TAHA ABBASITechnically sophisticated software architect and forward-thinking leader with a passion for streamlining business solutions by using emerging technologies that reduce redundancies, and improve productivity. Founder and CEO of a dynamic application development company, consistently recognized and rewarded for exceptional commitment and project results across multiple industries and teams. Served as a Consultant CTO and CTOAAS (CTO AS A SERVICE) to some of the most recognizable global brands. A Trusted manager with substantial connections to diverse and highly-skilled professional teams under my direct supervision across the globe.

CHIEF TECHNOLOGY OFFICERBlockchain Expert, and a Technology Evangelist. Innovative company founder and president of successful software architecture and web development companies.

Technical Project Scope

Software Architecture

Global Project Team Management

Entrepreneurial Ventures

Troubleshooting &Issue Resolution

Smyrna, DE 19977

taha@mywebnapp.com

(302) 220-6388

linkedin.com/in/tahaabbasi

TECHNICAL PROFICIENCIES

iOS Android Linux Unix EVM

VM Distributed Systems Decentralized Infrastructure

DAPPs DAOs

Platforms

MEAN Solidity ERC20 Hyperledger IBM Blockchain

Stack & frameworks:

Chain LAMP Express JS Angular Codeigniter

Node WordPress WooCommerce Drupal Joomla

Larvel MongoDB

Google Cloud Platform Firebase

Servers & containers

NGINX APACHE MAMP Docker Heroku AWS

HIGHLIGHT: Saved the company over $500,000 a year in expenses and resource cost within 2 weeks of starting

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE Chief Technology Officer May 2018 – PresentEvelar Inc., Lehi, UT

Technical Resources: iOS, Android, Full Stack Web Development, E-Commerce, Financial (Credit Approval) API Integration, ContractNegotiations, Vendor Relations Management, Global Talent Recruitment, Reducing Outsourcing Cost. Employee Training Bootcamp Style Programs, Effective and Realistic skills and aptitude testing for prospective developers. Strategic Technology Planning, Technology Development, Project/Product Management.

Helped the entire organization with Agile transformation and lead a highly talented team to implement process and system optimization steps in order to position the company for lean, strategic growth and trim all unnecessary waste of resources.

Key Achievements:

Streamlined Evelar's various systems (phone, SASS, Email Hosting, Web and App Hosting and more) to save the company over $128,000 annually.

Developed secure application data flow to secure API Keys from our finance partner for live Credit Approvals and Pre-Approvals.

Improved the Appointment Flow and reduced initiation to assignment time by ~88% (from 20 minutes per appointment to 2.5 minutes per appointment booked) saving the company over $30,000 annually within 2 weeks of starting at the company.

Implemented proper roadmap planning, project and sprint scoping, and data-driven prioritization using benchmarking.

Helped the organization through an Agile Transformation and implemented regular 2 week sprint cycles.

Trained all departments at the company on Agile and got teams on-boarded to our feature and product backlog prioritization platform allowing for faster, more consistent delivery of feature and product requests.

Established vendor relations to save the Evelar over $385,000 annually (over 95% savings) in development cost while increasing the number of development resources and quality of product shipments.

Implemented an Equipment and Inventory management system to reduce cases of lost equipment and to provide better tracking of company assets going forward.

Technical Resources: iOS, Android, Full Stack Web Development, Block Chain Development, Contract Negotiations, Vendor Relations Management, Global Talent Recruitment, Reducing Outsourcing Cost. Employee Training Bootcamp Style Programs, Effective and Realistic skills and aptitude testing for prospective developers. Strategic Technology Planning, Technology Development, Project/Product Management.

Presently lead web development and technology initiatives for one of the world's most accurate adventure data logging systems based on blockchain technology.

Chief Technology Officer [CTOAAS]* (2017 – Present)ReCreate, Singapore

Key Achievements:

Built technological scope for implementing software architecture of blockchain ledger for $7.8T adventure travel industry.

Lead and managed projects for multiple products at ReCREATE including the building and launching a beta in 4 months from inception of requirements to handle 6 million annual users from the scuba-diving sector.

As a young startup, being LEAN was very important to ReCREATE. I tapped into my network and negotiated an amazing contract for outsourced technology management, saving ReCREATE over USD 40,000 per month.

Implemented a state of the art aptitude and skills test for developers which involved a 72 hour test and demo build. This test was designed to show how a candidate will perform in the real-world and allowed us to vet out underqualified candidates.

Created skill enhancement training boot camps that enabled our team members to master relevant new technologies to help ReCREATE grow. The training programs included blockchain development, Ethereum’s solidity programming language mastery and courses in many other areas with over 1000+ hours of material.

HIGHLIGHT: TEDx Speaker - Presented ReCREATE’s technology to the world at the Technology and Innovation event with an official invite by TEDx to share how ReCREATEis saving lives with the blockchain.

Link: http://bit.ly/TEDxTaha

Technical Scope: MEAN Stack, LAMP Stack, AWS, Google Cloud, Firebase, Heroku, iOS, Android, Blockchain Development, CDN Management and Planning

Business & Management Scope:Contract Negotiations, Vendor Relations Management, Global Talent Recruitment, Reducing Outsourcing Cost. Employee Training Bootcamp Style Programs, Effective and Realistic skills and aptitude testing for prospective developers. Strategic Technology Planning, Technology Development, Project/Product Management.

Identified and presently lead team of highly-skilled design and development, product managers, and administrative team grown from four to more than 45 members across the globe.

CEO/Chief Software Architect (2015– Present)Web N App, LLC., Wilmington, DE

Key Achievements:

Developed architecture of applications reaching over 15 million users in a company expanded by more than 1200% across 11 countries in two years.

Achieved 95% retention rate by integrative innovative 72-hour recruitment testing processfor developers.

Created a robust iOS programming eco-system within the company and ingrained Apple’s Design and architectural standards within the ethos of our organization and projects. Our work got us noticed by Apple and landed one of our top developers an invite to contribute to improvement of Swift with Apple in Cupertino.

Developed a state of the art skills and aptitude testing process for software development and UI/UX Design candidates that effectively allowed us to separate the ideal talent from those that might not be a good fit for our needs. The biggest benefit of this process was the reduction of spam candidates on average from about a 100 to Top 10 or in some cases Top 5, saving us 100 of hours of Resume reviewing and profile checks. We even developed mechanisms for remote monitoring, time tracking, and screen capturing to proctor the test from anywhere in the world. This method was so effective that we helped our clients implement in their organizations as well.

We notice that new graduates on average would take at least 6 months of on the job training to be able to manage a project on their own from inception to delivery. The current solution for this in the industry was to look for candidates with ayear or two of experience. However, the greatest benefit of bringing in a new graduate is that you can teach them your culture, your methods and mold their software development mind into an ideal fit for your company's needs. To take advantage of this amazing talent pool I created custom software boot camps that all new candidates would go through. In 12 weeks, we can take an entry-level candidate and bring them up to speed and at the same level as a candidate who has over 2 years experience. Our candidates are generally so highly qualified that they are a prime target for poaching by our competition. Here is a quote that is ingrained into our philosophy about helping our talent.

"Train your team so that with their qualifications they can get a job anywhere they want. Treat them so well that they will never want to leave."

This has helped us keep a retention rate of over 95% over the years at Web N App.

Cultivated partnerships with clients inclusive of JPL, NatGeo, Apple, Turkish Airlines, and Saudi Investment bank to provide them with applications and web development.Created a skills enhancement program for our talent to encourage R&D and contributions to evolving technologies including AI, Machine Learning, Robotics and Blockchain. This got our team noticed by JPL (NASA) and we participated in multiple projects with them. Including the Sounding Rocket Payload launch at the Wallops Flight Facility in Virginia and the software automation elements of the MARS 2020 and Europa Missions with JPL Labs in Pasadena, California.

Using the proven testing methods, our global network and our custom designed software boot camps, I was able to reduce Web N App’s technical resource cost by over $6.2 Million per year.

HIGHLIGHT: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YUArrUh7eBc

Technical Scope: MEAN Stack, WordPress, PHP, Transactional Email (Sendgrid & Mandrill), Google Cloud Platform, Firebase

Business & Management Skills Used:Global Talent Recruitment, Strategic Technology Planning, Technology Development, Project/Product Management.

Spearheaded intensive project to provide National Geographic Channel SG with ability to engage online users with green action ticketing methods, replacing traditional sales techniques to sell tickets for Earth Day Run 2016.

Chief Technology Officer [CTOAAS]* (2015 – 2016)National Geographic, Singapore

Key Achievements:

HIGHLIGHT: Recognized by the National Geographic Channel SG Race Director and Regional CEO at the Earth Day Run Stagewith a ravishing review: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sc40YsC1Ck8

Worked closely with National Geographic team to identify and select ideal green action to apply duringsoftware architecture project.

Developed algorithms used to convert green actions to CO2 (Carbon Offset), and led development team in system deployment to issue tickets when 40 kg in carbon offset was reached.

Gained extensive recognition for project deliverables that prompted praise from National Geographic Channel SG, and additional project commissions from race director, Jonn Lu.

Technical Scope: Full-Stack, iOS, and Technical Architecture educator & advisor.

Trained and Developed the Web N App SA and Dev teams in the iOS Development practices. Created a robust iOS programming eco-system within Web N App and ingrained Apple’s Design and architectural standards within the ethos of our organization and projects. Our work got us noticed by Apple and landed one of our top developers an invite to contribute to improvement of Swift withApple in Cupertino.

Here are some of the highlights of the work our team members did:

Technology Consultant (May 2017– Aug 2017) Apple, Cupertino, CA

HIGHLIGHT: https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=24&v=xCauaoJn5f4

Key Achievements:

Swift CI Optimizations with Data Analysis.

Identified areas to optimize within the Swift continuous integration (CI) infrastructure by collecting and analyzing data provided by the CI.

Wrote a Python script to scrape and store metadata. The metadata was scraped from Jenkins (scheduling agent) and stored in a shared file system (NFS).

Wrote a Python script to parse relevant data from files within the NFS and push this data to a Postgres database. Note that these files were spread across the file system in various formats (i.e. xml, junit, logs etc.).

Wrote SQL queries to find data of interest for further analysis.

Created visual representations of the queried data. This helped the team draw conclusions about where to focus resources and/or restructure tests (to be parallelized).

Made optimizations to the scripts and the database forfaster data retrieval.

Startup Brunei wants to encourage the youth of Brunei to be more entrepreneurial. I helped to create a strategy and training programs for teaching the founders, contributors and volunteers on how to collaborate with industry experts to teach the youth of Brunei the skills needed to build next generation solutions.

Scope:Global Talent Recruitment, Employee Training Bootcamp StylePrograms. Strategic Technology Planning, TechnologyDevelopment, Project/Product Management.

As a result of the amazing work of our devs and senior team atthe NASA RockOn 2015 workshop at the NASA Wallops FlightFacility. We were able to get involved in the MARS 2020 andEuropa Missions by sending resources to NASA's JPL Labs inPasadena.

Senior Technical Consultant (Jan 2016– Apr 2016) NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA

Key Achievements:

Here are some of the highlights of the work ourteam members did:

End-To-End Testing for the Engineer ModelingSystem.

Wrote end-to-end tests for the view editor — thefrontend web portal within the EMS — usingProtractor and Jasmine test runners forAngularJS based web tools.

These projects supported the launch systems,Mars2020, Europa, and ARRM (Asteroid RoboticRetrieval Mission).

Technical Scope: Full-Stack, iOS, Android Development, and Technical Architecture educator & advisor.

Business & Management Scope:Global Talent Recruitment, Employee Training Bootcamp Style Programs. Strategic Technology Planning, Technology Development, Project/Product Management.

Create business resources and staff to operate successful venture providing mentorship-run accelerator program.

Co-Founder [CTOAAS]* (2017– Present) Startup Brunei, Brunei

Key Achievements:

Created first digital practical teaching accelerator program for nearly one-half million people to encourage entrepreneurship.

Bringing Top talent and professionals from the US who have worked at JPL (NASA), Apple, Google, Amazon and Microsoft to teach young entrepreneurs in this vibrant country.

Startup Brunei wants to encourage the youth of Brunei to be more entrepreneurial. I helped to create a strategy and training programs for teaching the founders, contributors and volunteers on how to collaborate with industry experts to teach the youth of Brunei the skills needed to build next generation solutions.

Collaborate closely with corporate decision makers and established networks to provide education and value-add services with start-up environment.

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Technical Scope: PowerShell, Cygwin, BASH Scripting, Eclipse IDE

Served as subject matter expert for DNS to gather requirements and establish scope of zone migration projects with external clients.

DNS Product Specialist (2013 – 2015)Corporation Service Company, DE

Standardized communication application to decrease annual costs by $500K, and that minimized hold loops incross-functional communication.

Key Achievements:

Automated report to minimize preparation time from over a week to three seconds.

Streamlined QA and QC procedures for more than 100,000 weekly zone file changes.

iOS and Web Development,Computer Science - Udemy

iOS, Android, and Web Development, Computer Science – Treehouse

Blockchain and BitcoinFundamentals - Udemy

EDUCATION AND CERTIFICATIONS

Technical Scope: WordPress, PHP, E-Commerce, Affiliate Tracking

Chief Software Architect (2008 – 2012)E-Tijarat, Canada

Key Achievements:

Successfully scaled the E-Tijaratonline portals to support over 1 million product offerings through various vendors and affiliate providers.

Feb 2010 -Dec 2012

May 2008 -Feb 2012

Sep 2005 –May 2008

Chief Software ArchitectE-Tijarat

Software EngineerE-Tijarat

Software DeveloperAbbasi industries

Harvard University- Extension School 2018 - 2020Graduate CertificateStrategic Management