Muhammad Niaz
Computer Systems Engineering graduate from GIKI, Pakistan, with MBA from CSU. Currently working as Architect Analyst at Kophes Corp.
| Headline: | Entrepreneur |
| Skills: | C/C++, Computer Engineering, Engineering, HTML / CSS, Java, Languages and Platforms, Perl, PHP, Software Engineering, SQL, System Administration, Unix, Web Development, Windows |
| Groups: | 2009 Business Plan Competition at The Paul Merage School of Business (Closed), 2010 Business Plan Competition at The Paul Merage School of Business |
| Interested in: | Brainstorming, Finding business partners, Finding cofounders, Finding team mates, Meeting new people, Professional opportunities, Promoting my startups, Recruiting for my startup |
| Schools: | California State University System - Dominguez Hills |
WORK EXPERIENCE
| Employer: | Kophes Corp |
| Position: | Architect Analyst |
| Time period: | July 2004 - Present |
| Description: | Project: Enterprise Streamlining Project
Environment: Websphere, Oracle AS, JAVA, J2EE, Oracle 10g, XML, XSL, XSLT, IBM AS400, DB2, HP Superdome The client Dental insurance company has over 40 Million customers with revenue over US$5 Billion. Enterprise Streamlining project has the goal to bring together various disintegrated system and create a single integrated system to enhance the customer service and business operations. The core product was purchased from EDS. I created various layered on EDS product called Metavance. The customer benefits administration software package customized and creation of extension was my core responsibility. Client server and Web based systems were created as extension to the core Metavance package. Redesigned and rearchitectured legacy CGI and RPG based applications on Java and J2EE. Brought in new tool and techniques to the enterprise to enable development on OOP based Java/J2EE technology. Worked with teams assembled from offices across USA both employees and contractors to get the job done. Project: Vendor Integration System Environment: Weblogic, J2EE, Oracle 9i, JMS, XML, XSL, XSLT Created an integration system using Weblogic integration which can integrate various vendor’s systems and applications. |
| Employer: | Vedior NA |
| Position: | Sr. Software Engineer |
| Time period: | April 2003 - July 2004 |
| Description: | Worked as a Software Development Consultant for Abraxas Technologies. Abraxas clients are in various industries; I had a chance to work in Insurance, Entertainment, Healthcare and Bio-Informatics. The details of various projects on which I played key roles are given below.
Project: PayTrax Environment and Tools: Java2 (JDK 1.4), XML, Web Sphere, Servlets, JSP, Eclipse, JBuilder, SWING, SQL Server PayTrax is an entertainment industry specific payroll system. The system holds the union employee contract information and generates gross pay from time cards. Gross pay is converted to net pay after tax calculations. The application supports direct deposit and payment distribution. Designed and Implemented the UI of the application and integrated the UI with back end SQL Server Database. Created the persistence framework. Created Form layout framework to quickly develop the UI screens. Implemented functions and stored procedure to handle the interactions between SQL Server and application. Integrated the PayTrax with Web Portal for end users and corporate directors. Implemented interface of application with Accounting application. Project: Dataloader Environment and Tools: Java2, J2EE, JDK 1.2, Visual Age for JAVA 4.0, SWING, UML and Persistence Framework. Dataloader is a generic tool to load health management related data into Oracle, which is used by the health management systems. I Worked on the conversion module of the data loader project. The conversion module allowed users to setup the conversion on different fields in the intermediate tables. Also create UI to create a look up conversion table. Oracle 9i was used to hold the huge amount of data of the whole system. I worked on Windows NT as development platform. The application client side was developed in Java. I participated in the development of the Middle Tier for controlling the transactions between Client and Server. Developed the System based on custom Framework of GUI and Persistence. Developed the UI’s using the GUI Framework; Database interaction is done using Persistence Framework. Worked with the QA team to increase the reliability and fault tolerance of the application. Improved the Object Model of the application by using advanced concepts of UML. Tuned database to increase performance. |
| Employer: | Kelaroo, Inc |
| Position: | Sr. Software Engineer Project Manager |
| Time period: | March 2002 - February 2003 |
| Description: | Developed and maintained scientific software applications to help Pharmaceuticals clients in drug discovery and research process. Utilized JAVA, SOAP and Oracle to develop custom applications using Oracle cartridges for molecule and reaction registration and search.
Project: Gene Sequence and Patent Data Mining Client: Amylin Pharmaceuticals, San Diego, CA Duration: Sept 2002 To March 2003 Project: Gene Sequence, Patent search and Blasting Environment and Tools: J2EE, JBoss, Ms Visual Studio .NET, C#, Java Script, ASP, SQL and PL/SQL, IIS, Oracle and UML. Amylin Pharmaceuticals, Inc. is engaged in the discovery, development and commercialization of potential drug candidates for the treatment of diabetes and other metabolic disorders. Utilized all the latest tools and built Gene Sequences and Patents searching and blasting application to facilitate the drug discovery process. Oracle was used to hold over 20 GB of Gene Sequences and Patent data. I developed and maintained three-tier web-based application. Designed and implemented the core object model Developed and maintained the persistence mechanism Developed/Maintained Oracle schema and stored procedures Enhanced the performance of the application using SQL tuning Actively participated in QA testing of the application. Project: Compound Searching and Reaction Enumeration. Client: Syrrx, California Duration: 04/2002-09/2002 Environment and Tools: Java2, J2EE, Forte for Java, Borland JBuilder, SWING, Weblogic, Struts, JFC, ANT, JUnit, Oracle and UML. Syrrx, Inc. is a drug discovery company committed to redefining the way medicine is discovered. Utilized all the latest Java and J2EE tools and built compound searching and reaction enumeration software to facilitate the research on protein crystallization. Oracle was used to hold over 3GB of compound catalogs. I developed and maintained the three-tier based on EJB model. The front end I developed was based on JSP, Servlets and struts. JBuilder was used for RAD and Weblogic was used as web application server. Designed and implemented the core object model Developed and maintained the persistence mechanism Designed and implemented the modules for managing compounds, reactions and simulations. Developed and maintained Oracle stored procedures and database schema Enhanced the performance of the application using SQL tuning techniques. Developed 3-tier model of application struts and deployed on Weblogic and tomcat running on UNIX server. |
| Employer: | Genomatica, Inc. |
| Position: | Software Engineer |
| Time period: | May 2001 - January 2002 |
| Description: | Project: Genetic Circuit Simulation
Environment and Tools: Java2, Visual Age for JAVA, SWING, Rational Rose, EJB, JFC, Oracle, UML and VA Persistence Framework. Genomatica's in silico modeling technology is used to accurately predict the cellular functions, behavior, fitness and performance characteristics of cells under changing environmental, physiological and genetic conditions. I utilized all the latest tools along with team to build state of the art Cell based modeling and simulation application to facilitate the Research on Drugs and Biological System Processing. We accelerated the development process utilizing Rational Rose Tools from user specification till deployment hence cutting cost and time of development. Oracle was as a Database to hold huge amount of Genomic Data. Implemented the core Object model. Developed and maintained the Persistence Mechanism for the application. • Designed and implemented the Modules for managing Genes, Reactions and Simulations. Designed and developed JFC based components. Fixed/Maintained Oracle Stored Procedure and Database Enhanced the performance of the application. Improved the Client Side Data Handling capability of the application using advance features of JDBC and Oracle. Developed 3-tier version of the application using EJB on Websphere. |
| Employer: | Abraxas |
| Position: | Software Engineer |
| Time period: | August 2000 - May 2001 |
| Description: | Project: Customer Processing System
Client: Private Medical Insurance, CA Environment and Tools: Java2, JDK 1.2, Visual Age for JAVA 3.5, SWING, Select, UML and Persistence Framework. The Customer Processing System is meant for Automation of the Procedures for handling the Company’s clients of Dental and Vision Insurance. As an Insurance firm PMI had an old legacy system with DB2 to maintain the Insurance Entities information like clients, providers, facilities etc. The System is based on a Framework of GUI and Persistence. The UI’s are developed using the GUI Framework and the Database interaction is done using Persistence Framework. I fixed the Bugs in the System and Developed news UI’s using the GUI and Persistence Frameworks .Worked with the QA team to increase the reliability and fault tolerance of the application Improved the Object Model of the application by using advanced concepts of UML. |
| Employer: | Venus Soft Tech |
| Position: | Project Manager |
| Time period: | April 1999 - August 2000 |
| Description: | Venus Soft Technologies, Pakistan JAVA Developer & Project Manager, May 1999 To August 2000 (Contract, Full Time)
Project: Road Traffic Modeling and Simulation for Signal Cycle Time Optimization Client: eJobShop Environment and Tools: Java2, JDK 1.2, JBuilder 3, SWING, JVision Developed a Road Traffic Modeling and Simulation Tool. Using this tool the users will be able to optimize CYCLE TIME and SYCHRONIZATION of signals of the road networks. The tool will also simulate the flow pattern of the Traffic. The work is 100% complete. JAVA2 and SWING Technology have been used extensively. |
EDUCATION
| University: | California State University System - Dominguez Hills |
| Time period: | 2007 |
| Degree: | MBA |
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