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.
• 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.
• 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.

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.
• 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.
• 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.

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.
• 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