Mobile Development Lead / Project Lead
Samsung Electronics
Total years of experience :16 years, 10 Months
-Establishing development processes and best practices.
-Setting KPI & performance improvement plans.
-Ensuring project objectives and scope are established and agreed upon coordinating UI, UX, QA, engineering, sales teams and corporate marketing activities.
-Breaking projects down into deliverables and defining required activities, identifying resources (internal and external) and assigning tasks in collaboration with relevant individuals.
-Owning project timelines and ensuring deadlines are met.
-Developing applications on different platforms (Android, iOS, Windows phone, Facebook).
-Handling project management activities (planning, resource allocation, execution, testing, deployment).
Vardot is a collective team of engineers, designers, and developers based in Amman, Jordan that provides services to clients around the globe. Vardot is part of the ThinkArabia group.
-Managed and coordinated engineering, system administration, design, UI development, business management, customer support, 3rd party integration, and QA teams across different locations (US, Europe, Jordan, India).
-Managed project managers and trained them on gathering information from client, writing documentation for implementation, preparing work breakdown structure, managing implementation and configuration, overseeing testing, preparing go-live plan and executing it.
-Obtained senior-level management/stakeholder support at ThinkArabia group to design and architect group IT infrastructure, consulted system administrators and 3rd party software/hardware providers, managed systems delivery, configuration, migration and support agreements.
-Developed the business plan, forecasts and business models; evaluated and determined the technologies used; oversaw implementation and monitored (product) performance by analyzing statistics and data, performing sensitivity analysis to execute data-driven decisions for external and proprietary SaaS (Software as a Service) products.
-Introduced mobile products (iOS, Android, SmartTV) team, established internal UI standards, UI/UX, best practices, and resolved compatibility issues.
-Established and grew strategic partnerships throughout the U.S.A., U.K., Pakistan and the Middle East North Africa (MENA) region.
Indemaj Technology is a web software development company that designs, creates, and implements web products based in Amman, Jordan.
-Promoted to project manager role to plan, schedule and execute all phases of software development, hardware and system implementations. Assessed business implications for each project phase and monitored progress to meet deadlines, standards and cost targets.
-Excelled in guiding the work of technical teams. Articulated project goals and scope, translated business needs into technical terms, prepared detailed work breakdown structures (WBS) and instilled shared accountability for achieving project milestones.
-Collaborated with client to identify key requirements to develop and configure solutions customized for client business needs. Solutions include CRM, tracking and reporting, automated phone/SMS notifications, bug tracking and project management, mass-volume email sending (140k+ emails per day), social integration.
-Unit, functional, load, regression and user acceptance testing experience to insure the software is working as designed and designed to meet the expectation of the customer.
-Assigned rescue of specific distressed projects including staffing shortages, tactical matters, scope creep and divergent business needs. A successful turnaround and completion with restoration of customer confidence in the product and company and customer retention resulted in every case.
-Experienced telecommuting Project Manager, able to manage staff both on and off-site utilizing various project and software tracking tools.
-Allocated resources, assigned work to the team and monitored the progress and performance.
-Prepared the overall testing plans and testing scenarios and monitored the actual testing.
-Prepared and executed release engineering plans (builds, updates, bug fixes).
-Communicated progress, problems and suggestions to senior-level management..
-Set coding standards, repositories for source code and reviewed team code.
-Created and implemented custom software for a multitude of companies and associations..
-Experienced in PHP, Linux, Apache and Mysql.
-Experienced in database architecture and design.
-Experienced in performance tuning techniques and best practices (PHP, DB, Caching, UI, CDN).
-Experienced in OOP and design patterns.
-Experienced in servers and server related issues.
-Experienced in web security; best practices, XSS, CSRF, session hijacking, directory traversal, ...etc.
-Worked on API’s and 3rd party integration: Facebook, twitter, google analytics, youtube API’s.
-Developed using C, C++ and Java.
-Worked on several PHP frameworks: Drupal, CodeIgniter, Symfony, Zend.
Accomplishments:
-Expert in HTML, CSS, Javascript, JQuery, Prototype, Ajax.
-Expert in UI best practices.
-Worked on multiple projects concurrently.