Gabriel Anwar

Technical Skills

Ø        Designed and implemented parts of a multi million dollar project to configure and control package sorting and shipping operations for UPS, using Object Oriented techniques on COM components.

Ø       Designed parts of a multi-million dollar project to build custom software for managing retirement funds.  Performed Object Oriented analysis and design, modeled in UML and implemented by building ActiveX and COM components in n-Tier architecture on Windows NT.

Ø        Independently carried out full development life cycle (SDLC) including requirements gathering, analysis, design, implementation and maintenance of a desktop based information system to provide sales and inventory management.  Additionally, provided functionality to exchange data between desktop systems and the Progress databases running on Unix based midrange computers.

Ø        Designed and implemented parts of a distributed data entry system using ASP and JavaScript programming with XML.  The system was a B2B web based transaction system for the publishing industry, to collect product catalog orders.

Ø        Designed and implemented parts of a complex project with intricate business rules for AT&T, to provide statistical analysis and reporting system for nation wide project cost centers.

Career Development

Senior Consultant

Information Management Consultants, McLean, Virginia (Jun 2001 – Feb 2002)

Maintained and migrated a legacy document management system using Eastman imaging technology for INS.  The system was ported from Visual Basic 4 to Visual Basic 6, replacing third party controls and refactoring code.

Component Framework Engineer

Blueprint Technologies Inc., Falls Church, Virginia (Aug 2000 – Feb 2001)

Designed and implemented parts of a multi million dollar project to configure and control package sorting and shipping operations for UPS.  Performed Use Case analysis and COM component design with Object Oriented techniques using Rational Rose, followed by implementation in Visual Basic with Oracle back end in n-Tier architecture.  The software development was carried out with Rational Unified Process (RUP) methodology.

Lead Programmer

MediaBrains.com Inc., Naples, Florida (Jan 2000 – Aug 2000)

Designed and implemented parts of a web-based system using ASP and JavaScript technologies and COM/DCOM components.  The system provided B2B e-commerce solutions to the publishing industry to collect product catalog orders.  Heavy emphasis was placed on XML based data exchange.

Designed and implemented an XML based system to collect data in any arbitrary format, converting it to intermediate layers of XML structure followed by populating SQL Server database.  Designed and implemented a Visual Basic application to automate processing of returned email, by identifying delivery problems and automatically generating and dispatching reports to alert the overseeing personnel.

Senior Programmer Analyst

Applied Information Sciences Inc., Greenbelt, Maryland (Nov 1998 - Jan 2000)

Performed object oriented analysis and design, following Rational Unified Process (RUP) methodology.  Modeled solution in UML using Rational Rose, and implemented in Visual Basic 6 building ActiveX/COM components, in n-Tier environment on Windows NT, building a bridge to communicate with multi-terabyte database on a mainframe system.

Applications Programmer Analyst

Books Are Fun Inc., Fairfield, Iowa (Jan 1995 - Nov 1998)

Performed Object Oriented analysis and design modeled in UML using Rational Rose and implemented in Visual Basic 5, following Rational Objectory methodology.   Developed client-server application using Visual Basic 5 and SQL Server database for Windows NT/95 platforms.

Independently carried out full development life cycle (SDLC) including requirements gathering, analysis, design, implementation and maintenance of a desktop system to provide sales and inventory management.  Developed system in FoxPro 2.6 on Windows and Macintosh platforms.  Additionally, provided functionality to exchange data between desktop systems and Progress databases running on Unix based midrange computers.

Software Consultant

C I Corporation, Washington, DC (Jan 1989 - Feb 1990, Sep 1993 - Dec 1994)

Designed and implemented parts of a complex FoxPro application for AT&T.  Created system to provide statistical analysis and reporting system, with intricate business rules to process the project cost centers nationwide.  Created an application in dBaseIII, for National Public Radio, to manage statistics about NPR stations nationwide.

Conducted training courses in database languages, dBaseIII, FoxPro and Paradox, at organizations like the State Department and the Pentagon.

Education and Professional Development

MBA

Maharishi University of Management, Fairfield, Iowa (Aug 1986 - Dec 1988)

Strongest areas of interest and performance included Information Systems, Finance, Economics and Accounting.

BS Chemical Engineering

University of Engineering and Technology, Lahore, Pakistan (Feb 1978 - Apr 1983)

Best performance in Systems Engineering, Operations Management, Economics and Programming Languages.

Employment Status

Permanent Resident; Public Trust Position 6C for INS contract work.

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