Fahad Murtaza Sr. Web Developer / Programmer Profile To venture into the professional life and practically apply my knowledge; in a highly professional environment, that best utilizes my qualifications, ability and competence. To work where my education, and experience can contribute towards achieving organizational objectives. To learn from more experienced people and give back my knowledge. Experience R&D KOM / Reality CG, Muscat, Oman - June 01, 2010 to date (www.realitycg.com) I am working as a computer programmer for two sister companies and I work for both. My responsibilities are a mix or desktop programming and web development. I have worked in PHP, ExpressionEngine CMS (and framework) and ColdFusion. The jobs I have finished are www.bandoman.om and its complete back office. I have also worked for The Wave Muscat Website development which you can find at www.thewavemuscat.com . At Reality CG, I am responsible for software development related to art management and developing software which other employees use to improve their productivity. I also take part in hiring process for the technical resources for the fulltime/ part time workers in new projects. Universal Coders - July 22, 2009 to May 30, 2010 I have been working as CEO, senior web analyst on my personal venture i.e. Universal Coders. Working at Views Flow and other previous jobs allowed me to use my experience to start my own computer programming business with specialty in web development. Views Flow - January 2009 to July 22, 2009 (www.viewsflow.com) Developed the algorithms for logarithmic calculations done for ranking the financial news against visits and votes submitted by users. The whole development was done in open source CMS called Drupal and its core was expanded to provide the specific functionality get into the shape it is in right now. You can check viewsflow at www.viewsflow.com. Since 2011, the site has been overhauled to be peerindex.com with new vision of finding your social capital and has a few million users. Packt Publishing - July 28, 2008 till January 2009 (www.packtpub.com) I have been under contract with this UK publisher to write a book on an advanced topic ‘PHP Team Development’ which focuses on team development methodologies and discusses the techniques to properly manage PHP application development. MVC frameworks and agile web development were at the core of this work. Altair Technologies - October 2007 till December 2009 (www.altairventures.com) Web Developer. I have worked on 3 different projects working for Altair Technologies. All three were using either PHP 5 (OOP) or strict MVC or using View and Controller only. DA Designers - June 20, 2007 till October 2008 (www.dadesigner.com) I was working as a 9 to 5 full time worker and my Job Title is web developer. Radio Buraq FM 104 Abbottabad/ Mansehra - March 2006 till January 2008 I have been an Radio Jockey (RJ) presenting community shows and shows related to Information Technology, developing awareness in the community. I developed a community response website for them. RAC - February 1, 2005 till Mid 2009 (www.rentacoder.com now www.vworker.com ) I have been working as a freelance programmer on this freelance site and I am considered to be better than 99.17% people working there. Programming Languages • PHP (Expert - 7 years) The details about respective frameworks are in next section. • ASP  (Mid level - 4 years) • ColdFusion (Starter level expertise) • C++ (just Linux based text programs, made a control program for RC toy cars. Kids loved that console) • Matlab (Made a Atmel 89c51 burner + tester as my final project in BE. Got a 4.0 GPA in that subject) • JavaScript (Have done AJAX i.e Asynchronous JavaScript and XML ) • HTML 4.0 • XHTML  • CSS (if its considered as a language as its a debate among developers) • JSP (Did only 2 websites in JSP on an Apache patched with tomcat server, that was a reverse auction system and a shopping cart) • XML (Have done RSS 2.0 for many sites and did an RSS aggregator for viewsflow.com. It helps them get the latest updates from the sites of their interest and I used it PHP to export and import a bulk of RSS feeds ) • VBS (Very little experience with Scripting for Windows XP based automation) • ActionScripting PHP frameworks, CMS and theme engines: • CodeIgniter (1 year experience). You can find all about it on http://codeigniter.com/ and this is the same thing being used on expression engine CMS. I did the HWC (Home work centers) application for Silicon valley Education foundation (www.svef.org) in San Jose California. The project manager was Rene Remirez from the same organization. I was the sole programmer so the 100% coding was mine.  • Smarty (the viewsflow.com in start was developed in smarty, then moved to Drupal all done programmatically my me, the design and art by someone is US. And my personal website www.videonasheeds.com uses smarty with youtube API to get the youtube videos related to a keyword) • Zend Framework (2 months experience working on one project) • On CakePHP and CodeIgniter framework, I have helped writing a book for Packt Publishing in UK. They are big name in technical book publishing. http://www.packtpub.com/ • Drupal www.drupal.org • Wordpress (PHP Open source publishing platform with focus on Blogging and CMS). www.wordpress.org Operating Systems • LINUX (CentOS 5 LAMP setup and support/ Fedora Core 9 LAMP setup and support/ Ubuntu 6.06 LTS onwards only desktop ) • Windows XP, Window VISTA and Windows 7 • Mac OSX Server • Mac OSX till the latest • iOS debugging on iPad and iPhone   Version Control Systems & Related clients • CSVS • SVN • GIT • Tortoise SVN • Tortoise GIT • WinCVS Databases I have developed databases and interfaced them with their front end CMS and CRM systems in ASP.net (specifically C#) since I started coding. • MySQL – 7 years experience with designing and optimizing • SQL Server – 4 years experience with designing and optimizing • Oracle – Beginner level experience • SQLite - I have taken a Stanford course for this and have used it extensively. I have designed databases with SQL query optimization and complex SQL joins and triggers. This is where I would like to work more in future. Oracle is one of top things in my to-do list. Since DMBS systems mostly work in the same fashion, so I do believe I can work in any of them easily. I am also learning and experimenting with how to use non SQL type databases. Education Bachelors in Computer Engineering- BS (CE). (Fall 2002- Spring 2007) COMSATS Institute of Information technology, Abbottabad, Pakistan. Intermediate (Pre-Engg) (2000-2002) Pakistan International public School & college Abbottabad, Pakistan. Areas of Strength • Keen sense of observation so I learn quickly and adjust easily in a new environment. • Firm negotiator, since I have worked with graphics designer to get the desired results. • Innovative and creative mind. • Team leadership. Other operational skills include • Strong Interpersonal skills. • Excellent written, verbal, presentation and communication skills. Literary and computer-oriented. • I teach tech people from all around the world. Solve their problems. You can find me on many good tech forums out there. Personal Strengths I have a passion for knowledge and truth, be it in any form or shape. I am a born optimist having a sense of responsibilities and career orientation. I have a natural ability to motivate people working with me and can achieve my goals through individual and team efforts. I can work 18 hours a day when needed. When it comes to solving mine or someone else’s problem, I just go for it. Field of Interest • To work in a software/ web development organization using my best potential. • Web designing, development, planning and programming (Designing and Implementation). Software Development and web tech is my passion. Interests and Activities I enjoy reading (Urdu and English both), writing, poetry, traveling. Listening to radio/music and surfing internet are my favorite pass-times. I love to get knowledge and always visit the people from whom I can get knowledge. My interest is speaking truth and I can speak it at any forum. I have visited all major cities of my country Pakistan and have learnt from all the cultures. I also build and fly RC planes. Achievements • Have been an anchor in quiz competitions at university, college and school level. • Have been one of the best extempore speakers at college. • Have got prizes in essay writing competitions at college. • Have been taking first position in my school throughout 10 years of schooling. • Have been a top coder at http://www.rentacoder.com/ for 6 months. • Got the first position in March 2006 coding contest of Planet source code; • http://www.planet-source-code.com in category ASP. • Worked with Swiss Humanitarian Aid Unit at Emergency Relief Hospital during the October 2005’s disaster’s relief activities. • Have worked for Radio-Buraq FM 104 for 1 year as an RJ. Hosted interviews as well as fun and community shows. • I am a published photographer. Portfolio From 2002 onwards, I have been working as a full time and freelance developer for many companies and individuals in America and Europe. Many of contracts required NDAs (Non disclosure Agreements) to be signed so I am not at liberty to discuss all my work with my prospective clients and employers. Some of the websites I have taken permission from my clients to be shown on my portfolio can be on my website’s portfolio section. Personal Profile Name: Fahad Murtaza (Alternate Spellings: Fahd Murtaza) Father’s Name: Murtaza Javed Date of Birth: 11th Feb 1985 Nationality: Pakistani Passport # AH0976991 Domicile: Mansehra ( NWFP) NIC No: 13503-2242699-3 Marital Status: Single Sex: Male