supported staff &
our team
Mubashar Rashid
Director & IT Consultant
Having Degrees in Business Administration and information Technology. He Combines his IT and business knowledge and works in partnership with clients, advising them how to use information technology in order to meet their business objectives or overcome problems and to improve the structure and efficiency of IT systems.
Mubashar Holds Masters and Bachelor’s Degree in Business Administration as well as in
information Technology. He Combines his IT and business knowledge and works in partnership
with
clients, advising them how to use information technology in order to meet their business
objectives or overcome problems and to improve the structure and efficiency of IT systems in
various organizations.
Mubashar Also provide strategic guidance to clients with regard to technology, IT
infrastructures and enabling major business processes through enhancements to IT. He
provides
guidance during selection and procurement as well as providing expert technical assistance,
and
may be responsible for user training and feedback. he also be involved in sales and business
development, as well as technical duties.
Asim Ismail
Project Manager
Having degrees in engineering and software development, coupled with strong management skills, Asim plays a vital role in the company. He not only manages the software projects but also takes part in the design and development. He is passionate about the quality of work we deliver and technologies we use.
Masood Afzal
Software Architect
Highly skilled, full stack developer and architect, with 17+ years of experience in wide range of technologies, he is a Microsoft and Umbraco certified professional. Works both on Web and desktop applications and expert in database design and implementation.
Profile
A highly experienced and innovative developer with a wide range of skills in the software industry, able to work on own initiative and as part of a team.
Education and Qualification
University of the West of Scotland
MSc (Advanced Computer Systems Development)
Technical Skills
17+ years of commercial experience.
- Web Application Developer - C# ASP.NET (2004 to Current)
- WinForms Developer – C++ (1995 to 2002)
Certifications
- Microsoft Certified Technology Specialist MCTS (.NET Web Applications)
- Umbraco Certified Professional
Technical Skills
- C#
- ASP.NET 1.1, 2.0, 3.5, 4.0, 4.5
- ASP.NET MVC 3/4/5, Razor, Web API
- MS SQL Server 7, 2000/05/08/12
- NUnit (unit testing framework), Moq
- Entity Framework, LINQ, nHibernate
- HTML 3/4/5, XHTML
- CSS 1, 2, 3
- XML / XSLT
- AngularJS, Dojo Toolkit, ExtJS
- JQuery, JQuery Mobile
- Umbraco CMS 4.x, 6.x, 7.x
- Immediacy CMS
- Web Services, WCF, Web API
- Visual Studio 2003, 2005, 2008, 2010, 2012, 2013, 2015
- Subversion (SVN) and TortoiseSVN, GIT, TFS
- Dreamweaver 8 & Photoshop CS2
- IIS version 5, 6, 7, 7.5
- Windows Server 2003, 2008
- Web Forms and Win Forms
Web Development (11+ years)
17+ years of commercial experience.
- Bespoke web applications for clients from public sector, private sector and not for profit organizations
- Accessibility standards (W3C)
- Search engine optimisation (SEO), Google analytics setup & reports
- Projects include websites, bespoke web applications (Accessible Housing Register, Investment Properties Database, Online News Paper, Online Health & Fitness Tools, Intellectual Property Management, Online Booking Systems, ecommerce etc.)
Web Content Management Systems (11+ years)
- Umbraco CMS (5+ years)
- Developed open source packages for Umbraco CMS including ‘Repeatable Custom Content
- Part of teams for designing and developing in-house Web Content Management Systems
- Immediacy CMS
Web Services (5+ years)
- Experience of creating and consuming SOAP Web Services
- Experience of creating and consuming Restfull Web Services
- Experience of creating and consuming WCF Web Services
Database Development (15+ years)
- MS SQL Server 7,2000,2005,2008 and 2014
- Transact SQL for SQL Server, Stored Procedures, Views
- Entity Framework for SQL Server, LINQ to SQL
- MS Access
- MySql database
WinForms/Windows Application Programming (1995 to 2002)
- Windows Forms & Windows Services
- Experience of full development life cycle
- Experience of Database Modelling, Design & Development
- C/C++, Borland C++ Builder , SQL and Access
- Multilingual Applications, n-Tier Systems
- Windows Services
- Projects include Windows forms applications (Hospital Management System, Accounting, Inventory and Payroll System, Point of Sale, Rent A Car, School Management System, Property Rental System, Hotel Reservation System, and more)
Good Knowledge of Design Techniques
- Test Driven Development (TDD)
- Agile Methodology
- Extreme programming
- SSADM / Waterfall
- Object Oriented Design
- Version & release management
- Object Modelling Techniques
- Experience of full development life cycle (FDLC)
Good Knowledge
- User Interface Design
- Oracle Database
Ali Ashraf
CREATIVE DIRECTOR
Holding a Master's Degree in Film and Media, Ali is a True Manifestation of a creative mind that lives outside the box. Taking every campaign at a personal level and delivering it to its optimum potential, he starts where others end. Having worked on numerous clients, he brings ideas and creative solutions that are meant to electrify the audience.
Aamer Ullah Khan
ART DIRECTOR
With 25 years graphic design's experience and with the background in fine arts, Aamer holds a keen eye to visual treatment of a campaign that best suits the needs of the client. Giving the client his own colors to glow with, Aamer is a great example of art, design and visualization. He brings experience and creativity to the team.
Usman Talib
Web Developer
Our key player of web front end technologies, he does the magic of converting designs into live pages. We loves to work on the state of the art front end technologies and gives guidance to his fellows on different aspects of front end tools. He is our "html/css" guru, be cautioned that's not it, he is also good at backend technologies.
Syed M Ali
QA & Test Analyst/Consultant
Sayed is an intelligent and articulate QA & Test Analyst/Consultant. He brings key analytical and excellent communication skills to any environment. His experience in software testing and analysis allows him to provide end-to-end support during the full project life cycle particularly at testing phase. He has more than ten years of experience in various sectors.
Areas of Expertise
Methodologies
Agile Scrum, Waterfall, SDLC, User Stories, Spiral, Kanban, DSDM, TDD, BDD
Domain Knowledge
General Insurance, Life Insurance, Re-Insurance, Underwriting Engines, London Insurance Market (Lloyds Syndicate), Retails Banking, Investment Banking, Front Office, Middle Office, Back Office, Credit Risk, Market Risk, Regulatory Projects, BASEL II, Solvency II, Data Warehouse, E-Commerce, Oil & Gas, Public Services, Telecommunication
Industry Specific Skills
End to end Software Testing, Functional Testing, System Testing, System Integration Testing, UAT Testing, Performance Testing, Operation Testing, Non Functional Testing, Security Testing, Regression Testing, Defect Testing, Manual Testing, Automation Testing, Defect Raising, Defect Management, Test Management, Test Preparation, Test Planning, Test Strategy, Configuration & Release Management, Traceability Metrics
Shahid Rashid
Network Engineer
Hand on Experience
- Small/Medium/Enterprise Business Network Infrastructure Design, Installation & Maintenance.
- Installation of CCTV & Other Industry Standard Security Equipments.
- Network Cabling.
- Telephony IP-PBX and Voice-Mail Server Installation.
- Network Security Appliance Installation and Maintenance.
Miraj Ahmad
Network Engineer
IT professional with a total of 7 years experience in administration of network infrastructure and IT industry. In-depth knowledge in the analysis, implementation, optimization and troubleshooting of LAN/WAN network systems. Proven ability to lead and motivate team to achieve objectives and maintaining the high level of service quality.
Education
Glasgow Caledonian University, Glasgow, UK
(Master Degree in Network Security)
Professional Certification
- Cisco Certificated Network Associate (CCNA) 2009 re-certified in 2013
- Cisco Certificated Network Associate Voice (CCNA-Voice) 2010 re-certified in 2014
- Cisco Certificated Network Professional (CCNP) 2010 re-certified in 2014
- Cisco Certificated Voice Professional (CCNP-Voice) 2011 re-certified in 2014
- Cisco Certificated Internetwork Professional CCIP 2014 Studying to achieve CCNP SP
Technical Skills
- Cisco Catalyst Switches: 38XX,36XX,29XX,19XX Series
- Cisco Routers: ISR G2, ISR G1, 3900,2900,1900,1800,800 Series
- Routing Protocols: MPLS-VPN, BGP, IS-IS, OSPF, EIGRP, IGRP, RIP
- Switching Protocols: VTP, STP, RSTP, MST, VLANs, 802.1q trunk and tunneling
- Redundancy (Load Balancing): VRRP, HSRP & GLBP
- Policy Based Routing, QoS (DSCP / IP precedence & CoS). Logging, Syslog, SNMP, NTP, DNS, SSH, TACACS+, RADIUS.
- Cisco Netflow, Ethereal/Winshark, Solarwind, NetQoS, Openview.
- Windows 2008 Server, Active Directory, DNS, DHCP. Windows 2012 Server, Active Directory, DNS, DHCP. Vmware Workstation 10.
- Remedy Incident Management tool, SysAid.
Employment History
- 3rd Line Network Enginner at Scottish Fire & Rescue Dated: 22 Dec 2015 30 Mar 2016
- Network Engineer at NSA Technologies Dated: Nov 2012 to Nov 2015
- Network Engineer Freelancer Dated: Jun 2009 to Oct 2012