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Jalal Said

Project Manager

Amman, Jordan

Work Experience

  • Projects Manager and Software ArchitectFull Time

    Specto

    Feb 2012 - Present -13 yrs, 4 months

    Jordan , Amman

    • Job Details:* Managing and directing IT projects and software development teams. * Manage multiple enterprise international projects established in over 10 countries worldwide. * Requirements gathering, deep analyses, generating ideas and construct overall Solutions architectures. * Meeting customers’ requirements by constructing dynamic and customer’s focused parametric designs. * Creating projects charters, realistic plans, schedules, WBS, projects estimations and milestones. * Using the appropriate tools for managing SDLC, including MS Project, SharePoint and TFS administrative. * Planning resources, following up projects and teams performance reports. * Managing Agile development projects, planning iterations and providing tangible test driven delivers. * Creating RDBMS and dynamic database designs and architectures. * Managing databases performance and storage hits resulted in saving tens of Gigabytes and reducing the overall hosting and backup costs. * Negotiating with key stakeholders, preventing scope creeping and advising change requests. * Provide realistic risk management plans, monitoring risks, create appropriate risk responses. * Providing technical support for key stakeholders and internal departments. * Creating QA standards and process improvement plans, and participate in documenting lessons learned. * Introducing pair programing, sharing tasks, Agile meetings. Resulted in resources backups and increased team experience and performance. * Supervising brainstorming sessions resulted in ideas building, enhanced products and customers satisfaction * Creating team building activities to assure team members are more empowered and engaged. * Training, couching and improving team knowledge in various technologies and industry standards. * Creating and programming advanced code architecture, generic abstractions, performance critical and concurrent\multi-threading coding. Leading to scalable-extensible solutions and lowering maintenance and support costs. * Keen eye on advanced security exploits and assuring highly maintainable and talented coding standards were applied, such as object oriented paradigms, design patterns, separation of concern, documentations.
  • Senior Software Engineer and System AnalystFull Time

    Greendome

    Oct 2008 - Jan 2012 -3 yrs, 3 months

    Jordan , Amman

    • Job Details:* Built .Net based solutions that meets high professional needs for TV broadcast industry. * Met customers for gathering and negotiating requirements, suggested and approved appropriate solutions. * Live broadcast TV streaming and encoding. * SMS interactive moderated solutions, Prayer and Weather broadcasting scheduled Real-time live fillers. * Customer focused video editing application. * Appropriate solutions to maintain playout server and channel playlists. * Middle tier applications and APIs to manage communication and interaction between different solutions. * Concurrent and lock free designs meeting high critical Real-time broadcasting critical requirements. * Code refactor and optimization. * Traveled for demonstration, installing and training clients. * Provided support, maintenance, manage and follow up clients’ solutions.
  • Education

    • Software Engineering in Software Engineering

      Philadelphia University - Jordan

      Jan 2003 - Jan 2008 - 5 yr

    Skills

    • Microsoft Project
    • Microsoft Visio
    • Project Management
    • Agile
    • Scrum
    • Kanban
    • SDLC
    • Risk Management
    • Business Analysis
    • Solutions Architecture
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    Languages

    • English

      Fluent
    • Arabic

      Fluent

    Training & Certifications

    • Business Analysis Professional

      UT Consultation·2017
    • ECLM (Excellence in Consulting Lifecycle Management)

      Method·2016
    • ITIL V3

      CBT Nuggets·2016
    • PMP

      PMI·2016
    • PMP Professional Training

      Method·2015
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