Afsar Mohammed, Team Leader - Applications

Afsar Mohammed

Team Leader - Applications

Al Fardan Exchange LLC

Location
United Arab Emirates - Sharjah
Education
Bachelor's degree, BSc in Information Technology - BScIT
Experience
20 years, 1 month

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Total years of experience :20 years, 1 month

Team Leader - Applications at Al Fardan Exchange LLC
  • United Arab Emirates - Dubai
  • My current job since August 2010

Al Fardan Exchange is one of the oldest and most established names in the UAE remittance market, and an industry pioneer in the UAE.

Key Achievements & Responsibilities:
◆ Expanded the IT service portfolio by adding new services thus enabling the company to support fresh business ventures.
◆ Redesigned and upgraded the legacy core remittance & forex applications from Oracle Forms to Oracle APEX facilitating responsive applications that can deployed with ease.
◆ Envisioned and developed an Integrator Platform enabling the team to integrate with internal and external business solutions.
◆ Developed standards, processes, & API integration specifications to support & facilitate B2B integration projects and initiatives.
◆ Ensured smooth continuous operation of mission-critical Enterprise Application Services 24/7.
◆ Performed all the key phases of the system development lifecycle including designing, coding, testing, documenting, installing and maintaining custom applications.
◆ Coordinated with business partners to implement B2B services
◆ Control and ensure IT security policy is maintained and monitored for issues, loop holes and discrepancies.
◆ Proactively identifies issues and risks that may impact a successful project completion with mitigation plan.

Software Programmer at Sharjah Electricity and Water Authority - SEWA
  • United Arab Emirates - Sharjah
  • May 2006 to August 2010

SEWA is a government authority responsible for providing power, water, gas, & other utility services in the Emirate of Sharjah, UAE.
Key Achievements & Responsibilities:
◆ Streamlined the business workflows and increased the productivity significantly of SEWA by developing an application that manages the execution of workflows with their respective application forms & requests by interpreting the process definitions defined by the workflow participants.
◆ Designed & developed a comprehensive reporting system for the Control Engineers enabling them to maintain & review the critical status and log of different Turbines, Generators, and Desalination units at all the Power Stations of SEWA.
◆ Established service level agreements - SLA with each department and IT for current and planned functions and activities
◆ Designed & Developed applications in VB .NET & ASP .NET languages and using MS SQL Server & Oracle DB as backend for various critical projects complementing the existing ERP Systems.
◆ Installed, configured & maintained servers for deployment of applications developed.

Programmer at Al Itemad Computer Trading
  • United Arab Emirates - Sharjah
  • July 2003 to September 2005

Itemad is a computer trading company dealing with Sale and Service of Computer Hardware, Software and Networking. Key Achievements & Responsibilities:
◆ Undertook programming and web development projects for the company concerned on freelance basis.
◆ Build & Deployed my first comprehensive web project for a client, a web content management system (CMS) with membership accounts, service inquiry, event organizer, and contact manager. (www.priveclubdubai.com)
◆ Design & developed Sales & Inventory Management System (e-SaleX) for hardware traders using VB 6.0 which is successfully deployed & running at many locations.

Education

Bachelor's degree, BSc in Information Technology - BScIT
  • at Sikkim Manipal University (SMU)
  • October 2008

Passed with A Grade in all modules.

High school or equivalent, All India Senior School Certificate in Commerce (2yrs)
  • at Sharjah Indian School
  • March 2001

Proficiency certificate from Sharjah Indian School for being first in Grade XI at the final examination of the academic year 1999-2000

High school or equivalent, All India Secondary School Examination -1999 CBSE, New Delhi, India
  • at Radiant School
  • March 1999

Specialties & Skills

Analysis
API Integration
Oracle APEX
Web Services
CGI-Perl
Java Script
Cascading Style Sheets (CSS)
SQL Server
MS Visio
Oracle 11g (SQL/PLSQL)
Red Hat Linux 7
Assembling, Installing, Configuring and Troubleshooting
VB .Net
Advanced Java 2
ASP .Net
XML (DTD, XSL)
Ajax, Web Service
Oracle APEX
Crystal Reports 2010
Jasper Reports

Languages

English
Expert
Malayalam
Intermediate
Hindi
Intermediate
Arabic
Beginner

Memberships

Indian Association Sharjah
  • Member
  • April 2011

Training and Certifications

Microsoft Certified Application Developer (MCAD) (Certificate)
Date Attended:
July 2005
Ecommerce (Web Designing, Development and Securities) (Training)
Training Institute:
Interman Training Institute
Date Attended:
September 2001
Certificate in Oracle with Developer 2000 (Training)
Training Institute:
Electronics Corporation of India Limited - ECIT (A Govt. of India Enterprise)
Date Attended:
July 2002
Certificate in SQL Server with Visual Basic (Certificate)
Date Attended:
August 2002
ITIL V3 Foundation (Certificate)
Date Attended:
November 2015