Sameen Arshad

House # 2, NUST Villas, H-12 Islamabad, Pakistan Phone: +92 (321) 525-0926 E-Mail: sameen.arshad@gmail.com

Interests
Human Computer Interaction (Mobile Application Development), Software Management, Quality Assurance, Management
Information Systems, Wireless Networks

Education
Bachelor of Science, National University of Sciences and Technology (NUST), Pakistan 09
Major: Computer Science and Information Technology
Senior Year Project: Implementation of Web-Service Based Health Level 7 (HL7) Transportation Component
Design (w/ UML) and implementation (w/ web services) of messaging modules
Development of the HL7 protocols (schema generation and validation)
Select term projects implemented during the course of the degree:
Web-application security using JAAS for IBM web sphere applications
Memory management and scheduling schemes for threads
A chat application, which supported text, audio, and video conversation, using Java Media Framework
A distributed media player, which played media files hosted at a streaming server, using Java
Attendance management application with reporting, using .Net and C#
Inventory control (Oracle database) application, with report generation, for the campus tuck shop
Travel advisory web portal implemented using PHP and MySQL

Research Experience
Research Assistant, Center for Innovation & Entrepreneurship (CIE), NUST 5/11 9/11
Assisted in development of employee trainings for stress management personality enhancement

Research Assistant, Semantic Research Center, NUST 6/08 8/08

Participated in implementation of semantics based web application, defined XML Schemas and Ontologies
Explored data mining techniques for identifying patterns in large data sets
Surveyed Flex and Java XML Binding (JAXB) as implementation technologies

Research Assistant, University of the West of England 7/08 9/08

Participated in the development of the Neu-Grid Project
Development of module for computational analysis of brain image data (http://www.neugrid.eu)

Teaching Experience
Teaching Assistant, National University of Sciences and Technology, Pakistan
Responsible for preparing and grading quizzes, home works, and exams
Courses: Computer Networks, Management Information System, Business Ethics, Fundamentals of ICT

Professional Experience
Interned as Quality Assurance Engineer at Wissen Work, Silicon Valley, USA 9/11 2/12
Testing of BIOME project modules and technical documentation

Interned as Software Engineer at AdvOSS Pvt. Ltd, Pakistan 6/10 8/10

Development of GUI modules for the flag-ship AdvOSS application
Implementation of the SIP modules, scripting in CCXML, and technical documentation
Interned as Quality Assurance Engineer at Software Productivity Strategists Inc., Pakistan 8/09 6/10
HP Virtual Rooms deployment and testing on MS Windows and Apple OSX operating systems

Service
Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) Relief Committee 10
Member, Relief Fund Collection Committee for the IDPs from the Swat valley
Member, Assistance Committee for supporting IDPs of flood victims

NUST Volunteers Club 07 08

President, School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences, NUST

NUST All-Pakistan Software Exhibition and Competition (NASTEC) 06 09

Member, Organizing Committee

New Student Orientation and Commencement Organization Committee, NUST 06 09

Member, Organizing Committee

Professional Affiliations
Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) 08 to date
Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers (IEEE) 08 09

Professional Training
Workshops on WiMAX Radio Link, Parameters and Performance, NUST, PK 5/11 & 8/11
Introduction to WiMAX with focus on operations of protocols and the architecture
Deployment issues of mobility handovers, RF planning and drive testing for WiMAX systems

Workshop on Network Simulations using NS-2, NUST, PK 6/11

Hand on experience with NS2 and associated visualization tools

CCNA Foundation Course, Corvit Technologies, PK 7/10

Training for CCNA certification

Building Ideas to Assets, NUST, PK 8/09

Workshop discussing aspects of intellectual property protection, the patent process and revenue generation

Security and Risk Management Compliance with IBM Products, NUST, PK 5/09
Training for IBM security framework and its deployment

Skills
Programming: C/C++, Java, C#, HTML, PHP, SQL, XML, ASP.NET
Operating Systems: Most MS Windows family particularly XP and Server 2003, Linux
Languages: English, Urdu (native), Hindi, and French

References
Dr. Farooq Ahmad, School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences, NUST, PK. farooq.ahmad@seecs.edu.pk
Dr. Peter Bloodsworth, University West of England (UWE), UK. peter.bloodsworth@cern.ch
Dr. Ashiq Anjum, School of Computing and Mathematics, University of Durby, UK. ashiq.anjum@derby.ac.uk