Abdul-Rahman Advany

Current

Imagineer at social imagineers
Facilitator at Cowork.in
CEO, Founder at Socialbytes

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Past

Webdeveloper at Advany.com (Self-employed)
Reseacher at Council Almere
Business analyst at Topicus

Project member at FRS global
Researcher at Otocom-group holding
Project leader at Institute for information engineering
Network Engineer at Het Mozaiek
Consultant at Council Almere
Founder at Dudok Design

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Education

Universiteit van Amsterdam
Hogeschool van Amsterdam
ROC flevoland

ROC Dudok
Casparus College
Pieterhoogland school
Onze Wereld

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Abdul-Rahman Advany’s Summary

Hulp nodig met nieuwe media, web 2.0, communities of crowdsourcing? stuur een mail naar abdulrahman@advany.com of bel naar +31 (0) 6 24290182.

Abdul-Rahman Advany’s Specialties:

Social Web, Networked organizations, Interaction Design, Information Management, Project Management, Ruby (on Rails and Merb), PHP (Wordpress, Joomla, and Drupal), Java.

Abdul-Rahman Advany’s Experience

Imagineer

social imagineers

(Internet industry)

June 2008 — Present (1 year 6 months)

Assisting company's develop a social strategy with new media and internet technologies. Social strategy is a multi-disciplinary approach to foster innovation of companies and individuals in areas like in areas like marketing, advertising, customer service, research & development, design of products & services, production, sales, or distribution.

* Wrote a business plan with a social strategy for the commercialization of a innovative IP content filtering technology (April-May, 2008)

* Proposed a model for Great Place to Live to generate revenue stream using the power of the network (May 2008).

* Contributed to an article on history of wealth together for the Great Place To Live issue of June (June, 2008)

* Design, Development and Implementation of a social network for the Dutch Ministry of Agriculture, Nature and Food quality (July-October, 2008)

* Implementation of customer forums for various company's (November-December, 2008)

More information please contact me.
Facilitator

Cowork.in

(Non-Profit; Myself Only; Internet industry)

April 2008 — Present (1 year 8 months)

Cowork.in is casual coworking, in one room (at a company or somewhere else) with other interesting people for a day. We provide chairs, tables (or couch), wireless internet, and interesting people to talk to, collaborate with, and bounce ideas off.
CEO, Founder

Socialbytes

(Computer Software industry)

January 2008 — Present (1 year 11 months)

Developing a thinktable, more info will be released soon.
Webdeveloper
Advany.com (Self-employed)

(Self-Employed; Myself Only; Internet industry)

January 2001 — January 2008 (7 years 1 month)

Did Java, PHP, and Ruby development for various websites and intranets. My speciality was backend development where I created the CMS, integration between services, and did some frontend development. Most project focused on e-commerce solutions.
Reseacher

Council Almere

(Government Agency; 201-500 employees; Government Administration industry)

January 2006 — June 2006 (6 months)

With a group of three I researched what possible problems can happen when creating a customer care center as an implementation of e-Government. These topics where then analyzed on the current implementation of other councils in the Netherlands to advice Council of Almere how to proceed.
Business analyst

Topicus

(Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Computer Software industry)

June 2005 — September 2005 (4 months)

Developed a business/marketing/implementation strategy, by researching the prototype that’s developed and offered to clients by analyzing the market, researching possible selling channels and calculating costs. I created the business plan that contained the proposed strategy together with an initial plan on how to execute it.
Project member

FRS global

(Privately Held; 201-500 employees; Financial Services industry)

February 2005 — June 2005 (5 months)

Participated in the early fase of the implementation of a solution to be used by 125 employees around the globe to manage projects, finance, plan resource, time sheets, expense registration, and customers. Together with my colleague I monitored requirements, researched policy and inspected how the large database of contracts could be fitted into a technical solution
Researcher

Otocom-group holding

(Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Transportation/Trucking/Railroad industry)

September 2004 — February 2005 (6 months)

Research and improve business processes of the holding OtoCom-group with 5 daughter companies. With a colleague I researched strategic, tactical and the workflow to identify how communication was done between different departments over several business processes. By identifying failures we could highlight the successes that could be achieved by restructuring and communication between people across multiple business units and departments.
Project leader

Institute for information engineering

(Public Company; 11-50 employees; Higher Education industry)

February 2004 — July 2004 (6 months)

Lead a team of 6 co-students to design and develop a dynamic website for the Institute to recruit and process projects and assign students, teachers and supervisors to projects. As the only one with more then 4 years programming experience on both web development I thought the team working with Java in an Object Oriented way by using modern frameworks like JavaServer Faces and Hibernate.
Network Engineer

Het Mozaiek

(Non-Profit; 11-50 employees; Education Management industry)

February 2003 — July 2003 (6 months)

Design, implementation and documentation of a network based on Window 2000 server and Windows NT workstations with the usage of the current that was heavily restructured and purchase of necessary equipment. I was responsible for the implementation and a part of the documentation covering the implementation.
Consultant

Council Almere

(Public Company; 201-500 employees; Government Administration industry)

December 2002 — April 2003 (5 months)

Extending database and GUI after gathering of requirements and converting the old database and GUI. And implementing the new application by training the employees and documenting the new application. The implementation was especially complex because of the security constrains that needed to be circumvent by implementing procedures that allowed for a multi-user environment.
Founder

Dudok Design

(Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Design industry)

January 2002 — July 2002 (7 months)

Web design and development company with students of the multimedia education. I started and runned the company with the support of Dudok College to give students of the multimedia course to practice what they learn. I lead the company with 3 to 8 other students consisting of both local as international students serving the local businesses.

Abdul-Rahman Advany’s Education

Universiteit van Amsterdam

Msc , Business information systems , 2006 — 2008

International Entrepreneurship, Information Management, Philosophical aspects of information systems, IR, Datamining, Statistics, enc.
Hogeschool van Amsterdam

BICT - Instituut for information engineering , Computer Science, Business Studies , 2004 — 2006

Followed courses on CRM, HRM, Business, Software Engineering, Object Oriented Programming, Java, Economics, Business Process Redesign, Organizational theory, Change management, Marketing (NIMA A/B).
ROC flevoland

MKB technische informatica , Computer science , 2002 — 2004

Followed courses on SQL, Software engineering, Java, System maintenance, Cisco, enc.
ROC Dudok

Beheerder informatie systemen , Computer science , 2000 — 2002

I participated in development of two projects regarding gaming and multimedia. I also started Dudok Design during ROC Dudok. After discovering that ROC Flevoland offered a 7 year MBO-HBO I initiated a transfer to that education based on my technical knowledge I gained outside of school.

Activities and Societies:

Participated in the organization of lan party's
Casparus College

Mavo , 1996 — 2000
Pieterhoogland school

Speciaal basis onderwijs , 1992 — 1996
Onze Wereld

Basisschool , 1987 — 1992