09/10- Present

Dalhousie University, Canada
Part-time Lecturer
Teaching Introduction to Computers course in the Faculty of Computer Science.

1/09-05/09

McMaster University, Canada
Sessional Lecturer
Taught Information Systems in Business course at DeGroote School of Business during Winter 2009 semester.

1/06-08/06

New Jersey Institute of Technology, USA
Teaching Assistant
Taught Evaluation of Computer Applications / Information System Evaluations in Spring and Summer semesters at the College of Computing Sciences.

1/99-6/00

University of Management & Technology, Pakistan
Adjunct Professor
Taught Computer Applications course at the School of Business.

Industry

8/09 -Present

Dalhousie University, Canada               
Technologist, University Library
Leading the user interface development of the libraries' web-based services, digital imaging, database development projects and data services. Design and conduct user studies to properly evaluate various public interfaces and evaluate results in order to recommend and implement system improvements. Participate in the development, maintenance and configuration of the infrastructure supporting technology-based services of the library’s installation and the configurations of web servers and related applications.

1/11–3/11

Dalhousie University, Canada               
Associate Director, University Web team
Worked in the above position, seconded to the university web team to redesign university website and university portal site. Responsible for leading information architecture and usability efforts. Activities include defining site structure, navigation and page layout by creating site maps and wire frames, writing use cases and UI specifications, assessing interface usability, and managing content inventories.

10/08-8/09

McMaster University, Canada
Digital Initiatives Research Intern, University Library
As part of the Digital Library group, investigated various aspects of the Endeca information access platform to be used in digital libraries. Also developed a recommender system prototype for the library catalog using state-of-the-art technologies.

9/01-12/04

Reason Technologies, USA               
Analyst Programmer
Architected and developed information systems for various client companies. Developed the Active Server Pages and COM components for these applications. Worked with Visual Basic, Visual InterDev, ADO, SQL Server, VB Script and JavaScript to build the software. Responsibilities included the design, development and implementation of projects and leading a team of developers. Developed and implemented projects before the designated time in a tight schedule. Mentored the developer team, guiding them throughout the ongoing projects.

8/00-8/01

SoftSource Inc., USA            
Programmer / System Analyst
Worked on B2B application for SolutiaNet that provides intelligent business solutions to help analyze, optimize and organize businesses. Application contains information about business and industrial products and services, auction and exchange market, consulting services, educational courses, user training and technical support. This project required upfront planning, analysis, design and development. Developed web pages using ASP, VBScript, Microsoft Visual Interdev, whereas the back-end database work was done in SQL Server.

7/98-6/00

University of Management & Technology, Pakistan            
Analyst Programmer
Responsible for the development of software applications for the internal departments of this organization. For Client/Server applications used Visual Basic and Microsoft Access. For 3-tier compliant software used Microsoft Transaction Server as a middle tire, SQL Server 7 as database and thin client user interface using ADO Object Model for Visual Basic 6. Involved in the total software life cycle from depicting business flow charts, data model, Entity-Event relationship, and developing business objects and coding for the same.

7/97-6/98

Bata International, Pakistan
Programmer
Designed and programmed custom software for Finance department. The system kept the information of all the payments from the retail stores and agencies throughout Pakistan. This information was reconciled through biweekly statements. All the transactions in the bank accounts and reconciliation with these accounts regarding stores and agencies were managed through this software. Skills included extensive Microsoft Access as well as extensive Visual Basic programming and subroutine design. Involved in all phases of System development life cycle.

Research

1/05-08/08

National Science Foundation / National Science Digital Library Research Grant
New Jersey Institute of Technology, USA
General Recommendation Engine(http://gre.njit.edu)
Research Assistant
The General Recommendation Engine (GRE) provides recommendations for the National Science Digital Library collections. GRE is developed by combining three next-generation approaches to recommendations (collaborative-filtering, content-based and knowledge-based recommendations) to craft the best set of links to related information. For this web-based application, developed three recommendation engines using visual studio.net, c#, vb.net, visual C++, asp.net and SQL Server. Also developed and integrated NJIT library, DLESE, Econport and Teachers Domain demo websites with GRE.

1/04-12/04

National Science Foundation / National Science Digital Library Research Grant
New Jersey Institute of Technology, USA
Digital Library Service Integration(http://is.njit.edu/dlsi)
Research Assistant
The Digital Library Service Integration(DLSI)infrastructure provides a systematic approach for integrating digital library collections and services. Developed applications for lightweight integration between heterogeneous systems in digital libraries. Lightweight integration is achieved by the use of wrappers to identify similar concepts in diverse systems and provide information and services for these items of interest. Used Java and MySQL for implementation.