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Atir Javid

Atir Javid

Chief Technology Officer at Sky Social Media | Systems Engineer + Admin + InfoSec + Social Media Dev for Symantec Inc.

Location
Greater New York City Area
Industry
Information Technology and Services
Current
  1. Sky Social Media Inc.
Previous
  1. Eyeglassliquidators.com,
  2. INOptix L.L.C,
  3. It's-Your-Internet.com
Education
  1. Oklahoma State University
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Sky Social Media Inc.

Sky Social Media Inc.

Chief Technology Officer

– Present

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Background

Summary

Languages & Technologies: PHP Object Oriented Programming. Haxe. ActionScript.

#1 in Google search results for Zend Framework Zend_Application tutorials in 2008 and 2009. Idea and development of the Zend Framework Post Dispatch Front Controller Module Switcher Plugin.
Kohana & Code Igniter frameworks.

(X)HTML 4/5, JavaScript (MooTools, jQuery etc. etc.), MySQL,

Linux expertise (most mainstream distributions, mainly Debian-12 years and Ubuntu 6 years). Windows 7 since 2009. No more desktop Linux usage. GNU user land atop Windows 7. Linux limited to virtual machines in a Hypervisor for development and servers for production work.

FreeBSD/OpenBSD/NetBSD Rookie.

Construct, develop, code, debug and maintain web site applications. Conform to extreme software development processes. Rapid development methodology using personally developed tools for Sky Social Media and Saatva Luxury Mattress internally under NDA. Defining software design methodology for the development and implementation of Internet based application to support all aspects of web site functionality.

Specialties: Various Microsoft Certifications, former Debian contributor. Exceptional problem solving skills. Ability to think outside the box to pull information from various domains to put together a unique solution.

Experience

Chief Technology Officer

Sky Social Media Inc.
– Present (5 years 4 months)Greater New York City Area

Sky Social Media is a leading social media technology agency proving social management for Symantec Inc., Panasonic, McDonalds, Head & Shoulders, Morgan Spurlock and many more.

Information Technology & Social Media Manager

Eyeglassliquidators.com
– (2 years 4 months)

Developed eyeglassliquidators.com w/ custom data entry software for employees, managed entire product inventory, created the online prescription chooser, managed and implemented the E-Commerce solution, increase visitor to customer conversion rate, increase web presence and traffic by 200% within a few weeks of launch, and oversaw the the entire IT department. Parent company INOptix L.L.C. shared warehouse and custom automated shipping software and inventory management.

Chief Technnology Officer

INOptix L.L.C
– (2 years 8 months)

Developed custom data entry software, Endicia & USPS shipping integration with custom shipping and scanning software. Programming of USB bar code readers and automated shipping of products. Managed the entire IT department and responsible for all technical day to day operations.

Implementation Specialist & Lead Developer

It's-Your-Internet.com
– (11 months)

Being primarily a Joomla & misc. CMS based web development studio, coded Joomla modules and extensions, Joomla template development. Experience with most mainstream publishing and web CMS systems and their internals. Defining software design methodology for the development and implementation of Internet based application to support all aspects of web site functionality not limited to Joomla or CMS alone.

Enterprise Business Systems Engineer

Dell
– (1 year)

Enterprise network design and implementation

Certifications

Microsoft Certified Systems Engineer

Informatix Software International, Lahore Pakistan
–

Volunteer Experience & Causes

Tutor

Oklahoma State University
– (3 months)Science and Technology

Tutored fellow students on math and programming courses. Held, hosted and led study groups regularly.

Opportunities Atir is looking for:

Causes Atir cares about:

  • Animal Welfare
  • Arts and Culture
  • Children
  • Civil Rights and Social Action
  • Economic Empowerment
  • Education
  • Environment
  • Health
  • Human Rights
  • Disaster and Humanitarian Relief
  • Politics
  • Poverty Alleviation
  • Science and Technology
  • Social Services

Organizations Atir supports:

Courses

Oklahoma State University

  • Information Security

Projects

Symantec HackisWack Snoop Dogg Rap Contest Anti-Cybercrime Rap Video(Link)

Project members:
Ricky Joshi (Business relations)
Joseph Nolan (Social Media Manager @ Symantec Inc.)
Atir Javid: Technical Lead, development, InfoSec, administration and management.

Symantec + Snoop Dogg HackIsWack Anti Cybercrime Campaign. Two minute long anti cybercrime video wins the grand prize.

Developed the entire back end and front end. User uploaded video sharing portal (Youtube Clone).
Design, Coding, Development, Server setup, Hardening, Security, InfoSec, Qualys Service Scanning, Optimization. Responsible for 100% everything on the technical end from start to finish.

Team members:

Mens Wearhouse Well Dressed Facebook Contest App(Link)

–

Project members:
Ricky Joshi (Business relations)
Joseph Nolan (Social Media Manager @ Mens Wearhouse)
Atir Javid: Technical Lead, development, administration and management.

Mens Wearhouse Well-Dressed Photo Contest. Project leader. Design, Coding, Development, Server setup, Hardening, Security, InfoSec, Qualys Service Scanning, Optimization. Responsible for 100% everything on the technical end from start to finish. Facebook and social media connectivity and API utilization to build a unique voting experience for the user.

Team members:

Panasonic ShootitShareit.com User Video Contest Webapp(Link)

–

Project members:
Ricky Joshi (Business relations)
Damien Hodgkin: CSS and HTML templating
Atir Javid: Technical Lead, development, administration and management. InfoSec and Security.

Panasonic Video Sharing portal for the video camera showcase. Project lead and development. System administration and network security. Responsible for social media sharing, connectivity, social comments. Development of a backend video upload and format conversion system using mencoder and ffmpeg. Frontend design and backend service development as well as general upkeep.

Team members:

Symantec NortonCyberCrimeIndex Application Facebook Social Media App Front End(Link)

– Present

Management of the Social Media front end. Developer of the Facebook front-end for the CCI application. Back-end server administration, management. Flash programming. Flash SDK. Flash application development and debugging.

http://nortoncybercrimeindex.com

Team members:

Norton David Hasslehoff Campagin(Link)

Management. Server installation, setup and configuration. Server and database administration, security, hardening and development. Technical server lead role. InfoSec and Qualys+ Cenzic tools for security and penetration testing.

Team members:

Norton Project-X: Xmen Days of Future Past(Link)

– Present

Server setup, Hardening, Security, Qualys Service Scanning, Optimization. Responsible for 100% everything on the server administration and InfoSec end from start to finish. Server and database backup. General server administration and task automation.

Setup high performance optimized redundant round-robin servers for up to one million requests per second.

Team members:

MorganSpurlock.com(Link)

–

Team members:
Ricky Joshi (Business relations)
Atir Javid: (Technical)

Server installation, configuration, InfoSec, Development, Coding, Design, Front-end, Back-end, administration, backups, general server automation and search engine optimization for Mr. Morgan Spurlock from the famed documentary Supersize Me

Team members:

United States Olympic Committee USOC (TEAM USA Winter 2010) Olympics Hilton H-Honors(Link)

–

Team Members: Atir Javid

Development of the Team USA social media widget. 30 million hits on average. Server administration. Maintenance. Information Security. Server Hardening. Application design and security. Front-end design and back end server widget application development, coding, debugging and search engine optimization.

Widget done in FOSS technologies. Some Flash programming. PHP backend and JQuery frontend design and application.

Team members:
  • Atir Javid,
  • Lauren Pasquale,
  • Flinn Mueller,
  • Scott Cronk

Symantec Norton Captain America Shield(Link)

Similar to Project-X. Complete technical lead. Lead developer. Server management, setup, administration and InfoSec.

Management of NortonSocial.com and the associated Norton Truck Tour.

Languages

  1. Urdu

  2. Hindi

Skills

  • Web Development
  • MySQL
  • PHP
  • Linux
  • Integration
  • Programming
  • Video Games
  • E-commerce
  • jQuery

Education

Oklahoma State University

B.CS, Computer Science

Information Security
Administered OKC Linux User Group
Tutored students who needed help w/ math or IT/programming

Activities and Societies: Responsible for the OSU LUG (Linux Users Group)

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