Microsoft Most Valuable Professional (MVP)
Pakistan
- Current
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- Independent Technical Consultant at Self Employed
- Executive and Usergroup Leader at INETA
- Freelance Software Developer at Freelancing
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- Software Engineer at Avanza Solutions
- Microsoft Student Partner at Microsoft Corp.
- Vice Chairperson at IEEE NUCES, Karachi Student Branch
- Software Development Internee at Centre of Research in Ubiquitous Computing (http://khi.nu.edu.pk/cruc)
- System Programmer Internee at TeleCard Limited
- Education
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- National University of Computer and Emerging Sciences
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Munir Usman’s Summary
Munir Usman’s Specialties:
C / C++, C#, Java, Assembly, PHP, .NET, Java Servlets, JSP, XML, SOAP, MS SQL Server, Oracle, MySQL, TCP/IP, Network / Socket programming, Windows/Unix Networking, Hardware Interfacing
Munir Usman’s Experience
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Independent Technical Consultant
Self Employed
(Computer Software industry)
May 2008 — Present (1 year 3 months)
I provide technical consultancy to professional and government organizations to help them in the implementation and integration of IT solutions.
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Executive and Usergroup Leader
INETA
(Non-Profit; Computer Software industry)
June 2005 — Present (4 years 2 months)
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Freelance Software Developer
Freelancing
(Computer Software industry)
July 2004 — Present (5 years 1 month)
I am working for some professional organizations where I develop desktop and web applications as freelance programmer.
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Software Engineer
Avanza Solutions
(Privately Held; Computer Software industry)
July 2007 — April 2008 (10 months)
In the E-Banking dept. at Avanza, I am involved in the development of our main product Rendezvous which is actually a "Message Broker Middleware" used usually to integrate different delivery channels with banks’ core systems. My work is to enhance the existing functionalities as well as to add new one according to client’s requirements.
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Microsoft Student Partner
Microsoft Corp.
(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; MSFT; Computer Software industry)
April 2005 — August 2007 (2 years 5 months)
The Microsoft Student Partner (MSP) Program is an annual position that recognizes people who have made outstanding contributions to the student community. Microsoft selects and recognizes the most talented students from universities across the country for their dedication, passion and involvement with Microsoft each academic year.
As a MSP, I've been involved in many activities including:
> Technical talks
> Founded and Leading a .NET user group
> Launched Imagine Cup in campus
> Led many technical events in campus such as seminars, programming competitions etc.
> Participation in Student and Professional Organizations
> Represented my country at Tech.Ed Europe Developers 2006 in Barcelona, Spain -
Vice Chairperson
IEEE NUCES, Karachi Student Branch
(Computer Software industry)
May 2006 — May 2007 (1 year 1 month)
As Vice-Chair of IEEE Student Branch in my campus, my responsibility was to assist branch chair in planning and management of branch activities. I also worked as Technical Lead in the managing committee of an annual research conference IEEE INMIC.
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Software Development Internee
Centre of Research in Ubiquitous Computing (http://khi.nu.edu.pk/cruc)
(Educational Institution; 11-50 employees; Computer Software industry)
July 2006 — September 2006 (3 months)
I worked here as Research Software Developer internee. I participated in the development of a Social Computing system. The goal of this on-going project is to find out the actual profile of a computer user by keeping track of her activities. For this purpose, I developed a virtual computing environment in which users can do many activities like Web Browsing, Chatting, Playing games etc. Users’ actual profile is developed, for example, by analyzing the contents of the sites he visits, text of her chats or the type of games he plays.
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System Programmer Internee
TeleCard Limited
(Public Company; Telecommunications industry)
August 2005 — August 2005 (1 month)
During this internship, I participated in the development of a "Public Call Office Management System" actively. Technologies I used include Serial Communication using RS232 standard with Digital Phones using MSComm control, C# for GUI and XML for Data Storage.
Munir Usman’s Education
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National University of Computer and Emerging Sciences
2003 — 2007
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Munir Usman’s Interests:
Software Development, Programming, Project management, Algorithms, Maths and logic, Philosophy, Music
Munir Usman’s Groups:
IEEE
INETA
MSP, PAKCON, P@SHA, Operation Badar, Microsoft, ZUMBEEL
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Microsoft MVP - Professional Group
Munir Usman’s Honors:
Microsoft Most Valuable Professional (MVP) for the year 2008
Microsoft Student Partner Award for the year 2006 – 2007
Vice President of IEEE–NUCES student branch 2006-2007
Executive Committee Member, INETA (International .NET Association) Pakistan
First position, Programming Competition, ITPromo 2007, University of Karachi
First position, FAST-NU Internal Programming competition in 2006
2nd position, Dynamic Programming Competition, UTech 2006 Karachi
3rd position, Microsoft Programming Competition, PROCOM 2006 Karachi
2nd position, FAST-NU Internal Hacking Competition in 2006
2nd position, FAST-NU internal programming competition in 2005
2nd position, First All Pakistan Operation Badar Knockout Programming tournament 2002
First position, Software Competition, SM College Science Exhibition 2003
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