TAHIR MEHMOOD

B-120/4 Metroville-1 S.I.T.E Karachi. (0302) 2100955 Email: tahir.nbsit@gmail.com

SUMMARY:

 2 years of professional experience on Open Source / Java / J2EE / J2SE Platform.

 Good command over Coding Standards, Formatting and Best practices.
 Experienced in developing W3C Standardized XHTML, CSS & JavaScript contents.
 Professional experience on Servlets, JSP, JSF, Hibernate, Spring Framework, Spring
MVC, Spring JDBC, Apache POI, Ajax, DWR, JDBC, JavaScript, Swing, HTML,
MyEclipse, Netbeans, CVS, Log4J, JSTL, Eastwood Charts, JNDI etc.
 Hands on experience on JBoss Application Server.
 Professional experience on implementing MVC Architecture in Web Applications.
 Good knowledge of Oracle 9i, 10g, MySQL, PL/SQL.
 Worked on UML, State Diagrams, Collaboration Diagrams, Sequence Diagrams and Use
Cases.
 Familiar and comfortable in working with Remote Teams and in Co-ordination with Clients
located on Remote Locations.
 Practical experience of working on Sensitive Data Remotely on Client Site.
 Used to with deployments of applications in Development, Staging and Production
Environments.
 Experience of giving Dynamic Support to Customers in case of sudden Issue over the
client’s Production Environment.
 Good communication skills and the usage of Business Communication Techniques.
 Fine concepts of Organizational Behavior, working in groups, teams and their
coordination.
 Familiar with the complete Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) process to include
design, development, implementation and quality assurance.
 Team Player and self-starter with effective communication, motivation and organizational
skills combined with attention to details and business process improvements.

OBJECTIVE STATEMENT:

Seeking a professional position with an organization which will require me to utilize my skills,
abilities and experience to ensure the organization’s success.
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TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Java Technologies Servlets, JSP, Velocity, JSF, Hibernate, IBATIS, Spring Framework,
Spring MVC, Spring JDBC, Apache POI, My Faces, Tomahawk,
Trinidad, Ajax, DWR, JDBC, RMI, JavaScript, Swing, HTML,
XHTML,DHTML, Design Patterns, MyEclipse, Netbeans, CVS, LDAP,
Log4J, A4J, JTA, JSTL, RMI, JTidy, JConsole, JNDI
Web Technologies AJAX, Java Script, CSS, HTML, DHTML and XHTML
Distributed Technologies RMI
XML Technologies XML, DOM, SAX, DTD, Schemas and XSLT

Frameworks JSF, Spring, Hibernate, DWR and My Faces

Design Patterns Singleton, Session Facade, Business Delegate, DAO, DTO and IOC
Web/Application Server JBoss, Apache Tomcat and Sun GlassFish
Databases
Version Controls
Bug Tracking Tools
IDE Tools
Software Methodologies
Operating Systems
System Design
Oracle 9i & 10G, MySQL, SQL Server and MS Access
CVS
Issue Tracker.
Eclipse, MyEclipse, Netbeans, JBuilder
UML, RUP, Agile, Waterfall and RAD
Windows98, Windows XP/2000/2003 server, LINUX
MS Visio, Smart Draw and Concept Draw.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE: (3+ Years)

Current
Organization: Sidat Hyder Morshed Associates.
Designation: Senior Software Engineer.
Department: Information Solutions.
From: 09/2008 till Present.

Past

Organization: Intelysys Pakistan – (Subsidiary of Intelysys LLC US).

Designation: Lead Software Engineer.
Department: Project Development.
From: 06/2006 – 09/2008

Professional PROJECTS:

Client: UK Data Point.

Project: WoZZon (Facebook application, using FBML, FBJS and FQL).
WoZZon (Web application for Smart Phones e.g. iPhone).
Role: Senior Software Engineer

Wozzon is a high performance search engine application for events and its listings. It has several
presentation layers/methods one of which is Smart Phone version developed by me. It focuses on
potential users who are visiting the http://wozzon.com from hand held devices such as iPhone etc.

Responsibilities:

• Requirements gathering and requirements management.

• Customer communication.
• Developed and presented High Level Design Document.
• Data modeling and Database Design.
• Setting up Environment for develooment.
• Development of Business Layer, Presentation Layer and System Control Layer.
• Development of different modules for smart phones.
• Integration of modules into final app and development of phone detection mechanism.

Client: General Electric Company – GE (US)

Project: Disclosure Statement Tool – DST
Role: Software Engineer

Disclosure Statement tool was made for GE Taxation department. DST was designed as a state of
the art E-Filing Engine for automation of taxation process.

Responsibilities:

• Requirements gathering and requirements management.

• Customer communication.
• Develop and present High Level Design Document.
• Data modeling and Database Design.
• Setting up J2EE Project and Selection of appropriate Frameworks / Technologies.
• Development of Business Layer, Presentation Layer and System Control Layer.
• Development of different modules.
• Integration of modules into final app.
• Release product to customer.

Client: True Partners LLC – TPC (US)

Project: Orbitz Tax Provisioning Tool – OTPT
Role: Software Engineer

This application was designed to cope up with the huge tax provisioning data of ORBITZ LLC – US
through True Partners LLC – US. ORBITZ has several legal entities under it for which they had to
work on tax provisioning. This application provided features in the form of utilities such data import,
data adjustments, mapping chart of accounts with different entities and entities with different groups
and finally data export in several different formats which they were doing manually by hand. This
reduced chances of human error and made them SOX compliant as well.

Responsibilities:

• Analysis and requirements gathering.

• Preparation of proposal document.
• Data modeling and Database Design.
• Preparation of use cases and state diagrams.
• Creation of Business Objects.
• Development of Service beans and transaction managers.
• Development of Backing Beans and DAO’s.
• Designing and optimization of queries responsible for fetching several thousand records.
• Development of data import batch scripts.
• Development of massive data export in many formats to excel sheets.

Client: General Electric Company – GE (US)

Project: State File Room – SFR
Role: Software Engineer

GE State File Room is a Web Based J2EE Document Management System / File Room for United
States User. This application is enriched with state of the art content management features.

Responsibilities:
 • Development of Business Layer and Presentation Layer.
• Development of different modules such as Document Create and Admin.
• Integration of modules into final application.
• Deliver different deliverables to customer and obtain feedback.
• Enhance usability experience of users.
• Management Support and Bug Fixing Activities.

Client: General Electric Company – GE (US)

Project: Inter Company Agreement – ICA
Role: Software Engineer

ICA (Inter Company Agreement) is a Tax technology application intended towards the sales purchase
activities of GE subsidiaries internally. It Manages Recipient and Provider entities and their
transactional details involved in the agreement.

Responsibilities:

• Conducted requirement analysis with GE Users.

• Developed case study of the legacy system and procedures.
• Proposed solution and its implementation.
• Developed software development estimates.
• Created project database and data model.
• Written stored procedures for reporting.
• Coded the core of application.
• Migrated the application in GE Production Environment.

Client: General Electric Company – GE (US)

Project: State Exams – SE
Role: Software Engineer

State Exams was a rich internet application equipped with powerful client side front end. It was
designed to fulfill the need of GE for auditing its entities state wise. This application provides excellent
auditing features to its users.

Responsibilities:

• Analysis and Customer communication.

• Data modeling and Database Design.
• Setting up J2EE Project and Selection of appropriate Frameworks / Technologies.
• Development of Controllers, Service beans and Data Access Objects.

Client: General Electric Company – GE (US)

Project: Stock Options and Stock Purchase – SOSP
Role: Software Engineer

SOSP was a tool developed for maintaining the stock purchases that GE make. It facilitates users
with the variety of features that help them in maintaining the purchased stock information, restricted
stock units and stock options.
Responsibilities:

• Requirements gathering and requirements management.

• Customer communication.
• Develop and present High Level Design Document.
• Data modeling and Database Design.
• Setting up J2EE Project and Selection of appropriate Frameworks / Technologies.
• Development of Business Layer, Presentation Layer and System Control Layer.
• Development of different modules.
• Integration of modules into final app.
• Release product to customer.

Client: General Electric Company – GE (US)

Project: Controller Ship Review – CTRLREV
Role: Software Engineer

An application designed specifically for reviewing the ownership or controllership of a particular entity.
This application provides different reviewing methodologies to its users through which they can review
and prepare conclusion about a particular entity by creating a project and putting that entity under
review.

Responsibilities:

• Analysis and requirements gathering.

• Preparation of proposal document.
• Data modeling and Database Design.
• Preparation of use cases and state diagrams.
• Creation of Business Objects.
• Development of Service beans and transaction managers.
• Development of Backing Beans and DAO’s.
• Development of migration scripts.

Client: General Electric Company – GE (US)

Projects: Federal File Room – FFR, Canadian File Room – CFR and International File Room –
IFR
Role: Software Engineer

These three projects were of similar taxonomy. Their features were almost similar with each other.
These file rooms were made for serving tax document and content management system
functionalities. FFR was the largest one among them it had 200k+ documents with several Meta data
attributes such as year, period, entity, category etc.

Responsibilities:

• Development of Business Layer and Presentation Layer.

• Development of Controllers, Transaction Managers and Data Access Objects.
• Development of front end using AJAX.
• Development of Data Migration scripts from Lotus Notes.
• Development of Synchronization Processes with GOLD Database.
• Development of Views, Materialized Views and Queries for reporting.
• Deployment of projects in different releases in GE Development, Staging and Production
Environment.
• Software Maintenance, support, client feedbacks and updates.
• Agile support and development in case of critical issues over the production system.
EDUCATIONAL QUALIFICATION:

MBA (Finance) – (In Progress…)

Department Of Management Sciences, Bahria University, Karachi, Pakistan.

B.S (Software Engineering) – (3.69 CGPA, 2nd Position)

Department Of Computer Science, University Of Karachi, Pakistan.