Ahmed Ramy Zaky

 

Location: Cairo, Egypt
Mobile: (+20) 0100188088
E-Mail: contact@ahmedramy.com
Website: http://www.ahmedramy.com/

Objective

Managerial – level position as Development Manager, Technical Team Leader, project architect, project lead. I have extensive managerial level experience in architect Web based projects to solve complex business problems, focusing on ASP.NET, C#, as well as extensive ASP, PHP, JavaScript, SQL Server, MySQL and DHTML skills.


Primary Skills

C#, ASP.NET, ADO.NET, MS SQL Server, MCMS, AJAX, ASP, PHP, MySQL, Silverlight


EXPERIENCE

Saudi Egyptian For Financial Information Technology (SEG IT)
(Cairo, Egypt)

Sept 2007 - Present

Full Time

Responsibilities

  • Supervised a team of software engineers responsible for maintaining Stock Exchange Real Time Information Dissemination Programs (SAHM, MenaStock) and developing new features.
  • Supervised release engineers responsible for weekly software releases.
  • Conducted weekly negotiations between business and engineering teams, building consensus on the prioritization of bug fixes and feature requests.
  • Led monthly capacity planning efforts to ensure systems were stable enough to handle high traffic during IPOs and abnormal market activities.
  • Developed Web, Intranet, Extranet applications.
  • Performed System Analysis including Preparing Feasibility Studies, Defining requirements, determining work environment and tools.
  • Invented new systems and solutions.
  • Upgraded and migrated legacy systems to new technologies when needed.
  • Handled recruitment, training and performance management of team members.

Projects

  • Current Project: Building and managing Stock Exchange Real Time Information Dissemination Program (SAHM) based on J2EE, Apache Tomcat, Oracle 10g, that program is a typcial client server system that uses web services to pull the real time data from the application server, which is caching data that it retrives from the DB server.
    Defining and customizing the hosting enviroment to reduce the costs and rise the relibality and scailbilty of the system.
  • Advising and supervising in building and managing Stock Exchange Technical Analysis Program (MenaStock) that has the ablity to chart the stock exchange data in many formats and with highly detailed data (tick by tick, Intra-day, end of day)
  • Developed Content Managment System to host the Group web presence.
  • Developed Document Managment System that enabled the Archiving Department, HR, SEG Brokerage Company, SEG Holding Company to archive more than 20,000 documents: contracts, employees files, etc
  • Developed News Managment System (Maloomat) that consist of web based CMS as the backend, WPF application as the frontend

Environment

Windows 2003, IIS (6.0), Apache Tomcat, MS SQL Server 2005, Oracle 10g, SharePoint Portal Server 2007, Windows SharePoint Services 3.0, ASP.NET, C#, ASP, Ajax, WPF, Silverlight 2.0, JavaScript, XML, XSLT and HTML.

Foreign Information Agency (FIA)
(Doha, Qatar)

May 2004 - Sept 2007

Full Time

Responsibilities

  • Lead a team of highly skilled and talented software professionals working on cutting-edge technologies (Developers, Web Administrators and Computer Support Specialists).
  • Working with development team and stakeholders to develop and document business requirements.
  • Track and ensure all business requirements are met for the project.
  • Monitoring bugs and other project issues to ensure that they are resolved in a timely manner.
  • Developing Web, Intranet, Extranet applications.
  • Performing System Analysis including Preparing Feasibility Studies, Defining requirements, determining work environment and tools.
  • Inventing new systems and solutions.
  • Integrating existing and new systems by developing Middleware applications.
  • Upgrading and migrating legacy systems to new technologies when needed.

Projects

  • Current Project: Building and managing AL-Khayma.com News Portal based on Microsoft Content Management Server 2002 (MCMS 2002) with lots of customization and development, it includes many Web Mining to provide automatic content to certain channels in the site, also, the news site provide video and audio streaming to enrich the news with video content to achieve this we developed a plug-in that integrates the MCMS with Windows Media Services 9 and a FLASH based video player.
    Preparing a plan to migrate from MCMS 2002 to SharePoint Server 2007. Also studying the potentials of adding RSS version, strengthening security, developing and enhancing the monitoring and alerting system.
  • Porting "Journalists Information System" from Oracle to a web based intranet system (ASP.NET & MS SQL Server) with more functionality and better user experience.
    That system is the main system for Media Relations Department, that allows them to manage, search and report efficiently about any journalists or reporters entering the country or seeking to do any activates in it (interviewing or covering any events etc.), also it helps them keep a track of the media organizations (news papers, TVs, radio stations, magazines, news sites, news agencies).
  • Developed "Time Attendance" system that retrieves its data from a fingerprint biometric system and displays detailed and summarized reports that enable the management to check easily and effectively the attendance.
  • Developed a prototype for automatic self managed "Web Mining" (Data Grabbing) and indexing system that can grab news from all major news sites (should by in a large scale e.g. thousands of sites) and categorize them in a unified format database schema.
  • Modified iHorizons Knowledge Server to raise its stability and developed additional plug-in(s) to add more functionality

Environment

Windows 2003, Windows 2000, IIS (5.0, 6.0), Apache Web Server (1.x, 2.x), MS SQL Server 2000, MS SQL Server 2005, MySQL, MCMS, SharePoint Portal Server 2007, Windows SharePoint Services 3.0, ASP.NET, C#, ASP, PHP, Ajax (short for "Asynchronous JavaScript + CSS + DOM + XMLHttpRequest"), JavaScript, XML, XSL and HTML.

AIT Group
(Cairo, 10th of Ramadan - Egypt)

Feb 2002 - May 2004

Full Time

Responsibilities

  • Web applications Development.
  • Building Web Mining Systems.
  • Contributing in System Analysis including Preparing Feasibility Studies, Defining requirements.
  • Upgrading and migrating old systems to new technologies when needed.

Projects

  • Developed "Network Marketing Portal" using ASP & MS SQL Server this system had complex calculations and as mission-critical application it includes many validations and very strong security
    http://www.skyhopes.com/
  • Developed the "International Furniture and Furnishing Trade Fair" web site using ASP & MS SQL including easy to manage photo album.
    http://www.furnex2004.com (updated to the new year exhibition with a new domain) http://www.furnex2005.com/
  • Co-Developed using ASP & SQL Server the first "Tourism and Online Hotel Reservation Portal" this system is considered as the de facto tourism site in Egypt.
    http://www.2travel2egypt.com/
  • Co-Developed using ASP & SQL Server an online and media rich Medical Portal which includes different interface for each user type (normal users, doctors, pharmaceutical companies, pharmacies and medical equipments companies)
    http://www.egpharma.com/Index.asp
  • Developed the official site of "Egyptian Hotel Association" and integrating 2travel2egypt.com/ hotel search with the site including data synchronization between them.
    http://www.eha.org.eg/
  • Developed many other sites and modules including: "Points Collection" site, club management system, Obgyn Portal, news system, voting module, recruitment module, match making module, flexible classifieds module.
  • Developed Web Mining systems including one that grabs data from http://www.superpages.com/, http://www.europages.com/ and insert them in a unified schema database.

Environment

Windows 2000, Linux (Red Hat), IIS (5.0), Apache Web Server (1.x, 2.x), MS SQL Server 2000, MS Access 2000, MySQL, ASP, ASP.NET, C#, PHP, JavaScript, XML and HTML.

Freelancing for many companies

Sept 2001 - Present

Freelance

Responsibilities

  • Web applications development.
  • Contributing in System Analysis.

Projects

Environment

Windows 2000, Linux (Red Hat), IIS (5.0), Apache Web Server (1.x), MS SQL Server 2000, MS Access 2000, MySQL, ASP, PHP, JavaScript and HTML.

SESCO training center (IBM Authorized Center)
Egypt

Jan 2002 - May 2002

Part Time

Responsibilities

  • IBM CIW Certificate and Programming Instructor.

Projects

  • Worked as an Instructor For CIW E- Business and E-Commerce Tracks Especially Programming Languages (ASP, PHP, Perl, JavaScript, and HTML).
  • Helped students to finish their graduation projects by giving them technical advices and correcting their logical and system analysis errors.

Environment

Windows 2000, Linux (Red Hat), IIS (5.0), Apache Web Server (1.x), MS Access 2000, ASP, PHP, JavaScript and HTML.

Mawhoob.com
(Cairo - Egypt)

Jun 2001 - Sept 2001

Full Time

Responsibilities

  • Web applications development.
  • Contributing in System Analysis.
  • HTML Authoring

Projects

  • Worked as a member of the team that developed mawhoob.com web site using ASP & MS SQL Server
  • Built an Intranet system that automatically collects text from content editors and images from graphic designers on the network and process them to create a huge online Encyclopedia that integrates with the main Mawhoob site, the system was developed using PHP and flat files and generates semi static ASP files.

Environment

Windows 2000, IIS (5.0), Apache Web Server (1.x), MS SQL Server 2000, ASP, PHP, JavaScript, VB Script and HTML.

Gegawave/ Build Masters
Multinational Company (Cairo - Egypt, Perth - Australia)

Mar 2000 - Oct 2000

Full Time

Responsibilities

  • Web applications development.
  • HTML Authoring.
  • Preparing Site Maps.

Projects

  • Built many static web sites with a clean and pure HTML authoring, these sites includes simple dynamic modules like contact us and guest book forms.
  • Developed a real estate agent website using CGI-Perl and flat files then ported it to PHP and MySQL.

Environment

Windows 98, Linux, Apache Web Server (1.x), CGI-Perl, PHP, MySQL, JavaScript and HTML.



Skills

Programming Languages

  • Proficient in Microsoft.NET 1.1, 2.0, 3.0, 3.5
    • C#.NET
    • ASP.NET
    • ADO.NET
  • Proficient in ASP
  • Proficient in PHP
  • Intermediate experience in PERL - CGI
  • Basic knowledge in JAVA
  • Proficient in JavaScript
  • Knowledge in Pascal
  • Intermediate experience in Lisp (Language used mainly in Artificial Intelligence)

Database Management Systems (RDBMS)

  • MS SQL Server 2005
  • MS SQL Server 2000
  • MySQL

Web Servers

  • Proficient in IIS (Internet Information Server) 5.0, 6.0
  • Intermediate experience in Apache

Markup languages

  • Proficient in HTML
  • XML
    • XSL
    • DTD

Wireless Development

  • WML
  • WMLScript

Operating Systems

  • Windows 3.x, 9X, 2000, XP, 2003, Vista
  • Linux
    • Red hat
    • SuSE

Other

  • MCMS (Microsoft Content Management Server)
  • Ajax (short for "Asynchronous JavaScript + CSS + DOM + XMLHttpRequest")

Current / Future Studies

  • WPF (Windows Presentation Foundation)
  • WCF (Windows Communication Foundation)
  • WF (Workflow Foundation)
  • Windows CardSpace
  • Silverlight

Education

Helwan University - Cairo

2001

Degree: Bachelor of Science - Computer Science and Statistics.
Graduation Project: Study in Artificial Intelligence and Expert Systems.