Kashan Masud
Cell: 571-***-****
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Professional Summary
An accomplished Team Leader having over 10 years of experience in
designing, implementing and maintaining Web applications. Bring wealth of
practical knowledge and understanding of software development best
practices, with proven experience as an IT Professional.
Data analysis, data modeling and Strong written and oral communication
data integration skills
Database design Personal integrity
Object-oriented analysis and design Problem solving skills
PHP and Drupal development Strong analytical skills
Understanding of Web 2.0 and Team player
Section 508
Technical Skills
. Programming: VB, SQL, Java, C++, JavaScript, HTML 5, DHTML, VBScript,
XML, ASP, SQL, UML, .NET, JSP, PHP, AJAX, CSS 3, Jquery
. Operating Systems: MS DOS, Windows 95/98/XP,7, Windows NT/2003, Hp/Sun
Solaris-UNIX
. Networking: TCP/IP, Internet, Ethernet, Token Ring, Wireless, Fiber Optic
. Applications: Complete Microsoft Office, Microsoft Project, Net Beans,
Microsoft Java Workshop, Rational Rose, Visual Basic, Macromedia
Director, PWS, IIS, Visio, JCreator, FLASH, System Architect Microsoft
SharePoint, Apache 2.3.5, XAMPP 1.3.6, Adobe Creative Suite 5 Web
Premium, Eclipse, Putty, Jira
. Content Management Systems: Drupal 5x, 6x,7.x, Joomla 1.5
. Databases: Oracle 9i and 10g, Microsoft Access, SQL Server, MySQL
. Methodology: UML, SDLC, CMM, CMMI, ISO
Professional Experience
May 2012 to date Office of the Chief Technology Officer (OCTO), DC,
USA
The Office of the Chief Technology Officer (OCTO) is the central technology
organization of the District of Columbia Government. OCTO develops,
implements, and maintains the District's technology infrastructure;
develops and implements major enterprise applications; establishes and
oversees technology policies and standards for the District; provides
technology services and support for District agencies, and develops
technology solutions to improve services to businesses, residents and
visitors in all areas of District government.
Role - Team lead
Project Description - OCTO wishes to develop an agency wide calendar
through which it could track all events for its agencies. In addition to
this they wish to create a mobile website which would be accessible through
all mobile devices.
Responsibilities:
. Prepared and assisted with project documentation, scheduling, issue
tracking, resource management and qa.
. Analyzed requirements for having a Drupal based calendar and mobile site.
. Implemented the calendar using various Drupal modules such as Calendar,
Date etc.
. Developed various calendar views to show months, weeks and days.
. Developed a listing of all events that will be shown on the calendar.
. Added repeat events for the calendar.
. Customized the calendar per the requirements.
. Used the Omega theme for mobile development for mobile website.
. Developed and updated various Drupal modules.
. Resolved various issues as per our Jira ticketing system.
Environment: Drupal 7.20, PHP 5.3, HTML 5, XHTML, CSS 3, Jquery, AJAX,
DOM, JavaScript, MySQL 5.1, Windows XP, Apache 1.3, SQL Server, Eclipse
May 2010 to May 2012 Naccrra, Arlington, VA, USA
NACCRRA, the National Association of Child Care Resource & Referral
Agencies, is the nation's leading voice for child care. They work with more
than 700 state and local Child Care Resource and Referral agencies
nationwide. These agencies help ensure that families in 99 percent of all
populated ZIP codes in the United States have access to high-quality,
affordable child care.
Role - Team lead
Project Description - Naccrra wishes to bring its existing website to a
Drupal CMS implementation so that users could more easily manage their
content and maintain a high level of security for their Website.
Responsibilities:
. Helped to manage a development team of five from project conception to
delivery.
. Managed and maintained Drupal based CMS website.
. Negotiate for internal and external technical and functional resources.
. Provide 24/7 on-call support.
. Coordinated system scheduling and with Computer Operations and Technical
support when problems arise.
. Analyzed user requirements and made prototypes to clearly understand user
requirements.
. Designed Use Cases and DFD to understand the flow of data through the
system
. Installed Drupal on the QA server along with MySQL.
. Designed a custom theme for the new Naccrra Website.
. Used Adobe Photoshop, Firework and Dreamweaver to manipulate images and
transfer them onto the QA server.
. Made changes in the CSS file of the Naccrra theme in order to meet user
needs.
. Implemented various modules such as views, image cache, ckeditor, etc to
cater to the requirements.
. Created roles for various departments such as Policy, HR, IT, Marketing,
Finance and allocated those appropriate rights to their sections.
. Developed search queries for users to do a general search.
Environment: PHP 5.3.2, Drupal 6.19, JavaScript, MySQL 5.1, HTML, Microsoft
Visio, Apache 2.3.5 and CSS 2.1
June 2009 to Feb 2010 Virginia International University, Fairfax, VA,
USA
Virginia International University is an institution of higher education
that provides affordable, quality education that prepares students to meet
the ever-evolving needs for the 21st Century workforce. The university
wanted a system that would keep track of the student's records and maintain
a clean database of those records.
Role - Joomla Developer
Project Description - The project was to create a Website using open source
Content Management System (CMS) such as Joomla. The requirement of this
project was to provide information on faculty, departmental news,
technology and students.
Responsibilities:
. Developed prototypes for the Website using Microsoft Visio.
. Created various articles, categories and menu links in Joomla.
. Used HTML, CSS and JavaScript for the front-end design.
. Created various user roles and provided them permissions as per their
need.
. Preformed user acceptance testing.
. Provided Joomla training to users.
Environment: Joomla 1.5, Macromedia Dreamweaver, HTML, PHP 5.3.2., XML,
Microsoft Visio, JavaScript, MySQL 5.1
Jan 2009 to May 2009 Career Communications Group, Baltimore, MD, USA
Career Communications Group provides minority technology professionals,
aspiring college and university technology students, and pre-college
student's assistance in training and placement assistance with high
potential technology domains. It has over 10000 members.
Role - PHP developer
Project Description- CCG wanted to develop a Website to meet their growing
member base. Both employers and job seekers can access the database and
create and apply to jobs or other programs.
Responsibilities:
. Created multiple user roles such as Super Administrator, Photographers
and Customers.
. Developed search feature to allow users to search by keywords like name,
location and images by photographers.
. Used JavaScript for Client side validations.
. Customized the Drupal CMS.
. Designed front-end pages using CSS, HTML and JavaScript.
. Designed and manipulated the database.
. Performed database modeling using MS Visio.
Environment: PHP 5.2, Drupal 6x, JavaScript, MySQL 5.1, HTML, Microsoft
Visio, CSS, Microsoft FrontPage
Aug 2007 to Dec 2008 Delaware State University, Delaware, USA
Delaware State University wanted to explore the possibility of converting
their existing Website to Drupal. I was instrumental in importing their
existing users to Drupal, after having installed and configured Drupal and
many contribution modules.
Role - Drupal developer
Project Description- The project was to design and implement a powerful
Administration Management module using a Content Management System (CMS)
such as Drupal that will allow Administrators and Authenticated users to
design template pages that are portable across web sites.
Responsibilities:
. Created pages, categories (Taxonomy), blocks using Drupal, and Integrated
plug-ins, assigned security roles, templates using Drupal.
. Created a self-sustainable Website requiring little future maintenance.
. Converted an existing Website to a Drupal CMS and performed SEO/SEM to
successfully provide in top-3 Google search results for major search
engines.
. Integrated the whole Website to large multi-server Drupal environments,
administration, and integration with various third party sites with open
APIs.
. Identified and implemented missed SEO opportunities that increased site
traffic exponentially.
Environment: PHP 5.2, Drupal 6x, MySQL 5.1, Apache 2.0, JavaScript, XML,
XHTML, AJAX, SEO, MVC Architecture.
March 2004 to July 2007 PrisLogix LLC, London, UK
PrisLogix is an IT company that promises to keep you up-to-date with
today's fast-paced technological era, by providing easy software solutions
to Clients complicated problems worldwide. It was launched in 2003 at
Delaware and is a well established Software house, Multimedia Studio and an
IT Consultancy firm having a vast experience of large IT consultancy and
development projects. It has attained level 2 CMMI and is ISO 9001:2008
certified. PrisLogix is also a Microsoft Certified partner. It is a multi-
national company with headquarters in Delaware, USA.
Role: PHP Developer
Moxsie Inc is a unique portal to bring all the fashion designers onto a
single platform. This Website was developed completely using Drupal Content
Management System (CMS) and incorporates all the big fashion industry
personals to make their profile and to share their ideas with each other.
All the personals have their own profile and only they have right to
whether they want to share their ideas with someone else or not.
Responsibilities:
. Involved in Portal application design
. Followed MVC (Model, View, and Controller) Structure modules in the
project.
. Built testing and staging systems with XAMPP architecture
. Involved in the design and development of User Profile planning for those
accessing the system
. Authenticated User modules with PHP Authentication Methodologies and
Secure PHP
. Active coder in building the comprehensive solution model (Interfaces and
Business Logic) dealing with the work flow and transportation issues
. Implemented the PHP scripts responsible for sending mail
. Worked with the Drupal CMS for posting content and worked with the SEO
features
. Implemented personalization based on roles
. Communicated with the test teams for the successful Test Cases
. Responsible for Creating the UML Diagrams such as Class Diagrams,
Sequence Diagrams with IBM Rational Rose software
. Designed and developed XHTML and CSS involving advanced class and group
styling containing div tags
. Coded Stored Procedures, cursors, triggers for the Data Base in PL/SQL
. Involved in sessions with the business team and analysts for knowledge
appraisal and information exchange
Environment: PHP 5.2, HTML, XHTML, CSS, AJAX, DOM, JavaScript, MySQL 5.1,
Windows XP, Apache 1.3, SQL Server, UML
Role - Java Developer
Project Description- In this project the Client had required us to create a
job portal where the employer could post new job openings which would be
matched with the resumes of potential candidates. If a match is made then a
notification is sent to the employer that a particular candidate matched
the job criteria. The project also allowed the employer to search
candidates and to check the sets of documents that they have provided such
as cover letter, resume and transcripts.
Responsibilities:
. Responsible for the site architecture, design and implementation of the
server side software.
. Developed architecture, business logic and database structure of the
project.
. Implemented business logic on server-side.
. Developed web-based software modules.
. Implemented software utilities for the site administration
Environment: HTML, JSP, SQL Server
Role - Java Developer
Project Description- The Website was created to provide users the ability
to sell food online. It allowed Customers to go over an online menu and
select the dishes which they would like to have. The customers also had the
luxury to order food by searching different locations, cuisines and
specialty foods. The Administrative part of the site supported the ability
to change menus and to monitor orders remotely.
Responsibilities:
. Implementation of business logic and business objects for the project.
. Development of Administrative part of the Website.
. Developed server-side business logic software modules.
. Developed customized Client-side modules.
. Implemented the database and software utilities for site administration
and controlling.
. Analyzed Clients needs and developed software tools to assist dynamic
site content creation.
. Planned and implemented administrative site security system for database
access control.
Environment: HTML, JSP, JavaScript, JDBC, SQL, SQL Server
Certifications
. PMP Exam Preparation Course PME001
. Glbt Cultural Competency Training
Academic Profile
Date Qualifications Obtained
2002-2003: Master of Science in Information Systems Engineering from
University of Manchester Institute of Science and Technology
(UMIST), UK.
1999 - 2002: Bachelor of Science in Software Development from
University of Huddersfield, UK.