Dawood Ajaz, Technical Lead

Dawood Ajaz

Technical Lead

Dubai Customs

Location
United Arab Emirates
Education
High school or equivalent, Design
Experience
25 years, 1 Months

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Total years of experience :25 years, 1 Months

Technical Lead at Dubai Customs
  • United Arab Emirates
  • My current job since June 2010

Core responsibilities:
Technical leader of strategic projects in Customs; providing end-to-end guidance and supervision on different projects that fulfill the customer’s requirements and features.

•Led the Cross Border E-Commerce Blockchain project, which enable Dubai as an E-Commerce City in the region, the project has automated end-to-end Supply chain transaction tracking and analytical reporting using the Cloud Native capabilities with their provided cutting-edge technologies.
•Architected, designed and delivered the Enterprise Command and Control Center Program that aggregates real-time and near real-time information coming from Marine Traffic using IoT platform and infrastructure, where it’s analyzed the risk insights for the intelligence team to making the operational decision making.
•Designed & developed 360-degree View of Declarations, it’s a web-based application, which often provides at-a-glance views of key performance indicators (KPIs) relevant to a particular objective or business process.
•Migrated JEE Spring based application from Legacy OC4J Application Server to Oracle WebLogic 12c environment and resolved all technical issues occurred during migrating.
•Experienced in designing, building, refactoring or operating large scale and impactful IT systems - either on premises or in the cloud.
•Practice the Agile/Scrum methodologies to deliver the minimum viable releases.
•Performed Impact analysis of the new project/requirement and for the change request.
•Capture the key stakeholder requirements, categorize, prioritize and finalize them.
•Implemented release management, technical support and application development procedures.
•Proposed and implemented the DevOps solutions to expediate the delivery of projects.

Sr. Software Developer at Dubai Customs
  • United Arab Emirates
  • September 2007 to April 2010

Core responsibilities:
I have actively contributed in designing & development of Mirsal 2. The main objective of Mirsal 2 is to facilitate electronic paperless declarations, which mean that goods can be cleared without the actual papers being handed over to the customs. Following are the tasks brief descriptions that have been done towards Mirsal 2 development:

•Developed Invoice module of Mirsal 2 web-based application, which includes JSP User interface, end-to-end CRUD implementation in MVC pattern.
•Designed & Developed Batch uploading facility for Container, Invoice and Vehicle.
•Implemented the Printing facility of declaration information at standard GCC Pre-printed stationary.
•Securing declaration information for being viewed by non-belonging users.
•Java Swing based Desktop standalone application that facilitates intranet users to uploading Digital certificates for end-users into Mirsal 2 system
•Scheduler Java Console for downloading Digital certificates from Etisalat’s LDAP server to support automated the digital certificate uploading functionality.
•Maintenance of Declaration module including analysis to development of new business requirements, and enhancing the existing functionalities.
•Batch submission of Declarations through Spring based Console Utility.
•Engaged in design & development of Rich UI version of Customs’ Declaration Amendment using JQuery, JSON & AJAX.
•Integration of Systems i.e., J2EE Application with Siebel CRM System through web-services and JMS technology both sync and async.
Familiarize with Grails web-application and written POC.
•Freelance programmed iPhone native application, guide for Halal food and it is compatible with iOS 3.0 or later.

Software Engineer at Primatics Financial, LLC (formerly iIlluminatics Inc
  • November 2004 to August 2007

My job description & development is comprised of the following responsibilities and duties at Primatics Financial:

•Analysis, Design and development of projects.
•Developed web-based application for parsing XML story feeds, generate & transform them into appropriate NewsML, persist into database and uploads them at Ftp, it’s fully automated system.
•Designed and Developed structure application in Frame Maker, developed consistent XML structure for different types of source documents, to achieve diverse types of output from this consistent xml structure.
•Developed Cisco IP Phone Scanner desktop application, whose primary work to scan all nodes in network, grab required information from IP phones and dump this information into HTML/CSV file.
•Designed and Developed web-based application for map quest, specifically for Canada maps. Maintaining & managing businesses, users, belonging businesses, business-inventory, user-baskets (list of different maps particular to user) information into system. Major functionality to provide Maps & Driving Directions.
•Developed reports for Indent Management System reports using crystal reports.
•Engaged in designing, creation and maintenance of database, using MYSQL and MS SQL server.
•Manage & maintaining developing projects versioning, using CVS, VSS & SVN.
•Part of team; generate xml documents through parsing word document.
•Developing and testing of Amortization engine, its web-based and desktop user interface, using J2EE technologies.
•ETL mapping document. Mapping document is about transformation of legacy data into java business objects and then dumping into new database.
•Developed Installers using install4j for loan accounting products.
•Part of team on developing Time Sheet Management System using Oracle ADF.
•Web tier of Loan Accounting product for Mortgage Backed securities, using J2EE technologies.
•Having good understanding of USA FAS91 Standard for Amortization of deferred cost/fee and Loan Accounting.
•Currently working on Colombian Company Matrimonial web application using J2EE technologies.

Software Developer at Crisbar LLC
  • August 2004 to November 2004

During the stay at Crisbar, following were the activities performed:

•Developed, Jobs Recruitment web-based application, using Php / MySql.
•Part of a team, working on an e-Commerce payment Gateway using Cold fusion and MySql.

IT Manager at Sind Bearing Agency
  • September 2002 to August 2004

Following were the activities accomplished during the stay at Sind Bearing Agency:

Routine Activities:
•Office Supervision.
•Handled correspondence which included formulating on the basis of the broad outline received.
•Preparing bills and quotations, File maintenance, Bank Dealing & Stock Physical checking.

Computerized Accounts and Inventory Control System:
•General Ledger - posting and checking, Maintaining Stock Registers.

Letter of Credit:
•Initiation to execution, File maintenance, Import Costing & Calculation of Gross Profit and Loss Details - Summary Preparation.

Income Tax & Sales Tax:
•Prepared details for the submission of Income Tax return, Created Invoices, Kept and Maintained registers/records & prepared details for monthly S/Tax return.

IT Manager at Tariq Trading Corporation (Sister Concern of Sind Bearing Agency)
  • Pakistan - Karachi
  • March 1999 to September 2002

Served same work, duties and responsibility as above.

Education

High school or equivalent, Design
  • November 2021

Trainings & Certification AWS Solutions Architect, Azure Kubernetes Services, IBM Blockchain Essentials, IBM Blockchain

High school or equivalent, Design
  • November 2021

Trainings & Certification AWS Solutions Architect, Azure Kubernetes Services, IBM Blockchain Essentials, IBM Blockchain

Bachelor's degree, Design
  • November 2021

Trainings & Certification AWS Solutions Architect, Azure Kubernetes Services, IBM Blockchain Essentials, IBM Blockchain

High school or equivalent, Design
  • November 2021

Trainings & Certification AWS Solutions Architect, Azure Kubernetes Services, IBM Blockchain Essentials, IBM Blockchain

Bachelor's degree, Design
  • November 2021

Trainings & Certification AWS Solutions Architect, Azure Kubernetes Services, IBM Blockchain Essentials, IBM Blockchain

Bachelor's degree, Accounting
  • at Govt. College of Commerce & Economics
  • November 2021

Specialties & Skills

APPLICATION DEVELOPMENT
BUSINESS PROCESS
DECISION MAKING
DELIVERY
E-COMMERCE
FEATURES
NETSCAPE ENTERPRISE SERVER

Languages

English
Expert

Training and Certifications

AWS Solutions Architect (Certificate)
Date Attended:
January 2021

Hobbies

  • Listening Audio Books and Music