Abdul Wahid Tanner

Current

• Community Administrator at International Association of Space Entrepreneurs
• Partner at Electronic Thinking

Past

• Senior Software Development Engineer at Microsoft
• President at Arabic Multimedia
• Consultant at Abiliti Solutions

• Consultant at Partec
• Consultant at American Board of Family Practice
• Software Development Lead at OpenNotes, Singapore
• Software Test Engineer at Seagate, Singapore
• Software Design Engineer at Deutsche Bank, Singapore
• Software Design Engineer at Silicon Compilation Technology, Singapore
• Equipment Engineering Service Technician at SGS-Thomson Microelectronics

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Education

• DeVry Institute of Technology
• DeVry University, Chicago

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Industry

Information Technology and Services

Websites

• My Company
• Follow me on Twitter

Abdul Wahid Tanner’s Summary

There's nothing like getting outside your comfort zone to stimulate growth and build new skills. I am finding new ways to apply a customer focus everyday such as setting up a company website, blogging and adding comments that help people learn or get ideas, individual consultations, copy writing, email lists, and product development. It's easy to build a product but getting customers and taking responsibility for their progress is where the work is really at.

Everything I know about programming, I learned myself by working on projects and trying and testing things to see what worked. Eventually, I was skilled enough in programming to be recruited by Microsoft where I spent 8 years and had the opportunity to contribute to some very valuable projects. The same process got me started in electronics and led to winning state competitions and a full scholarship. There is something about taking responsibility for personal learning that I believe leads to far greater results. I look forward to the day when degrees are optional and employers value skills, character traits, and teamwork above all else.

Abdul Wahid Tanner’s Specialties:

Customer definition • Niche selection • Marketing • Business process specification • Information product development • Prospect conversion • Tracking • Search engine optimization • Copy writing • C# • CLR • C++ • XML • UML • SQL • Enterprise security • Encryption • API and protocol design • Threat modeling • UI design • Debugging • Unit testing •
Electronics • Robotics • Mechanical design • Precision machining of metal and plastic • Microelectronics

Abdul Wahid Tanner’s Experience

• Community Administrator

  International Association of Space Entrepreneurs

  (Defense & Space industry)

  October 2007 — Present (2 years 2 months)

  IASE is an online community promoting global entrepreneurship in space ventures. We provide a number of online and offline resources for entrepreneurs and investors, in addition to event programs for the general public.

• Partner

  Electronic Thinking

  (Retail industry)

  October 2007 — Present (2 years 2 months)

  Electronic Thinking helps people aged 19-30 learn practical and applied electronics to get a better job or reinforce a college education.
  
  I left Microsoft to start this company so that you could benefit from my experience in personal, self-paced learning to gain real-world skills in electronics, programming, machining, and marketing. I believe that it matters more what you can do along with your drive and determination to always improve yourself than it does what school or background you come from.
  
  You might wonder why marketing is listed with engineering skills. The reason is that it is easy for engineers to develop expertitis and forget that the real work in developing a product is in keeping the customer's needs first and always being able to translate a product's value into something that the customer can relate to.

• Senior Software Development Engineer

  Microsoft

  (Public Company; MSFT; Computer Software industry)

  April 2001 — March 2009 (8 years )

  * Heavily recruited to manage team of Software Development Engineers and Web Developers across multiple projects within Windows Server organization. Additionally, worked with other teams to influence and enhance their designs.
  * Continuously responsible for direct technical contributions and team management prior to transitioning into individual contributor role focusing on highly technical hands-on design, research, programming, and prototyping.

• President

  Arabic Multimedia

  (Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Information Technology and Services industry)

  March 1997 — April 2001 (4 years 2 months)

  * Driving force behind the start-up and profitability of this software development, consulting, and web hosting firm providing custom in-house solutions to a variety of medium-sized business, medical certification, government, transportation, and telecommunications entities.
  * Designed all projects, managed corporate strategy and image, chaired board meetings, planned budgets, obtained funding and loans, negotiated contracts, recruited and hired employees, and partnered with other companies.
  * Leveraged Singaporean business contacts and created/setup international corporation with offshore branch office in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, to outsource selected duties.

• Consultant

  Abiliti Solutions

  (Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Telecommunications industry)

  March 2000 — January 2001 (11 months)

  * Direct report to CTO and key team member conducting advanced industry research, product/service development, and long-range strategic planning.
  * Key player in process of corporate restructuring intended to reinvent company as a telecommunications billing solutions provider.
  * Conducted advanced research to investigate and prototype real-time billing solution using XML, SOAP, Web Services, MSMQ, AD, MMC, and WMI. Taught C#, CLR, ATL, STL, and design guidelines to other engineers.
  * Constructed ActiveX control container resembling Visual Basic design environment. Utilized Microsoft Scripting Engine directly to provide work-flow behavior. Redesigned container classes in ATL to handle real-world ActiveX controls.
  * Represented company within Internet Protocol Detail Record (IPDR) standards organization to help define industry-wide protocol.

• Consultant

  Partec

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

  July 1998 — March 1999 (9 months)

  * Worked directly with COO of this multimillion-dollar management consulting firm to envision, create, and present project proposal for custom software solution of major architectural client in Chicago.
  * Completed Y2K changes, testing, and documentation for national distribution company.

• Consultant

  American Board of Family Practice

  (Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Information Technology and Services industry)

  November 1997 — April 1998 (6 months)

  * Created computer-based testing system for medical certification exams using C++ and MFC that included custom HTML parser and viewer, full interaction with images, voice recognition, and custom controls.

• Software Development Lead

  OpenNotes, Singapore

  (Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Information Technology and Services industry)

  March 1995 — January 1997 (1 year 11 months)

  * Rendered critical ground-up product design expertise as direct report to venerable CEO on workgroup application targeting Windows 95 and designed to compete with LotusNotes.
  * Assisted CEO in successful second-round financing efforts and demonstrating product features for venture capitalists and customers.
  * Coordinated product integration efforts between company, Singaporean government-funded technology innovation incubator, and Kuala Lumpur-based third company to produce and refine this innovative information collaboration, storage, and categorization software product.

• Software Test Engineer

  Seagate, Singapore

  (Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; Information Technology and Services industry)

  July 1994 — February 1995 (8 months)

  * Created and modified testing programs designed to stress test IDE and SCSI hard drive circuit boards.
  * Advanced internal knowledge transfer; taught C++, C, and assembly language programming skills to other engineers and demonstrated how to use class browsers and remote debuggers.

• Software Design Engineer

  Deutsche Bank, Singapore

  (Public Company; Information Technology and Services industry)

  July 1992 — June 1994 (2 years )

  * Initially hired as consultant on pre-Internet electronic banking application prone to high error rates, failures, and computer crashes. Executed entire system redesign with primary focus on communications, protocols, security, encryption, verification code, and authorizations.
  * Gained an in-depth overview of international banking, electronic payments, foreign exchange of currencies, etc., to design safe, secure, and easy-to-use software enabling multimillion-dollar investment banking transactions and billion-dollar currency trades from client offices.
  * Redesigned and implemented entire system and communications protocol resulting in zero failures and slashing online time 90% while adding more features and significantly improving security. Product deployed worldwide to prime customers of this major international investment bank.
  * Researched and incorporated new technologies such as C++, Visual Basic, and Windows NT.

• Software Design Engineer

  Silicon Compilation Technology, Singapore

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

  October 1991 — March 1992 (6 months)

  * Implemented DOS-based document encryption program, successfully working around many undocumented and unreliable aspects of DOS.
  * Worked on full product cycle through successful retail launch.
  * Built prototype version for Windows 3.0.

• Equipment Engineering Service Technician

  SGS-Thomson Microelectronics

  (Public Company; 1001-5000 employees; Information Technology and Services industry)

  April 1990 — September 1991 (1 year 6 months)

  * Mastered virtually all critical aspects of integrated circuit manufacturing equipment, class 10 clean room procedures, electronic circuit troubleshooting, precision alignment of optical devices, and leak testing high-vacuum systems.
  * Invented modification to vacuum chamber mechanical loading arm resulting in fewer drops and eliminating silicon wafer breakage.

Abdul Wahid Tanner’s Education

• DeVry Institute of Technology

  BSEET , Electronics , 1987 — 1990

• DeVry University, Chicago

  BSEET , Electronics , 1987 — 1990

Additional Information

Abdul Wahid Tanner’s Websites:

• My Company
• Follow me on Twitter

Abdul Wahid Tanner’s Interests:

flying radio controlled helicopters,building model aircraft,launching model rockets,reading science fiction and fantasy books,studying mathematics and physics,observing and listening to wildlife,playing oblivion,learning languages,taking rv trips,watching space documentaries,extreme programming,electronics

Abdul Wahid Tanner’s Groups:

Computer Consultants of St. Louis (1998-2001) www.ccsl.org, Seattle Robotics Society

•    IASE
•    On Startups - The Community For Entrepreneurs
•    Ubuntu Users ( 10.000+ members ) Official Group
•    Green
•    NWEN - Northwest Entrepreneur Network
•    Koei-Kan Karate-Do
•    Entrepreneur 2.0 (maxiwill.com)

Abdul Wahid Tanner’s Honors:

US & International Patents Pending:
• Support Mechanisms for Improved Group Policy Management User Interface
• Method and System for Representing Group Policy Object Topology and Relationships
• Interfaces and Methods for Group Policy Management
• Application Programming Interface for Administering the Distribution of Software Updates in an Update Distribution System

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