Misbah Arefin, Senior Software Engineer

Misbah Arefin

Senior Software Engineer

01 Systems WLL

Location
Bahrain - Manama
Education
Bachelor's degree, Software Engineering
Experience
24 years, 1 month

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Work Experience

Total years of experience :24 years, 1 month

Senior Software Engineer at 01 Systems WLL
  • Bahrain - Manama
  • My current job since December 2013

Optimized javascript for one of their web applications, javascript speed optimized by 50%. Additional optimizations done on the web services and .NET code

Team Lead at Ovex Technologies
  • Pakistan - Karachi
  • August 2008 to November 2013

- Provide technical direction for the development, design, and systems integration across multiple client engagements from definition phase through implementation
Define both the organizational structure of the application and the physical structure of its deployment
Participate in all programs relating to performance, security, maintenance evaluations
Suggest alternative technical solutions to meet client requirements more efficiently, and/or with greater reusability, and/or higher scalability
Create and execute development plans across multiple projects and revise as appropriate to meet changing needs and requirements. Manage multiple technical teams within project schedule
Keep project manager/client well informed of status of development effort and serve as liaison between development staff and client across multiple projects
Ensure project teams are effectively employing appropriate design techniques and best practices
Evoke creative and innovative thinking from team members while helping them to bring their ideas and plans to fruition

Team Coordinator at Ovex Technologies
  • Pakistan - Karachi
  • July 2007 to July 2008

Coordinating and troubleshooting technical solutions to different teams and projects within the company to make sure that projects are delivered on time and with an emphasis on quality
Mentoring team members, troubleshooting technical bottlenecks, troubleshooting problems and guiding developers as an ongoing day-to-day responsibility
Implemented custom code analysis rules during check-ins to facilitate with code reviews
Perform design and code reviews to make sure code written is secure, efficient, and fulfills the requirements
Developed best practices, coding conventions, naming conventions, standards and reference architecture for .NET applications
Ensure adherence to standards through structured review process. Lead design reviews of web-based applications
Review the status reports of team members and address issues as appropriate

Project Lead at Ovex Technologies
  • Pakistan - Islamabad
  • September 2004 to June 2007

Optimized the overall application web page load times in AccessPointe especially product search queries from at times 9+ seconds down to 3 seconds max
BlueHippo CRM - Architected and developed a call center integration solution which integrated customer CRM, Cisco Call Center Solution and our homegrown call tagging application to provide single point of information for real-time call center statistics
All project management/resource allocation done in MS Project 2003 and Team Foundation Server. Used TFS for issue/bug tracking and work item tracking
Successfully derived business to invest time in automated unit testing to be developed for all applications
Review deliverables prepared by team before sending out to client
Ensure project documents are complete, current, and stored appropriately
Identify system deficiencies and recommend solutions

Software Engineer at Ovex Technologies
  • Pakistan - Islamabad
  • April 2004 to August 2004

Developed AccessPointe from scratch; with inspiration from previous version; on ASP.NET (using C#), SQLServer 2000, BizTalk Server 2002, SAP R/3 and several third party products
Added new module for receiving and 3-way matching
Added new module for software licensing parts with contract management with support for contractual/non-contractual as well as transactional license parts
Created a web service to pull real-time pricing and availability updates from TechData, Synnex, Ingram and HP
Integrated with SAP process orders and track shipments using .NET Connector for SAP
Integrated with FedEx, UPS and other delivery services shipment tracking systems to provide real-time order status tracking
Assist in physical and logical database design
Develop internal and external meeting objectives and agendas

Sr. Software Enginner at Clarusoft (Pvt.) Ltd.
  • Pakistan - Karachi
  • November 2002 to March 2004

Added DTS/Importers for TechNotes part description/attributes in LinkT
Optimized existing product parts importers to run 50% faster
Added promo pricing module in LinkT
REBS - Developed and engineered admin auditing and version control on each and every possible action on a property

Instructor at Grace Institute of Management & Technology
  • Pakistan - Karachi
  • April 2002 to June 2002

Member of the visiting faculty for BCS classes, teaching Visual C++, Win32 API, and MFC

Application Programmer at Winson (Pvt.) Ltd.
  • Pakistan - Karachi
  • June 2001 to November 2001

Developed Imposition Publisher 4.1 (for Windows) for Farrukh Systems (UK) using Visual C++
Developed Flatwork feature in Imposition publisher which allows for automatic alignment and easy manipulation of pages on a print sheet

Software Engineer at ITIM Associates (Pvt.) Ltd.
  • Pakistan - Karachi
  • September 2000 to February 2001

Developed Project Tracking System to monitor project progress by clients using Visual Basic 6
Developed Windows NT service which monitors databases located on different web servers and updates/synchronizes client databases using Visual C++
Automated VSS operation on the web thus enabling VSS over HTTP using Visual C++ and Visual SourceSafe API

Education

Bachelor's degree, Software Engineering
  • at Shah Abdul Latif University
  • April 1999

As a student teacher (pupil-teacher) conducted group discussions on object oriented programming languages and compiler design Presentation on Neural Network designs at university seminar on algorithm design

Diploma, Software Engineering
  • at Petroman Training Institute
  • December 1996

Specialties & Skills

Team Coordination
ASP.NET
Software Design
SAP .NET Connector
ASP.NET
Project Management
SQLServer
.NET 2.0
Visual Basic
.NET 1.1
.NET 3.5
Vsiaul C++
ADO.NET EF
.NET 4.0
Javascript

Languages

English
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Urdu
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