Experience

Harris Utilities | SmartWorks

• Canada
• Utilities
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Software Development Team Lead

  • Oct 2021 - Present



N-QUE

• Owner

  • Oct 2019 - Present



Tower Tech Canada

• Network Security Consultant

  • Aug 2007 - Mar 2021

  Consultant for Tower Tech Montreal, a Network solutions provider to Small and MediumEnterprises (SMEs) in the Aviation and Hospitality Industry.Responsibilities included the designof secure WAN and LAN infrastructure often requiring remote implementation of securityendpoints.Project Highlights:pfSense Custom Firewall: Along with the CTO/Co-Founder of Tower Tech FredSaleh, I designed a customer firewall solution that would allow Hotels to resellbandwidth to their customers using a voucher system. The clients were small hotelslocated in the heart of Montreal and did not require a heavy duty and expensive systemfrom Cisco or Juniper. They opted for our FreeBSD based system instead, and thesystem has since then been used by major corporate clients including AeromotionCanada.



United Energy Pakistan

• Pakistan
• Oil and Gas
• 700 & Above Employee

• Team Lead - Apps & PCE

  • Feb 2015 - Oct 2019

  Increased IT operational efficiency by working with a team of 11 Developers and Support Technicians maintaining 100+ Applications including Oracle and SAP. This role reported directly to both the Head of IT and Head of Exploration.• Delivered an 8-10% YoY savings on a $5M USD annual OPEX budget for Software licensing and services by renegotiating contracts to add more value and reduce cost.• Reduced OPEX spend by 20% during the 2015 Oil Crisis without reducing software licenses or services.• Established and managed relationships with over 35 Oil and Gas Service vendors including Halliburton, Schlumberger and IHS Global.• Successfully delivered the migration of SAP and 20+ other applications during an M&A buyout of a competitor (OMV Pakistan).• Successfully implemented P2 Hydrocarbon Accounting ERP, the only installation in all of Pakistan.• Oversaw the management of 1+ Petabyte of corporate data including raw seismic as well as transactional data in Oracle and MSSQL databases.• Successfully migrated over 40 years of seismic data from on-premise to hybrid cloud.• Defined and monitored KPIs for operation and project performance.• Defined IT Strategy and aligned with business vision and expectations.

• Applications Team Lead

  • Aug 2013 - Feb 2015

  As applications Team Lead, I was responsible for managing a team which provided support to over 1000 corporate users for over 100 applications including and Oracle and IBM Maximo ERP. In this role I managed a $5 Million annual OPEX spend on software licenses and services, and I worked with he IT leadership in developing and implementing a long term Software and IT services strategy for the great organization. During my time as the Application Team Lead, I lead the implementation of P2 Hydrocarbon Accounting Modules and the transfer and implementation of SAP.



CC Technologies Private Limited

• Pakistan
• IT Services and IT Consulting
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Director

  • Aug 2009 - May 2013

  As Director of Technology Development, I took on the initiative and responsibility to transform the entire development infrastructure of the organization. I implemented and executed various technologies and methodologies in the engineering and development division that increased productivity and streamlined workflow within the organizational structure. In a period of one year, this involved a technical and cultural shift from strictly Microsoft proprietary technologies to Open Source, platform agnostic service technologies.Project Highlights4CourtDC : Lead the development of the 3rd through 6th versions of the 4CourtDC Fuel Retail Automation system built entirely in JAVA. The service is an original C.C. Technologies IP that allows fuel retail stations to monitor their sales and tanker deliveries in real time, eliminating any and all pilferage at fuel stations. This service were deployed by two Fortune 500 companies – PSO and Petronas Indonesia - and has handled more than USD $13 Million in live transaction per day at over 1200 retail locations from 2007 to date. Self Service Kiosks: The C.C. Technologies Self Service Kiosk platform was developed to enable direct sales to cash and credit card customers of PIA, Ufone, and Sui Southern Gas Company. The platform used a cloud based middleware which allowed customers of the above corporations to purchase airline tickets, top up their mobile phones and pay their utility bills 24 hours a day from over 25 self service locations nationwide. All three services were offered as outsourced models and were completely managed by CC Technology’s engineering teams. The total revenue generated for these services from 2007 to date is USD$ 5.85 Million.



Figr

• Co-Founder & CTO

  • Dec 2010 - Dec 2011

  While working as Director at C.C. Technologies, I Co-Founded Figr, a Digital Retail Loyalty Start-up company based in Singapore. As CTO, I created a platform that allowed retailers and POS manufacturers to send digital receipts to retail customers via SMS, E-mail, or a web application where they could also use to manage their expenses. The data collected from these customers was used by the retailers to improve their services as well as offer real time loyalty rewards and discounts to participating clients. In a time frame of 3.5 months I built the complete system which included managing the design and development duties single handedly. Figr successfully launched the system with Sodexo Global, a Fortune 500 hospitality company, in September 2011.



C.C. Technologies Pvt. Ltd.

• Senior Software Developer

  • Aug 2007 - Aug 2009

  As the Senior Software Developer, my primary responsibility was revamping existing web services such as Central Information Systems (CIS) and the Fleet Management System (FMS). Both systems were developed on three year old platforms and needed to be rewritten and updated to handle a higher workload in a real time scenario.Project HighlightsCIS: The Central Information System is a cloud based online management andanalytics tool that consolidates the sales and operational data of over 1000 retail outletsin a central database and presents real time data analytics to the corporate head officeas well as the individual retail location operators. The service was deployed in 2007 andbuilt using bleeding edge cloud technologies which were still not in wide use worldwide.FMS: Fleet Management System is a cloud based Corporate Fueling Card managementplatform that allows customers to track their purchases at retail locations using the4CourtDC system. The service gives corporate and individual users a web basedapplication to track their spending and manage their billing. The service was usedby major clientele including WaridTel, Mobilink and NIB Bank, to control spendingand curtail theft through their company fuel cards.



Buffalo David Bitton

• Canada
• Apparel & Fashion
• 1 - 100 Employee

• System Administrator

  • Jul 2004 - Aug 2007

  As the Network and Systems administrator at Buffalo Jean Head Office in Montreal, I was responsible for the Data Center consisting of 17 Servers, and the maintenance of 300 client systems. The Data center housed 2 ERP system based in both Linux and Windows and ran 4 SQL servers ranging from MSSQL 2000 to 2005. As the Network and Systems administrator at Buffalo Jean Head Office in Montreal, I was responsible for the Data Center consisting of 17 Servers, and the maintenance of 300 client systems. The Data center housed 2 ERP system based in both Linux and Windows and ran 4 SQL servers ranging from MSSQL 2000 to 2005.