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| Pranshu Jain
4K, W4, Fernhill Garden Apts.
HSR Layout,
Bangalore - 560034
pranshujain@hotmail.com
I am currently working with MindTree Consulting. I
have over 5 years of experence spanning three years in
Wipro Technologies, about an year at Indya.com and
about a year and a half at MindTree consulting. My
current job responsibility ( from the last two years)
is that of a Technical Architect which involves
interacting with the CEO/CIO or the project sponsorer
and comming up with recommendation of tools and
technologies to be used for the initiative. I am also
involved in pre sales work including preparing
proposals and making prospect aware of the total cost
of ownership.
My area of interest and expertise include content
management and other web technologies ( internet and
intranet). I have worked mostly for media companies (
Newspaper, internet and Television) and have also
worked on a project for a finance company ( a mutual
fund supermart) and a FMCG.
Projects
MindTree Consulting
Hindustan Times Content Management ( July 2001 till
Date)
Hindustan Times has launched an initiative to
computerise their operations, a large part of which is
a common content management system which will enable
collaboration between their over 1500 reporters spread
all over india and their editirial staff placed at 12
print locations printing about 140 editions daily and
an online site. Mindtree is delivering this common
content management system which will back-integrate
with all agency feeds and content being fed in by
field reporters and partners, collate them and give a
single view on them, enable search across them and
finally take them to respective newspapers and the
online site.
Being a technical architect of the project, my initial
responsibilites included gathering non functional
requirements ( availability, scalabilty, security,
maintainability and integration interfaces) for the
project and with the help of high level finctional
requirements, come up with appropriate tools and
technologies for the same. After the approval of the
same, I am techcal lead of the workflow / content
creation and content management part of the system (
not content delivery) leading a team of 7.
The tools and technologies being used in this project
are:
Vignette for a part of content management, iPlanet
Application Server, IBM MQ Series, Altavista Search
Engine, Oracle 8i Database and other development tools
including image libraries, charting tool etc.
MindTree Labs: Aug 2000 to June 2001
As a part of MindTree labs, I built competency in the
area of wireless technilogies ( XML/XSL based
publishing for all mobile devices , SMS, WAP and
Mobile Database) and in the area of Scalability and
Availability Architectures.
During this time, I also drew architectures for two
projects, a B2C financial content portal and a
Multilingual/ Global Mutual Fund Super Mart.
Indya.com Portal Private Limited. Aug 99 to June 2000
I was one of the first technical person to join Indya.com. My
responsibilities included from being a reality
indicator to a technical architect. I was involved in
evaluating and selecting product for content
management, search engines and commerce part of the
portal and as a technical lead, lead the
implementation of the first “Content Management”
solution in india based on OpenMarket Content Server (
Now taken over by Divine).
The site had over 25 channels and was designed to
scale to over 2 Million page view per day.
Wipro Limited
SFA implementation for NBC Sep 98 to Aug 99
I was the offshore module leader for the Siebel 98
implementation project for National Broadcasting
Company. My responsibilities included being a module
leader for a team of 6 and customizing Siebel using
Siebel Tools 4.0 and writing reports on Actuate
Developer workbench. I also wrote a batch interface
for making NBC Sales system communicate to the Siebel
SFA system.
Various maintenance projects for National Broadcasting
Company. Aug 96 to Aug 98
During this period, I was involved in maintenance of
various applications of NBC (Payroll, Sales,
Projections, Planning and Accounts payable) . Most of
these applications were on IBM Mainframe and involved
coding in COBOL / IDMS database and ADSO front end
development environment.
This project included a seven months onsite stint.
Technical Areas of competency
Web related tools and technologies ( Including
Application Servers, CRM Products, Search Engines,
Message Queues, mobile databases, etc.)
J2EE ( Delivered projects using JSP/Servlets/EJB/JMS )
Siebel 98 / Siebel Tools 4.0 / Actuate Developers
Workbench
Awareness of Microsoft technologies. (ASP, DCOM and
various microsoft products)
Achievements
National Merit Scholarship based on AISSCE marks 1992
41st Rank in National Science Talent Search
Examination 1991
Hobbies and Interests
Adventure Sports, Photography.
Education
| Exam | Board/ Univ | School/ Institute | Year | %/DGPA |
| AISSE | CBSE | St. Anthony’s public school, Faridabad. | 1990 | 70.2% |
| AISSCE | CBSE | MVN Public School Faridabad | 1992 | 88.2% |
| B.Tech Electrical (Hons) | BHU | Institure of Technology,Banaras Hindu University | 1996 | 8.82% |
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