Project Software Engineer

FAUZIA S. ABBASI

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SUMMARY

Seeking a position as Program Director/Manager that utilizes my project

management strengths in many facets - IT development, infrastructure

planning, business development and software engineering. Keen knowledge of

company's policies and goals provides sound understanding of organizational

requirements and in translating them to business requirements. Effective

leadership and mentoring skills creates strong motivated teams and quality

products.

LEGAL STATUS

US citizen.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Project Management Process: Agile Methodology, Project and People

Management, Risk Management, Change Management,

Resource Allocation, Release Management, System

Management, Budget Management, Quality

Management and Customer Relationship Management

(CRM), Process Improvement.

Application Tools: Sharepoint - MOSS 2007, Microsoft Office Suite

(Excel, Outlook, Project, PowerPoint, Visio,

Word), VersionOne and Wiki.

Technology: Operating Systems (UNIX, Linux, NT, Windows), Servers (HP,

Compaq, DEC, SUN).

Development Languages: C/C++, Perl, Ruby on Rails, Java, Psql

and POSIX Shell.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Sr. Software Engineer, HEWLETT-PACKARD, NJ

2003 - 2009

Technical Management

. Managed HP's n-tier software, Serviceguard projects that provides

business and mission critical applications with 24x7 high availability

and recovery from system failures, running on both: HP-UX and Linux.

. Managed geographically diverse team of 7-10 development/test engineers

and managers to implement Serviceguard Projects utilizing Agile

methodology to track progress of the projects. Involved in

investigation, scoping, design, implementation, documentation and

overseeing successful completion through the release. Provided project

tracking, risk/budget analysis, sizing and estimation of task lists

for team members, resource allocation and responsible for managing the

closeout and retrospective meetings.

. Hands-on experience in designing and developing the projects utilizing

C and Java on Unix and Linux platforms. Developed the test case

documentation and implemented the test case scenarios using Object-

oriented Perl. The projects were implemented using Agile methodology

where each task of the project was developed as a "card deck". Heavily

involved in scrum and brainstorming sessions, coding and testing of

the "card deck", and tracking the velocity trend of the project.

. Analyzed Customer Requirements and acted as a Facilitator between high-

end stake holders: Project Managers, Technical Teams, Customer

Relations, Client Representatives and Support Engineers to ensure the

accurate translation of business requirements to engineering

requirements. Designed and delivered MS Powerpoint presentation to

Partners, Field Review and Support teams in a true global environment

spanning business consultants all over the world. Designed and

delivered training material used by Marketing teams to understand and

promote the projects. Main Projects included:

o The Application Maintenance Project: Reduced the maintenance

outage time of a high availability Serviceguard cluster by 95%

thus helping the customers upgrade their critical applications

while it was online.

o The Modular Package Project: Allowed configuration of

applications on multiple systems at the same time thereby

reducing the engineering time by 50%.

o The Cross-Subnet Project: Allowed a highly available application

to be associated with more than one subnet configured on

different nodes of the cluster. This ensured that 100% high

availability of an application due to a failure of a subnet.

o The Powerfail Testing Tool Project: Diagnosed and resolved

seamless transfer of a cluster package from one node to another

due to power failure of network hub or node. The tool required

test automation to detect the type of HP Enterprise servers (HP

9000 series, Proliant, Blade Servers, N-Class and Integrity) and

perform powerfail tests accordingly.

o HP Infrastructure and SDLC training Process: Implemented a

training infrastructure for new hires and interns to integrate

in HP environment and to get a quickstart in SDLC process.

Tracked the status and progress of the new employees via

VersionOne to ensure their productive integration in the new

environment.

. HP Lab Administration and Management: Designed and implemented a lab

with HP Enterprise Servers including NPARs, VPARs, HPVM, standalone

and clustered HPUX and Linux systems.

o Developed a repository of Microsoft Visio documents describing

clusters, networks and disk details.

o Developed and managed quarterly lab budget reports.

o Successfully managed two migrations of entire lab infrastructure

to support HP's consolidation plans.

. Web Services Consultant - Developed and designed Portal Technology

that worked as an internal Serviceguard framework allowing web

applications and project schedules/documents to access database

information in a graphical, user-friendly format. Responsibilities

included:

o Served as System Administrator for Internal Portal issues.

o Enhanced Portal features by implemented engineering requests to

Portal features and requirements. Implementations done in Python

and Ruby on Rails.

Senior Software Engineer, Compaq Computer Corp, NJ

1997 - 2003

. Led a team for CAA (Cluster Application Availability Software for

Tru64 Unix) API Project. This required mapping customer requirements

to engineering requirements, developing and implementing the API in

C++.

. Led a Project to Port CAA code from Tru64 Unix to HP-UX. This required

investigating the difference in OS header files, libraries, STL C++,

Makefiles, Complier flags and options.

Software Engineer, Digital Equipment Corp, NJ

1995 - 1997

. Responsible of Command Line and Graphical User Interface for Tru64

Unix System management utilities: Network Configuration, Bind

Configuration, Printer Configuration and NTP Configuration. This

project utilized Tcl/Tk software.

. Imported sendmail to Tru64 Unix. Added SPAM/Email Redirection rules to

sendmail configuration file to comply with Tru64 Unix.

EDUCATION

MS, Computer Engineering, Rutgers - The State University of New Jersey,

Piscataway, NJ

Master's Certificate in Project Management, George Washington University,

Washington, DC

Certificate for Writing Children's Books, Institute of Children's

Literature, West Redding, CT

PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATION

Cultural Arts Representative for Spotswood PTA Board (2001-2009):

. Research the current Spotswood Borough Language Arts program and map a

tantamount Cultural Arts Program.

. Coordinate author presentation series for Spotswood School District

and arrange writing workshops for middle/high school students.

. Organize science workshops and educational shows for elementary and

middle schools.

. Manage PTA Budgets and presented distribution of monetary assets for

Cultural Arts.

FREELANCE WORK

. Technical and Recreational Writer, Web Designer: www.focusskills.com

PATENT

Patent: US Patent 5724072 (March 1998) - Computer-implemented method and

apparatus for automatic curved labeling of point features.

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