1. ZULFIQAR SYED
10 Wyoming, Irvine, CA 92606
Cell: (714)-469-1491; Email: ZULFIQARSYED@YAHOO.COM
Manager of Software Engineering (U.S. Citizen)
Software manager with proven experience in sustained successful delivery of software products and services.
Summary
 Over 19 years of extensive experience in software development and 7+ years of management. Experience
related to large scale software development projects, utilizing technical and business resources in onshore-
offshore organizational models. Proven leadership in SDLC management and agile development methodology.
 Experience working directly with the senior leadership executives to present IT strategy and provide technical
support towards reinforcing cross departmental relationships. Excellent communications and presentation
skills.
 Exceptional people management skills in identifying and growing leaders from within to rapidly build world
class software product development.
 Strong technical background with multi-tier Service-Oriented (SOA) and Software-as-a-Service (SaaS)
architectures.
 Highly successful in building relationships with senior-level decision-makers to provide strategic and tactical
directions, to achieve company’s vision and long term goals. Expert at mitigating risks by identifying and
addressing critical issues quickly.
 Consistently delivered exceptional results, met aggressive business goals, increased efficiency in operations
and improved quality service to customers, through technology.
 Knowledge of Web 2.0 technologies (XML, CSS, data), Microsoft technologies (.NET, SQL Server 2008, OLAP,
and SSRS), project management tools (MS Project Server, and Office 2010).
Areas of Expertise
Crisp communication to Senior Leadership Team Building & Leadership  Staff Development  Execution 
Performance Management Large Scale Software Development
Education
 Bachelors in Electrical Engineering– Illinois Institute of Technology (1989)
Selected Achievements
 Provide daily briefings to Chief Technology Officer and Senior Vice presidents for all technology groups.
Technical Skills
 Microsoft Server Products such as SQL Server, SQL Server Reporting Services (SSRS), and Business Intelligence
Platform, etc.
 Strong Programming skills in several languages; such as C#, VB.NET, Transact-SQL, XML, ASP.NET, HTML and
JavaScript. Proficient in web services architecture. Also experienced in technologies such as Visual Basic,
COM /DCOM platforms, etc.
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2. ZULFIQAR SYED
10 Wyoming, Irvine, CA 92606
Cell: (714)-469-1491; Email: ZULFIQARSYED@YAHOO.COM
Professional Experience
Software Technical Lead – Volt Information Sciences March 2012 – Present
Volt Track Intranet Application
(Technology Environment: Visual Studio 2012, ASP.net MVC 4.0, JQuery, Kendo UI Controls, WCF 4.0, C#, XML,
JSON, SQL Server 2008, and TFS)
This application helps field officers manager manage different modules such as Assignment, Candidate, Contact,
Customer, Location, Order, User, and Vendor. The data is written to back end People Soft ERP system using WCF
services. Reading functionality is performed via LLBLGENPRO “ORM” wrapper.
Directly lead and manage a team of 5 very talented, off-shore web application developers, overseeing their work,
and ensuring that they build high quality web applications and features for Volt track 10 intranet enterprise
application.
Implemented ASP.net MVC patterns to display and update different modules such as Candidate and Order.
Developed the services using WCF API Layer to access Contact and Customer.
Used C# programming language to create middle tier classes such as validation, Framework, Domain, Service, and
Web layers.
Programmed logging framework component using log4net module in C#.
Implemented JQuery for client side scripting and validations.
Developed LINQ for querying, sorting, filtering the complex objects.
Worked in ASP.net security mechanism such as Impersonation, Authentication, and Authorization.
Implemented ASP.net globalization and localization for handling resources based on thread culture.
Programmed Framework level Caching objects in C# using Microsoft Practices Enterprise Library.
Hands on experience on performing Load Testing to measure site scalability, reliability, and performance in terms
of evaluating page response time, memory utilization, CPU utilization.
Involved in unit testing and integration testing using MOQ methods.
Hands on experience in creating technical design documents, sequence diagrams, process flow diagrams, and data
flow diagrams.
Used TFS for version control as well work items, user stories etc.
Programmed Web API v2 REST services and deployed them to Azure Cloud Services. These services would
perform CRUD operations against tables with Angular JS and Bootstrap frontend.
Programmed People Soft web service components using Application Designer and People Code.
Hands on development of middle tier components of BizTalk integration systems.
Allocate appropriate resources to ensure predictable delivery of multiple components of the project.
Partner with Business analysts team to set the direction of application development.
Attract exception engineers, build teams, energize, and motivate the organization.
Provide technical guidance and training to software developers on people soft and asp.net.
Participate in bi-weekly code reviews and daily scrum calls.
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3. ZULFIQAR SYED
10 Wyoming, Irvine, CA 92606
Cell: (714)-469-1491; Email: ZULFIQARSYED@YAHOO.COM
Software Manager – Experian Consumer Direct Sept, 2007 – March 2012
Reported directly to CTO and Senior Vice Presidents across different technology groups. Delivered and stabilized
issues with affinity partner application where customers would enroll into offline and online (.net) systems.
Collaborated with other technology teams to identify and fix issues.
Led a team of developers (Web, back-end, and database engineers) to fix bugs, research production issues and
delivered fixes to production environment in an urgent deadline. Delivered alerts, dash board, and monitoring
capabilities.
Hands on Developer for Score Graph functionality for Amex affinity site. Programmed Stored procedures and
middle layer ADO.net objects such as Dataset, DataRow, DataTable objects etc. using C#.
Personally programmed Notification Processing system to deliver Emails in SQL Server 2008 and .net 4.0. Different
type of emails were configured in the back end database in the configuration database. This architecture was
based on distributed architecture built using MSMQ. Stored procedure invoked by .net code was used to build a
final URL, which was posted to Cheetah Mail Server and email was delivered at high volume.
Delivered Enterprise wide project called “Control M migration”. Consolidated different scattered offline jobs
(implemented all the way back to Visual Basic 6.0) into .net Console applications and had them driven by Control M
scheduling system.
Delivered Enterprise wide project called “Fail over”. Led a team of developers to research and document all the
online and offline jobs and research all the issues such as configuration, Queues, file servers, database issues to
document so that “Fail over” from Irvine-CA to ElSegundo-CA site could be accomplished.
Managed and led a team of six developers to work on different projects and applications such as Payment
Processor (processing of $50 million / month billing) and Account updater application. These .net application
would process customers credit cards and update the system if there was a change in Credit card to facilitate any
billing issues. Also worked on Email applications with Developers and submit to third party vendors for verification
in high volume.
Senior Manager of Release Engineering– First American Corp. Feb, 2007 – Sept, 2007
Programmed classes to interact with MSBuild Utility. Built objects to extract code from Team Foundation Server.
Developed SQL server stored procedures and functions to extract data.
Managed team of 9 Release engineers including 2 DBAs to deploy software (WebLogic, .net, Oracle, and SQL
Server) in different environments such as Microsoft and Unix. Represented Release Engineering team across
different technology groups such as QA, Development, and Network operations.
Accomplished 24 hours round the clock work-cycle by executing tasks during the day by US team and handing off
the remaining tasks after hours to Benglore team india.
Senior Programmer – Freemont Investments and Loans Sept, 2004 - Feb, 2007
Delivered consolidated Commercial Real Estate intranet web application to combine scattered Excel and Access
applications across different departments. ASP.net application with SQL Server 2005 back end, hosted different
modules such as Loan Summary, Property Tracking, Condo, Loan Origination, and System Administration.
Programmed site security via Windows authentication, HTTP Handlers, Web User Controls, Base Page classes,
Windows Services. Built reports using SSRS and programmed back end stored procedures. Incorporated Source
code version control and automated builds.
Senior Programmer – Metlife Investors Aug, 2002 - Sept, 2004
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4. ZULFIQAR SYED
10 Wyoming, Irvine, CA 92606
Cell: (714)-469-1491; Email: ZULFIQARSYED@YAHOO.COM
Delivered contact management web application to support the sales staff of few hundreds to sell different
financial products such as annuities and insurance policies. Our web application supports the sales staff of few
hundreds to sell different financial products such as annuities and insurance policies.
Designed and created stored procedures, views, triggers, and tables based on business rules and requirements.
Programmed .net “assemblies” as middle tier components comprised of custom objects to manage product
information on web pages.
Managed project maintenance operations such as NANT build scripts for deployment, bug tracking etc.
Senior Techincal Lead Programmer – Herbalife March, 2001 - Aug, 2002
Designed and created stored procedures, views, triggers, and tables based on business rules and requirements.
Converted some existing ASP3.0 reports to asp.net report using both the com-interop methods and rewriting them
in ADO.net/VB .net
Benchmarked update methods in ASP/VB.net using both stored procedures and batch update methods using
ado.net to update thousands of distributor record information. Programmed .net windows services to monitor
queues on Windows servers and send message packets to HP servers.
Senior Programmer - Remedy Staffing June, 1999 – Feb, 2001
Delivered Security Architecture via visual basic objects that would work with existing framework and provide allow
access to screens based on permissions. Created stored procedures, views, triggers, and tables based on business
rules and requirements.
For Back office application, Programmed Job Order Screens to add functionality of permanent job order to work with
different tabs and the COM objects. Added functionality to the object-oriented framework to work with the Job Order
screens. Designed stored procedures to process data related to permanent job order.
Senior Programmer – Pacific Life Dec,1998 – June, 1999
Programmed and supported surveillance Visual Basic 5 application that keeps track of Loan and Property information. Designed
views and stored procedures against SQL Server 6.5 to drive crystal reports.
Senior Programmer – National Water and Power Apr, 1998 – Dec, 1998
Delivered Daily Lock Box file application made up of middle tier visual basic objects to tie to both Access and SQL server
databases. Designed thin client user interface screens to work with business tier objects to interact with data from the back
end database.
Senior Programmer – Quick Start Technologies Nov, 1997 – Apr, 1998
Programmed Delta application with object-oriented classes for Sales and Accounting system to sell technical courses to the
Fortune 500 companies. Designed classes to create course packages including line items for each package. These classes
would also take care of calculating costs and discounts.
Programmer – Avco Financial Services Nov, 1996 – Oct, 1997
Delivered Core System Project by Building COM objects in Visual Basic using the output of code generator. Maintained
binary compatibility with respect to different revisions of the objects. Programmed Test Harness program to refer different
COM objects into the project and test all the methods and properties so that the objects could read from and save data to
the database.
Programmer – Century 21 International Apr, 1995 – Dec, 1996
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5. ZULFIQAR SYED
10 Wyoming, Irvine, CA 92606
Cell: (714)-469-1491; Email: ZULFIQARSYED@YAHOO.COM
Programmed Vista System by implementing modules to download all the offices per selected regions. Programmed screens
and queries to access data from SQL Server. Used DAO functions in Visual Basic to create tables for data manipulation.
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6. ZULFIQAR SYED
10 Wyoming, Irvine, CA 92606
Cell: (714)-469-1491; Email: ZULFIQARSYED@YAHOO.COM
Programmed Vista System by implementing modules to download all the offices per selected regions. Programmed screens
and queries to access data from SQL Server. Used DAO functions in Visual Basic to create tables for data manipulation.
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