Umair Ishtiaq

Full stack hands on development
Working in Agile development methodology
Providing services using REST/SOAP API's
Developing high end website and applications
Meeting clients to understand their requirements
Managing projects to meet deadlines
Manage and Lead web development team
Understanding and Implementation of website security standards Managing web servers & hosts

Some of the projects I managed and worked on:

• Emirates Investment Bank
• Art Dubai
• MEIRA - Middle East Investor Relations Association • Brash Brands
• Toy Pro - including all of their brands
• Red Tag
• Worlds Free Zones Organization

Freelancing is my passion and I found it very helping to grow my technical and programming skills y working on new things and projects using new technologies, frameworks, languages etc that I never worked on or used before. As a freelancer, I worked for some big web development and IT companies and media agencies from UAE, UK, Australia, USA, Saudi Arabia and Pakistan. I worked on more than 500 web designing and development projects to date.

Some of My Clients:

+ Rabea Tea - Saudi Arabia
A renowned tea brand in KSA. Website development.

+ White Spectrum - Bahrain
A well-known cleaning services provider in Bahrain. Website development.

+ IraqiBuy - Iraq
An Arabic classified website in Iraq. Website development in Arabic.

+ Nestle Nespresso - Worldwide
End of Year 2015 campaign website development

+Get Kosher - USA
A well-known kosher food delivery network in NYC.

+ Verve International - Hong Kong
One of the top model management agency in HK and China.

+ Czech & Slovak Ball - Dubai
An annual gala event hosted by Czech and Slovak embassy in UAE.

+ Synergy Consultancy - Dubai
A very well-known and established Corporate Sales and Marketing training agency in Dubai.

I have been working on my own specialized projects which include but are not limited to the new design for the blog and other customer solutions, effectively integrating all B2C solutions with our main portal and developing products that align with our content strategies. It includes management and development of back-end and front end solutions and API-driven applications.

My main tasks includes re-designing and front end development of the whole website as per latest industry trends, w3c standard, google standard, 100% mobile friendly by using all latest technologies and languages e.g. html5, css3 and angular.js etc

Besides this, I worked with my team to integrate travel related API's to integrate into our portal which includes Hotels, Flights, Cruises, Cars, Holiday Packages and Travel Insurance. We developed an extra net system also for our direct contracted hotels and agents where they can update their prices and deals etc and integrated it with existing portal and API's.

Working with a group of luxury cars brands in the marketing department. Responsible for all the front-end and back-end development and designing of websites. Working closely with the SEO team to improve company websites as per SEO standards to get good ranking and leads in google searches and via other digital marketing means.

Major tasks were to keep the website up to date with new software updates and to manage all the websites, their security, user privileges and hosting servers. Time to time designing new elements and themes for websites according to different events, promotions as per marketing calendar.
I also designed and developed 3 new websites for the companies new businesses completely from scratch using WordPress as CMS.

Projects Completed:

1- theelitecars.com
2- suncity-motors.net
3- semseminternational.com 4- d-connector.net
5- premier-carcare.com
6- transformer-motors.com

Coding websites from Photoshop design to fully working websites
HTML5 / CSS3
jQuery / PHP / Ajax
MySQL
Wordpress / WooCommerce / WP-eCommerce
SASS / LESS
Custom PHP Developing sites with W3C compliance
Table-less and Validated code
Responsive development to make the sites looks good on mobile devices
CSS Frameworks e.g. Twitter Bootstrap, Skeleton
Photoshop, Illustrator and Corel Draw