Hussein Alkouz

• 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.

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.

• 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.

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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.

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.

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.

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