Kashif Abbas Email & Phone Number

• Responsible for the quality of support, development, and enhancement tasks.• Monitors and analyzes operational efficiency and effectiveness to meet Department business needs.• Ensures GIS performance, scalability, and sustainability for the current & upcoming clients' needs.• Directs teams to meet projected goals and objectives.• Develops and implements project work plans, change requests, and GIS installations/upgrades. Maintains assigned IT assets, and submits purchase requests.• Accountable for delivering GIS results within scope, resource, and schedule constraints.• Repairs, restores, or recovers GIS to minimize business interruptions or impacts.• Enforces accepted GIS standards, policies, and procedures.

Sharjah

• Worked with ArcGIS Server including the ArcGIS REST API, dynamic and cached map / feature / SOAP/REST / WMS / image services, locators etc. and their use in web GIS applications.• Worked with ArcSDE / SQL Server / Oracle enterprise Geodatabases (and Stored Procedures).• Geodatabase design & development, Data Analysis, Modeling and Visualization.• Experience with ArcGIS Silverlight and Flex API.• Worked in the development of ArcGIS Server 9.x-10.x, ArcGIS Desktop 9.x-10.x and Arc Engine 9.x-10.x applications.• Experience developing plans and conducting quality testing of software, applications & databases. This includes deploying and training custom software/Standard Products to end users.• Worked in to create, complete and detailed documentation for GIS/non-GIS projects.• Experience in software development following industry best practices for project management (Implemented for NOC System implementation for Sharjah's Govt. Departments), Change, Release and Configuration Management, Software Development Lifecycle (SDLC), QA/QC.• Excellent English, both written and spoken, and comfort communicating with a variety of clients, staff, and other professionals.• Gistec trainer (ArcGIS Desktop I, II, III, Advance Editing, Building Geodatabases, Model Builder, ArcGIS Server Administration, ArcObjects in VBA, Python, Building Web Applications Using the ArcGIS API for Silverlight, ArcGIS API for Flex, etc.)

• Implemented world first Ajax based ERP System (Enterprise Resource Planning) by creating an architecture using latest Ajax (Not Microsoft Ajax)/ Xml/ Xslt/ Xpath/ Asp.net/ Vb.net/ Ado.net with MS SQL 2005 running as the database server. • Designed / architecture and then implemented in a way that only the change in Controls/Components automatically updates without refreshing the unchanged controls on the page (Own architecture without using MS Ajax controls)• Designed & Developed an Exchange control so that a user can perform all his activities over his “Exchange Activity box” running even at some other server without requiring any standard Exchange client (like MS Outlook 2003, OWA etc.) on his machine. Exchange activities are been recorded in our databases even it was created/updated from “Activity Box” or by any other standard Exchange client. Appointment’s control same in functionality and interface as Google Appointment control (http://www.google.com/calendar).• Implementing solutions at the Application/Architecture and the database level so that the processes can be achieved.• Designed the functionality & implemented and used XSLT and XML to separate the presentation from the business logic. • Every idea to implement in the solution was “not less than the best” in a very short time to achieve the excellent Performance and 100% Security in system.

Lahore, Pakistan

• Contributed to Company’s Inventory Management System (http://inventory.artresources.us) by fixing bugs and adding new features using Asp.net/Vb.net/Ado.net with MS Sql 2000 running as the database server.• Uncovered critical security issues with the existing application, including SQL injection problems.

• Isolated key performance issues and proposed and implemented a successful solution.• Instrumental in improving the overall quality of software.• Developed the data model, stored procedures, and supporting .Net data access for the database and data access level.• Implemented solution by keeping the application security and performance factors in mind.• Developed use cases and requirement analysis.• Developed Asp.net web application; Job Planner (Project Management System) for a UK based organization to facilitate geographical separated offices of the company to work in single project and update it . Job Planner implemented using C#, Asp.net, MS SQL Server.• Worked from language conversion to the content management system of a web based application.• Ensured that coding standards and processes were met. This resulted in increased productivity and improved client satisfaction. More applications included “www.wannawork.be” and “www.piematrix.com”.