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PROCESS&SMITH Managing Partner; setting the company's vision and developing efficient strategic plans to achieve it.• Acts as an advocate, leader and coach guiding the team to achieve the desired business results.• Continuously communicating the company's goals, objectives and tasks to assure their compliance to the vision.• Acting as a Project Management and Business Process Management, and Quality Management and Compliance Consultant; engaging with clients; determining their business needs, providing improvement solutions, and offering support to project teams and their managers. Some Projects highlights are as below:o Establishing PMO Governance.o Setting-up Project Management Processes, Procedures, Standards, and Templates.o Setting-up Methodologies, Management Needed Reports, and Dashboards.o Establishing Quality Management and Compliance methodologies, procedures, standards, and checklists.o Establishing and improving Business Process Management and continuous improvements.o Project Compliance management and auditing.

• Research for software development, quality assurance and testing best practices.• Conduct process improvement for the Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC)• Establish and implement project management best practices, using Agile, Traditional, and Hybrid methodologies• Implement process improvement initiatives and measure progress for several departments in the organization• Focus on defect prevention and software quality improvement, moving quality upstream, and reducing cost of quality • Provide research, support, guidance, training, oversight for teams and the organization in latest software development practices, • Publish reports on organization’s performance and software metrics for the executive team, such as defect density, cost of quality…etc.• Conduct root cause analysis of escaped defects and establish lessons learned and derive repeatable process improvements to prevent recurrence.• Collaborate with development and testing managers and team leads to promote and implement best practices

• Manage Software Quality Assurance functions, including Product Assurance, Process Assurance, and Process Improvement• SDLC process design and improvement, SDLC training and consulting• Implement Defect Prevention practices such as Requirements Inspection, Design Reviews, Formal Code Reviews, and Static Code Analysis• Reporting on defect trending, defect density, and root cause analysis• Thought leadership and spreading culture of software quality improvement and defect prevention• Process improvement based on defect taxonomy and root cause analysis

• Manage and supervise all related functions, including software development, software testing, technical writing, and projects management.• Manage and facilitate development and delivery of software products, projects, and product patches as required by business and customers• Responsible for development and support of products as they advance into production• Coordinate between departments to resolve conflicts and bottlenecks affecting projects• Provide input to company strategic and long-term business plans, and ensure that developed projects achieve these goals.• Supervise the technical practices, conduct training, establish development tools, and remove obstacles.

• Coordinates with other departments such as QA/QC, Documentation, Technical Support, customer service and marketing to analyze and resolve problems. • Ensure scope, quality, and schedules are well planned and followed. • Provide technical guidance, leadership, goal-setting, communications and facilitation as needed to guide and motivate projects personnel.• Establish and train all teams on Extreme Programming and Agile methods, including Pair Programming, Unit Testing, Automated Acceptance Testing, Continuous Integration…etc. • Assure appropriate training and skill development is furnished to project staff as needed. • Provide input to company strategic and long-range business plans, and ensure that development projects further those goals.• Negotiate with other development staff and company departments to resolve conflicts and bottlenecks affecting projects. • Responsible for compliance with Best Software Development Practices, Quality, Compliance standards and company procedures• Conducting internal training courses on several topics, like Agile Software Development, Computer Systems Validation, Quality Management Systems, Train the Trainer, Job Interviewing Skills, and others.

• Requirements Analysis, design and project management for many custom projects of different customers.• Design and develop software applications using Java/JEE technologies, following best of breed architectures, design patterns, and object oriented programming• Design, architect, and implement EtQ Reliance® , a web based, workflow/development platform based on J2EE and RDBMS.• Working Development of EtQ Flexible Workflow Engine, a workflow engine, and development platform to create web enabled, workflow enabled applications, based on IBM Lotus Domino.

• Developing Desktop/Database Applications Using Oracle Development Tools.• SQL Scripting and Writing Stored Procedures on Oracle Environment.• Designing and Developing Forms and Reports.• Building an integrated financial application, including HR, Accounting, and Invoicing modules.