Experience

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  SAIP - Saudi Authority for Intellectual Property

  • Riyadh, Saudi Arabia

  • Product Owner | Business Architect

    • Jun 2022 - Present
    • Riyadh, Saudi Arabia

    Lead cross-functional teams in the development of +17 successful product releases.Defined product vision, strategy, and goals, resulting in a 23% increase in product user satisfaction. Managed product backlogs, prioritized feature development, and ensured on-time delivery of product increments. Conducted user research and gathered feedback to drive product improvements and enhancements. Collaborated with stakeholders to define and communicate product requirements and specifications. Monitor the Risk Management plan with the vendors. Facilitated sprint planning, backlog grooming, and daily stand-up meetings. Created and maintained product roadmaps, ensuring alignment with business objectives. Aligned business strategies with enterprise architecture. Elicited and analyzed business requirements, translating them into architectural solutions for 10 successful products. Developed and maintained business process models, capability models, and architecture roadmaps (TOGAF). Contributed to the development of business cases, evaluating the business value and impact of proposed solutions.

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  NTG Clarity

  • Riyadh, Saudi Arabia

  • Business and Application Architect

    • Jan 2021 - May 2022
    • Riyadh, Saudi Arabia

    Work with the CEO, Product Director, and my colleagues in the marketing team and project managers team to define the product strategic objectives and business process improvement. Involved in a product (Low-Code Platform) roadmap development (Epic, Feature & user story). Apply agile project management (SCRUM, KANBAN) for implementation projects working with a cross-functional team(java developers, testers, data analysis, and Dev-Ops) to deliver the required values to the clients on time. Conduct, develop, and prioritize business analysis, technical implementation, and user stories/scenarios documentation. Develop relations and communications within the team and with the clients to meet their satisfaction. Customer discovery (B2B & B2P) and LinkedIn marketing campaigns. Market research and competitor analysis. Trying to find the Product-Market fit for NTG products.

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  Egy Mentors Integrated Solutions

  • Cairo, Egypt

  • Technical Product Manager

    • Apr 2019 - Dec 2020
    • Cairo, Egypt

    Manage (+12) Odoo ERP implementation and customization projects in different industries(government, eduTech, international schools, textile, investment, sportswear, Flour grinding, HIS).Reduce the ERP implementation Product management duration by 30% through managing the agiletransformation in the project management and product development. Increase Customer Satisfaction(+ 38%) and reduce change resistance by innovating an agile approach for solution design "Blueprint"practice that adds great value to the customer through early UX validation and reduces the cost ofinternal development. Manage cross-functional team and stakeholder communication and expectations.

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  skilldna

  • Cairo, Egypt

  • Senior Product Owner

    • Oct 2019 - May 2020
    • Cairo, Egypt

    Conduct, develop, and apply user research & user discovery activities. Plan, design, and implement the design sprints iteratively to evaluate and validate the (hypothesized) MVP (minimum viable product). Using “Miro”, “JIRA” and “Aha!” tools to develop a Product Roadmap and the development tasks in JIRA.

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  302Labs Coworking Space

  • Cairo, Egypt

  • Design Thinking Consultant

    • Oct 2019 - Jan 2020
    • Cairo, Egypt

    Design Thinking and Agile practices training for the internal business development team. Develop, coach & mentor Analytical Thinking, Problem-Solving, design sprint, and Creative Thinking sessions for the team. Plan, design & validate UX service design, customer/user journey map, and service blueprint.

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  AlFleet

  • Nasr City

  • Business & Application Architect | Co-Founder

    • Mar 2015 - Aug 2019
    • Nasr City

    Entrepreneur, creative strategic thinker, with an agility mindset. Lean Startup developing Business Model Canvas and Customer Empathy Map. Incubated in IMAGINE (German University in Cairo), AUC V-Lab accelerator, YC startup school, and InsureTech Hackathon. Prototyping & validate MVP. Responsible for sales and marketing funnel. Tools: Mural.co, Marvelapp & chatbot.

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  Asfour Crystal

  • Cairo

  • Software Development Manager

    • Apr 2012 - Feb 2016
    • Cairo

    Agile practices (SCRUM, KANBAN & FDD). ERP & integration applications. Oracle ERP, EBS, middleware, BI, ADF & Oracle Developer. HR, Manufacturing & SCM solutions. Tools: SVN, Confluence & Bitbucket.

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  CairoIT Solutions

  • Cairo; Egypt

  • Senior IT Project Manager

    • Oct 2009 - Mar 2012
    • Cairo; Egypt

    Lead cross-functional teams remotely (25 members). E-Learning multimedia solutions. Localization of 25 languages / local of world-class products for Intel USA. International project management. MS project server. Versioning control.

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  Business Soft Co. (Soft Solutions)

  • Cairo

  • Project Management Office Manager; PMOM

    • May 2007 - Oct 2009
    • Cairo

    Establish PMO (Egypt, Qatar & Kuwait). Web applications. Integration solutions. Microsoft .Net. Islamic financial enterprise projects for Kuwaiti & Qatari markets.

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  Middle East for IT (MEIT)

  • Cairo; Egypt

  • Software Project Manager; PM

    • Oct 2005 - May 2007
    • Cairo; Egypt

    CMMI. PM-PMI. Team building (requirement analysis, architecture design, development, testing). UML & OO. Web & Desktop applications. Oracle Developer. ADF, JSF, JAVA. ERP product for KSA market.

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  Fujitsu

  • Cairo, Egypt

  • Senior System Analyst / Developer; Team Leader

    • Sep 2000 - Sep 2005
    • Cairo, Egypt

    * Design and develop the prototype for the mobile ticketing application for Railway Egyptian Company. * Design and develop a wireless mobile application for financial services that initiated from mobile devices, and communicated with the mobile service provider and the bank * Manage a team of developers to develop the Purchasing, Accounting, Inventory, Payroll and Pharmacy systems for several clients of Fujitsu Company. * Analysis, design and develop the following systems in the Psychological Affairs Center in Armed Forces. * Analysis, design and develop the MFD system in the General Security Department in Interior Ministry.

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  Infotech Egypt

  • Cairo, Egypt

  • System Analyst / Programmer

    • Feb 1998 - Aug 2000
    • Cairo, Egypt

    * Analysis, design and develop of Military ID System in the Officer Affairs Department in Armed Forces. * Analysis, design and develop of Web Application for the Access Control System in the Egyptian Air Force. * Analysis and design of a Psychological Insurance System in the Psychological Affairs Center in Armed Forces. * Analysis and design of Insurance and Pensions System in the Military Insurance and Pensions Department. * Develop and integrate with the Access Control System in Military Sheroq Project. * Technical Support for Cool:Gen5.0 Case tool * Develop, test and software maintenance of the Officer Affairs Department System