Rahul Saxena

Over 26+ years of hands-on IT experience working with domestic and international clients both onsite and offshore. Wide experience in all stages of SDLC - Pre-Project, Project Execution, Project Closure and Post-Project Support. <br/>Worked for corporate clients in India and countries like U.S, U.K, Australia, Saudi Arabia, Adu Dhabi, Dubai, Lebnon, Pakistan, Mauritius, New Zealand, Sri Lanka and South-East Asia (Thailand, Singapore, Indonesia) <br/>With more than 15 years of providing training to IT professionals as Oracle University Accredited Instructor and otherwise, and have trained IT professionals, both in India and abroad in key technical areas. <br/>Previously in various roles, as Head-Professional Services/Program Manager, involved in leading a team of IT and functional professionals managing, mentoring, design, architect, developing, testing, deployment of cross-platform applications. <br/>Attending story-board sessions, reviewing BRDs, developing Proof-of-Concepts, giving presentations to the stakeholders, preparing required technical design documents, <br/>Mentored and led a developer team, introducing Agile, Scrum, behavior-driven design, and test-driven development methodologies into the workspace. <br/>Architected and designed a new client-side web application for an American clothing online retailer in collaboration with UX designers and API engineers. Rolled out both a new Neo4j-based front-end and back-end to its website, enabling it to deal with growing consumer traffic. Designed documents and created a catalogue of the products using MongoDB. Groomed developers to work with MongoDB and Neo4J. <br/>Vast experience in working with projects involving Java, J2EE, Oracle ADF, Oracle SOA, Oracle Fusion Middleware, WebLogic, IBM WebSphere, JBoss, Tomcat and frameworks/technologies like XML, HTML 5, Hibernate, Spring, TopLink, Struts, JSF, AngularJS etc. <br/>Extended, customized and implemented cloud-based CRMs (Oracle CRMonDemand, SalesForce) for clients in U.K and U.S. <br/>Designed and groomed resources for full-stack software features for a marketing platform using Java technologies and MongoDB. <br/>Wide Experience in projects involving integration of ERPs like PeopleSoft 8/9, Oracle Apps 11i/12i, Cloud based CRMs (Salesforce, Oracle CRM) and legacy systems using technologies like Files, Web Services, EBS XML Gateway, Oracle SOA, IBM Cast Iron, Jitterbit , JMS etc.