Hussein Alkouz, Technical Team Leader

Hussein Alkouz

Technical Team Leader

EastNets

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

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Work Experience

Total years of experience :18 years, 9 Months

Technical Team Leader at EastNets
  • Jordan - Amman
  • My current job since April 2013

• 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.

Projects:-
- en.MoRes, Mobile Remittance solution that allows end users to transfer money using mobiles, the solution consists of several modules to handle GSM part, Bank Part, Integration part, and the core solution. and currently Its improved to support also transfer money using Transactional Website.

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.

Projects:-
- en.PaymentSafe
- Abu Dhabi Courts - Survey Management Solution
- FinMex solution for Kuwait Finance House

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.

Projects:-
- FinMex solution for Kuwait Finance House
- CINESTAR (EastNets Kiosk System)
- ADP (EastNets Kiosk System)

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
  • at Al-Balqa Applied University
  • July 2005

Average: very good(3.05 from 4)

High school or equivalent, scientific
  • at Salah Elddin School
  • July 2001

General Average: 88.1

Specialties & Skills

Software Development
ASP.NET
SQL Server 2000 2008
C++ and Object Oriented
Html, XML, Web and windows Services, CSS, JavaScript and AJAX
SQL Server 2000, SQL Server 2005, 2008 and Oracle
Systems Analysis and Design
VB.NET, C#.NET, ASP.Net, ADO.NET(2003,2005 and 2008)
Windows Applications with WPF
in MSMQ
All new Microsoft Technologies such as LINQ and Entity Framework and WCF
System Analyst and Architect
Controlling TFS with Scrum

Languages

Arabic
Expert
English
Expert

Training and Certifications

Banking Orientation (Training)
Training Institute:
Banking Orientation Seminar Course
Date Attended:
August 2008
MCTS (Training)
Training Institute:
Microsoft Certified Technology Specialis (MCTS)
Date Attended:
January 2008