Hussein Charania Email & Phone Number

Calgary

• Manage a team of engineers for the development of Fenchurch’s cloud-based (Azure) central operations suite ‘FIS’ - now used by underwriters, claim adjudicators, actuaries, financial analysts, and leadership for day-to-day core functionality. Most recent module includes automated claim payment estimations and integrations with third-party payment providers. • Lead development of peer-to-peer insurance and warranty app Besure (iOS and Andriod), taking product from 0-1 while managing user experience requirement discoveries, user research, prototypes, and demos to companies in North America and East Africa.• Manage scope, resources, and budgets, while consulting with leadership from other business units (Finance, Claims, Underwriting) on product strategy, roadmaps, and stories.• Responsible for technical partnerships, deciding on tools and vendors that will lead to long-term savings and growth.

Calgary, Canada Area

• Worked with a team to develop a Change Management suite related to the Pipeline Protection process.• Responsible for end to end development of stories, including database design (MS SQL Server, Entity Framework), server-side architecture and code (MVC5, C#), as well as the front-end (Kendo, Jquery, Razor).

Calgary, Canada Area

• Led development efforts on Coursolve.org, leveraging technologies such as Django (Python MVC), AngularJS, HTML5, CSS3, and API integration with LinkedIn, Stripe, and Mailchimp.• Maintained Sprint and Product Backlogs, while working with Business and Marketing Leads to prioritize Stories.• Provided consultation to team members on development best practices: Refactoring, Design patterns, Scrum.• Met with Educational Institutions regarding innovative ways to better the Experiential Education space, in particular on how to compliment Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCS).

Toronto, Canada Area

• Managed a team of developers and testers who implemented Marketing Automation solutions via Oracle Eloqua and related web applications (various platforms and languages). • Managed project budgets, estimations, and resourcing. • Met frequently with various clients and analyzed their Marketing Automation requirements.

Calgary, Canada Area

• Developed a MVC4 (C#) based Project Management product while integrating other Project Management tools such as MS Project and Smartsheet.• Worked closely with project managers to capture best practices and to analyze ways in which software can further assist project management.• Regularly mentored team members on various topics: Database migrations using Entity Framework, UI automated testing technologies, responsive front-end development (CSS and jQuery), test driven development, and Agile methodologies.

Calgary, Canada Area

• Liaised between local business analysts and offshore developers by translating business requirements into system requirements and architecture; communicating via conference calls, livedemos and the Enterprise Architect tool.• Provided consultation to business analysts and developers on Waterfall best practices, test driven development, and on tools which would work well with the Oracle development stack.

Calgary, Canada Area

• Developed and supported windows and web applications for analyzing real-time data related to SAGD. The applications were developed using C#, ASP.NET and jQuery while leveraging onOSIsoft’s PI Data Historian and Honeywell’s ProcessNet decision support system.• Managed a project which involved working with business analysts and users to enhance a ChangeManagement application using ASP.NET and Oracle, while carrying out the deployment of upgrades as well as the migration of legacy data.

Calgary, Canada Area

• Worked with a large team of developers and business analysts to develop a web based productionaccounting solution (PAS) as well as a field data capture system (PVR V6) for major oil and gas companies, using a Java development environment and Agile methodologies such as Scrum, eXtreme Programming (XP), Test Driven Development (TDD), and others.• Worked closely with client product owners and business analysts to extract requirements, create product backlogs and estimate/plan iterations.• Led retrospectives and mentored other developers on XP and TDD.• Researched new GUI tools such as YUI and integrated it within existing JSP and CSS frameworks.• Designed Oracle databases and used EclipseLink for object persistence mappings.

Toronto, Canada Area

• Designed and implemented an Error-logging system for a Foreign Exchange and Funding softwaresuite using SNMP Trap Messaging within Perl scripts and Java code• Maintained and updated a Funding database in Access, using VBA and complex SQL queries• Developed reports using Active Reports within a C# code base against a SQL Server database