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Marzieh's first experience of using Animoto website. Click here to view. It is called "The way we are".
Contact
My name is Hossein Ghodsi (حسین قدسي). I am a graduate student of e-Commerce at the University of Aberdeen and am currently working on a project basis for a global integrated Communication, Multimedia Design, e-learning consultancy, called The Fifth Business Ltd as a project developer.
Uni Related:
MSc, e-Commerce
I am a graduate student of the University of Aberdeen with a distinction in MSc e-Commerce in September 2009. My dissertation topic was Flickr RecSys : Flickr Recommendation System. The project abstract:
This project investigated recommending people on Flickr.com. Flickr is a photo sharing website. The Flickr Recommender System (Flickr RecSys) is a web application that semi-automatically recommends Flickr members to each other based on their interests, behaviours on the website and their profile history. The main objective of this research project was to integrate symbolic knowledge and statistical data in doing member-matching.
The requirements of Flickr members were investigated and used to design the system. In particular the basis that members used to select their contacts was analysed. Flickr RecSys examines various methods of recommending people that employ the Graph Theory and the Term Frequency–Inverse Document Frequency (TF-IDF) to evaluate a new member, with the aim of finding a possibly close match between members. Based on this, three methods were designed and implemented for recommendations, namely based on the "favourite photo", "contacts of a contact", and "tag cloud similarity" features of the Flickr website. The system was evaluated by Flickr members in terms of acceptability of the recommended users."
Final dissertation report can be downloaded in here [PDF] - Sep 2009.
The Flickr RecSys was developed as a Java web-based application and uses the Microsoft SQL database. The source code along with the libraries used can be downloaded here -- entire compressed version | Source code only (Compressed – Individual classes) | Libraries only (Compressed – Individual Libraries). You may want to use the future developments section of the report (page 87) to continue further developments, in which case you will find the accompanying Javadoc useful.
As part of our workshop during MSc, our group which consists of my colleague and myself were awarded the Amazon Prize for our mobile/Java web-based application called "Smart Shopper".
The MSc course included the following subjects:
- Technologies for the World Wide Web
- Enterprise Programming
- Security and Privacy
- Mobile Computing
- E-Business Strategies
- Data Interpretation and Visualisation
BSc (Hons), Internet Information System (IIS)
I finished my BSc Honours Computing Project with First class degree in June 2008. The project abstract: [published at CSD website]
Final dissertation can be downloaded in here [PDF] - May 2008.
I conducted a research on "Who pays for Open Source Software and why?". You can find the final version of the paper in here [PDF] - May 08.
Work Related:
The Fifth Business Ltd - Aberdeen
Project Developer – Responsible for development and maintenance of internal web-based applications for use by all employees and managers.
Developed several bespoke HR and Finance systems for the business, including project management, timesheets, invoicing and absence & holiday tracking, satisfying all aspects of the software development life cycle; requirements analysis, design, development, deployment and testing. Conducted training sessions globally for 100 employees using MS Office live meeting. Awarded partial sponsorship for the final year of BSc (Hons) at the University of Aberdeen.
My role as an internal web-based application developer during my industrial placement was particularly exciting and challenging as I was able to find new and innovative ways to solve business problems.
IOC UK Ltd - Aberdeen
Technical Support - Duties involved responding to and addressing end-users’ IT problems and development of the company’s website.
Freelance Work
I have designed, developed many websites as a freelancer in my spare time. The following is just a list of some of the successful one (bear in mind that these websites might have been changed as I am not responsible for maintaining them) :-
- IOC UK Ltd – Design, implementation and maintenance. The website launched twice as the company developed their activities online. The website can be found at www.iocukltd.com (First launch April 2004, last launch December 2005)
- Mobile Information Technology – Research in Integration and use of Mobile Technology As part of the university group project. The website used locally. (August 2004)
- Gibson Opticians – Design, implementation and maintenance of the website. The website can be found at www.gibson-opticians.co.uk (July 2005)
- Juridical Ltd – Design, implementation of complete front and back end website. The website can be found at www.juridical.co.uk (October 2006)
- Jurec Recruitment – Design, develop and implement complete solution to a job recruitment website. The website can be found at www.jrjobs.co.uk (September 2007)
Interests:
I am an active member of photo sharing website called Flickr. I love photography and have made many great friends through this website namely: Hamed Masoumi, Seyed Mahmoud Mosavi, MOHSEN MaSoUmI, Mohammadali Fakheri, Hamed Parham, Mehrad Heidari Monfared and many others [links].
I also enjoy travelling a lot with family and friends. In summer 2008 I drove somewhere around 8200 Km and visited 9 cities in Iran and took +10000 photos. If there will be an opportunity and time to travel, I will be jumping at the chance. The places I would most love to travel are Egypt, Italy and North America.
Generally interested in new technology and like to read about the change brought about with technology.