Applications Development Manager
Integrated Solutions for Business
Total years of experience :21 years, 9 Months
Manages and leads IT application development team to implement enterprise business solutions;
Managed the development, customization, implementation and maintenance of correspondence management system in multiple high budget enterprise projects hence achieving the success stories in many clients;
Successfully led the team to design and build the complete solution of documents processing and automation for one of the giant client (Saudi Airlines) achieving the goals and objectives of the project by implementing the solution over 120 departments;
Worked with Laserfiche (ECM & DMS) and designed methodologies to tightly integrate it with many ERP systems in different government projects;
Created a SharePoint strategy allowing information sharing of key procedure qualifications across the organization and reducing rework;
Developed a document management system. Desktop and web solution that included archiving and management of electronic documents;
Acted as the key IT resource in proposing right business solutions, conducting analysis & kick off meetings, writing professional technical proposals in review of various RFPs, writing software requirements specifications, customizations and many other technical documentations;
Conducted countless demonstrations and preparation of POCs for products specifically ECM, DMS, BPM & CMS solutions in conjunction with sales team;
Implemented agile development among the team using scrum methodology to be followed in projects and making precise use of tools such as TFS & SharePoint in planning/execution of bi-weekly sprints;
Implemented applications testing & QA platform, defining test cases and making use of testing tools such as Microsoft Test Manager;
Handled many small to mid-level projects independently following project management skills;
Was responsible for the development of inventory systems, client meetings, testing and implementation;
Designed and developed POS software applications using .NET C#. ASP.NET 2.0/3.0, SQL Server 2005/2008, Visual Studio 2008/2008, XML, HTML, JavaScript, Ajax toolkit, VB6, ASP, Crystal Reports;
Upgraded and enhanced a number of VB6 applications to VB .NET 2005;
Involved in extensive database script writing and fine tuning of SQL scripts;
Maintained product documentation and documented any new enhancements in the product;
Developed manufacturing system comprise of different modules including inventory, purchasing, sales, production control, labors control, bills of material and reporting;
Worked on the development and low level programming of many different portable data terminal devices integrated with POS application for inventory, stock transfer and price checking;
Developed heavy SQL Scripts for the database retrieval, insert and update purpose;
Created scripts and programs to migrate customer data into databases;
Worked on the development of barcode generation utilities integrated with Zebra printers dedicated for barcoding;
Developed a student counseling system that facilitated students to collaborate with relative faculty members and teachers that included modules such as chat server, rooms, mail accounts knowledge base (search engine) and admin panel;
Worked extensively in the development of multi-threaded applications with socket programming in C# .NET;
Worked in Oracle developer 2000 (form builders & reports), SQL *Plus, PL/SQL;
Designed and developed a compiler for a new computer language as one of the university projects competition. Compiler was used to check syntax and identify errors from the written code according to the defined rules. Worked on defining new syntax using Context-Free Grammars and completed all the phases required to design a compiler like (Semantic Analysis, Lexical Analysis, Top down Parsing) written in Visual C++ 6.0 (console application);
Took part in the development of experimental pharmacy consultant expert system (AI) used to diagnose patients for general diseases and advise them to take required medicine. Artificial Intelligence progressive reasoning techniques were used using specialized tools such as Visual Prolog;
Involved in writing requirement specifications, functional specifications, GUI prototyping;