Mohammad Jafar, Product Manager

Mohammad Jafar

Product Manager

CIT MOBiDIV

Location
Egypt
Education
Master's degree, Executive Master of Business Administration
Experience
20 years, 2 Months

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Total years of experience :20 years, 2 Months

Product Manager at CIT MOBiDIV
  • Egypt - Cairo
  • My current job since March 2011

Lead talented team to get "ArabWare" project to life on Windows Mobile and Android platforms.
Prioritize and schedule feature list implementation along plan time line.
Take decisions regarding technical implementation issues.
Guide the team to implement modular platform services to be shared among current and future projects.

Team Leader at CIT MOBiDIV
  • Egypt - Cairo
  • April 2009 to December 2010

Taking the lead of products to define technical requirements, enhancements and road-map for different projects. Manage the development team in order to deliver the product requirements. During this period, we successfully moved the localization mobile apps from Windows Mobile platform to Android platform. We have also visualized and implemented new localization mobile apps on Android platform.

Senior Software Engineer at CIT MOBiDIV
  • Egypt - Cairo
  • August 2007 to March 2009

The role implied the design and development of assigned tasks side by side with managing junior team members, assurance of different mobile apps can pass stability and stress tests on target devices and the enhancement of the user experience in current and previous products. Also had the responsibility for inventing new features for current projects and new ideas for new projects
Have successfully participated in the enhancement and delivery of critical deals with well-known device manufacturers such as HTC, i-mate, Motorola and Acer. The design and implementation of Bluetooth cores in a way that hides the complexity for smooth integration with other modules. Design of core engines for multi-platform products such as Extended Messaging XMS on Windows Mobile and Symbian platforms.

Senior Software Engineer at ASGATech
  • Egypt
  • April 2005 to August 2007

Description:
• Symbian OS developer and team leader, ASGATech, Egypt.
• Nokia Certified Trainer (NCT) during the year 2007, ASGA Academy, Egypt.

Responsibilities:
• Supervising the Symbian department and helping the team to provide higher performance and better quality output.
• Managing workflow and performance of a partial Symbian projects.
• Documenting applications coding and design. Providing full roadmap for the development process.
• Setting requirements and features of company's new Symbian projects.

Achievements:
• The only Nokia Certified Trainer in the Middle East and Africa (Jan 2007- Jan 2008).
• Implementing the 1st Symbian product of the company SMSArabic for S90.
• Implemented the most successful application in the company during 2005: "Islamic Organizer" for Nokia Series 80 devices.
• Developed a full QA system for company's applications which was clearly reflected on the revenues of the company.
• Developed the core of the call manager product “MobiGenie”.
• Developed a full localization solution "coding, designing, fonts" for Nokia 7710 mobile phone.

Trainee at AMAC
  • Egypt
  • February 2005 to April 2005

Oracle forms and reports.

DB Administrator at Egyptian National Army
  • Egypt
  • January 2004 to February 2005

Administration of local DB.
Maintainace and development of software solutions.
Innovation of further automation plans and carrying implementations.

Education

Master's degree, Executive Master of Business Administration
  • at Alexandria University
  • November 2014

Completed Execute Master of Business Administration at Alexandria University in cooperation with Georgia State University in USA. The program is designed and supervised by Georgia State University.

Bachelor's degree, Computer Engineering
  • at Faculty of Engineering
  • July 2003

Final Grade: %82.387 (B) Graduation Project Grade: (A) Graduation Project Title: Prayer Time Finder Graduation Project Description: portable alarm device with memory contains all the prayer times for one year in maximum 5 selective cities.

High school or equivalent, Science
  • at Sajir Secondary School
  • July 1998

Completion of High school education with grade of 98%.

Specialties & Skills

Product Management
Product Development
Product Design
Software Design
HTML/ Javascript/ VBScript
Illustration
Reports/ Emails
Software Analysis
Visual Basic 6
Microsoft Office
3ds Studo Max
Video editing/ composing
Windows Mobile C++
Symbian C++
Product Marketing
Project Management
Product Management

Languages

Arabic
Expert
English
Intermediate

Memberships

Egyptian Engineers Syndicate
  • Member
  • October 2003