Suleman Imdad

408-601-7007 suleman.imdad@me.com 3553 Pleasant Crest Dr., San Jose, CA 95148

Prole
Senior Software Engineer who has worked for top industry leaders such as Apple, Oracle & JPM Chase to mention a few and passionate about building iOS applications 7 years experience building web-based mobile & desktop applications and 3 years native iOS applications using Cocoa Touch and Objective C. Self-motivated , creative & innovative problem solver who loves taking on new challenges. An exceptionally fast learner with superior programming skills with a strong handle of Objected Oriented Methodology and Design Patterns. Expert communication skills, leadership skills and a solid work ethic.

Education
M.S. - Information Technology (I.T.) iPhone/ iPad App Development (Stanford University) Oracle Certied (OCP) Web Applications Developer May 2003 April 2010 & April 2012 Jan 2001

Skills
iOS ENGINEERING SKILLS

Passionate about Objective-C, CocoaTouch, and iOS with a strong grasp of Object Oriented Programming and Design Patterns. Solid understanding of memory management principles and ARC. Experienced in Code Proling, analysis and source control like SVN and Git. Expert problem solving and bug xing skills for iOS applications. Solid concurrent programming knowledge and experience in enhancing app performance and UX. In depth understanding of UIKit, UI Design and iOS Human Interface Guidelines. Expert in CoreData concepts and database design management for iOS. Solid iOS Network programming skills in consuming web services. Experience in developing iOS games using Coco 2D.
PROGRAMMING LANGUAGE SKILLS

Objective-C, C, C++, JAVA & PHP .

Published iOS Apps

Backstage - Apples Internal Business App for shipping and receiving at Apple retail stores worldwide interacting with SAP. (used by Apple store worldwide)

 Submission - Designed a versatile iPhone/iPad app calculate daily prayer times based on user's location, determine important events of the year based on solar and lunar calendar, sunset and sunrise times,along with complete scripture reading functionality and ability to search within the app for content, stream audios and videos online and ofine.This app was built using CoreData, CoreLocation, MapKit, UIKit, CoreGraphics, CoreImage, QuartzCore, AVFoundation, MediaPlayer, CoreText and CoreMedia framework along with iCloud and is available at https:// itunes.apple.com/us/app/submission-salat-prayer-adhan/id687445823?ls=1&mt=8 The Qiblah - Created the popular Universal iOS app called The Qiblah, which uses the user location calculate the direction between two focal points on Mercator Map using CoreAnimation, MapKit and CoreLocation Frameworks. This App also streams rich media content such as audios, videos and has a built in social network. Available at http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/the-qiblah/id552231045?mt=8 DirecTV iPad App which allows users to watch videos on iPad, stream liveTV, set DVR remotely, turn iPad into a remote control, and more. This application was built using AVFoundation, CoreAnimation to stream rich media content as well as controlling other hardware devices from the app using Concurrent programming techniques It is available at https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/directv-app-for-ipad/id421547368?mt=8 . Smart Lights - Created the innovative iPhone/iPad app to manage and control light bulbs equipped with bluetooth sensors using CoreData, CoreBluetooth, CoreLocation and Core Animation . It is available at https:// itunes.apple.com/us/app/smart-lights/id597789993?mt=8 Snow Marvels - A uniquely designed exhilarating and highly engaging Cocos 2D game available at https:// itunes.apple.com/us/app/snow-marvels/id605683664?ls=1&mt=8

ORACLE DATABASE AND WEB APPLICATIONS DEVELOPMENT SKILLS

Over 10 years of expert level understanding of Relational Database Management Systems (RDBMS) and SQL and PL/SQL programming and database development experience. skills in Oracle Databases 10g , 11g, Oracle XE. Oracle Web Applications Developments using Oracle Applications Express (APEX) 4.1, Oracle Applications server 10g, Oracle 11i, 12. Oracle SOA and J2EE, Oracle JDeveloper, Oracle Forms and Reports.

WEB DEVELOPMENT SKILLS

Comfortable with HTML5, JQuery, JQuery Mobile, CSS3, JavaScript

GRAFIC DESIGN SKILLS

Creating an extremely impressive UI and UX is one of my highest priorities when it comes to Application Development on any platform. Highly experienced using GIMP, Adobe Photoshop and Adobe Illustrator.

Experience
SR. iOS DEVELOPER, ETERNITY 19, CUPERTINO, CA, OCT 2009 - PRESENT

COMPANY APPLE INC. SMARTHOME LABS DIRECTV STANFORD UNIVERSITY

START May 2013 Nov 2012 Sep 2012 Jul 2012

END Nov 2013 April 2013 Nov 2012 Aug 2012

COMPANY ORACLE CORP. & U.S. SENTENCING COMMISSION ORACLE CORP. & JPM CHASE VOLKSWAGON HYUNDAI CAPITAL SEMTECH SILICON VALLEY INSTITUTE OF IT (SVIIT)

START Oct 2011 Aug 2011 Jun 2011 Jan 2011 Oct 2010 Oct 2009

END Jul 2012 Oct 2011 Aug 2011 May 2011 Dec 2010 Oct 2010

Worked on an iPhone Application at Apple Inc. in order to support Apple worldwide retail Stores to handle shipping , receiving and other warehouse operations for communicating information to and from SAP systems. I performed the design, architecture and development of various new functionalities within the application. Performed upgrade and migration from iOS 6 to iOS 7. Provided production support for SAP-iOS Development team and xed many existing bugs. Assumed key roles in all phases of project life cycles, project planning, Performed system analysis, application architecture design, coding and implementation of iOS Applications. Skilled in code optimization techniques and analysis time proling for the apps for iOS in Xcode. Successfully detected and corrected memory leakage problem, and optimized the Objective-C code for to signicantly improve battery life, memory usage and CPU consumption issues. Migrated iOS application from earlier iOS versions to the latest iOS. Provided mentorship and guidance to junior developers. Reviewed existing app design and architecture and identied opportunities for upgrading to newer technology platforms and provided recommendations for an application migration strategies and roadmap to enhancement of existing iOS apps. Involved in all phases of the development cycle of the app including the conguration and the process of shipping and app to the App Store. Integration experience with Facebook & Twitter to provide Authentication & sharing features. Created enterprise apps utilizing REST APIs and JSON . Created a Bug Tracker Application from start to nish using and integrated it with the business applications to allow business users to report and track progress of bugs without leaving the app. Developed an extremely exible, dynamic, robust MRP system from scratch to provide accurate and up-to-date analysis of the Bill of Materials which allows for data analysis and cost calculation. Developed a ground breaking web-based CRM application. Used HTML5, jQuery and jQuery Mobile and CSS3 to build robust and powerful 2.0 based cross platform and interactive UI for applications Created web apps using MySQL , Oracle, Moodle, Joomla , VirtueMart, PHP and PL/SQL.

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SOFTWARE DEVELOPER , TECHNICOLOR INC., HOLLYWOOD, CA, NOV 2007 OCT 2009

Created a Shipping and Tracking Application to revolutionize and fully automate the bulk packaging business process using Oracle Applications 11i Forms and Reports. Created and debugged various kinds of Database objects including PL/SQL procedures and functions, tables, triggers, constraints, custom menus etc., to support various areas of development as well as maintenance and support of the Application.

SOFTWARE DEVELOPER, SYS TECHNOLOGIES, OXNARD, CA, NOV 2006 OCTOBER 2007

Worked with a leading provider of information connectivity solutions on the development of a U.S Navy project as the lead developer and supervised a group of four other team members and assumed key roles in all phases of project life cycles, project planning, customer interaction and gathering requirement details. Created and debugged various kinds of PL/SQL packages, procedures and functions and ETL routines. Deployed various stand-alone Oracle forms on the web and integrated custom built forms with Oracle 10g Developer Suite platform using both Oracle Forms 10g.

DATABASE DEVELOPER, REAL 19, SAN CLEMENTE, CA, OCT 2002 NOV 2006

Worked with one of the biggest Microsoft Certied Solutions Partners (NavInt) and the worlds largest motion picture camera manufacturer (Panavision) to extract information from an Oracle Data warehouse. Performed migrations from SQL server legacy systems into Oracle, and debugged various PL/SQL procedures and functions. Created database applications and assumed key roles in all phases of project life cycles, project planning, customer interaction and gathering requirement details.

References
References can be produced upon request.