Manager Management

Imran Siddiqui

Apt# *** – ** Mississauga Valley Blvd. Mississauga ON L5A 3S2

Res: 905-***-**** Cell: 289-***-**** Email: *****.*******@*******.***

OBJECTIVE:

Seeking a challenging position in software development Environment with interest in Application Management Systems, where my analytical and problem solving skills can be made use of, for the job assigned.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Over 10 years of experience on IBM AS/400, COBOL/400, RPG III, RPG/400 (ILE RPG), CL/400, DB2/400, SQL/400, COBOL/400 with focus on Application Support and development projects in Financial Institution, Banking, Hospital Software, Accounting, Administration and Component Manufacturing which includes Coding, Debugging, Testing, and Implementing software Applications.

CORE COMPETENCIES:Sound knowledge of different phases of Software Development Lifecycle (SDLC).Systems Analysis – Ability to analyse and identify problem areas, resolve situations, and provide customers with satisfactory solutions

Experience in maintenance of various projects designed in RPG ILE & COBOL/400 and CL/400.Experience in Data Migration to AS/400.Experience in designing and developing applications on IBM WebSphere.Experience in AS/400 operations, system IPL/shutdown, backup/restore activities, printing, handling system configuration, active jobs & Preparation of reference manualExtensive involvement in all stages of System Development Life Cycles(SDLC) including Requirements, Logical and Physical Architectural Modeling, Design, Development, Implementation and SupportExperience maintaining SharePoint 2003 and 2007/WSS 3.0Control user access and permissions

TECHNICAL/MANAGEMENT SKILLS

Methodologies

Rational Unified Process, SDLC

Software Environment

COBOL, RPG ILE, Microsoft SharePoint 2003/2007

Database

DB2, Oracle, MS SQL Server 2005/2008, SQL Server, MS Access, FoxPro

Programming Languages

RPG ILE, COBOL, Query/400, Query Manager

PROJECTS:

Zernam Enterprise

Nepean ON, Canada

SharePoint Administrator

Jan 2010 – Oct 2012

Administrate and Configure SharePoint 2007, 2010 for various clients. Actively participated in the development of webparts and custom workflow.

Installed and Configured MOSS 2007 and SharePoint 2010.Migrated data from MOSS 2007 to SharePoint 2010.Installed and configured Microsoft Data Protection Manager 2007.Created site collection backups. Created sites and sub-sites to facilitate the end users Designed custom workflows to automate business processes, such as document review, approval, and archiving, among othersManaged site security, permission and security groups.Created lists and Document libraries and assigned different permission levels according to the requirementsCreated SharePoint groups and assigned different permission levels to different sites.

Day & Ross Transportation Group

Hartland, NB Canada

Programmer/System Analyst

Jan 2005 – Jan 2010

Worked as a system analyst in implementing AS/400 based applications for Day & Ross order processing, equipment control & broker settlement. These applications are controlled & managed at Information Services department in Head office & some at McCain Data Center.

Provided help desk support through generated work orders via Magic Service Desk & Bug tracker for transportation applications in production. Provided assistance to other programmers when required on issues such as design of applications, problem logics, and debugging techniques. Performed business analysis, design and support of DB2 databases.Proactively participated in process improvements/enhancements & build links with various departments to enhance effectiveness & accuracy of datasets.Analyze user requirements, design reports and implement downloading procedures for AS/400 applications Compile data for planning & performance purposes required for other departmentsResolve issues in application programs reported via help desk or requisition formsDeveloped new menus & implement new applications included in company’s yearly plan Process batch data to merge in the production databaseWrote programs to automatic weekly download to third party domains using FTP Wrote programs to automatic email to designated users at the time of report printingPerformed evaluation and reported outsourcing applications status to the IT management

Environment: AS/400, RPG/400, RPG/ILE, CL/400, COBOL/400, SQL/400.

Suzuki Motor Co

Karachi, Sindh Pakistan

Programmer/Systems Analyst

Jan 2001 – Dec 2004

Worked as a Programmer/System Analyst in Sequence Information System (SIS) for Suzuki Motor Co Duties included: but not limited to:

Analyzed and planned online Production SIS application system using SAS.Involved in the development of Warehousing and Inventory department’s application systems. Designed and developed screen and report applications using with or without embedded SQL.Provided Application support by developing MIS reports using SQL, and Query Management tools; and Systems support by managing MSS (Multiple Systems Support).Using RPGILE and embedded SQL Developed Interface Application between two different business applications viz: Production Management Systems and Production Planning Systems.Designed & developed Production Monitoring Application to monitor the activities of multiple departments associated to various remote PC devices, and produce the log of deleted & updated transactions.Built applications and deployed them to development box WebSphere application server.Identified changes that would improve overall performance of the applications, resolve performance issues while analyzing cause & effect of performance obstacles.

Environment: AS/400, WEBSPHERE APPLICATION SERVER, RPG/400, RPG/ILE, CL/400, COBOL/400, SQL/400.

EDUCATION:

Master of Science (M.Sc. in Statistics)

University of Karachi

Major: Theory of Inference, Multivariate Analysis, Qualitative Data Analysis, Design of Experiments

Post Graduate Diploma in Computer Science

University of Karachi

Major: Introduction to Database, Programming Language, Statistics & Data Analysis

Management/Tech course: Visual Basic 6.0, Oracle Developer 2000, Structured COBOL Programming, Oracle DBMS, Project Management, ITIL, COGNOS, Informatica, SAS

References: Available upon request.

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