Mohammad Ali Akmal, Solo Freelance Web Developer

Mohammad Ali Akmal

Solo Freelance Web Developer

Freelance - Self Employed

Location
United Arab Emirates - Ras Al Khaimah
Education
Diploma, Zend PHP Certification
Experience
19 years, 11 months

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Work Experience

Total years of experience :19 years, 11 months

Solo Freelance Web Developer at Freelance - Self Employed
  • United Arab Emirates - Dubai
  • My current job since June 2018

Expert web developer with over a decade of experience working as a full time freelancer on a myriad of web projects in a wide spectrum of industries namely - Food, Online Ordering, Ecommerce, Car Rentals, Medical bookings and Real Estate.

I work per project or on monthly contractual basis - think of me as your one man tech team.Expert web developer with over a decade of experience working as a full time freelancer on a myriad of web projects in a wide spectrum of industries namely - Food, Online Ordering, Ecommerce, Car Rentals, Medical bookings and Real Estate. I work per project or on monthly contractual basis - think of me as your one man tech team.

Co Founder/Chief Technical Officer at Mazkara FZC
  • United Arab Emirates - Dubai
  • January 2015 to November 2018

Co founded and built mass salon and spa aggregator site fabogo.

Current responsibilities Conceptualization, design, development of core application, server management - pretty much everything to ensure successful development of web and mobile applications.

Spear heading development and management of remote development team for successful execution of business requirements.

IT Manager at Ramjet Aviation
  • United Arab Emirates - Ras Al Khaimah
  • July 2006 to December 2014

Responsibilities include building, marketing of online social networking business community as well as specialized web based collaboration applications.

Developed social network as well as intranet based collaboration applications using Zend Framework and JQuery extensively.

Key milestones include:
- Successful development & deployment of specialised inhouse project
collaboration systems.
- Incorporation of Opensource web applications in ongoing projects.
- Mass data conversions from legacy systems to open formats.
- Design and production of corporate artwork at 11th hour deadline for company's inclusion in MEBA; Artwork included banner design, kiosk design, business cards, letterheads and magazine ads.
- Concieved, designed full page advertisements in business magazines for the company - the latest being inclusion in Altitudes Arabia.
- Worked 'neck in neck' with marketing team on establishing company's brand identity as well as major relaunch of RamJet Aviations website.
- Built and integrated powerful datamining facility to periodically parse wikipedia for selected articles.
- Successfully integrating Google App. Technologies such as Google Docs into custom built collaboration systems.
- Running an ongoing online marketing campaign for new web startup.
- Monitored and optimized the aforementioned collaboration applications successfully for 3 years straight since complete deployment

Currently conceptualising and developing fresh web startups for the company.

Software / Web Developer at Design Basics(DMC)
  • United Arab Emirates - Dubai
  • May 2004 to June 2006

Active duties ranged from coding HTML from psds to intense programming of
entire web applications.
Active in conceptualizing and development of numerous company web
startups as well as corporate websites for varied clientele.
Successfully set up numerous online community & membership based websites
and content management systems at 11th hour deadlines
Key milestones include:
- Replicating an entire functioning corporate website for a leading BTL ad.
agency within 48 hours.
- Successful development and launch of one of the regions first automobile
enthusiast portals(www.thecarlovers.com)
- Providing post launch site maintenance support to clientele on individual basis
- Extended UI features for launched portal based upon site usage trends
- Concurrently managed and worked on up to 6 different projects successfully
(now thats project management! )

Education

Diploma, Zend PHP Certification
  • at SitesPower
  • April 2008

Zend Certified Engineer

Bachelor's degree, Computing
  • at Staffordshire University, UK via City APIIT
  • January 2004

1st Class BSc (Hons) Degree in Computing awarded by the Staffordshire University UK. Degree completed at offshore campus of Asia Pacific Institute of Information Technology

Higher diploma, Software Engineering
  • at Asia Pacific Institute of Information Technology
  • December 2002

Higher Diploma in Software Engineering awarded by Asia Pacific Institute of Information Technology, Malaysia at their offshore campus in Pakistan.

Diploma, Computing & IT
  • at Asia Pacific Institute of Information Technology
  • November 2001

Diploma in COmputing & IT awarded by Asia Pacific Institute of Information Technology, Malaysia completed at their offshore center in Lahore

Specialties & Skills

Zend Framework
Web Architectures
Front end Development
Ruby on Rails
Php MySQL
Wordpress Development
Adobe Photoshop
PostgreSQL
Adobe Flash
CSS3 / Preprocessors LESS / SASS
HTML5 - RESPONSIVE WEB Development
Object Oriented Design with UML
Front End Development - Prototype / Scriptaculous / JQuery
MVC Frameworks including Zend Framework / Yii / Laravel

Languages

English
Expert
Urdu
Expert
Arabic
Beginner

Hobbies

  • Writing
    I have a knack for cynical comedy writing, although I don't have much to show, it reflects mostly when writing out reviews or comments. Plan to take my writing skills a step further and churn out a book - largely comedic that doesn't make you laugh the first time or if you do then atleast make you think what was it that you found funny.
  • Studying(Islamic LIterature and scripture)
    Despite being a cynic, I am deeply spiritual(to an extent) and keep my self occupied with reading Islamic books on spiritual development as a student.