Welcome to NED.net User Group

Venue:

Lecture Theatre, Department of Computer and Information Systems Engineering, NED University.

Agenda:

2:00 - 2:15 PM - "Introduction to Imagine Cup" by Hammad Rajjoub
2:15 - 3:30 PM - "Seminar on Data Access Patterns" by Adnan Farooq Hashmi and Hammad Rajjoub

About Speakers:

Adnan Farooq Hashmi did his MS (Software Engineering) from SZABIST in 1999, and was awarded the Gold Medal for his batch. He was co-founder of Lynx & Connexions Inc. in October 1999, and was the application architect for an Internet based utility bill payment system that involved SSGC, PTCL, and KESC in 2000. He also founded Core IT Education Centre in 2001, which has been functioning as an Allama Iqbal Open University (AIOU) Approved Study Centre for the past 2.5 years, and working to build E-Learning tools and next-generation Learning Management Systems (LMS). He has mainly been involved in the development of Enterprise applications using Oracle, SQL Server, ASP, and ASP.NET, and has also conducted Training for Government organizations in Saudi Arabia and Bahrain. His focus is Academics, although he remains an avid Internet application developer. For more information visit his blog at: http://coredotnet.blogspot.com

Hammad Rajjoub:

Hammad Rajjoub is working as Technical Lead with Meezan Bank Limited . He holds a BS Computer Science degree from Karachi University and has MCP.NET certification (as well as a number of Brain Bench Certifications). He is member of ACM( http://www.acm.org) since 2002 and was Chairman of ACM-CSKU Chapter(http://www.csku.edu.pk/acm) for the year 2002. He has been working on .Net since its Beta 1 release. His areas of interest include Distributed Computing, Service Oriented Architecture, Aspect Oriented Programming, Design Patterns and Quantum Computation. He has developed number of enterprise scale applications using C#, ASP.Net and SQL Server. He is a .Net Evangelist and speaks frequently at knowledge sharing sessions. He has hosted number of sessions at local as well international conferences. He has written a number of articles for local as well as international publishers. He has also written a case study for Wrox Publishers (http://www.wrox.co.uk). He also trains people at software houses on .Net and helps them migrate from VB/VC to VB.Net/VC#. He is also a user group leader of .NetWizards which is an INETA (http://www.ineta.org) chartered user group. He is a member speakers bureau INETA Pakistan, and member of INETA Pakistan Executive Committee. He teaches at Dept. Of Computer Science, Karachi University and PAF KIET as a visiting faculty member. He spends his spare time learning and evangelizing .NET. For more details visit his blog at: http://dotnetwizards.blogspot.com