Zahid Khowaja

I am now looking to build on my extensive range of technical skills within a suitably challenging role. I am keen to achieve further professional development.

Aug 2011- to-date MIS Officer (Web Developer), Aga Khan Planning and Building Service, Pakistan

Responsibilities and Developments

Majority of responsibilities includes MIS/GIS Software Developer

• Developing MIS/GIS application using latest technologies
• Developed Transport System, HR Appraisal System
• Working build with variety of survey related MIS using best practices
• Tools usage:
o HTML5 (IndexDB)
o JQuery
o JavaScript
o Code Igniter (PHP MVC Framework) – OOP based programming
o Databases (PostgreSQL/PostGIS)
o Tortize HG (Bitbucket.org for versioning control)

Mar 2007- Aug 2011 Senior Officer (Web Programmer), EFU Life Assurance Ltd., Karachi Pakistan
Responsibilities and Developments

Majority of responsibilities includes Development, and providing support on already running software at Branch level and Head Office as well

• Team member in development of recently developed website (http://www.efulife.com/) & Updating EFU Life Website – along with Online Client Portal and Online Credit Card Payment (Joomla, PHP)
• Extensive experience in the full life cycle of the software design process including requirement definition, prototyping, designing, interface implementation, testing, deployment and maintenance.
• Developed Web Portal of Bancassurance @ EFU Life (PHP)
• Web Page Developments of Intranet of EFU using PHP and Oracle
• Developed new Insurance Products using VB 6.0
• Developed Payment Input System that is accessed throughout the Pakistan Branches, developed using PHP, HTML, JavaScript, Oracle and AJAX
• Developed a Web Based Illustration s/w that is being used by Bank as a Banc assurance Product, using JAVA, JSP, and ITEXT (PDF Reporting Tool)
• Updating Intranet Pages from time to time, developed using PHP and Oracle
• Work on Various Projects of Data Management (Freelance Projects) – Data Accessibility in Ms Access.
Designed Accessibility Data Base System in Ms Access of The Aga Khan Shia Imami Ismailia Tariqa & Religious Education Board, Hyderabad.

2006 BS (Computer Science) from PAF-Karachi Institute of Economics & Technology.
1999 HSC from Govt Muslim Science College, Hyderabad
1997 SSC from Govt Boys High School, Tarr Khowaja