Muhammad Rashid Saleem Email & Phone Number

Karāchi, Sindh, Pakistan

Karachi, Pakistan

Karachi, Pakistan

Karachi, Pakistan

- Supervising organization/sub-divisions with total technical staff ranging from 40 to 80 people at different times during this tenure- Managing relationship with all existing and potential overseas customers, ensuring delivery of effective solutions for their Line of Business and providing outsourced development, testing and consultancy services- Responsible for lead identification, initial negotiations, on-site visits to various customers in the UK, setting up fixed cost & perpetual T&M contracts and justifying value for money proportion to customers based on objective figures- Have successfully delivered software solutions for over a dozen fixed duration projects during this tenure- Promoting and demonstrating (both internal & external) the concept of reusability and extensibility in Product design and development, reducing delivery times by 10-30% in later stages, resulting in significant time & cost savings- Hiring and training staff to ensure improvement in overall competency and productivity by 25-50%- With an ever increasing focus and emphasis on meeting organization, customer and product/project quality objectives, reduced the number of product defects and turnaround time for defect fixing- Supervising adoption of emerging technologies and mobile application development by carrying out R&D to conclude organization/product related benefits- Managing/improving designs of Line of Business applications for Retail Industry to meet new challenges- Creating/overseeing project plans for various developments, managing resource assignments & movements across projects, deliveries and customer feedbacks- Improving organization IT infrastructure to make use of latest technologies & trends to cut costs and improve efficiency, ensuring individual project teams take benefit of these improvements by streamlining their testing, build and release procedures

Karachi, Pakistan

- Held the position of the Technical Decision Maker for the overall organization- Decided and finalized organization’s Technical Architecture and Software and Database Design Guidelines with a particular focus on considerations for performance and other non-functional aspects of the architecture/design- Formalized a consistent set of standards for UI design, coding, documentation, and specifications- Worked with product/project teams and with customers to implement the standards and guidelines- Helped achieved design consistency across products by introducing, designing, developing and popularizing various emerging design patterns such as SOA, SaaS and frameworks such as MS Enterprise Library, NHibernate- Developed efficient and effective solutions for complex data integration, web development, and application integration across legacy and modern technologies- Developed various methods for code and database performance testing, improvement & tuningTools/Patterns: Design Patterns, C# (.NET v2.0-4.0), JavaScript (AJAX/JSON/jQuery), XML/XSL, ASP.NET, SQL, SilverlightTechnologies & Platforms: IIS (v6.0/7.0), SQL Server (2005/2008), WCF, Windows (XP/7/8/2003/2008)

Karachi, Pakistan

- Implemented architecture & designs by making efficient use of existing technologies and organization skillset- Developed various solutions to improve reliability and performance of B2B Collaborative hosted solutions- Improved scalability of application deployments by designing and implementing simple but very efficient component load balancing techniques thereby increasing horizontal scalability- Designed and implemented logging, monitoring, and diagnostic applications & frameworks for hosted solutions- Helped developers in improving application performance with creative and innovative ideas and approaches- Made excellent use of multi-threaded programs for server-side components to improve performance by 20-60%Tools/Patterns: VC++ (ATL, STL, Win32), VB6.0, VBScript, XML/XSL, ASP, SOAP, SQL, COM/DCOM/COM+Technologies & Platforms: IIS (v5.0/6.0), SQL Server (7/2000), MSMQ, Windows (98/XP/NT/2000/2003)

Karachi, Pakistan

- Gained technical and business knowledge of various products over a short period of time and improved design and development practices with innovative ideas and implementations- Developed various web and desktop based solutions while working closely with the customers on-site (GlaxoSmithKline, Cheapflights in the UK)Tools/Patterns: VC++ (ATL, STL, Win32), VB6.0/5.0, XML/XSL, ASP, SQL, COM/DCOM/COM+Technologies & Platforms: IIS (v4.0), SQL Server (7/2000), MSDE, Windows (95/98/NT/2000)

Karachi, Pakistan

- Built a product for time & attendance control in a very short span of time, complete with direct communicationwith devices and a comprehensive User Manual explaining screens and application flows- Helped organization to move from legacy applications to modern GUI and event driven programming using VB6.0

Master Of Business Administration (M.B.A.), Finance, General, A+

Be, Computer Systems, A+