Information Technology Project Management

ABASS ABDUL-RAHAMAN

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Phone: (Cell) +1-917-***-**** E-mail: ********@*****.***

OBJECTIVE

Independent Information Technology graduate with extensive qualifications in project management and

software development seeks opportunities to develop user-friendly and effective software for businesses.

TECHNICAL SUMMARY

Hardware

• Expertise in configuring and installing PC/Mac components.

• Crestron and Extron video capture hardware systems.

• Complete Wide and Local Area Network management.

Software

• Knowledgeable in Adobe Creative Suite

(Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign and Premiere)

• MS Office (Word, Excel, Access and PowerPoint)

• Mac OS (Pages, Numbers and Keynote)

• Adobe-Connect classroom technology suite.

Operating Systems

• Familiar with Mac OSX, Windows and UNIX operating systems environment.

Languages

• Programming skills in C, C++, Basic Java, SQL, HTML, CSS, JavaScript and PHP.

• Extensive programming skills on Apples’ Mac Platform using Objective C, Cocoa and

Cocoa Touch (OS X and iOS APIs respectively) and Apples Swift.

Databases

• MySQL and Microsoft SQL server.

WORK EXPERIENCE

OFFICE OF INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY, VALPARAISO UNIVERSITY.

Student IT Specialist (May 2014 – Present)

• Provide Distance Learning/Web Conferencing for faculty and

students using lecture capture audio-visual equipment, cameras, projectors, document cameras and

Adobe-Connect software.

• Designed and created training videos using Adobe Creative

Suite and Camtasia to help new student employee’s campus wide operate technology related

equipment within and outside buildings. This improved efficiency and saved funds for the university

that would have been used to hire an external company to create the training videos.

• Install, configure and deploy servers, workstations, laptops

and printers.

• Ensure a campus-wide network free problem.

• Design digital and graphical posters for the Information

Technology department.

• Trouble shoot computer related problems for faculty, staff and

students across campus.

• Setting up, pre-checking equipment in all conference and

functional rooms across the university to ensure all programs and functions run smoothly without

technology hitches.

Ignite Intern (March 2014 – Present)

• My team and I utilized our understanding of Objective-C,

Cocoa, Java, C++ and the internals of iOS, android and windows frameworks to design and build an

app for the University.

• The app, Valparaiso University Focus App has since been

published on Apple’s AppStore, Google Play and Windows store.

• The app won my colleague and I the Communications Award

from SIGUCCS, which was presented to us at the SIGUCCS Fall 2014 National Conference in Salt

Lake City, Utah.

Graduate Teaching Assistant - Project Management (May 2014 – Present)

• Review curriculum and method of delivering materials to

students at the beginning of every semester.

• Reinforce lessons presented by professor by reviewing

material with students.

• Help professor with recordkeeping such as tracking

attendance and calculating of grades.

EDUCATION

• Master of Science, Information Technology (May 2015)

Valparaiso University, IN

• Bachelor of Science, Agribusiness (May 2013)

University of Ghana, Legon (Ghana)

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