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EDUCATION

• University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA (August 2005 to date) MS in Computer Science.
• Ghulam Ishaq Khan Institute of Engineering Sciences and Technology, Pakistan (1993-1997) BS Computer System Engineering (with High Distinction) CGPA: 3.78, second top student in CS faculty and third top student in  the entire university. (Oct 1993 to May 1997).
• F.Sc. Cadet College HasanAbdal Pakistan (1987-1992) Completed Grade 8 to Grade 12. Secured the first position in College Entrance Exam (F.Sc) in the Rawalpindi Region.

ARTICLES/RESEARCH PAPERS

• Project Performance Evaluation Framework published in 8th IEEE conference held in Dec 2004 at Lahore, Pakistan
• The challenge of Implementing CMM in Pakistan (Feb 2002)
• A Practical approach to estimating defect fix time (May 2002)
• An introduction to .NET and how it compares to J2EE (Jan 2002)
• An introduction to Compilers, Interpreters, JVM and CLR(Dec 2001)
• An introduction to Voice Over IP by Kashif Manzoor  (June 2001)

work experience

• Beijing Techlogix Software Company Ltd, China Manager Software Development (July 1, 2004 – April 2005) and Principal Software Engineer (July 1, 2003 – July 1, 2004). Working as Offshore Project Manager and Manager Operations. In charge of running the complete office and managing the offshore projects.
• Techlogix Pakistan (pvt) Ltd, Lahore, Pakistan: Manager Software Development (May 2005 – to date), Senior Software Engineer (Jan 1, 2002 – July 1, 2003) and Software Engineer (June 17, 2001 – Jan 1, 2002).
• Beanconhouse Informatics, Lahore, Pakistan: Visiting Faculty (Sep, 2001 – May 2002). Taught “Systems Analysis and Design” & “Software & File Design” courses to undergraduate students.
• Schlumberger Overseas SA : Field Engineer & Engineer-in-Charge for the Wireline & Testing Operations (Aug 1997 – March 2000).
• Nexlinx (pvt) Ltd. Lahore, Pakistan : Software Engineer (June 97 – Aug 97 & Jan 2001 to June 2001)

PRINCIPAL TECHNICAL SKILLS

• Microsoft Platform: Visual C++, MFC, Multithreading, client-sever applications, socket programming, ActiveX/COM/OLE, ODBC/DAO, TAPI, C#, .Net framework classes, Visual Basic, ASP
• Java Platform: J2EE, Multithreading, JDBC, Socket Programming, Encryption, JSP, RMI, JSTL, Java Graphics API, Java Accessibility.
• Misc. Web Technologies: WML, HTML, XML, Javascript.
• Other Programming Languages/Tools: Prolog, Pascal, Tcl-Tk, FoxPro, Oracle 8i/9i, Oracle 11i, SQL, Weblogic, webMethods Intergration & B2B Platform, webMethods Workflow Platform, PL/SQL, WebSphere, Apptrieve, Business Objects Reporting Framework, IDX Carecast.
• Linux/UNIX: Kernel Proraming (system call development, module development, linux file system development). System configuration. Configuring various network services e.g. NFS, Web Servers, SMTP sever, POP server, SNMP and various daemons.

MEMBERSHIP

• Professional membership of the following organizations: ACM, IEEE, IEEE Computer Society.