Bio

I currently serve as an Application Developer within Rutgers University's OIT - Enterprise Systems and Service, working on myRutgers portal project. myRutgers is an enterprise portal based on uPortal framework with single-sign services offered through CAS, serving about 60,000 users across three Rutgers campuses. I have extensive experience in all phases of software development life-cycle; requirements gathering, prototyping, development, user-interface design, release management, process development, documentation, communications, strategic planning and production supports. Other areas of expertise include JVM performance tuning and debugging skills.

I was primary responsible for enhancing performance the modified version of UBC Webmail channel, implementing new features and channels. In a collaborative project between Rutgers, Sun and Unicon in 2006, I'd done performance benchmarking myRutgers portal on Solaris 10 platforms to evaluate the Sun X4200 and T2000 performance against the baseline of its Solaris 8 platform on V240 systems. My involvement with Jasig started while leading the upgrading effort of myRutgers portal from uPoral 2.5.3 to 3.0.4 version, which has been rolled out into production in June 2009. I have had the opportunity to involve in all aspects of this project as myRutgers portal's project lead, key developer, and mentor for new team members. My responsibilities involve re-implementing local modifications that will help reducing overhead for project maintenance and future framework upgrades; streamline building and deployment process; handling data migration; fixing issues in uPortal framework as well as in browser compatibility aspects; production roll-out planning, execution and migration supports. My near term focus is looking for ways to improve the management and delivery of content in the portal with latest client-side web technologies.

Prior to working at Rutgers, I had 5.5 years experience working at Telcordia Technologies, a global provider of fixed, mobile, and broadband communications software and services, as a performance QA and developer on various projects: IGCS Announcement Server, IGCS Feature Server and ISCP Session Initiation Protocol (SIP) Servlet Container. I developed various core utilities for these components such as the error logging, tracing, performance auditing, event monitoring and billing service. I was responsible for software application support which encompasses build, development and test environment along with installing and administering the software and IP phones. I participated on teams involved in cross product solutions and interfaces to other products, participated in the review of requirements, product test planning and execution, provided customer supports.and training classes.

Platform Statement

Jasig has achieved many successes with building a community of software practitioners in higher education, promoting best practices, and building open-source software designed by and filling the needs of higher education. Rutgers is proud to be a member of the Jasig community since the early stage and I have always been a supporter and user of open-source software personally. My involvement with Jasig is a privilege. I look forward to the opportunity to learn from others and to share my experience with the community, helping withoverseeing the process of incubating new projects that will ensure Jasig community continuing growth and success as a platform for users in higher education.