Project Manager / Tech Lead
Reflections
مجموع سنوات الخبرة :14 years, 3 أشهر
At Apps Factory, an Abu Dhabi Based Company, I have been responsible for maintaining company products to highest standards, creating new web applications from scratch and finishing the application according to the client and business requirements. At Apps Factory, I have been working for different projects including several Government projects, and doing the following
• Developed several web-services and API to provide back-end support to mobile applications developed by company
• Worked as a DBA, to manage complete databases of products of company, as well as creating new databases structures and designs for complex web and mobile applications.
• Developed the Statistics Center Abu Dhabi Main Portal along with the back-end support for the mobile applications.
• Developed ETL applications for data management for the Federal Demographic Council Abu Dhabi to support their Application
• Apart from tasks mentioned above, I have been doing lots of different tasks to align
development with the business requirements.
Mintroute is a company based in Abu Dhabi, UAE and is dealing with online market of soft vouchers, and gift cards and are the largest traders in the field in Gulf Region. At Mintroute, I have been doing and dealing with the following.
• Developed their core business application from scratch and making the application to reach a level to meet all the international standards to be shown to international clients.
• Provided constant updates to the application to meet the business requirements
• Developing advanced reports for ease of accounting and providing intelligent dashboards
• Developing Business Intelligence for the business to provide them future aspects of growth
and showing success numbers in a brief dashboard
• Providing technical support to all of the international vendors and clients for their integration
to the system.
• Working on future developments with the CTO to enhance company business and working
on building new platforms for the growth of business
Senior Software Developer CLOUDYDNA (United Kingdom)
Aug 2013 - Feburary 2014
I was hired by a UK based IT consultancy to provide support as a senior PHP developer, my role
was varied and I was involved with huge amount of ETL processes along with that I was also
responsible for laying down company strategy for Data Visualisation using Qlikview and MYSQL. It
was a Part time remote job and I only spend couple of days per week.
• Dealt with hundred of millions rows of data sets, using ETL and Data cleansing skills
• Extracting data from various sources, suppliers and vendors into a single point
• Perform following processes on the data as data quality was poor
> Data anonymization, to hide user identification
> Data standardisation for data quality and Data modelling
> Data manipulation process and cleansing process
> Patching data from various sources into one source through programming
>Changing data format from columns into rows
> Created PHP scripts to run in parallel to extract data faster
> Adjusted PHP and MYSQL setting so that optimal performace is achieved for ETL.
Technical Challenges
• Perform Data Mining on the data when data was ready after above processes
• Creating web based front end to display data, all work was done with PHP
• Creating secure backend connection with MYSQL so that data is not compromised over internet.
Software Engineer and Web Developer at ADAM Global (Dubai, UAE)
Dec 2011 - Jan 2014
At Adam Global a Dubai Based Company having more than 100 branches over 57 countries
worldwide, I have been responsible for maintaining company web portfolio to highest standards. I
was leading from the front providing support to other developers guiding them on best
programming practices and methodologies. I advised and developed Big data analytics using
Qlikview to analyse data that helped the company to understand customer behavior and various
patterns that helped in company growth over years.
Technical skills
• Developed websites and applications using PHP and MySQL at the backend whilst building the frontend in standards-compliant XHTML, CSS and JavaScript
• Replaced use of outdated Flash techniques with progressively-enhanced, accessible AJAX
alternatives. Making use of framework such as Mootools and jQuery where appropriate.
• Reworked organizational workflow to dramatically increase quality control.
• Accelerated development cycles with use of MVC frameworks such as CodeIgniter and
CakePHP.
• Planning sites information architecture to develop site maps and labelling schemes using
card sorting, data analysis and tree testing.
• Heavily refactoring existing features, resulting in performance increases of up to 500%.
• Developing user personas to help ensure that user research is considered throughout each
step of the design process.
• Conducting usability testing on both prototypes and live/development websites.
• Conducting usability testing on both prototypes and live/development websites.
• Performance optimising websites through a combination of frontend, backend and server
configuration techniques.
Qlikview / Data Analysis
• Created dash board from scratch based on various scenarios and hypothesis
• Created custom scripts for loading data efficiently into qlikview.
• Used qlikview to generate various reports, for example monthly sales reports
Business Skills
• Trained technical and non-technical staff on various web topics - from the concepts of
HTML and CSS to advanced object-oriented design patterns.
• Mentored junior developers.
• Conducting competitor analyses on rival websites to identify the strengths and weaknesses of alternative solutions or new approaches.
• Worked closely with business stakeholders to understand business objectives and translated them technically, presented visualisations to senior business and helped them
define future road map.
Key Skills
-Hands on experience in Coding, Testing, Implementation/Maintenance Support in PHP and MySQL
-Extensive development of jQuery, JavaScript.
-Hand experience in Dreamviewer development.
-Customization expert on SAGE CRM
-Web services: WSDL, SOAP
-Working with ASP and SQL server based databases.
- SQL Server, Managing Databases and using tools like SQL Server Profiler for data analysis
- BI (Business Intelligence), Used QLIKVIEW for business intelligence, created reports and delivered analysis based results
-Hands on experience in using SMARTY, CakePHP/Codeigniter Framework to develop a web
application.
-Integration Ability: Strong in understanding and integrating third party web services
-Platforms: Linux, Windows Server, Mac
-Client-side programming: JavaScript, AJAX, DHTML, DOM, YUI, jQuery
-Webserver installation & configuration: Apache, Microsoft IIS
-Design for SEO (Search Engine Optimization)
Web Developer at YooshaySoft Software Solutions (Pakistan)
Nov 2009 - Oct 2011
I was hired as a subject matter expert in web development technologies, I defined the guidelines for company future web and software services. Company was working on various web projects
outsourced to them from UK and US based clients. This enabled me to work with various tool
simultaneously and exposure to international clients.
-CMS development and custom web based development in PHP
-PHP5, MySQL, Ajax, jQuery, JavaScript, HTML, CSS, XML
-PHP Framework CakePHP, Codeigniter
-PHP ecommerce-Opencart, PrestaShop, oscommerce
-PHP-CMS WordPress, Joomla
-Payment Gateways: Authorize.net, PayPal Checkout
-WEB Server:LAMP, WAMP, EasyPHP, AppServ
-Operating Systems:Windows Enterprise, Linux, Ubuntu, Windows Server 2008.
-Tools / Software:Notepad++, Dreamweaver
-Web services:WSDL, SOAP
-Open Graph, Like Button, Graph API, Like Box, Like Button, Comments, Activity Feed, Live
Stream, Facebook for Websites