Head of Product Management
asgatech
Total years of experience :18 years, 2 Months
- Responsible for studying the market potential and customer needs to determine the product features and specifications
- Outlining marketing plans for launching activities with all stakeholders
- Responsible to develop annual product plans and look for ways to re-design and re-invent aging or poor performing product lines.
Key Achievements:
- Launched maintenance program iMaher; a world class computerized maintenance solution
Established asgatech E-Commerce platform for asgatech
Responsible for TE Data's Home products/services planning and execution throughout the product/service life cycle to ensure customer satisfaction and revenue goals are met. Also to ensure that the products/services offered support TE Data's overall strategy and goals.
Achievements:
• Launched one of the game changing telecom products in the market (TE Data - Mega Plus Home ADSL) with millions of active customers
• Recognized as best manager of TE Data for 2016
• Proven success at turning new ideas into launched products in the market
• Product management leader with mastering market / customer understanding and providing cutting edge solutions
Responsibilities:
Pre-Sales Management
• Act as the prime interface to customers on technical matters and lead customer engagements, from initial contact to solution deployment
• Validate opportunities with Sales team and monitor status at all stages during projects or the bid process
• Ensures that sales and technical organizations are properly aligned to achieve objectives
• Provide value analysis to the Account Manager during the sales cycle
• Conduct technical sales activities with Account Manager
Product Management
• Define products portfolio for NTG Mobile business line
• Prepare products definition documents for products portfolio
• Manage product line profitability to defined organization goals. Product price reviews, price exceptions, industrial product promotion and discount programs.
• Recognize and manage the product through the complete product life-cycle as mentioned below in previous role as Product Manager at CIT Global
Head of Product Team
Responsibilities:
B2B Product Portfolio Management
* Starting up product team initiative and preparing full product portfolio plan
* Recognize and manage the product through the complete product life-cycle as mentioned below in previous role as Product Manager at CIT Global
* Responsible to develop annual product plans and look for ways to re-design and re-invent aging or poor performing product lines.
* Recommends the strategic directions for product lines
* Collaborate with customers to match the delivery expectations
* Manage product line profitability to defined organization goals. Product price reviews, price exceptions, industrial product promotion and discount programs.
Product Marketing
* Responsible for the front-end marketing work (i.e. market research, data, studies, target markets / applications, competitive assessments, customer needs, international impact, etc.) to assure that a new product is justifiable to the business and meets the organization established goals
* Prepare and Manage product surveys and focus groups to get customer feedback regarding the products
* Fully experienced with applying and managing Focus Groups to deliver customer feedback analysis
* Delivering Bulls Eyes report regarding target customer’s feedback to ensure successful viral spread of the product and word of mouth recommendation by centric customers
Presales Management
* Manage presales team across the globe to ensure full understanding of customer needs and make sure that our offerings comply with the organization established goals
* Utilize presales team to provide product management support by providing readings from the market and customer expectations analysis.
* Enhance presales process through defining solid product lines and provide sales toolkit for each product line to help both presales & sales team members better customer engagement
- XMS Product Manager
XMS is a global product that tends to change the future mobile messaging through providing very much added values for mobile messaging over SMS / Data:
* Handwriting messaging over touch devices
* Social networks integration
* Cross platform implementation
XMS is considered the strongest product of MOBiDIV global products and has a patent in mobile messaging and compression.
Responsibilities:
* Manage and lead the creation, development and delivery of XMS project on different platforms: iPhone, Android, Windows Mobile, Black Berry and Symbian.
* Manage the distribution and deployment of XMS product to different customers: Operators, Mobile handset vendors and Market app stores
* Collaborate with customers to match the delivery expectations
* Prepare a full product road map with expectations for business potential development
* Full ownership and responsibility of the product with the ability to audit, evaluate and even escalate any problem to the highest level needed.
Achievements:
* Successful bundling with the largest operator in Taiwan: FET
* Successful bundling with most of handset vendors like: HTC, Acer, Huawei, Asus and Motorola
* Publishing XMS to app stores: Android and OVI
XMS Product Lead
XMS is a global product that tends to change the future mobile messaging through providing very much added values for mobile messaging over SMS / Data:
* Handwriting messaging over touch devices
* Social networks integration
* Cross platform implementation
XMS is considered the strongest product of MOBiDIV global products and has a patent in mobile messaging and compression.
Responsibilities:
* Manage and lead the creation, development and delivery of XMS project on different platforms: iPhone, Android, Windows Mobile, Black Berry and Symbian.
* Manage the distribution and deployment of XMS product to different customers: Operators, Mobile handset vendors and Market app stores
* Collaborate with customers to match the delivery expectations
* Prepare a full product road map with expectations for business potential development
* Full ownership and responsibility of the product with the ability to audit, evaluate and even escalate any problem to the highest level needed.
Responsible for leading windows mobile team to deliver innovative software solutions.
Achievements:
RIL Development(Radio Interface Layer)
Mastered using this library to detect GSM network name, caller name or SIM card number
Extreme Programming Techniques
-Hooking
Developing tasks might involve using hooking techniques to alternate default system behavior
-Sub Classing
It is used to change some specific behavior and delegate others to the original system's WndProc
-Reverse engineering
Sometimes its needed to break down some system components by disassembling them and understand how to get some data from them (like disassembling clock.dll to get system cities from it)
Responsible for developing mobile software to be distributed by the company.
Achievements:
-Zakat Al Mal
-Dynamic XML based help which can use pictures, voice playing and formatted text (custom made XML parsing engine -click here to read more about it-)
-Harf Mobile Quran
Mobile Quran player that can play Quran voice synchronized with text viewer and coloring the current played verse, and it can also display Quran word meanings and explanations for each verse.
The application has a full database for searching and seeking Quran verses and it was built on Symbian environment using SQL.
-Harf Prayer Times
Mobile prayer time's software that uses a background service technique ".EXE" and it is transparent to the user and it has an auto start recognizer using ".MDL" programming.
Full alarm engine that work independently of the existed system using also a background service which can give the user the ability to add multiple alarms ( Daily, Weekly, Monthly. etc )
It also has Prayer Times Based Alarm(s)® which was invented to help Muslims who need alarms based on their prayers (alarm after or before a specific prayer)
Full agenda of all Islamic events
Displays Al-Azkar morning and evening with a well formatted rich text
Displays Al-Qibla relative to north and to sun
Gets the weather in your relative company using GPRS connection to an online web service using "soap" object technique
-XML Parser & Viewer Engine
A complete engine to parse and view a custom XML files to customize Applications data and it can dynamically add or change the tags through simple interfaces to that engine
Custom class that can use the XML engine and it takes an XML file that includes the formatted data (Text - Pictures -as an ID-) and view these data into the screen of the mobile application
It can also export these data after parsing into a special binary format and it can be loaded again any time without parsing to save time and space for the application
Responsible for developing mobile software to be distributed by the company.
Achievements:
Islamic Organizer for S60 3rd Edition
Software that was funded by Nokia to be released for Nokia Symbian S60 3rd Edition phones.
This software basically has a prayer times engine and reminder for all of popular countries in the world
The application has Hijri Date Converter that can convert from both Gregorian & Hijri
It can also synchronize with system built in calendar
It also has a list of Islamic Events
The application has Qibla viewer based on the current city you chose in your settings
Graduation Project, Egypt, Cairo 2003 Prayer Times Finder Prayer Times Finder is a portable device that can be loaded with database of cities prayer times around the world and it can alert you with prayer times any where. Which also contains an amazing software client that can alert you with prayer times in the whole world any time Click here to see more information about prayer time finder projecthttp://ptf2003.tripod.com Achievements: Using Micro-controller to work independently to display prayer times Building a driver to factory standard LCD to display prayer times on it Implementing an interface between Micro-controller processor and PC to update the Micro based system with cities. Implementing prayer times alarm using amplifier with a speaker