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"Knowledge is the key to success"

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Waheed Rafiq  with Amir Khan photo take at a friend's house for a charity event.

About Waheed Rafiq

Waheed Rafiq is a highly adaptable and capable individual with 5 years of software experience, delivering leading applications. He has worked in the IT industry since the age of seventeen as a self-employed contractor for companies, such as Capita, Strictly Education, and Kalamazoo.
 Waheed Rafiq has a proven ability to grasp new ideas and concepts. He has develop innovative and creative solutions to  a highly complex problems. This is displayed in the form of his start-up company BlindX3 Ltd and Odonata Technologies Ltd,  of which Waheed Rafiq is a CEO and a Director of Software Engineering. The project was developed in his Foundation Degree course creating a Smart Cane known as ‘XploR’. He has gained a wealth of knowledge in Computer Vision by using OpenCV.  Waheed Rafiq is not only a self-motivated and diligent individual, but capable of working under pressure as a member of a team. During the recent credit crunch, Waheed Rafiq was made redundant; he decided to further his education which is why he is looking to expand an already significant career in software engineering to new opportunities that will prove to be both a professional and personal challenge to him.

Career Ambitions

Once Waheed Rafiq successfully finishes his BSc (Hons) Computer Science Degree in 2017, his ambition is to join a software engineering company that will not only expand his current knowledge in software engineering but also provide a challenge on a personal level.  He wants to become a successful top ranking coder within the industry which hopefully will lead  him to becoming a successful managing director of a company.

​Key Skills that will Support his Career Ambitions

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In Waheed’s early teen years he studied C/C++ NVQ Level 2 at Kalamazoo Reynolds in Selly Oak Birmingham. Once he completed his course he was given the opportunity to become a trainer and gain D12/D13, a trainer qualification. Waheed Rafiq also has other software languages skills:
  • VB.NET​ , ASP.NET ,CSS , XML ,HTML and C#.
He is also able to create apps for the Windows Phone store.
In addition to this Waheed Rafiq has great interest in Robotics and is also studying Computer Vision and OpenCV as a research student at Birmingham City University.

CNN.com

"The researchers -- Waheed Rafiq, Steve Adigbo, and Richard Howlett -- are in the process of building the XploR, a "smart" cane that's embedded with a camera, facial recognition software, and GPS."

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