Mohamed El-Sayed

Key responsibilities

• Define project scope, goals and deliverables that support business goals in collaboration with senior management and stakeholders
• Develop full-scale project plans and associated communications documents
• Effectively communicate project expectations to team members and stakeholders in a timely and clear fashion
• Analyze and document business requirements
• Estimate the resources and participants needed to achieve project goals
• Draft and submit budget proposals, and recommend subsequent budget changes where necessary
• Set and continually manage project expectations with team members and other stakeholders
• Identify and resolve issues and conflicts within the project team
• Identify and manage project dependencies and critical path
• Plan and schedule project timelines and milestones using appropriate tools
• Track project milestones and deliverables
• Develop and deliver progress reports, proposals, requirements documentation, and presentations
• Determine the frequency and content of status reports from the project team, analyze results, and troubleshoot problem areas
• Proactively manage changes in project scope, identify potential crises, and devise contingency plans
• Build, develop, and grow any business relationships vital to the success of the project
• Develop best practices and tools for project execution and management
• Manage clients training and knowledge transfer to insure smooth operations

Domain experience
• Equities, fixed incomes and basic knowledge about other asset classes
• Brokerage life cycle
• Retails/institutional and buy/sell side brokerage business and operations
• Risk management
• Margin Trading
• Asset and fund management and operations
• Extensive experience in Gulf financial markets trading rules and regulations

Technical experience
• FIX protocol (understanding and troubleshooting).
• Oracle database, forms and reports concepts and development.
• MT100 and MT940 swift messages.

Project categories
• ETS and financial system implementation and configuration.
• Integration with other systems for orders routing (direct connection or through order routing networks like ROR and Bloomberg) using FIX protocol
• Integration with data providers like TR
• Integration with accounting systems
• Integration with CRM systems
• Integration with asset management systems
• Integration with Core-Banking systems

Projects/Clients
Recommendation letters/contact information can be provided upon requests.

• Credit Suisse
• National Bank of Abu Dhabi
• Abu Dhabi Islamic Bank
• First Gulf Bank
• Alansari Financial Services
• Arab National Bank
• EFG-HERMS
• Osool Capital
• Falcom Financial Services
• Rana Investments
• Jadwa Investments

Manage the QA team and report to project owner in US.
Analyse and break down design and requirements into tasks and timelines for quality engineers to test and assure its quality.
Review quality engineers output to make sure it meets company standards.
Make code reviews to make sure source code meets company code policy.
Plan on a weekly basis, the primary, secondary and learning projects for the team.
Meet and discuss online new requirements and status updates with the US project managers and propagate the requests to own team through meetings.
Writing monthly whitepapers on new technologies.
Attend and participate in team building events.
Accept and revise weekly time sheets and reports from quality engineers.
Continuous support and tutoring for quality engineers.
Handle the testing management of various types of projects, related to storage management, speech recognition and synthesis, security analysis, mobility applications and re-branding.
Ensure deadlines are met and projects are deployed with more than the expected quality level.
Manage development projects oriented to create automated testing tools.
Learn and certify for new technologies according to market trends.
-Tools:
For developers support, code inspection and reviews:
•Microsoft Visual Studio 6, 2003 and 2005.
•Microsoft SQL Server 2000, 2005.
•NUNIT.
For quality assurance, bug reporting and inspection:
•Defect System.
For collaboration with US teams and other offshore team leaders:
•TeamSpeak.
•Outlook Web Access.
•Microsoft Office and Project.

-Solution developer in "Speedsend" one of the leading supplying companies in Egypt.
-Participated in rebuilding and extending www.speedsend.com site functionality, drive profitability, and enhance the customer experience globally by providing powerful features such as user profiling, personalization, catalog management, targeted discounts and advertisements, shopping permissions, order processing, Customer internal order approval, globalization (multiple languages and currencies), and advanced online business analytics. This was performed mainly using VB.NET, C#, Commerce Server 2002, and SQL Server 2000.
-Note: www.speedsend.com is speedsend’s Business -to Business internet ordering solution exclusive to speedsend contract customers. With speedsend.com, customers can order supplies electronically from any computer, anytime. The speedsend.com site provides immediate access to a catalogue of over 1, 500 products, an easy-to-use search mechanisms help customers find the products they want quickly, and always at contract specific pricing. www.speedsend.com Site is constructed based on e-commerce standards.
-Participated in rebuilding and extending "CM" system, Speedsend's internal system concerned with company internal Order processing, packaging and delivery. CM system is constructed based on international order processing standards. CM is also responsible for administrating speedsend.com and integrating with "Microsoft Great Plains".