Ravi Shanker Email & Phone Number

Schaumburg, Il, Us

Worked on varied projects for several different clients. The primary focus is web based applications, with some mainframe migration thrown into the mix.

Greater Chicago Area

Product manager for eCommerce application at Ford Motor Company- Coordinating teams of business users, architects and developers- Teams are split across several cities in USA, Europe and India- Complex system involving multiple integration points- Content is managed in several different CMSs including AEM and Magento- Multiple back-end systems need to be coordinated with SAP- Multiple third-party systems need to be integrated with the ReactJS front-end

Greater Chicago Area

Analysis of web content migration for Digital Realty.- Analyzed the content in an older version of Liferay- Compared TCO for migration out of Liferay into AEM, Sitecore and Drupal

Greater Chicago Area

Project manager for web presentation of services for HCSC- Managed a team of developers handling both back-end and front-end- Back-end development used Spring Boot- Front-end development used ReactJS

Raleigh-Durham, North Carolina Area

Architected several projects for Fidelity Ltd:o Provided architectural leadership for migration of web content management system from Vignette (Open Text ECM) to SDL Tridion using .NET, Spring Boot and Dockero Provided architectural guidance for migration of legacy application to Spring Boot, Angular 6, Docker, PCFo POC for migration from mainframe to open source

Greater Chicago Area

Designed and led a team for Excelon Corporation in the migration of mainframe scheduling systems to Unix

Greater New York City Area

Worked with Estee Lauder to create a web based R&D collaboration system with customized chat and search using SOLR and .NET, deployed on Azure

Greater Chicago Area

Analysis of web content management systems for Kraft-Heinz Corporation

Designing solutions across multiple applications. Integrating with cloud based solutions:- Sales Force - dynamic web pages with personalized content through marketing automation tools (Neolane and Eloqua)- social search (Baynote and Google Search Appliance)Providing strategic leadership to development team on:- Oracle stored procedures- Migration of content from older Vignette CMS to new servers- Regular expressions for Apache configuration

Schaumburg, Il

Responsible for planning our strategies: - Strategy for new servers – comparing managed hosting versus in-house hosting- Strategy for application delivery – in-house development versus out-sourcing to vendors- Strategy for higher performance: o Static files at the web server layer versus more dynamic user interactions o Stored procedures at the Oracle layer o Increased use of edge server hosting for faster deliveryWorking with the business on proofs of… Show more Responsible for planning our strategies: - Strategy for new servers – comparing managed hosting versus in-house hosting- Strategy for application delivery – in-house development versus out-sourcing to vendors- Strategy for higher performance: o Static files at the web server layer versus more dynamic user interactions o Stored procedures at the Oracle layer o Increased use of edge server hosting for faster deliveryWorking with the business on proofs of concept that may be converted to applications. Full range of web architecture from stored procedures at database layer, Java design on application server, converting JSP output to HTML for faster delivery at web layer. Show less

Responsible for. development team delivering marketing assets on the web. platform team setting up and administering the infrastructure to deliver the web experience. license discussion with vendors. estimating project duration and resource requirements. managing project financials. mentoring staff members. regular performance reviews for staff

Responsible for:- working with the business sponsors to translate their requirements to detailed designs- designing content management systems using Vignette to deliver content to the Web- work with the developers to deliver the finished product to the business

Responsible for production readiness of the workflow system. Wrote a number of scripts in Perl, Shell and Java to ease the maintenance of the system and to provide timely statistics to business sponsors.

Responsible for designing and implementing Content Management Systems at client locations. Designed back-end database schema to hold content. Wrote JSP/Java front-end to display the content in client specified formats.I started as Senior Consultant and ended as Principal Consultant. I designed content management systems for various Fortune 500 companies:- American Express (Phoenix, AZ) – Worked as BSA, gathering requirements, and project manager to deliver an internal web site for… Show more Responsible for designing and implementing Content Management Systems at client locations. Designed back-end database schema to hold content. Wrote JSP/Java front-end to display the content in client specified formats.I started as Senior Consultant and ended as Principal Consultant. I designed content management systems for various Fortune 500 companies:- American Express (Phoenix, AZ) – Worked as BSA, gathering requirements, and project manager to deliver an internal web site for American Express- Motorola (Schaumburg, IL) – Worked as lead developer in creating the marketing web sites for the various regions around the world. The system delivered content for 42 different countries.- Mercedes Benz USA (NJ) – Conducted seminars to educate the client on Web based Content Management Systems using Vignette.- State of Michigan (Lansing, MI) – Worked as BSA to gather requirements from various agencies of the State of Michigan for an intranet. Created the technical design & developed the web site.- United Airlines (Chicago, IL) – Worked on automating the transfer of data from the old site to the new site managed by the Vignette CMS (Content Management System)- Caterpillar (Peoria, IL) – Designed and developed Caterpillar’s Dealer Store Front web sites. These sites were in multiple languages and they provided Caterpillar with a consistent brand identity for all Caterpillar dealers world-wide.- Chicago Board of Trade (Chicago, IL) – Designed and developed 3 web sites for CBOT: www.cbot.com, the member intranet and the employee intranet.I primarily coded in Java/JSP during this period, with Oracle, Sybase and DB/2 databases in the back end. Show less

Worked on Y2K work for Ameritech in Chicago. Programmed in C, C++ and Perl. Established communications across the network using a Perl sender and C++ receiver.

Worked on an automated Switching Control Point using C++ and Visio for design.

Master Of Business Administration - Mba

Master Of Science - Ms

Bachelor Of Engineering - Be

Bachelor Of Science - Bs