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SYED S. GHAZNAVI

Address: 104 Jamie Ct, Appt# C1, Cary NC, 27511

Telephone: (919) 380-5442

Email: ghaznavi7070@yahoo.com

Web Site: http://www.oocities.org/ghaznavi7070

Objective: To secure a dynamic position in an organization as a Senior Software Engineer and be part of a high paced research & development team.

Work Experience:

07/04 – Present BluePhoenix Solutions, Inc. Cary (RTP) / NC

Senior Software Engineer \ Analyst

Currently working as a senior Software Engineer at Crystal systems, a leading enterprise portfolio modernization company. The position involves developing applications using MDA (model driven architecture) methodology for J2EE, MS.NET and other open source platforms. The design process includes transformation of legacy applications using custom tools into UML (object oriented) models, through XMI (extensible meta interchange) format, generating custom business rules and finally generating application code for a specific target platforms (java or c#).

The position requires developing test automation and unit test generation tools for an extensive analysis and testing of the application frameworks, using NUnit API for .NET and JUnit with eclipse environment for J2EE. The position also requires acceptance testing and generating performance analysis test suites and scripts for different generated applications. Creating and maintaining test plans and designing test scenarios are also part of the job responsibilities. Design process involves developing n-tier server based applications (Web Services, asp.net / JSF, Win Forms / Swing apps) and other open source application frameworks.

02/03 – 07/04 Trinity Millennium Group, Inc. San Antonio/TX

Senior Software Engineer \ Analyst

· Worked as a senior Programmer/Analyst at (TMGi), developing applications in .NET environment and SQL server database. Also worked as application analyst for legacy systems, reengineering code of different corporate systems as a part of Enterprise Portfolio Modernization (EPM) process, generating business logic from existing applications and programs and creating object oriented design architecture for future transformation of system applications using XML and SQL server as database repository for code. Worked with enterprise wide n-Tier models including both J2EE and .NET based systems. Design and Unified modeling were an integral part of the position.

· Created class libraries for code analysis using C# for legacy systems and applications (UNIX server based environment) for both batch and online programs. These libraries analyzed source code for different system applications written in various languages namely COBOL, High level ASSEMBLER, Eztrieve, C++, Java, Oracle PL/SQL and JCLs/ECLs to name a few and generated data repositories for all programs, database files and copybooks/libraries. Performed complete Analysis of Database schemas, embedded data structures in programs, database scripts, stored procedures and applications for DB2, IMS, VSAM and Relational database technologies.

· Independently designed and developed a knowledge mining application iSAT written in C# and XML, and used for representation of organizational system resources including all system programs, Job Control Language (JCLs/ECLs), Copy libraries (included libraries), business rules, flowcharts and data flow diagrams for the clients. This application collects and arranges all business relevant information for the clients using their application code and presents manageable information, like systems hierarchies, JCLs and program modules along with their contents to the user and helps in the Impact Analysis of applications if the user modifies any object from the current system. The application uses SQL server as a backend database with ADO.NET as intermediaries. The application has both Web based and stand alone interfaces. Components of the application include XML web services for the XML transformation of serialized objects into different formats and parsing components.

01/02 – 06/02 Texas A&M Intl University

· Review Editor for “Programming with Microsoft Visual Basic.NET Introductory & Comprehensive editions published by “Thomson Publishers”.

November 02’ Author of a Research paper on ‘Internationalization Features in the Microsoft .NET Development Platform and Windows 2000/XP’ presented at the IS conference in IACIS 03’ in Las Vegas.

02/00 - 07/01 Mobilink GSM (Orascom Network)

Database Analyst\Programmer (Churn Mgmt team, CS Dept)

Worked as a Database Analyst and Developer of small to complex projects that consisted developing software for Churn Monitoring and trend evaluation for Prepaid Customer-base, job responsibilities included writing database scripts and custom analysis tools.
Independently designed an automated project for Predictive Churn, aimed at forecasting the future Churn and strategies implemented to their effect. The project included designing a customer segmentation matrix for both active and deactivated subscribers. Automated software designed in java used for profiling of the complete Subscriber base on regions and service subscriptions, for a detailed statistical analysis.
Projects consisted development on IBM DB2 UDB platform with responsibilities for managing database operations of the department's data repositories starting from design to implementation of scripts and procedures.

Computer Skills: Programming: VB.NET, VB6.0, ASP.NET, C#, C++, JAVA, XML, JAVA, ASP, VBScript

Databases: IBM (DB2) v7.1, MS Access 2000/XP, MS SQL Server 2K, Microstrategy 7i

Internet technologies: ASP, VB Script, JavaScript, XML, Front Page2000, and Adobe Photoshop.

Project Management Tools: Microsoft Project 2002, IT GURU (OPNET)

Education: Aug 2001- Dec 2002 Texas A&M Intl University

Master of Science in Information Systems ‘MS-MIS’ (Fellowship recipient)

May 1996 – July 2000 University of Engineering & Technology

Bachelor of Science in Engineering (Structural Analysis and Project Design Mgmt)

Certifications: IBM Certified Application developer and Specialist- DB2 UDB V7.1

IBM Certified Solutions Expert - DB2 UDB V7.1 Database Administration for UNIX, Linux, Windows and OS/2

Microsoft Certified Solutions Developer (MCSD .net) C#, XML Web services and SQL Server 2000