Vihung Marathe

63 Llys Pentre

Broadlands

Bridgend. CF31 5DY

United Kingdom

 

T +44 7739 180 892

F +44 870 138 6993

 

vihung@marathe.net

http://www.marathe.net/vihung

 

Profile

I am an experienced technical analyst, architect, team leader and developer of web-based enterprise applications, e-commerce, and applications driving digital media and community web sites.

Industry Domains

1. Digital Media and Content Management

2. Community Sites, Portals, Blogs and Podcasts

3. Online Commerce, Marketing and Advertising

Skills

4. Liaising with Business Units and Technical Teams

5. Technical Architecture and Design

6. Analysing Technology Trends and Advising on Strategy

7. Building and Leading Teams

8. Application Development

Technical Skills

9. Core Technologies - Java (J2EE), XML and XSL (XSLT), SQL and Relational Databases, Web Services (SOAP and ReST), HTTP/HTTPS, HTML, JavaScript, CSS, XSL, XForms, WAP/WML

10. Digital Media Production, Management and Distribution - RealProducer, Apple iLife Suite, Interwoven TeamSite, Trigo, Autonomy, ATG Publisher, RealMedia, Quicktime, RSS

11. E-Commerce Technology - ATG Commerce Suite, Fredhopper, Payment Gateways

12. Application Servers and Frameworks - ATG Dynamo, IBM Websphere, Apache Tomcat, The Spring Framework, Hibernate, Jakarta Struts, Apache Axis

13. Development Tools - Eclipse, Together Control Center, Macromedia DreamWeaver, Macromedia HomeSite, XMLSpy

Experience

Lead Technical Architect, Multiple Fledgling Projects - Present

14. Currently leading development of infrastructure applications for the creation, management and publishing of content for a number of early-stage community websites comprising text, audio and video articles, blogs and podcasts.

15. Defining processes for media production and distribution.

16. Developing technical strategy for further growth

17. Using iMovie and GarageBand for content creation,

18. Using J2EE (Apache Tomcat, The Spring Framework, Hibernate and Castor) and MySQL as the database.

Senior Developer and Architect, MTV Networks Europe (London, UK) - 2005

19. Part of team involved in the full life cycle of developing and maintaining core business frameworks for content management, user profiling, authentication and authorisation, community tools

20. Migrated to Service Oriented Architecture using ReST based services

21. Used J2EE (ATG Dynamo 5.6.1 and 6.3, Apache Tomcat, The Spring Framework, Hibernate), Sybase, MySQL,

Developer and Consultant, BBC Worldwide (London, UK) - 2004-2005

22. Helped migrate The Motion Gallery - an online media commerce application - from J2EE to .NET for BBC Technology and BBC Worldwide

23. Used J2EE (ATG Dynamo 6.0) with Autonomy, Oracle and SQL Server

Senior Developer, B&Q (Southampton, UK) and Javelin Group (London, UK) - 2004-2005

24. Part of team bringing B&Q’s consumer commerce platform in-house. Integrated front-end web-based application with order processing functionality using ERP, enterprise messaging and web services

25. Used J2EE (ATG Dynamo, IBM Websphere, Apache Tomcat, The Spring Framework), Messaging (IBM Websphere MQ), XML-RPC (Apache Axis), and Oracle 9i as the database

Senior Developer, Hewlett Packard (Reading, UK) and Conexus (Windsor, UK) - 2003

26. Designed and developed an e-commerce solution for HP training courses.

27. Used J2EE (ATG Dynamo), Microsoft SQL Server, and ATG Publishing, with IBM Websphere Application Developer as the development platform

Senior Development Consultant, Philips Consumer Electronics (Eindhoven, Netherlands) - 2003

28. Re-designed and re-factored existing platform to improve reliability and to move towards a Service Oriented Architecture

29. Designed and developed online dealer locator functionality integrating with mapping and geographic service providers

30. Used J2EE (ATG Dynamo), integrated with Trigo (Content Management), Fredhopper (Product Search and Merchandising) and proprietary and in-house back end systems

Architect, Consultant and Lead Developer, Friends Provident (Salisbury, UK) and Practiv Applied Software (Guildford, UK and Auckland, New Zealand) - 2001-2003

31. Participated in full life cycle development of corporate web sites, consumer focused web sites & applications, and business-to-business commerce solutions for this Life Assurance and Pensions provider.

32. Built infrastructure for collaborative working, helped specify software & hardware requirements.

33. Helped build initial project team, participated in resource profiling and recruitment efforts

34. Gathered requirements and formulated technical strategy with various business units around the company.

35. Designed and led development of applications integrating extensively with legacy financial systems.

36. Liaised with testing team and provided support managing bug fixing and maintenance

37. Used J2EE (ATG Dynamo and HP Bluestone), Messaging (RMI, IBM MQ Series), Content Managament (Interwoven TeamSite, NetObjects Fusion), Security (Wipro WebSecure) and various proprietary or in-house legacy applications

Senior Applications Developer, Epylon Corporation - 2000-2001

38. Worked with product managers to design and develop new functionality and to enhance existing components of Epylon’s Business-to-Government and Business-to-Education marketplace site.

39. Led initiative for internationalisation and localisation with resource-based UI development

40. Used J2EE (ATG Dynamo) and Oracle (version 8).

Senior Consultant, Media3k / eScene Networks (San Francisco, USA) - 2000

41. Designed and developed core pieces of an online media commerce application - including media catalogues, user account management and profiling, and integration with payment services

42. Used J2EE (ATG Dynamo) and Oracle (version 8)

Senior Consultant, Interim Technology / Spherion (San Francisco, USA) - 1999-2000

Consulted to San Francisco- and other Bay Area- based clients including:

43. Alameda County IT Department – developed intranet applications enabling communication and collaboration between various departments in the county government

44. KiraCom: Helped enhance the data architecture for this women-oriented portal employing a pre-J2EE Java application server and template language.

Senior Developer, Spark Online (San Francisco, USA) - 1997-1999

45. Coordinated with product development to design and develop pieces of a vertical application for automating the process of managing online advertising space. Developed user contact management solutions, geographic and demographic data management components, integration with third part ad servers

46. Used Allaire JRun (pre-J2EE servlet engine) and Microsoft IIS as the application platform with XML and server-side Java, Oracle 8 and SQL Server as the databases, and HTML/JavaScript/DHTML, Java applets, ASP, and Flash/Shockwave as front-end technologies

Education

47. B.Sc. (Mathematics, Physics, Electronics), Nagpur University, India - 1994

48. Certification in C, C++, and Java

Professional

Member of professional developer's programs from leading technology vendors such as IBM, Sun Microsystems, Oracle, Netscape, ATG, BEA, Apple, Palm, Ericsson, Nokia and Microsoft.

Other Experience:

49. Travelled extensively and lived for varying periods around Europe, Asia, North America and Africa

50. Lived and worked in the UK, Netherlands, USA and India.

Citizenship:

European Union/United Kingdom (British national)