Sara Abdelkadder, Software Manager/Project Manager

Sara Abdelkadder

Software Manager/Project Manager

Nahdet Misr Publishing Group

Location
Egypt - Cairo
Education
Diploma, [Comprehensive diploma in Human development]
Experience
21 years, 4 Months

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Total years of experience :21 years, 4 Months

Software Manager/Project Manager at Nahdet Misr Publishing Group
  • Egypt - Cairo
  • My current job since June 2017

• Supervise execution of projects from idea to end-product
• Manage the dependencies between projects included linking the business and technology
• Oversee the design and manage all the process for the various projects
• Develop a detailed project plan to track progress.
• Analyze and design all project requirements and guide the team into the development of needed products
• Ensure that the development of products on both front-end and back-end meets the necessary technical requirements of the project
• Support the software architecture analysis
• Manage software products from design to development to testing and implementation
• Reorganize, attract and retain a team of highly skilled engineers
• Manage a team of developers working on related development projects
• High skills in project planning
• Submit periodical and accurate reports on project progress
• Lead IT and business change management processes
• Work with other departments to use new technologies
• Help to improve development team technical skills
• Develop and implement all internal communication systems, such as email and instant messaging
• Plan and implement proper Internet usage policies for employees
• Evaluate new technology and make recommendations on technological solutions
• Consistently evaluate technical efficiency and make changes as necessary
• Make presentations to board of directors
• Identify competitive advantages and technological trends for the benefit of a company

Work projects:
• Aladwaa Portal: the education portal for Aladwaa book contains many educational feature (question bank, summaries, competitions, online shopping, etc. www.aladwaa.com
• Aladwaa App: the digital book for Aladwaa, with all digital book features
And responsible for CMS, LMS, SMS and software solution provided by Nahdet Misr group

Business Analyst supervisor/Project Manager at Willis Towers Watson
  • Egypt - Cairo
  • October 2016 to June 2017

• Manage stakeholder, business owners, vendors, and end users to define business, financial, and operations requirements, scope, schedule, cost and quality standers
• Lead design sessions in prototyping new systems for the purpose of enhancing business processes, operations, and information process flow.
• Collaborate in the planning, design, development, and deployment of new applications, and enhancements to existing applications.
• Prepare and deliver reports, recommendations, or alternatives that address existing and potential trouble areas in operating systems across the organization.
• Perform cost-benefit and return on investment analyses for proposed systems to aid management in making implementation decisions.
• Coordinate and perform in-depth tests, including end-user reviews, for modified and new systems, and other post-implementation support.
• Provide orientation and training to end users for all modified and new systems.
• Provide guidance and/or instruction to junior staff members.

Work projects includes:
• Insurance System: the main system to handle organization operation starting from issuing policies, collect customer payment, settle amount for the insure, calculate commission, finical reports, till yearly closure
• Perform the needed integration with different banks
• Cover loan insurance, cars insurance, and other bank operation

Development Team Leader - Project Manager at ITS- International Turnkey Systems
  • Egypt - Cairo
  • February 2014 to May 2016

• Lead a 10+ team to develop a high scale product with high technology complaint with CMMI5,
• Lead onshore and offshore team
• Restructure and reorganize the team to maintain success delivery on time during team downsizing from 40 to 10
• Construct and formulate the L2 support team
• Improve the Development process to improve code efficiency, minimize defects and improve quality
• Change from waterfowl to agile
• Manage product releases to support live customer and UAT customer
• Work closely with PMO to apply CMMI5 on
• Share knowledge across team and train new employee
• Collecting and maintaining a situation analysis of the team, identifying needs, monitor changes, manage risk and progress, drafting reports and position papers related to operational activities, and as necessary providing inputs to the management for the analysis of related development

System Analyst and Designer at ITS -International Turnkey Systems
  • Egypt - Cairo
  • May 2007 to January 2014

• Study, and analyses business requirement
• Estimate the work breakdown
• Design software or customize software for client use with the aim of optimizing operational efficiency
• prepare detailed design documentations including use cases, screens, data model, and diagrams that indicate the various components involved
• mentor younger developers to deliver high quality software solution, Assign tasks to team members, review coding, and advise them with best code methodologies

Team Leader at [GET group] Global enterprise technology
  • Egypt - Cairo
  • January 2007 to June 2007

http://portal.getgroup.com/
Responsibilities:
• Lead team, establish and maintain good relationship within the project team as well as with all the project key stakeholders
• Participating in different phases in the software’s life cycle such as analyzing, designing, developing, testing
Work Project Vodafone Assets Tracking System
It is a Web solution to manage valuable assets efficiently and affordably from location to location. Eliminating wasted time spent searching for missing items.

Senior Software Engineer/Team Leader at Al-Arabia for Information Technology
  • May 2003 to January 2007

Al-Arabia for Information Technology (AraSoft)
Senior Software Engineer/Team Leader
May 2003 - January 2007
• Supervise and mentor younger developers to deliver high quality software solution, Assign tasks to team members, review coding, and advise them with best code methodologies.
• Participate in analyzing, designing, developing, testing, and implementing web solutions (educational system, E-learning, content management and document management systems) and desktop applications (client /server, and standalone applications)
• Use object-oriented programming languages, as well as client/server applications development processes and multimedia and Internet technology.
Main Projects
Education Enhancement of Experimental Physics Courses, Department of Physics, Faculty of Science, Suez Canal University, The Higher Education Enhancement Project fund (HEEPF)
Applying E-learning techniques to provide physics lab simulation package (develop about 30 physical instruments, and more than 200 different physics experiments including its tools and equipments using flash and action script) . Also provide college with web solution (using e-learning techniques and document management system), to enable students and instructors to participate with each other, as well as participation with simulated labs.
Reference: http://physcu-eg.org/physics/index.php

Education Enhancement of Organic Chemistry Curricula and Laboratories project, Department of Chemistry, Faculty of Science, Suez Canal University, (HEEPF)
This project is going on as the previous project but for chemical labs (simulate 10 chemical instruments, and more than 150 different chemical experiments including its tools and equipments)
Reference: http://chemistry-suez.org/chemistry/default.php

Enhancement of teaching quality of zoology courses
The project is designed to enhance the process of teaching and learning Zoology through a well designed web solution, virtual classroom and strong administration tool
http://www.nelc.edu.eg/zoology/default.php


IsmailiaOnline.com Portal
Analysing and developing the largest regional portal for Ismailia city
Reference: http://www.ismailiaonline.com

Online Examination System

Dot Net Developer at Oxygen Software
  • Egypt - Cairo
  • September 2002 to May 2003

Oxygen Software (O2)
Dot Net Developer
September 2002- May 2003
Responsibilities: Participate in designing and developing a Document Management System (archiving system)
Project: Oxygen Document Management System
Developing a Document Management System (archiving system) . This system includes (Image enhancement, Image viewer, OCR, Archive, Form generator, DB designer, and Document automation)

Education

Diploma, [Comprehensive diploma in Human development]
  • at Candian Center - dr.Ibrahim Elfikey
  • July 2012

[Comprehensive diploma in Human development] Certification in - Team Building - Business Communication Skills - Stress Management and Crisis - Management Priorities - Creative Thinking - Nero linguistic Programing [NLP] and other topics

Master's degree, MBA e-Commerce
  • at Arab Academy for Science
  • January 2011

2011 MBA - Master of Business Administration e Commerce and Management Information System Arab Academy for Science, Technology & Maritime Transport

Bachelor's degree, Computer Science
  • at Faculty of Computer and Information technology
  • September 2002

2002 Bachelor of Computer Science Computers and Informatics, Suez Canal University Certifications and Training

Specialties & Skills

Software Engineering
Analysis
System Design
Islamic Finance
Investment Banking
BANKING
DATA MODEL
Business model
Project Managment
Business Analysis
System Analysis

Languages

Arabic
Expert
English
Expert

Training and Certifications

PMP - project management professional (Certificate)
Date Attended:
February 2017
Valid Until:
November 2020
MSCP Windows workflow foundation (Training)
Training Institute:
Elkateb Elmasry (Certfied Center)
Date Attended:
January 2007
MCSD Microsoft Certified solution Developer (Training)
Training Institute:
Elkateb Elmasry (Certfied Center)
Date Attended:
November 2006
Leadership and team building training (Training)
Training Institute:
internal traning
Date Attended:
June 2008

Hobbies

  • Reading