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Abdul Majid Ahmed, Consultant IT

Abdul Majid Ahmed

Consultant IT·Islamic Development Bank

Saudi Arabia

Master's degree, Software Systems and Security

Work experience

Total years of experience: 20 years, 0 months

Consultant IT

January 2014 - Present

Islamic Development Bank

Jeddah, Saudi Arabia

January 2014 - Present

Islamic Development Bank, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia
* Project: ERP Application development for Islamic Development Banks’ AOP (Annual
Operations Plan), MTBS (Medium Term Business Strategy), ACWP (Annual Country Work
Program), MCPS (Membership Country Partnership Strategy) and Scholarship Program.
Consultant Role:
* Analysis, development, verification, (UAT), of ERP applications, reports using JasperSoft
Studio.
* Demo, Wire-framing, mock ups using Balsamiq.
* Coordination, planning and reporting with Bank’s users for user issues (JIRA), and
feature requests.
* Developed web and view components using REST controllers (Spring framework) (jax-rs
with Json) and business components using Jax-ws for ERP applications.
* Used ORM technologies like Jpa and hibernate for entity beans.
* Daily usage of java concepts like Exception handling, multi-threading following Spring
Framework for concurrency of web service requests, generics, String manipulation, and
db queries.

Company industry:
Banking
Job role:
Information Technology

Senior Systems Engineer

January 2012 - January 2014

Ciena

Canada

January 2012 - January 2014

Patch development, release and management.
* Responsible for training regional Tech Support Engineers for Device and NMS servers,
features, installation procedures, engineering guides, and documentations.
* Responsible for releasing FSB (Field Service Bulletins).
Ciena based devices:
CN3930-CN3960, CN5000, CN5150-CN5350, CN6500, LE427, LE311v.
PV Role:
* Active in verification of all Ethernet and OMEA based provisioning of layer 2 services for
ESM (Ethernet Services Manager), Ciena UMS OneControl (G.8032, EVPL, EPL, PBB-TE)
and OMEA.
* Aiding development for Ciena cloud based SLA (Service Level Agreement) portal.

Company industry:
Telecommunications
Job role:
Engineering

Associates Engineer

October 2009 - January 2012

Ciena

Canada

October 2009 - January 2012

Java:
* Led the planning and implementation of Java/JEE projects for Telecom and Banks.
* Facilitated the definition of project scope, goals and deliverable.
* Defined project tasks and resource requirements
* Developed full scale project plans
* Managed stakeholders, clients, and partner organizations, planned and scheduled
project time-lines, tracked project deliverable using appropriate tools, provided
direction and support to project team.
* Monitored and reported on progress of the project to all stakeholders, presented
reports defining project progress, problems and solutions.
* Implemented and managed project changes/interventions to achieve project outputs,
performed project evaluations and assessment of results.

Company industry:
Telecommunications
Job role:
Information Technology

Embedded Software Designer

May 2009 - August 2009

Research in Motion

United Arab Emirates

May 2009 - August 2009

, Ottawa, Ontario
 Languages: OS API development in C/C++ for RTSP, Audio & Video Protocols and Codecs.
 Tools: Wireshark, Qxdm, Bugdisp, Perforce, Code Collaborator, and Source Insight

Company industry:
Telecommunications
Job role:
Engineering

Blackberry Internet Service Product Engineer

May 2006 - August 2007

Research in Motion

Canada

May 2006 - August 2007

, Waterloo, Ontario
 Developed Unix based projects of BIS to Microsoft Visual Studio 2005 and VC6 and
Coverity.

Company industry:
Telecommunications
Job role:
Engineering

Network Technician

January 2003 - August 2004

OnSite IT

Canada

January 2003 - August 2004

Onsite I.T., Etobicoke, Ontario
 Ability to install and maintain large networks.
 Diagnosed issues like virus/Trojans in the network using network packet sniffers
(Ethereal/ Wireshark).
 Experience with DHCP and DNS installations using Microsoft 2000 Server.

Company industry:
Natural Gas Distribution
Job role:
Information Technology

Education

University Of Oxford

January 2015

January 2015

Master's degree, Software Systems and Security

United Kingdom

This is a part time program based on ten modules. I am required to attend these modules at Oxford every once in two months for five days.

Carleton University

January 2009

January 2009

Bachelor's degree, Computer Systems Engineering

Canada

courses: Carrier Ethernet Professional (CE-A) Microsoft Programming in C#. Oracle Java SE 7 Programming. OCJP

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JAVA
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