Arjune Mirchandani

FLEX UI Contractor/Consultant at Kodak Gallery

Greater Denver Area

Current
  • FLEX UI Contractor/Consultant at Kodak Gallery
  • President at StudioSoft
Past

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Education
  • University of Colorado
Connections
43 connections
Industry
Internet
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Arjune Mirchandani’s Summary

Senior Web Developer with 10+ years experience with Web Development technologies. Proficient in ActionScript 2.0/3.0, Flash CS4 and Adobe’s FLEX SDK, as well as Cold Fusion, Java, PHP, MySQL, Oracle, and HTML/Javascript/CSS. Additional experience in XML and software architecture. Knowledge in Object Oriented Programming (OOP) and Object Oriented Design (OOD) principles and implementation, in addition to designing and implementing MVC software architectures. Experience with the complete project development lifecycle--from obtaining business requirements, developing User Experience (UX) documentation, creating User Interface (UI) prototyping, to coding and testing. Enjoys working with people. On task, hard-working and detail orientated.

Arjune Mirchandani’s Specialties:

Adobe Flex, Flash, Cold Fusion, Photoshop, PDF Generation, Cairngorm. Java J2EE. OOP, OOD, MVC. HTML, Javascript, CSS, XML. UI, UX.

Arjune Mirchandani’s Experience

  • FLEX UI Contractor/Consultant

    Kodak Gallery

    (Public Company; EK; Internet industry)

    June 2009 — Present (7 months)

    Kodak Gallery has undergone a massive undertaking by updating their legacy suite of Flex 1.5 applications to a whole new Flex 3.0 suite of applications. The range of applications allow their users to create personalized products by integrating user's photo's with products such as coffee mugs, mouse pads, hand bags, photo books and more. Responsibilities include adding new features to every flex application available at Kodak Gallery. Personally created the Uploader Flex application.

  • President

    StudioSoft

    (Internet industry)

    September 2003 — Present (6 years 4 months)

    President and founder of StudioSoft LLC.

  • Flex UI Contractor

    Pearson Education

    (Public Company; PSO; Publishing industry)

    March 2009 — May 2009 (3 months)

    Pearson required an interactive eBook system capable of being utilized over the web or delivered on a CD-ROM. Key features of the system included an interactive application capable of managing multi-media content, as well projector-based demonstration support. Primary responsibility was the development of custom UI components which could manage video, audio, and image assets. Other responsibilities were flash-based skinning and CSS styling, Caringorm integration, and UI animation integration.

  • Flex/AIR Application Contractor

    Touchwood

    (Internet industry)

    January 2009 — March 2009 (3 months)

    Touchwood required an AIR application to accompany a Medical Terminology textbook published by Marjorie Canfield Willis. Requirements of the application were to create highly interactive and creative User Interfaces to aid students review major topics covered in the textbook. Application architecture was built with Cairngorm and HTTP Web Service to supply data. Interactions included advanced Drag-and-Drop Figure Labeling, animated interactive games, audio glossary of medical terminology, and a dynamically rendered testing and grading system.

  • Flex UI Contractor

    OppenheimerFunds

    (Privately Held; Financial Services industry)

    October 2008 — December 2008 (3 months)

    Oppenheimer required a new internal application to manage investment portfolios with a new worth of over 1 billion US dollars. The application was required to query information from their existing Java infrastructure, and merge over 20 legacy desktop applications. Primary responsibility was to architect their UI design and custom interactions. Worked with the User Experience (UX) designer to implement mock-up designs to usable prototypes. Implemented Cairngorm into application architecture. Mentored in-house developers on Flex best practices.

  • Flex UI/UX Mentor Consultant

    Business Objects / SAP

    (Internet industry)

    May 2008 — September 2008 (5 months)

    Business Object’s primary software analyzes data integrity and quality for large, multi-source datasets. My primary responsibility was to mentor a team of programmers and teach them advanced Flash/Flex language techniques and best practices. Demonstrations created include usage of ANT, Data Binding, Flash to Flex integration, Multi-SWF communication, & Web Service Integration. Also developed custom UI components and controls which manage complex lineage data structures.

  • Flex UI Contractor

    Quiznos

    (Privately Held; Restaurants industry)

    March 2008 — May 2008 (3 months)

    Quiznos has over 5,000 franchises within the US & Canada and has their headquarters located in Downtown Denver. They have recently required all franchise owners in these countries to report earning and cost estimates to Quiznos. The solution was a Flex Based Web Application called the MFRP (My Financial Reporting & Planning) Project built with Flex/Flash/ActionScript. I have overseen the development of the project and have personally implemented several key components to the system including a Real-Time error logger, the UI configuration system, Group Based Privileges as well as integrating accounting-based business logic.

  • Flash/Flex UI Developer

    Beatport

    (Privately Held; Music industry)

    October 2007 — March 2008 (6 months)

    Aided in development of several enterprise Flex applications, including their home site. Responsibilities included maintaining and adding features to their Flash and Flex based products. Also responsible for designing and implementing a modular application architecture based of Adobe’s Cairngorm MVC micro-architecture. Other responsibilities included debugging their priority back-end PHP application based off the CAKE MVC architecture.

  • Software Developer

    Array BioPharma

    (Public Company; ARRY; Pharmaceuticals industry)

    March 2003 — September 2003 (7 months)

    Responsible for the development of a chemical library software product. Product platform was a Linux machine with a large Oracle Database. PHP was used as the DB to XML converter, and HTTP was used to transport XML to the Java GUI. Challenges included optimisation of SQL query for fast searches on large data sets, and integrating a library of plotting functions.

  • Web Developer

    National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA)

    (Government Administration industry)

    July 2001 — October 2002 (1 year 4 months)

    Responsible for developing new web-based applications for NOAA's data archive. At NOAA, data had been collected for decades, and had been undergoing a continuous process of integration into their collective of relational databases. Of the data that was integrated, several groups were utilizing web-based technologies, such as ArcIMS and Geo Spatial Data to bring forth their stored data. I was in charge of developing such applications using a variety of web-based programming languages.

  • Teaching Assistant

    Uinversity of Colorado at Boulder

    (Educational Institution; Higher Education industry)

    January 2002 — April 2002 (4 months)

    Assisted Professor in teaching introductory level Computer Science to students. Learned to teach and examine students.

  • Web Developer

    Information Resource Management (IRM) at CU

    (Educational Institution; Higher Education industry)

    March 2000 — May 2001 (1 year 3 months)

    Created Web-based spreadsheets of financial data for Administrative Department of CU. Worked primarily in PERL, as well as HTML and JavaScript. Created custom SQL statements that queried an Oracle Server.

Arjune Mirchandani’s Education

  • University of Colorado

    Bachelor of Science , Computer Science , September 1997 — May 2003

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Flex, Cold Fusion, AJAX, Web 2.0, RIA

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