Feras Younes

Key Projects:

• Mobile magazine application Mobimag™ .
Role in project: Product Manager / Architect.

Mobimag™ is a Management system and Rich Media presentation layer that runs on the top of Mobile devices, PDA, and any handheld device.
Mobimag™ was not intended to give the same experience of printed media only, but it also enhances the original materials by adding interactive methods and new presentation capabilities like video, audio and animations, which makes it an effective and intuitive digital media marketing platform.
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• i-Fi interactive rich media content delivery platform
Role in project: Technical Team Leader / Architect.
i-Fi is a rich media content distribution and delivery platform built around many technologies to offers interactive content and service delivery based on location(VBOL) uses Wi-Fi as communication medium and positioning infrastructure. And provides a targeted rich media advertising platform


• i-Fi venue solution
Based on i-Fi platform i-Fi venue solution is a turn key solution to offer information, entertainment and guidance to the venue visitors and interactive advertising platform to the venue retailers.
It can runs on the top of any Wi-Fi enabled handheld device to helps visitors to find location related information and services and helps the venue to learn about visitors habits preferences and interests
Provides a directory of the venue listing all retail stores and services in addition to digital maps pointing their locations.
Its entertainment features is a main attraction to visitors where they can watch videos, play games, interact with each other and much more.

Regional Content Manager for Samsung Electronics Middle East & North Africa (MENA) region.

Responsible for the development and execution of content strategies for Samsung’s hand-held products (HHP) division, including the Galaxy Smartphone and Galaxy Note line-up of products.

Focuses on growing HHP digital outcome in 22 countries. Amongst my key achievements was establishing the first Samsung research and development center in the MENA region, which sets precedents for Samsung processes, goals and strategies, located in Jordan.

Cont. Responsibilities:
- Programming web services using Apache Cocoon and MySQL, providing XSP with XSL style sheets transformation and XML Content Management System.
- Lead and manage the team through software projects, and manages technical resources within budget and project schedule.
- Communicates and enforces coding standards.
- Ensures code reusability & maintainability.
- Guide the team and give them hints to solve their technical problems.
- Conduct researches & do proof of concepts
- Content manipulation and rich media conversion tools and methods.
- Client side front-end development.
- Development of rich Content Management System with OpenLaszlo.
- Developing Macromedia Flash Communication Server applications.
- User interface architecture and other rich internet applications standards and methods.
- Reviewing and analyzing application specifications to determine whether all required elements have been included, and consulting with clients to gather information about project needs, objectives, functions, features, input and output requirements.
- Maintaining and scheduling each project, ensuring that the projects stays on or ahead of schedule, discussing and implementing changed orders as they occur in coordination with the client and the management.
- Monitoring projects in order to track progress and results; formulating and defining system scope and objectives for assigned projects, directing and reviewing the quality of the completed work.
- Creating project plans including resource requirements, major tasks and objectives by designing business processes aligned with the corporate strategies.
- Managing the technical department to successful implementation of projects by coordinating with the company colleagues as appropriate.

Key Responsibilities;
-Analysis and Development of Web Applications.
-Web Designing and Advance Flash Animations.
-Web Developer PHP, Mysql, javascript, Action script
-CMS templates and UI development.
-Team Support

Key Projects;
Title: Corporate Website for Ras Al khaima Cement Company
URL: www.rakcc.ae.
Team Size: 1
Environment: Windows, HTML, CSS, Flash.
Role: Designer
Title: Corporate Website for Shownic and Shopping Cart +Content Management System
URL: www.shownic.net. Team Size: 2
Environment: Windows, PHP and MySQL. Role: Designer

Scope: Shownic.net showcases wide range of Home Entertainment and Home Appliances products. The Administrator of the website is provided with an Administration Section to update the categories, products and content pages.

Title: Corporate Website for Cimac
URL: www.cimac.ae Team Size: 2
Environment: Windows, PHP and MySQL. Role: Designer / Developer

Scope: To develop a corporate website to showcase Cimac’s products and services. Facilities are provided to the administrators to update the website through an easy to use content management system. vBulletin was used for the Forum.

Title: Content Management System , Community Website.
URL: www.zafaf.ws Team Size: 1
Environment: Windows, PHP and MySQL Server., Joomla CMS Role: Designer/Developer

Scope: Arabic Portal community website based on Mambo Frame Work.
Blog, News, Custom Mambo Components, vBulletin was used for the Forum.
Title: Corporate Website for Al Masaood and Advanced Shopping Cart +Content Management System
URL: www.masaoodmarine.com Team Size: 1
Environment: Windows, PHP and MySQL., Joomla CMS Role: Designer/Developer

Scope: To develop a website for Selling Diving tools, equipments and a corporate Website for al masaood. Users can browse the categorised products and use the shopping cart to order online. The system is integrated with Paypal and 2CheckOut.

•Making designs for front end web applications
•Preparing multimedia cd presentations and introductions
•Creating and editing static sites
•English to Arabic translations for Arabic web applications
• integration of designs with mambo CMS and other web applications
Projects:
www.gccschools.net
www.uaegates.com
www.primeexpress.net
www.emiratesdivingcenter.com
www.black-belt.biz
www.uae4fun.com

Responsible of managing group of 3 internet cafes and its employees
Making plans for marketing and customer care

Taking care and finding solutions for the company’s network LAN and WAN

Static websites and information pages
Complete web based chat software with users accounts and profiles and more than 200 commands in the chat (in perl and mysql )
Linux web server’s management
Some of projects that I made
www.maisondedamas.com
www.Syriahome.net
www.veranocafe.net