Sameen Ali, Analyst Programmer

Sameen Ali

Analyst Programmer

Dubai Islamic Bank Pakistan Limited

Location
Pakistan - Karachi
Education
Bachelor's degree, Software Development
Experience
16 years, 11 Months

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Total years of experience :16 years, 11 Months

Analyst Programmer at Dubai Islamic Bank Pakistan Limited
  • Pakistan - Karachi
  • My current job since December 2012

Part of Inhouse development team.
1) Oracle Forms and Reports (10g), Oracle 11g Database (PL/SQL)- to develop utilities that support various departments of the bank to automate their work. The modules include:
a) Paperless Account Opening- Replacement of several systems, into one-window for Account and Customer opening in a decentralized fashion. Integration with Core-banking system (iFlex) via XML (FleXML).
b) Sales Application Tracking - Initiation data collection for Finance products.
c) SMS Broadcasting- Enable Service and Quality department to enhance customer services by sending SMS to customers on ad hoc event basis that are not dependent on Transactional/account activity such as Eid greetings etc.
d) Schedule of Charges - Automate charges deduction of various types. Fully parameterized. For e.g. deducting charges on VISA card annually, Lockers (annual), SMS, and Minimum balance.
e) Branch Quality Measures - This module enables data entry/collection and MIS generation of various Quality Measures in place for branches. It replaces excel and email based data collection
f) Customer Risk Profiling - Automating entry of customers risk profile as per State Bank’s instructions.
g) Cheque book utility - Pulls requests from various sources automatically and generates files to send to vendor for printing. Cheque book charges also applied through this utility.
h) Integration with CRM to pull various requests received through Phone Banking (ATM card requests, SMS facility)
i) CRM Database SQL Server, integrated with Oracle Database to pull various data and supply to multiple modules.

2) Microsoft SharePoint 2010 + InfoPath
a) Created Workflow for Account Opening process where the request is entered by branch sent to Central Ops Dept. and the various cycles it goes through.
b) IT Service Desk requests logging and ticketing.
c) Internal IT portal developed Projects tracking list.

3) .Net development (C#) and MSSQL server
a) Profit Allocation Module - Replaced excel workings and calculations done by finance and wealth management to determine Profit share based on pools Management.
b) Wakala Pool addition to PAM.
c) Integration with PTCL (Telecommunication Company) for Real time Bill processing. Consumed Web Services provided by PTCL.

Oracle Developer at clarus consulting
  • Pakistan - Karachi
  • April 2012 to December 2012

Based at Client's office. Tasks involve using PL/SQL, Oracle Forms and Reports.

Programmer / Web Developer at Allied VMS Technologies
  • Pakistan - Karachi
  • September 2010 to April 2012

Full time developer currently assigned to RBS (client) with the following job responsibilities:

- dotNet development
- coordinating tasks on consolidation of systems project.

Web Designer / Developer at The Rabbani Foundation
  • United Arab Emirates - Dubai
  • October 2009 to November 2010

Job Responsibilities:
- Designing and developing entire website.
- Acting as webmaster for continuous maintenance.

Skills applied:
- Photoshop, HTML, XML, CSS, PHP, MooTools.
- Programmed PHP to read XML files and display correctly.
- Designed website to maximize SEO rules.

Web Designer / Developer at AJ Technologies
  • Pakistan - Karachi
  • September 2010 to November 2010

Job Responsibilities:
- Give the site a facelift, to give it a more professional look.
- Apply changes to forms and to ensure that the data in the DataBase is correct.
- Re-design DB structure.

Skills applied:
- Photoshop, HTML, XML, CSS, PHP, MooTools, MySQL.
- Programmed PHP to read & write to MYSQL
- Designed website to maximize SEO rules.

Web Designer / Developer & IT Support at Iqra Group
  • United Arab Emirates - Dubai
  • February 2009 to March 2010

Job Responsibilities:
- Designed various media for their GBC website. Media includes Flash movies, GIF’s, ad banners, as well as other images and text scrollers.
- Updated content on their main company website as well as their partner sites.
- Introduced minor changes / improvements including hover images, breadcrumbs etc.
- Designed email shots for their marketing campaign.
- Designed a complete Flash site.
- Created Flash animation movies.
- Designed and developing an online based survey for registered users.

Websites I have worked on:
- www.iqragroup.com
- www.gbcmeet.com
- www.mc7inc.com
- www.mc7inc.com/yia

Skills applied:
- Photoshop, HTML, XML, CSS, PHP, MooTools.
- Flash Actionscript 2.0 for website as well as timeline based animation
- Various skills for IT Support: formatting HDD, installing Windows, adding PC to network, setup wireless net access, replace faulty hardware and more.

Instructor at Knowledge Planet Center
  • United Arab Emirates - Dubai
  • June 2009 to August 2009

Teaching web design to high school students at the summer camp.

Job Responsibilities:
- Plan the course and lessons.
- Create exercises + end of course project.
- Teach basic concepts of web design to high school students.

Skills applied:
- Teaching technical concepts to non-technical students.

Web Designer / Web Developer at SufiSoul.org
  • United Arab Emirates - Sharjah
  • January 2009 to August 2009

Job Responsibilities:
- Designed and developed entire website.
- Also acting as webmaster for continuous maintenance.

Skills applied:
- Photoshop, HTML, XML, CSS, PHP, MooTools.
- Used PHP programming to read XML file and display correctly.
- Used PHP programming for product gallaries & order forms.
- Designed website to maximize SEO rules.

Project Executive at Experton Group
  • United Arab Emirates - Dubai
  • February 2007 to March 2008

Channels of reporting:
- While assigned to a project: Project Manager
- Other administrative / proposal building work: Managing Director.

Number of subordinates: 2

Assigned to a large SOA based project for a governmental organization in Dubai.

Job Responsibilities:
- Support the Project Manager in day- to- day activities.
- Assist in documentation- Meeting minutes, technical documentations, Advisory reports, weekly status reports, help desk incidents.
- Be part of technical and managerial meetings concerning the project.
- Support operations after project went live.
+ First line of support contact for users for the new system.
+Open help desk incidents, keeping track and follow-up with technical staff.
+Daily review of service desk incidents concerning the system and updating the project manager with the progress report.
+Summarizing service desk tasks for a presentation of weekly progress reports to project stakeholders.
- Coordinating between client and vendor.
- Overall project coordination and repository control.

Achievements:

- Trained and hired two project assistants for the company to be assigned to various other projects.
- Awarded the certificate of Appreciation during my tenure as project admin (SOA project).

Inventory Executive at General Motors
  • United Arab Emirates - Dubai
  • June 2006 to September 2006

Job Description:
- Inventory management
- Worked extensively with prologs and SAP systems.

Achievements:
- Supervised a team of data entry operators during a 5-day annual inventory count.

Education

Bachelor's degree, Software Development
  • at University of Wollongong
  • August 2005

- Completed the degree with DISTINCTION - Received a FULL Scholarship for the entire duration of the degree - Earned a place in the Dean’s Merit List in 2002.

High school or equivalent, O'Levels
  • at Arab Unity School
  • June 2001

Specialties & Skills

Oracle Development
Web Design
Web Development
Project Management
Islamic Banking
Extensively worked with web services technology (BEA Weblogic)
Consulting skills
Experience with databases Oracle, MySQL
Experience in web site development (HTML, PHP, JSP, flash, JavaScript)
Programming Languages C++, JAVA, VB.NET and ASP
Project Management Skills
Photoshop, Flash

Languages

English
Expert
Urdu
Intermediate
Arabic
Beginner

Training and Certifications

Configuring and Administering Microsoft SharePoint 2010 (Training)
Training Institute:
CTTC Karachi
Date Attended:
December 2013
Microsoft SharePoint 2010, Application Development (Training)
Training Institute:
CTTC Karachi
Date Attended:
January 2014
IMAL (Islamic Banking System) training (Training)
Training Institute:
Path Solutions
Date Attended:
June 2011

Hobbies

  • Explore Android App development in spare time. Reading, Photography / Photo blogging