Tijomon Mathew

As the Lead Application Architect for IoT and new technologies at Merck's Life Science business group, I spearhead the development of a digital strategy to enhance customer engagement. My role involves creating a digital ecosystem across diverse domains, leveraging IIoT solutions, and exploring new opportunities to drive innovation.

• Deployed IIoT solution on 100,000 devices globally, integrating with eCommerce, Lab notebooks, and Service centers, resulting in a 40% reduction in engineers' travel and a 28% increase in consumables sales.
• Expanded market presence in the Middle East, East Asia, and Africa, contributing to a remarkable 27% overall revenue growth.
• Designed and developed a scalable cloud platform with microservices, Docker, and Kubernetes, implemented a data lake strategy for IIoT data, and provided innovative solutions using AR/VR, Machine Learning, and Lab virtualization while ensuring compliance with GXP standards and successful product launches.
• Implemented smart manufacturing in production sites to connect level 0 devices to cloud.

Awards

• Global Excellence

Reporting directly to the Director of Technology, I serve as the Lead Architect and primary technology owner for the Vitamin Shoppe Ecommerce application. In this role, I am responsible for developing and architecting OMNI channel behavior across all channels. My direct responsibilities encompass Commerce, Web, Content, Search, and Recommendations. I manage both onshore and offshore teams, overseeing the design, development, maintenance, and support of vitaminshoppe.com.

• Developed a new omnichannel system, leading to an 18% increase in customer engagement.
• Implemented an advanced recommendation system, resulting in a 14% increase in upsell and cross-sell.
• Led and managed a $100 million ecommerce system with a lean global team as the Technology Owner for Vitamin Shoppe's Ecommerce application.
• Designed and developed an omnichannel solution for a seamless experience across store, online, mobile, customer service, and store associates, while overseeing onshore and offshore teams for design, build, maintenance, and support of vitaminshoppe.com.

Awards

The V Difference

As a technical lead, I take on the responsibility of guiding complex project development, ensuring alignment with organizational goals and maintaining high technical standards. I provide valuable technical expertise, mentor team members, and foster collaboration for efficient and high-quality project execution. With a focus on innovation and effective problem-solving, I play a pivotal role in steering the team towards technical excellence and ensuring successful project outcomes.

• Lead a team of front end / back end developers
• Develop incremental functionalities for the vitaminshoppe.com using agile and waterfall model
• Lead the team of engineers to support the infrastructure / security

• Developing ecommerce solution architecture on Oracle Commerce platform through collaboration with business and technical teams.
• Designing comprehensive ecommerce data models on the Oracle platform, including product catalog, inventory, store, price list, checkout, and personalization.
• Creating development accelerators such as catalog, inventory, price list, and profile import, enhancing efficiency.
• Designing and implementing a microservices architecture using MongoDB and Node.js for Vitamin Shoppe, transitioning from traditional applications to API-based applications, and formulating an enterprise data caching strategy to establish a data-as-a-service environment for the entire IT team.

• Overseeing the e-commerce application on IBM WebSphere Commerce suite, supporting customer store catalogs, promotions, pricing, and online purchasing with in-store pickup.
• Managing an offshore team, gathering business requirements, and providing technical solutions.
• Providing technical leadership, developing and maintaining features, coordinating with an onsite team from Mindtree for The Home Depot.
• Leading the development of a custom Java-based framework to automate data loading and store price loading for the e-commerce site, utilizing WCS, Java, ANT, and a range of technologies including JavaScript, JMS, JDBC, XML, UML, JBoss App Server, Oracle, HTML, and Windows.

NYCO Is a leading specialty retailer of fashion oriented, moderately-priced women’s apparel company with B2C e-commerce application which runs ATG Commerce On Demand Blueprint version 2007.1 ATG

• Plan and estimate delivery tasks, participating in the entire SDLC, and understanding requirements from business analysts/users.
• Design and architect new solutions for app development, including peer reviews of code and design documents.
• Develop E-commerce applications on ATG 2007.1, specializing in personalization and Commerce Server.
• Lead the development of a multi-tenant e-commerce platform for Client Stores based on ATG 2007.1 for Wal-Mart.
• Provide technical leadership, including product backlog management, task breakdown, estimation, assignment, and responsibility for code reviews, along with facilitating customer coordination and leading the development of a custom Java-based framework for e-commerce automation.