Basheer Al Ghazawi
Electrical Engineering graduate from Jordan University of Science and Technology with MEng from The University of Queensland. Currently working as Chief Technical Officer at JValley Software Solutions (http://JValley.net).
| Headline: | Entrepreneur |
| Website: | http://JValley.net |
| Skills: | C/C++, Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering, HTML / CSS, Java, Javascript, Languages and Platforms, PHP, Web Development |
| Location: | Jordan |
| Groups: | Queen Rania Center for Entrepreneurship (QRCE) |
| Interested in: | Brainstorming, Finding business partners, Finding cofounders, Finding team mates, Meeting new people, Professional opportunities, Promoting my startups, Recruiting for my startup |
| Schools: | University of Queensland |
WORK EXPERIENCE
| Employer: | JValley Software Solutions (http://JValley.net), Amman, Jordan |
| Position: | Chief Technical Officer |
| Time period: | January 2006 - Present |
| Description: | - Leveraging technology within products and services and making strategic decisions.
- Planning and managing software projects by preparing project plans with milestones, delivery dates and risk factors. - Customers’ relationship by anticipating client needs, delivering with client’s need in focus, and ensuring Customer Satisfaction. - Developing and documenting software product architecture. Projects: - Telecommunication Services Platform: TSP is a brand new product with state-of-the-art features and technologies. Its purpose is to ensure that Content Providers (CP), Mobile Applications Companies, Mobile Services Companies, System Integrators, etc, are able to deliver premium mobile services (e.g. SMS, MMS, WAP, SMS to TV, Video streaming, Mobile Advertisements, etc) to end-users in seamlessly manner. [.NET 3.5, Web & Windows Services, MSMQ, MS-SQL 2008]. - Network Video Surveillance: An enterprise digital video surveillance system that is responsible for displaying, parsing and archiving different video streams –Motion JPEG, MPEG - from network cameras [Web, C#, ASP.NET 2.0 & 3.5, Web & Windows Services, XML, MS-SQL 2005]. - Prisons Follow-up Department: System for managing employees' attendance, prisons inspections, cases and investigations workflow. [Web, C#, .NET 2.0, MS-SQL 2005 (DB + Reporting Services)]. - Car Rental System: An enterprise oriented platform for managing, supporting and automating Car Rental processes at distributed branches all over a country [Windows forms, C#.NET 2.0 & 3.5, Web Services, MS-SQL 2005, Crystal Reports]. - Content Management System (CMS) Customization: CMS add-ons (Open Source and bespoke) with Web 2 & Web 3 tools and techniques [PHP, Servlets/JSP, MySQL, Linux]. - IMPACT! Appraisal (product): An invaluable tool for organizations seeking to drive quantifiable improvements in appraisals and process improvements (e.g. CMMI, ISO, etc) [Desktop & Web, JAVA 2, MS-SQL 2005]. - Industrial Market Intelligence (IMI) Portal: Gives its users the knowledge they need to make informed business decisions based on its collated and analyzed six databases [Web, J2EE-WebSphere, IBM-DB2]. |
| Employer: | Estarta Solutions (www.estartasolutions.com), Amman, Jordan |
| Position: | Products Unit Manager, Solution Architect, IT Consultant |
| Time period: | August 2004 - April 2007 |
| Description: | - Managing 40+ IT resources distributed on 5-7 concurrent projects.
- Preparing and administering financial and human resources budgets. - Coordinating and following up with project managers by reviewing project plans, delivery dates and risk factors. - Customers’ relationship by having regular meetings to present project progress, and to ensure customer involvement and support. - Developing and documenting software product architecture. Projects: - GRP System: Human Resources Management System, Logistics and Maintenance System and Financial Management System [Web, C#, .NET 2.0 & 3.0, Web Services, MS-SQL 2005, Crystal Reports]. - Ports-Manifest Management System: Online tracking and updating, Integration with payment gateways. [Web, ASP.NET 2.0, MS-SQL 2000 BizTalk 2004]. - Consultancy Assessment: Working with an international firm in assessing a governmental taxation project [Surveys, Final Report]. - Taxation System: A Revenue Management System that provides the set of taxation operations and acts as a single point of reference to taxpayer operations and administrations for all tax related transactions [Desktop & Web, C#, .NET 2.0 & 3.0, Web Services, MS-SQL 2005, BizTalk 2004]. - Network Video Surveillance: A digital video surveillance system that is responsible for displaying, parsing and archiving different video streams –Motion JPEG, MPEG - from network cameras [Web, C#, ASP.NET 1.1 & 2.0, Web & Windows Services, MS-SQL 2000]. - Protocol Department System: Streamlining the internal processes and operations of any Protocol Department [Web, ASP.NET 1.1, Web Services, MS-SQL 2000, BizTalk 2002, Email/Fax services, and Share Point Server 2003]. |
| Employer: | Palmer Tech Group, (www.palmertechgroup.com), Brisbane, Australia |
| Position: | Technical Consultant, Senior Software Engineer |
| Time period: | April 2004 - October 2004 |
| Description: | - Providing technical consultation to Palmer Tech Group.
- Collecting and documenting user's requirements. - Designing and developing software products. - Designing and developing installation and integration operations for software products. Projects: - P-Response: A Non Destructive Testing technique for assessing the damage and/or quality of refractory lined vessels for industry. [Desktop, VB6, and MS-Office Chart Control]. - P-Thermal: A 1D transient heat transfer program for engineers, technicians and scientists. The program is designed for multi-layer refractory or thermal linings [Desktop, VB6, and MS-Office Chart Control]. - P-Drying: A 1D drying steam spalling program for engineers, technicians and scientists. The program is designed for a single layer concrete with varying boundary conditions [Desktop, VB.NET 1.1]. - P-R_Manager: A software package for recoding maintenance on refractory lined industrial vessels [Desktop, VB.NET 1.1]. |
| Employer: | Estarta Solutions (www.estartasolutions.com), Amman, Jordan |
| Position: | Team Leader, Senior Software Engineer |
| Time period: | July 1999 - July 2003 |
| Description: | - Collecting and documenting user's requirements.
- Developing logical and physical specifications. - Developing and documenting software product architecture. - Designing and documenting software modules using OOD techniques. - Developing and testing distributed and reusable software modules and classes using various programming languages. - Developing software testing methodologies, requirements, specifications, and test plans. - Designing and developing installation and integration operations for software products. - Ability to get employees, and co-workers to do willingly and well the duties to be accomplished. Projects: - Parcels Tracking System: An automated embedded system that targets Pocket PC’s scanning devices that communicate with a web-based tracking system that serves for Express, Domestic & Freight operations [Windows CE, eVC++, Web Services, and Access/ADOCE]. - Water Pollution Monitoring System: A telemetry solution to acquire real time water quality data from 13 remote monitoring units and transmit the readings to a central repository. At the center the data are kept and analyzed, and then exposed to workers and public users in forms of reports and charts [LabVIEW, PHP, Oracle 9i, and Solaris 8]. - Data Mining: A XML metadata setup and maintenance tool that generates XML documents based on parsing web servers' log files [Desktop, COM Library, and VB.NET 1.0]. - Cyber Clinic: A clinical application that consists of two major modules, the Cardiac and Thoracic modules. It also includes a reports module to search for specific patients according to various available fuzzy-logic criteria [Web, ASP, MS-SQL 7.0]. - Data Mining: A metadata creation process that takes the required customer’s site URL as an input and generates an XML file as an output, which will be processed against the site’s logs to generate valuable reports for the concerned customer [Desktop, MS-SQL, OLAP, IIS W3C logs, and Perl scripts]. - MIS System: An internal project management MIS system to organize and monitor projects and assignments of all the various project teams [Web, Java, Apple WebObjects, and Oracle 8i]. - Internet Banking: Bilingual (Arabic and English) applet that gives authenticated users access to an Internet Banking system that provides various services to the end-users e.g. Account Statements, Transfers, etc. [Java 1 Applet, BROKAT Middleware]. |
EDUCATION
| University: | University of Queensland |
| Time period: | 2004 |
| Degree: | Computer Systems, MEng |
PUBLICATIONS
| Papers: | Adnan Shaout, Kiumi Akingbehin, Basheer F. Al−Ghazawi. “A Fuzzy Data Mining System for Medical Records”, the proceedings of the 2003 International Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IC-AI'03), June 23 - 26, 2003. Monte Carlo Resort, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA. |
INFORMATION
| Memberships: | Jordan Engineers Association |
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