Principal Project Manager
Microsoft
Total years of experience :20 years, 11 Months
Principal Project Manager in Microsoft Consulting Services leading the delivery of digital transformation engagements in EMEA.
● Collaborate with customers and business stakeholders to define vision and scope, extract product requirements and translate business objectives into technical specifications.
● Leading multiple cross-functional teams through release planning, sprint planning, backlog grooming, prototyping, sprint reviews, retrospectives and user acceptance testing.
● Tools: JIRA, Confluence, Trello, InVision, Balsamaiq, Webflow, Pencil, GitHub.
● Products: EgyptFOSS.org, Rwaq.org, Junnah.com, Maharah.net.
● Led an agile team through estimation, planning, daily stand-ups, test-driven development, code refactoring, test automation, continuous integration and deployments.
● Introduced Scrum, proposed a detailed process and coached development teams.
● Tools: Basecamp, Redmine, AgileZen, Ruby on Rails, RSpec, Capybara, Memcached, Redis, Resque,
PhoneGap, HTML5, CSS3, jQuery, PostgreSQL, MySQL, SQLite, Sphinx, AWS, GitHub, Heroku, NewRelic.
● Projects: Duplays.com, Elections.eg, Resala.org, Actionha.net, GuestShots.com, Alsaha.com.
● Led the planning, analysis, design, implementation and maintenance of web applications.
● Introduced a new service to evaluate the usability and accessibility of websites.
● Tools: Microsoft Project, ASP.NET, SQL Server, HTML, CSS, JavaScript, XMLSpy, StyleVision, Dreamweaver.
● Designed, developed, tested and maintained web applications.
● Tools: ASP, SQL Server, CodeCharge Studio, HTML, CSS, JavaScript, Dreamweaver, Fireworks.
Postgraduate Diploma in Computer Science
Postgraduate Diploma in Information Technology
Bachelor of Science and Education in Mathematics with Honors Degree