Faisal Jamil

-- Full responsibility for the technical roadmap and the operation of core applications for customer and contract management. -- Steering strategic direction of engineering department, emphasizing transparency with the management and ensuring development of common understanding between cross-functional teams. -- Build, mentor and lead a highly effective engineering team and create a productive team culture as well as stable and resilient processes.

Lead teams of engineers to write mobile POS unified scanner for Adidas and several hospitality clients using vendors i.e Casio, Panasonic, Zebra, Almex and LineaPro. In depth architecture design & dev for Self Scanning Client for Coop, Switzerland. Leading continuous integration and development, and meaningful reporting to management. Effectively creating and following project plans. Focused on customer requirements, coach and mentor internal teams, meanwhile collaborating with external engineering teams.

Effectively hold, develop, articulate, and continually evolve the company’s strategic technical direction. Responsible for making sure the company continues to have the best technology solutions at offer in a dynamically-evolving competitive space. Have authoritative knowledge about the current market needs, be credible with customers. Help set and maintain the technical culture to make sure the company can continue to retain and attract top technical talent.

Manage/Develop apps for embedded devices based on Android (STBs, Android TV, Phone & Tabs) & iOS (Phone & Tabs). Manage development of high-end applications for current/new product line using open source languages i.e. php & Java. Design, build, and maintain high performance, reusable, and reliable code, using latest SDKs / Frameworks.

Managed and mentored junior developers to improve existing software products. Work on Android, iOS & Web APIs used by mobile devices to connect to the existing product line. Improve content sharing & app connection to social networks. Continuous research and development to improve quality of service. Investigate and propose existing or new standards to help create better software products. Devise testing scenarios to ensure optimum levels of efficiency.

Lead team of engineers to develop and maintain back-end support for mobile applications in an agile environment. Responsible for participating in definition, design & implementation, testing, maintenance for new/existing apps. Involvement in all phases of team development including project scoping, team building, working with business leads and project managers, organizing sprints, managing deadlines,understanding & articulating priorities, finding solutions & delivering results.

Determine operational feasibility by evaluating analysis, problem definition, requirements and solution development. Prepare solutions by determining and designing system specifications, standards, and programming. Develop software solutions by studying information needs; conferring with users; studying system flows, data usage, & work processes; investigating problem areas; following SDLC.

Assessing client’s requirements and implementing practical solutions. Supporting and organising my team in scheduling projects; while maintaining a high standard of customer focus. Training clients on websites powered by CMS, some based around open source software such as Joomla, Drupal and others custom built from scratch dependent on specs.

Working with local clients, for requirement/technical analysis. Writing and maintaining Scope documents for projects. Coordinating with the remote development unit to escort throughout the design, implementation and testing phase.

Investigating new technologies; Researching, designing and writing new software programs; Developing existing programs by analyzing and identifying areas for improvement; 'Bolting together' existing software products and getting incompatible platforms to work together; Working with computer coding languages;

Computer Communication Systems and Software Programming.

Software Engineering