Last update on 29th July, 2024

Walid Al-Yousef

Partner, CTO & Digital Project Manager, Senior Web Developer·

Friendly person, very calm but serious at work. I am hard worker, team player and self motivator. I have to mention that I am expert in outsourcing and work remotely throughout Skype, Zoom and Zoho.

I have been in IT domain since 1999. High school time I had a little experience in web and internet programming (HTML).
University back in 2001, helped me to learn all basics in computer engineering and programming philosophy. Joint a very famous company's programming scholarship in my city Latakia, Syria.
I studied and worked till finished university in 2005. My graduation project was "Pharmacy Software", It was build with VB.net for GUI, SQL Server 2000 for databases.

Also graduated second place in VB.net and UI programming scholarship. Then they offered me to work for them, company's field was medical software programming.
During that time, I did have many trainer courses to learn how to professionally train people to become programmers. In other words, I have trainer skills.

Resigned in 2005 to start new chapter in my life so developed my skills in web programming (PHP and mysql), And also I did work as freelancer as consultant and system models designer using UML.
Joint a local company as Webmaster to build and host websites using Drupal.

In September 2006, I joint ITP in Dubai, UAE as web developer until June 2020.

In September 2021, I moved back to Syria to start new chapter of my life and career in my homeland.


Cover Letter

I would like to join your IT department as Digital Project Manager / Team Leader / Senior Software Engineer and offer my experience in the following fields:

  1. Web Appilcations
  2. E-Commerce
  3. SEO & Digital Marketing
  4. Team/Project managing
  5. Mobile Development Consultant
  6. System Analysis & Modeling

Preferred Title: Digital Project Manager / Senior Web Developer.

Preferred Programming Languages: PHP, Mysql, Javascript.

Web Applications, RESTful APIs, CMS & plain frameworks: Yii2, Prestashop, Drupal, Wordpress, Codeigniter, Laravel, (Kohana, Joomla in the past) and also Django framework.


Experiences

Freelancer Developer, Software Consultant, Digital Project Manager

Between web and mobile applications I have worked on multiple projects to help team complete them with high quality standards. From commerical, educational to goverment softwares I had quite challanging problems to solve and present to customers with best output possible.

November 2020 - Present

Senior Project Manager, Digital

ITP Media Group, Dubai, United Arab Emirates

Run company's online projects of all kinds from news portals, marketing microsites to e-commerce websites. Look after them from A-Z. Maintain pre/post development stages. Include sales and marketing departments to have an sellable end product. Orgnize project tasks and follow up to deliver at given timelines.
ITP Media Group have world wide famous brands like TimeOut GCC, Esquire Middle East, Condé Nast Traveller Middle East and Harper's Bazaar Arabia. Also many b2b websites like Hoteliermiddleeast.com, Constructionweekonline.com, Oilandgasmiddleeast.com, Digitalstudiome.com and ITP.net. And local brands like 800tickets.com and Arabian Business

June 2019 - June 2020

Senior Web Developer

ITP Media Group, Dubai, United Arab Emirates

Work with other team members to build/maintain websites. Coordinate with company's other departments to make sure websites meet their requirements. Solve server issues and find new solutions from new challanges.

April 2013 - May 2019

Web Developer

ITP Publishing Group, Dubai, United Arab Emirates

Php programmer for company's websites. Responsible of writing perfect code to match requirements came from my manager. Debug and troubleshooting broken pages.

September 2006 – March 2013

Webmaster

almarjah.net, Latakia, Syria

Web development and hosting company. Worked with Drupal CMS and hosting reseller control panels.

July 2005 - February 2006

Supervisor of GDI+ Forum in arabprogrammers.net

Arabprogrammers.net

Write articles about Graphic Device Interface of .NET. (Website is closed)

September 2003 - 2005

Visual Basic/Programming Trainer

ILLAFtrain, Syria

Beginner level programming instructure. Teach basics about programming. Install .NET build, build first project and connect to database.

2003 - 2005

User Interfaces programmer

ILLAFsoft Corporation, Latakia, Syria

Visual Basic .NET 2003 programmer, responsible of design and implement program (Windows Applications) interfaces. Work with other team members from code and database lyres.

August 2003 - August 2005

Skills

Programming Languages & Tools
More
  • Flutter and Dart programming
  • Webservices and API implementation
  • E-commerce websites setup and payment gateway integration
  • SEO and Digital Marketing knowledge
  • Web sever setup
  • Responsive frontend programming
  • Database design and implementation
  • Cross functional teams
  • Running Agile methodologies
  • CMS Experience
  • Client facing - running meetings / status updates / workshops and guiding meetings to ensure objectives are met. Strong client communication.
  • Attention to detail and quality
  • Sensitivity to usability and design
  • Technically-minded.

Certifications


Education & Training

Udemy.com

Flutter & Dart - The Complete Guide
A Complete Guide to the Flutter SDK & Flutter Framework for building native iOS and Android apps. 42 hours.

March 2021

Udemy.com

NodeJS - The Complete Guide (MVC, REST APIs, GraphQL, Deno)
Master Node JS & Deno.js, build REST APIs with Node.js, GraphQL APIs, add Authentication, use MongoDB, SQL & much more!. 40.5 hours.

September 2020

Udemy.com

Mobile Development Architecture
3 hours paid online course Mobile Development Architecture April 2020 from Udemy

April 2020

Tishreen University, Syria

Institute of Computer Engineering Diploma

August 2005

ILLAFsoft Elite Scholarship, Syria

UI Programmer

Elite scholarship graduated / Latakia – Syria in Second place - Software Makers Department http://www.elitescholarship.com /2003/

May 2003

Languages

  • English: Very good writing, reading, speaking.
  • Arabic: Native language

Projects

My personal projects i have worked on after my last employment period.

Open to sell all software and my support services to your organization. Please contact me right now to make a win-win business.

  • Medium & Small Trade Company CRM software: Organize day-to-day sales work. Enter your customers and products. Prepare offical quotations. Add team tasks to complete the work.
  • Awards Event software
  • Academy Institution ERP software

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Address

Dubai, United Arab Emirates

Phone

Mobile number, after first contact :)