Project Manager Software Engineer

Hazem Mahsoub Soliman

* *** ** ****** ** Sharkawi St. #2, Giza-12211

Tel: 202-***-****, (201*-***-****

E-mail: *****@*******.***, ********@*****.***

Objective: Seeking position as a Development Team Lead using skills in analysis, design,

and leading development projects to deliver innovative solutions.

Professional Summary: Over 10 years professional experience, in Egypt and United States,

with a focus on Internet-based applications and leading edge technologies. Reputation for

excellent technical and leadership skills. Acknowledged as creative and insightful with a

record of responding quickly with novel plans and solutions.

Web Programming: Java, Servlets & JSP, ASP, HTML, DHTML, JavaScript, CSS, XML, XSL.

Programming Languages: Java, C, C++, Visual BASIC.

RDBMS: MS SQL, Oracle, DB2, MS Access, FoxPro.

ORM: Hibernate, Versant.

Tools: Visual Studio, WebSphere Studio, Visio, System Architect, NuMega ASP Profiler,

Test Wizard, Script Driver.

Team Tools: Visual SourceSafe, MS Project, RAID, Product Studio, Rational ClearCase,

Rational ClearQuest.

Operating Systems: Windows 95/98/ME/NT/2000/XP, UNIX/Linux.Professional Experience:

IBM EgyptSolution Lead2004- Present

Cairo-Alex Rd., Giza

Managed developers and successfully prioritized, scheduled, and assigned various tasks

resulting in timely implementation.

Key member in planning and estimating complexity and effort for various project tasks.

Applied a CMM approved development process, including producing modeling artifacts,

applying reviews at different stages of the software life cycle, resulting in high quality

software products.

Interviewed applicants and participated in hiring decisions.

IT Specialist

Member of TPMS development team, a J2EE/DB2 Web-based Application.

Gained experience in WebSphere Application Server, WebSphere Studio, DB2, Rational

ClearCase, Rational ClearQuest,

Gained experience in Hibernate, Spring Framework.

Implemented J2EE design patterns, such as Data Access Object, Business Objects,

Application Service, and Dynamic Transfer Object.

Raeed for IT

Project Manager2004

Nasr City, Cairo

Successfully prioritized, scheduled, and assigned various projects resulting in timely

implementation and increased productivity.

Managed and mentored a group of developers, designers, and testers.

Interviewed applicants and participated in hiring decisions.

Increased productivity and quality of developed software by applying a standard

development process and relevant document templates.

Studied business plans of web sites / web applications and produced Market Requirement

Documents. Gave feedback covering feasibility and estimate of required development time

and cost.

e-kotob.com

Technical Manager2003

Nasr City, Cairo

Managed developers and as well as other employees and made improvements to work process.

Analyzed work process and wrote a report of problems facing company's growth and proposed

a plan of action.

Wrote six-month plan how to improve the company's productivity and bring it to

profitability.

MicrosoftSoftware Test Engineer2002- 2003

Redmond, Washington

Member of International Office team, testing Office 2003 in Arabic, Hebrew, Thai, and

Hindi in addition to patches for earlier versions.

Created test cases and test plans, and manually tested Office 2003, especially Excel and

SharePoint. Used RAID and Product Studio to follow up bugs till they re fixed.

Automated test cases by creating test scripts using Test Wizard and Script Driver.

Barnes & Noble.com / fatbrain.comSenior Software Engineer1998- 2002

Santa Clara, California

Increased sales by $8 million annually, by leading a project to develop a portal system

that streamlined receiving orders from a learning web site into fatbrain s order-placing

system.

Managed four developers and successfully prioritized, scheduled, and assigned various

projects resulting in timely implementation and increased productivity.

Interviewed and mentored junior developers and participated in hiring decisions.

Increased productivity by developing ASP coding standards, that were adapted company-

wide.

Software Engineer

Gained experience in UML and using CASE tools designing and modeling IX project.

Increased customer base, by supporting Restricted Purchase Order, which ties a Purchase

Order to a list of e-mail addresses and filters out unauthorized users at partner web

sites.

After Barnes & Noble.com acquired fatbrain.com, re-modeled fatbrain s database, as part

of transition efforts, to make both web sites run off the same catalog.

Achieved scalability by reorganizing the database schema over different

databases/servers.

Increased productivity by modularizing several functional areas and turning them into

reusable APIs for the whole web site, such as standard dynamic headers and footers.

Utilized ASP/MS SQL to build internal/external web-based tools such as: an internal tool

for sales employees, to add and manage customers' discounts; a web-based wizard to build

and manage Approval System as part of FindITNowTM solution for partners.

Utilized XML to implement web APIs that streamlined receiving orders from ARIBA and

sending confirmations.

Tailored features of fatbrain s web site and reused it for another web site specially

dedicated to electronic document publishing.

Provided a more manageable platform by converting order process from NuTech to ASP.

SAQQARA Systems, Inc. / STANDARDATASoftware Developer1997- 1998

Sunnyvale, California / Cairo

Designed and developed proprietary log analysis application for Step SearchTM, an online

catalog authoring and publishing application. The application, developed in C, analyzed

large log files and produced statistical information about visitors' search/browse

behavior. Depended heavily on memory management, manipulation of various data structures,

and text parsing.

Member of development team: Created Step Search EnterpriseTM, CGI/Oracle-based version,

and Step Search ProfessionalTM, ASP/MS SQL-based version.

Used MS SQL, ASP, JavaScript, and DHTML to design and develop an efficient authoring

tool.

IBM EgyptC/C++ Programmer1996

Mohandessin, Cairo

Member of development team of Arabic-French version of OS/2 Warp, using C/C++.

Modified APIs to handle Arabic-French code page and maintained backward compatibility

with the Arabic-English code page.

Maintained compatibility with BiDi-aware and non-aware applications.

Internet EgyptInstructor/ Webmaster1996

Garden City, Cairo

Developed Home Pages for clients and provided customer support.

Lectured and trained the courses: "Introduction to UNIX" (covered telnet, ftp, lynx, and

pine) and "Internet Utilities" (covered FTP, Gopher, Eudora, Netscape Navigator, and

Internet Explorer).

Military Service

Reserve Officer, Field Engineer1993- 1995

Cairo/ Alexandria/ Ismaeleya/ Fayed

Computer Related tasks:

Database management in a spare parts warehouse. Used FoxPro 2.5 and Microsoft Office to

supplement Raytheon Inventory systems with reports and internal tools.

Education: Sun Certified Programmer for Java 2 Platform, SE 5.0 2006

UCSC-Extension / De Anza College, California 2000, 2002

Java Programming

Advanced Java Programming

UNIX Systems

Statistical Studies and Research Institute, Cairo University 1994

System Analysis and Design Methods

Object Oriented Analysis and Design

Programming Using C++

Discrete Mathematics

Operational Research

Faculty of Engineering, Cairo University

Electronics and Communications Department 1992

Bachelor of Science in Electronics and Communications Engineering.

Senior Project: Office Automation Software built by Turbo C ver 2.0

Deutsche Evangelische Oberschule Kairo

(German High School in Cairo) 1987

Egyptian High School Diploma

German Language Diploma (Deutsches Sprachdiplom der Zweiten Stufe)

Other Skills: Excellent command of English and German. Arabic is mother tongue.

Auto Scan: Titles: Project Manager, Team Lead, Senior Software Engineer, Senior Software

Developer, Senior Programmer, Web Application Developer, Application Developer, Web

Developer, Programmer, Internet Programmer, Database Designer

Keywords: Internet programming, Web Programming, e-commerce, Active Server Pages, ASP,

VBScript, JavaScript, IIS, Java, Servlets & JSP, HTML, DHTML, Dynamic HTML, DOM,

JavaScript, CSS, XML, XSL, DTD, MS SQL, Oracle, DB2, MS Access, FoxPro, C, C++, Java,

Visual BASIC, Pascal, .NET, MS Visual Studio, MS Visual SourceSafe, MS Visual InterDev, MS

Visio, System Architect, CASE tool, UML, MS Project, NuMega ASP Profiler, Windows

95/98/ME/NT/2000/XP, UNIX/Linux, OS/2 Warp, Office 2003, Excel, SharePoint, Product

Studio, RAID, Product Studio, Test Wizard, Script Driver, WebSphere Studio, ClearCase,

ClearQuest, Arabic, English, German, Deutsch

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