Nadjib Amar

Past

• Senior ASP Programmer at Warren Barrett Design
• ASP.Net C# Web Developer at Cubeworks
• ASP.Net Web Developer at Emap

• Classic ASP / C# Web Developer at Axco Insurance Information Services
• Classic ASP / ASP.Net Web Developer at Nexus Internet Solutions
• Classic ASP Web Developer and Trainer at Silicon Beach Training
• Classic ASP Web Developer at Bailey Solutions

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Education

• University of Luton

Connections

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Industry

Internet

Nadjib Amar’s Summary

I started working in web development in 2001. My projects have been varied: a retail statistics ASP.Net web application, an insurance statistics reporting website, a legal library system, e-learning, e-commerce and custom CMS websites. I code in ASP.Net 3.5 C#, Ajax, DHTML, JavaScript and CSS. I also use Visual Studio 2008, SQL Server 2005, SubVersion and ReSharper.

Nadjib Amar’s Specialties:

Programming, testing, writing documentation

Nadjib Amar’s Experience

• Senior ASP Programmer

  Warren Barrett Design

  (Internet industry)

  March 2009 — June 2009 (4 months)

  Developing a range of websites for various clients.

• ASP.Net C# Web Developer

  Cubeworks

  (Privately Held; Internet industry)

  October 2008 — February 2009 (5 months)

  Developed websites with ASP.Net 3.5 C#, MVC, N2 CMS and SQL Server.

• ASP.Net Web Developer

  Emap

  (Public Company; 1001-5000 employees; EMA; Publishing industry)

  April 2008 — October 2008 (7 months)

  Followed the Scrum method to work in an Agile team: daily team meetings, weekly sprints and end of the week sprint retrospectives.
  Migrated a large Classic ASP web appplication to ASP.Net.
  Converted old reports into web forms with business logic classes, data access classes and SQL Server stored procedures.
  Developed new retail statistics reports in ASP.Net
  Wrote integration tests with WatiN and unit tests with NUnit.
  Trained the marketing team to enhance the Google ranking.
  Produced forms to target words, evaluate their value and how well a page meets the targets.
  Established how to monitor the ranking progress.
  Secured code using querystrings against SQL injection attacks.
  Implemented a business logic class to filter suspicious input throughout the web application.

• Classic ASP / C# Web Developer

  Axco Insurance Information Services

  (Publishing industry)

  January 2006 — March 2008 (2 years 3 months)

  Worked on an ASP.Net C# tax allocation web application.
  Learnt how to implement Castle MVC and ActiveRecord.
  Re-developed a web application from the ground up: Axco Global Statistics.
  Worked on the whole life cycle from requirements to delivery.
  Interfaced Excel with web applications to load and export data.test
  Reduced the time it takes to load data from a few days to a few hours, making quarterly updates easier to implement.
  Tuned SQL Server performance for complex reporting tasks.
  Improved some slow reports speed by a factor of 10.
  Managed the transition of Axco suite of web applications to Rackspace.
  Created and documented the standard with which Axco developer write code
  Promoted code reuse and ease of development, maintenance and new features with Classic ASP classes and stored procedures.
  Made the development process more accountable by getting developers to log hours against time estimates.

• Classic ASP / ASP.Net Web Developer

  Nexus Internet Solutions

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

  June 2004 — December 2005 (1 year 7 months)

  Developed content management systems, e-commerce websites and intranets.
  Worked with Classic ASP, JavaScript, SQL Server, IIS, Visual Studio and SourceSafe.
  Produced work plans, test scenarios and live implementation documentation. I was often given live release management responsibilities.
  Started working with ASP.Net, VB.Net and DNS (Domain Name Services).
  Helped to develop the Quality Management System for ISO 2001 accreditation.
  Worked on Search Engine Optimization.

• Classic ASP Web Developer and Trainer

  Silicon Beach Training

  (Professional Training & Coaching industry)

  June 2002 — May 2004 (2 years)

  Taught short courses to professionals being trained to work as in-house Web Developers.
  Classic ASP,
  XHTML and
  JavaScript.
  Wrote students' course material with instructions on how to code, sample code and exercises.

• Classic ASP Web Developer

  Bailey Solutions

  (Program Development industry)

  November 2001 — May 2002 (7 months)

  Added features and fixed bugs on a legal library system to let lawyers manage the books they borrowed and lend them directly to their colleagues.
  Developed a community website for Legal Librarians and the corporate website of Bailey Solutions.
  Documented requirements, supported existing users and bid for new development work at client meetings.

Nadjib Amar’s Education

• University of Luton

  BA , Media production with Multimedia , 1998 — 2001

  * Specialised in website development.
  * Produced interactive CD-ROMs and short films.

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Nadjib Amar’s Groups:

Camden Canals & Narrowboat Association

•    Brighton New Media
•    Brighton Business Network

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