Resume

Tony Nahra
2060 Ashlynd Drive,
Coralville, IA 52241
Cell: (319)-331 6558
Email: tony@nohra.org

Career Objectives:


Technically skilled and accomplished IT Professional looking for a rewarding and challenging position as PHP, Flash, SQL Programmer where my skills and knowledge will be utilized.

Summary:

• Twenty years of professional experience as senior programmer
• Expert in software development and content management systems 
• Proven record of ethics, motivation and enthusiasm towards technology
• Excellent team player with positive attitude
• Strong presentation and organizational skills
• Possess effective command over written and verbal communication skills
• Career oriented, hard working and ability to handle multiple tasks
• Quick learner and ability to learn new concepts

Technical Skills:

• Extensive knowledge of PHP/MySQL, JQuery, Ajax, ASP, HTML5
• Flash ActionScript, VB, WebServices
• IIS, LAMP, XAMPP, mySQL and MS-SQL
• Android OS, Java programming, Eclipse IDE
• Advanced Stored Procedures programming ( T-SQL )
• Security meeting healthcare and financial sectors. RSA, MD5, SSL
• OpenSource systems : WordPress
• MS Office VBA, automation and programming in Excel
• Google WebServices, Web App. and SDKs
• Familiarity with MVC using CakePHP 

Other Skills:

• Hardware : Arduino controller programming, RFID, Barcode, electronics
• Financial theories : TVM, asset allocations, risk/return
• Statistical analysis : large sets calculation, regression, scenarios
• VoIP : Asterisk, elastix, A2billing. Trunk administration
• Chess : volunteer trainer 

Educational Summary:

• B.E. in Electrical Eng., Major in Computers : American University of Beirut, 1988

Conferences:

• Adobe MAX 2009 - Los Angeles : ActionScript, Flex, Adobe Air
• XML One 2000 - San Jose : XML / XSL / XPATH
• Microsoft PDC : 1995, 1997, 1998
   

Employment history:

Senior Analyst Programmer  July 2001 - Present
Patient Education Institute, Coralville, IA 52241, U.S.A.
PEI publishes medical tutorials in multimedia format for healthcare companies. 

• Developed a CMS for patient tutorials on medical subjects licensed to hospitals, clinics and healthcare companies 
• Customizing interfaces and features to clients' needs
• Managing clients' databases with the highest security standards required by HIPAA
• Managing the company web and data servers with 99.99% uptime
• Meeting standards : SCORM, Section 508, HIPAA
• Major clients include : National Library of Medicine, Cerner, Kaiser Permanente, Society of Toxicology and many others.

IT Education consultant February 1994 - June 2001
Abu Dhabi Investment AUthority, Abu Dhabi, U.A.E.
ADIA manages the wealth of Abu Dhabi which exceeds 750 Billion USD

• Assisted financial analysts in implementing investment strategies
• Simulation, back-testing, numerical analysis on large sets of data 
• Statistical analysis, regression and testing investment strategies
• Data reporting, charting, slicing ( OLAP & data mining )
• Text parsing and data extraction to import into financial databases 
• Linked Reuters and Bloomberg terminals to Excel for consolidated analysis   

Sample Projects:

• http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/tutorial.html
• online.x-plain.com : An online educational CMS using Flash, ASP, MS-SQL
• http://www.sih.net  ( Health Topics by X-Plain  link on right side )
• http://www.mymedicalrecords.com  ( Patient Education link on right side )
• An HTML5 engine to run X-Plain tutorials on iPad and mobile devices
• A fully automated PHP conversion system to convert X-Plain tutorials into HTML5 
• www.ChessRef.com : A huge database of chess games with extensive analysis 

Personal Details:

• Name: Tony Nahra
• Year of Birth: 1966
• Employment Status: Full time
• Relationship status: Divorced
• Speak, read and write : English, French and Arabic

Reference:

• Bryan Mills
  Marketing Manager
  Patient Education Institute
  Phone: (319)-351 5220 x 105