ALI ASGHAR CONTRACTOR

5252 Brindisi Court, #8
Middleton, WI-53562 USA
(608)824-8919
contract@cs.wisc.edu
http://www.cs.wisc.edu/~contract

     
OBJECTIVE Seeking a full-time position in Software/Application Development or Information Systems
    
EDUCATION UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN-MADISON  Madison, Wisconsin
Bachelor of Business Administration, December 1999
Double Major: Computer Science and Information Systems Analysis & Design
Overall GPA: 3.3/4.0
    
IOWA STATE UNIVERSITY  Ames, Iowa
Computer Science Classes, January 1995-December 1996
          
GRACE INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY  Karachi, Pakistan
Diploma in Computer Science, December 1994
    
HONORS Golden Key National Honor Society
Iowa State University's Dean List (2 Semesters)
      
ACTIVITIES Member of Association of Information Systems Professionals (AISP), UW-Madison
Member of Karachi Jaycees, Pakistan
EXPERIENCE AUTOMOTIVE DIRECTIONS, INC  Madison, Wisconsin
01/00-Present Application Developer
  • Design and provide support to a web-based application called 'Internet Lead Management' in ASP, Visual Basic6.0, VBScript, JavaScript, HTML, SQL and MS Access
                 
09/98-12/99 UW AGRICULTURAL & APPLIED ECONOMICS DEPT  Madison, Wisconsin
Web Developer
  • Designed and provided support to a WebPage by using MS FrontPage'98, HTML and JavaScript
       URL: http://www.aae.wisc.edu/future
                
06/99-08/99 AMERICAN EXPRESS FINANCIAL ADVISORS  Mineapolis, Minnesota
Summer Intern, Technologies Group
  • Re-engineered the physical database into ERwin from the Sybase table definitions and then converted the ERwin PC based tables to Sybase as the ERwin repository
  • Created stored procedures in SQL Programmer32 which extract records given specified criteria from the database, and insert and update records in the database stored in Sybase 11.x
  • Designed programs in C++ and Visual C++, and scripted procedures in Unix
  • Designed forms, views and navigators for data input and retrieval in Lotus Notes
                
06/98-08/98 DELUXE DATA SYSTEMS, INC.  Milwaukee, Wisconsin
Summer Intern, Information Systems Department
  • Created a program called version checking for Install in Visual C++ by using MFC, Oracle SQL, InstallShield, which detects either the application is running in current version or not
  • Created a program called Icon Backup for Install in Visual C++ by using MFC, Oracle SQL, MS Access, which creates database and stores data in MS Access, and generates reports of retrieved data
  • Created database in MS Access and generated reports in Seagate Crystal Reports
   
09/97-12/97 MANAGEMENT INSTITUTE  Madison, Wisconsin
Information Processing Assistant
  • Converted WordPerfect 6.0 saved documents to MS Word 7.0
  • Worked on a WebPage by using MS FrontPage'97
    
COMPUTER SKILLS
Languages: Visual Basic, ASP, VBScript, JavaScript, HTML/DHTML, C++, Visual C++, Java, SQL, COBOL
Environments: UNIX (Sun Solaris, SGI), DOS, WindowsNT 4.0, Windows95, Xwindows
Packages: MS SQL Server, MS Access, MS Visual Interdev, MS FrontPage, MS Excel, ERwin, Lotus Notes, Lotus123, Oracle SQL Plus, Crystal Reports, Internet Applications
Others: Relational Database, Data Structures, DBMS, Data Modeling, Linear Programming, IIS, MTS, MFC