
Kareem Abd ElSalam Rashad
Head of Project Management at Fawry Microfinance
6th of October, Giza, EgyptWork Experience
Head of Project ManagementFull Time
- Job Details:Lead strategic project portfolio management, aligning initiatives with Fawry MSME's fintech objectives and maximizing ROI. • Implement and oversee Agile and traditional project management methodologies tailored to fintech needs. • Collaborate with C-level executives and stakeholders to ensure project alignment with business goals and regulatory requirements. • Mentor and lead a team of X project managers, fostering innovation and continuous improvement in project delivery. • Oversee integration of cutting-edge financial technologies, ensuring seamless implementation and system compatibility. • Establish and monitor KPIs for project success, regularly reporting performance to senior management. • Ensure all projects adhere to financial regulations and maintain the highest standards of data security and compliance. • Drive innovation in project management practices to keep pace with the rapidly evolving fintech landscape.
Head of project ManagementFull Time
Jun 2021 - Nov 2023 -2 yrs, 5 months
- Job Details:• Developed and directed the strategic planning of multiple projects: • Established and implemented streamlined processes and systems to enhance project management and execution organization wide. • Managed the day-to-day activities in the Project Management Office (PMO) and determined how team resources should be allocated across projects • Led efforts to streamline project initiation and closure processes, ensuring efficiency and effectiveness. • Ensured standardized and relevant document templates are available from a central repository for both the PMO and business project team members: • Oversaw project risk management, including the formulation of contingency plans to mitigate potential issues. • Monitored the overall project progress and resource utilization, promptly initiating corrective actions when required. • Performed comprehensive project evaluation reviews to assess the effectiveness of project management practices
Senior Project ManagerFull Time
Feb 2021 - Jul 2021 -5 months
- Job Details:• Determine and define project scope and objectives • Manages scope initiation, change control, and creates WBS • Predict resources needed to reach objectives and manage resources in an effective and efficient manner • Identifies and analyzes risks and performs mitigation planning, monitoring, and execution • Prepare budget based on the scope of work and resource requirements • Develop and manage a detailed project schedule and work plan • Provide project updates on a consistent basis to stakeholders about adjustments, and progress • Utilize industry best practices, techniques, and standards throughout the entire project execution • Monitor progress and adjustments as needed
Senior Software Project ManagerFull Time
- Job Details:- Receive project request. - Align with clients to determine objectives, budget, background information, and project requirements and techniques - Analyze the requirements of the project with internal project stakeholders. - Develop the project plan in coordination with the project team in alignment with the project constraints, in-terms of budget, timelines and other requirements. - Handle all project documentation. - Follow up on the achievements of the project plan and report the project status periodically to direct manager, client and other stakeholders. - Verify different project phases and tasks completion. - Manage the internal communication between different project stakeholders. - Provide guidance to the team based on management direction and objectives. - Prepare end of project summary report with all project constraints and prepare the project final feedback report. - Formulate basic layout design or presentation approach and specify material details, such as style and size of type, photographs, graphics, animation, video, and sound. - Present final layouts to clients for approval. - Ensure addressing all relevant issues within the specifications and standard quality measures. - Ability to run effective meetings and provide accurate & timely communications of objectives, progress, status.
Project ManagerFull Time
Vodafone International Services
Dec 2016 - Dec 2018 -2 yrs
Egypt , Cairo
- Job Details:• Make sure that clients’ needs are met as projects evolve. • Developing project scope and objectives, involving all relevant stakeholders and ensuring technical feasibility. • Provide required projects reporting on agreed timelines. • Manage the relationship with the customer and all stakeholders. • Analysing project progress and solving problems.
Education
MBA in General track
Arab Academy for Science, Technology and Maritime Transport (AAST)Jan 2024 - Jan 2026 - 2 yr
Bachelor's Degree in Accounting
Tanta UniversityJan 2006 - Jan 2010 - 4 yr
Achievements
• Employee of the month of June 2015. • Nominated for the best customer experience 2012. • Top quality achiever in the quarter.
Skills
Languages
Arabic
FluentEnglish
Advanced
Training & Certifications
Professional Scrum Product Owner™ I (PSPO I)
Scrum.org·2024Project Management Professional (PMP)®
Project Management Institute·2023Agile Project Management Foundation
APMG International·2018