Norfolk, VA

E-mail: alroudhan.a@gmail.com

Ahmad Al-roudhan

 

Academics:

o Old Dominion University, Norfolk USA Dean’s List undergraduate with Bachelor’s of science in Business Administration Information Technology August 2006.

o Minor in Japanese Studies.

 

Career Summary:

o 7 and a half years of database, software and web applications development.

o Experience in building back end support applications.

o Experience in building front end user interface application.

o Great Ability in trouble shooting, identifying and remedying code errors.

o Proactive, punctual, and driven and able to follow projects from inception to completion.

 

Technical Skills:

o Software Languages: C++, JAVA, Visual Basic, SQL, PLSQL.

o Web Languages: PHP, JSP, ColdFusion, JavaScript, Python, Flash, HTML, DHTML, XHTML, CSS.

o Data Exchange Languages: XML, WDDX, XSL.

o Web Servers: Apache Server

o Operating Systems: Unix, Linux, W9x, WNT, Android SDK.

o Database: Oracle 9i / 10g, MySql, MSAccess.

o Front-End Tools: JBuilder, NetBeans, VB, Adobe Acrobat, Adobe Creative Suite, Sony Vegas.

o APIs and Frameworks: JAVA Content Repository, Apache Sling, Ant, Maven, Adobe Experience Manager, Adobe LiveCycle, Dart, Polymer. Google Cloud SDK.

o Software Versioning: SVN, Mercurial.

o Enterprise solutions: Adobe experience Manager, Adobe Document Services.

 

Professional Experience:

Old Dominion University, Norfolk (www.odu.edu) August 2007 – Present

o Lead Programmer and Designer for forms central. Currently in charge of forms sub domain duties include: Developing enterprise level Form solution, integrating old Forms application with the new environment and training users to build and maintain business processes.

o Web Content Management Developer and System Analyst. Duties include: Migrating legacy website to AEM environment, integrating the ODU portal and website with 3^rd party enterprise solutions and developing components utilized by content owners.

o Job involves programming using JAVA, JSP, PHP, JavaScript, XML, XSL, Adobe Experience Manager, Ant, JCR, Maven, Oracle, SQL and working with systems that require extensive Novell NetWare and NT knowledge. Implementing and supporting a large-scale web environment on an enterprise level. Analysis, design, system documentation.

 

Projects:

-          Form Central: Title: -Lead Programmer Technology JAVA, PHP4/5, JavaScript, XML, XSL Oracle10G

o Form Central is an ODU sub domain that hosts all the forms that are required for each department in the university. It is a central hub that the students, faculty and staff can access and search for the forms they need based on criteria including department relevance or name.

o Used Structured programing methods to develop two interfaces first there is the form creation process which uses java script and PHP to create the web or PDF forms. This Application is used by departments to create their own forms or upload forms that are not currently in the database.

o The form application also has a work-flow system that was designed and implemented from scratch by me. This feature adds extensive work-flow capability to the forms created enabling them to go through an approval and revision process.

o Forms search which is the front end and is accessed by the users to locate the forms they need.

 

-          Portal 2.0: Title: - Programmer Technologies: JAVA, JSP, JCR, Adobe CQ, Ant, Sling, Maven JavaScript, XML, XSL, Mule, GSON, ESB.

o Portal 2.0 is an undertaking to make the ODU student portal more personalized to the student.

o At first the personal student data and sources needed to be identified and delivery methods needed to be configured.

o Secondly, the logic needed to be configured so the data can be displayed correctly.

o Thirdly, the portal needed to be reconfigured to be able to display personal data on multiple pages without sacrificing performance.

o Lastly, Data populated on the main website is being pulled into the portal to display the different places and their information based on the location of the student in the portal.

 

-          Web Redesign: Title: - Programmer Technologies: JAVA, JSP, JCR, Adobe CQ, Ant, Sling, Maven JavaScript, XML, XSL.

o Web redesign is a very big project undertaken to modernize ODU’s web site. The new website will have a completely new look and it will also be built on top of Day CQ content management system.

o At first the focus was migrating the pages from the old website to the new design. In order to do that, tools had to be developed to in the CMS to allow users to migrate the content.

o Secondly, migrating applications that were written in PHP to the new system which is written in JAVA.

o Thirdly building new applications in the new system. Such as theODU directory, places, dinning menus, web services, etc…

 

-          ODU mobile: Title: - Programmer Technologies: JAVA, JSP, JCR, Adobe CQ, Ant, Sling, Maven JavaScript, XML, XSL, Mule, GSON, ESB.

o Provided the data and logic to display the places of interest, dining menus, and student schedule to be displayed on the ODU mobile app.

o For the places of interest I am providing the mobile app with the places, their different categories, opening and closing time and whether they are currently opened or closed.

o For the dinning menu I am providing the dinning data based on the location

o For the student information I am providing personal student information based on the passed identifier while check that the person asking for the data is the owner of the identifier.

 

-          Learning Commons Room Reservation Application: Title:- Lead Developer/Programmer Technologies: Apache, PHP, MySQL:

o Setup a server environment using Apache, Unix to host 3 party applications to use as needed by the university.

o Implemented and modified open source application called OpenRoom to meet the university’s requirements for room reservation.

 

-          Faculty Activity System: Title: - Lead Programmer, Technology PHP, SOAP, XML, XSL

o Create a new FAS interface with a third party service to list and search faculty expertise and activities.

 

-          ODU Directory: Title:- Lead Programmer, Technology PHP.

o Interface with the banner database for directory search.

 

-          ODU Alerts: Title- Lead Programmer, Technology PHP, Oracle, SOAP, XML

o Interface with third party system to allow faculty, staff and students to sign up for ODU alerts system.

 

-          ODU Web Admin: Title:- Web Administrator, Technologies: PHP, HTML, ORACLE

o Lead Web administrator working with odu community to solve day to day issue and build small applications.

o Supervise Student workers who help maintain the OLD Dominion University website.

Dominion Enterprises, Norfolk (www.traderonline.com) September 2006-2007

o Web programmer on the tactical team. Duties involve website maintenance, handling short-term projects, website reconstruct and redesign. 

o Job involves programming with ColdFusion MX, PHP 4/5, Python, Oracle 9i/ 10G.

Projects:

-          Google SlideShow Gadget: Title: -Lead Programmer Technology: -PHP4 / Oracle 10G

o SlideShow - a gadget that would sit on the users’ Google homepage or Google desktop that gives users the ability to customize a slide-show of the vehicles based on the search criteria they enter.

o The gadget also provides quick access to traderonline websites to perform further searches or to view more information about the items on display at the slideshow.

 

-          Google IMT Gadget: Title: – Lead Programmer Technology: PHP4, Oracle 10G.

o IMT: A dealer specific gadgets that gives dealers with accounts on traderonline sites access to their inventory management tool.

o This tool provides a miniature view of the latest activities that the dealer ads have seen such as emails, phone calls, and text messages received from prospective buyers.

o For detailed view of the dealer activities the tool gives access to the full inventory management tool on traderonline website.

 

-          RV rewrite: Title: - Lead Programmer Technology:-PHP 5 Oracle 10G Team size: -10+

o RV dealer leads: creating a contact page for users to contact dealers.

o The functionality includes fraud check and emailing dealer if no fraud is found.

 

-          Fraud Tool: Title: -Lead Programmer Technology:- PHP4, ColdFusion, Oracle 9i

o Fraud Tool: added fraud check functionality to email forms on traderonline websites.

o The fraud emails are inserted into a tool that to be reviewed by the fraud team for review where they are either forwarded to the dealers or deleted.

o The fraud tool also has functionality for adding tokens, key words, that can be added as Fraud words where emails are immediately if those tokens are found.

 

BakhashCo, Kuwait May 1997 – Jan 2002

-          Title:- IT Specialist

-          Implantation of several IT solutions for prefab home factory,

-          Duties included database programming, MS Access, Website programming and design.

 

Other Experience:

-          Android app development: Knowledge in Android app development by creating multiple small apps that also required the Google Cloud SDK. These apps were built to gain experience.

-          Facebook application development: Extensive knowledge in facebook application development.

-          Cakephp framework: Extensive knowledge in cakephp frame work and the various features it. The facebook application that I am currently developing utilizes the various features offered by this php framework.