The resume of Sugendran Ganess

The product I work on in this position is the iOS (iPhone and iPad) remote for the fetchtv set-top box. The application uses a comet system to communicate to the set-top box, some of the trickier aspects of this was ensuring that the communication would work outside the home over 3G as well as on WiFi indoors. We initial produced a prototype using sencha-touch but then elected to write in native Objective-C so that we could get as much performance as possible. My role had me doing most of the low level communications and API creation for use by the rest of the team.

As a solution architect I was responsible for the translation of business requirements into functional requirements for the development team. It was my responsibility to ensure that the various products of the company meshed well together and that the appropriate technologies were used. As well as filling the role of solution architect I was also the team leader for the Viostream product team. The Viostream platform is the video streaming and asset management offering from Viocorp. I was required to both design and develop features for this platform to suit the needs of Viocorp’s clients.

Amongst my accomplishments in this position, I filled in as team lead for the Viomedia Product team for the development of a catch-up TV solution for Malaysia’s largest broadcaster. This proved to be an incredibly difficult task as I was required to take an existing CMS and rework it to suit the catch - up TV requirements. The project was finished on time and has since changed the browsing habits for the viewers of the client.

As a .NET developer my primary job was to build and skin video portals for major banking institutions, national tourism bodies and large multinationals. I worked to tight deadlines to create an individual look and feel to each client’s video portal.

In additional to building and skinning video portals I rebuilt the interface to the core management system used for managing client media. This involved rethinking the usability of the existing system and introducing a “Web 2.0” feel to the site . In the space of three months the entire interface and workflow for clients was reinvented.

My major accomplishment was a Javascript embed framework that that supports the embedding of Adobe Flash, Windows Media and Apple Quicktime content onto a site whilst allowing the user to change between formats. The framework is completely encapsulated and does not make use of any other Javascript library. The system makes use of a degrading tag system that allows for the embed system to also be used in an AJAX environment . The end result was that clients could paste an embed code into their CMS and serve online video to their viewers regardless of platform.

I was offered the position of associate software engineer in the US office and spent a year working on various projects. I spent a significant amount of time converting old ASP applications into ASP.NET in order to better meet changing business needs. An example of this was a generic document templating system that I built using XML and Xquery to replace the existing Knowledge Base system. The document layout and submitted data was stored in XML. On rendering Xquery methods were used to select and update the information stored in SQL.

I was also part of the team that rebuilt DataBuffet.com from the ground up. Using a C# for the backend, and jQuery for the frontend, we created a responsive, robust chart and mapping tool for use with the company's data warehouse (FAME). For this project I wrote various jQuery plugins to streamline the frontend processes. On the backend various VB6, C++ and SQL pieces of code had to be rewritten. The project included creating webservices to store your own data, so that you could use the tools to chart and/or map your data against other economic data.

Possibly the toughest project I undertook was adding a coupon to the existing shopping cart system. Due to the nature of the existing system I had to graft the coupon system using only SQL. This involved building all the pieces and slowly moving them into the live system so that there wouldn't be any disruption to service. This was tricky because of the system had been written over 10 years prior. At the end of it the company ended up with a robust coupons system that allowed for everything from bundles to bulk discounts.