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Hi,
I am tempted by the “Dubai Experience”, I am French currently living in UK. Having browsed some recruitment agencies, I’ve found that diploma and degrees are often required. As a self made Architect/Software and Web Developer, I do not have any degrees though I’ve a strong experience.
I have enclosed my CV, I would like you to tell me if I could find a position related to my experience and expertise in Dubai and what range of salary I can expect as this aspect is almost never disclosed in offers.
Thanks a lot for your help.

TECHNICAL ARCHITECT – TEAM LEADER
ASP.NET - ADO.NET - C SHARP - ASP - SQL SERVER

PERSONAL PROFILE
Enthusiastic, organised and efficient with very strong software and web development skills coupled with good problem solving experience and time management abilities. Highly effective planning and organisational skills with good management and leadership competences.
Working very well on my own initiative or as a part of a professional team.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

DEVELOPMENT LANGUAGES Practised for
Ajax 6 months
ASP.NET 2, AJAX using Anthem, DOJO and Atlas libraries 1 years
SQL Server 7 & 2000/2005 , TSQL, Stored Procedures 7 years
ASP.NET , C#, Framework 1.1, CVS (source safe) 7 years
JavaScript, VBScript
More than 50 Web sites developed in JavaScript & VBScript 7 years
Visual Basic 2 years
ASP.Net, ADO.Net, C Sharp, Web forms, Windows forms, NanT, NuniT, SOAP Web Services, XSLT and XPath 4 years
PHP with Apache Server for Windows 1 year
Visual Interdev, Visual Studio.Net 2003 & 2005 5 years
SERVER ADMINISTRATION
Win 2K Pro with DNS administration & Win 2003 5 years
OTHERS
Microsoft Office
Project
Visio
Good skills in hardware

TYPE OF APPLICATIONS DEVELLOPED
Dotnet Middleware component for Local Authorities and Large scale organisation
Shopping cart for e-commerce
E-learning based on ASP technology
Web interfaces for SQL Navision
EDI system for superstore network (Monoprix France)
Suppliers applications: Invoicing and account data importing

CAREER HISTORY
Till today Islington council: EGOV
London
Team Leader/Architect
 Integration of my e-booking Solution, interfaced with HR Repository for internal users and CRM System for external citizens.
Skills used:
• ASP.net 1.0
• VS2003
• C#
• XML
• HTML
• CSS
• JavaScript
• AJAX
• CVS (source safe) and Nant to deploy all projects

 e-forms Framework, those tools allow Islington’s officers to manage and request changes for all forms provided by Islington’s services
Skills used:
• SQLServer 2005
• ASP.net 2
• XML
• HTML
• CSS,
• JavaScript.
• CVS (source safe) and Nant to deploy all project


Since March 05 Government Connect Project
London
Technical Architect
Technical architect for the national “Single Employee Account” (SEA) Project. The aim of the project is to incorporate all employees’ related transactions under a single sign-on authority using SAML Assertion.
The SEA will enable access to complete transactions using GC Exchange.
 In charge for the technical workflow process, requirements and project phases.
 Component definition and use cases for prototypes
Skills used:
• Microsoft Visio to define process and model,
• VS2003 using web Service capabilities to test the XML Frame Relay provided by the Government Gateway
• Web Service to communicate with LGOLNET (messaging software available for all local authorities)

From 10/2004 ISLINGTON Council: HR Department
Islington (London)
Team leader .net
Development of several applications from scratch. Requirements and specifications analysis
 Framework creation
 Data Access Layer, Business Layer, Network Authentication to provide Single Sign On.
 Employees Annual Leaves: Application to manage Employees Annual Leaves including requests from employees, validation from Managers and automatic management of holiday balance, long service, privilege days
 Performance Appraisal: Application to follow up Employees’ ways of working, set up targets and post managers’ comments and reports.
 Eskills: Application to assess Employees skills
Skills used:
• VS2003/2005 based on C# language
• Framework 1.1/2
• SQLServer 2000/2005 TSQL, Stored Procedure, Function and Views
• HTML , CSS and JavaScript
• Web Service and Remoting
• CVS (source safe) and Nant to deploy all project

In the meantime, development of an Ebooking application in .net and Ajax
Application designed to allow organisations and people to manage and book rooms, appointments, courses and generic resources.
Possibility to book catering and material with rooms. Automatic management of stocks and availabilities.
Budget code management, Secured On line payment.
This application is currently commercialised for Local Authorities as well as private companies by an European scale group Sopra.

Skills Used:
• VS2003 based on C#
• SQLServer 2000,TSLQ, UDF, Stored Procedures, View
• AJAX by using Anthem and DOJO library for client facing
• CVS (source safe) and Nant to deploy all project
This application can be reached at www.ebookingsolution.co.uk

11/2003
to
09/2004 ISLINGTON Council : TSG Team
Islington (London)
.net developer
 Eforms implementer
 Developement of Middleware components
 XML Web Services developed for the CRM system
Skills used:
• VS2003 based on C# language
• WebService XML
• HMTL, Css and Javascript
• Visual Source Safe integrated with Visual Studio

2002-2003 “Sabbatical” Year in UK spent to learn English

2001-2002 VEDIALOG : Web company specialized in E-learning applications
Marseille - Paris (France)
Technical Director
 E-learning web site development, fully interactive with real-time calculation and display results
 Defining customers’ requirements and specifications and responsible for the system life cycle
 Designers’ and programmers’ teams management

Skills used:
• Visual Interdev
• SQLServer 7.5 and 2000
• Web development based on ASP technologies
• HTML, Css and JavaScript
2000-2001 SA CHD-Net : Start-up company, Development of a market place with E-shop for catering business network
Marseille (France)
Project Manager
On line shopping and real time processing for web sites, professional estate agent, recruitment agencies
Defining customers’ requirements and specifications, choice of software and languages development
 Designers’ and programmers’ teams management

Skills used:
• Visual Interdev
• SQLServer 7.5 and 2000
• Web development based on ASP technologies
• HTML, Css and JavaScript
1997-2000 SARL PACA On Line : Web designer company
Draguignan (France)
Manager
Development and design for commercial, professional and local authorities web sites.
 Defining customers’ requirements and specifications and responsible for the system life cycle
Provide lectures and seminar for students on HTML and introduction to DBMS
Organizing & coordinating Internet Show: Budget’s negotiation, liaising with equipment’s supplier, trainings for students and attendee

1990-1996 Ent. de Ferronnerie Anaïs Draguignan (France)
Self employed
As a wrought-iron craftsman

Hi, your CV looks good, i'm also in the IT industry and on Wednesday i'll be in Dubai to look for a job. I was trying to find a job for many months now, since i mention in my cover letters that i will be in Dubai in a few days i had already my first invitations for interviews.

I believe you can find a good salary and some good benefits as well with your experience, but i don't think that you can make it from distance, you have to take the plane and go to Dubai and your chances will be much higher. If you want i would be more than happy to help you by giving you some links where you can upload your cv and find a job, just PM me and let me know.

Regarding salary this is something you can find from someone who's already in this industry and most probably knows much better the name of the game, here in DF you'll find many members to help you.

Happy hunting my friend

Welcome to the forum.

I also have no degree and was self made like yourself (I worked my way up within the industry and learnt on the job). I work in the IT side of telecommunications and I have a lot of experience in the industry. I started off in support and then moved into development and now work as Technical lead (a job which has taken me round the globe). My company agreed for me to relocate to the UAE rather then lose me.

Whilst feeling a bit inquisitive I put my CV out onto monsterjobsgulf with the view to landing something new in the UAE. I also applied directly to 3 jobs where I could have easily walked into an interview and shown real examples of meeting the skills required.

I heard nothing back from the 3 jobs, was offered no work in Dubai unfortunately. My CV however made it into the main monster job pool. The next day my phone rang 7 times with offers of work in the UK. One recruitment clerk asked if i would consider and interview if the airfare back to the UK was covered for me . Since then I still get a least 1 to 2 calls a day with offers in the UK.

Now my assumption is that no offers have come to me as a degree is seen as vital in Dubai, especially in a technical position. In the UK this is no longer the case. Most companies will put experience over a degree, and a degree is more of a plus. I can say this first hand after talking to a lot of people in the industry.

Another factor is Dubai is close to India which is producing a huge amount of qualified engineers. They will work for half the money of a European.

I would recommend that if you do look for work in Dubai, you look to hooking up with the main US / European players - such as HP, Microsoft, LogicaCMG etc etc. You will get a far better package.

However after saying all the above you should go for it still, as you never know what may be out here for you. But my feeling is that the days of landing the great package in Dubai are numbered (unless you are in upper management or construction).

Others may prove me wrong though and your mileage may vary.

Sidenote; Ajax rocks, I have been using Ajax in the ruby / rails framework and love it.