Developer Development

Yousif Abou El Saad

Kosakenweg *, **** Zurich, Switzerland

Home: +41-43-288-**-**, Cell Phone: +41-76-244-**-**

E-Mail: *******@*****.***

CAREER GOAL

Seeking a challenging position requiring demonstrated skills in software engineering, PL/SQL

development, and team working as well as working independent. A position where my professional

experience, educational qualifications, and strong technical knowledge combined with my

interpersonal skills will be utilized and improved.

PROFILE SUMMARY

Eleven years of experience as Oracle DB and DWH developer

Four years of experience in the financial sector / fund industry

Seven years of experience as a consultant in various sectors

Exposure to various DBA activities

Solid experience in all phases of the software development lifecycle

Experience in Agile and Scrum methodologies

Strong interpersonal, analytical and organizational skills

Ability to manage multiple tasks, projects, and initiatives with different priorities at

the same time

SKILLS

Operating systems: Windows 95/Windows 7, Windows Server, Linux / UNIX

(Solaris, Tru64, HP)

Programming / Query languages: SQL - PL/SQL, Perl, Shell programming, XML,

PHP, VBA

Databases: Oracle 7.X – 11g

UNIX utilities: vi, awk

Modeling languages: Entity-Relationship, UML

ETL: OWB (Oracle Warehouse Builder), SQL*Loader

Revision control: TortoiseSVN

Tools / Applications: TOAD, SQL Developer, SQL*Plus, Oracle Developer 6i / 2000

Forms & Reports, OEM, Big Brother, Hobbit, Veritas NetBackup, HTMLDB, APEX,

Discoverer, ERWin, Cognos Impromptu, MS Office package

ACCADEMIC CREDENTIALS

Bachelor in Information Technology Engineering (passed with full mark), University

Federico II, Naples – Italy (2000).

WORK EXPERIENCE

April 2010 – present Software Engineer

Quartal Financial Solutions, Zurich, Switzerland.

Development of a software solution based on Oracle DB/.NET UI used by several leading

banks and insurance companies in Switzerland and abroad. This solution is a very

sophisticated and configurable engine which calculates commission and fee amounts

covering also very complex use cases.

Duties & achievements:

Development of packages, procedures, Crystal reports

Write and discuss design notes for new features

Migration of data and code from old to new versions of our product

Development of testing and continuous integration tools

Bug fixing, troubleshooting und fine tuning of existing functionalities

Tutoring of some newcomers and external coworkers

Technical context/tools:

Scrum, Agile

SQL, PL/SQL, Toad, SQL Developer, Crystal Reports, Tortoise

Subversion

January 2009 – August 2009 Software Engineer

Clarix Secura, insurance sector, Aarau, Switzerland.

Further development of an existing software owned by our client: April Group.

Duties & achievements:

Development of PL/SQL procedures, packages, ad Hoc SQL queries and reports

in the insurance sector

Prepare and automate shell scripts for logical backup

Historicization of particular objects

Creation of interfaces to import data from flat files

Technical context/tools:

SQL, PL/SQL, Shell scripting, Perl

SQL*Plus and Toad

September 2001 – October 2007 Oracle developer

Altran, Italy.

Development of various software solutions based on Oracle DBMS in several projects as

following.

April 2006 – October 2007 Oracle DBA

Project 4: In Selex Communications – Genoa, Italy

Administration of 200+ Oracle instances in production, testing and development

environments.

Duties & achievements:

Oracle DBMS installation on UNIX Solaris, Tru64, HP and Windows server

Database creation

Monitoring and troubleshooting

DB Version upgrading

Applying software security patches

Daily reporting and eventually escalating

Export/import

Backup/recovery

Ad Hoc support to development team

Technical context/tools:

PL/SQL, Shell programming,

SQL*Plus, Enterprise Manager Console, Veritas and Big Brother

June 2003 – March 2006 Oracle Developer

Project 3: IVECO (Fiat group) – Human Resource – Turin, Italy

Maintenance and further development of an Oracle-based Data warehouse.

Duties & achievements:

Development, testing and maintenance of procedures, functions and

packages

Write SQL*Loader scripts

Customer support and ad-Hoc queries for single data extractions

Development of Cognos-Impromptu reports

Technical context/tools

PL/SQL

SQL*Loader, TOAD, Cognos

September 2002 – June 2003 Oracle Developer

Project 2: Edison for electrical and gas energy – Milan, Italy

Development of Trading application based on Oracle Forms

Duties & achievements:

Development of Oracle Forms and Reports

Development of functions and stored procedures in PL/SQL

Testing and bug fixing

Technical context/tools

SQL, PL/SQL

Oracle Developer 6i, Toad

September 2001 – August 2002 Oracle Developer

Project 1: Guarantee and Quality – Global Value – Turin, Italy

Development of Oracle-based Data warehouse

Duties & achievements:

Development and testing of “Mappings” to supply the DWH

Performance analysis and tuning

Technical context/tools

SQL, PL/SQL

OWB (Oracle Warehouse Builder), Toad

PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT

Completed Oracle Fundamentals II (RMAN) exam (2009)

Oracle9i Database Administrator Certified Associate (OCA) (2007)

Completed Develop PL/SQL Program Units exam (2003)

LANGUAGES

Arabic Native language

English Fluent

Italian Fluent

German Proficient

References available upon request

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