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