Mayssa Kholeif, Product Owner/ Business Analyst Lead

Mayssa Kholeif

Product Owner/ Business Analyst Lead

V-Apps

Location
Egypt - Cairo
Education
Master's degree, Business Information Technology
Experience
21 years, 5 Months

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Work Experience

Total years of experience :21 years, 5 Months

Product Owner/ Business Analyst Lead at V-Apps
  • Egypt - Cairo
  • My current job since September 2016

Communicating with customer to discuss business requirements and specify customer needs.
Prepare projects scope and required deliverables.
Prepare Backlog, requirements specifications, User stories.
Handling project business analysis
Monitor work progress and coordinating between analysis, design, development and testing teams.
Plan project releases and iterations.
Participate in recruiting and building successful teams.
Manage and ensure the implementation of agile process across the teams and projects.
Ensure successful delivery to customer.

Information Systems Unit Manager at Chestnut Technologies
  • Egypt - Cairo
  • December 2014 to May 2016
Unit Coordinator and Business Analsis Manager at Hindawi Publishing
  • Egypt - Cairo
  • July 2014 to November 2014

Prepare Project Scope and Roadmap
Manage Business Analysis Team
Analyze Business requirements and develop requirements specification document
Handling Product Owner Duties
Coordinate and follow up with analysis, design, web development, mobile app and testing teams

Business Analyst Lead at LinkdotNet
  • Egypt - Cairo
  • January 2010 to June 2014

Business Process Enhancements
Identify and provide internal solutions that meet the business requirements and are consistent with the overall business operating model(S). Analyze user requirements, define project scope and translate user requirements to functional requirements and technical designs.
Gathering requirements from customers.
Analyzing requirements.
Prepare requirements Specification documents such as:
Follow up projects progress

Provide support and assistance to Solution Team and Business testing, and monitor that the final solution will meet the business needs within the constraints of the Business Case in terms of quality, functionality and ease of use.

Participate in user acceptance and oversee all development activities until successful customer delivery.

Provide training for end users.

Senior Business Analyst at link dot net
  • Egypt - Cairo
  • January 2009 to December 2009

Business Process Enhancements
Gathering requirements from customers.
Analyzing requirements.
Prepare analysis documents
Provide support and assistance to Solution Team & business testing.
Participate in user acceptance and oversee all development activities until successful customer delivery.
Provide training for end users.

Business Analyst at LINKdotNET
  • Egypt - Cairo
  • November 2007 to December 2008

Gathering requirements from customers.
Analyzing requirements.
Prepare Requirements Specification documents

Project Coordinator at Joint venture project between Enppi, Aramco and Khafji oil & petroleum companies.
  • Egypt
  • November 2006 to October 2007

Data Analysis
Preparing analysis reports
Tracking business processes
Tracking project deliverables & processing progress reports.
Processing other reports to Top Management.
Update the “Documentum System”.
Maintaining the “Documentum” database.
Handling some administration work.

Business Analyst at T3A Industrial
  • Egypt
  • January 2005 to October 2006

Business Analysis.
oGather data about existing business process.
oGather users’ requirements.
oIdentify problems in the business process.

System Analysis & Design.
oModeling the system using UML e.g.: Use case scenarios, sequence & activity diagrams.
oDevelop flow charts, Entity Relationship diagrams and data dictionary.

Developing & implementing business solutions by automating business systems using MS Access tool. e.g.:
oTender & Bids system.
oCustomized CRM system.
oCustomized Orders & sales system.

Documentation of the developed systems.
Prepare users manuals of the developed systems.
Test Users’ Usability of business applications for enhancement.
Maintaining Running Business Systems in various departments.
Training Users on developed System.
Cost Benefit Analysis.
Sales analysis and sales reports.
Running tenders & bids business.
Reporting to Top Management.

Assistant Professor at Cairo Academy
  • Egypt
  • September 2002 to December 2004

Teaching students in the following areas:
Information Technology, Management and Marketing.

Education

Master's degree, Business Information Technology
  • at Middlesex University in London
  • November 2008

I have achieved my master's dgree from Middlesex University in London through the Regional IT Institute in Cairo.

Diploma, Project Management Course
  • at Tenstep / Nexus
  • February 2007

Project Management Course “PMP”, By Nexus/Tenstep education center accredited from the Project Management Institute “PMI” - 35 Hours

Diploma, • Implementing & Maintaining MS SQL Server 2005 Database
  • at Raya Academy
  • October 2006
Diploma, Leadership Skills
  • at Vodafone
  • March 2006
Diploma, Planning and Time Management
  • at Vodafone
  • March 2006
Diploma, Marketing and creativity
  • at Vodafone
  • March 2006
Diploma, ICDL (International Computer Driving Liscence)
  • at Cairo Academy
  • April 2003
Bachelor's degree, Management Information System
  • at Cairo Academy
  • September 2002

GPA: 3.85 •Graduation project: Develop & implement “Inventory System” software using Power builder. •Graduation project Grade: 'A' •Total Grade: "A" with honour degree.

Specialties & Skills

Microsoft Access
Gathering
SQL Server
Business Process
VBA (MS Access Programing)
Business Analysis & System Analysis
Database Design
MS Office
Rational Rose
MS Project
Unified Modeling Language (UML)

Languages

Arabic
Expert
English
Expert

Training and Certifications

Marketing & Creativity (Training)
Training Institute:
Vodafone
Date Attended:
March 2006
ITIL® Foundation Certificate in IT Service Management (Certificate)
Date Attended:
June 2014
Leadership Skills (Training)
Training Institute:
Vodafone
Date Attended:
March 2006
Fundamentals of Agile Software Development (Certificate)
Date Attended:
September 2016
Project Management course “PMP exam preparation” (Training)
Training Institute:
By Nexus/TenStep education center
Date Attended:
March 2007
Duration:
40 hours
Requirements Engineering/ Business Analysis (Training)
Training Institute:
Reqmaster
Date Attended:
March 2009
Duration:
60 hours
Agile Business Value Analysis, ICAgile certified professional in Business Value Analysis (Certificate)
Date Attended:
December 2016
Planning and Time Management (Training)
Training Institute:
Vodafone
Date Attended:
March 2006
Implementing & Maintaining MS SQL Server 2005 Database (Training)
Training Institute:
Raya Academy
Date Attended:
September 2006
ICDL (Certificate)
Date Attended:
March 2003