Ahmad R.

ABU ARJA
Amman - Jordan
+962-785743051
a.abuarja@live.com
Skype: a.abuarja
LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/in/abuarja

Summary
Seven years of professional career in software development and technical training. Focusing on conceptualizing business needs due
translating them into viable technical solutions. Strengths include:
 Proven expertise in software architecture design on Microsoft .NET framework.
 Successful analysis and problem-solving expertise.
 Demonstrated expertise in .Net Framework, SQL Server and iPhone development has provided the opportunity to work on a
diversity of software projects.
 Developed, designed and lead development in numerous successful projects
 Continually learning and applying best engineering processes to development teams, such as SCRUM, Test Driven Development,
and Agile

Professional Certifications
 PRO: Designing Database Solutions and Data Access Using Microsoft SQL Server 2008
 MCPD [Enterprise Application Developer ], MCTS [Distributed, Web, Windows]
 MCSD, MCAD, MCP

Professional Experience
Solution Architect July 2010 – Present
Younivate Technology, Jordan
Accomplishments and Responsibilities:
Accomplished so far:
 Software Development Process based on scrum with determined phases and deliverables.
 SRS of GPS fleet management
 Solution Architecture of GPS fleet management
1. Tiers and Layers design
2. Design standards and guidelines
3. Technical Requirements and Technologies selection
 Coding standards
Responsibilities:
 Defines the approach for structuring each application, including determining appropriate use of technology solutions.
 Defines and validates technical requirements and architecture quality attributes.
 Produces application design documentation for complex applications.
 Leading software development team.
Projects:
 GPS Fleet Management: Software solution for managing fleet maintenance and other aspects of fleet operations, with
this software, users are able to generate reports, tracking and manage their fleet with increased efficiency. [C#, .Net 4.0,
ASP.NET 4.0, Entity Framework, IoC using Unity, Windows Services, XML, Support many DB engines].

Software Designer / Project Lead June 2009 – July 2010

JValley Software Solutions, Jordan
Accomplishments and Responsibilities:
 Promoted to project lead within 3 months.
 Lead a team of 6 software engineers.
 Documented standards and guideline to develop SQL Server and .NET based software system.
 Team Foundation Server implementation and administration.
  Design and develop software products.
 Develop logical and physical specifications.
 Design and documented software modules using OOD techniques.
Projects:
 Enterprise Network Video Surveillance: An enterprise digital video surveillance system that is responsible for
displaying, parsing and archiving different video streams format from network cameras, plus the ability to integrate with
security and controls peripherals [C#, Silverlight, WCF, ASP.NET, Web & Windows Services, XML, MS-SQL 2008].

Senior Software Engineer Feb 2008 – May 2009

eSense software, Jordan
Accomplishments and Responsibilities:
 Developed web and database software applications using latest Microsoft technologies.
 Developed iPhone application using Apple iPhone SDK since Beta version.
 Supervising junior developers.
 In addition to my job as senior developer I have played a team leader role.
 Implement Microsoft Search Server 2008.
Projects:
 iPhone Project: the first use of iPhone technology as a part of enterprise solution in middle east.
Description: communicate with server solution to transfer and view compressed and encrypted data.
[Mac OS, iPhone OS, Cocoa-Touch Framework, Objective-C].
 Event Management System: enterprise scale web solution composed of multi-modules for events management business
Automation for all Royal Hashemite Court processes.
 [Web, ASP.NET 2.0 , .Net 3.5, MS-SQL ]
 MS Search Server:
1. Implement Microsoft search server express to create indexes for LAN shared folders, web sites, SharePoint sites.
2. Customize relevance ranking parameter.
3. Customize MS-Search Server interface.
4. Install third parties plug-ins on search server.

Technical Team Leader Nov 2006 – Jan 2008

KASTANA, Jordan
Accomplishments and Responsibilities:
 Design and develop web, mobile and messaging software [SMS, MMS, WAP... etc]
 Efficiently use of Microsoft and Open Source technologies [.net framework, SQL server, PHP, MySQL …etc]
 Develop mobile application to telecom operators like Orange and Umniah.
 Acting the management for a few times.
Projects:
 Bilingual chatting system: Web, WAP,SMS chatting system [PHP, MySQL, Apache]
 Vehicle tracking system based on mobile cells location.[C# ASP.NET 2.0, MS-SQL ]
 Mobile/Web Advertisement: Web and SMS Text-Ads solution [C# ASP.NET 2.0, MS-SQL ]
 Reverse SMS charging application: [C#, MS-SQL ]
 Self destroyed SMS: [C# MS-SQL ]
 SMS service and content management system: [C# ASP.NET 2.0, MS-SQL ]
 MMS service and content management system: [C# ASP.NET 2.0, MS-SQL ]
 WAP portal with monthly fees subscription management: [C# ASP.NET 2.0, MS-SQL ]
 Flash SMS application: [C#, MS-SQL ]

Technical Trainer Jan 2006 – Oct 2006

Compubase International, Jordan
Accomplishments and Responsibilities:
 Working as a Trainer for Microsoft Training Courses
Instructor Feb 2004 – Dec 2005
Baynonah Institute, Jordan
Accomplishments and Responsibilities:
 Instructor for C#, SQL Server 2000, C++, VB / VB.Net, OOP

Technical Skills
 Highly competent in the following:
Languages DBMS
 C-Sharp (C#) [Web, Windows]  Microsoft SQL Server
 Microsoft Visual Basic® (VB 6 & .Net) Software
 Objective-C [Mac OS]  IDEs:
 SQL Server programming (T-SQL , ANSI SQL)  Visual Studio
 XML, JavaScript, Html, CSS  UML and Modeling Tools
Frameworks and Libraries  Microsoft Visio 2007
 .Net Framework [All Versions]  Enterprise Architect [Sparx Systems]
 Enterprise Library, Unity  Source Control Tools
 ASP.Net Ajax, JQuery  TFS [Team Foundation System]
 Cocoa Touch [iPhone]  Other Tools:
.Net Technologies  T4 [template-based code generation engine]
 ASP.Net, ASP.Net MVC  CodeSmith [Code Generator]
 Silverlight  Platforms: MS Windows, Mac OSX
 WCF, Web Service  MS-Office: MS-Project, Outlook, Word, Excel,
 Setup Project PowerPoint.
Software Architecture & Methodologies
 Design Pattern
 Domain Driven Design
 SCRUM
 MSF for Agile

 Familiarity or past competence in the following:

Languages DBMS
 F#, PHP, Ruby, C/C++  MySQL
Frameworks and Libraries Software
 Cocoa [Mac OSX]  IDEs:
 Ruby on Rails  XCode & Interface Builder [Mac OS, iPhone]
Source Control Tools  NetBeans IDE 6 for Ruby
 SourceSafe  Zend Studio 5.5 [PHP]
 TortoiseSVN [Subversion for windows]

Education
 B.S. in Computer Science, Yarmouk University, Jordan
Courses
 Business Etiquette Workshop
 SQL Server 2000 Implement and Design
 C# programming Language
 ASP.Net development
 ADO.Net