FAREED MOHAMMED
ACCRA
Summary
I am technology enthusiast with interest in software engineering, data analysis and data science with more than decade experience in software development,testing, implementation and support . I am looking for roles as fullback software developer or engineering team-lead or engineering manager . I value teamwork, honesty, quality and timely delivery and positive impact on society.
Overview
12
12
years of professional experience
1
1
Certificate
Work History
Technical Application Support Consultant
Sybrin Africa Pty
Johannesburg
05.2018 - Current
- Led my team to develop bank account mandate and signature verification system to achieved 60% reduction in cheque processing time for a bank in Ghana
- Developed instant cheque clearing application for a bank in Ghana and improved customer satisfaction by 80%
- Analysed and designed 45% improvement in process workflow for account opening and account maintenance application for a Pan-African bank in Ghana.
- Achieved 15 minutes RTO and 1 minute RPO by automating data replication between production and DR for some banks in Ghana.
- Created data analytics tool for bank's business executives and reduced decision making time by 47%
- Proactively enhancing and supporting electronic funds transfer (EFT) payment system for 99.99% availability
- Maintained and supported SWIFT message processing system for some banks in Ghana for increased in value for money.
- Offered go-live support during critical activation period for smooth implementation.
- Maintained composure and patience in face of difficult customer situations, applying de-escalation techniques and positive customer support.
- Participated in software testing, writing test cases and scenarios to improve future training.
- Tested new software releases for quality assurance purposes and determined coordination with performance and efficiency goals.
Software Engineer
Hubtel Limited
Accra
08.2017 - 03.2018
- Completed backend API service for payment widgets and links to increase ease of online payment by 65% .
- Coded the whole backend API service for sales application and achieved 35% performance increment
- Engaged as the subject matter expert to design inventory management system of point of sale application use by more than 200 retail shops
- Wrote highly reusable, testable, maintanable and efficient code in C# by adhering to the SOLID principle.
- Coded, tested and developed solutions in alignment with project requirements and delivered within 60% of the project duration.
- Participated in sprint planning sessions, client meetings and project retrospectives making more than 45% of the contributions.
- Integrated user-facing elements developed by front-end developers using server-side logic.
- Worked closely with product managers,UX designers and UI engineers to developed application functionalities.
Assistant Application Developer Manager
Students Loan Trust Fund
Accra
05.2016 - 08.2017
- As team-lead, led the piloting of new in-house loan application portal for use by over hundred thousand (100,000) tertiary students nation-wide
- As new-join, led to complete development of new in-house loan application system in less than a year to save 100000s in license fees.
- Automated data migration from old loan application to new in-house loan application and reduce 70% of go-live bugs.
- Trained 50 support personnel nation-wide on the new loan application system and received high commendation.
- led a workshop for hands-on training on interest computation and loan balance computation for more than 70 company employees.
- Appointed as the code master efficiently managing code repository on BitBucket and enforcing workflows for feature releases.
- Troubleshot application performance and replaced the IoC container with SimpleInjector IoC container and achieved 90% performance improvement .
Software Engineer
Infotech Dot Net Systems Limited
Kumasi
08.2011 - 05.2016
- Developed automation of clinical financial data posting to Quickbooks and reduced report production time from few days to few minutes
- Developed electronic medical insurance claims application and reduced claim generation cost by 90%
- Automated generation and submission of statutory clinical report for 90% efficiency improvement and data accuracy.
- Created an application for flagging of mine workers with threshold or higher exposure to work health hazard for re-assignment and saved 50% of workers compensation
- Led marketing presentation and demonstration of software product and won about 95% of the contract.
- Traveled , trained and implemented hospital information system in two of the four teaching hospitals in Ghana.
- Trained and implemented hospital information system and increased revenue generation by three to four folds.
Education
BSc. Computer Science -
Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and
Technology
06.2010
Skills
- Data Analysis using Excel, PowerBI and SQL
- Backend application development using Python, C#, JavaScript, NodeJs , NetCore
- Frontend application development using HTML,CSS, ReactJs
- Experienced working with Postgres, MSSQL relational database engines
- Database administration including creating database backups, data replication, query performance tuning
- Source code version control using Git commands
- Experience working with GitHub, BitBucket, SourceTree, GitLab for code repository management
- Experience working with Visual Studio Code, Visual Studio IDEs
- Ticket and task management using JIRA , ServiceNow
- Working knowledge of RabbitMQ and Redis
Certification
- BSc. Computer Science , Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology - June 7, 2010
- Certificate of Completion, Business Analysis Foundations, IIBA - June 1 2021.
Work Availability
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Quote
The way to get started is to quit talking and begin doing.
Walt Disney
Timeline
Technical Application Support Consultant
Sybrin Africa Pty
05.2018 - Current
Software Engineer
Hubtel Limited
08.2017 - 03.2018
Assistant Application Developer Manager
Students Loan Trust Fund
05.2016 - 08.2017
Software Engineer
Infotech Dot Net Systems Limited
08.2011 - 05.2016
BSc. Computer Science -
Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and
Technology
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