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United States

• Managing 17 sub teams working on fixed cost and Time & Material models.
• Creating Statement of work for the client which includes estimation, pricing and resourcing.
• Collaborate with stakeholders, 3rd party vendors, higher managements during the product development based in 3 different time zones (US Central, Europe and Australia)
• Working across multiple types of project namely new development, enhancements, maintenance and managed services.
• Creating roadmap, prioritizing, planning and monitoring project deliverables while provide direction and guidance to the team as needed,
• Coordinating across different specialized groups with the client, with their end users, development teams and support teams.

Saudi Arabia

• Work with CIO and Head of Software engineering on achieving objectives assigned to the team.
• Collaborate with stakeholders, internal AMEX Saudi Arabia and External AMEX in United States during the product development.
• Prioritizing, planning and monitoring project deliverables while provide direction and guidance to the team as needed,
• Coordinating across different specialized groups with the client, with their end users, development teams and support teams.
• Perform resource allocations and workload assignments according to delivery requirements.
• As a scrum master, facilitates backlog grooming, sprint planning, daily stand ups and retrospectives.

Sweden

• Work with Product Managers and Engineering managers on achieving objectives assigned to the team.
• Understand requirements from multiple customers and provide a generic solution to be incorporated to the product.
• Managing two sub teams, one focusing on product development and other focusing on customer specific development.
• Prioritizing, planning and monitoring project deliverables while provide direction and guidance to the team as needed,
• Coordinating across different specialized groups with the client, with their architects, sales team, development teams and support teams.
• Perform resource allocations and workload assignments according to delivery requirements.

• Environment:.NET Framework 2.0 / 3.5, SQL Server 2005, Perforce, Monorail Framework, ASP.Net, C#
• Work with Product Specialists (Architect / BA) onsite to translate business requirements and functional specifications into detailed designs.
• Collaborate with other groups during the product development, including product, BA, dev, QA and support teams.
• Enhancing the existing applications with a focus on clean/efficient design and reliable/high-quality performance.
• Work as an offshore resource providing leadership and technical direction. Also worked extended hours to accommodate the time-zone differences.
• Work in a fast-paced environment and have been the Agile scrum master.

• Environment:.NET Framework 2.0 / 3.5, SQL Server 2005, Perforce, Monorail Framework, ASP.Net, C#
• Research on stated problem (large file upload control) and presented a suitable candidate with alternatives.
• Collaborate with other groups during the product development, including product, BA, dev, QA and support teams.
• Enhancing the existing applications with a focus on clean/efficient design and reliable/high-quality performance.
• Work with onsite architect on a refractor of existing code involved in new design and development.
• Work as an offshore resource providing technical direction as the SME of the domain. Also worked extended hours to accommodate the time-zone differences.

• Environment:.NET Framework 1.1, SQL Server 2005, Perforce, Monorail Framework, ASP.Net, C#, ASP, JavaScript, VB, COM
• Analysing, problem solving, coding, testing, debugging applications.
• Actively involved in meetings and discussions.
• Refactor on multiple subsystems with regard to file uploads
• Involve in hot fixes in production.
• Gain expertise on document convertors and file uploads.

• Environment:.NET Framework 1.1, SQL Server 2005, Perforce, XSL, SMTP Server, ASP.Net, C#
• Analysing, problem solving, modifying and writing new stored procedures, testing, debugging applications.
• Collaborate with other team members in onsite during the product development.
• Gained expertise on db stored procedure

• Environment: 2003 Server, IIS, Windows Services, Web Services,.NET Framework 2.0, SQL Server 2005, Perforce, C#
• Analysing, problem solving, coding, testing, debugging applications.
• Sole ownership of the product developed (code review)
• Gained expertise on internal release manager by deploying all internal applications to live environment.

Msc, Advance Software Engineering

Bsc (Hons), Information Systems

Gce London Advance Level