Hammad Rajjoub

Current

Director Communications at IASA Singapore
Assistant Vice President (Architect) at Merrill Lynch
Member Speakers Bureau / Chariman UG Relations at INETA

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Past

Solution Architect / Technical Product Manager at Sharesoft Solutions
Tech. Lead at Kalsoft
Technical Lead/ Consultant at Kalsoft Pvt. Ltd

Technical Lead at ABA-Group
Technical Lead at Meezan Bank
Tech Lead at Meezan Bank
Software Engineer at ThreeSixtyDegreez

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Education

Karachi University

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Connections

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Industry

Computer Software

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Hammad Rajjoub’s Summary

Hammad Rajjoub is currently working as an AVP with
Merrill Lynch Global Services in Singapore. He is a four times Microsoft Most
Valuable Professional (MVP) for Connected Systems. He is a professional member of IASA (Ineternational Association of Software Architects).

His areas of interest include Distributed Computing, Service
Oriented Architecture, .NET, Design Patterns and Quantum Computation. He has developed number of successful enterprise scale applications using various tools and technologies. He is a .Net Evangelist and speaks frequently at seminars and knowledge sharing sessions. He is an active member of MSDN groups and shares his experiences with the community. He has hosted number of technical sessions at local as well international Microsoft conferences.
He has written a case study for Wrox Publishers (http://www.wrox.co.uk). He is also a user group leader of .NetWizards and .NetPalm both are INETA (http://www.ineta.org)
chartered user group. He is a member speaker’s bureau for INETA MEA. He has taught at Dept. Of Computer Science, Karachi University and PAF KIET as a visiting faculty member. He spends his spare time learning and evangelizing .NET.
For more details visit his blogs at: http://dotnetwizards.blogspot.com

Hammad Rajjoub’s Specialties:

Financial Services, Eneteprise Applications, Banking Solutions, Trading Platforms, Information Worker Competency Solutions, EAI, Middle-ware Solutions, Web Application Frameworks etc

Hammad Rajjoub’s Experience

Director Communications

IASA Singapore

(Non-Profit; Information Technology and Services industry)

January 2008 — Present (1 year 11 months)
Assistant Vice President (Architect)

Merrill Lynch

(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; MER; Financial Services industry)

July 2007 — Present (2 years 5 months)

* Designing and architecting highly scalable services based on Service Oriented Architecture (SOA).
* Hands on development
* Design reviews
* Evangelising architecture and best practices
Member Speakers Bureau / Chariman UG Relations

INETA

(Computer Software industry)

2002 — Present (7 years )
Solution Architect / Technical Product Manager

Sharesoft Solutions

(Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Computer Software industry)

January 2006 — July 2007 (1 year 7 months)

Solutions Architect:
Manage the design and implementation of highly complex, mission critical, n-tier platform.
Develop design plans and documentation; maintain updated blueprints current and future technical architecture.
Closely work with development team by performing architecture and code reviews to make sure systems are built according to design specifications.

Technical Product Manager:
Managing the entire product line life cycle from strategic planning to tactical activities.
Defining new product features and product requirements.
Gathering and synthesizing of product requirements.
Perform requirement analysis to prioritize and recommend next release feature list.
Document and maintain product requirement document.
Evangelizing the company product lines externally with customers and partners.
Working closely with The user experience group to gather user requirements and portray them in the forms of visual interfaces to the development team.
Tech. Lead

Kalsoft

(Computer Software industry)

2006 — 2007 (1 year )
Technical Lead/ Consultant

Kalsoft Pvt. Ltd

(Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Information Technology and Services industry)

June 2005 — December 2005 (7 months)

Worked as a Technical Lead and Consultant. Lead product development for information worker competency solution based on Sharepoint Portal and .Net Framework. I was involved in client facing and consultancy for POC and other related activities.
Technical Lead

ABA-Group

(Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Information Technology and Services industry)

March 2005 — June 2005 (4 months)
Technical Lead

Meezan Bank

(Public Company; 501-1000 employees; Banking industry)

August 2003 — March 2005 (1 year 8 months)

I worked as a Technical Lead, leading design and development of mission critical banking applications. Designing and developing solutions that took care of Enterprise Application Integration. I was involved in basically every thing from requirements gathering to project planning, design and development of the solutions.
Tech Lead

Meezan Bank

(Computer Software industry)

2003 — 2005 (2 years )
Software Engineer

ThreeSixtyDegreez

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

2002 — 2003 (1 year )

Worked as a Software Engineer and participated in design and development of different products.
I was also involved in client facing, requirements gathering and solutions deployment.