Mohammad Chehab, Digital Project Manager | Head Of Mobile & Web

Mohammad Chehab

Digital Project Manager | Head Of Mobile & Web

Mohammed Bin Rashid Housing Est

Location
United Arab Emirates - Dubai
Education
Bachelor's degree, Computer Science
Experience
16 years, 8 Months

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Total years of experience :16 years, 8 Months

Digital Project Manager | Head Of Mobile & Web at Mohammed Bin Rashid Housing Est
  • United Arab Emirates - Dubai
  • My current job since January 2016

1. Led a team of 25 multi-national personals which included web developers, designers, API developers, mobile developers, scrum masters to deliver customer facing portals which replaces manual work, which also aligns with the vision of Dubai Smart City.
2. Lead a full implementation of embracing DevOps which was released in a press release, and included the following:
a. Crash Course about DevOps for both teams Dev & Ops
b. Introducing Shift Left and reducing failure.
c. Implementing continuous integration - continuous delivery for all applications
d. Using the power of cloud (ISAS) for our development infrastructure.
e. Managing and Leading Change.
f. Implementing agile/scrum methodologies in managing our application life cycle delivery (Daily scrum meetings, Kanaban...)
g. Introducing the concept of (ChatOps)
h. Implementing Postmortem meetings after each major change.
i. Risk assessment, which involves analyzing risks as well as identifying, describing and estimating the risks affecting the software delivery.
j. Corporate software governance when working with external companies.

3. Managing the life Cycle of the development of our Middleware application.
4. Collecting, analyzing business requirements from product owners and stack holders.
5. Managing constant improvements of our digital channels.
6. Managing the complete life cycle of the ‘Iskan’ Smart App. (Android & iOS) From concept to delivery.
7. Managing the complete life cycle of the ‘Online Services’ from concept to delivery.
8. Managing the complete life cycle of the ‘Kiosk Service App’ from concept to delivery.
9. Managing all sorts of integrations between internal applications, other government entities, as well as public sectors such as Dubai National Bonds.

Senior Developer at MRHE - Government Of Dubai
  • United Arab Emirates - Dubai
  • February 2014 to January 2016

Duties & Responsibilities:

1. Management of projects, which includes IT Systems developed by Third party vendors.
2. Preparations of RFP documents for different types of System Solutions.
3. Assessment and participated in the selection of IT systems that where installed in the institution.
4. Responsible for the architecture of the backend Cloud services which integrates in-house systems and other channels such as mobile apps, call centers, file net, portals…
5. Assessment of the cloud’s infrastructure security with “Paramount”.
6. Responsible for the development and maintenance of the Iskan mobile app.

Key Projects:

1. MRHECloud Backend API for Mohammed Bin Rashid Housing Establishment Part of Dubai Smart Government.
• Project documentation.
• Enforce versioning on production servers to maintain backwards compatibility.
• Migrating database changes with code shipping using fluent migration classes.
• System Architecture and Database Design.
• Implemented .NET framework employing Object Oriented (OO) Concepts, UML (Enterprise Architect tool) and Design Patterns, applications consist of n-Tier Architecture and following a domain driven design pattern.
• Performance tuning of the application, reduction in the number of loops and code optimization.
• Involve in application development and Unit, Integration and System Testing. Debugging and troubleshooting of the application.
• Unit test cases for the Unit testing.
• Experience in Agile methodology.
• Proficiency in Team Foundation Server.
• Managing Staging and Production Server.
• Experience of managing and utilization of IT resources

2. Iskan Mobile App found on mobile stores …)
3. Iskan Apple Watch.

Systems Developer at Consolidated Contractors International Company
  • United Arab Emirates - Dubai
  • November 2012 to February 2014

Duties & Responsibilities:

1. Development of backend cloud services which manages clients using odata + entity framework
2. Development of CCC EShop.
3. Integration with other in house applications.
4. Interviewing new applicants for development posts.
5. Development small utility mobile apps for construction sites.


Key Projects:

1. E-Shop an online E-commerce website for engineering procurement. Built on top of \[nopCommerce\].
2. Surveillance Monitoring tool ( on LAN )
3. Many SSIS utilities for Controls Engineers.
4. Progress Forms.
• Progress monitoring is a mobile application that is developer for iOS, android, blackberry and windows devices. UI developed using HTML5 and deployed using phone gap.
• Back end developed using Microsoft entity framework and MSSQL 2008 R2.
• Ref : https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/progress-forms/id662694671?ls=1&mt=8

5. Spools tracking app.
6. Outlook utility with Helpdesk integration.
7. Multiple Coordinates Conversion Utilities to help integrate with built in-house applications.

Application Developer at E-MedLinks Sarl
  • Lebanon - Beirut
  • March 2010 to July 2012

Duties & Responsibilities:

1. Lead a team of 4 developers developing solutions for large clinics.
2. Technical Lead in development.
3. Responsible for writing technical specification for every module.
4. Creating Tasks using team foundation server and assigning them to the team.
5. Designing Database Schema
6. Implementing Business modules
7. Code Review.
8. Responsible for every deployment created by our team.
9. Managing Integration between Clinical Systems
10. Managing integration between Clinical Systems and Insurance Companies.

Key Projects:

1. ClinDox.
2. POS.
3. iLinks
4. Client Relation Management System.

Web Developer at Turnkey Systems Sarl
  • Lebanon - Beirut
  • May 2010 to May 2011

Duties & Responsibilities:

1. Creating and developing front end as well as server end applications
2. Keeping track of browser compatibility
3. Integration between front end and the back end using SOAP.
4. Developing the iMobile-banking app.



Key Projects:

1. Incoming Money Transfers.
2. Outgoing Money Transfers.
3. Global Banking Reports. (Statement of accounts, ledgers, etc. ...)
4. Back office for The Mobile Backing.
5. Mobile Banking.
6. Internet Mobile Banking.
7. Web Service (Engineer)
8. iMobile (Mobile Banking Native app)

Internship at african royal trading
  • Lebanon - Beirut
  • May 2007 to January 2010

Job Title:

1. Data Entry. Jan 2007 - Nov 2007
2. Junior Developer Nov 2007 - May 2010

Duties:

1. Migrating data from Quick books to Microsoft Navision.
2. Generating Reports using Microsoft SQL Server Report Service.
3. Developing and installing PentaPOS.

Key Projects:

1. PentaPOS.
2. Microsoft Navision, QuickBooks data transfer.

Education

Bachelor's degree, Computer Science
  • at Lebanese International University
  • July 2010

Specialties & Skills

IT Architecture
Team Leadership
Database
Cloud Computing

Languages

Arabic
Expert
English
Expert

Memberships

Microsoft
  • Microsoft Certified Technology Specialist
  • January 2012

Training and Certifications

Microsoft MCTS (Certificate)
Date Attended:
May 2012
Valid Until:
January 9999