Senior J2EE System Developer at LMRA; Co-Founder, Creative Director at Skyrill Design Studios
Bahrain
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- Creative Director, Founder at Skyrill Design Studios
- System Developer, Team Lead at LMRA
- Director, Developer, Designer at Manama Gate
- Past
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- Owner at CyberiaPC.com
- Software Developer at Electronic Data Systems (EDS)
- Developer at Zenith Picture Gallery Project
- Software Developer at Carnegie Mellon University
- Graduate Student at Carnegie Mellon University
- Creative Designer at Gulf Saatchi & Saatchi
- Education
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- Carnegie Mellon University
- University of East Anglia
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- Industry
- Computer Software
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Ali Almossawi’s Summary
From morning till afternoon, I work as a System Developer on one of the government's most ambitious projects ever: to transform the labor market in Bahrain by implementing the recommendations of the McKinsey Report. A major component of the project is the Expat Management System that codifies the business processes of 13 government institutions and allows for their seamless integration via a Web-based system.
From afternoon till midnight, I work as a developer, designer, video editor/videographer and photographer on a string of hobbyist, social and professional projects, as a freelancer at first for the latter, but as of April 2009, as part of a registered company called Skyrill Design Studios.
Whenever there is any free time, I write short stories, poetry, essays and collections in both English and Arabic.
Some examples of the above with links can be found here: http://www.cyberiapc.com/almossawi/
Ali Almossawi’s Experience
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Creative Director, Founder
Skyrill Design Studios
(Design industry)
April 2009 — Present (9 months)
From the launch post: "We’re very excited to officially announce the launch of Skyrill Design Studios! We’ve got some exciting ideas that we will be rolling out in the coming few months and we’re already very pumped-up about the projects that we’ll be starting on soon.
We’re intent on being systematic in our management and development of projects, be they code-heavy projects or purely design ones. Our use of process won’t be just for the sake of using one, but it will be to ensure that our works for different clients remain consistent and, in the case of Web-based applications, robust and secure.
We are also hoping to provide a very special experience to all our clients, which is why we’re currently in the process of setting up our Client Area: it will be a central place where clients can, among other things, check on the progress of their respective projects, opt for receiving updates via email, RSS, SMS, etc. and manage the set of products or services that they have bought or those that they would like to buy.
So in short, there are lots of new things that we will be announcing in the near future. For now, don’t hesitate to drop us an email if you’ve got an idea for a project that you would like to discuss with us or if you just have some comments about the website. We’ve just gone live with it so there may very well be bits and pieces that need tweaking or fixing. We would love to hear from you! And don’t worry, our egos are shatter-proof." -
System Developer, Team Lead
LMRA
(Government Administration industry)
July 2007 — Present (2 years 6 months)
Development of a state-of-the-art management system for Bahrain's 400,000 expatriates as part of the LMRA's efforts to regulate the labor market and ultimately aid in boosting the national economy.
Am currently responsible for 3 core system modules. Projects and artifacts that I have worked on include:
• LocalTableReplicator (an abstraction used for speeding up jobs by trading memory for time)
• Performance Tuning Project: a project that comprehensively audited the Expat Management System's performance-related issues and fixed them, producing a 100 page documentation detailing the motive, methodology, quantitative results and conclusions
• Airport Backup Continuity Application: an application that takes over when the Expat Management System goes offline to keep the enrollment processes at the Airport working in case of an outage
• Monthly invoices, Expat. print file generation and details applications -
Director, Developer, Designer
Manama Gate
(Online Media industry)
January 2007 — Present (3 years )
Manama Gate is the electronic facade for the Manama Media Center, the first registered media center in Bahrain. The website documents the city's history via rare photos and articles and frequently provides semi-exclusive news thanks to its partnerships with local journalists.
In 2009, Manama Gate won a Special-Mention Award in the Bahrain eContent Competition's Media category. The website can be accessed via www.manamagate.net. -
Owner
CyberiaPC.com
(Computer Software industry)
January 1999 — January 2008 (9 years 1 month)
CyberiaPC.com's aim over the course of ten years has been to provide free technical resources in the form of tutorials, articles, help-sheets and applications.
Among its more popular features are its Video Game Gallery, its collection of original articles and guides and its set of online games -remakes of classics- that have been created by various authors in Flash and Java.
CyberiaPC.com's content has been featured in magazines such as PC Answers, .net and PC World, books such as Domine JavaScript, mailing lists such as Lockergnome and on tens of websites. In 2007, CyberiaPC.com won the Bahrain eContent Award in the eLearning category. -
Software Developer
Electronic Data Systems (EDS)
(Public Company; HPQ; Information Technology and Services industry)
2007 — 2007 (less than a year)
Worked on software projects that included writing an application that migrates data from a legacy system to a newly acquired state-of-the-art one, writing an application that standardizes the names of over 2,500 PCs across the organization and writing a specification for a tool that is to automate all the installation procedures of Oracle middleware and front-end applications.
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Developer
Zenith Picture Gallery Project
(Computer Software industry)
August 2004 — July 2007 (3 years )
Zenith Picture Gallery is a feature-rich picture gallery that organizes uploaded images into searchable categories, creates thumbnails, and stores individual statistics for each one. It was an active hobbyist project between the years 2004 and 2006.
Other features include downloadable categories and sub-categories, user accounts and profiles, batch adding via FTP and batch deleting, user comments and ratings, the ability to add languages and skins, the option to rebuild thumbnails, an IP blacklist and a comprehensive admin control panel that provides access to a great deal of settings and formatting options.
Check out the live demo here: http://www.cyberiapc.com/zenith_demo
"This gallery kicks some serious...Awesome job for putting it together. I've searched everywhere looking for a gallery that can give us all of our needs, and this one does it all (well, almost...), from ease of use and design, thanks for sharing your great work." -Unoverse.com -
Software Developer
Carnegie Mellon University
(Educational Institution; Higher Education industry)
June 2006 — August 2006 (3 months)
Wrote an Eclipse Plug-in and accompanying paper titled "Contributing to Rainbow’s Stitch Adaptation Language" - The Rainbow project's vision is "Architecture-based Adaptation of Complex Systems"; more details about it can be found here: http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~able/research/rainbow/
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Graduate Student
Carnegie Mellon University
(Educational Institution; 1001-5000 employees; Higher Education industry)
2005 — 2006 (1 year )
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Creative Designer
Gulf Saatchi & Saatchi
(Graphic Design industry)
June 2003 — September 2003 (4 months)
Ali Almossawi’s Education
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Carnegie Mellon University
Masters , Software Engineering , 2005 — 2006
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University of East Anglia
B.Sc. (Hons) , Computer Systems Engineering , 2002 — 2005
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Ali Almossawi’s Groups:
IEE, EmiratesMac
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Carnegie Mellon Alumni
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