This document contains the resume of Abbas Zaheer. It summarizes his experience as a Principal Software Engineer and Consultant with over 10 years of experience working with Microsoft .NET technologies. He has worked on several projects for insurance companies, developing systems using ASP.NET, C#, SQL Server, and integrating systems using WCF and REST APIs. Abbas has experience managing teams, designing system architectures, and acting as a technical lead for projects.

1. Abbas Zaheer
Phone: (281).617.6535
Email: abbas.zaheer@paretosys.com
abbas.zaheer@hotmail.com
URL: https://www.linkedin.com/in/azaheerpse
Pareto Systems - Making The Most of IT
Summary
 Principal Software Engineer / Consultant with expertise in Microsoft .Net Technologies, System Architecture Designing, System Analysis &
Design and System implementation and 10+ years of hands-on experience of all phases of SDLC.
 Worked as a Senior Consultant where my role was to provide software solutions to the customer’s business needs and making sure that the
system not only address business requirements but also play a vital role in helping businesses to grow.
 In-depth knowledge of System Engineering concepts and providing effective, efficient and scalable software solution of business needs.
 Hands on experience in designing system architecture (both software & infrastructure) through CASE tools.
 Quality of experience in designing and developing SOA based software systems that has loosely coupled & highly cohesive layers and tiers.
 In-depth knowledge of designing the database that is scalable, efficient and that meets growing and evolving business needs.
 In-depth knowledge and quality of work experience of MS .NET technologies specially ASP.Net (up to 4.5) and MS SQL Server (up to 2008 R2).
 A skillful developer with hand-on experience in writing C# code with best practices that included but not limited to following OOP best practices,
exception handling, tracing and debugging enablement through AOP and performance monitoring and tuning.
 Quality of experience in exposing business facades through secure WCF services and Web APIs.
 Hands-on experience in designing and developing system-to-system integration layer that includes communication through XML and flat files
over secure channels (SFTP).
 Proficient in writing complex T-SQL queries.
 Worked on client tools like ASP.NET AJAX controls toolkit, Telerik Web Controls, JQuery & AngularJS.
 Hands-on experience in managing databases through RedGate SQL tool belt.
 Worked on Microsoft Team Foundation Server (TFS) to manage sprints and source code artifacts.
 Has a good understanding of MS Win Azure services (IaaS & PaaS).
 Hands-on experience in managing software deployments that includes configuring IIS (up to 7.5), windows services, configuring SMTP relays
and configuring database mirroring.
 Quality of experience in managing a team of up to 20 resources and delivered successful implementations of the software systems.
 Possesses strong communication and soft skills and has conducted a lot of in-house trainings on many technical concepts.
 I am adaptive, agile, proactive, assertive and a valuable team player who is always thriving for higher targets.
Technical Skills
 ASP.Net with C# (2.0 – 4.5)  MS SharePoint (2007)  SQL Server (2K5 – 2K8 R2)
 MVC 4  JQuery & AngularJS  ASP.Net AJAX
 WCF  WebAPI / REST Services  Telerik Web Controls
 Win Azure (IaaS, PaaS)  Desktop Applications (C#)  MS Membership Provider
 TFS  MS Enterprise Library  XML & XPath
 RedGate SQL Tool belt  MS Office Suite  MS Visual Studio
 PostSharp (AOP)  System Architecture (SOA)  Database Modeling

2. Abbas Zaheer
Phone: (281).617.6535
Email: abbas.zaheer@paretosys.com
abbas.zaheer@hotmail.com
URL: https://www.linkedin.com/in/azaheerpse
Pareto Systems - Making The Most of IT
Professional Experience
Paramount Insurance Company 07/2015 – Present
Ohio, OH
Sr. Consultant / Tech. Lead
Health Insurance
Paramount (established in 1988) is a health insurance company affiliated with ProMedica health system located in northwest Ohio, specifically
in Maumee, OH. Paramount offer health insurance to both large and small groups, fully insured and self-insured in northwest Ohio and
southeast Michigan.
 Performed requirement elicitation.
 Designed and developed system architecture that enlists all the tiers, layers and integration points. It is built over an SOA using WCF and REST
APIs.
 Designed and developed the database model.
 Designed the system process flow diagrams for business processes automations.
 Conducted system functional reviews with the client.
 Provided technical guidelines to implementation team.
 Designed and developed key system components.
 Designed and developed system feeds.
 Designed the EDI 834 consumption component.
 Designed and developed data load component.
 Implemented AOP through PostSharp.
 Designed and developed system tracing and performance monitoring component.
 Performed code reviews.
 Performed iteration planning and product backlog maintenance through TFS.
 Used Spiceworks for client tickets management.
Technical Summary: ASP.Net 4.5, REST APIs and WCF, SQL Server 2008 R2, SSRS, T-SQL, Telerik Web Controls, TFS 2013, MS Office Suite,
AngularJS.
Network Health Plans 07/2014 – 06/2015
Wisconsin, WI
Consultant / Tech. Lead / Sr. Developer
Health Insurance
Network Health Plans is one of the leading health insurance carrier in the state of Wisconsin. They provide health insurance to individuals,
small groups and to medium and large groups.
 Participated in designing and development of system architecture that enlists all the tiers (over an SOA using WCF & REST APIs), layers and
integration points.
 Participated in database modeling
 Designed the system process flow diagrams for business processes automations.

3. Abbas Zaheer
Phone: (281).617.6535
Email: abbas.zaheer@paretosys.com
abbas.zaheer@hotmail.com
URL: https://www.linkedin.com/in/azaheerpse
Pareto Systems - Making The Most of IT
 Designed and developed key system components.
 Developed WCF Services & REST APIs.
 Develop system authentication and authorization component using membership role provider.
 Designed and developed system workflow component.
 Designed and developed Mail Merge component for outbound email notifications and alerts.
 Designed and developed data load component.
 Implemented 2-way feed component for system-to-system integration.
 Implemented complex T-SQL logics.
 Provided technical guidelines to implementation team.
 Performed code reviews.
 Managed databases across different environment through RedGate SQL tool belt.
 Used Spiceworks for client tickets management.
Technical Summary: ASP.Net 4.5, WCF & REST APIs, SQL Server 2008 R2, SSRS, T-SQL, Telerik Web Controls, TFS 2010, MS Office Suite,
AngularJS
AnR System of Florida Virtual School (FLVS) 06/2013 – 06/2014
Florida, FL
Tech Lead / Sr. Software Engineer
Education – Public Sector
FLVS is an online school dedicated to personalized learning. Whether you live in Florida or beyond, you can access more than 150 courses,
from Algebra to AP Art History and everything in between. FLVS courses are real—just like the certified teachers who teach them. Public,
private, and homeschool students from Kindergarten through 12th grade use FLVS courses to succeed on their own time and schedules.
 Designed and developed the system database.
 Designed and developed Business Rule Engine that enables the end user to define/alter business rules dynamically.
 Designed & developed WCF services to expose external integration channel.
 Designed an instance generator tool that enables users to configure new instance of the system by simply dragging-dropping smart controls.
 Implemented Windows Identity Framework (WIF) for SSO between systems.
 Developed distributed caching component to be utilized in a web farm.
 Performed performance tuning using MS Visual Studio Load Test.
 Performed iteration planning.
 Provided technical guidelines to the team members.
 Performed release management through TFS.
Technical Summary: ASP.Net 3.5, WCF Services, SQL Server 2008 R2, WIF, T-SQL, Telerik Web Controls, TFS 2010, MS Office Suite

4. Abbas Zaheer
Phone: (281).617.6535
Email: abbas.zaheer@paretosys.com
abbas.zaheer@hotmail.com
URL: https://www.linkedin.com/in/azaheerpse
Pareto Systems - Making The Most of IT
JET Insure 02/2010 – 08/2011 & 05/2012 – 05/2013
Florida, FL
Tech Lead / Sr. Software Engineer
Insurance
JET Insure is the quote-to-card health insurance automation platform that equips health plans to sell multiple lines-of-business individual /
family plans, group plans, and specialty products faster and more profitably, all on a single, unified system. This product is being developed
under the umbrella of Jet Health Solutions. It is a product designed and developed to meet the requirements of health insurance companies in
terms of underwriting, customer care and member management.
 Designed and developed the application development framework that allows rapid application development.
 Designed & developed WCF services to support SOA.
 Designed system architecture
 Designed and developed system integration component that utilizes XML as source of data over SFTP.
 Designed and developed the workflow engine.
 Designed and developed dynamically resolved notification and alerts generation component.
 Developed user activity monitoring tool.
 Developed reports in SSRS.
 Produced system design documents
 Prepared customers demos.
 Utilized TFS for source code maintenance and ticketing system.
Technical Summary: ASP.Net 3.5, WCF, SQL Server 2008 R2, SSRS, T-SQL, Telerik Web Controls, TFS 2010, MS Office Suite, AngularJS
FWC Permit System 02/2009 – 01/2010
Florida, FL
Sr. Software Engineer
Florida Fish & Wildlife Conservation – Public Sector
The Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission came into existence on July 1, 1999 - the result of a constitutional amendment approved in the
1998 General Election as part of the package proposed by the Constitution Revision Commission.
 Worked as software developer where primary role was to develop web interfaces, WCF services and writing T-SQL statements for data
manipulations.
 Worked on a tool called permit generator, a code generation tools specifically designed to generate code artifacts to collect data for any new
kind of permit forms introduced by FWC.
 Performed release deployment.
 Used VSS for source control.
 Used Test Director for tickets.
Technical Summary: SQL Server 2008 R2, ASP.Net 3.5, T-SQL, VSS, CodeSmith, MS Office Suite

5. Abbas Zaheer
Phone: (281).617.6535
Email: abbas.zaheer@paretosys.com
abbas.zaheer@hotmail.com
URL: https://www.linkedin.com/in/azaheerpse
Pareto Systems - Making The Most of IT
E-Enablement of Islamabad Police 06/2006 – 01/2009
Islamabad, Pakistan
Sr. Software Developer
Police Department – Public Sector
Capital Police came into existence W.E.F 1st Jan 1981 by virtue of presidential order no. 17 & 18 of 1980 to fulfill the need for separate Police
organization for the federal capital, Islamabad. The mission is to uphold the rule of law with due regard to human rights and human dignity; to
serve the people with honesty and efficiency, with courtesy and respect, with commitment and dedication, in striving to achieve the highest
professional standards.
 Participated in requirement gathering and produced RS, FS and DDD with As-Is modeling, BPR (Business Process Re-engineering) and To-Be
modeling.
 Developed web forms and wrote T-SQL for DDL and DML operations.
 Conducted on-site client trainings.
Technical Summary: MOSS 2007, SharePoint Designer, SQL Server 2005, ASP.Net 2.0, VSS, MS Office Suite
Education
M S C . C O M P U T E R N E T W O R K S & T E C H ▪ 2004 – 2005
University of Northumbria Newcastle (United Kingdom)
With Commendation.
B C S H O N S . ▪ 2000 – 2003
Institute of Management Sciences Lahore (Pakistan)
CGPA 3.24