Amr Abulnaga, Scrum Master

Amr Abulnaga

Scrum Master

Cegedim

Location
Egypt - Cairo
Education
Master's degree, Business Administration (MBA)
Experience
12 years, 9 months

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Work Experience

Total years of experience :12 years, 9 months

Scrum Master at Cegedim
  • Egypt - Cairo
  • My current job since February 2021

- Act as a Scrum Master guiding the team towards improving the way they work.
- Facilitate daily scrums, sprint planning, retrospective, and Sprint Review.
- Ensure cross-team coordination.
- Reach out to the larger company network for impediment removal.
- Facilitate with team to figure out outcome-based metrics that help the team to assess their performance and continuously improve.
- Actively contribute to the Agile and Lean Community.
- Keep the rest of the company network aware of our activities.

Project Manager at ITWORX
  • Egypt - Cairo
  • October 2018 to February 2021

- Handle all project management tasks such as requirement identification, configuration management, project planning, reporting, effort estimate, development team management, and project conformance to company quality standards.
- Understand and verify the functional Requirements of the software.
- Agree with systems analyst on the different methodologies of requirements gathering and analysis.
- Manage scope, change requests, risks, and resources allocation/utilization.
- Understand customer business domain and manage project cost-deliverables relationship.
- Review projects measurements and identify triggers and actions needed to be taken on problems.
- Own the project deliverables; i.e. Requirements specs, design document, schedule, code, etc.
- Review project design to ensure compliance to customer requirements and internal systems.
- Track project schedule and activities till project completion.
- Monitor size, time, and effort of project delivery.
- Manage all project plans: risk, communication, training, quality, and metrics plans.
- Review project baseline, quality audits results reports, and packages/documents to be delivered.

Product Manager at DaWinkelR
  • Egypt - Cairo
  • August 2018 to December 2019

• Dev&Test Environment Monitoring and optimization
• Features Pipeline and release management
• Process Workflow for each service
• Definition for each feature guidelines
• Managing the team resources and timeline
• Service testing and final approval
• Initiating daily and weekly team review meetings

Philanthropies Department Technical Project Lead at Microsoft
  • Egypt - Cairo
  • October 2013 to October 2018

• Responsible for technical coordination of Microsoft Citizenship projects with partner NGOs.
• Delivering technical trainings to partner NGOs.
• Technical follow ups with partners.
• Technical troubleshooting of Azure VMs and deployments.
• UAT of ASP.NET and MVC projects.
• Deployment of ASP.NET and MVC Projects on Azure and IIS.
• Managing Connecting series which was created for connecting the NGOs
• Managing Ta3mal Regional portals and different Ta3mal integrations.

Technical Project Lead at United Nations Development Programme
  • Egypt - Cairo
  • October 2017 to October 2018

- Taking Full ownership of the technical development of the sites required for the different Masr Works initiatives.
- Technical Solutions development to ensure the correct use of the websites.
- Responsible to provide proposals and detailed requests for sites development for the initiatives to stakeholders. Definition and development of the site, implementation plan, tools required, ongoing execution follow up and reporting on development to the team.
- Own the achievement of annual commitments and core KPIs across the technical team included in the plan; ensure goals are defined that are meaningful, tangible and measurable.
- Create and maintain robust partnerships with selected partners in technology, ensuring clear definition of goals and objectives, regular reporting, timely budget utilization, joined marketing efforts, etc. to make them deliver on time the requests.
- Coordinate the technical team and follow up on how development is going from a technical perspective of each of the sites under initiatives.

Regional Technical Lead at Silatech
  • Qatar - Doha
  • January 2015 to December 2017

• Providing day-to-day tech support and oversight over the activities related to regional Technology Support services
• Serving as the tech link between the Ta3mal regional and country teams and the software development entities working on Ta3mal
• Coordinating with the Ta3mal software development team to ensure that they remain on track according to the project plan timeline
• Ensuring rigorous server monitoring of Ta3mal and managing the hosting process on Azure platforms to ensure the smooth running of the portal
• Maintaining good communication with the regional office on the portal status

Microsoft Student Partner at Microsoft
  • Egypt - Cairo
  • September 2011 to September 2013

It was a life changing experience for me it changed my whole life taught me how to share my knowledge in an effective way and connected me to a lot of students, developers and IT Professionals all over the world and helped me change their lives and help them.
• Worked in the Windows 8 vertical as a technical support
• Worked in the windows azure vertical as a strike team member and speaker.

President at Microsoft Tech-Club at BUE
  • Egypt - Cairo
  • September 2011 to September 2013

This was a life changing experience for me it changed my whole life taught me how to share my knowledge in an effective way and connected me to a lot of students all over the world and helped me change their lives and help them.
Building such a great club is such an honor for me and something that I'll never forget about.

For more details Follow | http://facebook.com/BUETC

Summer Intern at National Bank of Kuwait
  • Egypt - Cairo
  • July 2010 to August 2010

I worked in the IT Department where they taught me how to deal with DB transactions and how to edit or delete Data and dealing with the Deadlocks

Education

Master's degree, Business Administration (MBA)
  • at Cardiff Metropolitian University
  • May 2019

In Partnership with AAST

Master's degree, Business Administration (MBA)
  • at Arab Academy for Science, Technology and Maritime Transport
  • May 2019
Bachelor's degree, Informatics and Computer
  • at The British University In Egypt
  • September 2013

My Bsc double Degree from BUE and Loughbrough University

Bachelor's degree, Computer Science
  • at Loughborough University
  • September 2013
High school or equivalent, Maths
  • at Egyptian Language School
  • January 2009

Graduated from the Egyptian Language School at 2009

Specialties & Skills

Technical Project Leadership
Windows Azure
SharePoint
Web Development
SharePoint Adminstration
SharePoint Development
Agile Methodologies
Microsoft Azure
Project Managment
Business Analysis
Cloud Computing
Windows Application Development

Languages

Arabic
Expert
English
Expert
French
Beginner

Memberships

IEEE Computer Society
  • Member
  • November 2011
Microsoft Tech Club at BUE
  • President
  • September 2011
Microsoft Student Partner
  • Member
  • September 2011
Scrum Alliance
  • Scrum Master
  • August 2019

Training and Certifications

Certified Scrum Master (Certificate)
Date Attended:
August 2019
Microsoft Programming in HTML5 with JavaScript and CSS3 Specialist , License 70-480 (Certificate)
Date Attended:
January 2013
Valid Until:
January 9999

Hobbies

  • Software
  • Internet