Usman Qutab

Current

• Software Development Engineer in Test at Microsoft

Past

• Senior Software Engineer at TricastMedia
• Software Engineer at CambridgeDocs

Education

• University of the Punjab, Lahore

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Industry

Computer Software

Usman Qutab’s Summary

3 Years of professional development experience in C/C++/Java. Extensive work in the domain of Content Restructuring and Document Formats.

Usman Qutab’s Specialties:

C, C++, Java, XML, Strong Problem Solving and Analytical Skills

Usman Qutab’s Experience

• Software Development Engineer in Test

  Microsoft

  (Public Company; MSFT; Computer Software industry)

  March 2009 — Present (10 months)

  Working on BING

• Senior Software Engineer

  TricastMedia

  (Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Computer Software industry)

  May 2007 — May 2008 (1 year 1 month)

  Project:
  A server application that serves the purpose of taking different documents as input e.g. pdf/doc/xls etc., extracts its content & positioning information by parsing the document format and generates SVG equivalent for them.
  This required having deep(low-level) understanding of underlying File Formats for each file type supported.
  
  Scope:
  The server will be used in integration with the TricastMedia's email client for mobiles, TraicastMail, and provide the functionality of viewing attachments on mobiles.
  
  Role/Responsibility:
  Team Lead, Technical Lead for the project.

• Software Engineer

  CambridgeDocs

  (Computer Software industry)

  September 2005 — May 2007 (1 year 9 months)

  Product:
  A cross-platform and multi-threaded Content Restructring and conversion application. Using XML as the intermediary standard, the application takes-in any of the many supported document types (e.g. .doc, .pdf, .rtf, .xml, .ppt, .docx, .pptx etc.), extracts content from it and republishes it into any desired format.
  
  Modules, I worked on:
  1. Word(.doc) -> XML
  2. WordML 2003(.xml) -> XML
  3. Powerpoint(.ppt) -> XML -> HTML
  4. XML -> PowerpointXML(.pptx)
  5. Adobe Indesign Plugin(.indd) -> XML -> PDF
  6. Postscript(.ps) -> PDF

Usman Qutab’s Education

• University of the Punjab, Lahore

  BSc.(Hons.) , Computer Science , 2001 — 2005

Additional Information

Usman Qutab’s Groups:

•    PUCIT, University of the Punjab
•    Symbian Developers

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