Abdul Ashik

Current

• Senior Technical Consultant at PricewaterhouseCoopers

Past

• Applications Integration & Middleware Consultant at PricwaterhouseCoopers
• IT Programmer/Developer at PricewaterhouseCoopers
• Junior IT Programmer/Developer at PricwaterhouseCoopers

• Graduate Trainee at PricewaterhouseCoopers
• IT Support at Brose Limited

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Education

• Coventry University

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Abdul Ashik’s Summary

Outstanding technical, analytical, and development competence, demonstrating an in-depth understanding of current and emerging enterprise application development, integration and middleware technologies and how they impact large enterprises. Strong team working skills, excellent communications skills and customer focused, with track record for patiently and thoroughly training and assisting others. Sound judgement coupled with the ability to work under pressure. Over 10 years commercial IT experience. Commitment to ongoing professional development.

Abdul Ashik’s Specialties:

Java, XML/XSLT, SQL, Unix & NT Scripting.

JEE, Web Services, Spring, Hibernate, Struts, SpringMVC.

Oracle 9i/10g, SQL Server, MySQL.

Service Oriented Architecture (SOA), Application Integration & Middleware, OOA & OOD, Rational Unified Process (RUP), Agile (Scrum), Enterprise Design Patterns, Rational Rose (UML), Rational ClearQuest, JIRA.

SVN, CVS, VSS, PVCS.

IBM WebSphere (4x, 5.1), JBoss 3x, TomCat (4x, 5x), Apache Web Server.

Eclipse, Ant, Maven, MQSeries 5.3/WBIMB 5.

Abdul Ashik’s Experience

• Senior Technical Consultant

  PricewaterhouseCoopers

  (Partnership; 10,001 or more employees; Information Technology and Services industry)

  January 2005 — Present (5 years )

  My team plays an important role in facilitating the interconnectivity between territories, lines of service, clients, suppliers and other external organisations which demand secure, robust and innovative software solutions to support the business.
  We provide standards-based services for the provision of data between systems, enabling reuse, enrichment and transformation of data, where required.
  
  I provide IT development and consultancy services. I actively play a key part within the development community by offering technical leadership and direction as appropriate, sharing of knowledge and promoting best of breed standards-based technologies in order to meet project deadlines. I'm responsible for, lead and participate in delivering enterprise application integration solutions. This includes the full end-to-end s/w development life cycle. Part of my job is to assist/develop and influence standards & relationships within UK IT, and review new and emerging projects/technologies.

• Applications Integration & Middleware Consultant

  PricwaterhouseCoopers

  (Partnership; 10,001 or more employees; Information Technology and Services industry)

  January 2003 — January 2005 (2 years 1 month)

  The AIM Consultant role inlcuded:
  * Formalisation of the service, adopting the following:
  - Clearly defined processes and procedures within the team
  - Agreed processes and procedures with Service management
  - Increased visibility of service offering and capabilities
  * Reviewing current and emerging technologies
  * Centre of excellence for Web Services and leading a large degree of work in this field. I lead the web services development initiative, offering guidance to the development community and promoting best of breed standards-based technologies.
  * Leading the Implementation of a Service-Oriented Architecture and to be a leading force in the delivery of the Enterprise Services Integrated Architecture (ESIA)
  * Working closely with Business Integration colleagues to improve Business reporting and firms metadata management.

• IT Programmer/Developer

  PricewaterhouseCoopers

  (Partnership; 10,001 or more employees; Information Technology and Services industry)

  March 2001 — January 2003 (1 year 11 months)

  IT Developer role. Developing Lotus Notes/Domino apps, Portal modules/apps as required for the UK firm. There were occasionally requirements to work on developments including small "fast track" applications to large European and Global applications. My role included the full development life cycle and involve regular internal client facing liaison.

• Junior IT Programmer/Developer

  PricwaterhouseCoopers

  (Partnership; 10,001 or more employees; Information Technology and Services industry)

  April 2000 — March 2001 (1 year )

  Development of Lotus Notes based applications as required for the UK firm. There were occasionally requirements to work on developments including small "fast track" applications to large European and Global applications. My role included the full development life cycle and involve regular internal client facing liaison. My role also involved web-based development with Lotus Domino and JavaScript.

• Graduate Trainee

  PricewaterhouseCoopers

  (Partnership; 10,001 or more employees; Information Technology and Services industry)

  October 1999 — April 2000 (7 months)

• IT Support

  Brose Limited

  (Privately Held; 501-1000 employees; Automotive industry)

  July 1997 — August 1998 (1 year 2 months)

  ASSISTANT SYSTEMS CONTROLLER, (Professional Training Placement).
  Work involved
  
  - IT help-desk, locating and fixing problems
  - Liaison between users in UK and group IT headquarters in Germany
  - Configuration and installation of hardware and software
  - Support for PC/mainframe and PC/UNIX connectivity.
  - System Administration
  - User training/support.
  
  Projects included
  - Software and hardware auditing
  - Y2K testing
  - Upgrading of PCs and printers
  - Assisting the installation of new switches and hubs on token-ring network.
  - Migration to Microsoft NT 4 Server/Workstation and Microsoft Office 97

Abdul Ashik’s Education

• Coventry University

  2.2 , Computer Science (BSc Hons) Sandwich , 1995 — 1999

  Additional Relevant Training:
  Developing Web Services with SOAP and Apache Axis2 (Skills Matter)
  Architecting and Designing J2EE Applications (Sun)
  Developing Applications for J2EE (QA)
  Administration of WebSphere Application Server v5.1 (IBM)
  Java for non-C Programmers (QA)
  
  Introduction to Rational Unified Process (RUP)
  Fundamentals of Visual Modelling (UML)
  Object Oriented Analysis
  Object Oriented Design
  
  Advanced UNIX Data Tools & Techniques (QA)
  Lotus Notes/Domino Development (QA/Lotus)
  Project Management
  
  Conferences:
  IBM WebSphere User Group - Bedfont Lakes, UK
  Butler Group - Integration & SOA - London, UK (November 2005)
  TheServerSide Java Symposium - Barcelona, Spain (June 2006)

Additional Information

Abdul Ashik’s Interests:

Enterprise architecture, design and applications, travelling, cooking, religion, history, science-fiction.

Abdul Ashik’s Groups:

•    PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC) employees and alumni
•    Service Oriented Architecture Special Interest Group
•    WebSphere SME's
•    Agile & Scrum UK
•    IT Quality and Security Practice

Abdul Ashik’s Honors:

Professional Development:
Sun Certified Java Programmer for the Java 2 Platform 1.4 (SCJP)
Certified Lotus Specialist R5 (CLS)

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