ilyas ali

Core Strengths

• Agile Methodology (Sprint Planning Create User Stories, Scrum meeting, Development and Testing)
• SPOT Enterprise Service Management to handle the production support( incidents, problems, service requests, change deployments)
• Comprehensive working ability within any environment;
• Team Player, good personal communication skills;
• Able to deal people at any organization level;
• Excellent track record at time management and meeting deadline; and
• Well versed at providing education, training, and support.

Education

• Master in Computer Science;
• Bachelor in Commerce (PU); 
• Post Graduate Diploma in Computer Science.

SUMMARY

Acting as a PowerBuilder Developer at Agriculture Financial Services Corporation (AFSC) within the production Support (KTLO) and Intakes Development, development, release management and deployment in Dev and UAT environments. Currently I am activity involved in business requirement gathering, design, functional requirement, development, testing and deployment. I’ve been working on the AFSC core business insurance, Lending and AgriStability for formers. I have developed a many business core services in PowerBuilder which are common using in all AFSC business applications. I have expertise in application performance, data warehousing and massaging. I have deployed a lot of data load utility from third party data (CRA) (Oracle 11g), It brings data files from CRA portal to AFSC and upload data in AFSC production database (Auto Process). 

Currently we are practicing the Agile Methodology (Agile software development cycle) and delivered a lot of releases to production, our sprint is short time period (10 days) for development of scrum team. 

I am accountable for managing PB 17.x licenses with Appeon and assigning them to other developers. For any support with Appeon I am main person to communicate with Appeon Support Team.

TECHNICAL SUMMARY

Languages:      PowerBuilder 17 Build 3, 12x 10.x, 9.x, 7.x, 6.x, 5.x, Oracle PL/SQL, Kornshell, SAP ABAP

Database:        Oracle 11g, 10g, 9i, MS SQL Server 14, 12, 2000, 2005, 7, 6.5x, MS Access, Sybase Adaptive Server

Tools:              TOAD, Microsoft Azure DevOps/ADO, SQL Analyzer,  and SQL Profiler, Ceridian DayForce, SPOT Enterprise Service Management, JIRA, Citrix

Application:     AFSC Insurance, Lending and AgriStability, LeaseSoft (Leasing, Insurance and Finance Industry), Point of Sale System, Hospital Management System, Human Resource Management, Barcode

Core Strengths

• Agile Methodology (Sprint Planning Create User Stories, Scrum meeting, Development and Testing)
• SPOT Enterprise Service Management to handle the production support( incidents, problems, service requests, change deployments)
• Comprehensive working ability within any environment;
• Team Player, good personal communication skills;
• Able to deal people at any organization level;
• Excellent track record at time management and meeting deadline; and
• Well versed at providing education, training, and support.

Professional Experience

Project #3

Agriculture Financial Services Corporation (AFSC), Alberta

Insurance, Lending, WLPIP, myAFSC and Income Stabilization (CAIS) SAP Finance, Projects

PowerBuilder Developer, Level 2

May 2008 – November 2021 (ONGOING - 163 months / 13.58 years)

Tasks and duties, included:

• Development, Production Support (KTLO), Build Compilation and deployment, Unit Testing and Code Maintenance;
• Develop release Function and Design document for modification and enhancement;
• Developed a lot of core business service which are using in Insurance, Lending and AgriStability;
• Participating in all development activities like Coding, Unit testing, Code Peer Review, Development Estimation and impact analysis document among others;
• Troubling shooting, bug fixing and error tracking in existing application;
• Handling production issues and data fixing;
• Developed new enhancement benefit program ‘AFRP II’ and implemented it in AFSC and Alberta Agricultural and Rural Development area in which facilitates the former benefits payment claimed more than 24232 at July 2008 (claimed amount $147 Million);
• Performing the QA and code peer review and updated all necessary documents;
• Developed uploading utility for data uploading from flat and CSV files of Government of Alberta and People Soft with the help of Unix SHELL Programs and SQL Loader;
• Communication with Functional analysis, User and production teams to resolve the application issue;
• Developed new crystal report;
• Analyzed and fixed the existing crystal reports issues;
• Working as Build Manager and responsible of code merging through Win Merger and PowerBuilder (PB) Version 10-12-17.3 Delta, Build, Release Documentation, Deploying in Development and Functional Testing Environments;
• Upgraded PowerBuilder (PB) Version 10 to 12 and to 17.3;
• Submitting and presenting the weekly development status in Weekly Meeting; and
• Developed and modified the database Packages, procedure and functions depend on requirements.
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Project #2

Netsol Technologies Limited, Lahore, Pakistan

Senior Software Engineer, Team Lead and Release Manager and Implementation Lead

LeaseSoft Product, Project

December 2002 - March 2008 (64 months / 5.33 years)

Project description: It is the Netsol’s flagship product and one of the world’s biggest Financial and Leasing Products.

Clients:

1. Daimler Chrysler Financial Services (UMF Singapore, Taiwan (in progress), Thailand, China, Australia, New Zealand)
2. Bank of Finlease Mauritius
3. Toyota Leasing Thailand and China
4. Nissan Auto Finance China and Australia
5. BMW Hong Kong and China
6. FIAT China (Shanghai’s Office) - Implementation, Installation in IBM China Data Center, Citrix Configuration and User Trainee, Coordination with Accenture Group (Shanghai’s Office) for system User Acceptance Testing
7. Case and Holland (CNH) Australia

Tasks and duties, included:

• Upgraded PowerBuilder (PB) Version 6.5, to 7.x, and to 9.x;
• Actively participating in analysis and design sessions of the project, which is based on Business Logic, Impact analysis and application Design;
• Developed GAP Document, Functional Specification Document, Release Document, Specifying Standards, and Reviewing Technical documentation;
• Key responsibilities to analyze the impact, coding, design, Peer/Code Review and development of LeaseSoft Modules i.e. Account Receivable, Account Payable, Bank Interface, SAP Interface, Statement of Account, Customer Service, Insurance, Early Termination, Default Handling, Litigation, Invoices, Post Dated Cheque, Write-off, Contract Closing and System Security (Admin);
• Analyzed the Enhancement, Modification, Minor, Major and Critical Bug Fixes in existing system that Clients logged on Netsol Helpdesk;
• Maintained the Releases and Version controlling using Microsoft VSS;
• Developed the Stored Procedures and Functions, Triggers, Packages for control business logics and increase the performance of LeaseSoft product in MS SQL Server and Oracle;
• Written Store Procedures to handling the Payment Settlement and Cancellation, Bank and SAP Interface;
• Assign and Monitoring the Tasks between resources and resolved day-to-day resource issues and problems;
• Review and analyze the effectiveness and efficiency of existing systems and develop strategies for improving;
• Designing, coding and mockup the various screens to test program modules that meet design specifications;
• Prepared design specification documents for each uses case;
• Configuring, implementing, and supporting mission critical application;
• User Training, System Configuration, and implementation;
• Review the Business Test Cases that are developed by SQA Department and Client (Accenture Group and FIAT Group China);
• Participating or leading the application implementation into System Test, UAT, Production, and Production Support;
• Provided daily technical support, troubleshooting, problem diagnosis, application testing, and configuration changes;
• Application migration and Testing of existing LeaseSoft product in Oracle 10g and SQL Server 2005; and
• Responsible for various parts of Release Process as a Release Manager i.e. Release initiation and impact analysis meeting, Request identification and development, Code Freezing, Unit Testing, Code Review, Integration Testing, Tracking, and communicating bug counts, Scheduling, and running bug triage meetings, Mark bugs as Release Note, regression, Write release notes for major releases and Approval for Shipment.

Environment: Windows Server 2003, XP, PowerBuilder (PB) 6.x, 7.x, 9.x, SQL Server 2000/2005, Oracle 10g/9i, Sybase Jaguar Server, SQL Profiler, TOAD, and MS Visual Studio.

Project #1

Solari Information Technology, Pakistan

Programmer Analyst

January 2001 - November 2002 (23 months / 1.92 years)

Clients:

1. McDonald
2. Al-Khalid Hospital
3. Mohammad Hassan Al Oraini Commercial Enterprises

Tasks and duties, included:

• Key responsibility of redesigned, Development and migrate all exist systems in bilingual (Hospital Management System, Assets Management, Human Resource Management, Payroll Management, and Maintenance Management) in Sybase PowerBuilder (PB) version 7.x;
• Upgraded PowerBuilder (PB) version 5 to 7.x;
• Responsible of Coding, Unit Testing, system integration and FS Design;
• Development and implementation of new product Tasks Management and Accounting System for in-house Solari Office;
• Integrated and developed the Hospital Management System according to HL7 Standard; and
• Provided daily technical support, troubleshooting, problem diagnosis, application testing, and configuration changes.

Environment: Windows 2000, 98 (Arabic, English), PowerBuilder 5.x to 7.x, and Adaptive Server 6.0

Education

• Master in Computer Science;
• Bachelor in Commerce (PU); 
• Post Graduate Diploma in Computer Science.