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United Arab Emirates

- Provided hands-on leadership for a 7-person software team, overseeing support, training, project execution, and coding efforts. Personally contributed code and reviewed all team member code submissions.- Established policies and procedures to optimize workflows, enhance quality, and meet business goals. Led efforts to cut downtime and maximize revenue through effective task and code review management.- Supervised end-user support initiatives and trained team members on strategies to achieve targets.- Multiplied earnings through localization goal achievement, customer service improvements and commitment to team objectives.- Managed large-scale web transmission and data transportation projects, assigning tasks and utilizing proven techniques to boost team productivity.- Managed daily activities, assigned tasks to specific staff members and utilized proven management techniques to cut work flow downtime and maximize revenues.- Directly contributed to development efforts by authoring code and reviewing all code to validate adherence to best practices and specifications.

Dubai, United Arab Emirates

- Established the Front-end team and recruited 3 members to grow it- Worked across various domains to manage projects and achieve targets- Worked on innovating and enhancing workflows related to tech-ops and internal tools- Developed new user-facing features and applications.- Built reusable code and libraries for future use.- Ensured the technical feasibility of UI/UX designs.

Dubai, United Arab Emirates

As an Engineering Manager at Namshi, my responsibilities are to:- Recruit, manage and develop the team.- Provide a healthy work environment, opening all possibilities to the team and making sure that all blockers are attended to.- Manage the team’s projects.- Improve the overall knowledge and skill level and bring the latest web technologies and best practices.- Work collaboratively with product managers, designers, back-end and QA teams to create best in class user experience for our users.- Take an active part in the implementation (hands-on) of the various features, with attention to code quality & best practices.- Provide progress reports to sync stakeholders across the company.

Dubai, United Arab Emirates

- Develop new user-facing features.- Build reusable code and libraries for future use.- Ensure the technical feasibility of UI/UX designs.- Assure that all functions are working properly.- Attending projects and sprints’ planning to manage deliverables and time estimations in the relevant scope.- Gather UI/UX requirements from stakeholders.- Mentoring interns and less experienced team members.

United Arab Emirates

Alongside 2 other Co-Founders, we created a marketplace for unique and creative handmade goods, where artisans from all different disciplines can easily set-up an online shop and offer their art and handmade items for sale.My main responsibilities in Craftihood are to manage the UX and front-end part of the website, and get in touch with artisans to preset Craftihood to them and guide them through it's benefits and the shop set-up process.

Dubai, United Arab Emirates

Launched in March 2017, skilldeer.com is the platform that enables users to browse, discover and book courses, classes, activities and workshops in their cities. Skilldeer only lists the course providers that are handpicked by their professionals.Skilldeer is a fresh start up and my main tasks as a senior front end developer in such a developing company is to set up the front end application and build the customer interfacing modules.Being the only front end developer in skilldeer, i implemented and maintained all the front end code for the website, i have also done design work, user experience and product management tasks.I use HTML, SASS, Javascript and jQuery in my work in skilldeer.

Dubai, U.A.E

Nabbesh, the Middle East's only virtual skills marketplace, was founded in 2012 as a solution for the region's growing unemployment challenges by connecting talented individuals with flexible and virtual work opportunities.I worked on maintaining and updating the codebase and redesigning the whole site, making it responsive and up to industry standards, in core using HTML, SASS and jQuery.

Dubai

dubizzle.com is the Middle East and North Africa’s leading online classifieds and community portal owned by Naspers Group; with more than 160 million hits a month, it's where you can buy and sell (almost) anything and get connected to the most active community.In dubizzle.com i worked with various teams and on all sorts of projects, ranging from bug fixes and code maintenance to working on different codebases and implementing all the client side code for the MENA website.I worked with the following tools and tech stack:HTML, SASS, jQueryDjango, PythonGithub, JIRA, TrelloA/B Tests, unit testsI've worked in kanban and scrum teams, and worked with other departments side by side including customer support and marketing departments.I also filled the role of team lead with a team of 3 front end developers, 1 designer and 2 quality assurance personnel.

Evento help clients build their business technology with an aim to develop productivity and improve performance, all the while providing the best and most cost-effective solutions.I Started with Evento as a Web Developer, my job was to design, develop, update, audit and maintain clients websites. Using various technologies, skills and programming languages such as HTML, CSS, JavaScript, .NET, PHP, MySQL, JQuery and Actionscript.Having been promoted to Project Manager, I carried on my assigned tasks with high level of proficiency, my tasks as a Project Manager includes:Creating and executing project work plans and revising as appropriate to meet changing needs and requirements.Identifying resources needed and assigning individual responsibilities.Managing day-to-day operational aspects of a project and scope.Reviewing deliverable s prepared by team before passing to client.Preparing for engagement reviews and quality assurance procedures.Minimizing company’s exposure and risk on project.Ensuring project documents are complete, current, and stored appropriately.In addition, I would handle client meetings on a regular basis, presentations (prepare & present), prepare proposals & quotations, prepare RFP documents, communicating with clients, maintaining relationships and providing support when needed.

ICLP is the world's NO 1 specialist loyalty marketing agency. ICLP is recognized worldwide as leading loyalty marketing strategists & thought leaders, and have experience and Excellencies across a wide variety of sectors.As a web developer working in the company’s IT department it’s my job to create, update and maintain the clients websites, create and broadcast newsletters, e-statements, surveys and questionnaires for the client’s customers and deliver monthly and weekly reports regarding the status of the customers relative to the client.I have done my job using programming languages such as (X)HTML, CSS, ColdFusion and SQL. And worked on programs such as Macromedia Dreamweaver and Microsoft SQL Server 2005.

Dubai, United Arab Emirates

As a part of the database management team, my job was to organize and validate Microsoft’s database of clients, make the information correct and up-to-date and obtain any missing information, so that the database information are reliable and ready to be used by the other departments in the company.

B.Sc, Computer Science

Certification / Diploma, Web Page, Digital/Multimedia And Information Resources Design

Lynda.com is a leader in online-training, i have taken several courses including: -Search Engine Optimization (SEO). -CSS Web Site Design..

Certification / Diploma , Mcts (Microsoft Certified Technology Specialist), Information Technology

The course covers VB.NET, ASP.NET and ADO.