Data Conversion, Electronic Publishing : Resume CV

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Sameer Y. Kadam
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Profile Summary
- Total 10+ years Experience in ITES industry. 7+ in XSLT 1.0, XML 1.0, HTML, CSS, Data Conversion, Electronic Publishing and Production Project Engineering
- SOA WebSphere middleware appliance (IBM DataPower XI50).
- Team Player and self-starter with effective communication, motivation and organizational skills combined with attention to details and business process improvements.
- Extensively worked upon XML. Inclusive of Requirement Analysis, Design, Implementation & Testing. Used Markup Languages as formats for storage and distribution data/information, either suitable for interpretation by software programs, Information Processing, Online Rendition, Information extraction/harvesting and Printing.

Work Areas :
- Application Softwares
o Adobe Acrobat (All versions)
o Typereader Professional 5.0
o Mathtype 5.2 and Equation editor
o QuarkXpress,
o Indesign
o Frame-Maker
o Page-Maker
- Operating Systems
o Windows (2000 and XP)
o Macintosh (All versions)
- Databases
o MS-Access
- Web Technologies
o XML 1.0
o HTML 3.2 and above
o XHTML 1.0 and above
o XSLT 1.0
o XSLFO 1.0
o DTD
o SCHEMA-XSD
o IBM WebSphere SOA Appliance DataPower XI50.( MiddleWare)
o CSS
- Participated in IBM DataPower XI50 training from IBM technical work shop
- Project Technical Management and Planning
- Create Project Specifications as per Project requirement
- Scheduling & Tracking
- Manual Testing of In House Applications
- Testing (QA) of e-book formats
- Overall responsible for Technical Aspects including delivery of Project components and documentation of the project.

Work Experience :
1. Collabera Solutions Pvt.Ltd. as Sr. Engineer.
Working on IBM Projects
i. Enterprise Services Medco Healthcare solution
( www.medcohealth.com ) Duaration June 2010 to till date
Enterprise Services (Core Service Team) is development project and this has been handled in multiple phases. The project has three tier architecture; The user interface layer is handled by Xhtml and Dojo framework. Middle business layer is handled by IBM Data power tool and backend tool is Mainframe DB2 database. The first phase got successfully released in August 01 2009 and working on second phase.
Communication pattern : XML Messages (HTTP/SOAP, JMS etc)
Team size : 06
Tools and Technologies : XML, XSLT, XSD, SOAP Web services & IBM Datapower XI50, Dojo
Roles : Middleware Developer
Responsibilities :
- Project Consultation, Analysis & technical estimation
- Creating & Maintaining CMMI level 3 Quality process documents.
- Interacting with stakeholders for planning and getting the requirements done
- The Code review at regular intervals and documenting the same.
- Maintaining source files through Harvest source control tool.
- Working with different teams & technologies across the account as mentor mode

ii. Energy Australia Duration February, 2010 to June, 2010 :
The EnergyAustralia Distribution Monitoring and Control (DM&C) program intends to upgrade some 14,000 existing 11kV/415kV power distribution substations with remote monitoring and control devices. In order to support the retrieval, analysis and storage of the data obtained remotely from these distribution substations, a comprehensive Information and Communications Technology (ICT) infrastructure is required to be developed. The objective and scope of the work undertaken by this project is the investigation, research and development of the supporting ICT infrastructure that interfaces with the remote monitoring control devices.
Communication pattern : XML Messages (HTTP/SOAP, JMS etc)
Team size : 12
Tools and Technologies : Java, J2EE, Struts, XML, XSL/XSLT, XSD, Oracle 9i, IBM Websphare 5.1.2, IBM RSA
Role : XSLT Developer
Responsibilities : Developing & testing

2. Merlion Conversion Labs Pvt. Ltd. Merlion Conversion Labs is a wholly owned subsidiary of Value Chain International (VCIL), Melbourne, Australia.
Worked as Sr. Production Engineer and technical Lead. from 1.01.2004 to Feburary 2010.
Handled team of 10 people in production engineering dept.
Roles & Responsibilities :
- Conversion Inhouse XML to various ebook/electronic outputs including Docbook, customized XML, HTML, Alchemy XML, SGML, and eBook formats
- Project Evaluation.
- Simple Process flow creation for Production across the projects.
- Create Demos/Prototype/Samples for client approval.
- Create Components on basis of client requirement with XSLT.
- Conducting Training for Production Editors
- Technical Support for all Production Projects
- Testing in-house application software
- Create Process flow diagrams
- Liaison with Project Manager and Production operators
- Project Effort Estimates
- Streamline and regularize newly inducted projects.
- Ensure compliance with software development process and verify milestone criteria are completed.

3. Estel Conversion Labs Pvt. Ltd.,
From 16.01.2002 to 31.12.2003, worked as Project Lead.
Roles & Responsibilities :
- Project Requirement Analysis for Mark-ups
- Process Design and Implementation
- Testing in-house application software
- Conduct Training to Production Operators
- Maintain Daily Production Status of the project team
- Guide and provide technical support to production project team

4. Digital Publishing Solutions Pvt. Ltd. (Previously known as Versaware Technologies Pvt. Ltd.) Koregaon Park, Pune – 411001.
From 16.09.1999 to 06.01.2002, worked as Book Conversion Editor.
Job Profile :
- XML Tagging for different e-book formats
- Worked on different ebook formats like DX Reader, Open Electronic Book (OEB),Ms Reader Literature (Lit), Palm Book

5. Mascon Computer Services Pvt. Ltd, Near Old R.T.O, Pune – 411002.
From 16.04.1998 to 14.09.1999, worked as Conversion Editor.
Job Profile :
- Word Formatting
- MS Excel
- VAT entries in Database
- Optical Character Recognition (OCR) to convert tiff files into electronic spreadsheets.

Key Projects :
RittenHouse
Rittenhouse Book Distributors, Inc. provides access to products, services and information for health sciences, scientific and technical publishing.
Process : Publishers who wants to publish their books on www.r2library.com, provide XML files compliant with their own DTD. Value Chain transform input XML to RittenHouse XML. By using XSLT The validation of output XML file is done against RittenHouse DTD .
Input : XML files, DTD, Images, e-file (PDF)/Hardcopy for Reference material
Deliverables : RittenHouse XML compliant to Rittenhouse DTD.
(RittenHouse DTD is subset of DOCBOOK DTD). Uploading the XML & Online QA is performed in Production department.
Thomson Learning XML
Thomson Learning uses the TLDoc DTD for tagging content for presentation, reuse, and data management.
Process : Based on the input received evaluation is carried out & XPF form is created which is sent to Thomson Learning for Approval We use Arbortext Editor to check for parsing errors, table errors, and completeness errors. The specifications (Media file naming, Copyright Page, Bibliography, Tables, Index, Book Images) are provided by Thomson Learning.
Input : The Client in the form of e-file will supply the input. Also Full Book metadata & Split chapters Metadata will be provided as part of input.
Deliverables : TL Doc XML (tldoc DTD), Ebooks format (Microsoft Reader, MobiPocket), XML evaluation form (XPF)
The XML Project Property Form (XPF) is a document that lists all of this project-specific information. It is created during the analysis phase at the start of the XML production process and amended by the Thomson Learning and Vendor production teams as issues are encountered and special approaches adopted to handle them.

Trade & Retail Projects :
Taylor and Francis/Greenwood Publishing/Gardners Publishing/Spinifix Publishing
All above publishers publish their book in eBook formats.
Process : Publishers provides eFiles or Hardcopies of their books for which they want to create eBook formats. We at Value Chain convert those books in different eBook Formats.
Input : e-file (PDF)/Hardcopy
Deliverables : eBook Formats

HRW-Online e-learning :
- Website : www.hrw.com
- Platform : MAC, Windows XP Pro, Windows XP Home, and Windows 2000.
- Description : Holt, Rinehart and Winston, a Harcourt Classroom Education Company, is based in Austin, Texas. Holt is a recognized leader in secondary education publishing curriculum-based textbooks, support, reference materials, self examination section for practice and professional development in print, electronic, and online formats for students and teachers in grades 6 - 12.
- Work Profile : Reviewing test plans, SRS, URS. Creating & reviewing test case scenarios. Creating test cases for manual testing. Preparing Test Cases for Black Box Testing, GUI Testing. Executing test cases. Executing automated test scripts. Functionality testing, User interface testing. Regression and Automated testing using DX Launcher. Bug reporting using Bug tracker.
- Browser : Netscape 6.1, 7.0; IE 5.1, 6.0.
For above mentioned projects role of me is as Technical Lead. Some of above mentioned projects are related to E-Learning, E-Publishing.

Education :
- B.Com from symbiosis college of Arts and Commerce, 1997-98.
- Diploma In Computerized Financial Accounting (D.C.F.A), 1995-96

Personal Details :
Date of Birth March 31st 1975
Linguistic Proficiency English, Marathi, Hindi.
Leisure Moment Reading Traveling and Playing Cricket.
Marital Status Married.
Nationality Indian

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Sameer Kadam

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CURRICULUM-VITAE :
Shailender S. Rawat
E-mail address : shail.srawat AT gmail.com

Objective :
To achieve excellence by applying my knowledge, experience & skills in professional life and work for an organization with dedication which gives great career opportunities.

Experience :
I have around 13 years experience in Data Conversion field.
Detail of Experience :
M/S TechBooks International Pvt. Ltd., A-28, MCIE, Mathura Road, New Delhi, as an Operator/Programmer/Sr. Programmer since (02-02-1998 to 10-02-2009)
Presently working as an Sr. Executive in V-Prompt e-Services (p) Ltd. 75, IInd Floor 185, Sant Nagar East of Kailash New Delhi – 110065.

Responsibilities handling : In my responsibilities there are creating sample of XML/SGML/HTML/E-BOOK from text, finalization books (making files error free), EQC (Electronic Quality Checking), creating full project status, reporting to HOD etc.

Projects handled : I have handled Elsevier, Questia, T&F, Safari, University of Michigan, Cambridge University, Random House, Wiley, Blackwell Book, Blackwell Journal, Reader Digest, University of Philadelphia, Lincoln, ICLE, Prentice Hall, Nimas etc. Presently I am handling Epub-Ebook_(ADE) and Mobipocket_(KINDLE) last two yrs .
Educational Qualification
12th Pass
Computer Skills

Keying Speed : 55 WPM (English)
MS-DOS, Windows 95, 98 and 2000, MS Word, MS Excel, XMLSPY, FineReader, Photoshop, Acrobat, Epsilon editor, Coding Knowledge of SGML, XML, HTML, EPUB and MOBIPOCKET internet, working experience in various DTDs.