Software Development Director/Head of Software Development
EFG-Hermes
Total years of experience :25 years, 4 Months
Highlights:
• Serving GCC and ME, located in HQ in Egypt.
• Joined the company as Senior Solution Developer and promoted as Software Development Director through exceptional performance.
• Head the Development Department functions: Application Development, Quality Assurance, Application Support, Business Analysis, Project Management, Database Administration, Software Architecture and Configuration Management. Reporting to the company’s CIO.
• Implement Operational Agility for the department, by continuously aligning the teams’ efforts to respond to the dynamically changing market requirements in the region.
• Stabilize and increase company’s Market share in the region by developing Strategic Business Plans that stem from organization’s strength and builds on its competitive advantages
• Improve business processes and support critical business strategies by directing the development, implementation and maintenance of software products.
• Played a pivotal role in leveraging the features of MS SQL for the enterprise, and was mentioned in a case study by Microsoft, which can be found in the following link
http://www.microsoft.com/casestudies/Microsoft-SQL-Server-2008-Enterprise/EFG-Hermes/Leading-Middle-East-Financial-Group-Sustains-Rapid-Growth-with-Database-Deployment/4000006564
Key Responsibilities:
• Envisions product roadmap for company’s Enterprise Brokerage Suite Products, and leads the implementation efforts.
• Managing multiple development projects with aggressive schedules in a fast-paced work environment and effectively communicating the company’s technology strategy to investors, management, staff, partners, customers, and stakeholders.
• Identifying opportunities and risks for delivering the company’s services, including identification of competitive services, opportunities for innovation, and assessment of marketplace obstacles and technical hurdles to the business success.
• Providing direction and leadership to a team of system analysts, project managers, architects and developers at varying levels of experience
• Provides overall management for the software development team of 45+ engineers including setting priorities and making key hands- on technical contributions.
• Evaluating and identifying appropriate technology platforms for delivering the company’s services.
• Leading strategic planning to achieve business goals by identifying and prioritizing development initiatives and setting timetables for the evaluation, development, and deployment of products & services.
• Participating as a member of senior management team in establishing governance processes of direction and control to ensure that objectives are achieved, risks are managed appropriately and the organization’s resources are used responsibly.
• Liaising with stock exchange representatives and business partners across GCC to help define and deliver IT strategy in line with key business objectives, whilst ensuring project and development governance and best practice are adhered to ensure world class delivery and solutions.
• Establishing and directing the development and implementation of the company’s business plans, budget and training and development plans to achieve the category's volume, profit and spending objectives.
• Administering job evaluation/ grading systems to formulate guidelines for promotions / increments for all member of the team. Oversaw training programs to create knowledge based culture in addition to sourcing training vendors in the most economical prices.
Highlights:
• Delivered innovative service offerings for Brokerage Application System and the Online Trading Services using FIX protocol to integrate directly to the stock exchanges and allow clients to trade real-time.
• Drove technical solutions working with a team of 2 developers, implemented the specification, architecture and release a very high quality product/solution working with the development team.
Key Responsibilities;
• Determined technical/ business goals in consultation with top management, making detailed plans for accomplishment of these goals subsequent to understanding of technology /business practices and business flow of orders in stock markets.
• Aided development of project requirements, budgets, and schedules. Coordinated projects from development through implementation.
• Made recommendations and key technical decisions concerning the overall design and technical architecture of integrating Brokerage system with multiple markets using FIX.
• Led a pod of developers executing those recommendations, building features, and supporting the new modules in the system.
• Helped establish quality methodologies, metrics, and a fully automated monitoring and notification application to track and improve productivity.
• Demonstrated ability to mentor and drive development teams to better productivity and on-time delivery of well-architected products and features, designed for real world, high-availability and scalable products.
• Stayed up-to-date on trends and developments within functional area of expertise and the industry.
Highlights:
• Designed creative and professionally successful websites that really made a difference in the Middle East web surfer's experience.
• Delivered high quality solutions to clients in response to varying business requirements and worked with the business architects in formulating the business requirement and forming the design documents.
Key Responsibilities:
• Designed, developed, troubleshot, debugged, and implemented software code for web pages and web based user interfaces.
• Conceived the idea for layout presentation, selected proper software and tools for design, devised the layout and prepared the final draft and reported, submitted the final layout to the manager for approval.
• Interacted with the client, discussed website requirements and target audience aimed at and planned accordingly
• Hosted the websites, periodically upgrading the latest information and managed entire operations for efficient maintenance.
• Developed specifications, coded, delivered and supported client side and web solutions through the full project lifecycle.
Key Websites to Credit:
• http://www.microsoft.com/middleeast
• http://arabia.msn.com
• http://www.intel.com/arabic
• http://www.mobinil.com
• http://www.fgf.org.eg
• http://www.egas.com.eg
• http://www.yallabina.com
• http://www.mazika.com
• http://www.thomascook.com
• http://www.ghabbour.com
Core Technologies: • BizTalk Server • IIS • SQL • SQL Integration services • SQL Analysis Services • VSTS Server and Process implementation • Microsoft Visual Studio Team Server • Microsoft SharePoint • Microsoft CRM • C# • ASp • Windows Forms.net • ASp.net • WCF • WPF • WWF • Java, C++ • xCode, etc