Yousif Atique's Resume

Yousif Atique
5200 VIRGINIA WAY BRENTWOOD, TN 37027 USA	http://www.linkedin.com/in/yousifatique

OBJECTIVE

An ambitious individual with over 6 years of Java/J2EE and over 2.5 years of Adobe Flex, BlazeDS, and LCES experience designing and building data-driven web applications on projects ranging in size from $25,000 to $5M.

I have designed and built multi-tier web applications using Adobe Flex at the front end and Java/J2EE at the back end for the telecommunication, transportation, media, fashion and health care industries.

My objective is to apply my previous and current Adobe Flex and Java/J2EE technical experience and my ability to learn new businesses quickly to a challenging position where I may architect and build enterprise Flex and J2EE systems using JMS, JNDI, JDBC, Servlet/JSP, EJB(Session, MDB), application servers (BEA Weblogic, IBM Websphere, Apache Tomcat) and RDBMS (Oracle, MS SQL Server, mySQL, PostgreSQL, HSQL, Apache Derby)

WORK EXPERIENCE
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February 2009 - Present Senior Flex Developer	DaVita Inc	Brentwood, TN, USA
DaVita (Fortune 100 company) provides dialysis services for those diagnosed with chronic kidney failure, a condition also known as chronic kidney disease (CKD). DaVita has over 1,400 outpatient dialysis facilities and acute units in over 700 hospitals. Located in 43 serving approximately 110,000 patients Working in Collections team to rewrite a legacy ColdFusuion application into a more rich, user friendly and modular Flex application Leveraging UM Extensions for Cairngorm and Flex Modules to architect and develop a Flex platform that is going to form the basis for Flex development Developing Flex modules that seamlessly integrate with a Flex shell and yet have strong communication channel between all other integrated modules Key Skills: Technology Consulting, Requirement Analysis, RIA Web Development, Client Presentations Key Technologies: Flex, PureMVC, Cairngorm, UM Extensions for Cairngorm, Architecting Flex Applications, ColdFusion, Oracle -
January 2009 - February 2009 Subject Matter Expert	Verizon Wireless	Warren, NJ, USA
Verizon Wireless (Fortune 100 company) owns and operates the largest wireless telecommunications network in the United States, based on a total of 83.7 million U.S. subscribers. MediaStore is one of the prime online services offered to its subscribers for downloading ring tones, ring back tones, MP3s, games, and applications. Consulted for 6 weeks as a Subject Matter Expert (SME) in the domain of Flex Runtime Shared Libraries (RSL) and Flex Modules Primarily worked with a high traffic and rich user interface application publicly known as Verizon's Media Store ( http://mediastore.verizonwireless.com ) MediaStore application was developed by Adobe Consulting and initially Flex's Modules were never leveraged for the purpose of breaking the application into dynamically loadable modules at runtime When I joined the project, MediaStore application was suffering from its huge file size of about 3.5 MB and it was continuously expanding due to on-going maintenance and bug-fixes I analyzed and ran benchmarks on MediaStore in an effort to control and reduce the file size of the compiled application Successfully incorporated Flex Runtime Shared Libraries into the existing build process which reduced the file size by 60% Successfully mentored the development team on how to leverage Flex's Modules for any new feature development and how to establish seamless communication between all the modules -
January 2008 - January 2009 Senior Technical Consultant	Adobe Systems Corp.	New York, NY, USA
Adobe Systems Corp is the software company behind award-winning world-leading software like Photoshop, Flash, Dreamweaver, Illustrator, Fireworks, Adobe Acrobat and technologies such as PDF and Flash and many more. While at Adobe, I was developing Rich Internet Applications (RIAs) using the latest and greatest technologies like Flex and AIR with solid J2EE back-end systems Implemented Flex and J2EE solutions (JDBC, JMS, Servlet, JSP) for fashion, media, and pharmaceutical industries using Adobe's world-leading technologies like Flex/AIR and Livecycle ES (Adobe's SOA Platform) Successfully completed three external and three internal Flex projects under the directions of Steven Webster ( Father of Cairngorm and Technical Director at Adobe Consulting) Received Certificate of Appreciation from Sr. VP of Technology for outstanding performance in one of the key projects, NBC/NFL Key Skills: Technology Consulting, Requirement Analysis, RIA Web Development, Project Management, Client Presentations Key Technologies: Java/J2EE, Flex, AIR, Adobe Livecycle ES, Servlets, JSP, Spring, Hibernate, BlazeDS, Livecycle Data Services, Ant, Tomcat -
April 2007 - December 2007 Professional Services Consultant	Macrovision Corp.	New York, NY, USA
Macrovison Corp is an industry leader in protecting online digital contents/assets. Its products help Fortune 100/500 and many other companies to authenticate, authorize and subscribe their online users to their digital contents. Worked as a Professional Services Consultant to help clients integrate Macrovision's products with their web applications Used technologies such as Servlets/JSP, Struts, Spring, Hibernate, JUnit and many more to help clients integrate with Macrovision's rights management and commerce products, eRights and RightsCommerce Key Skills: Technology Consulting, Web Application Development, Requirement Analysis Key Technologies: JDK 1.4.2+, Servlets, JSP, JUnit, Spring, Struts, Tomcat, Resin, iBatis, Maven, Ant, MySQL, Apache -
January 2006 - April 2007 J2EE Consultant	CGI Inc. (Bell Canada)	Markham, ON., Canada
CGI Inc. is one of North America's top-leading and Canada'a largest consulting firms providing IT/Consulting services to large government, telecommunication and health organizations around the world Developed custom web and distributed applications using J2EE (JSP, Servlets, MDB, JNDI, JMS, JDBC), Oracle, MS SQL, XML, BEA Weblogic application server, Weblogic Workshop, Weblogic Integration for a variety of telecom (BELL CANADA) projects Performed system architecture, software development, database design, deployment, testing, performance tuning, and maintenance for large-scale, web-based and distributed J2EE projects Conducted implementations across full software lifecycle, from 'Requirements' through 'Maintenance' Responsible for various client communication, both written and verbal, throughout many projects Received 'Certificate of Appreciation' for outstanding performance Key Skills: Technology Consulting, Requirement Gathering and Analysis, Debugging web applications, Client application support, Key Technologies: Java/J2EE, Servlets, JSP, Message Driven Beans, JMS, Weblogic Server 8.x, Aqualogic Service Bus (ALSB), Weblogic Workshop, Harvest, Oracle, TOAD -
April 2005 - December 2005 Java Developer/ System Analyst	Ministry of Transportation of Ontario	Toronto, ON., Canada
Programmed a multi-tired, high performance, mission-critical client/server application Worked with project team (including Project Director, Software Engineers and GUI designers) to individually create modular code that meets specified APIs and maintaining high cohesion. Tested all modules to verify the functional requirements, cohesion and coupling. Key Technologies: Java 1.4.2, Ant, Hibernate, PostgreSQL, CVS, Eclipse IDE, client/server -
April 2004 - August 2004 Systems Engineer	Trapeze Software	Cedar Rapids, IA, USA
Worked as a Systems Engineer in the field of Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITS) Programmed and integrated business logic in terms of services using Java/J2EE and XML Built stable and rugged communication systems to make public transportation safer/better Built virtual components/devices to model in field mobile units and using these models to troubleshoot remotely Worked closely with Product Managers and Project Directors to understand and implement clients' primary requirements Took responsibilities of major on-going projects from design specifications to implementation to testing and deployment -

CERTIFICATIONS

Certificate of appreciation for NBC-NFL project at Adobe Systems

Adobe Flex Certified Professional

Certificate of appreciation for outstanding performance at CGI Inc.

BEA Aqualogic Service Bus 2.5 Certification

Microsoft Certified Professional (MCP)

CompTIA Certified Network+

CompTIA Certified Linux+

Sun Certified Java Programmer for Java 2 Platform edition 5.0 ( In Progress )

Sun Certified Web Componet Developer ( In Progress )

AWARDS AND HONORS

'2nd Best Engineering Design Project of the Year' (April 2005)

Awarded for 2nd Best Engineering Design Project of the Year, in the department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Toronto, for successfully implementing a software based solution for delivering critical and localized traffic information to highway motorists

EDUCATION
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September 2000 - April 2005	University of Toronto	Toronto, ON, Canada
Bachelor in Applied Science and Engineering Computer Engineering with Specialization in Software Engineering -

SKILLS

Programming Languages:

Java (EE, SE), Flex 3.x, ActionScript 3.x, MXML

Frameworks:

PureMVC, Cairngorm, UM Extensions for Cairngorm, Spring, Struts, Hibernate, iBatis, Servlets, JSP

Operating Systems:

Windows XP/2000, Linux Red Hat/Fedora, Mac OS X

Relational Databases:

Oracle 8i/9i, MS SQL Server, mySQL, PostgreSQL, HSQL, Apache Derby

IDEs:

Eclipse, NetBeans, BEA Weblogic Workshop

Protocols and standards:

TCP/IP, UDP, SSH, FTP, HTTP, HTTPS, DHCP, DNS, ETHERNET, and many more...

REFERENCES
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