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Dina Elhalwagy, IT Systems Administrator

Dina Elhalwagy

IT Systems Administrator·GEMS American Academy

United Arab Emirates

Bachelor's degree, Software Engineering

Work experience

Total years of experience: 24 years, 9 months

IT Systems Administrator

September 2012 - Present

GEMS American Academy

Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates

September 2012 - Present

• Working with teachers and students to integrate technology into the written curriculum
• Provide training for all teachers and staff on use of MacBook’s, iPads, and other software applications, which include, Rediker Administrator’s Plus, Rubicon Atlas, Weebly and MAPS
• Assist in the auditorium with sound, lighting and any technology needs during assemblies, concerts and school wide events
• Setup and support all student information system functions including scheduling, grading, report cards, enrollment and attendance
• Responsible for student information system maintenance including backup and restore, system implementation, configuration and software upgrades
• Provide training for Student Information System end users
• Responsible for coordinating MAPS (Measure of Academic Progress) standardized testing including registering students, allocating resources, scheduling, proctoring and providing accurate reports of student data
• Responsible for administering Rubicon Atlas functions including adding and updating teacher information, adding courses to teachers and editing user privileges
• Assist the website coordinator with updating the school website content and layout
• Support and provide training for end users of all educational software systems and applications

Company industry:
Primary, Prep, & Secondary School
Job role:
Information Technology

Technical Account Manager, Web Portal Services

July 2009 - August 2012

Yardi Systems, Inc.

Canada

July 2009 - August 2012

• Conduct sales demonstrations of Yardi Portal and Content Management System (CMS), alongside VP of Sales, to SMB and large clients in real estate industry.
• Chosen to attend Yardi Advanced Solutions Conference (YASC), in Washington DC, to present Condominium module to existing clients, selling condominium features of Yardi Portal.
• Ensure optimal client satisfaction with Yardi products, by up-selling customized features related to specific client needs.
• Managing the execution of 30+ web-related Portal projects and marketing websites leading to successful implementation.
• Work closely with all levels of management and staff to address software issues in an articulate and effective manner, following standard procedures.
• Train existing and new clients in the use of the Portal product.
• Responsible for project management duties through all phases of client relationship, i.e. coordinating with client, technical resources, and support personnel.
• Regularly communicating with clients to review account related performance measurements, resolve outstanding issues, plan for upcoming events and field client requests.
• Coordinating with technical personnel as needed to meet client needs, while managing client expectations to prevent overload or missed deadlines.
• Successfully completed training on Yardi Portal product at head office in Santa Barbara, California.
• Engaged with Yardi Portal CMS for content creation, editing and other essential web maintenance functions.
• Assisted with the setup of an environment for Canadian Payment Processing with Yardi Portal and Yardi Voyager accounting software for testing purposes.
• Actively learning and maintaining working knowledge of complete capabilities of all Yardi suite of products and any additional services added to date.
• Documenting bugs, entering cases in CRM, and capturing ideas and requirements that will improve the products and services.

Company industry:
Software Development
Job role:
Information Technology

Software Designer/Developer

June 2005 - July 2009

Atlantis-Amel Technologies Corporation

Canada

June 2005 - July 2009

• Designed and created 25 training videos, using Camtasia Studio, which were presented to customers for optimal learning.
• Updated website content and created brochures and pamphlets for marketing purposes to increase product awareness to potential customers.
• Created MS PowerPoint presentations displaying features of products and services.
• Generated customer requirement specifications, system documentation and other project deliverables using MS Office applications.
• Prepared and executed formal test plans for customer acceptance testing procedure using MS Excel.
• Worked with engineering teams and other resources to analyze functional and technical requirements for software applications.
• Designed, implemented and tested software modules for flight simulation software.
• Delivered software to specification and on a timely manner with minimal supervision.

Company industry:
Software Development
Job role:
Engineering

Multimedia Resource Materials Developer

November 2004 - March 2005

Career Services, McMaster University

Canada

November 2004 - March 2005

• Developed interactive multimedia resource materials for department’s Job Search Skills web based training.
• Produced scripts, filmed, refined and edited video footage using Adobe Premiere Pro 1.5.
• Designed graphics incorporated in the videos using Adobe Creative Suite Software.
• Uploaded training videos to department’s website using CMS and FTP.

Company industry:
Other Business Support Services
Job role:
Information Technology

Multiple Software Positions

May 2001 - August 2004

Forming Technologies Incorporated

Canada

May 2001 - August 2004

• Designed and implemented a database using MS Access for file storage, which was adopted company-wide.
• Assembled an online user manual for execution on the system using HTML Workshop.
• Implemented and tested sheet metal forming simulation software to meet industry requirements.
• Enforced quality assurance of the software application by preparing test plans and bug reports.

Company industry:
Software Development
Job role:
Information Technology

Education

McMaster University

April 2005

April 2005

Bachelor's degree, Software Engineering

Canada

Obtained second place award from the IBM Toronto Lab for Excellence in contributing to the Software Engineering Senior Thesis group project; Received the “Dean Hoda Elmaraghy Engineering Award”, a university entrance scholarship for outstanding academic achievement for women in engineering;

Skills

Simulation
Expert
Simulation
Expert
Multimedia
Expert
Multimedia
Expert
Visual
Expert
Visual
Expert
Software Engineering
Expert
Software Engineering
Expert
CMS
Expert
CMS
Expert
Microsoft Office Suite, Adobe Creative Suite 4.0, Camtasia Studio 4.0, Rapid CBT, Final Cut Studio 2
Expert
Microsoft Office Suite, Adobe Creative Suite 4.0, Camtasia Studio 4.0, Rapid CBT, Final Cut Studio 2
Expert
Adobe Photoshop, Illustrator, Dreamweaver, Fireworks, Flash, Corel, Paint Shop Pro, Adobe Premiere P
Expert
Adobe Photoshop, Illustrator, Dreamweaver, Fireworks, Flash, Corel, Paint Shop Pro, Adobe Premiere P
Expert
Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn, MySpace, TweetDeck, WAYN, Classmates, Friendster, Hi5, Buzznet
Expert
Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn, MySpace, TweetDeck, WAYN, Classmates, Friendster, Hi5, Buzznet
Expert
Microsoft Windows 95 – 2007/NT/XP/Vista, MAC OS, MS DOS and UNIX
Expert
Microsoft Windows 95 – 2007/NT/XP/Vista, MAC OS, MS DOS and UNIX
Expert
Microsoft Visual Basic.NET, Visual Basic 6.0, VBA, VBScript, XHTML, CSS, and ActionScript
Intermediate
Microsoft Visual Basic.NET, Visual Basic 6.0, VBA, VBScript, XHTML, CSS, and ActionScript
Intermediate
Simulation
Expert
Simulation
Expert
Multimedia
Expert
Multimedia
Expert
Visual
Expert
Visual
Expert
Software Engineering
Expert
Software Engineering
Expert
CMS
Expert
CMS
Expert

Languages

English

Expert

Arabic

Intermediate

Memberships

McMaster Arab Students Association

Public Relations

September 2004

McMaster Egyptian Students Society

VP Promotions

September 2003

McMaster Software Engineering Society

VP Promotions

September 2002

Nile Association of Ontario

Head of the Youth Committeee

January 2000

Nile Association of Ontario

Member

January 1992

Training and Certifications

Certifications
Web Design and Production Certificate
Humber College Institute of Technology & Advanced Learning
Apr 2007 - Aug 2008
Final Cut Pro 6
Witz Apple Certified Training
Sep 2008 - Apr 2009