Hesham Talaat, Product Owner

Hesham Talaat

Product Owner

Maersk

Location
Denmark
Education
Bachelor's degree, Business adminsitration
Experience
19 years, 6 Months

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Work Experience

Total years of experience :19 years, 6 Months

Product Owner at Maersk
  • Denmark
  • My current job since October 2018

Maestro is a data platform to provide a single source of truth across the organization. Maestro is democratizing data by removing the access barrier for employees, customers, and partners to Petabytes of valuable data that produce priceless insights to the whole industry
Maestro is a one-stop-shop for all your data needs which includes
•Platform tools, DevOps tools
•Self-Service Analytics
•Data transformation, orchestration, linage, and impact tools
•Data governance tools
•Low-Code tools
•Integration APIs
Accomplishments:
•Built the APIs layer from scratch which enabled partners and clients to integrate with Maestro directly
•Built the Maestro portal to host all provided services
•Rebuilt all the personas for Maestro to help the team be more user centric
•Introduced the team to OKRs and facilitated Vision, strategy, and OKRs workshops
•Identified and created products metrics to be able to measure the product’s success and practice data-driven decisions

IT Product Manager at Hyve
  • Egypt - Cairo
  • January 2017 to October 2018

Co-founder, and responsible for managing the complete lifecycle of products. Ideation, building the team, marketing, growth, success, and partnerships. Below are the company products.
Products
•Jigsaw provides a single, secure platform that enables law enforcement, security agencies and other public institutions to capture, process, classify and validate information from multiple data sources to provide valuable and timely insight to the full range of operational personnel and senior management.
•Hoopoe is a banking Chat Bot built and geared towards banks and financial organizations that deal with a lot of customers and have large sets of FAQs.
•Heap is an analytical platform designed for higher education institute to provide a holistic view about students, faculties, and financial statements. The product also predicts students challenges, churn, and expected performance.
Accomplishments
•Built the products department from scratch
•Created three products, all generated revenue, two of them are profitable and still growing.
•Created all products marketing material, sales kits, websites, and contracts templates.
•Signed co-selling partnership agreement with two big technology vendors that helped to drive the products’ growth

Product Manager at OMS Gulf
  • United Arab Emirates - Dubai
  • January 2012 to January 2017
Sales Manager at OMS Gulf | Solution
  • United Arab Emirates
  • January 2010 to January 2017

for business development activities for OMS Gulf offerings and products
•Supervising presales engineers across all regions.
•Handling multi-million dollars yearly targets
•Engaging in the whole sales cycle from helping to write the RFP, meeting with customers, qualifying opportunities, pitching ideas and solutions, building proposals, and negotiating with clients
•Delivering demos, presentations, training, and awareness sessions.
•Helping Marketing and product management departments to develop sales-kits.
•Building plans, objectives and KPIs for Pre-Sales team members.

Technical Presales at OMS
  • Egypt
  • January 2007 to December 2009

a team of seven developers
•Acting as a technical project manager for all engagements.
•Responsible for developers’ technical readiness.
•Engaging in all project phases including Analysis/design, implementation, deployment, and training

Developer at NEC
  • Egypt - Cairo
  • January 2001 to February 2003

web applications using PHP, MySQL, Apache, and Linux.

Certificates
•Bachelor of Commerce, Ain Shams University, Cairo, Egypt.
Major: Business Management, 2002

•Certified Agile Leadership, Scrum Alliance
Credential ID 1060045

•Certified Scrum Product Owner (CSPO), Scrum Alliance

Education

Bachelor's degree, Business adminsitration
  • at Ain Shams University
  • July 2002

Specialties & Skills

Public Speaking
IT Sales
Leadership
Agile Software Development
Product Management
BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT
BUSINESS MANAGEMENT
CONTRACT MANAGEMENT
CUSTOMER RELATIONS
EXECUTIVE MANAGEMENT

Languages

Arabic
Expert

Training and Certifications

Certified Agile Leadership (Certificate)
Certified Scrum Product Owner (CSPO) (Certificate)
Date Attended:
March 2019