Azwar Khalid
T.H.I.N.K.
| Headline: | Engineer |
| Website: | http://www.akpro.net |
| Industries: | Computing, Information Technology, Internet |
| Skills: | AJAX, Business, C/C++, Computer Engineering, Databases, Design, Engineering, English, Entrepreneurship, Event planning, Flash, Graphic design, HTML / CSS, Human-Computer Interaction, Java, Javascript, Languages and Platforms, Leadership, Management, Negotiation, Perl, PHP, Public Relations, Retail, Sales, Software Engineering, SQL, System Administration, Web design, Web Development, Windows, Windows applications |
| Location: | Toronto |
| Visas: | All the World |
| Interested in: | Brainstorming, Career advice, Consulting opportunities, Creating a group, Employment opportunities, Finding business partners, Finding cofounders, Finding engineers, Finding team mates, Helping friends, Helping members of my groups, Internships, Learning about entrepreneurship, Meeting new people, Participating in a competition, Partnering with other groups, Professional opportunities, Providing services to startups, Sharing my projects, Starting a company, Trading services |
| Schools: | York University |
FULL BIO
Enthusiastic and initiative with eagerness to open new doors. My strengths are a mix of technical knowledge and business communication skills. If you have a project and want help, lets talk.
WORK EXPERIENCE
| Employer: | Research In Motion |
| Position: | BlackBerry Platforms Developer |
| Time period: | May 2008 - December 2008 |
| Description: | • Developed the first ever BlackBerry eBay application using eBay’s shopping and trading APIs. My responsibility was to create authentication, messaging and my favorite’s components of the application.
• Provided help and support to other team members regarding technical issues they had with environment set up and application development. • Gained extensive experience through research, design, implementation and development of the application. Technologies used include HTML, WSDL, XML, JavaScript, MDS Studio, Java, Perforce & ecoe client. |
| Employer: | IBM |
| Position: | Websphere Business Integration Developer |
| Time period: | September 2007 - May 2008 |
| Description: | • Developed in-depth knowledge of large-scale software products by creating test cases and debugging techniques using tools like Java, XML, WSDL and eclipse IDE.
• Improved my technical writing skills by writing bug reports and documenting source code for other team members to use for future reference. • Built a web interface for Websphere’s assembly editor using Adobe Flex and flash action script. |
| Employer: | IBM |
| Position: | DB2 Developer |
| Time period: | May 2007 - September 2007 |
| Description: | • In order to estimate migration time length, worked on a project that uses Perl scripting & DB2 pureXML technology to store raw migration log files into a database that can be accessed by a PHP web application to facilitate the log data online to other DB2 testing teams.
• Performed defect bug fixing as a part of the DB2 Catalog team. Vi Editor, TotalView debugger and db2scope are some of the tools used in the process. |
| Employer: | Student Financial Services, York University |
| Position: | Web Manager |
| Time period: | July 2006 - May 2007 |
| Description: | • Developed detail-oriented skills by locating errors and mistakes in the linguistic layout of the website.
• Initiated a proposal to redesign and reformat the current Student Financial Services website to make it user friendly, dynamic and professional. The proposal initiative gained my employer’s support and was used as a building stone for further improvements by other web development teams. • Gained professional communication skills by providing technical email and phone support to inquiries from students. |
| Employer: | Engineering Society, York University |
| Position: | VP External |
| Time period: | March 2006 - March 2008 |
| Description: | • Created the club’s first-ever website and facilitated useful website features such as forums to connect engineering students and provide helpful service.
• Successfully increased the club’s membership by building strong connections with related organizations and clubs and advertising in classes and faculty members meetings. • Gained strong presentation and leadership skills by holding presentations for the club in front of student groups and faculty staff and was re-elected for VP External for the 2007/08/09 terms. |
| Employer: | AK Production Studios |
| Position: | Founder |
| Time period: | January 2004 - January 2008 |
| Description: | Awards http://www.akpro.net/v3/awards.html
• Hoover Talented Webmaster Award 2005 • WebThrower Design Award 2006 • Mackey Web design Award 2007 Sample Projects http://dev.akpro.net/j/index.php/portfolio.html • Hadid General Contractor www.hadidgc.com • Flooring Floorama www.flooringfloorama.com • CodeHelpers www.codehelpers.com • FairView Carpets www.fairviewcarpet.com • Founder of AK Production Studios; an online web source for graphics and web design that offers free online tutorials. • Took initiative to connect with a variety of businesses and provide them with web design services which provided a substantial source of profit for AK Productions. |
EDUCATION
| University: | York University |
| Time period: | 2003 - 2008 |
| Degree: | Computer Engineering, BEng |
INFORMATION
| Awards: | Winner of IBM’s Web 2.0 Business Case Competition 2007
Winner of York’s Engineering Society’s TekNix24 Competition 2006 Computer Engineering Department Certificate of Achievement 2004 York University Entrance Scholarship 2003 Hoover Talented Webmaster Award 2005 WebThrower Design Award 2006 Mackey Web design Award 2007 |
Azwar is Following (8)
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Extreme Joomla
Extreme Joomla develops JForce, the CRM and Project Management software designed specifically for Joomla! CMS, the Open Source CMS.
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The Carrot Project
Brand comparisons for busy ducksqueezers. When we buy things we support businesses. We should support the businesses that are doing the best things for the world.
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Site9
Make web site development faster, easier, and improve results with online, collaborative web programming tools
Azwar's Contacts (3)
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Jake de Grazia
Been working on The Carrot Project since spring '07. Did the EIR thing for a while in the energy tech space. But the startup got too crazy. So it's almost all carrots these days. And I try write about it as much as I can.
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Hassan Masoom
Computer Engineering graduate from York University. Experience as Software Developer at IBM Canada, Research In Motion (RIM) and Robert Bosch GmbH.
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