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.

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