Junaid Chaudhry
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Address: San Mateo, CA-94403
Email  : [Send email using form at bottom]

EDUCATION
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* 2006-2007 : Wharton School of Business, University of Pennsylvania
(Philadelphia, PA)
  Business Essentials Certification.
  Areas of study include Accounting, Corporate Finance, Management, Marketing,
Human Resources and Business Policy.	

* 2003-2005 : University of Southern California (Los Angeles, CA)
  MS (Masters of Science) in Computer Science.

* 1998-2002 : Lahore University of Management and Sciences (Lahore, Pakistan)
  BS (Bachelor of Science) in Computer Science and Mathematics.

TECHNICAL SKILLS
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* Programming Languages: Proficient in JAVA /J2EE; ColdFusion; Familiar with
C++
* Database Management  : PL/SQL, Oracle, MS SQL-Server Enterprise, MySQL, MS
Access, JDBC, ODBC, Apache Derby, Berkley DB
* Web Technologies     : Proficient in JSP, Java Servlets, JavaScript, XML/XSLT,
AJAX, DHTML, CSS, DOM;
                         Familiar with ASP, PHP, VB.NET, EXT-JS, GWT-EXT, WSDL,
SOAP
* Web Servers          : WebLogic, IIS, APACHE, Jakarta Tomcat, CF Application
Server 
* Development Tools    : Eclipse, MS Visual Studio, Macromedia Studio MX, PLSQL
Developer, Cygwin, ANT, CASE Studio, 
                         CVS, VSS, SVN, MS SQL-Server Reporting Services
* Operating Systems    : MS Windows Variants (XP/2003/Vista), UNIX, SUSE Linux,
Mac OS X

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
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Sept 2007 - Present: Software Engineer, iTradeNetwork, Inc. (Pleasanton, CA)
* Responsible for designing, implementing and maintaining several key company
products aimed at supply chain
  management and maximizing 'spend intelligence' for clients in the food service
industry. Projects range from design 
  and development of new modules and features for existing solutions to
implementing new solutions from inception. 
  My responsibilities include technical designing, backend database, middleware
and front-end development.
* Managed several production releases; worked directly with SQE, IT Support and
Product Management to ensure on-time 
  and stable production releases; trained IT support in various trouble-shooting
procedures; worked directly with 
  Customer Support to research problems, feature request feasibility and
timelines.
* Created a JAVA/ANT based configuration tool to streamline project builds and
configurations. Migrated several 
  company projects from VSS to SVN and implemented new build procedures using
this configuration tool.
* Developed a demo inventory management tool with GWT-EXT to showcase the
platform's abilities. Presented the 
  demo as a TechTalk on GWT to the engineering departments.
* Technologies: J2EE Technologies (JAVA, JSP, Servlets, EJB), AJAX, JavaScript,
EXT-JS, GWT-EXT, XML, DHTML, CSS, DOM, 
  PL/SQL, Oracle, Weblogic, Apache, ANT, VSS, SVN, Apache Derby, Berkley DB.

Nov 2005 - Aug 2007: Application Developer, Wharton Executive Education, Univ of
Penn (Philadelphia, PA)
* Responsible for determining opportunities to streamline business processes and
capturing them in efficient and user 
  friendly software applications for the use of Wharton Executive Education's
clients, faculty and staff.
* Responsible for supporting the technical needs of Wharton Executive
Education's clients and staff using the Executive 
  Education portal and other associated business applications.  
* Designed and developed (from inception) a management system that streamlines
important business processes and 
  integrates them into one coherent system thereby increasing the productivity
and efficiency in routine activities of all 
  staff members. 
* Technologies: IIS, Cold Fusion, AJAX, JavaScript, XML, DHTML, CSS, DOM, SQL,
ANT, MS SQL-Server and Reporting.

Sept 2004 - Nov 2005: Research Programmer, USC Information Sciences Institute
(Marina Del Rey, CA)
* Designed and developed a hostile threat analysis research tool for the United
States Special Operations Command. This 
  application compiles, integrates and analyzes relevant information from
heterogeneous data sources, leading to a 
  performance efficient system required to query large scale databases and
research processes.
* Ported a rule based JAVA application to a web-based environment. Enhanced the
application's architecture to render 
  vector data from satellite imagery in a web browser while supporting panning,
zooming and alpha blending functions.
* Technologies: JAVA, JSP, XML/XSLT, JavaScript, DHTML, CSS, DOM, SQL, MySQL,
Jakarta Tomcat, Cygwin, CVS

June 2004 - Aug 2004: Web developer, Fresenius Netcare GmBH (Berlin, Germany) 
* Implemented a PHP based knowledge management portal to address disconnect
issues and facilitate communication 
  and document/idea sharing amongst the company's developers and consultants
situated in Bad Homburg and Berlin.
* Conducted technical training sessions in web technologies for the company's
developers and consultants.
* Technologies: PHP, SQL, MySQL, Apache, SUSE Linux

Feb 2003 - July 2003: System Analyst, Medipak Pharma Industries Ltd. (Lahore,
Pakistan)
* Project lead for upgrading and outsourcing the company's financial software
system.
* Designed and developed a servicing and maintenance application for the Trade &
Marketing department.
* Designed and developed the company website for the Trade & Marketing
department. (www.uniplanintl.com)
* Technologies: Visual Basic, MySQL, Crystal Reports, HTML

PROJECTS
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April 2008 - August 2009: Freelance development for AutoPartsWay.com
* Designed and Implemented three ColdFusion applications for AutoPartsWay.com
that allow users to search for auto 
  parts based on vehicles models, years, parts, categories, and brands.
* The first project is a distributed application in which a ColdFusion UI
(hosted at AutoPartsWay.com) directs a remote 
  JSP based application to interact with a third party (Worldpac, Inc.) vendor's
fulfillment solution through a specially 
  designed API (http://www.autopartsway.com/autoparts2).
* The second project is a standard ColdFusion/MS SQL Server based application
that allows users to search for auto parts 
  available in AutoPartsWay's local database.
* The third project is a ColdFusion/MS SQL Server based application that uses
the eBay Trading API to list products on 
  eBay and generates reports based on listing errors and sold products.
* Technologies: ColdFusion 8.0, JavaScript, Ajax, XML, CSS, DOM, DHTML, EXT-JS,
JSP, JAVA, Tomcat, MS SQL Server 2005.

Nov 2006 - Feb 2007: The Hooligans Band Website
* Designed and developed the website for a local rock band. The website features
an ASP/AJAX/MS Access driven mailing 
  list, guestbook, Google Maps integration and a content management portal
(http://www.hooligansusa.com).

Feb 2005 - May 2005: Lead Architect - Information Systems, Business Plan
Development (Celestia)
* Designed and developed the operational plan, software architecture and
prototype for a web-based artist 
  development application while working in a 4 member team consisting of
computer science (MS) and business (MBA) 
  students at USC. This application and its supporting analysis targeted
prominent record labels' needs to determine 
  artist profitability and served as 'proof of concept' for a business plan
competition hosted by the Marshal School of 
  Business at USC.  

Aug 2004 - Dec 2004: Team Lead, Enhancement of USC Center of Software
Engineering Website
* Led a 6 member team to architect and enhance the design for the Center of
Software Engineering website at USC using 
  UML modeling techniques. The new version provides efficient search
capabilities, user specific views, automatic 
  content authoring and easy website maintenance. 
* Facilitated client workshops and presentations for requirement elicitation and
system prototyping. Developed the 
  Feasibility Rational Description for the product, performed project
scheduling, cost and risk analysis.

Jan 2004 - May 2004: Research project, Applications of Information integration
in Bioinformatics
* Implemented a Bioinformatics application that extracts and integrates
documented Protein-Protein interaction data 
  from online data sources to construct indirect interaction pathways for user
specified Proteins while returning a list of 
  supporting publications. The project involved use of the Fetch Agent Platform
for information extraction, the Theseus 
  plan language for querying the resulting semi-structured XML files, and
finally, JAVA Servlets, SQL and MS Access to 
  handle invocation, storage and data manipulation activities.