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Riyadh, Sa

Riyadh, Saudi Arabia

#Project Management* Prepare estimates and detailed project plan for all phases of the project* Manage the day-to-day project activities * Provide status reporting regarding project milestones, deliverable, dependencies, risks and issues, communicating across leadership* Define and own corrective action plans and escalations in the event of any deviation from the project plan* Lead and assist in managing projects and programs based on business needs #Team… Show more #Project Management* Prepare estimates and detailed project plan for all phases of the project* Manage the day-to-day project activities * Provide status reporting regarding project milestones, deliverable, dependencies, risks and issues, communicating across leadership* Define and own corrective action plans and escalations in the event of any deviation from the project plan* Lead and assist in managing projects and programs based on business needs #Team Management* Manage and supervise department employees; responsible for day-to-day supervision and leadership* Conduct daily morning meeting to discuss daily tasks and agenda for employees* Evaluating employee performance and providing feedback and coaching as needed* Maximizes the utilization of team, preparing alternative work for periods without projects* Coach, mentor, motivate and supervise team members #Operation* Manage daily operations and overseeing office equipment maintenance, monitoring, calibration, and repair, as well as replacement of missing supplies, when necessary* Working closely with heads of other departments to achieve productivity goals and contribute to the company’s objectives and strategy* Participate in establishing partnerships between local vendors and company* Participate in establishing practices, templates, tools and partnerships to expand and mature these capabilities for the company* Collaborate with executive-level managers, and provide relevant feedback regarding the performance of individual employees* Provide status reporting regarding project milestones, deliverable, dependencies, risks and issues, communicating across leadership#HR* Recruiting, interviewing, and hiring new employees#Finance* Records, oversees budget reports and auditing financial transactions * Maintains and oversees banking procedures and processes* Oversees financial reports for taxes, regulatory agencies, and other financial items relating to branch finance Show less

Egypt

• Plan, execute, monitor, track and report large-scale technology projects using Scrum or Agile development processes & techniques.• Manage projects with top-down oversight throughout entire execution to ensure success as defined by adherence to standards of scope, budget, and time line• Monitor project progress continuously and make detailed scheduled reports on measurable items, such as milestones and deliverables• Lead and engage project and work teams effectively;… Show more • Plan, execute, monitor, track and report large-scale technology projects using Scrum or Agile development processes & techniques.• Manage projects with top-down oversight throughout entire execution to ensure success as defined by adherence to standards of scope, budget, and time line• Monitor project progress continuously and make detailed scheduled reports on measurable items, such as milestones and deliverables• Lead and engage project and work teams effectively; demonstrated ability to manage stakeholder communications and produce clear, well organized guidelines, procedures, documentation and correspondence • Lead and manage the technical team to deliver requirements that meets the needs of users.• Oversee all technical issues with the live site, and in particular manage issue escalation and tracking to resolution• Review proposed modifications on project plans, including meeting with interested parties to approve and implement beneficial changes• Anticipate details of future projects by communicating directly with vendors and staying informed of relevant trends and industry news• Lead workshops with and facilitate decision-making for various groups of individuals that often have competing goals• Lead, influence and accomplish goals involving diverse project participants: technical, non-technical, executive, and vendors• Liaise with the editorial teams to drive best practice in their use of the publishing platform• Identifying and implementing technology trends that will be able to support the future success of the business Show less

Egypt

 Manage and Support the technical team on daily basis & project-by-project basis. Manage MSN Arabia’s technical content integration with external clients and agencies: Reuters, AFP, BBC, Deutsche Welle, Radio Netherlands Worldwide, Euro News and local news agencies in Egypt, KSA UAE and North Africa. Oversee all technical issues with the live site, and in particular manage issue escalation and tracking to resolution. Creates and executes development plans and revises as… Show more  Manage and Support the technical team on daily basis & project-by-project basis. Manage MSN Arabia’s technical content integration with external clients and agencies: Reuters, AFP, BBC, Deutsche Welle, Radio Netherlands Worldwide, Euro News and local news agencies in Egypt, KSA UAE and North Africa. Oversee all technical issues with the live site, and in particular manage issue escalation and tracking to resolution. Creates and executes development plans and revises as appropriate to meet changing needs and requirements.  Ensures integration of projects and adjusts project scope, timing, and budgets based on the business clients needs. Plan and drive weekly and monthly status reporting meetings. Coordinate deployment of platform & feature upgrades across the MSN Publishing platform. Establishes a strategy of continuous risk and issue identification and management that enables proactive decisions and actions. Liaise with the editorial teams to drive best practice in their use of the publishing platform. Interact daily with the engineering team to ensure the project is on track and proactively help clear potential roadblocks and delays. Coordinate with Business, Marketing and sales team to develop innovative ways to exploit new technologies to add new users. Communicate and follow-up both with MSFT and internally with other subsidiaries or departments at OTVentures. Provide support for all team questions around tool use from SEO to statistics and from the MSN Video platform to all editorial tools. Show less

Egypt

 Managed and Developed the following digital portals owned by LINKdotNET & OTVentures :• LINKonLINELINKonLINE is wholly owned by OTVentures (an Orascom Telecom subsidiary), owning, managing and developing a wide range of portals serving different customer needs in different sectors. http://linkonlinecorp.com/- Developed and implemented using Tridion R5 CMS, ASP.net, and MS SQL Server.• Masrawy.com Masrawy is the biggest and the first news portal in Egypt and Middle… Show more  Managed and Developed the following digital portals owned by LINKdotNET & OTVentures :• LINKonLINELINKonLINE is wholly owned by OTVentures (an Orascom Telecom subsidiary), owning, managing and developing a wide range of portals serving different customer needs in different sectors. http://linkonlinecorp.com/- Developed and implemented using Tridion R5 CMS, ASP.net, and MS SQL Server.• Masrawy.com Masrawy is the biggest and the first news portal in Egypt and Middle East and North Africa (MENA) http://www.masrawy.com/- Maintained existing channels with huge number of monthly page views Developed, implemented new channels (Women, News) using ASP.Net using C#, JavaScript, JQuery• LOLArchive WCF service- Service to get most viewed articles on a specific Portal.- Developed and implemented using ASP.net (C#) and MS SQL Server• Tridion Event System- Developed a custom code using VB6 to automate the content department’s editorial process which minimize the operations cost. • Autofeed and Reuters videos windows service- Parsing news feeds, content and media files provided by different international news agencies and automatically publishing pages on portals.- Developed and implemented using VB.net and Tridion R5 CMS • LINK0777.com Portal- Maintained existing channels - Implemented content syndication and integration from Reuters.com news portal.• F.C Barcelona's– the official Arabic language website for FC Barcelona • Careermideast Online Recruitment Portal - Mobile version and MSN Messenger Tab Developed and implemented using ASP.net and MS SQL Server. Show less

Egypt

 Managed MIS (Marketing Information System) using ASP.net and MS SQL Server. A full computerized system for Egyptian PortSaid governorate using Asp.net and MS SQL Server.