Need help in WCS projects?

Hey folks,

Let me know if you or your company needs any work to be done for Oracle WCS and Oracle Cloud related projects.

I have been working on WCS projects and middleware technologies from past 8 years and believe that I will be able to help you or your client to meet their goals.

I have listed down type of projects which I have worked previously and am sure that I will be able to fulfill those for you or your clients as well.

1. WCS Upgrade: Upgrade from WCS 11g (6/8) / FatWire 7.x / 12c previous release to 12c (latest) - It is already known that WCS 11g is old with no updates from Oracle and thus, upgrade to WCS 12c is necessary. One of the major challenges which any organization faces is to upgrade WCS to latest WCS 12c once the project is delivered by their vendors. It is very difficult to plan for upgrading in limited time if your team is not experienced. Furthermore, the time and costs associated with the project are unknown as it depends on various factors like infrastructure, downtime period, 3rd party integrations, resources required, knowledge of upgrade itself and experience in upgrading process. As I have already performed upgrade for clients with thousands of content, external integrations and varied infrastructure like AWS, Oracle Cloud and on-premise systems, my expertise can help your client to upgrade and stay on latest release and get regular updates from Oracle.
2. New / Re-design website: If you are looking for releasing new website or spinning off new website from existing website within WCS or full re-design of the website, then you are at right place. In past, for one of my client I have devised solution wherein client were able to spin-off 30 country websites with different domains from a single existing website within 4 weeks and on same WCS instance without any infrastructure scaling up and with same performance. It requires proper planning, code re-usability, designing correct modules, performance tuning and experience for such requirements. I have developed fully tested various utilities and tools which can help reduce time-to-go-live for your projects.
   
3. Infrastructure review / enhancements: Are you still using same old architecture to deliver website? Was your infrastructure reconsidered or improved in recent years? If not, then it is now time to review it. With deprecation of FatWire and WCS 11g, if you are planning to upgrade for WCS 12c and / or thinking to move from on-premise setup to Oracle Cloud or AWS, there it is very important to strategize your architecture and to make informed design decisions. I have helped clients in setting up infrastructure on both Oracle Cloud and AWS with same WCS licenses and with optimal costs.
4. Performance Tuning: WCS development is little tricky until one has really worked for long time with the product. It takes a while to understand and derive right solutions for different purposes. Many customers make bad decision to upscale their system to higher compute just for making their website run okay and struggle to make them performant. In fact, they end up spending too much money on infrastructure and resources for less output. Right planning for WCS design and development is very crucial to make optimal usage of WCS and deliver performant website. This is where I can help you to re-think your development strategy, improve website performance and provide standards for future developments.
5. Development / Website maintenance: If you are looking for full-time / part-time WCS developer on contract basis who can deliver various functionalities of website or just maintain the website, I am available.
   
6. Migration: WCS is not an appropriate solution for all customers but still some of them ended up having their website on WCS and now could not decide on how to migrate on another platform / CMS. There is no out-of-the-box project export functionality available which can be used as import for other enterprise or open-source CMS. In order to migrate all data from WCS to other platform, it is very important to know the underlying mechanism of how WCS works, where exactly data is stored and how to export it. This is where my expertise lies which can help you to migrate. 

My qualifications:

1. I have 8 years of experience working with Oracle WCS and middleware technologies
2. I hold Oracle WebCenter Sites certification: Oracle Certified Implementation Specialist
3. I hold many certifications on Oracle Cloud Infrastructure
4. Worked with many big and international clients with 40-100 websites implemented and managed on WCS & related technologies
5. Experienced working with clients from Europe, Asia, US and UAE

Technologies and tools which I work with:

Programming	Java, J2EE, Groovy, Node.js, CSS, HTML, JSP, JavaScript, jQuery, XML, Dojo, PHP, LATEX
Cloud	Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (Oracle Java Cloud Service (JCS), PaaS, IaaS), Amazon Web Services (AWS) (S3, CloudFront, API Gateway, EC2, WAF,Lambda), Marketing Cloud - Eloqua
CMS	Oracle WebCenter Sites (WCS), Oracle Content and Experience Cloud, Drupal, FatWire
Web Servers	Apache Http server, Oracle Http Server, Oracle Traffic Director (OTD)
Middleware	Apache Tomcat, Oracle Weblogic Server (WLS)
Database	Oracle Database, MySQL, HSQLDB
Development Tools	Eclipse, Jenkins, Maven, ANT, SVN, GitLab, Bitbucket, SQL Developer, Toad
Project Tools	Jira, Confluence, Trello, Zoho, Win@proach, Microsoft Project Server
Concepts	Object-Oriented-Programming, Unit Testing, Agile Software Development

FAQs:

Q1. How to contact?

A1. Please contact me via email: fatwire.dev@gmail.com

Q2. What are the working rates?

A2. It would depend on type of work you would ask me to do - development, website analysis, website improvement, maintanence, upgrade and migration

Q3. Availability: How many hours and days?

A3. Minimum 4 hours from Monday to Saturday. Maximum would depend on type of work.

Q4. How to evaluate work?

A4. You provide requirements, I will analyse the cost and hours required to complete the task. Once we agree, work can be started as soon as you provide me access to relevant systems.

Q5. Are you available for travelling?

A5. Yes but obviously would depend on the location because of COVID-19 situation. Accomodation, travel and expenses should be paid by you.

Q6. Current location?

A6. I am currently living in Switzerland.

Q7. How quickly would you respond?

A7. Within 24 hours. Mostly, I will provide response as soon as I see your email.

Q8. If the work can be done remotely, do you need internet and laptop / computer ?

A8. No until I have access to relevant systems, I have my own laptop and very good internet.

Q9. What about other questions which are not listed?

A9. Please feel free to ask any questions when you would email me your requirements.

I am looking forward for the challenges which you / your client are facing. Hope to hear from you soon.