Samah Khalifa

- Led partnership digital projects, presales activities, bid process, proposals, develop accounts contracts and assessing client needs/requirements
- Managed GTM strategy, digital strateg and market research on competitive landscape and industry trends
- Led end-to-end digital engagements from presales, delivery, and accounts management.
- Developed new markets accounts, service offering, research market trends, regulations, compitetion, solutions, services, and products
- Defined relevant clients use cases, workflows, and best practice.
- Ensured products and clients compliance with the law, local regulators (i.e.TDRA, CB, ..) and the international regulations (eIDAS, PCI DSS, AML/CFT, ISO 27001)

- Corporate Technology Support Services - IT
•Managed digital transformation strategy & implemented/delivered transportations and analytics solutions and project management
•Vendor management including vendor evaluation, scoping, contracting and negotiation, day to day management, performance monitoring, risk management, budget management and reporting
•Ensuring the project management governance, stakeholder engagement, budget, risks & issues monitoring, audit compliance, program benefit realization and progress reporting throughout the project lifecycle.
•Manage and plan the products roadmaps, pilots, enhancements, and program deliverables
VISA, UAE

• Managed the Delivery GTM Strategies of post design thinking payment solutions (i.e., Digital Payments, eKYC, Digital Client On-boarding, Digital Wallets, FX, B2B (SME’s & Virtual Account Payment), Loyalty Programs, Digital Banking, Branch Automation, Supply Chain Digitization based on Push Payments Products and Visa Development Center API’s) and ensured the inclusion of deliverables estimated duration, schedule, risks, issues, acceptance criteria and communication plan in the planning document.
◦ Worked closely with the cross-functional teams to create the business case, finalize the product backlog, define the MVP, implement and deliver the solutions.
◦ Partnered with the sales team from Pre-Contracting phase to go-to-market (GTM) phase.
◦ Partnered with the client's business and technical teams to deliver the product.
◦ Implemented the innovation center agile project management process and KPI’s.
◦ Managed different product work-streams and reporting the progress to the C level executive.

IBM Global Service Delivery Center - Account: Innovative Solutions for Finance (IS4F)
•Managed scope, cost, schedule, resources, vendors and contractual deliverables of Remediation Program for IS4F clients before segragating the clients shared infrastructure and applications (Dexia Group, Belfius Bank, Belfius Insurance, Bank International Luxembourg, Candriam and Royal bank of Canada) from initiating, planning, executing, tracking to closing and transition to BAU.
•Managed scope, cost, schedule, resources, vendors and contractual deliverables of Application Migration (Oracle, Unix, Linux, Windows, Jira, Clarity, SAP and Swift Gateway) for Belfius bank including Performing daily team couching, team development and people management activities.
•Providing with active resolution of project risks/issues while maintaining effective communication and performance reporting with/to all project stakeholders.
•Led Agile transformation at Poland global technology center as a member of the transformation committee by providing agile strategy, leadership, training, tools, couching and support.
•Direct and lead tecnical teams, define the implementation benchmarks for all products areas.

Project Execution, Monitor & Control involving compliance with agreed cost, risks, issues, changes & delays and regularly reported the project status reports.
•managed product/project lifecycle from pre-sales to post-sales support along with customer business analysis and product development management.
•Agile Transformation: Established a new self-organizing Agile/Scrum team by training on agile fundamentals and coaching team for sustaining changes introduced and reported progress to stakeholders.
•Responsible for project Initiation & Planning documentation including charter/metrics, project kickoff, requirement finalization & scoping and detailed project plan.

a development team in multiple projects for web development and enterprise content management solution based on Microsoft SharePoint Technology, SQL Server, ASP.Net C#, HTM and JavaScript.
•Interacted with customers regarding business/technical needs and development of Software Requirements.
•Developed the design architecture and the conceptual respresentation of the system components