An Interview With Omer Ghauri

Interviewed by: Yasir Saeed

Strengthening its ties with the leading Software House of Pakistan, CodeWeek landed in Netsol this week. Always welcoming our team with great enthusiasm this place is loaded with success stories.

To prove our claim we bring to you, Omer Ghauri, Vice-President Netsol. He has been associated with the software house since the past six years. Being a tech geek he knows how to use technology for enhancing and improving business productivity. Yasir caught him in his office and brought Omer Ghauri’s inspiring words with him for CodeWeek’s readers.

CodeWeek: Briefly tell us about you, your family background, your education from beginning to the last highest degree earned?

Omer: I was brought up in Karachi and moved to Lahore after my O’ level’s. Soon after, I applied to James Madison University in Virginia (U.S.A) where I completed my undergrad in Computer Information Systems and Finance in 2002.

CodeWeek: What attracted you to the specific field of Software Development?

Omer: I was really infatuated with the idea of using technology to improve business productivity in organizations. Software development became an area of interest as time went by.

CodeWeek: What would you tell budding Software enthusiasts as to what is Software Development?

Omer: Most of the people feel that Software Development relates only with programming but software development includes all activities that results in software products. This includes research, development, re-engineering, maintenance, management or any other activities that result in software products. If you have out of box thinking and have new ideas you can excel in this field very rapidly.

CodeWeek: Tell us about major personal achievements in your life.

Omer: Honestly, I have a long way to go before I answer this question truthfully. Since I have to answer, I would say that I am extremely proud to successfully leading a group of 250 I.T professional from various backgrounds and maintain our 100% software development delivery record.

CodeWeek: What is your broad perception about the Software Engineering community in Pakistan as it stands today?

Omer: Pakistani Software Engineers have proven their abilities world widely and they are doing very well in world leading Software Organizations like MicroSoft, Sun , Oracle etc.  Pakistan Software Community is doing good job but their should be more interaction within the community  to server the information and  career-development needs of today’s computing researchers and practitioners with technical journals, magazines, conferences, books, conference publications,

CodeWeek: According to you, which technology is the need of future that our young professionals must adopt to excel?

Omer: Technologies are rapidly changing, day by day we have new software’s, languages and various products. Instead of any computer technology specific there is a need to make your designing and architecture skills strong. Until and unless you never know about the designing you cannot go for further. So the youngsters must adopt the new trends but they should focus more towards the software architecture and design.

Omer: No doubt, the Government is taking steps to promote IT sector but we feel that one area of field is still untouched and that is of need of Research Centers in Pakistan. Government should take steps to establish the research centers in IT sector where the talented minds can enhance and polish their abilities.

CodeWeek: What are critical points for sound Software Development?

Omer: As I said before that Software Development includes all activities that results in software products it’s a team work and each section is equally important. However our experience shows Requirement Gathering and Software designing need some extra care.  In nutshell each phase of Software Development is critical.

CodeWeek: What are major responsibilities of Development Manager or Project Manager heading a Team?

Omer: Development Manager plays a very important role during software development life cycle. He is responsible for ensuring the coordination of various development efforts that take place in parallel on the projects and ensuring that we are proceeding with tasks in the proper order and with the proper priority. Development manager assembles and manages the team of IT professionals during software development and act as a technical mentor to their developers. He plans and implements policies and procedures for Information system development.

CodeWeek: What are your personal professional plans for the immediate future for the next 10 years?

Omer: I plan on doing my executive M.B.A in the immediate future. In the years to come, I see myself leading a successful organization.

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