BASSEM AHMED
SENIOR PROJECT MANAGER/SCRUM MASTER
DETAILS
Giza
Egypt--
LINKS
Linkedin
SKILLS
Microsoft Office
Confluence
Clickup
Agile/Scrum
Agile/Kanban
Slack
Jira
Microsoft Azure
LANGUAGES
Arabic
English
GIZA, EGYPT
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PROFILE
• A hardworking focused, and driven project manager who has extensive experience
in taking ownership of projects and leading teams of analysts, developers, UI/UX
designers, and testers to success by implementing different agile methodologies
using (Scrum, Kanban) frameworks based on the project situations.
• proven ability to oversee all facets of the project life cycle from inception and design
to deployment, allocating personnel and resources based on timelines, scalability,
user experience, and budget, among others.
• Maintain working knowledge of industry trends, emerging platforms, and evolving
consumer needs to produce innovative, cutting-edge strategies and programs in
alignment with overarching objectives.
EMPLOYMENT HISTORY
Senior Project Manger at NFQ, Cairo
June 2022 — Present
NFQ builds technologies that accelerate business success.
Since 2002, NFQ have been providing both strategy and execution to entrepreneurs who
seek to scale and outcompete. We are a team of 900 professionals across Germany,
Lithuania, Poland, Vietnam, Thailand, Singapore, and Egypt.
As a Senior Project Manager at NFQ, my responsibility is to handle NFQ projects with
abroad clients.
1. Depot - Senior Scrum Master
Depot is an E-commerce since 2013 that serves the furniture industry with 2500
employees, it has the core element of the distribution center is the 160 x 90 x 40 m
warehouse with approximately 111,000 pallet spaces as well as a warehouse with a
further 17,502 storage spaces.
• Implement Project Management/Best Practices
• Introduce Agile Engineering Practices
• Coach Team Members
• Host and assist in scrum ceremonies like Daily Stand-up Meetings, sprint planning,
backlog refinement, sprint review, and retrospective
• Assist the Product Owner With the Product Backlog
• Remove Roadblocks
• Supporting product owners with managing the product backlog, communicating the
product owner’s Wish-list to the project team
• Support the organization with Scrum adoption, plan scrum implementation, and
implement changes for the best productivity
2. Actindo - Senior Project Manager
Actindo is a Cloud ERP system From the very beginning in 2007, Actindo has been
a Bavarian cloud ERP pioneer. Today, we are one of the leading providers of Digital
Operations Platforms in Europe, the project is long-period contract with responsibility
as a Senior project manager
• Managing a team of developers ensuring the best quality is delivered to the client.
• Creating weekly, monthly, and quarterly reports for the head of engineering
• Creating team budget analysis
• Implementing Scrum frame work for best performance
• implementing scrum frame work with its all ceremonies "refinement, dailies, and review
meeting,...etc." to maintain maximum team productivity
• Managing resources and ensuring 100% delicate of our resource timing and resource
distributions
3. VenTrade - Senior Project Manager
VenTrade is a trading company with the Wild-Vision and SECACAM brands . With our
outdoor surveillance cameras, we want to offer a simple security solution for the home
on the one hand and give nature lovers the opportunity to discover the animal kingdom
in an exciting way on the other, the project is up and running on a monolithic native php
base, so my responsibility is to guide the team to make a successful refactor towards a
micro-services node.js base.
• Managing a team of 10+ developers, and testers ensuring the best quality is
delivered to the client.
• Leading the planning for system refactoring which has multiple reasons (data
inconsistency, huge technical bugs) to save hundreds of hours spent by the team
quarterly for maintaining and fixing system bugs, so the end result is to improve
system performance by 90%
• Creating weekly, monthly, and quarterly reports for the stockholders.
• Implementing an agile/scrum framework to the project workflow which will lead to
finalizing the new product features fast & clear to the business owners.
• Introduce Agile Engineering Practices
• Host and assist in scrum ceremonies like Daily Stand-up Meetings, sprint planning,
backlog refinement, sprint review, and retrospective
• Support the organization with Scrum adoption, plan scrum implementation, and
implement changes for the best productivity
• Documented all concerns and incidents and reported them to stockholders.
Project Manager/Scrum Master at Queen Tech Solutions, Cairo, Egypt
November 2021 — June 2022
Queen Tech Solutions is a software house specialized in creating on-demand software
products (CRM, eCommerce, Blogs, reservation apps, LMS, and Hospital management
system), Queen Tech Solutions have implemented different methodologies (Waterfall,
Agile/Scrum) to manage software process depend on the project type.
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Managed a team of 20+ developers, and testers ensuring the best quality is
delivered to the client.
Analyzing, and defining the scope of the projects based on the given requirements.
Making system analysis to ensure the business cycle is completed with customer
needs, creating a backlog, user stories, features, and epics.
Creating weekly, monthly, and quarterly reports for the CEO.
Full project ownership from initiation “requirement gathering” to delivery, and
supporting account managers in the maintenance period after each project
delivery.
Created documentation, workflow diagrams, and user flow diagrams for the
projects.
Handling customers Interviews in kickoff, retrospective, and release meetings
Introduce Agile Engineering Practices
Coach Team Members
Host and assist in scrum ceremonies like Daily Stand-up Meetings, sprint planning,
backlog refinement, sprint review, and retrospective
Assist the Product Owner With the Product Backlog
Remove Roadblocks
Supporting product owners with managing the product backlog, communicating
the product owner’s wish-list to the project team
• Support the organization with Scrum adoption, plan scrum implementation, and
implement changes for the best productivity
Large scale successful projects:
Suez Cement live tracking platform
Suez Cement customer orders platform
Jelactiv platform “website &App”
High-jet Booking bus tickets platform website & App
MDC mini Vezeeta App
Project Manager at Sharing Group, Kuwait
March 2021 — November 2021
ERP system based on Odoo which is specialized in the food industry, The RMS (Restaurant
management system) serves +30 restaurants located in different countries (Kuwait,
Egypt, Saudi Arabia) guaranteeing system stability with our clients
• Managed a team of +15 software engineers maintaining the system
• Led the planning for system refactoring which has multiple reasons (data
inconsistency, huge technical bugs) to save hundreds of hours spent by the team
quarterly for maintaining and fixing system bugs, improve system performance by
90% and make it ready to receive +500 new clients
• Implemented an agile/scrum framework to the project workflow which led to
finalizing the new product features fast & clear to the business owners.
• Allocated required resources across technical teams for the company's main
product (ERP system).
• Validate and review requirements for new features to ensure that it doesn't have
any conflicts with the current system logic.
• Designed and implemented KPIs for the teams and individuals by measuring their
productivity, quality, and timing.
• Collaborate with technical and business teams to make full documentation for the
system which saves time on new employee on boarding
Project Manager Instructor at DvCircle, Cairo
January 2021 — February 2021
Taught software project management.
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Project Management Fundamental.
Agile Methodology & Frameworks (SCRUM, KANBAN, XP).
Time, Scope & Resources Management.
Risk defining, planning, mitigation, and contingency
Project Manager at SecTheater, Cairo
September 2017 — December 2019
SecTheater is a software house specializing in online courses and creating on-demand
software products (CRM, eCommerce, Blogs, LMS, and Hospital management
systems), At Sectheater we have used different methodologies (Waterfall, Agile/Scrum,
Agile/Kanban) to manage our software process usually it depends on the project type
and state.
• Managed a team of 20+ developers, testers, and instructors ensuring the best
quality is delivered to the client
• Analyzed the scope of the projects based on the given requirements.
• Planned and defined project scope.
• Manage resources and ensure 100% delicate of our resource timing and resource
distributions.
• Created documentation and workflow diagrams & flow chart diagrams for the
projects.
• Risk management, mitigation, contingency plan handling
• Interviewed customers in kickoff, retrospective, and release meetings for setting
requirements and gather feedback
• Operate & manage the instructors’ department for online courses.
• Cryptography Instructor
Project Manager at Upwork
August 2018 — January 2021
Managed a team of 5+ developers, and testers delivering tasks to our clients to ensure
they receive exactly what they need.
product Designer (Trainee) at Vodafone TSSE, Cairo
January 2019 — March 2019
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Implementing the product design process
Implementing AGILE methodology
Interviewing product owners
Product design based on user interviews
EDUCATION
Bachelor of Mechanical Engineering, Helwan University
September 2015
CERTIFICATIONS
Software project management, SECC-ITIDA
December 2019
Scrum master certificate, LEARNQUEST
June 2021
Agile project management, google careers
August 2021
Project Management, Linkedin
August 2022 — August 2022
Software project management, Linkedin
August 2022 — August 2022
Agile Project Management, Linkedin
August 2022 — August 2022
VOLUNTEER EXPERIENCE
Social media member@Dimensions student organization
July 2018 — March 2019
Making & handling designs, scriptwriting, and photography
fundraising member@Dimensions student organization
July 2017 — June 2018
fundraising, and making proposals, handling communication with sponsors
Technical instructor@Micro Helwan
February 2018 — February 2019
Make & instruct Robotics fundamentals sessions
Technical support@Robotics student organization
July 2016 — February 2017
ACHIEVEMENTS
Competitor at CodeGeist hackathon 2019
Competitor at Vodafone hackathon 2018 (won 11th place)
delivering a complete prototype of an innovative software application that digitizes help
for emergencies on the road like car bedding/fixing/renting.
Competitor at SOSHelwan (firefighter robot) 2017 (won 8th place)
Competitor at Robocon 2016 (won 4th place)
International robotics competition about delivering an innovative solution through
prototype robot
