Career DRIVE at NED University

Are you concern about what is required to get jobs in the industry?
Do you have any query related to your project?
Are you confused in selection of career path?
Do you any query related to further studies?

We have heard you…

DevNext User Group is proud to bring you “Career DRIVE”, a career counseling session for computer engineers at NED University of Engineering and Technology, Karachi.

GET a chance to meet with successful professionals and entrepreneurs before starting your professional life.

Date: January 28, 2012.

Timings: 1:45 PM TO 3:30 PM - including Question & Answer session.

Venue: Lecture Hall, CIS Department.

Targeted Audience: Preferably Third year and Final year students enrolled in CIS or CIT program

Invited Mentors

Adil Ahmed Mughal

Adil has more than 5 years of experience as Software Engineer & is currently playing role of Architect at Telenor Pakistan. He graduated in Computer Science from University of Karachi and has completed MS from FAST- NUCES. Due to his technical leadership in online and offline technical communities, he has been thrice awarded as Microsoft Most Valuable Professional (MVP) by Microsoft Corporation.  He is also International .NET Association (INETA) User Group Leader and shares his experience on software construction at http://www.adilmughal.com

Faisal Nasim

Faisal is a graduate of NED University and currently working in Microsoft (HQ) as Software Development Engineer in Bing Team.

Laiq Ahmed

Laiq have more than 5 years of industry experience. He is currently working in Matrix Systems as Principal Software Engineer, leading VC++ and Java teams. He has been a visiting faculty member of University of Karachi.

Munir Usman

Munir is the founder and CEO of Pi Labs, a mobile development company based in Asia. He has many years of experience in Web and Mobile development in consumer and enterprise domain and his company has recently launched a popular iPhone game "Candy Pot'. Munir has also been awarded Microsoft MVP award fifth time in 2012 and he is an active member in Microsoft developer communities in Pakistan. His profile can be accessed at http://about.me/munir

Few Words from Organizers This is an outstanding opportunity to interact with renowned professionals of industry coming exclusively for NEDians. This is an absolutely FREE opportunity for students to reach great mentors and ask YOUR career related query. So make the most of it!

Connecting Your Apps with Database

On the feedback of students, on 6th October 2011, DevNext volunteers at NED organized a free session for students of Computer and Information System (CIS) to help them in their project work and to especially answer their “How to” queries in connecting their applications with different database systems such as MS SQL Server, MySQL, and Oracle.

Following was the agenda of the session:

• The Client-Server Syndrome
• Most widely used Databases
• Setting up Development Environment
• [DEMO] Connecting web apps with Databases
• HTML5/JavaScripts/PHP/ASP.NET
• Sql Server Express, MySQL, Oracle Express

We would like to thank our speaker “Waqas Yousuf” for his valuable investment of time and also appreciate our volunteers for organizing such great session. We have received a very positive feedback about the session and students have shown their interest in more such sessions.

Sample code demonstrated is available on speaker’s blog.

About DevNext User Group:

DevNext is a user group which has been created with the intention of providing a platform for the Next Generation Designers & Developers sharing and discussing knowledge regarding different tools and technologies. Our mission from inception has been to develop a peer group of developers, designers, architects, and managers who are interested in learning, sharing and growing their knowledge and capabilities. The group’s vision is to provide members with a forum to hear from industry experts who are interested in the same technologies as you and are facing the same challenges.

Interested in organizing technology sessions in your University? Please contact us at contact@devnextug.org and we will be happy to assist you.

Sessions on Web Development using ASP.NET

On request of students from NED University of Engineering and Technology, DevNext User Group recently organized two day sessions on Web Development using ASP.NET at NED University. The sessions were held on 12th and 19th March, 2011.

The purpose of facilitating such sessions was to provide students firm understanding of web architecture and development using HTML, JavaScript, CSS and ASP.NET.

We would like to thank speaker and our volunteers at NED University for organizing such useful sessions.

About Speaker:

Mr. Anas Raza is a graduate in Computer and Information System from NED University and currently working as Software Engineer at ITIM Pakistan.

About DevNext User Group:

DevNext is a user group which has been created with the intention of providing a platform for the Next Generation Designers & Developers sharing and discussing knowledge regarding different tools and technologies. Our mission from inception has been to develop a peer group of developers, designers, architects, and managers who are interested in learning, sharing and growing their knowledge and capabilities. The group’s vision is to provide members with a forum to hear top industry experts speak, learn and teach others who are interested in the same technologies as you and are facing the same challenges.

Interested in organizing technology sessions in your University? Please contact us at contact@devnextug.org and we will be happy to assist you.

Announcement: DevNext Student Volunteers for Year 2011

Like each year, we are glad to announce “DevNext Student Volunteers” for the year 2011. DevNext volunteers are selected on the basis of their interest and passion to serve their University and indirectly to overall students’ community by working in collaboration with DevNext User Group Leader, industry experts and other volunteers. These volunteers are expected to organize and arrange fruitful sessions for students of their respected Universities that are related to Science, Technology, Career and Project work.

Following are the selected volunteers from different Universities:

University of Karachi

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Umair Ahmed

I am doing BS(Computer Science) from University Of Karachi & also giving services to Super Softz IT Solution as a Web Developer. I actively Participated in the All Pakistan Programming Competition".

I have interested in Oracle Database 10g , iPhone Development, Windows Phone 7 Development and Cloud Computing.

email: umair.ahmed@devnextug.org

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NED University of Engineering and Technology

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Kiran Fatima

Hi, I'm Kiran Fatima, student of Computer Information System Department at NED University of Engineering and Technology. I have great interest in programming and Web designing.  And I want to pursue my professional career in the field of Software Engineering.

I enjoy working on Programming based languages and I am working hard to be an expert. Besides it; I am good in communication and have great problems solving skills. I like to take responsibility and always persist with the task until it is achieved.

I am not an expert photographer; however, I have great interest in photography. I always try to take snaps following the rules of professional photography and mostly everyone likes the snaps I take.

email: kiran.fatima@devnextug.org

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Maria Shah

Me (Maira Shah) the student of Third Year (CS-122), CIS (Computer information Systems), NED University Of Engineering And Technology, introducing my self for being part of DevNext User Group

Fields of Interests

• Event Management And Organization
• Site Management and Collaboration

email: maira.shah@devnextug.org

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Naresh Kumar

I am very interested in mobile networking and cloud computing, which is the current trend. I am student of third year of Computer Engineering and I have done internship in summer of second year.

My hobbies are surfing, hang out with friends, go out wherever possible and adjust quickly with new people and make friends. Passionate about me and others to get to know well about their field so that they could make out something innovative and competitive, want to know about the latest technology developed in the world.

Most of the times attend each IT seminar to get well to know in which direction we are heading through.  I read computer magazines like Spider, dawn newspaper, articles etc. I mostly like to know and understand the human nature.

email: naresh.kumar@devnextug.org

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Supporting Team: Daniyal M.Idrees, Fahad Uddin, Ingila Ejaz, Madiha Anwer, Maha Toor, Mariyum Sabir, Rabia Qaiser, Saad Muhammad Ali, Rahmeen Ahmed Khan, Shahroze Jamil, Umm e farwa, Wajiha ahmed, Yasra Ahmed, Yusra Adil.

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PAF-KIET

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Muhammad Umair

My Name is Muhammad Umair and i am studying at PAF-KIET.I am doing bachelors in Computer Science.I like to develop games on mobile and computer platform.

To keep me update i mostly read blogs,online magazines specially game developer magazine.

email: muhammad.umair@devnextug.org

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We would like to Thank all the volunteers for their interest and we expect a lot from them.

In case you are very passionate to serve the community and wanted to participate as volunteer, please email us at contact@devnextug.org providing your Name, University, Email, Profile Picture, Cell # and above all answer to our question “Why you want to become DevNext Volunteer?”

Good Luck!

DevNext NED Volunteers’ Meet up

As the new academic year begins, DevNext volunteers at NED University had a small meet up to discuss about the role of new volunteer force of DevNext at NED.

Adil Mughal, DevNext User Group Leader, discussed with new volunteers about the User Groups, INETA, and DevNext history in NED. Adil talked about how DevNext is serving students by providing a platform for them and what they can do to serve the students community.

As always, It is great having an interaction with future engineers. We hope that new volunteers will play a better role in serving their University and community.