Shahin Sammak's Resume

SHAHIN SAMMAK [email protected] Paoli, PA 19301 (610) 574-8491

QUALIFICATIONS: Demonstrated skills and effectiveness in working at various capacities from individual contributor to project management, well versed in project life cycle management and software development methodologies, strong interpersonal and communication skills, passion for excellence

SKILLS: C++, Visual C++, MFC, COM, SOA, DCOM, JAVA, XML,DOM/SAX, SDLC, C, MS Office, OOA, OOD, .NET, C#, SQL Server, Visual Basic, VB.NET, ASP.NET, ADO.NET, Web Services, PMBOK, CMMI, UML, Rational Rose, Visio, ClearCase, RUP, Visual Source Safe, TCP/IP, PVCS, HTML, DHTML, Microsoft Project, Crystal Reports

EXPERIENCE: Independent Consulting, Paoli, PA 2010-PRESENT Principal Consultant

Providing services to companies in area of software design and development.

 Design and development of a new website for a proprietary health insurance application.  Implemented Custom User Controls to maintain consistent look and feel.  C#, ASP.NET, HTML, CSS, SQL Server, .NET Framework, Object Oriented Analysis and Design

Professional Development 2008-2010  Completed Penn state University .Net Certification program. Received certification July, 2010.  Completed Penn State Project Management Program. Received certification June, 2009.

McKesson, Malvern, PA 2005–2008 Principal Consultant Responsible for design, development, integration and validation of real time, multi-tasking, multi threading software applications for Automated Pharmacy System (APS). APS software is a modular, multi tier networked applications with common interfaces that allow software reuse and customization. The APS data manager employs DB2, comprises of Design and development of applications for Automated Pharmacy System.  Automated Pharmacy System consists of real time, multi-threading, multi-tasking applications that communicate with one another, many hardware, and medical dispensing devices to process mail order prescriptions.  Determined feasibility of customer requirements and designed solutions, built, and integrated the implementation.  Conducted complex analysis and provided recommendations.  Provided guidance for process improvement and change management.  Responsible for the entire life cycle of application development.  Defined and executed test plans. Performed system evaluation and testing.  Tools and Technologies: Visual C++, MFC, XML/DOM, C#, DB2, Visual Source Safe, SQL Server, Object Oriented Analysis and Design, MS Office, Visio.

DRI-WEFA, Eddystone, PA 1999–2002 1999 – 2002: Technical Lead  Responsible for redesign and development of GRAPH, a client server application for calculation and presentation of time series data.  Performed requirement analysis, conceptual design, design and design review, implementation, code review, and Test for the presentation layer and integration to lower layer computing modules. Shahin Sammak’s resume 1  Provided technical leadership for onshore and offshore project teams.  Designed and developed the web-based version of GRAPH utilizing JAVA Servlet and XML/DOM.  Responsible for the design and implementation of company’s business and IT process.  Defined and implemented a project lifecycle from inception to delivery. Also, defined Software Configuration Management and Change Management processes and procedures.  Researched best practices, and managed multiple projects for evaluating tools for the process, project management, design, issue management, build management, and version and change control system.  Defined software configuration and managed project of reorganizing revision files on PVCS.

DRI-WEFA Continued

 Tools and Technologies: COM/DCOM, C++, Visual Basic, RUP, Object Oriented Analysis and Design, Visio, HTML, DHTML, JAVA, XML, DOM/SAX, PVCS, C#, Visual Source safe, MS Office, MS Project.

Honeywell Corporation, Ft. Washington, PA 1995–1999 Function Lead  Managed Projects across functional teams through entire product development life-cycle  Designed and developed the Graphical User Interface of Honeywell Control Builder, a major tool of the company’s process control system using Object Oriented Analysis and Design.  This release-independent, multi-tier Client-Server tool was developed under Windows NT using Visual C++, COM, MFC, OLE Automation and Control, and ClearCase Software Configuration Management  This software was SEI CMM Level 2 Compliance.  Performed design reviews, formal code reviews, and software walkthroughs  Designed and developed ActiveX/OLE Controls. Also, provided COM interfaces  Customized serialization utilizing OLE Compound file structure  Responsible for design and development of proprietary Honeywell base classes for the software  Tested Internationalization, performed system evaluation and optimization  Tools and Skills: COM, Visual C++, MFC, ClearCase, Rational Rose, Object Oriented Analysis and Design, MS Office, SQL. UML, MS Project.

Comshare Retail, Inc. , Wilmington, DE 1994–1995 Project Engineer  Managed projects through the entire software development life-cycle  Designed and developed Merchandise Allocation System Software for the Retail Industry  The software was designed utilizing Object Oriented Methodology, and developed under Windows NT, using Visual C++ and MFC  Provided mentoring to the multi-site project team

Independent Consulting 1989–1994 Software Engineer, Zyco Manufacturing, Paoli, PA  Developed programs in C for a custom engineering product that automates photographic film processing from studio to prints. Designed and implemented software for the manufacturing interface. Wrote communication program to communicate with a Photographic Editor. Also wrote a window screen management program for processing of film files. Software Engineer, Aria Systems, Philadelphia, PA  Designed and implemented a software package to interface a Panasonic Scanner with a document storage and retrieval system.  The software package read images, displayed them, and put them into a Tag Identification Format File (TIFF). Software was implemented in C using MS-Windows. Software Engineer, Tetratech Richardson, Wayne, PA  Designed a real time, Multitasking, and Interrupt driven simulation software for Process Control of a railroad

Shahin Sammak’s resume 2 classification yard. Developed the software in C in a multi-video graphics environment.

Software Engineer, Ketron, Inc., Malvern, PA 1988–1989  Developed a microcomputer-based training system in C, simulating flight and weapon release of the Maverick missile.  Designed a real-time interface similar to Microsoft Flight Simulator.  Developed both time and event-step simulation tasks capable of updating displays to provide flicker-free animation.

EDUCATION: MA, Computer Science, Temple University, Philadelphia, PA. BA, Computer Science, Temple University, Philadelphia, PA.

Project Management Certification, Penn State Great Valley. .Net Certification, Penn state Abington.

PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIPS: Technology People Networking Group (TPNG) Software Process Improvement Network (SPIN) PHILLY .NET

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