Chief Technology Officer (Cto)
Softmills
Total years of experience :21 years, 5 Months
Raised over USD 5M in seed funding through working closely with the CEO, building business and financial plans, investor decks and pitching to investors as well as managing board members.
Successfully launched multiple Mobile tech start-ups in different industries including retail (Loyalty), healthcare (telemedicine), social networks, transportation and ecommerce.
Opening offices in multiple cities globally, hiring top local talents and managing product & remote development teams, mentoring senior tech leaders to become the next CTOs for newly created business ventures.
Developing strategic partnerships agreements with multiple companies, such as Groupon, Du Telecommunication, GoBee, Commit Network, Albanese Branding & more.
Developing all internal policies and procedures and directing all IT infrastructure.
Managing all technical activities from system designs and architect down to development, UX/UI, code reviews as well as infrastructure setup and code deployments over different cloud hosting services such as Amazon AWS, Digital Ocean and Microsoft Azure.
Responsible for all branding activities for 3 different startups, both B2B and B2C including all digital marketing and marketing automation, social marketing, SEO, and marketing analytics.
Working closely with sales and operation in conjunction with managing partners and customers to build product roadmaps.
Designed and architected the world first NFC cloud based android tablet for loyalty and customer engagement platform.
Building from ground up a scalable real-time ride hailing system and mobile apps for both IOS & Android, and growing the business to become the 2nd largest App (after Uber) in Kenya reaching more than 60, 000 completed rides per month.
Consulting & mentoring for CTOs in multiple start-ups.
Managing one of the top Credit & Lending lifecycle management products in North America for retail, small business, commercial lending, and equipment finance providers.
• Identifying and developing marketing strategies and plans to drive engagement and product adoption for existing clients as well as new clients.
• Developed and managed a strategy and product roadmap to serve as a tangible guide for the execution and realization of firm objectives, resulting in successful progress towards delivery
• Managing the entire product analysis team.
• Initiating and prioritizing product releases; tracking product development; developing product launch/ release plans and establishing short and long term product goals and marketing strategies.
• Defining a new SAAS offering for the creditpath solution with a complete API Services and mobile APP.
• Specifying market requirements for current and future products by conducting in-depth market research.
• Coordinating work between different stakeholders within the company through establishing and maintaining lines of communication with design, development and client delivery teams.
• Driving developers and architects awareness of the latest advancements in technologies and strategies to adopt it within the organization.
• Engaging closely with the engineering team to help determine the best technical implementation methods as well as reasonable execution schedules.
• Working with cross-functional internal team (sales, project managers, program managers, client services, and marketing) to continuously monitor, analyze and update product perspectives on the market, and gather customer feedback and ensure smooth and successful release launches.
Awards:
D+H Innovation excellence award
• As a senior system architect for Cyence platform, one of the leading credit and lending platform in the market, I was able to quickly gain an extensive knowledge of the business and the technology, this allowed me to revolutionize the design and architecture of the product to meet clients’ demands which in turn allowed the company to maintain and grow its client base. I was then appointed to be the product manager of the product in less than a year.
Awards & Endorsements:
• Sales and Marketing Award.
• CEO Endorsement for Renovating the overall UX and GUI.
As one of founders of Blujino; proximity based social mobile network for non-smart phone devices, I was responsible for all R&D activities, market studies, company branding, product positioning and marketing activities, business plan and financial planning, product development and finally raising required seed funds.
I was able to bring strong advisory board to the company, including Stephen Elop (CEO, Nokia) and Rafik Loutfy (Booth Chair, Xerox Centre for Engineering Entrepreneurship and Innovation).
• With a small team of engineers, we took the responsibility of creating a new business unit within Siemens that focuses on software solutions in Egypt to serve middle-east and North Africa market. Within less than 2 years we were able to be generate millions of dollars of profit and be the market leader for e-learning solutions
• I was able to efficiently deliver more than 10 large scale Key software implementations in different sectors. My responsibilities included but were not limited to preparing pre sales presentation and demos to clients and government ministers, designing and developing prototypes customized to the clients’ requirements and finally implementation, integration and testing.
• As a project manager, I was responsible for managing different projects starting from contract negotiation until project delivery & customer acceptance where I worked closely with our clients on and offsite to ensure the successful delivery of my projects on time and budget.
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