (Alt. Mobile) Flat 401, Sai Shakti Anjali Aptt Camelot, Masjid Banda, Kondapur Hyderabad, AP, 500 080

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