Mukhtiar Zamin, Lecturer (Advanced Software Engineering)

Mukhtiar Zamin

Lecturer (Advanced Software Engineering)

COMSATS Institute of Information Technology

Location
Pakistan - Islamabad
Education
Master's degree, Computer Science
Experience
19 years, 9 Months

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Total years of experience :19 years, 9 Months

Lecturer (Advanced Software Engineering) at COMSATS Institute of Information Technology
  • Pakistan
  • My current job since December 2012

• Teaching different computer science and Software Engineering courses at COMSATS University, e.g. SE-II with special focus on OOAD (using RUP, Software Engineering Principles and Patterns, UML), Databases and MPL
• Doing research under “Cloud and Grid Computing (CGC)” research group on a survey paper
• A member of final year project committee in proposal evaluation and project evaluation
• Supervising final year project students
• Helping Software Engineering Domain Committee in study schemes and preparing subjects contents per ABBOT and HEC standards

Sr. Software Engineer at Xpert Technologies
  • Pakistan
  • December 2011 to December 2012

• Analysis and Designing of a fleet management and real time tracking web based product which also include GPRS Server, Alerts Services, Routes Scheduling, unlimited software based Geofences, Open Source WMS for Digital Maps, SQL Replication etc.
• Revamped the product to be more secure, scalable and maintainable using onion architecture and latest designing patterns.
• Leading and training the whole Team in product technologies like MVC 3/4, C#, JQuery, JSON, CSS3, HTML5, MS Visual Studio, TDD, SQL Server 2008, Onion architecture and product suited designing patterns
• Code optimization and writing efficient algorithms for the bottlenecks points in TCP Server and Alert Services.
• Designing and implementation of new UI controls like role based Tree menu generation, On-Demand data based wizards etc.

Software Development Engineer at Hitachi Data System
  • United States
  • July 2010 to November 2011

• Responsible for analysis, design and development of product Use Cases in Vertical passion on UI, API, Service Layers and Backend.
• Test Driven Development using XUnit with Resharper plug-in of the Visual Studio 2010.
• Bug Fixes and Code Refactoring to align with Defined Standards and Designing Patterns.
• Updating daily progress in rally board, Rally website and scrum meetings and leading 2 junior developers.

Software Design Engineer at Microsoft Corporation
  • United States
  • February 2008 to May 2010

• Came up with innovative ideas and then its implementation which helped the team in saving resources and time.
• Responsible for analysis, design and development of scalable infrastructure software that enhanced performance and productivity within the team.
• Involved in unit testing, Code reviews, debugging and troubleshooting of test automation software and components.
• Monitoring change submission to the build through development of various tools and services.
• Creating Jobs and Workflows in WTT and then scheduling them automatically using WTT Object Model as per context.
• Creating code coverage reports for test runs using Excel Macros, PowerShell and Microsoft Sleuth.
• Creating bugs programmatically in Product Studio for BVT failures and tracking them in Investigation Web Portal.

Sr. Software Engineer at Remote Silicon (Franek Computer Systems, UK)
  • Pakistan - Islamabad
  • September 2005 to May 2007

• In addition to other project this company was working on a Travel Industry Solution product called Travelicon.
• Responsibilities spanned in analysis, development and testing phases of SDLC for Travelicon and other projects.
• Requirements management, Writing SRS and SDS document, test, bugs tracking, testing. Resolving requirements issues.
• Development in some parts of the product and booking modules of Travelicon.
• Actively participated in DB design with DBA and involved in quality assurance of different projects.

Software Engineer / IT Specialist at National Council of Social Welfare (NCSW)
  • Pakistan - Islamabad
  • February 2005 to June 2006

• Data analysis of registered NGO’s with NCSW and developing a Data Entry Software.
• Designing and development of a Web Portal with a flexible search of NGO’s to general public.
• Quality assurance of Web Portal and a “Data Entry Software” to ensure the correct data entry of the NGO’s.
• Providing training to employees, web portal hosting, and managing ongoing events in web portal.

MIS Officer at Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA)
  • Pakistan - Lahore
  • August 2004 to February 2005

• The agency aimed to hit 100% literacy rate in sample districts of Punjab in Pakistan. For details Click Here.
• Analysis, designing and development of “Literacy Management Information System (LitMIS)”.
• Preparation of test plan, traceability matrices and execution of test plan. Integrating the project with GIS system.
• Moreover training of government employees.

Assistant System Analyst at Margalla Soft
  • Pakistan - Islamabad
  • December 2003 to August 2004

• Analysis and design of ERP Solutions using OOPs.
• Leading the development team and Software Development for production module.
• Helping QA department: Review development and execution of software test plans/cases.

Education

Master's degree, Computer Science
  • at Maharishi University of Management
  • January 2010
Bachelor's degree, Computer Science
  • at Muhammad Ali Jinnah University
  • August 2004

Specialties & Skills

Software Design
Software Development
Science
SDLC, OOPs techniques and OOAD (UML, Design Patterns), MVC 3
C#, ASP.Net
AJAX, JavaScript, CSS, CSS3
, Microsoft SQL Server
JSON, jQuery
ADO.NET, T-SQL
WCF, Web Services

Languages

English
Expert
Urdu
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Arabic
Beginner
Pushto
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