Waqqas Qadir, Systems Analyst

Waqqas Qadir

Systems Analyst

SOLIS Facilities Managament

Location
United Arab Emirates - Dubai
Education
Bachelor's degree, Software Engineering
Experience
25 years, 8 Months

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Total years of experience :25 years, 8 Months

Systems Analyst at SOLIS Facilities Managament
  • United Arab Emirates - Dubai
  • My current job since September 2008

- Currently working with SOLIS, a Facilities Management company in Dubai, UAE. Handling all the networking and security concerns in both SOLIS and sister concern SOLICO. Currently planning the Business Continuity Strategy for both the companies.

- My responsibilities here include the design and development of their custom built ERP, based on .NET Framework 3.5 and SQL Server 2005. I am also responsible for getting the sister concern SOLICO Contracting to the leading edge solutions for their different departments like Store, Finance, HR and Procurement.
- Also helped other departments (HR, Finance, Operations) in crafting their processes needed to acquire ISO 9000 Certification, The Company has successfully passed the audit and will be awarded with the certification in a months time.

Project Manager at TricastMedia
  • Pakistan - Lahore
  • September 2006 to August 2008

- Worked with a company in Sharjah, UAE on the client site to automate its logistics operation (complete cycle).
- Managing the QA dpartment of the client to automate its operations/procedures and hecne acquire HACCP certification.

- In Lahore, Drafted and implemented software development methodology for the whole organization based on Agile Software Development (SCRUM). Successfully brought all (9) teams on it and everyone admired the improvement in the transparency and efficiency increased because of that.
- Projects:
- Tricast Mail, Tricastmedia, UK
- Tricastmedia is a privately held company with strategic headquarters in San Diego, USA and R&D office located in Glasgow, United Kingdom
- Developing Tricast Mail client for low end mobile devices using BREW (C, C++)
- Responsible for all networking development for the mail client including POP3, IMAP4 and SMTP protocols.
- FirstSlip, Tricastmedia, Pakistan
- Project Manager and developer/debugger, Developed in C# .NET and MS-SQL Server 2000
- Team Size 6 resources
- Management and Development for a data entry, scoring and history maintenance of cricket matches, players, teams and tournaments. Complete solutions for SMS push and pull services for all the telecom companies in Pakistan.

Senior Software Engineer at Mirnah Technology Systems
  • United Arab Emirates
  • August 2004 to August 2006

- Systems Analyst
- Application Migration and Integration Consultant
- Projects:
- Pepsi Dubai (Dubai Refreshments Company), Dubai UAE
- Sole manufacturers and distributors of Pepsi Products in UAE, Have more than 200 Routes and 20, 000 Customers.
- Team Lead: Team Size 9 resources
- Development for customizations using VB
- Integration of RP32 Back office with Oracle Financials based ERP using VB

- British American Tobacco, Egypt
- Developed a utility in C# to dynamically create an archive database as an empty replica of the live database and archive old transactions in the archive database.
- Development for customizations using VB.NET
- Integration of RP32 Back Office with SAP Based ERP

- British American Tobacco, Mauritius and La Re’Union
- Team Lead: Team Size 4 resources
- Development for customizations
- Integration of RP32 Back Office with SAP Based ERP

- Pepsi Qatar (Ali bin Ali establishments)
- Sole makers and distributors of Pepsi and Tropicana Products in Qatar
- Team Lead: Team Size 6 resources
- Development for customizations
- Integration of RP32 Back office with Oracle Based ERP (EMIS)

- Al Ain Dairy, Al Ain, UAE
- The biggest dairy in UAE.
- Team lead: Team Size 5 resources
- Development for Customization using VB
- Development for customizations in Server Application using VB
- and SQL Server 2000. Development of several reports using Crystal Reports

- Qatar National Imports and Exports
- Manufacturers and importers of a huge variety of food items in Qatar
- Team Lead: Team size 7 resources
- Migration of RP32 Server application from MS SQL Server 2000 to Oracle 9i. RP32 Server application contains more than 200 Tables in the database

Deputy Project Manager at CSI Soft
  • Pakistan - Lahore
  • July 2000 to June 2004

- Deputy Project Manager of Communication Systems International
- Worked as a Deputy Project Manager and a Senior Software Engineer.
- Developed Different Company Procedures including “Change Management”, “Task Assignment”, “Data Validation” and “Requirement Analysis”
- Developed an area of HLD (High Level Design) for different modules including those of Transactions, Suppliers, and Bank Accounts using Rational Rose
- The product we were currently developing is for our USA client Feizy Rugs. The product is related to the rugs business .It deals with the sales, purchases, Accounts payable and receivable, Inventory control, Company, Vendor, Supplier, Designer, and Customer profiles and the Rugs themselves. I have developed the Supplier, Vendor, Customer and Designer Profiles, the Items Modules, Purchases Orders, Payable Invoices and Invoice Distribution. Again I have developed all the reports for this Application using Seagate Crystal Reports 7.0

Senior Software Engineer at Visionary Computer Solutions
  • Pakistan - Lahore
  • August 1998 to June 2000

- Worked as a Software Engineer using Visual Basic having Oracle at its back end. We used the COM technology to make it a distributed application.

Education

Bachelor's degree, Software Engineering
  • at FAST - National University of COmputer and Emerging Sciences
  • December 2000

Specialties & Skills

Management
MS Project
SQL Server
Software Development
VB .NET
Crystal Reports
C# .NET
MS Office
SQL Server 2005
MS Project

Languages

English
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