Alaa Safei - PMP, Software Project Manager

Alaa Safei - PMP

Software Project Manager

NTG Clarity Networks Inc.

Location
Egypt - Cairo
Education
Bachelor's degree, Architecture
Experience
25 years, 5 Months

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Work Experience

Total years of experience :25 years, 5 Months

Software Project Manager at NTG Clarity Networks Inc.
  • Egypt - Cairo
  • My current job since May 2014

• Supervise the work of 20 team members (10 of them offshore) in “Ooredoo” project, offering constructive feedback on their work performance.
• Conduct meetings and take decisions across related internal & external stakeholders.
• Monitored timelines and flagged potential issues to be addressed.
• Define clear targets and objectives and communicated them to projects team members.
• Implement process improvements such as new measurements, analysis & effort estimation methodologies.
• Directed the effort of projects team members to maximize performance & meet deadlines.
• Develop many executive presentations and reports as part of “Engineering Process Group” (EPG) to facilitate project evaluation and process improvement.

Project Manager at AsgaTech a teqneyat company
  • Egypt - Cairo
  • April 2012 to April 2014

• Direct quality control efforts to maximize customer satisfaction and minimize reworks.
• Collaborate with consultant, analysis & development teams to deliver “Editori Suite”, a Word, Excel & PDF application for “Nokia Asha” Mobile.
• Deliver 20 BlackBerry applications such as “Quran Mojawad”, “Sahih Muslim” & “Sahih Bukhari”.
• Spearhead maps of Egypt government services locator resulting in Samsung Android Tablet/Mobile Application.
• Supervise on 2 Samsung Smart TV applications.
• Direct iOS team members, resulting in an application that communicates all students with the “Islamic University” community, university in Medina, KSA.
• Collaborate with the sales team to deliver a consolidated proposal that cover all RFP items.

Freelance Project Manager at Wameed
  • Egypt - Cairo
  • June 2011 to May 2012

• Manage e-Learning courses.
• Manage Outsourced Team.
• Manage requirements, scope, risks & change request.
• Creates and executes project work plans.
• Regularly create project status report and communicate with team members and senior manager.
• Manage project closure including extracting lesson learned and getting project sign off.

Project Manager at Sure Technology & Consulting
  • Egypt - Cairo
  • November 2009 to May 2011

• Direct all phases of e-learning KSA secondary courses, from project initiation to closure.
• Supervise the work of 50 team members (20 of them as outsourced), offering constructive feedback on their work performance.
• Collaborate with the top management to deliver e- learning proposal that cover all RFP items.

Project Manager at GNS Egypt – A Mansour Company
  • Egypt - Cairo
  • June 2008 to August 2009

• Direct all phases of portal projects, from the requirements gathering to project closure.
• Implement Agile methodology in some of these project.
• Estimate size and effort of projects using Function point technique.
• Gain experience by managing different customer cultures (Egypt, Europe, & KSA).

Senior multimedia Developer at GNS Egypt – A Mansour Company
  • Egypt - Cairo
  • April 2005 to May 2008

• Involve planning of portal goals and objectives.
• Participates in the overall design structuring of the web sites, creates enhancements and modifications, organizes and maintains the sites as needed.
• Developing and producing web-based flash files, as requested.
• Lead as and when required by the management other team members on assignment basis.

Multimedia Developer at The Arab Contractors ( Osman Ahmed Osman & Co. )
  • Egypt - Cairo
  • October 1998 to March 2005

• Designing interactive presentations and educational CDs using Director/Lingo.
• Designing multimedia web pages using Flash/Action Script.
• keeping an archive for the Company Multimedia Content.

Education

Bachelor's degree, Architecture
  • at Alexandria University, Faculty of Engineering.
  • May 1994

Alexandria University, Faculty of Engineering, Grade good.

Specialties & Skills

Multimedia Project Management
Web Project Management
MS Project
Meeting Planning
Customer Lifecycle Management
Action Script
Software estimation using “Function Point”
Scrum process
MS Project
Excel sheet
HTML/XHTML
Time & Stress Management

Languages

English
Expert
French
Expert

Memberships

PMI
  • Individual
  • June 2011

Training and Certifications

Multimedia Development, Information Technology Institute (ITI) (Certificate)
Date Attended:
July 1997
Valid Until:
January 9999
501 Macromedia Flash MX Designer certificate (Certificate)
Date Attended:
July 2004
Risk Management Professional (Training)
Training Institute:
PMI MENA Chapter
Date Attended:
December 2012
Certified Internet Webmaster (CIW) (Certificate)
Date Attended:
May 2003
Time & Stress Management (Training)
Training Institute:
New Horizons
Date Attended:
August 2008
Project Planning & Control (PRMG 010) from the AUC (Certificate)
Date Attended:
September 2007
Valid Until:
January 9999
Introduction to The Capability Maturity Model Integration (Certificate)
Date Attended:
July 2006
Valid Until:
July 2006
Project Management Professional (PMP) (Certificate)
Date Attended:
July 2011
Valid Until:
July 2017
Management of Project Resources (PRMG 020) from the AUC (Certificate)
Date Attended:
May 2007
Valid Until:
January 9999

Hobbies

  • photography, Origami & Workshop Storage
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