Software Project Manager
King Saud University
مجموع سنوات الخبرة :26 years, 3 أشهر
Effectively manage portfolio of web, BPM and mobile projects with 20+ team members (in Riyadh and Cairo) across all the SDLC activities
• Successfully directed and coached local and offshore teams
• Managed activities across all project phases: initiation, planning, execution, monitoring, closure
• Collaborated with teams to define technical approaches to systems design and implementation
• Provided guidance, directions and visions to the development, architectural and design efforts
• Participated in software design and database architecture as necessary
• Improved team’s technical ability, utilization, efficiency and effectiveness
• Apply agile and scrum best practices to manage and track project vehicle
• Applied, administrated and customized Microsoft Visual Studio Online VSO as ALM
• Utilized Azure Resources (Virtual machines, databases…) and hosting budgeting
• Conducted daily and weekly team meetings, sprints and iterations planning meetings
• Review overall individual and team performance
• Assisted teams prioritized work and calculated accurate estimations
• Defined project plan, scope, resources, schedules, timelines, milestones and deliverables
• Estimated and assessed resources needs to deliver on project goals
• Confirmed resources utilization, retention and continuous improvements
• Compliance to deliver high quality software products on-time, on-budget
• Ensure alignment with business objectives and company culture
• Manage and mitigate risks and maintain issues log
• Participate in team evaluation: Determined and measured Key Performance Indicators KPI
• Oversee Mobile Development (Android, IOS)
• Supervised Quality Control QC and User Experience UI/UX teams activities
• Tailored Project Management, Development and Support Processes and Frameworks PMF
• Built Management Templates, Work Instructions and procedures
• Provided technical advices and status reports to top/senior management and stakeholders
• Scheduled, prepared and conducted client facing meetings and TCs
• Provide daily training and progressive discipline direction for teams and direct reports
Lead cross-function teams of 12+ in all SDLC all phases and support to deliver awesome pharmacological solutions and services; Participated in R&D, systems analysis, database architecture and programming
• Directed and managed project development from beginning to end
• Created, maintained and tracked project plans, schedules, cost estimates and problems logs
• Analyzed many systems: requirements specifications, BRD, SRS
• Database consultations: architecture, programmed, data import &export, advanced TSQL scripts
• Attended strategic meetings and innovation workshops
• Drafted technical offers, Tenders, Bids, technical contracts
• Liaison between clients and IT technical team
• Cooperate with customer support to smoothly solve faced issues
Achievements
• CMMI level 2 appraisal
• Upgraded Polaris solution to be OWASP compliant and WADs certified
• Delivered many CLM, web and mobile applications such as: Polaris CLM, Pulsar Surface, Pulsar orbit, Nova, Disease Registry, DAR, Wound Project, Pfizer Rep Master game, Get to Goal blood pressure, Sanofi KAMP, Novartis Ophthalmology Intranet, Lucentis Vision Impairment, Iraq Transplant Registry, InterMark HRIS, Paperless Events Platform, InterMark Client Portal
• Configure and customize many solutions and tools such as: dotProject, web2Project, bugs tracking system, SVN source control, osTicket customer Service ticketing system, JIRA
Managed teams of software engineers (12+ talents) and complex projects by prioritizing work assignments, collaborating cross-functionally and guided successful development strategies
• Engaged day-to-day activities of teams to ensure projects remains on schedule and on budget
• Offered leadership, guidance and motivation to teams and resolved internal conflicts
• Tracked project milestones and deliverable and teams performance and achievements
• Database maven: design, data import &export, advanced TSQL scripts
• Developed many web solutions in C#, WPF, Delphi and TSQL
• Recruited and retained high potential junior and proven experienced resources
Achievements
• Quotation system
• Eyes Surgery Centers management system
• Tailored CRM system
• Many web applications to Canadian Petroleum companies
• platform to enable legacy websites be multi-language
• Configure many solutions and tools such as): dotProject, trac, Mantis, SVN, GIT, Knowledge Tree
Lead team of 10+ talents to create solutions for linguistic, manuscripts and heritage content
• Project management: planning, resources allocations, tracking and delivering
• Ensured continuous delivery of high quality software products
• Involved in systems analysis: drafted BRD, SRS, requirements management, flowcharts, DFD
• Database maven: design, data import &export, advanced TSQL scripts
• Software development and testing my work
• Tracking projects progress and employees performance
• Participate in recruitment
• Technical documentation
Achievements
• TSL Back-office: suite of tools to edit, audit, revise and process heritage content and manuscripts
• TSL Loader: Imports text from any text file into structured database records
• TSL Text Analyzer: tagging expert platform
• TSL Spell Checker
• TSL Text Morphology Analyzer
• TSL Power Search: Ranked search engine
• TSL Arabic Diacritic
• TSL Manuscript Manager
• TSL Print: Export books content from database to MS Word
• SEBF: Sharia Encyclopedia for business and finance
• SONAN ANASAEE ALKOBRA
• ROWAT ALHADEETH Encyclopedia
• TSL MIS: Management Information System
• ISO 9001 certificate appraisal
Effectively manage operation and technology group (OTG): 9-Employees 24/7/54; 20+ local servers (AD, DNS, ISA, SQL, Mail…); 8-Remote hosts; 300+ PC LAN; 5-Internet lines: LL, DSL, ADSL and Frame relay
• Configured, administrated, monitor and fix: local and remote servers, LAN and internet lines
• Webmaster: Update all company's websites and troubleshooting technical issues
• Ensure servers and content security, backup and recovery
• Technical documentation : Author guides to department activities
• Supervised back-office helpdesk and customer support
• Plans: Resources utilization, Disasters Recovery, New technologies upgrades, improvements
• Enhanced team’s technical abilities by establishing best practices and development plans
• Monitored detailed employees performance and metrics
• Participate in recruitment
• Developed Reports
• Operate and administrate products and services such as: www.moheet.com, www.askzad.com, www.bayanonline.com, jobs.moheet.com, maktoob.moheet.com
• Configure and customize solutions and tools such as: e-groupware, Collaboration suite, dotProject, IRM, Daily activities journals, Intranet forums, Custom knowledge base, Backup tools
• ASKZAD website
• Current Awareness system
• Developed Encryption and Decryption algorithms to secure press images
• ZAD Back-office: suite of tools to scan, edit, audit, revise, archive millions of newspapers content
• ZAD: desktop app with advanced search, browsing capabilities to retrieve millions of news clips
• NADEEN dictionary: Award-winning best Arab-App in 2002 from Windows Magazine Dubai
• Dictionary back-office: suite of smart tools to prepare dictionaries multimedia content
• Protect apps using hardware keys, DONGGLES
• DTSEARCH and Excalibur retrieval ware search engine to index and retrieve Arabic content
During my study in faculty of engineering and within the faculty computer lab activities, I used to instruct many IT-related courses such as (but not limited to)…
• Borland C++
• Visual basic
• Windows
• …
B.Sc. Engineering in Cairo university, faculty of engineering, computer engineering department. Accumulative graduation good. Project graduation excellent.