You should meet me first
Last 17 years in web development were tough, however I learnt a lot. The tough job includes, Learning, Training, Programming, Marketing and growing my own business.
ABOUT ME
You should meet me first
Who is Shahzad Mirza? Shahzad Mirza lives in Lahore, Pakistan since last 22 years. Currently he is 39 old with 2 daughters and 2 sons at home.
Back in 2000 he started learning about computers when he bought his first computer. The learning started from computer hardware first and then continued learning web designing/development from 2002. His first job as a web developer in SoftSole helped him skyrocket his knowledge about programming website in HTML professionally.
The Journey continued while he did his Masters degree in computer science from University of Punjab. The hardest part of life was to continue job with study, but he was able to manage it the hard way.
Soon after his study was complete, He started to jump on the career surface and climbed up several steps. He tried to start his own web development agency in 2005, 2007, 2010 but failed until 2012 came with a good news.
In 2012 he started Designs Valley with a team of only 3 people. The journey started again and the team grew to 23 we programmers, designers and SEO specialists.
Currently, he is training local people and letting them grab a new opportunity to start a bright web development career.
MY SKILLS
What I do the best
xHTML / CSS
Shahzad started programming early in 2002. His job in Softsole helped him hone his front-end skills in those really early days of web development.
JavaScript / jQuery
Learning JavaScript was a fun in early days. Back in those days Java applets were so much common in web applications. When jQuery emerged into the market, Shahzad learnt that too,
PHP / MySQL
In 2004, Shahzad learnt PHP and other programming languages. Soon he chose PHP as his primary skill. He was able to develop large scale, mobile apps, SMS apps and websites using PHP + Mysql
WordPress
During last 17 years of his career, Shahzad was able to build several hundred websites based on WordPress platform. He also builds WordPress plugins as well WordPress themes.
Adobe Photoshop
Since his career started from web designing, Shahzad is able to design modern websites in Adobe Photoshop while maintaining all the UI/ UX elements intact.
Education
MAY 2004
Punjab University
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Master of Computer Science (MCS)
Met the modern needs to join IT industry as professional, so completed my MCS (Masters in Computer Sciences) from Punjab University while gaining professional and practical experience in some development company.
APR 2003
Edge Systems
PHP + Mysql Developer
While having learned skills regarding graphics and web designing, I started learning PHP + Mysql development to develop dynamic websites.
JAN 2003
Edge Systems
Web Designing
As a computer geek I was having built in charm for going into the professional environment so I started learning graphics and web designing which included most of the top designing tools for the time being. I tried to build excellence and applied the skills to some freelance jobs in Royal park, lahore.
WORK
Where did I get experience
APR 2012 - PRESENT
Designs Valley
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Founder & CEO - Designs Valley
Designs Valley was originally found by Shahzad Ahmad Mirza in 2005. Several times during this, the company ran out of money. Shahzad joined other companies for a while and came back to Designs Valley in 2012. Since then, he is serving as CEO. His vision and efforts resulted into a well established IT company. The staff was scaled from 1 man to 26 IT professionals.
JAN 2010 - APR 2012
AEON Technologies
Manager Development
I am working currently as Team leader here at AEON Technologies, here I have personally developed and managed with my team to produce high quality SMS and MMS based web applications for leading telecom operators in Pakistan.
Projects
- SMS based extensive survey application
- Bulk SMS application for corporate clients
- Property match application
- MLM application for Telecom in Saudia
APR 2009 - NOV 2010
GLOBAL SOFTWARE HOUSE
Senior PHP Developer
I worked in GLOBAL SOFTWARE HOUSE as senior web developer and gained much more experience of international projects.
Projects
- vistarealty.net (a real estate site)
- get2top.net (a SEO services site)
- Subterfugethegame.com (a game site)
- ireadquran.com (a site for lerning quran online)
NOV 2007 - APR 2008
COMSIT College, Lahore
PHP Developer
it was a part time job and my duties was to Work own projects assigned by my boss residing in Dubai, and to invoke talent in new employees.
MAR 2005 - AUG 2008
PICIT (Lahore)
Senior Trainor (Web Development)
I was training people to lead them to web development jobs. in Comsit College I trained about 50 dozen people in different sessions.
APR 2002 - FEB 2005
Softsole (Lahore)
Web Developer
It was my starting point where I did many mistakes and my senors taught me very well as I was polished to look for new horizons.
Address
7 Nargis Block, Hafeez Taaib Road, Allama Iqbal town, Lahore
Phone
+92 321 429-3070
designsvalley@yahoo.com