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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
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Digital Media and Content Management
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Community Sites, Portals, Blogs and Podcasts
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Online Commerce, Marketing and Advertising
Skills
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Liaising with Business Units and Technical Teams
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Technical Architecture and Design
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Analysing Technology Trends and Advising on Strategy
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Building and Leading Teams
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Application Development
Technical Skills
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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
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Digital Media Production, Management and Distribution - RealProducer, Apple iLife Suite, Interwoven TeamSite, Trigo, Autonomy, ATG Publisher, RealMedia, Quicktime, RSS
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E-Commerce Technology - ATG Commerce Suite,
Fredhopper,
Payment Gateways
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Application Servers and Frameworks - ATG Dynamo, IBM Websphere, Apache Tomcat, The Spring Framework, Hibernate, Jakarta Struts, Apache Axis
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Development Tools - Eclipse, Together Control Center, Macromedia DreamWeaver, Macromedia HomeSite, XMLSpy
Experience
Lead Technical Architect, Multiple Fledgling Projects - Present
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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.
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Defining processes for media production and distribution.
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Developing technical strategy for further growth
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Using iMovie and GarageBand for content creation,
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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
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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
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Migrated to Service Oriented Architecture using ReST based services
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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
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Helped migrate The Motion Gallery - an online media commerce application - from J2EE to .NET for BBC Technology and BBC Worldwide
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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
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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
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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
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Designed and developed an e-commerce solution for HP training courses.
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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
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Re-designed and re-factored existing platform to improve reliability and to move towards a Service Oriented Architecture
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Designed and developed online dealer locator functionality integrating with mapping and geographic service providers
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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
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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.
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Built infrastructure for collaborative working, helped specify software & hardware requirements.
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Helped build initial project team, participated in resource profiling and recruitment efforts
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Gathered requirements and formulated technical strategy with various business units around the company.
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Designed and led development of applications integrating extensively with legacy financial systems.
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Liaised with testing team and provided support managing bug fixing and maintenance
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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
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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.
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Led initiative for internationalisation and localisation with resource-based UI development
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Used J2EE (ATG Dynamo) and Oracle (version 8).
Senior Consultant, Media3k / eScene Networks (San Francisco, USA) - 2000
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Designed and developed core pieces of an online media commerce application - including media catalogues, user account management and profiling, and integration with payment services
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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:
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Alameda County IT Department – developed intranet applications enabling communication and collaboration between various departments in the county government
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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
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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
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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
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B.Sc. (Mathematics, Physics, Electronics), Nagpur University, India - 1994
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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:
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Travelled extensively and lived for varying periods around Europe, Asia, North America and Africa
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Lived and worked in the UK, Netherlands, USA and India.
Citizenship:
European Union/United Kingdom (British national)
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