Project Manager Developer

Omar Azam

**********@*******.*** Creative Software Developer, Consummate Team Player

OBJECTIVE:

I am looking to design and develop systems that leverage data into

meaningful results for networked applications. I love being part of a

smart, creative, and down-to-earth group. I have a broad range of talents,

from personal to technical, and I love to add value and elegance to

systems.

SUMMARY:

. Expert in front- and back-end systems, client-server to web to desktop,

multi-threaded and rich interface

. Single-handed, but personable and excellent at teaching, thrive in cross-

functional teams

. Debugs complex systems, refactors code-jungles, eases maintenance,

targeted and communicative

. Hands-on, but also very conceptual and analytical, proactively recognizes

and improves systems

. Handles mutliple roles in the face of diverse, demanding clients and

problems, consistently promoted

TECHNICAL SKILLS AND KNOWLEDGE:

. LANGUAGES: C#, T-SQL, Regex, JavaScript, PHP, XHTML, XML, Java/J2EE,

PL/SQL

. DEVELOPMENT TOOLS: Visual Studio, DevExpress, SQL Server, MySQL,

Graphics/Design, SVN, VSS, NUnit, Object and Data Modeling, SPSS, JQuery,

IIS, Active Directory, WebSphere, ant

. ARCHITECTURE AND METHODOLOGIES: Winforms, ASP.NET, Remoting, Web 2.0, Web

Services, OOAD, Refactoring, UML, RDBMS, Design Patterns, MVC, Iterative,

Waterfall, Open source, TDD, Interop, J2EE

. NON-TECHNICAL: Training, Estimation, Business Analysis, Requirements

Analysis, Resource Planning

WORK EXPERIENCE:

TJM Brokerage and Trade Services

2007 - PRESENT

Senior Software Developer / Development Lead / Architect

Part of small group of architects/developers/support personnel. Key

projects/systems/responsibilities:

Automated FTP Downloading Service

. Replace a patchwork of batch programs with a multi-threaded server that

downloads, decrypts, decompresses, and distributes hundreds of files daily

according to configurable schedule and rules.

. Incorporate email alerts, searchable logs, real-time remote monitoring,

command line interpreter, Remoting APIs, and desktop app with real-time

execution allowing tech support group and client integration

Data Warehousing

. Suite of engines parse > 100 flat files from 20 vendors daily with > 5000

fields and 1 million data points

. BULK INSERT, Triggers, sp's, and UDF provide validation, conversion, and

optimization services

. Mission-critical daily reports to businesses with $500m in assets, in

email, s/ftp, html formats

Server Administration

. Maintenance Plans, Backup/Restore, Domain, Webserver, S/FTP, PGP, and

group access policies

. Multiple database servers totaling over 200GB, with daily growth of 100MB

Desktop Applications

. Unified data viewer hits hundreds of tables for managers to manipulate,

reorganize, visualize, and save data from diverse vendors within canned and

custom scenarios, rolled out to executive and auditors

. Custom charting controls with declarative and automated 3-dimensional

visualization of trading trends

. Improved month-end reports performance from 60 seconds to 1 second using

caching controls and sp's

. Flexible Reconciler allows employees to generate consistent accounting

from diverse spreadsheets

. Chat solution with rich controls, P2P assymetric encryption and secure

memory access

. First and last-point technical support of business-critical, always-on

software applications

Automated Financial Reporting

. Declarative scripting of database reports, including retrieval, collation

and distribution

. Over 50 business-critical reports daily to hundreds of clients and

business owners

Enterprise Business Rules Server

. Calculate holidays and expiration dates to perform date validation across

all data sources and applications

. MD5 hashing service and API that allows program to avoid data and file

duplication errors

Corporate Website

. ASP.net with WYSIWYG content management tools that allowed management to

edit their own material

. Document repository that allows targeted document sharing among brokers

Bank of America (formerly ABN AMRO)

2000 - 2007

SENIOR SOFTWARE CONSULTANT / TECHNICAL PROJECT MANAGER

Primarily iJ2EE web applications, project-based, with large, multi-

stakeholder international teams

Customer Enrollment Solutions

. Drew up technical requirement documents and ran design sessions, ran

status meetings and code reviews

. Developed Employee Bank Enrollment solution, gaining 50+ business

resellers in 2 years. Won international innovation award, presented to

executives from Banco Real, Brazil

. Delivered Web Banking Solution on-time while coordinating 3 concurrent

development teams and 4 overlapping releases; managed offshore resources.

Improved performance100%, functionality 25%

Workflow and Paper-Reduction Solutions

. "New Hire" HR Solution automated work required by 7 departments.

Delivered within 5% budget

. Emergency PeopleSoft upgrade extensions interfacing with Global HR LDAP

to 20,000 staff in 2 months

. Product Manager of Telephone Procurement Solution, enabling customers,

technicians, and management to seamlessly communicate using web and email,

providing real-time statuses and performance metrics.

Content Management Solutions

. Variety of custom and packaged solutions to enable 30 BU's across the

enterprise to manage their content

. Lead and developed 3 Enterprise Intranet portal projects, increased use

of portal from 20 to 98%

UsatWork.com 1999 -

2000

SENIOR WEB DEVELOPER

Built n-tier, business-critical web applications for internet portal and

search engine.

. Designed ASP/MSSQL search engine applications for databases with over 10

million records

. Supervised 3 developers and junior staff in ASP, SQL, design, website

architecture, and QA

. Developed phonebook scraping engines and weighted keyword search

algorithms

Specklewood Web Solutions

1996 - PRESENT

Owner / INDEPENDENT CONSULTANT

. Web 2.0/social networking/mobile technologies that leverage open source

architectures

. Analysis, architecture, design and development for University of Chicago,

Illinois Tech, local businesses, Dish Network, Kitchens.com, Chicago Sun-

Times, and non-profit health and human service organizations

EDUCATION:

Illinois Institute of Technology

2000

M.S. in Psychology. Published and presented research papers, ran

laboratory, heavy interviewing workload.

Northwestern University

1996

B.A. in Psychology and Spanish Language and Literature. Independent studies

in social psychology

OTHER INTERESTS AND ACCOMPLISHMENTS:

I am a musician and a poet. I like to hike, meditate, do yoga, volunteer

and spend time with my family. I have published scholarly and literary

papers and music, and am active on MSDN forums/blogosphere.

REFERENCES AVAILABLE UPON REQUEST.

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