YASER ARAFAT

(Available to relocate)

****, ********* *******, ******, ** H4G 2A1

actygv@r.postjobfree.com 514-***-****

HIGHLIGHTS

Programmer Analyst with 1.5 years of strong performance background in the emerging Microsoft .NET Technology Stack - C#, ASP.NET MVC, SQL Server, LINQ, Entity Framework and SDL Tridion Content Management System(CMS).

SPOT AWARD winner for outstanding contribution towards UI bugs fixing.

Concrete knowledge of Object-oriented programming concepts, Multi-tier architectures, Software design paradigms/patterns such as SOLID principles, Repository Pattern etc.

EDUCATION

Master of Engineering, Information Systems Security Jan 2016

Concordia University, Montreal

Relevant Coursework: Foundations of Cryptography, Middleware and Application Security, Data Mining, Cloud Computing, Crypto Protocols.

Bachelor of Engineering, Electronics & Communication June 2012

Anna University, Chennai (India)

CAREER-RELATED EXPERTISE

Service Desk Analyst July 2014 - Present

AITS Service Desk, Concordia University, Montreal

Offer IT Support to students, faculty and staff of the Faculty of Engineering and Computer Science (ENCS) through Request Tracker (RT) ticketing system

Diagnose network connectivity and configuration issues with Ethernet, WiFi, Remote Desktop Connection, Procmail, VPN, Network Printers, SMTP, SSH

Programmer Analyst Oct 2012 - Mar 2014

Cognizant Technology Solutions, India

Developed the front-page for a Fortune 500 company in Asp.net MVC

Created reusable Class libraries using LINQ to SQL for fetching data from RDBMS

Worked on Google Maps API to display location-based events

Organized and managed the web content using SDL Tridion CMS

Collaborated with fellow developers to facilitate content porting between Development, QA and Live environments

Performed Technical writing, smoke testing, bug tracking and bug fixing

Administered Knowledge Transfer sessions on development environment to beginners

ACADEMIC PROJECTS

VULNERABILITY ANALYSIS OF DRUPAL CMS

Developed a Drupal 7 web application and demonstrated several OWASP Top Ten security vulnerabilities like SQL Injection, Cross Site Scripting using penetration testing tools like Acunetix, VEGA and mitigated it.

ATTACKS ON FULL DISK ENCRYPTION APPLICATIONS

Exploited several security threats like Direct Memory Access (DMA) attacks, bootkit attacks with TrueCrypt on-the-fly encryption (OTFE) and provided mitigation.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Programming/Scripting : C#, MS SQL, AngularJS, JQuery, JavaScript,

HTML5, Bootstrap CSS

Tools/Applications : SDL Tridion CMS, Microsoft Visual Studio, IIS, SQL

Server, Tortoise SVN, Bugzilla, Apache XAMPP

Microsoft Technologies : ASP.NET MVC, Web API, ADO.NET, LINQ, JSON,

Entity Framework, AJAX, XML

Additional : OS Virtualization, Documentation, Technical Writing,

Content Management

VOLUNTEERING ACTIVITIES & AWARDS

Cognizant ‘Spot Award’ as a token of recognition for outstanding contribution towards bug tracking and fixing

Volunteer at ‘Cognizant Outreach’, an employee-led social initiative that promotes

Career building

Actively engaged in several student community campaigns and Walkathons to raise funds for student scholarships

Spearheaded the orientation program for graduate students

PERSONALITY TRAITS & INTERESTS

Languages: English (fluent), Tamil (fluent)

Web savvy - Content Writing on Reddit, Quora etc.

Cooking

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