Project Manager Software Engineer

Fahad Nizam Siddiqui

S/O Nizam Uddin Siddiqui

Flat# 126, Phase II / C-2, Haroon Royal City,

Blk-17, Gulistan-e-Johar,

Karachi, Pakistan.

Landline: +92-021-********

Cell: +92-313-*******

Email: ********@*****.***

Career Objective

To obtain a responsible and challenging position in a progressive,

professionally managed and an esteemed organization where I can utilize my

innovative engineering skills and work experience more provocatively to

become an invaluable asset wherever I go.

Experience

May 2010 - till date

Matchstick Dev

Chief Technical Officer

. Managing the team so they can better utilize their skills

. Dealing all technical queries from client and resolving them with the

team

. Developing to some extent to build-up the initial framework /

structure of a project

. Analyzing the future aspects of large scale projects and advising the

clients to scale/ restructure network before time

. Provide trainings and technical knowledge related to open source

development, system design and system architecture to the team members

through seminars and discussion sessions

Projects

. Treehouse-in.com

A community (still development phase) for coaches and mentees where

they can easily find & meet, setup sessions, arrange appointments and

join events related to their branches and network.

Tools: PHP, MYSQL, Ajax, JQuery, Twitter API, RSS, JSON

. Dreampaints.com

A website of an artist displaying the portfolio where all the painting

are categorized according to their genre handled by a CMS and a

gallery to display all of the paintings

Tools: PHP, Mysql, Ajax, LightBox,

. MKAutocare.co.uk

A CMS based online bookings for a automobile service shop, uses PayPal

to take advance booking fees.

Tools: PHP,MYSQL, JQuery,PayPal,XHTML,CSS

. TimeSvr.com

A time/tasks management tool for people who are either too busy to do-

it-all or not so techie to do it themselves. Client post tasks / set

reminders on their dashboard which is handled through a well

structured tool to get their tasks done in time.

Tools:PHP, Mysql, JQuery, Ajax, PayPal, IMAP,

. Xplore-Solutions.com

A consultancy & advising company's static website on how technology

and digital media can help businesses meet their ambitions and

objectives by using social media tactics

Tools:PHP, XHTML, CSS, JQuery

. Innov-eight.com

A recruiting company which that specializes in the supply of temporary

Driving, Warehouse and Commercial personnel throughout the UK, driving

vacancies managed through a CMS (waiting to deploy)

Tools: PHP, MYSQL, JQuery, XHTML, CSS

. Repairandgo.com

An online job management portal for jobs posting and bidding.

Tools :PHP, MySql, Javascript, Ajax, PayPal

. FalseVictim.com

A website for an individual who wanted to share his media files in a

categorized and chronological representation form, so he can easily

access any event in time. Implementation of 3D tagging of events and

media

Tools: PHP, Mysql, Ajax, JQuery

. MTCSolicotors.com

A static website featuring the case studies and info covering all

areas of criminal law, ranging from murder and terrorism to the

simplest crimes.

Tools: PHP, XHTML, CSS, JQuery

Products

. Matchstickhosting.com

A product to manage and sell hosting solution with multiple hosting

packages, provides VPS servers with a complete control panel to manage

domain, DB, FTP, bandwidth, storage. Also has an added feature of

domain registration (in alpha testing)

Tools: PHP, MYSQL, Ajax, JSON, Namecheap API, ISPCP (open source)

. vCreateproperty.com

A micro site creator for marketing properties of Real Estate Agencies,

completely dynamic website with a strong CMS to fill in content,

select theme and advanced location-based mapping (in beta testing)

Tools: PHP, MYSQL, JQuery, Ajax, JSON, Namecheap API, PayPal, Google

Maps API

March 2009 - February 2011

The Brains (Pvt) Ltd.

Project Manager

. Started off as a Senior Software Engineer and was promoted Project

Coordinator, then to Project Manager with in the same year.

. Responsibilities include analyzing projects according to resources and

time span

. Handling all large scale projects from specs finalizing till delivery

. Managing the coordinators and their respective teams to deliver work

on time and up to the standard

Projects

In-house Websites

. Brainstech.com, SocialFactory.net, FacebookGuru.co.uk,

InkaTechnology.co.uk, Facebookguru.com, Facebookguru.net: websites

which displayed company's identity, work, services and portfolio

. ItsAboutiPhone.co.uk: Blog based on latest news on iPhone and its

competitor

. LogoJin.com A website for logo designing services.

Tools: Word Press, PHP, MYSQL, AJAX, JavaScript, JQuery, 2CO

In-house Products

. Ohlalashopping.co.uk

An online shopping portal for UK which uses Shopping.com 's API to

fetch all the latest deals and best prices for latest products

Tools: PHP, Shopping.com API, cURL, XML

. Souq4cars.com

A car selling and buying portal for consumers targeting the Middle

East and Europe areas.

Tools: PHP, MySql,Ajax, jQuery

. AutoSpace24.com

A complete auto portal for buying and selling all types of automobiles

ranging from bikes, cars to trucks, vans. Focused mainly for car

dealers/showrooms

Tools: PHP, Mysql, Ajax, JQuery

. ShoppingMonster.com

A B2B shopping portal with multi level categories and products,

integrated with a messaging system to allow businesses to communicate

easily (Still under development)

Tools: PHP, Mysql, JQuery, PayPal, Google Checkout

Websites

. Premiersocialmedia.com

A blog based on the latest happening around the world within the

Social Media community.

Tools: PHP, MYSQL, Word Press

. TwitClan.com

A community of twitter users where they can create Clans of their own

and use them to read and post tweets to that Clan using hash tags.

Tools: PHP, MYSQL, Twitter API, XML, RSS, JSON, cURL

. E-memoz.com

A website for people who want to share their feelings to their

friends, family or loved ones through a video recording and deliver it

after or during their life time, also has feature to send their e-

wills to lawyer. It's an online memory repository for people either in

military, old age homes or any other place.

Tools: PHP, MYSQL, RED5, RTMP, Video Streaming & Recording, PayPal,

FBconnect

. VAComputerGuy.com

A website for an online presence of a business which deals in all

types of computer related issues, integrated blog for latest posts.

Tools: PHP, MYSQL, Word Press

. Lakeboutique.com

A dynamic fashion boutique website, selling branded products. A fully

CMS based website handling all pages' content, images and products.

Complete with an admin section to add, delete or modify more

categories and their products.

Tools: Word Press, PHP, MYSQL, AJAX, JavaScript

. Greeneconomychicago.com

A social interactive website having the idea for a Greener and more

Eco-friendly environment. The site revolves around the basic concept

of an "idea" which has many related links, events and even discussion

boards to further talk about the idea. Has on site registration as

well as integrated with FB Connect.

Tools: PHP, Joomla 1.5, MYSQL, AJAX, JavaScript, FB Connect, Agora

forums

Facebook Applications

. Trials of Azuran: A MORPG where players battle against each other in a

fantasy world to get the highest rank. Battle consists of spells and

weapon attacks. This app made for ProjectQuest.co.uk

. Football Champions:A managerial football app includes setting up team,

traingin players, buying players, getting flares and boost for team.

App made for Cyber Sports sponsors includes British Telecom (BT

Vision).

. Sell My Mobile: uses DirectTrack API to signup affiliates who sells

mobiles through the app for SellMyMobile.com

. Fmylife: uses the Fmylife.com API which interacts with the main site

for content

. Tick green: verifies green websites from tickgreen.com and places a

badge

. Tech Knowledge: multi-category quiz which ranks users based on their

scores

. Sharitable: for users that share their belongings and friends can

borrow them

. Status Quo: compares statuses of friends & app users and shows the %

match

. Joshua Radin: promotional app for singer's new album by Warner Brother

. World Winner: app for football match schedules, results & live scores, also vote your favorite team made for winner.com

. Guess the Label: an promotional app for GetTheLabel.com based on

quizzes

. Can You Serve: voting app for a reality TV show in Singapore

. Business Directory: app for businesses and customers to build

directories based on interest and working fields

. Smoke Free Counter: app to help people to quit smoking, keeps record

of how many days you were smoke-free.

. Face Value: a social buying, selling & auctioning app which links to

its main site

. Kids Bible: designed to test knowledge of Genesis, based on six

quizzes made from the "Animated Kids Bible" series.

. Dream On: app is for the ones who want to keep a record of your

dreams, tag your dreams and get help from friends to achieve it.

Tools: DW, PHP, Mysql, AJAX, XML, RSS, HTML, CSS, FB API, FBML, FQL,

PayPal,Google checkout, Offer Pal & Peanut Labs credits integration,

DirectTrack Affliate API

Facebook Connect websites

. FabOccassion.com: an e-card sending site which imports all your

friends info from FB

. GottaDoThis.com: shares your to-do list with your friends on FB

. GreenEconomychicago.com: a website which promotes "green"eco friendly

ideas, uses FB connect for signup.

. Footballsuperstars.com : a football game site uses FB connect to share

scores and ranking to friends

Tools: PHP,MYSQL,FB API, FB connect, Ajax

Facebook Fanpages

. YTL Hotels:page for the YTL hotels group, high lighting their hotels

and services

. Can You Serve: page for fans of the reality tv show in singapore

. Amazing Hoops: page for fans of the hula exercising hoops

. It's About iPhone : fan page for the followers of itsaboutiphone.co.uk

blog

. Quaker Oats Campaign: campaign on the fan page for sending messages to

Quaker Oats

Tools: PHP, MYSQL, FB API, Ajax,JSON

July 2008 - October 2008

Axact (pvt) ltd.

Associate Software Architect

. Responsibilities include Study/Analyze Functional Specification of

respective feature and create best suitable system design for the

feature

. Provide technical knowledge to the members and other staff

. Planning, identifying the system architecture, Research and

Development for indepth analysis of systems

Projects

. Staropia

A new and upcoming online community site. My responsibilities included

analysis & system design of the entire project; from the very basics

to the full detailed extend of the project, distribution of modules

and managing the team for the project, setting up the framework /

skeleton of the project. Also study and identify the architecture &

design of the system that includes databases, storage and application

servers and further requirements.

Tools: Dreamweaver, PHP, MYSQL, JavaScript, CSS, HTML

. GOEVO, OEAC (Online Education Accreditation Commission), IOA

(International Accreditation Organization)

Online educational projects dealing with virtual learning and

accreditation of virtual universities to a degree awarding body. My

responsibility was to streamline the registration process of the

students and institutions, analysis of the registration process to

gather and process the info in a well structured process, also

included architecture design of database and system design.

Tools: Visual Studio 2005, ASP.NET, MS SQL Server, C#, JavaScript,

HTML

. Mobile Device Application

An application for students which is used to study and give quizzes

using their mobile devices for MUST University

(http://www.mustuniversity.com). Basic responsibilities were to do R&D

(research and development) and develop a proto type of the

application. Research included which platform to use, which technology

to use and mobile device compatibles for the technology used. Overall

system flow and design of the proto-type application.

Tools: Eclipse with mobility pack, S40 and S60 SDKs, J2ME, XML, PHP,

MySQL

August 2005 - June 2008

iVentster Inc

Senior Software Engineer

. iVentster Inc is an Internet and Research Company founded in 2005.

Online portfolios include Xuqa.com (http://xuqa.com) and PeanutLabs

(http://peanutlabs.com).

. Started off as a software engineer and was responsible for managing

entire development team of Xuqa.com.

. Xuqa.com is a community website providing features of social

networking & casual gaming, funded by BV Capital.

(http://www.bvcapital.com/portfolio/show/xuqa-com).

. Designed and developed entire project which is currently supporting

more than 1.5 million of user-base and more than one million page

views per day.

. In-charge of designing and identifying the system architecture and

design that includes databases, application interaction, caching

mechanism etc.

. Applied software engineering methodologies like UML, flowchart etc to

develop a respective feature and to create the best suitable solution

and design for it..

. Responsibilities include managing a team and providing guidelines from

development phase to deployment phase.

. Also playing an active role as an IT analyst, to create and identify

the best business model for the project, achievement includes taking

revenues from $0 to $70,000 per month.

Projects

. XuQa.Com

It's an online community network of more than 1.5 million user base

and more than a million pages views per day. It's developed in an open

source environment using LAMP architecture. My responsibilities

include managing the entire development team for the project. Also

study and identify the architecture and design of the system that

includes databases, application model etc. Have played an active role

in scaling the product over multiple web servers and databases.

Tools: Zend, DW,PHP, MYSQL, Memcache, JavaScript, AJAX, CSS, HTML

Technical Skill Set

Business Skills / Experience

. System Development and Management

. Research & Development (Information Technology)

. Good Knowledge of LAMP architecture and server side services

Product, Tools, Skills

. PHP 4/5.x

. C/C++

. JAVASCRIPT

. AJAX

. JQuery

. JSON

. XML

. HTML / XHTML

. CSS

. Apache

. MYSQL

. Linux

. Shell scripting (Unix/Linux based programming)

. SVN (subversion)

. Dreamweaver 8, DW2000, DW CS2 DW CS3

. Eclipse

. Microsoft Visio (Microsoft tool for drawing business and technical

drawing)

. Rational Rose (IBM product for UML Modeling)

Education

Bachelor of Science (Computer Engineering), 2001 - 2004

Sir Syed University of Engineering & Technology (SSUET)

Karachi, Pakistan

Secured CGPA 3.34

Inter Science Pre-Engineering, 2000

Saudi Arabian International School (SAIS)

Al-Khobar, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia

Matriculation Science Group, 1998

Saudi Arabian International School (SAIS)

Al-Khobar, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia

Courses

Completed MCAD (VB.NET, ASP.NET) training course from CIT in May 2004

Completed SA2 (Linux System Administration) training course from CTTC in

August 2004

Hobbies and Interest

Mostly reading books and articles, watching movies TV shows; also have

interests in mobile communication, latest gadgets and technologies.

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