Ahmed Shahin

Senior Manager - Agile Delivery and Transformation at Emirates NBD

• United Arab Emirates - Dubai
• My current job since April 2019

Manager - Agile Delivery and Transformation at Emirates NBD

• United Arab Emirates - Dubai
• July 2015 to April 2019

• Leading the agile delivery of mobile banking
• Coaching and mentoring agile teams and supporting organization change as part of the transformation program
• Run agile squads following the scrum framework.
• Evaluate and Implement solutions based on business requirement following the banks standard methodology and policies for different customer facing channels (Mobile Banking, Online Banking and ATM).
• Run projects, prepare project plan and provide MIS reports to PMO office. Liaison with cross functional IT infrastructure team members.
• Manage & mitigate project issues and risks.
• Manage project resources, team, board and stakeholders
• Ensure projects are aligned to and deliver against the Business objectives
• Perform appropriate level of stakeholder management across IT and Business stakeholders.

Project Manager, Senior at Commercial International Bank - Egypt

• Egypt - Cairo
• August 2014 to July 2015

• Manage end-to-end delivery of projects to ensure timely execution within predefined quality standards.
• Demonstrate sense of urgency and ownership to drive projects to completion and be successful in a collaborative environment.
• Deliver solutions and support project delivery in alignment with the approved timeframe in order to effectively meet user’s business needs.
• Monitor project execution development, schedules and quality standards.
• Manage testing and monitoring activities to ensure quality product is delivered.
• Maintaining project documentation will be primary point of contact for all client inquiries for projects being managed works with a wide variety of personnel and with the team members from all line functions and/ or disciplines.
• Handling the UAT and Go to live process.
• Develop and communicate the project management plan to maintain periodic updates on time for further business practices.

Project Manager at eblacorp

• Qatar - Doha
• November 2013 to August 2014

 Responsible for near to precise estimation for RFP, projects and defining deadlines. Finish projects within the specified deadline and the required budget.
 Provide the technical (development) and business managers with a vision of the project objectives.
 Negotiate with the third party vendors for the project requirements and project close out.
 Over all scheduling and planning (Time planning) for software projects delivery phases
 Prepare software project risk management
 Provide team leadership and coaching for the key project members
 Maintain and coordinate project logistics including overtime & vacation alerts.
 Develop and execute on-going improvements to all processes related to team as well as department opportunities

Business Intelligence Technical Project Manager at Mantrac Group

• Egypt - Cairo
• March 2013 to November 2013

• Closely work with the team to run the daily operations of the Data Warehouse and its subsystems.
• Managing BI Technical and QA team
• Define the overall data warehouse architecture
• Coach other team members on BI design and development techniques
• Test New technologies, and introduce them for the BI Team
• Advise with what to apply from new technologies
• Introduce new procedures which will increase the quality of BI products.
• Design and develop the ETL process, including data quality and testing
• Make recommendations towards the development of new code or reuse of existing code
• Assist in defining development guidelines and standards to be utilized in BI development
• Ensure the adherence to quality standards and procedures
• Share in putting standards for BI products to drive analytics improvements to ensure consistent and accurate reporting across the business, and align projects to overall Business Intelligence vision
• Review modules for quality assurance and ensures compliance with development standards
• Oversee unit testing and ensures applications meet specifications
• Develop plans and leads the implementation of integration testing

AVP, Development Technical Lead at EFG-Hermes

• Egypt - Cairo
• May 2011 to February 2013

• Managing BI development and DW architecture team
• Setting DW section policies and procedures
• Data warehousing / BI, OLAP Solutions Architect
• Database Consolidation, Management, Analysis, and Reporting
• Developing ETL Projects using SQL Server 2008/2008 R2 Integration Services
• Integration between different DBs including SQL and Oracle
• Project Management
• Work with different project parties to complete assigned tasks
• Work with department manager to ensure quality standards
• Watch out for risks and issues and tell department manager about it and work together to solve it.
• Change Management
• Integration between BI Solutions & SharePoint Portal
• Provide a consulting service to the business by utilizing domain expertise and recommend initiatives where IT could add value through high level enterprise information management and business intelligence solution design.
• Understand the business strategy and work with the IT to develop initiatives and present them to decision makers within the business unit.
• Solicit and evaluate business requests to identify options and recommend solutions that best serve business needs across the enterprise.
• Oversee the analysis done by Business Analysts as they capture and document business objectives and functional requirements and translate them into requirements and solution definition documents for system solutions in a comprehensive, meaningful and well-structured manner. This includes ensuring that the proposed business solution will deliver the expected benefits.
• Ensure that the end product aligns with business strategy.
• Set clear and consistent performance objectives, implement performance management and development plans to ensure standards of performance and productivity are achieved and maintained enabling a high performance culture.
I’ve got a good experience in SQL administration in EFG-Hermes.
1- Deadlock handling
2- Tuning and Optimization
3- Replication

DW Architect/ Senior Application Integration Engineer at EFG-Hermes

• Egypt - Cairo
• April 2008 to May 2011

• Managing BI development and DW architecture team
• Data warehousing / BI, OLAP Solutions Architect
• Database Consolidation, Management, Analysis, and Reporting
• Developing ETL Projects using SQL Server 2008/2008 R2 Integration Services
• Integration between different DBs including SQL and Oracle
• Project Management
• Change Management
• Integration between BI Solutions & SharePoint Portal

Senior Application/ DB Administrator at EFG-Hermes

• Egypt - Cairo
• April 2006 to April 2008

• Enterprise Applications Administration
• Team members guidance and knowledge sharing
• Problem solving
• Business users help and support for solving business issue in case of system bugs or system function unavailability
• Scheduling of system outages
• Business Intelligence Development
• Database Administration

Senior Technical Instructor at Synergy Professional Services

• Egypt
• October 2005 to April 2006

•Delivering courses
•Technical services
•Team leader for MCIT scholarship Instructors

System administrator at Egybel International For Windows & Doors Systems (10th of Ramadan)

• Egypt
• June 2004 to October 2005

•Planning engineer
•System administrator for main system used (CHACAL XXI)

System analyst at Eldorado For Ceramic Tiles (Suez Gulf)

• Egypt
• December 2003 to June 2004

•System analyst
•Database designer for small DBs using MS.Access