Team Lead at Ovex Technologies
Pakistan
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- Team Lead at Ovex Technologies
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- Team Coordinator / Project Lead at Ovex Technologies
- Project Lead at Ovex Technologies
- Software Engineer at Ovex Technologies
- Software Engineer at Clarusoft
- Application Engineer at Winson
- Software Engineer at ITIM Associates
- Education
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- Shah Abdul Latif University, Khairpur
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Misbah Arefin’s Summary
I offer 6+ years of professional experience with 10+ successful projects under my belt. Competent and knowledgeable in the field of software development, I have an impeccable development and project management record.
My experience as a Software Engineer professional has prepared me for a disciplined, well-defined process work environment and the challenges associated with emerging software needs.
Most recently, at Ovex Technologies, I served as Project Lead on a number of projects including AccessPointe, an e-procurement tool. In this capacity, I received frequent commendations from the project manager for overall code efficiency. I effectively handled difficult situations while maintaining the highest emphasis on software quality.
I have strong leadership competencies, solid judgment, troubleshooting, and decision-making abilities. I am also young, energetic, and committed to achieving corporate goals.
Misbah Arefin’s Specialties:
Object Oriented Programming (C, C++, Visual C++, C#) Class Design, Code Profiling, Identifying bottlenecks in code, Service-Oreiented Architecture
Win32 API, COM / ATL, ODBC, ADO.NET, ASP.NET, XML, XSLT, Web services
T-SQL, MS SQL Server 7/2000/2005, Data Modeling
Vertex, B2B (cXML, xCBL, OBI), Web Client Software Factory, Web Service Software Factory, Microsoft Enterprise Library
Misbah Arefin’s Experience
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Team Lead
Ovex Technologies
(Privately Held; Information Technology and Services industry)
August 2008 — Present (1 year 4 months)
--Provide technical direction for the development, design, and systems integration across multiple client engagements from definition phase through implementation
--Define both the organizational structure of the application and the physical structure of its deployment
--Participate in all programs relating to performance, security, maintenance evaluations
--Suggest alternative technical solutions to meet client requirements more efficiently, and/or with greater reusability, and/or longer life
--Create and execute development plans across multiple projects and revise as appropriate to meet changing needs and requirements. Manage multiple technical teams within project schedule
--Keep project manager/client well informed of status of development effort and serve as liaison between development staff and client across multiple projects
--Ensure project teams are effectively employing appropriate design techniques and best practices
--Evoke creative and innovative thinking from team members while helping them to bring their ideas and plans to fruition -
Team Coordinator / Project Lead
Ovex Technologies
(Privately Held; Information Technology and Services industry)
July 2007 — July 2008 (1 year 1 month)
--Coordinating and troubleshooting technical solutions to different teams and projects within the company to make sure that projects are delivered on time and with an emphasis on quality
--Mentoring team members, troubleshooting technical bottlenecks, troubleshooting problems and guiding developers as an ongoing day-to-day responsibility
--Implemented custom code analysis rules during check-ins to facilitate with code reviews
--Perform design and code reviews to make sure code written is secure, efficient, and fulfills the requirements
--Developed best practices, coding conventions, naming conventions, standards and reference architecture for .NET applications
--Ensure adherence to standards through structured review process. Lead design reviews of web-based applications
--Review the status reports of team members and address issues as appropriate -
Project Lead
Ovex Technologies
(Privately Held; Information Technology and Services industry)
September 2004 — June 2007 (2 years 10 months)
--Optimized the overall application web page load times in AccessPointe especially product search queries from at times 9+ seconds down to 3 seconds max
--BlueHippo CRM - Architected and developed a call center integration solution which integrated customer CRM, Cisco Call Center Solution and our homegrown call tagging application to provide single point of information for real-time call center statistics
--All project management/resource allocation done in MS Project 2003 and Team Foundation Server. Used TFS for issue/bug tracking and work item tracking
--Successfully derived business to invest time in automated unit testing to be developed for all applications
--Review deliverables prepared by team before sending out to client
--Ensure project documents are complete, current, and stored appropriately
--Identify system deficiencies and recommend solutions -
Software Engineer
Ovex Technologies
(Privately Held; Information Technology and Services industry)
March 2004 — August 2004 (6 months)
--Developed AccessPointe from scratch; with inspiration from previous version; on ASP.NET (using C#), SQLServer 2000, BizTalk Server 2002, SAP R/3 and several third party products
--Added new module for receiving and 3-way matching
--Added new module for software licensing parts with contract management with support for contractual/non-contractual as well as transactional license parts
--Created a web service to pull real-time pricing and availability updates from TechData, Synnex, Ingram and HP
--Integrated with SAP process orders and track shipments using .NET Connector for SAP
--Integrated with FedEx, UPS and other delivery services shipment tracking systems to provide real-time order status tracking
--Assist in physical and logical database design
--Develop internal and external meeting objectives and agendas -
Software Engineer
Clarusoft
(Public Company; CLRS; Computer Software industry)
November 2002 — March 2004 (1 year 5 months)
--Developed customizable bundles module – allowing end-user to customize the parts in e.g. laptop or desktop
--Created email sub-system for marketing team to send out email notifications for price drop or special discounts etc. using customizable email templates
--Added DTS/Importers for TechNotes part description/attributes in LinkT
--Optimized existing product parts importers to run 50% faster
--Added promo pricing module in LinkT
--Developed Promo Pricing Engine; enabling per product promotional discount, bundled discounts, or quantity discounts
--REBS - Developed and engineered admin auditing and version control on each and every possible action on a property
--Developed user submission auditing module in REBS to allow appraisers full control to enable user submitted content
--Developed full audit trail tracking of what was changed in the entity and by which application user. Administrator can even rollback to an entity state -
Application Engineer
Winson
(Computer Software industry)
June 2001 — November 2001 (6 months)
--Ported Imposition Publisher from Mac to Windows
--Developed Imposition Publisher 4.1 (for Windows) for Farrukh Systems (UK) using Visual C++
--Developed Flatwork feature in Imposition publisher which allows for automatic alignment and easy manipulation of pages on a print sheet -
Software Engineer
ITIM Associates
(Privately Held; Computer Software industry)
September 2000 — February 2001 (6 months)
--Developed Project Tracking System to monitor project progress by clients using Visual Basic 6
--Developed Windows NT service which monitors databases located on different web servers and updates/synchronizes client databases using Visual C++
--Automated VSS operation on the web thus enabling VSS over HTTP using Visual C++ and Visual SourceSafe API
Misbah Arefin’s Education
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Shah Abdul Latif University, Khairpur
Bachelors , Computer Science , 1997 — 1999
--As a student teacher (pupil-teacher) conducted group discussions on object oriented programming languages and compiler design
--Presented on Neural Network Designs at university seminar on algorithm design
--Studied in Petroman Gulshan Campus, Karachi, which was affiliated with Shah Abdul Latif University, Khairpur.
Additional Information
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Misbah Arefin’s Groups:
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Enterprise Architect (Sparx Systems) User Group -
International Association of Software Architects -
Agile Alliance -
.NET People -
.NET Developers -
Linked.NET Users Group (LIDNUG) -
Database Experts -
.Net Professionals -
Adamjee Government Science College -
SQL Server Professionals -
Senior .NET Developers -
Pakistan Embassy School Jeddah -
Certified IT Practitioners -
Microsoft Developers -
Ovex Technologies -
Microsoft Certified Professional Developer
Misbah Arefin’s Honors:
MCPD: Designing and Developing Web-based Applications by Using the Microsoft® .NET Framework
MCTS: Microsoft .NET Framework 2.0 - Web-based Client Development
MCTS: Microsoft .NET Framework 2.0 - Application Development Foundation
Brainbench Certified C Programmer
Brainbench Certified C++ Programmer
Brainbench Certified Windows API Programmer
Brainbench Certified Visual C++ 6 Programmer
Brainbench Certified OO Concepts
Brainbench Certified Programmer/Analyst Aptitude
Brainbench Certified Visual Basic 6 Programmer
Brainbench Certified Programming Concepts
Brainbench Certified .NET Fundamentals
Brainbench Certified C# Programmer
eCertifications Certified C Programmer
eCertifications Certified C++ Programmer
eCertifications Certified Visual Basic 5 Programmer
SkillDrill Certified C Programmer
SkillDrill Certified C++ Programmer
SkillDrill Certified Visual C++ 6 Programmer
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