Abid Al ikashi

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Summary of Qualifications:

• Bachelor of Science in Software Engineering.

• Great communication skills, professional end user trainer and trainer of trainer.

• Excellent interpersonal and written skills.

• Skilled programmer, front-end developer and back-end support.

• Intermediate Cisco Network engineer, implemented and designed many small scale LAN and WAN networks within small business corporations.

• Acted as a Lead Software Engineer (Senior Project) deploying marketing software, updating and customizing software to customer needs, training end users, setting up and maintaining windows server 2008 with MS-SQL 2008, conducting requirement study for new contracts and feasibility study for potential clients.

• Excellent understanding of retail marketing business cycle, Sales, Storage, Accounting, and Management. Technical Skills Summary:

Software Development:

Front-end Developer, Full development cycle, Designing marketing report with C#, debugging and maintaining Windows 2008 server and MS-SQL 2008 Database, Debugging and maintaining C# marketing applications. Networking:

Designing and implementing small scale Cisco Networks in client/server and mesh topologies.

Programming Skills:

C/Unix, C#, Java, CSS, MS-SQL 2008, Windows Server, MATLAB, GameMaker, Assembly, MicroC, C++.

EXPERIENCE PROFILE

Taylor Communications (Standard Register) 2017

C/Unix Application Developer

• Wrote and maintained applications for various types of printers including VideoJet, HSIJ and T400.

• Created and maintained over 30 applications on Unix environment employing C, Pearl, Postscript, SQL and Compuset to create several types of mail pieces.

• Worked on applications for Healthcare, Mail Advertisement, retail, and Taxes, for various customers.

• Incorporated features in most applications like NCOA, Selective inserts, Presorts, Web archival and inventory checks.

• Volunteered as 24/7 online Tech Support for any case of live job failure for 3 weeks.

• All code and applications were updated and maintained through SVN control on Unix and Linux Servers. Sabbatical 2015

Experimenting and Self-Education:

• Created interactive websites as a self teaching process for JavaScript and HTML5

• Developed basic 2D Games with GameMaker.

• Freelance Gaming Journalist and Tech enthusiast writing several articles and reviews about the latest trends in the field.

• Designed MATLAB image processing projects for master students. Software Engineer

DataControl for IT Solutions 2012-2014

Software Developer, Project Leader

• Presented Marketing software to potential clients explaining strength points and advantages of each package to sign new contracts for the firm.

• Implement requirement and feasibility studies for business clients to design and tailor existing marketing software to customer needs.

• Planning and deploying the marketing software across the client’s main and sub branches, training end users and system administrators including accountants.

• Transfer client’s old database to the new system, on site support at launch, remote support when system passes early critical stage to stable running stage.

• Design and implement small-scale business Cisco LAN/WAN Network on clients demand.

• Online real-time synchronization with remote servers for the client data, monitoring backups and restoring system database incase of data loss.

• General System and Marketing reports updates on client demand, Design test and implementation.

• Responsible for over 35 contracts to maintain and support remotely or on site.

• Took initiative to adapt the development of standalone HR system that was implemented on a windows 7 tablets with external USB finger print scanner using C# and Mobile SQL server Database, the package was able to keep track of employee clock in and calculate accurate employees salary, the package was also linked to the existing marketing software for client convenience.

• Reports and feedback on system functionality and client experience periodically for each client and client branch.

Global Steel Group LTD. 2011

Website Content Administrator

Web Content Developer

Education:

• Bachelor of Science, Software Engineering, Baghdad, Iraq 2012

• Graduated ranking 3rd of 88 students with average of 71.3%

• Award winning Graduation project for Motion detection and tracking system implemented with MATLAB Certifications:

• Iraqi Engineer Association 2012.

• Cisco CCNA 1 2011.

• Cisco CCNA 2 2012.

Volunteer Work:

• Google’s Software Startup weekend Erbil Iraq, 2013, Mentorship of 3 programmers to develop a mobile app that locates bumps in the road and uploads and image with GPS meta data to a database website that can be accessed by the responsible authorities to fix the damaged section of the road.

• Teaching AI Robotics programming for College students 2012, Baghdad Iraq, Helping students understand the basics of electronics and programming PLC’s with both Visual Basic and MicroC.

• Volunteered as Game Tester for indie developers on Steam Store network. EDUCATION, CERTIFICATIONS & VOLUNTEER WORK

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