Niladri Sekhar De
+91-8686-57-4121
niladrisde@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
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Oracle, Hyderabad, India - Development Manager - Nov’10 to Present
Dhishum.com, Kolkata, India - Owner and Founder - July’09 to Oct’10
TripVerde.com, Austin, USA - Founding Partner - July’08 to Jun’09
Core Objects, Pune, India - Engineering Manager - Nov’06 to May’07
Westbase Technology, Pune, India - Technical Manager - Aug’05 to Sep’06
IBM Global Services, Kolkata, India - Consultant (Adv.) - Oct’02 to Jul’05 (cont’d)
PricewaterhouseCoopers, Kolkata, India - Consultant - Feb’97 to Sep’02
Duet Technologies, Noida, India - AMTS Trainee - Jul’96 to Jan’97
Education
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Bachelor of Technology from Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Kharagpur, India,
Instrumentation Engineering (Electrical Engineering Department), 1992 to 1996
Professional Certification
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Sun Certified Java 2 Enterprise Architect (SCEA)
Sun Certified Java 2 Programmer (SCJP)
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Niladri Sekhar De
+91-8686-57-4121
niladrisde@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
Java, J2EE, ADF and Fusion Middleware, Weblogic, JDeveloper, Eclipse,
Technology Stack
Ant, Oracle DB, XML, Linux
Android / J2ME Mobile Apps and Website Development
Owner @ Dhishum.com Softwares, Kolkata India
July'09 – Oct’10
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
Java, J2ME, Android, Java Applet, Antenna, Ant, ProGuard Obfuscator,
Technology Stack
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,
Technology Stack
Paypal integration, Eclipse, Linux
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Niladri Sekhar De
+91-8686-57-4121
niladrisde@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
JSP, JSF, OpenLaszlo, JBoss, JGroups, PostgreSQL, SVN, Ant, Eclipse,
Technology Stack
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
Technology Stack
JSP, Struts, Tiles, Java Swing, Spring, EJB2, Hibernate, JBoss, MS-SQL,
CVS, Eclipse, Linux
Chordiant CRM Solution for CPCT, CIBC, Canada
Consultant @ IBM, Toronto Canada / Kolkata India
April'04 - July'05
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
Technology Stack
Rational Suite (Rose, Requisite-Pro, ClearCase, CleaQuest), JSP,
Servlet, EJB2, WebLogic, Web Service, JMS, SOAP, MQ-Series, Oracle,
Eclipse, and Chordiant
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Niladri Sekhar De
+91-8686-57-4121
niladrisde@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
Tax Advisors' Web Portal eAdvisor for TLS PwC, USA
Consultant @ PwC, Kolkata India
Jan'02 - Jan'03
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
Technology Stack
JSP, Epicentric Foundation Server, XML / XSLT, Documentum, EJB2,
WebLogic, Toad, Oracle
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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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
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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
Technology Stack
Java Applet, Java Swing, Visual Basic, Flash ActionScript, Saba, Docent,
HTML, JavaScript
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
Niladri Sekhar De
niladrisde@gmail.com
Phone
URL
http://www.dhishum.com/contact
Address
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+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