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Ayman Saleem

IT Specialist in Software Development, QA, and Outsourcing. Worked for 11 years with Global Software Services, Inc. as QA/JEE Team Leader, Regional/Engineering Manager, and Development/IT Manager. Now serving as independent IT Consultant.

Headline: Entrepreneur
Work status: Part-Time Student
Industries: Computing, Education, Information Technology, Internet
Skills: AJAX, Databases, Design, English, Graphic design, HTML / CSS, Java, Javascript, Languages, Leadership, Management, Recruitment, Software Engineering, SQL, System Administration, Unix, Web Development, Windows, Windows applications
Groups: PICTI
Interested in: Consulting opportunities, Finding business partners, Professional opportunities
Schools: University of Liverpool

WORK EXPERIENCE

Employer: Global Software Services, Inc.
Position: Development/IT Manager
Time period: January 2004 - August 2009
Description: * Responsible for IT program coordination, procurement, development plans, and maintaining strategies/procedures on the technical and operational levels for existing projects and new outsourcing partnerships (PDF Solutions, Cisco, DDRnet/SureCircle, and other US clients/partners)
* Responsible for project management, hiring, training, team leadership, system analysis, architecture, design, and implementation/testing tasks as well as the day-to-day running of outsourcing operations in enterprise software development, QA, and IT projects.

Employer: Global Software Services, Inc.
Position: Regional/Engineering Manager
Time period: September 2002 - December 2003
Description: * Dealing with all the managerial and operational issues while managing the development processes and participating in the remote project management with the customers’ teams.
* Responsible for system administration, procurement, and technical support (handling all the requirements of local system administration, frequent builds, integration/regression testing, and deployment while administrating the customer web servers, virtual hosts, and databases in US (remotely)
* Developed web application for the MDO real-estate project (an agile project that was based on J2EE technologies including JSP, Java beans, Servlets, HTML, XML, JAXP, CSS, and Java script with MySQL/Oracle databases).

Employer: Global Software Services, Inc
Position: Java Team Leader (Member of Management Committee)
Time period: August 2000 - September 2002
Description: * Developing web reporting systems for semiconductor yield management (dpWEB, dpREPORT, reportLOADER).
* Supervising and optimizing the team work while also directing the training of the new members in the team.
* Helping the QA and the Support teams in their tasks pertaining to the web products.
* Working with artyMEDIA on evaluating their staff and optimizing the architecture, DB, and code of their web-applications.

Employer: Global Software Services, Inc.
Position: QA Team-Leader & J2EE Software Engineer
Time period: June 1999 - August 2000
Description: * Managing the software quality assurance projects, designing/implementing test plans for several applications and utilities in dataPOWER suite and webSTAT system.
* Designing and implementing web zonal-reports (db-retrieval, charting, analysis), Java APIs for data management, and reusable web components for creating dynamic PDF, GIF, and HTML reports in webSTAT system.
* Directing the training of the new hires in the QA and the Java teams.

Employer: Global Software Services, Inc
Position: SQA Engineer & Process Auditor
Time period: January 1999 - June 1999
Description: * Initiating the SQA team and defining the software process according to the international standards while considering the nature of the company projects.
* Preparing the standards and templates of software documentation (SRS & SDD).
* Preparing SCM and SQA standards/templates in accordance with the software development process.
* Contributing to project specification/design and controlling the documentation activities in the company.
* Designing and implementing SQA test plans and test suites for several applications and utilities in dataPOWER suite.
* Working with the Java team on resolving special problems regarding Java Servlets and designing & implementing the Applet-Servlet communication tools (Apache, JServ, I/O streaming, JDBC drivers…etc).
* Helping the Java team in designing and implementing the reusable Java APIs and image processing tools.

Employer: Ministry of education
Position: Computer Teacher
Time period: August 1998 - March 1999
Description: Teaching computer courses, math, and painting.

Employer: Light for Computers & Software
Position: Co-Founder and Computer Engineer
Time period: July 1998 - March 1999
Description: * Installing and maintaining PC hardware/software.
* Developing software libraries, POCs, and pilot software applications as part of long term development plan.

Employer: RCI & Al-Aklouk Software Systems
Position: Software Engineer & Coacher
Time period: December 1991 - February 1995
Description: * Designing and implementing a framework of Font Maker and editor APIs for using Arabic language in text and graphic modes of DOS-based applications (using Pascal and Assembly language).
* Participating in the design and implementation of computer-mediated applications for secondary schools.
* Teaching computer courses (Dos, Windows, MS Office, and Pascal programming language).

EDUCATION

University: University of Liverpool
Time period: 2008 - 2010
Degree: IT - Software Engineering , MSc

INFORMATION

Hobbies: New technologies, Quality Enhancement and Continuous Development, Painting, Calligraphy, Educational Sciences and Pedagogical Patterns, Graphic Design
Memberships: Member of different technical groups/alliances and associations including the ACM and PMI.

Ayman's Startups (1)

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  • Entarchitect

    A startup that aims for developing well-crafted software and enterprise solutions

Ayman's Contacts (2)

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  • Hasan Omar

    Electrical & Computer Engineering graduate from Jordan University of Science & Technology. Currently working as Incubator Manager at Palestine Information and Communications Technology Incubator (PICTI).

  • ahmed walwil

    Studied from Quds Open University, Worked with Jarawan Advance Technology as a Product Manager,also worked for 1 year at Nile as a PC Technician and Application Supervisor