Abdullah Hejazi, VP of Software Engineering

Abdullah Hejazi

VP of Software Engineering

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Location
Saudi Arabia - Jeddah
Education
Master's degree, Software Engineering
Experience
15 years, 0 Months

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Total years of experience :15 years, 0 Months

VP of Software Engineering at confidential
  • United States - California
  • My current job since January 2016

Leading our teams to design and implement innovative hardware and software products integrated with harmony. Managing a global team to build multi-stacked applications using different technologies including low-level machine embedded systems, scalable cloud systems, machine learning, cellular connectivity, full-stack web, mobile applications, dev-ops, and process automation.

Achievements
- Providing technical leadership and expertise to a global engineering team.
- Grow startup patent and IP portfolio.
- The company has seen thirty times growth in valuation during tenure.
- Successfully took the product from concept to full scalable manufacturing, launched pilot beta testing, shipping products, strategic partnerships, and market expansion.
- Lead the design of three more further products in various stages of development and R&D.

Online Banking Services Product Manager at Bank AlJazira
  • Saudi Arabia - Jeddah
  • May 2014 to February 2016

- Develop business plans and lead the implementation to increase the market share in terms of the number of transactions and customer acquisitions as per the pre-approved target.
- Control Online Banking annual budgeted expenses and achieve pre-approved annual targeted revenues.
- Manage alignment with internal/external partners.
- Participate in developing vendor selection criteria and Interact with vendors to communicate business requirements.
- Build and maintaining Online Banking long/short term strategies, business cases, and profitability models
- Setup Online Banking high-level security and procedures, and reviewing them on a periodic basis.
- Develop business requirements related to technical development to a process/function in Online Banking services
- Identify and explore new business opportunities

Achievements:
- Fully transformed the bank’s electronic services with new web, mobile banking, and middleware.
- Significantly increased customer adoption and the number of transactions via online services (both web and mobile).

Software Engineer at AppColl
  • United States
  • July 2013 to May 2014

- Design, develop and maintain cloud based Intellectual Property management system.
- Used most of the latest web development technologies including ASP.Net, jQuery, Ajax, JavaScript, and MSSQL with dynamic LINQ queries to give AppColl customers the best user experience.
- Conducted routine database and web servers performance monitoring and tuning.
- Setting up new cloud server instances of SQL and web servers.

Software Quality Analyst at National Commercial Bank
  • Saudi Arabia - Jeddah
  • September 2007 to May 2010

- Monitored quality of proprietorial and third party components for the online banking, retail and corporate sites.
- Worked on the upgrade of the core banking system (Testing the compatibility of online retail and corporate banking channels).
- Built test plans and wrote test cases to be executed for quality assurance purposes.
- Contributed to integrate the Entrust Token Security module to NCB Corporate Internet Banking website.
- Identified and initialized removal of potential security threats to online banking channels (retail & corporate).
- Contributed to upgrade the automated payroll system.
- Led the team assigned to the quality assurance activities for the SWIFT global fund transfer system.
- Interfaced with business executives of the bank, government officers and vendors to keep the quality of the online banking up to standards.
- Delivered in-house presentations about software quality for the IT department.

Software Developer at Arabian Cement
  • Saudi Arabia - Jeddah
  • November 2006 to August 2007

- Designed, implemented and tested office automation forms Intranet software.
- Conducted training sessions for employees; wrote a system restoration manual for the automation system.
- Maintained electronic document archiving system.
- Installed network appliances such as routers, workstations.

Software Developer (Intern) at stc
  • Saudi Arabia - Mecca
  • March 2004 to September 2004

Developed an IT help desk web application for internal use.

Contributed to designing and installing customer service office computer networks.

Education

Master's degree, Software Engineering
  • at Santa Clara University
  • June 2013
Bachelor's degree, Computer Engineering
  • at King Fahd University of Petroleum & Minerals
  • September 2006

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Specialties & Skills

Product Manufacturing
Hardware Design
Software Engineering
Software Development
Software Product Management
Software Product Manager
Cloud System Management
Artificial Intelligence
Software Quality Assurance
Software Product Development
Cloud System Development
Mobile Application Development
Data Science
Embedded Systems
Consumer Electronics
Machine Learning
it strategy
iOT product design and Management
product management
web development
programming
program management
agile project management
strategic technology planning
Leadership
Management

Languages

Arabic
Expert
English
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Hobbies

  • Reading
    I enjoy reading a lot. my favorate goneras are memoirs and biography, science fiction, business & economics, religion, science, travel, and horror/satire.