Software Developer Engineer

Maaz Rizki

Plainsboro, NJ

609-***-**** • ****.*****@*****.*** • linkedin.com/in/maazrizki/

Software Developer

Versatile software and data engineer creating innovative technical solutions to drive organizational goals.

Knowledgeable developer with demonstrated success excelling in dynamic, fast-paced environments across multiple industries. Expertise driving design of elegant tools and applications to enhance data availability and usage and drive informed decision making across organization. Solutions-oriented professional with experience communicating across all levels of business user to translate needs into technical solutions. Focused on delivering exceptional technical leadership, building workable solutions, and ensuring timely project results.

Stakeholder Communication / IT Project Management / Data Engineering & Analysis

Database Modeling & Design / System Architecture / Front End Design

TECHNICAL PROFICIENCIES

Languages / OS:

C#, Python, SQL, Delphi, Windows

Web Technologies:

HTML, CSS, JavaScript

Data Modeling / Management / BI Tools:

E-R, SQL Server, MySQL, RDBMS, Alea, TM1

Enterprise Tools and Methodology:

Waterfall, Agile, Kanban

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Senior Lead Engineer (1/2005 – Present) Fairway Market Holding Group, New York, NY

Spearhead high-performing team of software engineers, designing and deploying quality software solutions and identifying and implementing new technology to achieve organizational objectives. Liaise across organization, communicating with diverse stakeholders and business users, to translate user needs into development requirements, project scope, and attainable timelines. Create reports to drive informed decision making, as well as provide technical support for new and legacy systems and applications. Leverage extensive domain, operations, data flow, and business process knowledge to develop and implement software and applications to meet business needs and exceed expectations.

Key Achievements:

Piloted enterprise transition from file-based scattered programs to centralized RDBMS, enhancing visibility and accessibility of sales, purchasing, and payroll data and increasing productivity across users by 15-30%.

Oversaw vendor management and communication, establishing clear protocols for data exchange across multiple merchandising vendors.

Established reporting to optimize data driven processes, streamlining inventory management in warehouses by creating SSRS reports and introducing OLAP cubes and reports.

Drove organizational transition from legacy system to new third party system (NCR Retalix) to handle high-volume ordering, leading specific customizations and adjustments to meet changing business requirements.

Developed full stack back office Price and Cost management applications, expanding data process capability by 10-30% and advancing work volume by 15-25%.

Executed effective data analysis and data modeling to create database schema and architecture for new system.

Led creation of utility applications and programs to meet multi-faceted company needs including architecting automated purchasing system (AOS) to increase efficiency by 20-30% and designing credit card process flows to develop solution to acquire and transmit transactional data.

ADDITIONAL EXPERIENCE

Consultant MIS USA, Newark, NJ

Advised multinational organizations on OLAP based BI solution implementation for budgeting and finance. Provided industry knowledge and technical expertise on specific software solutions across multiple industries. Led project management, scheduling activities, communicating across stakeholders, and directing workflow to deliver timely project results.

Key Achievements:

Built innovative software solutions to meet client needs, providing training and technical support, as well as integrating systems with current technology.

Optimized data delivery and reporting, designing databases, web applications, and tools to improve interdepartmental data availability across organizations.

Director / Joint Secretary (VP) of Customer Support Karachi Stock Exchange, Karachi, Pakistan

Guided IT vision and culture across organization, strategizing key decisions in policy change and hardware and software upgrades. Managed support team of technicians, engineers, and customer support professionals, ensuring high standards of customer service and support met.

Key Achievements:

Played key role automating Stock Exchange from manual floor trading to electronic trading, substantially increasing turnaround from several days to a few minutes.

Introduced and trained trading community and +200 traders on new software applications, authoring training materials, leading change management, and championing new policies behind software implementation.

QA Manager • CresSoft, Karachi, Pakistan

Freelance Software Developer • Multiple Engagements, Karachi, Pakistan

EDUCATION AND TRAINING

Master of Science in Applied Physics

University of Karachi, Karachi, Pakistan

Bachelor of Science in Physics, Math, Computational Math

University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT

Technical Certifications

Certificate for Introduction to Computer Science and Programming using Python - edX

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