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Shahzad Sarwar phone: +92-42-6533898 cell: +92-3004762901 e-mail: shahzadsb@yahoo.com www: http://shahzadsb.wordpress.com A challenging Software Consultant who has worked as Software Engineer/Tech Lead/ Solution Architect in Software infrastructure by delivering for enterprise computing and distributed architecture while directly contributing to the organizational needs and goals. Skills Summary:    Total more then 9 years of experience of software development/implementation. Around 2 years of experience of Project/Product Management. Almost 3 years of experience as Solutions Consultant/Architect.  System Architecture Skills     Experienced in System Analysis, Design and Development and managing project and teams, also thorough knowledge of UML and its processes. Strong interpersonal and communication skills with a proven record of teamwork. Development of functional analysis responsive to regulators and projects specific requirements and actions related to specific customer developments; evaluation of customer needs and market opportunities. Interface with users and beta testers to define applications requirements, advises on alternate methods of solving needs or problems, or recommends specific solutions; Participates in evaluation of enhancements. Analyses requirements to determine feasibility of design within time and cost constraints; Coordinates technical product development and manages day-to-day progress of development and testing for the applications. Consultancy at customers, supporting their information requests and queries. Major sectors experienced as following: . Automotive: CRM, E-business automation. . E-government: E-government task in ministries in government organizations. . Telecom: Telecom Billing and Telephony soft interfaces. . ERP: Inventory, HR, Payroll, Ledger, customized industry specific processes.     Media: Media encoding and streaming technologies. Collaboration: CDO, Active directory, TAPI, CTI, CDR processing technologies. E-Security: Information system security practices, tools and technologies specially Verisign solutions. SUN Development Stack Skills:  IDE: Eclipse, Dreamweaver, NuSphere PhpED  Languages: PHP 4.x / 5.x  Designing: Visio 2000 / ER-Win 3.5  GUI: HTML, DHTML, CSS, Java script, Smarty  Web Servers: IIS 6 / IIS 7 , Apache  Source Control: Visual SourceSafe 2000/ 2005 , CVS  Databases: Oracle 8i / 9i, MS SQL 2000/2005/ 2008, MySql 4.x / 5.x  DB designing/normalization of over 100 tables in various business domains.  Experienced in inline queries, store procedures, triggers  Optimization and analysis of execution plans and SQL profile logs.  Deployment: Cuteftp, Wise Installation System  Payment Gateway: Paypal, Authorize.net, 2Checkout  O/R Mapping:  CakePHP  eZ Components  Business Architecture Skills     Technical Architecture Skills  PHP Extensions Used: Apache, COM, Date/Time, DOM, GeoIP, IIS, ImageMagick LDAP, Mimetype, Mssql, MySQL, Network, Sessions, Streams Zlib PHP Frameworks Used:  Pear  Smarty  eZ Components  CakePHP  PHPMVC  SAJAX PHP Products Customized:  OSCommerce  Mambo  Joomla  Drupal  Wordpress   Work Experience:  As Freelance Consultant Jan 2000-Current Working as freelance consultant for Fancydeals , FancyTech and DH Software Solutions. Environment: MS .Net plus Sun LAMP practices.  As Principal Software Engineer for TRG, www.trgworld.com and Palmchip, www.palmchip.com Feb 2008-May 2009 TRG, Technology Resource Group is a outsource center for software development.  Major Project: Customer support portal for TRG group of companies, www.trgworld.com It includes Test/Survey application, Learning Management System and other technical support modules. Environment: MS .Net practices with C# and SQL Server 2005/2008. Palmchip is a USA based outsource center for software development.  Explored and demonstrated LINQ, Dynamic data, data services.  Translating requirements into design for medium complexity systems  To devise test plans and test methodology for medium complexity systems  To accurately estimate effort involved in completing assigned tasks  Major Project: Customer support portal for ARC International, www.arc.com It includes licensing, CRM, technical support modules. Environment: Sun LAMP Plus MS .Net practices.  As freelance consultant for Archimedes Ltd. www.archimedes-ltd.co.uk Jan 2007 Feb 2008  Leading development of projects and working as a lead engineer with focus on third party financial APIs like Danski Bank, Dibs and Pay pal.  Major Project:  GogoPay, www.gogopay.com: A Swedish micro payment system which provides way to pay for goods or services online without disclosing your personal information and financial details. Gogopay is B2C and B2B N-tier web application, which incorporates billing application, web service and windows service technologies. 2   Environment: Sun LAMP practices with PHP and MySQL 4.x As Principal Software Engineer for Uraan Software Solutions www.uraan.net April 2006 – Dec 2006  Involved in business process reengineering and consultancy for selecting the right solution  Analysis, design and managing development and implementation of surveillance solution.  Analyzed and Developed e-commerce and CMS solutions including: www.wedcam.co.uk , www.lowpaycard.com , www.redpocketmobile.com www.travelervideos.com , www.web-idol.tv , www.rockandice.com www.ttimedical.com , www.bvissb.vg , www.businessbvi.com www.current-computer.com , www.compassnav.com  Major Projects:  FlexCollab: on-demand web conferencing solution for Project collaboration and Remote assistance. It supports audio, video, text chat, whiteboard sharing, document sharing, screen recording, polling, quizzing and web browser sharing.  Perimeter guard system: is an integrated system consisting of military grade sensors, robust digital surveillance cameras, loud sirens, strobes, lasers, high illuminating lights, radio frequency identification readers and a control center. System was developed in C# with extensive system API usage.  FlexAV: A portal that allows users to search, watch, rate, and share streaming videos, pictures and articles from different travel destinations around the world. It also consists of a social networking aspect allowing users to search, add, and message other registered users.  Environment:  Sun LAMP practices with PHP and MySQL 5.x  MS .Net practices with VB/C# and SQL Server 2005 As Senior Software engineer for Ghost software www.ghost-software.com March 2005 – April 2006  Developed license management module which provide 100% safe licensing model for software components.  Developed and implemented various modules of Telecom billing software.  Analysis, design and managing development of custom projects in VOIP, CTI and Call center solutions.  Major Projects:  Data popping suite: this product provides functionality of user device monitoring, call capturing and popping of contacts/ related data records. It also covers license management and third party application drivers like Goldmine, MS Outlook, MS Access and Sage ACT.  EXEGESIS, www.unionstreet.uk.com: It is an integrated call management system, which enables companies to gain and accurate breakdown of their telephone expenditure by Site, User, Department or Cost Centre. Environment: Sun LAMP Plus MS .Net practices. As Software Consultant/Chief Programmer for Native Solutions Al-Asila www.alasila.com Riyadh, KSA April 2001 – August 2004  Handled and performance tuned MS streaming server for live and video on demand.  Provided consultancy for e-security products of verisgin.  Developed administrative modules for content publishing and co-operative automation.  Major Projects:   3 Native Archive covers the needs of news archiving for government organizations. It provides complete management of authors, editors, sources, publishers and news republishing mechanisms.  Arselha is a marketing tool that handles bulk sms, logo and ring tone sending to customers. Also implemented many pull and push services for public info like prayer times, weather, news alerts.  E-Government / e-security services for following clients: . NCCI, National Company Co-operation insurance, KSA . SCT, Supreme Commission for Tourism, KSA . Ministry of Agriculture, KSA . Ministry of Information and Culture, KSA . Riyadh Chamber of Commerce & Industry, KSA Environment: Sun LAMP practices with PHP, LDAP, SQL Server, Oracle / MySql.  As Software Engineer for Softtrack Technologies/Asyst www.softrack.com.pk Jan 2000 – April 2001  Major Projects:  ServiceWerks™ comprised of DayWerks™, SalesWerks™ and ShopWerks™. DayWerks™: Scheduling application of customer for managing appointment with service providers and service package management. SalesWerks™: CRM application features customer record management, market analysis, contacts tracking and reporting. ShopWerks™: Complete backend management for service providers and parts providers includes shift management, parts inventory, quotation processing for service and parts, sales and purchase tracking.  ERP Module: Payroll, inventory, tracking and planning for accounts. Environment: MS practices with ASP, VB, SQL Server, and Oracle 8i  Qualification/ Certification:  Bachelor of Computer Science (BCS) Institute of Computer Science, Karachi. (FAST-ICS) 1997-1999  MCP, Microsoft Certified Professional. Developing and Implementing Web Applications with Microsoft® Visual C#™ .NET Seminars/Training  UniCERT Certification Authority product, Training sessions /seminars June 2004 Baltimore Technologies, Riyadh, KSA  Telecom Billing - Forensics Technologies Dec-2005 – Jan 2006 Union Street Technologies Ltd, www.unionstreet.uk.com , London UK Contact: Address: House No 135, Street No-6 New canal park, Harbans Pura Lahore Pakistan Phones: Cell: +92-3004762901 Home: +92-42-6533898 E-Mail: shahzadsb@yahoo.com www: http://shahzadsb.wordpress.com Personal Inside: A dynamic, visionary, talented leader, skilled manager, Software Consultant that can inspire with confidence and respect, grasps ideas and concepts quickly, is adept at organizing complex projects, recognizes or creates solutions to problems, believes in setting and achieving goals, and possesses the integrity and commitment to high quality performance that produces outstanding results of lasting value. Single, enjoys music and movies, adventure travel, reading books and net surfing. 4