Mueed Ahmed
[email protected] +91-8287014742
Professional Profile
A professional with total 20+ years of experience working in IT and Lab Informatics business . .
Over 12 year of experience exclusively in LIMS Operations, Analysing, Designing, Implementing,
supporting & Maintaining LIMS system in Textiles, Food, Clinical, Oil and Gas, Forensic sector.
International work experience at client location in Middle East/Singapore/Bangladesh for different
industries domains like Oil & Gas, Food, Clinical & Genetics etc.
Certified as STARLiMS Configuration and Application engineer.
Proficient with STARLiMS v8.0, v10.5, v11, v12.0
STARLiMS SDMS, STARLiMS ELN and STARLiMS mobility.
Work Experience Summary
Organization Duration Designation Held
Tata Consultancy Services May’2016 to Till Date Associate Consultant
Neoscience Group of Companies - UAE July’2013 to May’2016 Technical Analyst
Gulf Scientific Corporation (GSC)-UAE Sep’2009 to July'2013 Technical Analyst
STARLiMS Asia Pacific-Hong Kong Jun’2008 to Aug’2009 LIMS-Developer
Satyam Computers Services Ltd. Apr’ 2008 to May’2008 LIMS-Developer
SGS India Pvt. Ltd. Computer Operator/
Nov 1999 to Feb 2008 LIMS-Coordinator
Hindustan Computer Media Jan 1998 to Aug 1999 Computer Operator
Supreme Metal Works Oct 1995 to Dec 1997 Computer Operator
Key Roles/Experience in Laboratory Application (LIMS)
STARLIMS Implementation and Upgrades
Design & Development in STARLIMS Application.
Configuration and Maintenance.
Third party application interface with STARLIMS Application
Application Transition and support
Offshore/Onsite Support and Maintenance.
User training and Development of LIMS resources
LIMS Competencies and Skills
Product/Application Company
STARLiMS v8,v10,v11,v12(XFD,HTML5) Abbott Informatics.(STARLiMS- A Product line of AI)
STARLiMS SDMS, ELN and Mobility Abbott Informatics.(STARLiMS- A Product line of AI)
STARLiMS XFD GUI Designer/Scripting Language (SSL) Abbott Informatics.(STARLiMS- A Product line of AI)
and SL HTML5, SL Web Services/API (SOAP, RESTFUL)
SampleManager v2002/2003/2004 and VGL Thermo Fisher Scientific.
Technical skills
Programming Languages STARLIMS Scripting Language (SSL) , STARLIMS HTML5
,STARLIMS client Script(JScript) . Sample Manager(VGL), SQL,
Oracle PL/SQL, Java Script, HTML
Reporting Tools SAP Crystal Reports
Current Company Project Profile
Project : Transition of LIMS Application
Role Application Technical Transition Member/Lead Lab Informatics (LIMS)
Client Eli Lilly and Company, GlaxoSmithKline (GSK)
Duration July to September 2020 and February to April 2021
Environment Software’s : Darwin LIMS (A Thermo Fisher Product)
LabVantage LIMS
Contribution
Responsible to understand client business process and application functionality and ensure for
smooth transition of LIMS Application to service delivery team .
Responsible for conducting a detailed LIMS application due diligence on the scope of work and
specific area to be transitioned.
Responsible for preparation of transition documents like Document of Understanding , Transition
plan checklist, WSR and Playback Session documents etc.
Providing inputs (Risks/Actions/Issues/Decision/Success) in Daily/Weekly calls meetings with
relevant stakeholders
Responsible for coaching the team to understand technical and functional process implemented in
LIMS and its Interfaces and ensure best practices are applied in accordance to methodology and
quality assurance parameters.
Responsible to ensure that playback sessions are conducted to confirm understanding and ability to
manage and support application independently .
Project Name: Roll out of STARLIMS Stability Studies solution
Role STARLIMS Techno Functional SME
Client Bayer Business Services GmbH
Duration Dec -2019 – July 2020
Environment Software’s : STARLIMS QM v12 (XFD and HTML5)
Database : Oracle 12.2.01.0 (Enterprise Edition)
O/s : Microsoft Azure Window Server 2016
Contribution
Responsible to understand the client’s business requirement to provide the solution aligned to Out of
the Box functionality of STARLIMS Stability Solutions .
Responsible to incorporate the gaps in OOTB solutions through designing and development for the
implementation of forthcoming versions
Responsible for set up of STARLIMS QM v12 (XFD and HTML5) Application/Services installation and
Upgrade .
Responsible for designing business specific custom Crystal Report Development
Responsible for preparation and execution of IQs, Design documents and other validation
documentation.
Responsible providing Technical support (Workflow bug analysis, investigation and fixing) in SIT,UAT
and client queries
Responsible for defect-free releases through careful planning, testing and QA efforts
Project Name: LIMS Application Support and Maintenance – STARLIMS, SDMS
Role STARLIMS Technical Consultant
BASF Germany
Duration Aug -2018 – Nov 2019
Environment Software’s : STARLIMS QM v11, SDMS v8
Database : Oracle 12.2.01.0 (Enterprise Edition)
O/s : Microsoft Azure Window Server 2012
Contribution
Responsible to provide the offshore L1/L2/L3 support.
Responsible to manage and assign the incidents logs to team raised by client and ensure that the
task complete on time as agreed in SLA.
Responsible to work with team to create and implementation on Process Improvement in current life
cycle of in LIMS.
Responsible to design and configuration of new requirements of STARLIMS and SDMS workflows
application
Responsible to provide the technical consultancy in reverse carve-out transition of STARLIMS and
SDMS applications from Cloud environment to BASF on-Premise environment
Responsible for delivery of the system to client within the time frame
Project Name: STARLIMS Application CarveOut and Migration from On-Premise to Azure
Cloud
Role STARLIMS Technical Lead
Client Bayer Business Services GmbH
Duration Mar-2017 – Aug 2018
Environment Software’s : STARLIMS QM v11, SDMS v8
Database : Oracle 12.2.01.0 (Enterprise Edition)
O/s : Microsoft Azure Window Server 2012 ,
Contribution
Provided technical assistance in all phases of the application analysis and migration strategies of
LIMS application from On-Premise to Azure Cloud
Understanding the client’s requirement and gaps thoroughly to provide the best service in
development and implementation of forthcoming versions
STARLIMS Application/Services installation and Upgrade
As application specialist guided team for setup and configuration of LIMS application on Azure Cloud
environment
Successfully completed Configuration and interface of 100+ instruments located on local site within
LIMS hosted on Cloud .
Designed and interfaced additional scripts for newly installed instruments in Labs
Migration of STARLIMS SDMS from On-Premise to Azure and upgrade with higher version with
additional customization.
Configured and interfaced LIMS application with third party application using STARLIMS SOAP web
services.
Successfully rollout STARLIMS application to replace ICD-PALLAS LIMS application at new German
Site .
Ensured defect-free releases through careful planning, testing and QA efforts.
Handled High priority Incidents after Go-Live in Hyper Care period for customers , like performance
specific issues, unwanted error messages , scheduled sample archival issue , user access issue per
the need, adding functionality to Sample Management Module as per Business requirements.
Project : LIMS Application Support and Maintenance - SampleManager
Role Process /Application Support (LIMS).
Chemours – United States of America (USA)
Duration May-2016 to Feb 2017
Environment Software’s : SampleManager v2002/2003/2004, Integration Manager
and ILM.
Database : Oracle
O/s : Windows 2008 Server / Window 7 Enterprise
Contribution
Responsible to provide the offshore L1/L2 support.
Responsible to manage and assign the incidents logs to team raised by client and ensure that the
task complete on time as agreed in SLA.
Responsible to report weekly status report (WSR) and Monthly status report to (MSR) to client and
management.
Responsible to work with team to create and implementation on Process Improvement in current life
cycle of in LIMS.
Responsible for delivery of the system to within the time frame.
Previous Experience & Projects
Comapy Name Start & End Role Project Summary
Date
Neo-Science 22/07/2013 Technical Qatar Biomedical Research Institute (QBRI) –
Group of to Analyst/ Qatar
Companies, 08/05/2016 Developer STARLIMS, SDMS 1.6, ELN – Upgradation from Clinical
Dubai v10 to v11 and implementation of Mobility features
TASNEE–Saudi Arabia
Implementation of STARLIMS QM v11 , SDMS 1.6.1.36
for petrochemicals ,chemical business workflows
Abu Dhabi Judicial Department (UAE)
Implementation of STARLIMS Forensic V11 system for
Forensic lab to increase lab efficiency and automation
in Toxicology and Chemistry lab
Ministry of Public Works (Kuwait)
Roll out of STARLIMS QM v10 , SDMS , Crystal Reports
for the computerization and automation of Quality Lab
Gulf Scientific 01/09/2009 Technical National Rehabilitation Centre – NRC – (Abu
Corporation to Analyst/ Dhabi)
(GSC) Dubai 14/07/2013 Developer This project aims to complete computerization of lab
process with implementation of Clinical STARLiMS .
Synchronization/Interface of STARLiMS application
with third party application like Medez (HIS) system
and Lab Instruments.
Shafallah Genetics & Medical Center (Qatar)
Implementation STARLIMS Clinical v10, SDMS 1.4 and
ELN for their Genetics research and Diagnostic lab to
handle their complex workflows and handle their
research repositories to eliminate paperless
environment.
Qatar Gas (Qatar)
Enhancement and Upgrade of StarLIMS V9 to
STARLIMS v10 . Migration of data , reports and client
Solution business workflows and instrument interface done to
Designer enhance the LIMS functionality all across client
sampling plant.
ARAMCO – (Saudi Arabia)
Implementation of STARLIMS v10 and designed and
configured the application functionality and Crystal
Reports
Gulf Scientific Abu Dhabi Food Control Authority – UAE
Corporation Implementation of STARLIMS v10 and designed and
(GSC) Dubai configured the application Test workflows, calculation
and interfaces functionality.
STARLIMS Asia 15/06/2008 LIMS Health and Science Authority Singapore
Pacific Limited to Developer (Narcotics1-Lab)
(Hong Kong) 31/08/2009 Computerization of the Lab Process of 11 Laboratories.
Work with project team in configuring and developing
functionalities for web-based STARLIMS project and
conducted unit testing. create the UAT Test cases .
Satyam 02/04/2008 Developer Worked for Satyam Computer Services as developer
Computer to and for support of LIMS application and maintenance
Services 30/05/2008 activities.
SGS India Pvt 01/11/1999 LIMS SGS Bangladesh – Dhaka
Ltd to Coordinator Roll out of StarLIMS v8 in Textile lab and designed and
24/03/2008 configured the application to meet and effectively
manage the sample and associated data further
inspection purpose.
SGS India Pvt Ltd- All India
Roll out of StarLIMS v8 in Textile lab to replace the
legacy PCLIMS to StarLims 8.0.
Configuration of Tests/Methods/Test Profiles and static
data modules etc
After Go-Live support and maintenance of the
application .
Hindustan 01/01/1998 Computer Worked as computer operator
Computer Media to Operator
31/08/1999
Supreme Metal 01/10/1995 Computer Worked as Computer Operator
Works to Operator
31/12/1997
Academics
Bachelor of Commerce from Delhi University.
Intermediate from CBSE, Delhi
Secondary School Certificate from CBSE, Delhi.
Personal Information
Date of Birth 5TH August 1973
Gender Male
Nationality Indian
Marital Status Married
Email
[email protected]Mobile +91-9911937937
