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TAPAN AVASTHI

Technical Profile - Portal Consultant/Manager/Lead/Trainer
TAPAN AVASTHI

Summary

  • Certified Scrum Master with 13+ years of Experience core IT experiences in design & development of enterprise applications using Liferay Portal, Alfresco CMS.
  • Over 8 years of Project leading experience covering complete SDLC using Agile and SCRUM methodology.
  • Flexible enough to work in an environment where teams are distributed or executing the project single-handed.
  • Develop and Provide strong leadership and effective interdepartmental communication to effectively meet or exceed all project timelines and budgetary goals.
  • Serve as a liaison between operations and information technology (IT) to identify and drive the implementation of solutions and resolve issues surrounding the complex deployment of international platforms.
  • Consistently implement programs that result in substantial cost savings while improving and modernizing technology infrastructure to better serve customer needs.
  • Provide hands-on project management and served as a key member of the technology strategy team specializing in framework architecture.
  • Define business process, application, and technology requirements for multiple applications across all business units.
  • Facilitate communications and negotiate with team members to build alignment between business and technology groups.
    Understand core business processes and identified technologies to support and enhance operations.
  • Detail-oriented team player with strong organizational skills. Ability to handle multiple projects simultaneously with a high degree of accuracy.
  • Organized and dependable candidate successful at managing multiple priorities with a positive attitude. Willingness to take on added responsibilities to meet team goals.
  • Generated project plans and ensured that strict timelines and budgetary goals were successfully met. Developed short- and long-term strategies to address client needs and unique market requirements.
  • Led a cross functional team of 20+ members, managing career development, training initiatives and mentoring toward advancement. Coordinated with product managers and development teams to implement new features and product extensions.
  • Willingness to take on added responsibilities to meet team goals.

Overview

13
years of professional experience
3
years of post-secondary education
1
Certificate
3
Languages

Work History

Pseudocode
Remote

Technical Project Manager
02.2023 - 08.2023

Job overview

  • Developed project plans and managed project scope using methodologies to guide projects from conceptualization to implementation and maintenance.
  • Served as technical liaison, supporting engineering, management, procurement, sales and marketing, quality assurance and supply base.
  • Partnered with project team members to identify and quickly address problems.
  • Collaborated with business users, technical teams, database administrators and testing teams during kickoff meetings, joint application designing, and planning sessions to validate requirements.
  • Lead the Liferay Team and mentor the developers.
  • Client Communication
  • Best fit solution discussion with Liferay Architect.

Datamatics Global Service Pvt. Ltd.
Remote

Project Manager
03.2022 - 10.2022

Job overview

  • Met project deadlines without sacrificing build quality or workplace safety.
  • Developed and initiated projects, managed costs, and monitored performance.
  • Achieved project deadlines by coordinating with contractors to manage performance.
  • Planned, designed, and scheduled phases for large projects.
  • Handling OpenText LSQM Project for Sun Pharma client.
  • Daily Scrum Practice
  • Client Communication and Requirement Gathering
  • Spring Planning, Retrospective, Product Backlog preparation
  • Project Demo to the Director Panel of Sun Pharma

PIF CO

Liferay Technical Lead
07.2021 - 02.2022

Job overview

  • Responsibilities:
  • Document Team Impediments when reported and make sure they are addressed as soon as possible Coach product owner on writing user stories and assigning business value to them
  • Track how team is getting close to the sprint goals and guide discussions around adjustments to the team's committed plan
  • Facilitate Sprint Planning sessions
  • Document team definition of done and review best practices with the team ensuring criteria such as change tracking, automated acceptance and regression tests, revision control, code reviews and technical best practices are adhered to
  • Work with the team to formulate a plan for demos prior to meeting time
  • Create an agenda for Sprint Review/ Demo Meetings
  • Facilitate Stakeholder Question and Answer session
  • Team Management
  • Code review
  • Actively Involvement with Customers and Product Owner
  • Code quality enhancement
  • Defects Fixing
  • Technical Documentation in Regional Language, N/A due to NDA)
  • Type
  • Managed time efficiently in order to complete all tasks within deadlines.
  • Skilled at working independently and collaboratively in a team environment.
  • Identified issues, analyzed information and provided solutions to problems.
  • Excellent communication skills, both verbal and written.

PA SIDH
Remote

Sr. Liferay Portal Consultant
07.2021 - 02.2022

Job overview

  • Responsibilities:
  • Schedule/facilitate sprint planning meeting(s) prior to the beginning of each spring using RTC Agile Tool
  • Facilitate Story estimation and help with detailed tasks creation
  • Worked with product owners and SCRUM teams to groom stories in advance of each sprint
  • Help the SCRUM team finalize Sprint Backlog during planning and communicate committed stories for the upcoming sprint to the Release Train Engineer or Senior Management and other stakeholders
  • Ensure that team vacations and holidays are reflected in available capacity/velocity and appropriate production and other support requirements are considered while determining the actual Sprint load
  • Schedule and facilitate daily stand up meetings
  • Represent the team at the Scrum of Scrums (SoS) meeting to report progress a
  • If deviating from the ideal burn down then communicate team's plan/commitment to get back to the line Report impediments for escalation, identify and share risks/concerns for review at program level
  • Facilitate retrospective meetings at the end of each sprint - ensure highest priority retrospective points are followed up on and closed out
  • Technical Documentation
  • Running manual test while communicating findings to technical and non-technical colleagues
  • Met with system users to understand the scope of the projects
  • Migration Projects, N/A due to T&C

National Board of Medical Examiners, USA
Remote

Liferay Migration Consultant

Job overview

Synopsis 1: Migration from Liferay 6.0 to Liferay 6.2

The National Board of Medical Examiners is a United States operation which sets state recognized
examinations for medical students. The NBME creates self-assessment exams for the programs. This portal was already built on Liferay 6.0 and upgraded in Liferay 6.2 platform.

Synopsis 2: Migration from Liferay 6.1 to Liferay 7.2

Worked as Liferay Developer in NDA (Client Name) Employee Portal project.

It involved development of the Employee Portal system using Liferay. The portal system is

Migrate from Liferay 6.1 to Liferay 7.2 with new and user friendly features as well as with new and advance theme. The site developed will be responsive on supporting hand-hold devices (Mobile and Tab).

Responsibilities:

Synopsis 1

○ Migration of database from Liferay 6.0 to Liferay 6.2

○ Analyzing the complexities in migration of the EXT module.

○ Provide daily updates to the customer on the call on behalf of the entire team.

○ Environment setup for 6.2 and deployment

○ Finalizing the rollout strategy with minimal downtime.

Synopsis 2

○ Migration of database from Liferay 6.1 to Liferay 7.2

○ Migration of portlet and hook from liferay 6.1 to liferay 7.2.

○ Developing custom JSR 286 Portlets, Hooks and Workflows.

○ Preparing unit test cases and executing them.

○ Defects Fixing

Oceaneering Employee Portal - Datamatics Global Pvt. Ltd
Remote

Sr. Liferay Portal Consultant

Job overview

Synopsis:

Worked as Senior Liferay Developer in the employee portal of Oceaneering international.

The Portal will serve as a single platform to perform all the day to day work related to an employee.

The site developed will be responsive to supporting hand-hold devices (Mobile and Tab).

Responsibilities:

● Monitoring the development team.

● Creating portlets - JSR 168, JSR 286, and Spring Portlet.

● Monitoring the Liferay server.

● Code review.

● Code quality enhancement.

● Developing custom SpringMVC Portlets, Hooks and Workflows.

● Preparing unit test cases and executing them.

● Defects Fixing

● Scrum Sprint Planning

Technical Documentation

Oceaneering Customer Portal - Datamatics Global Pvt. Ltd
Remote

Sr. Liferay Portal Consultant

Job overview

Synopsis:

It is an in-house portal. The Portal will serve as mediator between Oceaneering and its client, where clients (customers) can view all their business related deals with Oceaneering international. The site developed will be responsive to supporting hand-hold devices (Mobile and Tab).

Responsibilities:

● Monitoring the development team.

● Creating Portlets - JSR 168, JSR 286, and Spring Portlet.

● Monitoring the Liferay server.

● Code review.

● Code quality enhancement.

● Developing custom SpringMVC Portlets, Hooks and Workflows.

● Preparing unit test cases and executing them.

● Defects Fixing

● Scrum Sprint Planning

● Technical Documentation

Crest Business Solution - KL, Malaysia

Portal Consultant
07.2014 - 02.2016

Job overview

  • Demonstrated creativity and resourcefulness through the development of innovative solutions.
  • Applied effective time management techniques to meet tight deadlines.
  • Developed strong communication and organizational skills through working on group projects.
  • Resolved problems, improved operations and provided exceptional service.
  • Making Liferay portal as front end for mobile application through web service of making digital comics products (i.e. comics, animation, pictures etc.).
  • Making Liferay portal as front end for mobile application through web service of making digital novel products.
  • Documentation and Scrum Sprint Planning
  • Custom Portlet Development
  • Portal Customization

ST Engineering - Singapore
Remote

Liferay Developer

Job overview

  • Applied effective time management techniques to meet tight deadlines.
  • Gained extensive knowledge in data entry, analysis and reporting.
  • Demonstrated respect, friendliness and willingness to help wherever needed.
  • Acted as a team leader in group projects, delegating tasks and providing feedback.
  • Building Liferay Portlet for portal themes with dynamic functionalities, Liferay theme development and Liferay clustering. Along with I developed varies faces Portlet for better UI/UX.
  • Scrum Sprint Planning
  • Types of Portlets Creation

○ Employee Registration Portlet (JSR 168)

○ Fusion Portlet (JSF)

○ News and Event Portlet (JSF)

○ Employee Notes Portlet (JSF)

○ Employee Success Stories Portlet (JSF)

○ Employee Subscription Portlet (JSF)

○ Employee Search Portlet (JSR 168)

Zee Tv
Ahmedabad

Alfresco Drupal CMIS Integration

Job overview

This project involved to integrate Alfresco with Drupal as front end through CMIS 1.1

Responsibilities:

● Design documentation

● Coding (HTML, CSS, XML (RSS, Atom), JavaScript,SQL)

● Testing

Attune Infocom
Ahmedabad

Liferay - Alfresco Developer | Trainer
01.2010 - 03.2014

Job overview

  • Design and development of the application interface according to customer specification.
  • Involved in the Design, Coding and Implementation of the web application.
  • Involved in design documentation.
  • Social Media Integration with Liferay
  • Liferay Administration - Load Balancing, Clustering, DB Clustering, CI/CD Implementation

Education

DCSA
Bhavnagar

MCA from Java
01.2006 - 06.2009

University Overview

Skills

Strategic planning

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Certification

Certified Scrum Master

Interests

Digital Transformation for Leaders

AI Foundations

Technical Sales

Wanted to be AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner and Architect

CSPO

Meditation

Would like to Build AI tools called Nirvana for Humanity

TAPAN AVASTHITechnical Profile - Portal Consultant/Manager/Lead/Trainer