Ali Tavanayan

North Vancouver, BC

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T: 604.506.6108     

w: www.tavanayan.com

SUMMARY OF QUALIFICATIONS

• Extensive experience in full software /web life cycle process including prototyping, design, business logic, interface implementation, testing, and maintenance.
• Deep knowledge of Object-Oriented Design and Development with Mac/Windows/Web
• Recognized as an expert in creating Complicated and Dynamic applications
• Strong team player with well developed problem solving/conflict resolution abilities
• Multitasking, accurate, responsible and detail oriented

SKILLS AREAS

Web Programming           SharePoint, Asp.Net, PHP, WPF, WCF, Ruby on Rails, MVC, SEO (4 years)

Language                           C#, VB.Net, Visual Basic, PHP, Action Script, Lingo, Delphi (5 years)

Development Tools          Visual Studio, Silverlight, MS. Expression, Dream weaver, Flash, BBEdit

CMS                                     DotNetNuke (DNN), Joomla, Xoops, Drupal, OsCommerce (4 years)

RDBMS                                SQL Server, MySQL, MS Access (4 years)

Operating Systems           Mac, Win Server 2003, Win Vista/XP/2000, MS DOS (10 years)

Network / Servers            Windows Server 2000/2003, DHCP, IIS, ISA, Share Point (9 years)

Software                             Rational Rose, Visual Source Safe, Visio, Photoshop, VNC, UML (5 years)

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Web Developer, North Vancouver                      Nov. 2008 - Now

SharePoint Tasks:

-      Vivital Enterprises Inc. (Downtown- 2009)

1. Install and setup SharePoint, SharePoint Designer, and TFS environment
2. Create the sites for 4 departments (Production, Web-Design, Development, and accounting)
3. Use the Fantastic 40 templates for discussion forms and documents library of each department
4. Apply the user rights and access level for user group

-      Sunshine Coast Co.

1. Webpart development: Time_off Web part

• This web part merges the team member’s calendar and show the conflict in a department whiles someone’s asking for day off.
• Silverlight Integration (WPF) with SharePoint.
• Customizing SharePoint portal with SharePoint Designer 2007.

1. Webpart development: Outlook Contact sharing

• Member of the team can go to the Outlook contacts, right click and share the contact directly to a SharePoint list, or contacts.

1. Web Part development: Outlook file attachment sharing (a re-do project)

• A member of a team can right click on an email attachment, and send it directly to a SharePoint document library.

-      Tavanayan Internal Use

1. Setup and install WSS & MOSS for project management and TFS

• Code repository, document management, team task, workflows

www.canadaeman.com Informational Community Web site. Base on Joomla, PHP, and MySQL.

www.vivitalinc.com SharePoint development, Silverlight, WCF, WPF, and TFS as subcontractor

www.aralco.com Manage and re-do pages for older web site, Add a blog, SharePoint Dev., SEO

www.vantug.com Re-structure and re-skinning the web site, which is base on DNN, and SQL Server.

www.ArdeshirTV.com Local independent TV production team, Joomla base web site

www.PrintTime.ca Digital Print and publishing center, Joomla Base web site

www.desidowntown.ca A restaurant website base on DNN. Custom modules like Hotel Referral, Lunch in Office

www.farangmag.com A Comic magazine web site, fully customized in Joomla.

www.rodaccounting.com An accounting firm web site base on Joomla.

Custom web development

• Web development and consulting in C#, ASP.Net, Silverlight, WCF, Joomla, and DNN
• Start Ruby on Rails (RoR) development
• SharePoint Web Part Development - Management and Consulting for both MOSS & WSS.
• Customizing Joomla, DotNetNuke, Xoops, Web Services Development, Adobe Flex.
• Shopping carts expert specially on: OsCommerce, Virtual Mart, and ZenCart
• Silver Light, Expression Blend, WPF, and WCF development

System Developer, Aralco, North Vancouver, Canada                         Sep. 2006- Nov. 2008

Retail Point of Sale and Inventory Management (POS)

• SharePoint document management (MOSS), installation and administration.
• SharePoint case studies for POS and Aralco system integration with SharePoint.
• Using KPI (Key Performance Indicator), Office, and SQL reporting service on SharePoint
• C#, VB 6.0, SQL Server, IIS, Access, Client/Server Architecture
• Card payment process (Moneris), Retails Management Domain of Point Of Sale (POS)
• Hardware integration programmer for RMS devices: Traffic Counter, Moneris Card Transaction, Label Printers, Barcode Printer, Signature Pad, Fingerprint Scanner, Silver Turn, Web Cam, Scales, etc.
• Network administrator, Backup administrator included emails, SQL Servers, SourceSafe, Virtual Systems, and servers. Helpdesk Support.
• Improving and applying changes to the Aralco.com web site which is base on Cold Fusion and SQL server, mixed with partial Joomla web log with PHP.

Web Developer, Coastal Peoples Art Gallery, Yale town, Vancouver                Mar. 2006-2007

Modern art gallery in downtown Vancouver, selling first nation’s artworks

• Designing and programming an e-commerce web site
• Design, and implement the Xoops graphic template
• Programming the Exhibition Generator Module – Customize Xoops modules (PHP)
• Using Xoops, and ZenCart, on top of a MySQL, PHP, CSS platform to create a custom designed artistic web site

Laptop Hardware Technician,  London & Vancouver                   Apr. 2001-2006

Computer Instructor, Charles Dickens College, London - UK             Apr. 2001-2004

Head of Computer department, Jam-e-Jam daily newspaper, Tehran, Iran   Dec. 1999-2001

2D Computer Animation, Faraso-Pand & National TV, Tehran, Iran             Mar. 1993-1999

EDUCATION AND TRAINING

Bachelor of Science (BSc) in Computer engineering and system analysis

Azad University, Iran (with honor) (4 years)                                                                    1997

TRAINING AND CERTIFICATES

SharePoint Services Development -  BCIT, Downtown, Canada                                     2009

Advance ASP.Net with C#  - BCIT, Burnaby, Canada                                                        2008

Advance C# Development  - BCIT, Burnaby, Canada                                                        2007

Object Oriented Analysis and Design  - BCIT, Vancouver, Canada                                 2007

Senior Web Development Management -  BCIT, Burnaby, Canada (2 years)             2005

AGFA Imagesetter & Plate Management - Agfa Center, Tehran, Iran                       2002

A+ (Hardware) - Tech Net Institute, Tehran, Iran                                                           2000

MCSE (Networking)  - Cyber Tech, Tehran, Iran (1 year)                                              1999

Affiliation

Founder of Vancouver Joomla User Group (www.VanJoomla.net)

Member of user Groups: VanJoomla, .NetBC, VanSPUG, VanTUG, VanDev, VanPAss.

Attended: TechDays 2008, DevTeach 2009

Registered to attend: TechDays 2009, BCIT MOSS Development

WEB DEVELOPMET

www.tavanayan.com www.northshore118.com www.rodaccounting.com

www.minagareshgh.com www.jacobjoman.com www.coastalpeoples.com

www.wniran.com www.medicareaide.com http://site468.mysite4now.net/desidown/site1/

http://shokofeh.com/ali/BCIT/

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 SOFTWARE

Photoshop                                   Dream Weaver                      Rational Rose                         Visio

Flash + Actions Script            Illustrator                               Director  - Lingo                    MS Expression Blend

SharePoint Portal (MOSS)    Joomla                                     Xoops & Zen-Cart                  OS Commerce

Joomla                                       PHP                                            MySQL                                     Drupal

Dot Net Nuke DNN                ASP.Net                                    Macromedia Freehand        Final Cut Pro

CTP                                            QuarkXPress                            Softimage Toonz                    Adobe Premiere

Corel Draw                              3D Max                                      MAC OS X, Win                     After Effect

Delphi                                       Windows 2003 Servers        VB, Delphi, C#, .Net            SQL Server 2005

Microsoft Office   2007        ActiveX, DLL, Com, Com+                XML                             UML

Object Oriented (OOAD)    Silverlight                                 MS Expression                       Ruby on Rails (RoR)

References available upon request