Hussein Alkouz, Technical Team Leader

Hussein Alkouz

Technical Team Leader

Kaizen Plus

Location
Jordan - Amman
Education
Bachelor's degree, Computer Information System (CIS)
Experience
18 years, 9 Months

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Work Experience

Total years of experience :18 years, 9 Months

Technical Team Leader at Kaizen Plus
  • Jordan - Amman
  • My current job since March 2018

• Lead and manage the team through software projects, and manages technical resources.
• Create, manage and assign development tasks.
• Monitor day-to-day technical tasks and update the project plan and manage project deadline.
• Keeps project manager well informed of status of development effort and serves as liaison between development staff and project manager.
• Ensures technical teams are contributing to company code library.
• Communicates and enforces coding standards.
• Ensures code reusability & maintainability.
• Ensure quality & reliability of code from the development team by conducting a smoke test for their deliverables.
• Identifies and manages technical risks throughout the project.
• Setup development environments.
• Performs code reviews and technically mentors team members.
• Coach and provide career development advice to staff.
• Schedule and conduct staff follow up meetings.
• Coordinate and submit team reports, such as progress reports and team plan, and other necessary documentation required from the management.
• Performs software releases on a staging & production environment.
• Controls versioning and release numbering per different customers.
• Coordinate with the quality to prepare release notes.
• Act as a technical reference for the team.
• Conduct researches & do proof of concepts.
• Manage and organize all database structuring for the different projects to ensure database efficiency and consistency.
• Decide on system architecture for small projects.

Project Manager at SDVision
  • Saudi Arabia - Riyadh
  • November 2016 to March 2018

Managing to deliver successful projects and developing unique solutions in the mobile field.

This involves:
• Working closely with clients to understand their needs.
• Arranging and managing all project related meetings.
• Attending client meetings & guiding them through processes.
• Managing resources on different projects, allocating them based on skills and deadlines.
• Managing the day-to-day operational aspects of the project.
• Establishing the overall success criteria for a project, including; time, cost, technical and performance parameters.
• Monitoring all work in accordance with schedules.
• Provide monthly reports for management.
• Producing timing, costing and scoping documentation.
• Producing & maintaining project management plans.
• Monitoring and managing all contractors, consultants and third party suppliers within each project.
• Maintains information technology strategies by managing staff; researching and implementing technological strategic solutions.
• Accomplishes information technology staff results by communicating job expectations; planning, monitoring, and appraising job results; coaching, counseling, and disciplining employees; initiating, coordinating, and enforcing systems, policies, and procedures.
• Maintains organization's effectiveness and efficiency by defining, delivering, and supporting strategic plans for implementing information technologies.
• Directs technological research by studying organization goals, strategies, practices, and user projects.
• Setup the right tools for project management, communication and issues tracking between all teams and management as well.
• Build and document the right process and procedures including quality checks.
• Solve problems related to performance, process and people.
• Hire and acquire teams when needed.
• Following project management practices by ensuring the use of required templates for each of the project phases and deliveries.

Development Team Leader at EastNets
  • Jordan - Amman
  • April 2013 to November 2016

• Lead and manage the team through software projects, and manages technical resources.
• Create, manage and assign development tasks.
• Monitor day-to-day technical tasks and update the project plan and manage project deadline.
• Keeps project manager well informed of status of development effort and serves as liaison between development staff and project manager.
• Ensures technical teams are contributing to company code library.
• Communicates and enforces coding standards.
• Ensures code reusability & maintainability.
• Ensure quality & reliability of code from the development team by conducting a smoke test for their deliverables.
• Identifies and manages technical risks throughout the project.
• Setup development environments.
• Performs code reviews and technically mentors team members.
• Coach and provide career development advice to staff.
• Schedule and conduct staff follow up meetings.
• Coordinate and submit team reports, such as progress reports and team plan, and other necessary documentation required from the management.
• Performs software releases on a staging & production environment.
• Controls versioning and release numbering per different customers.
• Coordinate with the quality to prepare release notes.
• Act as a technical reference for the team.
• Conduct researches & do proof of concepts.
• Manage and organize all database structuring for the different projects to ensure database efficiency and consistency.
• Decide on system architecture for small projects.

Product Cell Leader at EastNets
  • Jordan - Amman
  • August 2011 to April 2013

en.MoRes Product Cell Leader
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• Apply company standards in naming convention and using common functionalities.
• Define coding standards in the web development team.
• Design databases schemas.
• Cooperate with QA team to define defects tracking and solving process.
• Responsible for projects releases.
• Responsible for task estimation and delivery date.
• Involved in documenting projects architectures and user manuals.
• Follow up on day to day problems faced junior and senior developers.
• Follow up and Manage the daily tasks and project deadline.
• Handling Product Branches and Merging between them over TFS
• Direct communication with PDM and PM for sprint and product status.
• Design, Develop and Test the product.

Senior Software Developer at EastNets
  • Jordan - Amman
  • October 2008 to August 2011

As a member of the development team, I had the chance to work on different types of projects as well as using the most recent technologies and development tools available in the market.
EastNets as a SWIFT partner and Microsoft partner and also as specialists in AML, Profiling, Filtering, and Financial messaging exchange applications, gave me the chance to know more about financial processes and transactions and allowed me to gain more experience in this field.

Software Developer at EastNets
  • Jordan - Amman
  • October 2006 to October 2008

As a member of the development team, I had the chance to work on different types of projects as well as using the most recent technologies and development tools available in the market.

Web Developer at Maktoob Group
  • Jordan - Amman
  • August 2005 to October 2006

Working within the largest arab community over the internet, give's you a whole new meaning of web development experience, where performance, reliability and perfection is not an option. Dealing with multi languages, browser and even user's behaviors, gives the perfect solid experience to start an outstanding career in web development.

During my work I have involved in many projects like:
http://helwa.maktoob.com
http://business.maktoob.com

Education

Bachelor's degree, Computer Information System (CIS)
  • at Balqa' Applied University Salt Jordan
  • May 2005

3 years and half in BAU university with beautiful moments, am proud to be one of their students. Fortunately we obtain on a very nice doctors staff. we learned and understand core technologies. and we did a great projects.

High school or equivalent, Scientific
  • at Salahaddin
  • February 2001

i studied in Salahaddin School Scientific branch and i got an excellent degree.

Specialties & Skills

Integration
Business Analysis
Project Management
Web Development
MS SQL Server 2005/2008/2014, 2016 and ORACLE
HTML5 and Bootstrap
Windows Services and SSIS.
ASP.NET, MVC and Web API
Developing Dynamic Web Application using ASP.net under .NET Framework and .NET Core
Mobile Technologies
JavaScript, jQuery and Angular
Time and Cost Management
Banking
ADO.NET and Entity Framework
Analysis and Design.
TFS, JIRA and SVN
Visual studio 2005, 2008 ,2010, 2012, 2013, 2015 and 2017
SWIFT Integration
Scrum and Agile
XML, XPATH, XML Web Services and WCF
Developing Windows Applications.
BizTalk Server 2006

Languages

English
Expert
Arabic
Native Speaker

Training and Certifications

Project Management Professional (PMP) Exam Preparation (Training)
Training Institute:
Method Corp
Date Attended:
August 2017
Duration:
35 hours
Microsoft Certified Technology Specialis (MCTS) in .Net Framework 2.0: Web Applications (Certificate)
Date Attended:
January 2008

Hobbies

  • Swimming
  • Reading