Software Engineer

SALAMAH A. SKHITA

Project Manager

Senior Business Analyst

Senior .NET Developer

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PHONE: +613********

Summary

Proven results as Senior Business Analyst, Software Engineer, IT Project Manager, and .NET Developer. Quality-driven leader with demonstrated history of supporting technical operations for the oil and gas and ICT industries on a global scale. Expertise in Waterfall and Agile methodologies. Bilingual in English and Arabic. Australian PR Holder

Career Summary

Senior .NET Developer

Mobily, March 2013 – Present

http://www.mobily.com.sa

Senior Software Engineer/Database Engineer

Norconsult Telematics (NTSA), March 2010 – March 2013

http://www.norconsulttelematics.com/

Technical Lead/.NET Software Engineer

Futureware IT, June 2006- March 2010

http://futureware.com.sa/

EDUCATION

Computer Science, Post-Graduates Courses (Masters of Science) January 2007 – June 2010

(KFUPM),

GPA 3.9/4.0 (Not Completed)

Specialized in Software Requirements, Software Architecture and Design Patterns, Software Testing and Project management, Artificial Intelligence and Algorithms

Software Engineering, Bachelor of Science February 2002 – June 2006

(KFUPM),

GPA 3.958/4.0

Specialized in Software Requirements, Software Architecture and Design Patterns, Software Testing and Project management, Data Structures and Algorithms, Object Oriented Programming, Networking

CERTIFICATES

MCTS: .NET Framework 4, Web Applications

Microsoft

February 2013 – Present

Projects & Responsibilities

Senior .NET Developer, (Mobily)

Period: March 2013 – Present

Technology: Microsoft Project, CA Clarity, Visual Studio 2015

Handling and managing technical projects initiated by Consumer Sales unit in Mobily.

Collecting Business Requirements from all Consumer Sales Departments in Concept phase and convert them into technical requirements that are documented in a Requirements Specification Document.

Kicking-off projects with IT department and managing and monitoring the project progress.

Ensuring that projects are within schedule and resolving any issues and risks preventing project completion.

Managing, negotiating and controlling vendors and outsource manpower to accomplish projects objectives.

Conducting and coordinating UAT session to ensure that the project meets the requirements correctly (Verification and Validations).

Managing the system deployment and hand over the system to the business user and conduct any required training.

Saving the company’s budget by developing a web portal for project tracking that is used internally in the department using ASP.NET 4.0 and Visual Studio 2015

Report Engineer, LTE Project (Norconsult Telematics)

Period: March 2010 – March 2013

Client: Saudi Telecom Company (STC)

Technology: Visual Studio 2010, C# 4.0, Microsoft Reporting, SQL Server 2008

Worked as report engineer in the Project Control team to design, develop and maintain a database for LTE Implementation project management and tracking. My role is to provide database and reporting support that adheres to project manager’s requirements using MS SQL Server 2008 and Microsoft Reporting. Plus, I developed few windows applications and web portals tools to support the team.

Developing a Windows application for Project Management and Control System that was used by the Project Control team

.NET Development Team Lead/E-Services Specialist, Futureware

Period: June 2006 – March 2010

Client: Engineering Services Business Line, Saudi ARAMCO

Technology: ASP.Net 2.0, C#, Microsoft Visual Studio 2005, AJAX, SOAP, Custom Workflow Engine, with Microsoft SQL Server 2005 (Including Analysis Services for OLAP cubes) with various third party UI/Charting libraries (Infragistics), Crystal Reports, C# based SQL Server 2005 Stored procedures., Microsoft Visual SourceSafe

Sharek Services: Leading and managing the development team of 5 - 8 developers for the development of a highly complex and major KPI monitoring and Enterprise Project tracking system of more than 10,000 man-hours. Managed the customers’ high expectations, developed extremely flexible architectural designs for ensuring the full extensible corporate application vision. The number of users of the system are more than 5000 users

Real-Time Operation Center (RTOC): The system is used to manage the process of well drilling surveillance. Expert drilling engineers sit in a high-tech operation center and monitor the drilling operation via real-time systems from different vendors. The system enables the engineers to plan and initial the monitoring process, generate daily reports from real-time data coming to the center, issue alerts of different priorities if a potential problem may occur, record drilling events. The system is also used to log the shift turnovers. It maintains best practice drilling parameters data as a reference for the engineer. The system generates various KPIs and reports. The system contains a workflow module to approve and close monitoring projects.

POWERS MRC Well Preprocessor: A graphical tool which is designed to read geological data and well trajectories from user and then output user requested data in POWERS input format for simulations. It is an interactive 3D application developed using the C++ language with Coin3D toolkit and the QT framework under the Linux environment.

RTDrill: Team Lead and developer of software product for collecting data from service providers companies like Schlumberger and Halliburton on oil rigs and store it in a central database. This data is exposed to the users using a web service. The data transfer and storage is based on WITSML (Well site Information Transfer Standard Markup Language). The product is based on .NET framework 2.0. The system has web-based interface built by ASP.NET. It uses windows service technology to transfer the data from servers to the database. Besides development, I was involved in project planning and management, team leading and conducting pilot demos in Saudi Aramco and Mobilize (an American service provider company).

PUBLICATIONS

Samir A. Aljaiban and Salamah Skhitah, “A FLEXIBLE PLATFORM FOR MANAGING E-SERVICE”, The Fourth eServices Symposium in the Eastern Province: eServices Integration Khubar 09-11 March, 2009 pages 22-29

http://www.eservices-sa.org/Event/UploadFiles/Book.pdf

SPEECHES

Key Speaker in: 15th GCC eGovernement & eServices Forum. May 23- 27 2009 Dubai, UAE. The presentation title: “Service Oriented Approach for Launching e-Services” May 25th, 2009

http://www.datamatixgroup.com/conferences/agenda.asp?id=457

Key Speaker in: The Fourth eServices Symposium in the Eastern Province: eServices Integration Khubar 09-11 March. The presentation title: “A Flexible Platform For Managing E-Services” March 9th 2009

http://www.eservices-sa.org/Event/UploadFiles/Technical_Program_4th_eSrvices.htm

CAPABILITIES

Technologies: J2SE, C#, VB.NET, Microsoft Reporting, C++, C, UML, Assembly, Scheme, Prolog, HTML, ASP.NET, PHP, Javascript, XML, WAP, Web Services and Socket and Client/Server Programming, WITSML, AJAX, JQuery

Applications: Microsoft Visual Studio .NET 2015, Enterprise Architect, Rational Rose, Microsoft Project and Microsoft SourceSafe, Microsoft Team Foundation

Database Systems: Oracle 10g, MySQL, MS SQL Server 2008

Networking: Designing LANs and Configuring Switches and Routers

Operating Systems: Windows and Unix

Management: Project Management (Waterfall Model, Agile Model, SCRUM)

Social Capabilities: Leadership, Team Working, Planning and Time Management

TRAINING

Google Search Appliance Training (31 May 2009 – 3 June 2009) Dubai UAE.

LANGUAGES

Arabic: Native language

English: Reading, Writing, Listening and Speaking fluently (IELTS Score 8.0/9.0)

PERSONAL INFORMATION

Marital status: Married

Date of Birth: 16/08/1983

Preferred Location: Melbourne

Willing to relocate.

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