Akif Irshad, Product development manager

Akif Irshad

Product development manager

SSIT

Location
Pakistan
Education
Master's degree, Computer Sciences
Experience
14 years, 2 Months

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Work Experience

Total years of experience :14 years, 2 Months

Product development manager at SSIT
  • Pakistan - Lahore
  • My current job since June 2018

My recent engagement and dedication with SSIT enabled me to establish local footprints of the company where I was highly appreciated to manage it end to end (from renting out the building to hiring of resources and then delivering 3 fully tested products in only 2.25 years.

We used WEB APIs, MVC, DotNet, React Native, Flutter, Microsoft azure, SVN, Balsamic, Hospital integrations, Device integrations, Firebase, google cloud messaging services and TFS to manage team tasks and repositories. We did wireframing in Balsamic .

While working with SSIT, We developed following mobile application supported with MVC based dynamically structured backend in Dot net:
1- General Physician
2- Physiotherapist
3- Psychologist
4- Food nutritionist

We hired medical consultants and with their support had designed the digital flow for medical protocol as per SOPs for each above automated mobile application and user journey.

Mostly used: DotNet family, Flutter, SQL servers, Oracle, MySQL, jQuery, JSON, Typescripts, T4 templates, Microservices, AWS, Azure services, GCM, firebase, Telerik and Dev Express Control suites, Web services, SSIS, IIS

Microsoft .NET2005/2008/2010
SQL Server (up-to 2018)
Oracle 10g
Crystal reports
Entity framework
IIS 5.0, 6.0 and 7.0

Manager Application Development at Bupa Arabia (Jeddah HQ- Saudi Arabia)
  • Saudi Arabia - Jeddah
  • October 2013 to November 2017

• Key responsibilities:
Team management. Technical Business Analysis & alignment, Design, System integrations, Managing Development Team, Architecture, Deployments, Vendor liaising, Legacy fixing,

o Command Center (WPF, C#, Oracle, SQL server 2012) A WPF based dashboard system to reflect updates for Pre-Auth requests, time to resolve each request, charting, graphs and agent performance based analysis. Notifications for VIP providers/members in a ticker control
o POINT (Azure service bus, Web services, ASP.Net, C#, SQL server 2012) Claim Systems integration (Bupa Arabia & Bupa Global), Provider Interfaces for Bupa Internal system.
o SAGE CRM (Modules development, Workflow management, Support )
o Bupa Arabia website updates, and fixes
o Provider Locator (ASP.Net, C#, Google-Maps, SQL server 2012, Ajax & JQuery) ASP.net-Google maps integration as per business needs to locate Bupa providers and facility to check

Recent learnings:
o SSIS, Kings way \[Data Migration\]
o Azure services, SageCRM (Customization, Administration), Sharepoint
o Microsoft dynamics CRM (Customization, Administration with organization service)

Dot net Consultant at CGI
  • United Arab Emirates - Dubai
  • December 2012 to March 2013

Working on a project for Custom CRM using SharePoint and Microsoft Dynamics CRM, responsible for modules:

PKI- Digital signatures
Reports- DOT templates microsift world based reportrs generation from Share point and Microsoft Dynamics CRM
WCF Service Calls integration with above

Sr. Software Engineer / Team Lead at Ascertia -www.ascertia.com
  • Pakistan - Lahore
  • June 2009 to February 2012

Tools and Technologies: .Net Framework3.5, (C#, ASP, Applet, Silverlight).Net 2008, SQL 2005/2008, Threading, Sitefinity (Telerik CMS), LINQ-2-Entities, Java Scripts, Telerik Rad Controls suite2009/2010, BouncyCastle, Open office APIs integration, SVN

Key responsibilities:
• Design, Develop, Test, Publish, Deploy, Enhancements, Maintenance and Developer Support in a totally web based Application and company website, having the Cart integration and billing pages using WorldPay-Gateway, installation, Release notes, Setup with dynamic configurations.
• Product (Ascertia-Docs) Complete life cycle with branding for Resellers and individual clients
• Documentation writing and designing
Projects:
• Ascertia Docs http://docs.ascertia.com
• Ascertia company website http://www.ascertia.com
• Backend programming for Key Management Utility

Senior Software Engineer / Team Lead at Horizon Technology
  • Pakistan - Lahore
  • June 2008 to June 2009

• Involved in the full systems life cycle and responsible for designing, coding, testing, implementing, maintaining and supporting applications software.
• Design, Test & Deploy, Enhancements in a totally web-services based Application and web applications, having the 1-click installation setup with dynamic configurations with enterprise ready concept.
• Documentation writing and designing
• Troubleshooting & Testing

Education

Master's degree, Computer Sciences
  • at UMT
  • August 2005

• Best performance Award “Participants Development & Placement Department”(PD&P) • Best performance Award “Dramatics Club” • Appreciation Award from “Thinkers Forum” • Management Secretary “Dramatics Club” IMT_DC (more than 2 years) • Asst. Chief-Organizer 5-th convocation ILM(Lahore) • R&D member for “The Message” IMT-Magazine

Specialties & Skills

ASP.NET
SQL Server 2000 2008
ASP.NET MVC
ASP.NET AJAX
DashCommerce
ASP.NET
SilverLight
Technical support
Dot Net Nuke (DNN)
Web-Services
System analysis
MVC - MVP
Applications Design
SubSonic 2.0
JavaScript
Extreme Programming
SQL Server
Telerik Controls
Sharepoint
Microsoft Dynamics CRM
Entity Framework

Languages

English
Expert
Urdu
Expert

Training and Certifications

PMP (Certificate)
Date Attended:
April 2016
PMP (Training)
Training Institute:
Simplilearn
Date Attended:
March 2016
Duration:
35 hours
Process mapping and improvement (Certificate)
Date Attended:
December 2015