Born in United Arab Emirates and Raised in Pakistan. Have accumulated 7 years of experience in Open Source Software Research & Development (RnD).

Specialized in Enterprise Portal and Collaboration Suites' Development. Currently working as a Senior Programmer Anaylst in Saudi Business Machines (SBM) an IBM representative. Prior joining SBM I was a Drupal CMS consultant at Verizon Wireless. Before joining Verizon Wireless I was serving World Bank Group as Sr. Drupal Consultant on multisite blog platform project.

Before moving to USA, I was in Pakistan working at Pakistan Software Export Board as Open Source Consultant in Open Source Resource Center. I was highly involved in promoting OSS on National Level in all possible sectors and in all provinces/states. While at PSEB I participated as presenter in various workshops and seminars on both local and international forums. I also participated as Master Trainer for Open Source Tools related to Web and DB development.

I have done my early schooling from Ras al Khaimah, UAE. In 1990, moved to Pakistan and later completed my graduation in Computer Sciences (BCS) from Hamdard University, Karachi. In 2005 post graduated with a degree in Business Administration (MBA-IT) from COMSATS Institute of Information Technology, Islamabad.

Area of Expertise from business perspective .... Project Management, Migration Techniques, Network Migrations, Database Migrations and all migrations performed by proven total cost of ownership.

Area of work Consultant for providing Open Source Migration and Database Systems for businesses, Academia, NGO's and Customized IT Solutions etc.