Systems Analyst, Project Manager, Technical Team Lead

Faisal Haroon

C-*, Kehkashan Homes, Sector **/C, Gulzar e Hijri, Karachi-75330

Ph: +92-21-346***** / +92-333-*******

Summary:

• IT specialist with 11+ years of experience in Analysis, Design, Development, Implementation and Support of Enterprise level Desktop and Web-enabled applications. A good manager who can work under tight time constraints with detailed knowledge of IT Infrastructure, Database administration and support. Possess excellent written and verbal communication skills in English & Urdu.

Achievements:

• Received “Letter of Achievement” from Manager TOC (Telecom Operations Center) Citibank N.A., Karachi, Pakistan in 1998 on successful installation, configuration and commissioning of Messaging System for their countrywide corporate network.

• Received “Letter of Appreciation” from Director, Information Technology Division, Aga Khan University & Hospital in 2002, for playing a vital role in progress of IT in Health Care and Education at Hospital and University.

Education:

• BS Computer Engineering, Sir Syed University University of Engineering & Technology, Karachi Pakistan 1994 – 1998 (4 Years with 3.27 CGPA)

• HSC (pre-Engg.), Adamjee Govt. Science College, Karachi Pakistan, 1991 - 1993 (2 Years with 68.6%)

• SSC, Habib Public School, Karachi Pakistan, 1981 - 1991 (10 Years with 86.3%)

Professional Skills:

Lang/ Frameworks: Visual Basic 6, SQL/TSQL, ASP/ ASP.NET, CGI/PERL, DHTML, HTML, CSS, AJAX, JavaScript, C/C++, PHP and XML/XSL, DotNetNuke ver 2.x and 3.x

Technology: ADO, COM/COM+/DCOM, .NET, AJAX, Dot Net Nuke

OS: NT/2000/2003 Server, Windows 95/98/XP, Sun Solaris, LINUX

Databases: MS SQL Server 2000/ 2005, INFORMIX and MS Access

Networking: IIS, TCP/IP, RADIUS, DNS, FTP, SMTP, TELNET, HTTP, LDAP and ADSI

Web Dev Tools: Macromedia Dreamweaver, MS FrontPage, Visual Interdev, Adobe Photoshop, MS Office

CASE Tools: MS Solutions Framework, Design Patterns, Visio, ERWIN, Rational Rose/ UML

Version Control: Visual Source Safe 6.0, PVCS 7.0

Project Mgmt: MS Project 2003

Professional Experience:

The Shams Group (www.shamsgroup.com) May ‘2005 – Present

As Senior Team Lead, is leading teams of professionals involved in implementation, support and enhancement of systems for Health Care Domain specially related to MediTech. TSG’s products are deployed in 400+ hospitals in North America. Currently I’m working on the following projects at The Shams Group, Karachi office i.e. Shams Software Services;

• Galaxy Warehouse is an Enterprise-wide Data Warehouse/Repository & Knowledge Management, the Galaxy Series comprises data acquisition, transformation, presentation and administration components all rolled into one total warehousing and decision support solution.

• Web Universal View is a set of views of patient data that meet the archiving needs of a healthcare organization. Web Universal View uses the comprehensive data stored in the Galaxy Data Warehouse/Data Repository to provide an organized view of HIS data for any patient in the system, including patients purged from MEDITECH/ HIS.

• Electronic Health Records (EHR) is designed for physicians and HIM staff that make patient charts available on-line for immediate access. It integrates e-sign and chart completion components with automatic alerts for delinquent and deficient patient charts.

• E-Millennium is portal application and migrated version of Millennium, having presence on web and anywhere accessibility. It is built on Dot Net Nuke (DNN) framework. DNN is an open source, re-distributable package built in ASP.NET. We developed several modules to achieve the functionality of Millennium. Some of them are Web charts, Data grid, Generic Search, XML Transform, Excel export etc.

• TSG MS Image Viewer is an ActiveX control built for Win32 platforms using open-source base class library called CxImage from sourceforge.net. I was involved in design and QA.

Visual C++ 6.0, HTML

• Physicians/ Provider Portal acts as a Web-based Physician Dashboard with EMR/EHR and personalized clinical decision support. It is used to access critical patient clinical information from any HCIS, laboratory, pharmacy, radiology, and/or transcription system. It provides the ability to personalize the tracking, graphing and analysis of vitals, lab results, ICU data and more for outcomes management and clinical decision-making to enhance the quality of patient care. PACS integration is also an important feature of this application.

• Coder Dashboard is a web-based application that facilitates an intelligent and rule base approach to managing the coding workflow and further enhances E-HIM process. It transforms the existing workflow by providing coders access to online structured documents. Coder Dashboard increases communication capabilities; on-time billing and most importantly enhance coding accuracy and revenue, and minimize legal risk issues.

All the above projects includes working on following tools & technologies;

DotNetNuke 3.x, ASP.NET 1.1, Active Server Pages 3.0, Visual Basic 6.0, JavaScript, XML/ XSL, HTML, CSS, MS SQL Server 2005, IIS ver 5 & 6, , COM/ COM+

Aga Khan University & Hospital (www.aku.edu) Dec ‘1999 – May 2005

As Senior Programmer/ Analyst, was responsible for the analysis, design, development and Implementation of Enterprise-wide Internet/ Intranet and client/server applications. Supports and maintains corporate Windows 2000/2003 and UNIX based Servers and MS SQL Server based database servers. Following is the list of few projects carried out at this job;

• PeopleSoft: Worked as a member of ERP Infrastructure Team after acquiring training of PeopleSoft Infrastructure & Server Administration from PeopleSoft Regional Office, Singapore.

PeopleSoft 8.4, People Tools 8.0, Weblogic 8.6, Tuxedo 8.1, Windows 2003 Server

• Library Management System, ISMC London U.K. (Institute for the Study of Muslim Civilization): Comprises of various modules like Catalogue management, Acquisition, Circulation and Serials. Cataloging is done on MARC 21 (ISO 2709) standard and data entry supports multilingual input through UNICODE. Keyboard maps of various languages were incorporated to leverage data entry in a specific language.

Visual Basic 6.0, MS SQL Server 2000, ASP.NET, JavaScript, Internet Information Server 5.0, COM/ COM+, MARC tools

• INTRANET-based Search Engine: Developed a comprehensive search engine for AKU’s enterprise INTRANET.

Index Server, ASP, JavaScript, Internet Information Server 5.0, COM/ COM+

• LoI-RAD (Library of Images – Radiology): This project is like LoI (please see details below) with an additional offline desktop-based module for carrying images over portable media like CD. This system is used as an educational resource for faculty, residents & students of radiology.

Visual Basic 6.0, MS SQL Server 2000, Active Server Pages, JavaScript, Internet Information Server 5.0, COM/ COM+, ADSI

• Inter-Departmental Interaction Form (IDIF) Workflow System: IDIF is an ISO 9002 standard form also referred to as Form 007 in hospital forums. This web-based intranet workflow application eliminated physical movement b/w various hospital departments and manual bookkeeping. MS Windows Active Directory was used for security control.

Windows 2000, MS SQL Server 2000, Visual Basic 6.0, Active Server Pages, JavaScript, Internet Information Server 5.0, COM/ COM+, ADSI

• Active Directory Update System: A form was made for the users to send their updated information via web to be updated in AD. An interface in VB was also developed for Administrative purposes to approve requests received from web and update in AD.

Win2K Advance Server, MS SQL Server 2000, Visual Basic 6.0, Active Server Pages, JavaScript, Internet Information Server 5.0, COM/ COM+, ADSI

• Funded Projects Database: A database comprising of all research information carried at Aga Khan University. Project was designed and developed by a team supervised by me in MS Access 2000. A web-based search was also developed later. Target OS were Windows XP/ 2000/ 98

Windows XP/ 2000/ 98, MS Access

• AKUMed (http://www.aku.edu/akumed): AKUMed is an online courseware management system designed for AKU-FHS (Aga Khan University - Faculty of Health Sciences). It comprises of two parts, one is for faculty & students containing features like announcements, self test, time-based revelation of modules/cases, email system and central sign-on. Second part is administrative which has provision for posting announcements, uploading modules/ cases, viewing graphical usage reports, adding student/ faculty, changing their passwords etc.

Windows 2000, MS SQL Server 2000, Visual Basic 6.0, Active Server Pages, JavaScript, Internet Information Server 5.0, COM/ COM+, SMTP, Seagate Crystal Reports 8.0

• Library of Images/ Unified Medical Language System (LoI/ UMLS): LOI is an Image Bank based on N-tier architecture that store images uploaded through web-based interface integrated with UMLS. It was developed for Medical College Faculty, which helps them preparing presentation for lectures. Systems major module was Domain authentication using ADSI and Win32 System APIs. I was involved in database analysis/design, form designing, COM+/COM based object development using VB ver 6.0, ASP Scripting, client-side scripting using Java Script and writing Stored Procedures / Triggers in MS SQL Server.

Windows 2000, MS SQL Server 7.0, Visual Basic 6.0, Active Server Pages, JavaScript, Internet Information Server 5.0, COM/ COM+, ADSI

• Internet Accounts Management and Billing System (IAMBS): IAMBS is a desktop/ web-based client/server application based on 2-tier architecture. I was involved in testing, implementation, support and then customization of the system. My responsibilities involve enhancement of System functionality of both ends Desktop/ Web, develop management reports, administration of MSSQL Server and RADIUS.

Windows 2000 Server, RADIUS 2.5, MS SQL Server 7.0, Visual Basic 6.0, Active Server Pages, JavaScript, Internet Information Server 5.0

• AKUNET Website (http://www.akunet.org): My role was to visualize website and develop its dynamic portion i.e. Customer Support Section where user can logon to the website and check their current balance, view their calls and invoices and change their dialup password.

Windows 2000, MS SQL Server 7.0, Active Server Page, JavaScript, HTML

• Internet Mail Server - IMail (http://mail.akunet.org): I was involved in installation and configuration of SMTP, POP and IMAP Services. Defining CName and MX records in DNS server.

Windows NT Enterprise Edition, MS SQL Server 7.0, IMail Server

• Aga Khan University Website (http://www.aku.edu): I was involved in developing the Aga Khan University website, which was hosted earlier on BSD Unix Servers of UUNet and then on Windows 2003 servers of Rackspace. I was also involved in analysis, design and development of the Faculty Profiles database, Alumni database and Search Engine of the website. Server-side programming was done using CGI/PERL on Apache server for BSD Unix and ASP 3.0 on IIS6 for Windows2003

Windows2003, ASP 3.0, IIS6.0, Sun Solaris, Apache Web server, CGI/PERL, HTML/SHTML, JavaScript, Macromedia Dreamweaver

• Online Public Access Catalog (OPAC): Web-based search engine of “Library Information System” using Active Server Pages, JavaScript and INFORMIX as backend. The main objective of this project was to make a Graphical Interface of character-based Informix Application.

Windows 2000, IIS 5, Active Server Pages, JavaScript and INFORMIX

• Information Technology Configuration Management System (ITCMS): System was developed for call logging/ escalating problems occurring within the campus-wide network. I was involved in Form designing, ASP Scripting, Client-side script using VB Script/Java Script and Remote Scripting. Backend was MS Access.

Windows NT, IIS 4, Active Server Pages, JavaScript, Remote Scripting in ASP, MS Access

Softrack Technologies May '98 – Nov '99

As Software Engineer/ Web Master, was responsible for the design, development and Implementation of various systems whom details are as follows;

• CCS (CitiPhone Customer Services) an Online Client/Server based desktop Transaction logging system designed for Citibank N.A Karachi for its Citiphone Customer Services Department.

• Lexus of Palm Beach Car Dealers: Portal application developed for Lexus car dealer in Palm Beach, FL. A client/ server desktop application was meant for Salesmen & Manger in a Car showroom. They can view customers coming from web and generate various statistical reports.

• DJG & Associates: Portal-based Employment Management System developed fro DJG & Associates USA.

• Why Web 1: A Web Site developed for Yweb1 Inc. which provides Web Site building wizard to the customer for their site hosting to Why Web 1.

• FCBC (Foreign Currency Bearer Certificates) a stand-alone desktop application designed for Citibank N.A Karachi

• JMLexus Car Dealers: I did Boutique & New Car Showroom through which customers can buy & sell cars.

• In-house Application: A client/ server desktop application developed for Salesmen & Manager in a Car showroom. They can view customers visiting their website and generate various statistical reports.

All the above projects includes working on following tools & technologies;

Windows 98/ NT, Personal Web Server, IIS, HTML, Visual Basic 6.0, Active Server Pages, JavaScript, MS Access, Adobe Photoshop & MS SQL Server 6.5

Professional Development:

• Implementation of Coders Dashboard at Fairmont: Feb – Mar 2008, The Shams Group, Dallas, TX, USA

• Microsoft PDC 2003 & 2007: June 2003/ 2007, Pearl Continental Hotel, Karachi

• Training at TSG: Mar – Apr 2007, The Shams Group, Dallas, TX, USA

• Symposium on “Arabic Script Web-based Catalogs”: Feb 2005, UAE University, Al-Ain, UAE

• MS Project: Dec 2004, AKU, Karachi

• PeopleSoft Infrastructure & Server Administration: July 2004, PeopleSoft Asia-Pacific Training Centre, Singapore

• Microsoft Solutions Framework: March 2004, AKU, Karachi

• Workshop on Microsoft Infrastructure Products: (Share Point Portal Server, ADSI, Exchange Server) February 2003, Tribune Communication Services (Pvt.) Ltd., Karachi

• Workshop on 3D Studio Max: January 2003, Dale-Train Consultants, Karachi

• Object Oriented Analysis and Design using UML & Rational Rose: October 2001, AKU, Karachi

• Service Excellence: (leading the Hospital departments towards ISO-9002 Certification) March 2000, AKU, Karachi

Personal Travels/ Visas:

• Visited Sydney and Melbourne, Australia, Feb 2006

• USA Business Visa (B1/B2)

Publications

• Code Project website: Article ID #1034

URL: http://www.codeproject.com/KB/asp/webactivedirlogin.aspx

Professional Association:

• Member of Pakistan Engineering Council (PEC)

Registration # COMP/1119

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