Egypt
As a certified Scrum Product Owner with 3+ years of experience, I have served as both a Product Owner and Scrum Master, that allowed me to gain exposure to various technologies and clients across diverse industries and countries. On people and stakeholder management: I have over 8 years of experience as Product Owner, Account Manager and Technical Talent Acquisition Specialist On long-term thinking: As a Futures Thinking Fellow, I've served as a project manager, technical advisor, and researcher with UNDP, UNICEF, and swarm think tank, facilitating foresight and systems thinking tools, mentoring young fellows, and designing workshops and curricula. On the creative side: I bring over 3 years of experience as a Product Marketing Specialist, Journalist, and Creative Writer, adept in marketing research and planning for clients locally and globally. On the non-business side: I advocate for creative leadership, peace, diversity, and inclusion, and enjoy facilitating dialogue and strategizing with diverse groups.
Leading global squads and products with lean mindset
Key Responsibilities: - Vision & Strategy: Defined the product vision and crafted a strategic roadmap that aligns with organizational objectives. - User Engagement: Collaborated with prospective users to understand their needs, translating insights into actionable product requirements. - Backlog Management: Effectively managed and prioritized the product backlog based on evolving business needs and user feedback. - Product Development: Oversaw all stages of product creation—design, development, and testing—ensuring high quality and user satisfaction. - Communication: Developed user stories to facilitate clear communication among stakeholders and guide the development process. - Progress Monitoring: Monitored product progress at each stage, ensuring milestones were met and adjustments implemented as needed. - Team Collaboration: Led scrum meetings and product sprints, fostering an agile environment for collaboration and innovation. - Documentation: Created business documentation and knowledge bases using flowcharts to enhance team communication and process visualization. Notable Projects: - Digital Transformation: Developed on-ground business processes for performance management, escalations, and payroll systems, guiding stakeholders through digital transformation. - Design Revamps: Collaborated closely with a team of designers to enhance product design, focusing on user-centric improvements and removing inconsistencies
@unicef innocenti office for research, foresight & development - youth engagement department Served as technical advisor, project manager as following: - Mentored and taught new batch of global young fellows on their first ever exposure to foresight tools and jargons to deliver their national foresight projects - Co-designed youth foresight research project and the resulting product. - Conducted participatory foresight research e.g. workshop facilitation, horizon scanning, literature review, to identify emerging issues that are most pertinent to young people. - Tested foresight methods and tools to assess suitability/acceptability to young people - Defined how to provide safe, conducive, and accountable engagement conditions for youth throughout a foresight program life cycle.
Focusing on Zoho ERP Products while setting up agile environment
1. Requirements Analysis and User Story Writing. 2. Collaborating with users and clients to understand and anticipate their needs and translate them into product requirements. 3. Documenting stakeholder stories and feedback. Project: Clockin Portal American and Award Winning Time Tracking System
Softxpert is headquartered in California, one of the top leading software houses in Alexandria established in 2009 to support digital transformation globally, serving SMEs to become top leading companies in their markets. My job description included: 1. Training and following up on new recruiters. 2. Stakeholder management of top management and executives to set hiring priorities and improve recruitment processes. 3. Sourcing candidates, creating and publishing job ads in various portals. 4. Collaborating with technical managers to set qualification criteria for future employees. 5. Screening resumes and job applications. 6. Conducting initial phone screens to create shortlists of qualified candidates. 7. Interviewing candidates in-person for a wide range of roles. 8. Handling employee relations issues, investigating and resolving conflicts. 9. Reporting on the whole recruitment department activities and delivering data based insights on candidates attraction. 10. Supporting other HR functions in performance management and employee engagement. Our projects are long term mega projects serving US, Switzerland, and MENA region Clients; Certifix: serving Ministry of Defense and FBI Fingerprint Post Scan Mail in USA Mumz World in MENA region Autolina in Switzerland