Marwan H Soliman, Product Manager

Marwan H Soliman

Product Manager

Sejel technology ltd

Location
Saudi Arabia - Jeddah
Education
Bachelor's degree, Computer Science
Experience
12 years, 3 Months

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Total years of experience :12 years, 3 Months

Product Manager at Sejel technology ltd
  • Saudi Arabia - Jeddah
  • My current job since February 2020

- Performing market research and analysis.
- Lead the strategy and development of a tracking and innovative Internet of Things (IoT)
ecosystem, including defining platform requirements, customer experience (e.g. Tracking devices,
digital touchpoints, sensors, HD Cameras, health detectable, service concept), and market
strategies.
- Leading the product management efforts for IoT services, with responsibility for defining the
the related product roadmap, business plan, and product offers as well as developing critical
strategies that deliver tangible business results
- Develop knowledge of target customer segments and the operational nature of customers'
businesses, to build a deep understanding of how the solutions we offer uniquely positions them
- Manage and lead lifecycles for business solutions products, including short to long-term strategy,
launch, maintenance, enhancements,
- Execute on related efforts for he
roadmap to ensure necessary business requirements and portfolio meets the customer and
the market needs across the portfolio managed.
- collective voice of customer and competitive analysis.
- Refine marketing requirements for engineering scrum teams
- Create marketing user stories for agile for meeting customer needs and minimum viable.
Product (MVP)and include clear and specific acceptance criteria
- Groom and Prioritize Agile Scrum Team Backlogs.
Support Operations organization (Part Creation, Requisitions, Vendor Coordination, etc.)
- Coordinate Beta and Early access program
Assess product performance for continuous improvement
- Projects: Hajj 1440-1441( HAJJ IoT Transportation - Security - Camera - Support maintains
Centers) - Umraah (1440-1441)( Umraah IoT transportation - GDS- Security - Camera- Support
maintains centers. \[IoT Based streaming analytics - - Edge Analytics- IoT platforms- Cloud
computing\]

Senior Business Analyst at Sejel technology ltd
  • Saudi Arabia - Jeddah
  • November 2019 to February 2020

- Demonstrate up-to-date expertise in Information Systems and apply this to the development,
execution, and improvement of action plans by providing advice and guidance to others in the
application of information and best practices.
- Support and align efforts to meet customer and business needs.
- Manage customer relationships and expectations by developing a communication process to keep others up to date on project results.
- Managing project scope; adjusting schedules when necessary; determining daily priorities;
ensuring efficient and on-time delivery of project tasks and milestones; following proper escalation paths; and managing customer and supplier relationships.
- Provide leadership to team members and peers by collaborating with others; articulating ideas
and viewpoints to senior management, peers, and others; identifying and initiating projects;
- managing resources; driving the resolution of issues; holding self and team accountable for
results.
- identify, create, and facilitate process design changes by conducting business and systems
process analysis and design at a complex level.
- Provide and support the implementation of business solutions by building relationships and
partnerships with key stakeholders; identifying business needs;
- Collaborate closely with developers to implement the requirements, provide necessary guidance
to testers during QA process
- Elicit and clearly document business and systems requirements
- Identify ways to increase adoption and customer satisfaction
- Demonstrated fluency in business processes and process differentiation
- Ability to analyze and synthesize business requirements, including recognizing patterns and
conceptualizing processes
- Understand and negotiate the needs and expectations of multiple stakeholders
- Serve as a liaison between Operations and IT to assist or gather business requirements needed
for system modifications, enhancement, and implementations
- Assist with and test implementation for all payer and vendor relationships to ensure data transfer
collection, quality, and reporting relationships are working appropriately down to the market level
to ensure market team member and provider experience is appropriate

Senior Business Analyst at Netways
  • Saudi Arabia - Jeddah
  • February 2018 to November 2019

- Partnering with Government Naqaba Team as well as other teams from other companies to drive improvement activities, efficiency gains and decision support for Hajj processes.
- Support Business initiatives and expansions, support business new initiatives and process design and improvement.
- Participate in preparation of Weekly, Monthly & Quarterly business reviews, as well as planning and forecasting cycles.
- Perform and regular variance analysis to identify business drivers and support ongoing decision making. Translating data into actionable insights for the business development team
- Thinks critically and creates analyses to identify key priorities for new country launches
- Support the consumer team to identify and own opportunities to grow KSA profitability, maintain tracker of such initiatives to ensure the successful implementation.
- Translating data into actionable insights for the business development team
- Automate reporting for weekly business metrics, identify areas of opportunity to automate and scale ad-hoc analysis
- Working with Daif Team and creating new features develop the cycle between the end user and Daif administrations.
- Develop business architecture using requirements such as scope, processes, alternatives, and risks.
- Analyze client’s business requirements and processes through document analysis, interviews, workshops, and workflow analysis.
- Working between 21 Applications providing and serving Hajj process in 3 cities (Jeddah- Makka- Madina)

Senior Business Analyst at Integrated Development
  • Egypt - Cairo
  • January 2016 to December 2017

Working as a liaison between Business and Technology team to understand business objectives, translate them into meaningful requirements and work as a point of contact for technology teams.
• Leading the move to the Agile Scrum Project Management methodology in the company, to be the process of building products and delivering them to our customers.
I'm responsible for discovering, specifying and validating the business and software requirements of company products, my achievements include:
• Defined a new process for requirements management in the company to obtain the greatest value of having the requirements organized, stored, shared and current.
• Regulated the agile scrum process and performed the scrum master responsibilities.
• Maximized the effective communication and interaction between all the teams inside the company to be all aligned with company products’ vision and objectives.
• Responsible for requirements management and analysis in the company which included (developing user stories, storyboards and maintaining the product backlog).
• Improved the existing business process by introducing new solutions to the company to increase the team productivity and effectiveness.
• Leaded the release planning and management of company products.
• Participated in building a new process for the technical writing activities in the company to write internal documentations, user manuals and online helps to company products.
• Responsible for Planning, analyzing and developing software solutions to enhance the company’s business processes.

• Studying IT products and services and map them to fit educational needs.
• Collecting, understanding, and transmitting the business requirements for the project/product, and translating these into functional an non-functional specifications.
• Establishing business document and adjusting priorities requirements across affected business areas.
• Working with business owners and delivery work streams to develop optimal solutions.
• Analyzing and document business processes and scenarios.
• Documenting requirements and results of business analysis and obtain sign-off from client on the specifications.
• Liaising with business managers and low-level users to understand and document business requirements across affected business areas.
• Designing Time Plan and follow up candidates to achieve.
• Providing the link between the customer, development team and any third party regarding software functionality, throughout the development life cycle.
• Controlling Project’s cost and quality plan.
• Prioritize the backlogs, specify its business needs and evaluate -with the scrum team- its efforts.
• Divide project to sprints and plan each sprint.
• Elicitate best solution, configure its details and specify rules and considerations
• Build and tune backlogs scenarios, specifying its acceptance criteria.
• Document requirements and results of business analysis and obtain sign-off from client on the specifications.
• Develop manuals and guides of the project/product.

Business Analyst at Nile Code
  • Egypt - Cairo
  • April 2015 to February 2016

- Collecting, understanding, and transmitting the business requirements for the project/product, and
translating these into functional an non-functional specifications.
- Establishing business document and adjusting priorities requirements across affected business areas.
- Analyzing and document business processes and scenarios.
- Designing Time Plan and follow up candidates to achieve.
- Prioritize the backlogs, specify its business needs and evaluate -with the scrum team- its efforts.
- Divide project to sprints and plan each sprint.
- Document requirements and results of business analysis and obtain sign-off from client on the
specifications.
- Creating SRS, UML, BRD, FRS

Azure Manager at Azure Community in Egypt
  • Egypt - Cairo
  • July 2012 to January 2016

Azure community in Egypt is composed from the best technical people in cloud computing at Egypt and Middle East and Africa, we give solutions to the companies around the world through out Events and Online sessions, we make Global events SUCH as GAB.

http://gab.azurecommunityegypt.com/

Vice President at GEEKSDAY
  • Egypt - Cairo
  • March 2013 to July 2015

Geeksday is a Non-Profit Foundation. Started in 4th of May 2012. As a Microsoft Geeksday Competition event at Ahram Canadian University. Geeksday bring the most innovative students in MENA region in order to teach them new solutions and technologies, help them in their startups or even build new startups. Geeksday focus in 2 main concepts;
1. Alternative Education
2. Entrepreneurship
Due to our lack of the important elements in building a society capable of building technical/business term well. We decided to provide an alternative ways of learning environment characterized as Easy, Fun, and Precision. To complete our audience cycle learning. Also, Continuous monitoring and various activities conducive to learning through rapid application.
Specialties

Entrepreneurship, Alternative Education, Developing/Designing, Mobile Apps

Co - Openness Lead Program at Openness program at Microsoft Egypt
  • Egypt - Cairo
  • February 2015 to July 2015

We contribute to and partner with open source communities and promote inter operability to make it easier and less costly for customers to develop and manage mixed IT environments. We actively participate in the standards setting process and support established and emerging standards in our products.

In the cloud, we support key standards that provide the building blocks for open, interoperable cloud services, and we support developer choice of programming languages. We support data portability and believe customers own and control their data, no matter where it resides.

Speaker and PR at Global Azure BootCamp
  • Egypt
  • April 2015 to May 2015

The story about #GlobalAzure is as unique as it is grand. Each year hundreds of organizers around the globe arrange Azure user group events on the same day. On April 25th, thousands of attendees will learn about the Microsoft Azure Cloud and virtually meet up with their peers on social media. Together, we will run a huge shared lab where tens of thousands of Virtual Machines in Azure compute for the good of the planet.

It is important to point out that this is not a Microsoft owned event. Rather it is over one hundred individual and independent community events that occur simultaneously on the same day each year. Responsibility for each of these local event lies with the local organizers of that event.

Microsoft Student Partner at Microsoft Egypt
  • Egypt - Cairo
  • October 2012 to April 2014

As a Microsoft Student Partner, I have been challenged to use my enthusiasm, knowledge and skills to lead the technology discussion on my campus. I have been demoing the latest and greatest technologies, host events, and connect with other students and faculty to inspire them to create what’s next.

Our passion didn't stop at the limits of our campuses walls, we have explored Egypt while raising Egyptian students awareness not only about technology but how to be pioneers and how to create their own paths of success and set an example for student leaders, I had the privilege to provide training for students across the campuses of (Cairo University, Ain Shams University, Helwan University, Business Information Systems Helwan, American University in Cairo, Ahram Canadian University, Arab Academy for Science and Technology and Culture and science city )
I have managed to participate in initiatives in Cairo, Alexandria and Aswan, I believe that this experience have allowed me to explore my country in a unique and innovative way, so far the best experience I have ever lived and I highly recommend any student to do whatever it takes to join this life changing program.

Imagine cup App academy Manager, Culture and Science city at Microsoft
  • Egypt - Cairo
  • July 2013 to September 2013

• Planned, analyzed and managed all the phases of the academy.
• Leaded the project teams of students with .NET framework, Windows phone 8, Windows 8, Windows azure and the Business development of these projects.
• Mentored and guided students towards Software and business development of projects.
• Presented a Technical as well as business planning and analysis sessions to students.

CEO - President at Microsoft Tech Club at Culture and Science City
  • Egypt
  • January 2013 to July 2013

Microsoft Student Tech Club at CSC is a student community program that promotes advanced technology through education, practice, and innovation. It also provides students with both technical and non-technical sessions needed which is packing their lives with high level of skills and supporting their careers with opportunities.

Mission
Microsoft Tech Club at CSC has a clear mission to help the students in the campus and to be there for any kind of support needed whether it’s technical or non-technical and to help them find their most suitable career.

Public Relation and Media Leader at Microsoft Egypt
  • Egypt - Cairo
  • April 2013 to May 2013

Working in Program related to Microsoft Discovery 2.0 which make students around Egypt their own applications at windows phone store and train them by the best Experts in that field .
My tasks is to manage the situation with the Egyptian Media and press and give them the chance to see the Egyptian youth can change the world and their own Egypt by their applications and that program give best and nice applications give good feedback ..

Public Relations And Marketing at VAVA Furniture Ltd
  • Nigeria
  • February 2012 to February 2013

Working in public Relations and marketing to the Nigerian company around Egypt to expand their income with open high services to all Egyptians through out their products from Furniture With VAVA logo .

OGX Member at AIESEC
  • Egypt
  • January 2012 to August 2012

AIESEC is an international non-governmental not-for-profit organization that provides young people with leadership development and cross-cultural global internship and volunteer exchange experiences across the globe, with a focus to empower young people so they can make a positive impact on society. The AIESEC network includes over 100, 000 members in 126 countries and territories. It is the largest youth-run organization in the world, I was member in OGX AIESEC Department, Developing the leadership potential of youth through experiential learning, volunteer experiences and professional internships.

Enabling both employers and organisations
to connect with a global network of talent.

Education

Bachelor's degree, Computer Science
  • at Culture and science city, 6th October University
  • July 2013

Computer science, Culture and science city, 6th October University, Egypt | Bachelor (BA) ▪ Very Good with rank of Honor. “2009-2013” | GPA = 3.2 Enrolled to Do my GMAT Course at American University in Egypt before Doing my MBA.

Specialties & Skills

Public Relations
Technical Presales
Cloud Computing
Windows Azure
Public Relations Management
Adobe Photoshop
Oracle Database Admin
MICROSOFT C#
Project Management
Program Management
ASP.net
Technology Solution Sales
Technical Presales
Business Analysis
Event Planning, Budggeting and Managment
Vendor Management
windows 8
Technical Marketing
Windows phone Apps
Public Speaking and Product Demonstration
Microsoft Azure

Languages

Arabic
Expert
English
Expert
French
Intermediate
Turkish
Beginner

Memberships

Azure Community in Egypt
  • Azure Leader
  • July 2012
Microsoft
  • Microsoft Student Partner
  • June 2012
Openness Egypt Program - Microsoft
  • Co - Lead Openness program Egypt
  • December 2014
Microsoft Tech Club CSC
  • Co Founder - President
  • November 2012
VAVA furniture Ltd Nigeria
  • PR for VAVA Furniture Ltd Nigerian Company in Egypt
  • February 2012
Global Azure BootCamp
  • Speaker and Leader
  • April 2014

Training and Certifications

Completion Of The Business Analysis Body of Knowledge (BABOK) v3 (Training)
Training Institute:
IIBA
Date Attended:
November 2019
Duration:
35 hours
Certificate of Appreciation for leading and working in Discovery2.0 From Nokia Egypt - Microsoft (Certificate)
Date Attended:
September 2013
Certificate of Appreciation from Microsoft Co. Global Azure BootCamp 2013 (Certificate)
Date Attended:
October 2013
Marketing Principles (Training)
Training Institute:
Microsoft Egypt
Date Attended:
May 2013
Personal Communication Skills Training Program (Training)
Training Institute:
Microsoft Egypt
Date Attended:
April 2013
Certificate from Microsoft Student partner - Microsoft (Certificate)
Date Attended:
January 2014

Hobbies

  • Football Player Professional
    Was playing Football under 19 yrs under name of Egyptian Association of football
  • Voice Over Artist
    Worked in many Radios in internet .
  • Volunteer activates
    Resalaa - NasHope app
  • Reading