IT DIRECTOR
Widevision FZCo
Total years of experience :24 years, 0 Months
o Report to: CEO /Chairman
o Job Description: Manage all aspects of the Company’s information technology requirements including but not limited to: IT human resources, all in-house and client IT development projects, ensuring timely delivery of projects and appropriate resources, ensuring the success of projects by providing resources and recommending alternatives, assisting in client development activities, and other activities supporting the success and growth of the Company.
• ECSSR Web Portal development (Revamped)
JAVA / J2EE using Oracle BEA Portal Server, BEA Application Server, Beehive Apache Framework, Oracle Database 10g, BEA Workshop.
- eSupport: Analysis, Design and Development of an IT Helpdesk Software for ECSSR. This custom made solution was tailored as per the needs of the IT Department, taking care of the Service Request, Workflow Implementation for routing of the Service Requests at various stages. Developed using .NET C# and SQL Server Database. Front Design made extensive use of JQuery as well.
• ECSSR e-Event Management System
Web and windows desktop application
MS® ASP.NET, C# using MVC, SQL Server 2008 R2, Visual Studio 2010, AJAX /JQuery, CSS3.
Custom software for ECSSR Conferences Department offering an Address book to host a huge database of contacts and invitation system to send invitations for various ECSSR events along with complete tracking of invitation acceptance and registration, the system offers a detailed reporting system to highlight each invitee and event.
• ECSSR Web Portal development ecssr.com
BEA Application Server, JAVA / J2EE using Oracle 9i, Vignette CMS, Sakhr Idrisi Search Engine, Adobe Content Server, Real Media Streaming, SPIX Payment Gateway.
Developed content delivery templates for various sections of ECSSR portal.
• Central Archiving System
Intranet with web and windows desktop application
MS® .NET, C# using MVC, SQL Server 2008 R2, Adobe® Coldfusion, Visual Studio 2010, Adobe® Dreamweaver CS6, AJAX /JQuery, CSS3. Custom built desktop application to manage a huge database of various content types (Images, Audio, Videos, News, Special Reports and Various Events hosted by ECSSR). A customized web based interface for extensive search and reports generation along with interactive image gallery.
• ECSSR Bi-lingual Custom Built Web Content Management System Vignette 6.5 CMS, JAVA / J2EE, JSP, Oracle 9i, Vignette API. Vignette Development Center, Ektron eWebEditPro.
- As a Senior Java Developer worked on the requirement gathering and specification writing at the earlier stages of the project, developed the USE CASES, carried out the development of a java based Content Management System (CMS) with facility of Content Management through a Workflow Engine.
This CMS have the capability for managing the content for Mobile platform. This CMS sits at the heart of a full Mobile Services platform for providing the content to other applications.
Implemented various mechanisms for providing the content for this CMS like FTP Uploading, Content in XML Format. Salient features of this CMS are:
- Managing the Content into various repositories, classified on the bases of content categories.
- Managing the system users and their roles, creating various business customers for this CMS.
- Managing the public and private repository for various business customers.
- Bulk uploading the content through FTP and XML interfaces.
- Implemented Parser for more than 800, 000 lines of XML for content upload of around 40GB into the CMS.
- Publishing the content to various mobile applications.
URL: http://services.dimoco.at/dcms/
Technology: JAVA (J2EE), Velocity template engine, Webworks MVC Framework, Castor DB framework, Oracle Database, Apache Tomcat.
Developed a web-based “Download Server” (DLS) application as the front-end for this CMS. This application delivers contents to various mobile end users. DLS Interacts with a Messaging Gateway (PSMS) and delivers various types of contents (Logos, Wallpapers, Screen Savers, Ring tones etc.) to the compatible mobile Handsets.
Also manages the billing part of the business based on the messages that are sent and received through the PSMS.
URL: http://services.dimoco.at/dls/
Technology: JAVA (J2EE), Struts Framework, Oracle Database and Apache Tomcat.
-As a Team Leader handled the development project for Automation of Online Visa Application System for Sharjah Airport Authority. Developed using .NET and MS SQL, was involved in the development for various sections.
-As a Project Manager, attended various project inception/scoping meetings with various prominent clients like Dubai Development and Investment Authority (DDIA), Dubai Municipality (DM), Sharjah Ports Authority (SPA).
-Performed requirement analysis based on RFP and formulated proposed solutions with complete project execution plan for Sharjah Airport Website, Bukatir Group Portal, Dubai Municipality Horticulture Department, Dubai Municipality PR Department, Dubai Municipality Dept. of Planning and Development, Oman Tourism and Qatar Tourism Authority, Knowledge Village and IHHR Nursing - UK.
-Performed the analysis, design and development of an Online Event Management System for Qatar Tourism Authority. An Online Event Calendar was also the part of this application.
-Worked as a senior JAVA developer on a Vignette V6 Content Management System - CMS Portal for Abu Dhabi Government’s Research Institute. Actively involved in the project from the inception till deployment phase. http://www.ecssr.com
-Worked as a senior JAVA developer on a POC project with the team of eSolutions (BEA Dubai) for Department of Health and Medical Services Dubai.
-Worked as a senior JAVA developer on a POC project for Dubai eGovernment. This project was based on Vignette and Content Delivery was done using XML+XSL.
-Involved in the development of Zayed Prize for Environment Web Portal. Integrated Online Payment Service from COMTRUST (ePayment Solution Providers) for Online Events Registration and Online Publication Selling. http://www.zayedprize.org
-Involved in the development and client communication on following
Amana Portal http://www.amanabuildings.com
http://www.schs.ae
Knowledge Support Center http://www.dihrd.ae
GASA Portal http://www.gasa.org
-Worked as a JAVA Developer on an online ePayment processing application which was hosted on BEA Weblogic and back-end on Oracle Database.
-Worked as a Team Leader and senior developer for an entertainment portal for Sharjah Commerce and Tourism Development Authority - SCTDA using PHP and MySQL.
-As an R&D project for gaining exposure of PHP developed few modules in PHP like News, classified, events etc.
-As an analyst attended meetings with various potential clients like EBM, Uni Lever Pakistan etc.
-Performed the study and requirement gathering for a financial application for Colgate Palmolive - Lakson Group. Attended meeting with ACCPAC (financial accounting software) representatives and explained the needs.
- Performed the design and development of an Online Billing application for Karachi Electricity Supply Corporation. Performed the parsing of text-based data and storage into the SQL Server.
- Worked on the design and development of a comprehensive application for managing Electronic Medical Records. Application also manages different users like Patients, Doctors, Nurses and administration staff.
- Did analysis, design and development of a Web Domain Registration Management Application. This application was developed for Cyber.NET domain registration.
- Did analysis, design and development of a Online Reservation System for AAA Travel Agents.
- Performed the analysis, design and development of Joblinks - section of Hilinks Web Portal which provides a comprehensive solution for Job Seekers and Employers.
- Worked on Analysis and Design Phase of the Chat Server, created Multithreaded Chat Server Software, Developed the GUI for that applet using AWT’ Layout Managers and Components
- Worked on the web application related to TAPI in Visual Basic for Hilinks web Portal
Graduation from One of the Top IT Education Institutions in Pakistan that had pioneered the Computer Science Education in the Country.
Completed Higher Secondary School Certificate with good grades and from the Internationaily Reconganized Examination Board (Federal Board - Islamabad)