3 years of job experience in J2EE based applications designing & development.
3 year of experience in .NET based application development.
Worked as Project Coordinator, Software Engineer, System Analyst, Quality Assurance Engineer, Research Assistant, and Author of many Technical Papers.
Excellent analytical skills with ability to follow project standards and procedures as per client expectations. Student member of IEEETools: Protégé, IBM Rational Architect, IBM Web Sphere Application Development Environment, Visual Studio.NET, Rational Rose, Erwin, Toad, MS Project, MS Visio, MS Office
Technology Exploration:J2EE, J2SE, Hibernate, AJAX, Struts, JSF, .NET
Languages:OWL-DL, SWRL, Ruby, Perl, Core Java, Visual Basic, C++, Turbo/Borland C, PL/SQL, Shell scripting (Unix Environment)
Internet Technologies:ASP.NET, JSP (Struts), HTML, VBScript & JavaScript.
Operating Systems:Unix, Linux & Windows

Current Activities/Research Interests:

• Designing novel technique for business-driven network configuration in home area networks.
• Designing novel technique for semantic uplifting and refinement for policy-based network management.
• Designing novel type of semantic knowledge processing that combines information/data models with ontologies

Currently research in following research areas:

Semantic Modelling
Ontological Modelling
Ontology Mapping

Semantic Uplifting
Semantic Refinement
Policy Translation
Traffic Management
QoS Management
Policy-based Network Management
Autonomic Network Management
Home Area Network Management

Rana, A.I., Jennings, B., “Semantic Uplift of Monitoring Data to Select Policies to Manage Home Area Networks”. In proceedings of 26th IEEE International Conference on Advanced Information Networking and Applications (AINA-2012), March 2012, Fukuoka, Japan.

Rana, A.I., Jennings, B., ÓFoghlú, M., van der Meer, S., “Autonomic Policy-based HAN Traffic Classification using Augmented Meta Model for Policy Translation”. In proceedings of 8th IEEE and IFIP International Conference on wireless and Optical communications Networks (WOCN 2011), May 2011, Paris, France.

Rana, A.I., ÓFoghlú, M., ” Policy-based Network Management in Home Area Networks : Interim Test Results “. In proceedings of 3rd International Conference on New Technologies, Mobility and Security (NTMS), December 2009, Cairo, Egypt. Download file

Rana, A.I., ÓFoghlú, M., “New Role of Policy-based Management in Home Area Network: Concepts, Constraints and Challenges”. In proceedings of 3rd International Conference on New Technologies, Mobility and Security (NTMS), December 2009, Cairo, Egypt. Download file

Rana, A.I., ÓFoghlú, M., “Policy-based Traffic Management in Home Area Network: An Elementary Testbed Model”. In proceedings of 7th Frontiers of Information Technology (FIT) Conference, December 2009, Abbotabad, Pakistan. Download file

Rana, A.I., ÓFoghlú, M., “Policy Refinement for Traffic Management in Home Area Networks: Problem Statement”. In Proceedings of 9th Information Technology & Telecommunications (IT&T) Conference, October 2009, Dublin, Ireland. Download file

Kulatunga, C., Kandavanam,G.,Rana, A.I.., Balasubramaniam, S., Botvich, D., “HySAC: A Hybrid Delivery System with Adaptive Content Management for IPTV Networks”. Published in IEEE International Conference on Communications , June 2011, Kyoto, Japan.

Rana, A.I., Wasim Arfi, M., “Software Release Methodology: A Case Study”. In proceedings of IEEE SCONEST 2005, August 2005, Pakistan. Download file

Rana, A.I., Wasim Arfi, M., “Software Configuration Management Issues in Product Development”. In proceedings of 1st CIIT Workshop On Research In Computing, April. 2005, Pakistan. Download file

Rana, A.I., “Software Project Management Best Practices”.In proceedings of 2nd CIIT Workshop On Research In Computing, November 2005.Download file

Rana, A.I.., Saeed, K., Saeed, U. “Software Metric Plan,”.In proceedings of IASTED 2006 , Mexico, 2006. Download file

Software Engineer, GBRDirect – Waterford, Ireland, Jul. 2008 – Jul. 2010 . – www.gbrdirect.eu

Researcher, TSSG – Waterford, Ireland, Feb. 2008 – To Date – www.tssg.org

Snr Software Engineer & Project Coordinator, PSO Stratasoft TRG – Lahore, Pakistan, Aug. 2007 – Dec. 2007 – www.trgcustomersolutions.com

Teacher Assistant, NUCES FAST – Lahore, Pakistan, Jan. 2007 – Jun. 2007 – www.nu.edu.pk

Snr Software Engineer & System Analyst, REDMATH – Lahore, Pakistan, Sep. 2005 – Jul. 2007 – www.redmath.com

Software Quality Engineer, NETSOL – Lahore, Pakistan, Mar. 2005 – Jul. 2005 – www.netsoltek.com

Jnr Lecturer & Research Associate, CIIT – Lahore, Pakistan, Jan. 2004 – Feb. 2005 – www.ciitlahore.edu.pk

Software Engineer, SKB Engineering – Lahore, Pakistan, Mar. 2003 – Dec. 2003 – http://www.skb.net.pk

BSc. Hons. in Computer Science, The Univeristy of Lahore, Pakistan, 2004. – www.uol.edu.pk

MSc. Hons. in Computer Science, National Univeristy of Computer and Emerging Sciences,Pakistan, 2006. – www.nu.edu.pk

MSc. leading to PhD, Waterford Institute of Technology,Ireland, 2010. – www.wit.ie