Anand Athavale

Past

• Team Lead/Lead Developer at Hunt & Gather
• Web Application Developer at WEGO Health
• Principal Web Developer at PTC

• Web Developer at Family Education Network
• Freelance Web Developer (Self-employed)
• Software Engineer at BrickSimple LLC
• Developer/Analyst at University of Pennsylvania Medical School
• Senior Systems Analyst at Merck & Co., Inc.
• Senior Systems Analyst at Merck & Co., Inc.
• Systems Analyst at Merck & Co., Inc.

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Education

• Drexel University
• Temple University
• Fergusson College

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Anand Athavale’s Summary

Senior Developer/Analyst with over ten years experience in web programming, systems analysis, and database design and development. A resourceful, enterprising, team player whose major strengths include excellent programming, troubleshooting, analytical and communication skills. Ability to quickly learn new topics and technologies, with a proven record of accomplishment.

Anand Athavale’s Specialties:

PHP, Ruby on Rails, HTML, CSS, Javascript, DHTML, Ajax, SEO, RSS, XML, Java, Perl, MySQL, Postgresql and Oracle.

Anand Athavale’s Experience

• Team Lead/Lead Developer

  Hunt & Gather

  (Privately Held; Online Media industry)

  April 2008 — December 2008 (9 months)

• Web Application Developer

  WEGO Health

  (Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Health, Wellness and Fitness industry)

  January 2008 — March 2008 (3 months)

  * Web application development in Ruby on Rails
  * HTML, JavaScript, CSS, XML, AJAX, web services
  * Expression Engine, PHP, Python/Plone/Zope
  * source control (SVN)
  * Eclipse IDE

• Principal Web Developer

  PTC

  (Public Company; 1001-5000 employees; PMTC; Computer Software industry)

  December 2006 — January 2008 (1 year 2 months)

  • Defines standards, best practices and processes for PTC.com and internal PTC Web sites and portals.
  • Demonstrates creativity and knowledge of many coding languages
  • Presents concepts and prototypes to senior-level Management and Vice Presidents
  • Mentors and/or manages junior Web Developers in deadline-pressed efforts and projects.
  • Provides information, advice, guidance, and suggestions to the employee to enable them to be more successful.
  • Demonstrates deep understanding of database-driven content management systems and the pitfalls of working within their templates
  • Creates and defines user interfaces, storyboards, and Web applications
  • Creates functional architecture and guides development based on assessments of audience and platform
  • Assists in the design and deployment of Web sites and applications using the latest usability standards, browser compliance and standards.
  • Performs user interface design work
  • Conducts human factors studies as needed

• Web Developer

  Family Education Network

  (Public Company; 5001-10,000 employees; Online Media industry)

  June 2006 — November 2006 (6 months)

  Web Development
  • SEO Project: Using Google Sitemaps and other SEO tools helped increase website traffic by an estimated 29%.
  • RSS: Creating RSS feeds (along with associated backend db and code) to deliver relevant articles to consumers.
  • Using GIS information and AJAX to develop a tool to help website visitors measure distances between two places of interest

• Freelance Web Developer

  Self-employed

  (Self-Employed; Myself Only; Internet industry)

  January 2004 — May 2006 (2 years 5 months)

  Freelance web programming projects.
  •www.afsc.org – did all PHP coding and also was involved in some database design/modifications.
  •www.naima.org – converted a print catalog to a dynamic searchable site using PHP/MySQL. This is still in development but the prototype is available at the link provided.
  •Kvaerner Phillyshipyard – developed an intranet equipment inventory application in PHP/MySQL. Converted from an existing Access database. I completely revamped the data model using relational principles.

• Software Engineer

  BrickSimple LLC

  (Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Information Technology and Services industry)

  July 2005 — April 2006 (10 months)

  Java Internet/Intranet client server development.

• Developer/Analyst

  University of Pennsylvania Medical School

  (Educational Institution; Higher Education industry)

  November 2004 — July 2005 (9 months)

  Develop, implement and maintain web-based application systems for the School of Medicine Information Services Group. Troubleshoot issues with existing or developed systems, and work with the appropriate resources to resolve them. We use a highly developed object-oriented PHP framework for web development. Oracle 9i backend, Apache webserver, CVS and mixed Windows, Mac, Unix and Linux environment.

• Senior Systems Analyst

  Merck & Co., Inc.

  (Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; mrk; Pharmaceuticals industry)

  July 2001 — January 2004 (2 years 7 months)

  •Web development. Consisted of designing/updating web interface/tools that the scientists used for their day to day bioinformatics work.
  •The following programming/scripting languages: HTML, Javascript, CSS, XML, PHP, JSP, SQL and Perl. Also some basic knowledge of JAVA.
  •The following DBMS systems: Oracle and mySQL. Along with TOAD and SQL Navigator.
  •The following environments: Linux, UNIX (various flavors), Win XP and Win NT.
  •We had just started implementing CVS so I have a basic understanding of the system (since I was partly responsible for the implementation) but no real experience working with it yet.
  •This job also involved training and support to the Merck research community for the various tools, databases and analysis packages for which our department was responsible.

• Senior Systems Analyst

  Merck & Co., Inc.

  (Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; mrk; Pharmaceuticals industry)

  January 2000 — July 2001 (1 year 7 months)

  Responsible for migrating an assay database from an old VAX system to a new object-oriented Oracle database, which provided access support to the research scientists once the migration was completed.
  •Migrated over five million records from a VAX-based database to a modern Oracle DBMS system, which allowed the research scientists to uniformly upload and retrieve data quickly and efficiently.
  •Provided project support to research groups. Created ISIS RAFs (remote access files) that allowed the scientists to retrieve project-specific data.
  •Promoted from Systems Analyst to Senior Systems Analyst.

• Systems Analyst

  Merck & Co., Inc.

  (Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; mrk; Pharmaceuticals industry)

  January 1996 — December 1999 (4 years)

  Responsible for first and second-level deskside support for a research population of over 1800, as member of the deskside support team.
  •Hired full-time from contracted consultant position.
  •Recommended hardware and software to scientists based on technical specifications.
  •Provided deskside support to the research population in an efficient, professional and friendly manner.
  •Voted “best deskside support person” by the user population.

Anand Athavale’s Education

• Drexel University

  N/A , Computer Science Coursework , September 1998 — August 2000

  Courses Completed: Intro. to Programming I & II, Linear Algebra, Discrete Mathematics, Data Structures

• Temple University

  BA , Psychology, Biology , January 1989 — June 1991

  Graduated Cum Laude with Psychology major and Biology minor.

• Fergusson College

  BSc , Zoology , June 1985 — May 1988

  Activities and Societies:

  Drama Society, Cricket Club, Soccer Club

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