Bashar Hudhud

Developed and built a trading business from start up in the construction field, supplying contractors and sub-contractors with building materials and safety equipment. Responsible for the day-to-day running of the business with a particular emphasis on strategic growth & business development. Making sure that the business continues to grow by way of developing new clients whilst maintaining its existing customer base.

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES
-Started the business by bootstrapping and leveraging existing network in Qatar’s construction sector. -Negotiated deals with Chinese manufacturers to procure quality products at competitive prices. Acquired an investor to expand purchasing power and grow company’s customer base.
-Identified, developed and directed the implementation of business strategy.
-Cultivated the company’s reputation in the market and with customers & suppliers. Planned & organized the company’s activities to achieve goals.
-Leveraged personal network to acquire nine high value large clients and twelve medium size clients resulting in revenue and profitability growth.
-Built relationships with manufacturers in China to ensure virtually risk-free procurement process, while increasing margins and maintaining highest quality products to our clients.
-Controlled business financial planning and expenditure and ensured business operation is within planned budgets.

Designation Chronology:
• January 2008 - January 2009: Software Engineer.
• January 2009 - January 2011: Business Analyst
• January 2011 - December 2013: Product Manager.

Joined the organization as a Software Engineer & crafted a growth curve & merited promotion to the position of Business Analyst & then Product Manager through exceptional performance.

Highlights:
• Spearheaded construction of a new department as sole department project manager from grass root level that linked developers & overseas partners to share resources & manage new product development initiatives.
• Fashioned & established modified stage gate process for product innovation (a six stage process spanning from new product innovation to post launch review) that resulted in developing three products in operation & eliminated risky investments & costs worth $1.2M.
• Successfully managed a budget of $1.5M by devising tactical strategies to garner new market opportunities to expand organization’s reach & profit revenues.
• Key Projects to credit:
 Field Eagle - Devised a cloud based tablet inspection solution that facilitated in reducing time & money expenses by automating essential tasks, merging multiple data inputs into one device for use by executives & field personnel in construction, property management, oil & gas & mining sectors for asset inspection, auditing & monitoring.
 Aptus HR - Successfully established cloud based employment assessment system for 80% Canadian school boards & 2000+ companies in 2013. The system was tailored to their specific hiring processes & to issue role specific tests while tracking progress.

Key Responsibilities:
• Piloted development & establishment of a products department that aided to shift corporate focus in service offerings & for operating & managing three products for application in various industries.
• Proficiently planned & handled an array of activities involved in product life cycle in addition to cultivating strategic partnerships to expand distribution channels & optimize processes generating revenue of $2M.
• Performed business process mapping to identify & translate requirements of large corporate clients into highly specified project briefs, liaised extensively with programmers & software developers for the same.
• Engineered potential solutions & assessed them for technical, business & budget feasibility, generated product feasibility reports, conducted budget vs. cost analysis & reported variance if any.
• Orchestrated product testing for final installation operated master consoles & mediated largely with end users to ensure user satisfaction & thus augment automation & internal productivity.
• Conceived, executed & administered annual business, development, advertising & marketing plans, performed market research to gauge product market dynamics, customer preferences, competitor’s offering to add/modify features of the product.
• Managed time schedules, technology & capital to meet business growth needs on time & within budget with a strong focus on adhering to deadlines.
• Build & managed a highly technical team of business analyst, market analyst & contractors. Oriented, trained, counseled & motivated team members by providing technical guidance on operational issues.

Highlights:
• Played a crucial role in increasing department budget by 10%. Instrumental in streamlining documentation, reducing incidences of bugs & restructuring business processes which resulted reduced internal project cost by 25%.
• Involved in various projects valued over $5M spanning into various industries such as Shoppers Drug Mart, Specialty Healthcare Network, Professional Engineers of Ontario, Heenan Blaikie Law, Bray International, CMA, WZMH Architects & McDonald’s Restaurants Corp.

•Key Projects to credit:
 RSRS - Developed an uninsured services billing web system for a health care sector client that streamlined payment of uninsured services across Canada.
 Igeacare - Engineered a custom web solution (wireless enabled monitoring system) that facilitates real time patient information to staff in hospitals & extended care facilities.
 HRIS - Formulated a custom enterprise solution to effectively manage human capital. This product is being used by 4300 companies across Canada & United States.

Key Responsibilities:
• Drove business growth by acquiring clients through effective diagnosis of technical & business requirements. Engineered feasible solutions & represented client liaison between internal & outsourced technical teams.
• Ensured that all engineered solutions are endowed with capability to meet project scope, budget & time constraints. Effectively defined technical requirements to non technical stake holders.
• Supervised installation & tested correcting problems ('bugs') before the final version is released to ensure zero down time, worked closely with developers & a variety of end users to ensure technical compatibility & user satisfaction.
• Performed handover test for end users, offered fundamental training for optimum use of such products installed. Assisted & resolved any troubleshoot problems arising thereof.
• Inspected installed systems at the site, directed modifications to ensure operational performance meets specified standards & regulations to achieve technical superiority.
• Proactively identified gaps in business analysis process & resolved the same in an expedited manner to improve output, used cases & wire frames in place ahead of coding process.

Key Responsibilities:
• Authored development & establishment of several key projects encompassing key components & algorithms to augment development efficiency & optimize software performances.
• Engineered moderately complex software/products using various languages & patterns including C#, Java Script, ASP .NET, .Net, HTML, MS SQL, WPF, MVC.
• Computed software solutions by studying information needs, conferring with users, studying systems flow, data usage & work processes, investigating problem areas & following the software development life cycle.
• Successfully accomplished engineering & organization mission by completing related results as needed.