Resume 9

SUMMURY

• Five years of professional software development experience, consulting for major financial and business institutions in the U.S. and Europe.
• Sun Certified Web Component Developer for the J2EE Platform, Sun Certified Programmer for the Java 2 Platform, and Sybase Certified PowerBuilder Associate.
• Significant work through the different phases of software development life cycle and knowledge of systems analysis and design methodologies and data modelling.
• Worked with several application configurations including distributed, web, and client-server applications most of the time in a cross-platform environment.
• Used a variety of languages, development tools, frameworks, and relational database management systems.
• Expert in the conversion of legacy information systems to distributed and web-based architectures.
• Always worked closely with system users and management personnel and gained reputation of loyalty, quick problem solving, and excellent teamwork and communication skills.

• Developing a dynamic online form builder engine: FormWizard.
• FormWizard allows users to create customized forms and store their definition in a database.
• The created forms can then be made available to the public via email notifications and the data filled by people into the forms will be stored and later can be accessed by the form owner.
• I was responsible for the whole analysis, design, and development effort of this application.
• Technologies and tools that I used to develop FormWizard include JDK 1.4, EJBs, JSPs, Servlets, Tag Libraries, XML, Apache, JBoss, MS SQL Server 2000, and JBuilder.

• Converting a very sophisticated proprietary suite of trading applications into a commercial, distributed open system financial product.
• The first phase of this practice addresses the security master sub-system that consists of three applications: Product Master, Firm Price Management, and Product Classification System.
• The source applications are written in PowerBuilder, HPS, Cobol, C and PL/I on a DB2 database while the target environment is primarily based on the J2EE platform technologies.
• Extensive analysis and re-engineering have been done to shift the current proprietary, tightly-coupled applications to more generic, customizable, component-based systems that can fit the neABC of financial institutions in today s market.
• Additional work has been done to enable the system for the T+1 processing.

• Technical architect and lead programmer for Alchemist FI, a new e-commerce initiative powered by RSST.
• Alchemist FI developed a new set of proprietary financial products that better serve a client s fincncial goals by collaterizing existing accounts.
• Our goal was to work as a service provider for other financial services firms by providing them with a set of APIs that will communicate with Alchemist FI s proprietary analytics engine running on our servers. The APIs would allow our clients to build their own GUI on top of them. The APIs were also built in a way that allowed adding new products and services to the clients without having to do deploy frequent updates to the clients servers.
• Designed and implemented the core server-side modules in addition to the client APIs. Achieved a flexible design that would allow adding different types of connections and protocols between the client and the analytics engine.
• Tools and technologies: JDK 1.3, Weblogic 6.0, SSL, JSSE, XML, Servlets, and JSPs.Provided primary implementation for XML over HTTP and SSL using JSSE.

Converted several of Abbey s financial applications, written in HPS, to web-based Java applications.
• Knowledge of both source and target environments and technologies helped me play a key role in the development, testing, and deployment phases of the converted applications and participated in preparing the design and functional specifications documents.
• The presentation layer in the target architecture was developed using JSPs and servlets. These web components then communicated with the business logic stored on WebSphere application server as EJBs and JavaBeans. The middle-tier also communicates with other CICS Cobol business modules running on a mainframe environment via IBM s ECI Extended Call Interface middleware.
• Tools and technologies used included JDK 1.1.8, JDK 1.3, JSP, Servlet, JavaBeans, EJBs, JDBC, Swing, J2EE Server, IBM WebSphere 3.02, Visual Age for Java, DB2, HPS 5.3, and HTML.

Client Projects

• Conversion of The Hollywood Reporter s existing FoxPro systems to a new web-based system.
• The project involved re-engineering and migrating the FoxPro database to MS SQL Server 7.0.
• The process involved extensive data modeling and design for the new database that was significantly expanded to introduce a lot more features and capabilities to THR applications.
• Demonstrated and prototyped a web-based dynamic reporting utility using SWING and the Java Datawindow technologies.
• Tools used: MS SQL Server 7.0, Stored Procedures, PowerBuilder 7.0, and JDK 1.2.

• Helped design and develop the web view of Investment Database, Albertson s investment department main application.
• We used PowerBuilder s Web.PB to create an HTML-based web interface to the system that allowed easier and more flexible navigation through the application modules.
• The new interface was used to wrap all the existing contents and we also added more content and functionality.
• Tools used: PowerBuilder 6.5 and MS SQL Server 7.0.

• Worked on maintaining and enhancing Abbey s new Corporate Actions system that addresses all after trade processing such as Dividends Processing, Bond Redemption, Rights Exercise, Warrants Exercise, etc.
• Corporate Actions was released to Production early 98 but it was backed out due to many technical problems. During the assignment at Abbey, I helped fix the problems that failed the system on its first go-live, add new required and important functionality and enhancements, and bring the system back alive in its new shape.
• The responsibilities included gathering, analyzing, and verifying users requirements, and communicating them to the rest of the team.
• Corporate Actions was developed in HPS 5.2/5.3 on a mainframe-hosted DB2 with Windows 3.x/Windows NT front-end.

• PowerScan: A fully automated PowerBuilder applications scanning tool that was used to check PowerBuilder applications for Y2K compliance. PowerScan was flexible enough to allow customizing the scan criteria per application and provided an easy and intuitive interface for examining and filtering results. Tools used: PowerBuilder 6.5, PFC, SQL Adaptive Server Anywhere 6.0, Web.PB, Perl/CGI, and HTML 4.0.
• Broker Message Search Facility: Developed for Guardian Life Insurance to load broker messages received via e-mail into their investment database and then allow the system users to search through these messages for a certain ticker or company.Tools used: PowerBuilder 6.5, PFC, MS SQL Server 6.5.
• Task-based Application Security Module: A generic, easy-to-use task-based application security module for PowerBuilder applications. The module was easy to plug into any number of existing enterprise applications and comes with a friendly security maintenance module to create the security profiles for the system users based on their authorization level.Tools used: PowerBuilder 6.5/7.0, PFC, Adaptive Server Anywhere, and MS SQL Server 6.5.

• For almost two years, worked as a technical consultant for CSFB Credit Suisse First Boston - ISD.
• During this period, I was developing new sub-systems and supporting the existing NTPA New Trade Processing Architecture , the main Trading System at CSFB. NTPA were built on a mainframe-based background using a variety of tools and languages like PowerBuilder, HPS, COBOL, C, PL/I, Assembler, and CICS on DB2 and Sybase database engines.
• Spend most of my assignment working on settlement systems but had some exposure to other systems like OTP Order Trade Processing and CAMS CAsh ManagStarted and delivered a completely new NTPA application: Online PreMatch, a utility that helped traders match internal and external trade instructions. Delivered and tuned the system at several CSFB locations in New York and London. ement System.

• Worked as an offshore consultant for CSFP Credit Suisse Financial Products.
• Participated in the production support and maintenance of the Credit System of CSFP that was developed in C and System Procedures on a UNIX environment.

In-house Projects

Participated in the analysis, design and implementation of three internal client/server applications for ABC Egypt, as a part of its plan to integrate its own corporate systems:

• Employees Leaves Management System ELS : A client/server vacation request and authorization processing application.
• Employee Skills Registry System ESRS : Allows the company to maintain a repository of the skills available by its personnel.
• Time Control System TCS : A computerized timesheet entry system.

Tools: PowerBuilder 4.0, PowerBuilder 5.0 on MS SQLServer Server 6.0.

• As a part time resource, I worked on the application Design and development of Asfour Crystal Manufacturing System.
• Participated in the deployment and tuning of the application on-site and in customization and tuning of the application for other major industrial organizations in Egypt.
• The application makes use of the client server and distributed technologies, OOP, and Stored Procedures to provide the company with a way to process its day to day activities including sales, stock, production, accounting, and plant ABC analysis.
• Tools used: PowerBuilder 5.0 and PFC on Sybase System 11 database.

Diploma in Software Development, Information Technology Institute ITI , Cairo, Egypt.

• A 10 months program that covered advanced topics in software development including Operating Systems, Database Design, Computer Networking, in addition to focused courses on several programming tools and languages and also several database management systems.
• Graduation Project: School Management Information System. A very flexible and customizable Information Management System that fits any under-college educational institution. New ideas were implemented in that project like remote administration and parental tracking through an Internet gateway. The tools used were PowerBuilder 4.0, Oracle Server 7.1, JDBC 1.0, CGI, LiveWire, and Netscape FastTrack Web Server.

Bachelor of Science, Electrical Engineering, Electronics and Communications Department, Ain Shams University, Cairo, Egypt.

Graduation Project : Computer-Aided Design of Microwave Microstrip Circuits.

Sun Certified Programmer for the Java 2 Platform.
Sybase Certified PowerBuilder Associate.

• Programming Languages:
  Java, C, C++, Perl/CGI, COBOL., PL/I
• Operating Systems:
  WINDOWS NT, MVS, UNIX, DOS, Red Hat Linux, Windows 2000.
• Databases:
  DB2, Sybase SQL Server System 11, Sybase SQL Anywhere, MS SQL Server 7.0. Adaptive Server Anywhere.
• Development Tools:
  
  • Java 2 Platform technologies: Servlets, JavaBeans, JSPs, XML, JSSE and EJBs.
  • PowerBuilder 5.0/6.0/7.0 CPD 6.0 Associate , Jaguar CTS 3.0, PFC, HPS 2.6/5.X
• Analysis & Design:
  Structured and Object Oriented Analysis and Design.
• Other:
  HTML, CFML, ISPF, CICS, JCL, VSAM