Scrum Master and Agile Consultant at Cognizant
New Jersey, NJ 07417
United States
www.cognizant.com
July 2011-Present

I have been working since July, 2011 as Scrum Master implementing Scrum in complex setup. The teams are normally more than 12 and they are belong to different departments and sometimes to different external contractors. My roles is to rationale the existing set-up within the framework of Scrum. I have implemented the philosophies of Lean to manage the Flow across team and to make the queues visible among various teams. This helped in understanding dependencies and improve our metrics. Total engagement till March, 3rd, 2012: 160 working days (1,280 hours)

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Lead of Agile Practices at Synacor
Buffalo, NY 14202
United States
www.synacor.com
September 2010-July 2011

My role was to implement Scrum across various product groups. The groups were formed of highly motivated software engineers, product managers and test engineers. I conducted company-wide Scrum training program for all practitioners (>200 engineers). I implemented and coached several teams on Scrum. I helped in implementing company-wide Kanban board for all Scrum teams. I implemented GreenHopper from Jira during the process of implementing Scrum within the teams. Total engagement: 10 months (about 42 weeks) = 42*40= 1,680 hours

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Foounder/ Consultant at Koo-Doy
Mississuaga, Ontario L5W 1Z1
Canada
www.koo-doy.com
April 2010-September 2010

I established Koo-Doy after leaving my day job to: - get exposure to different companies - implement my own Agile and Scrum ideas in more free way - Supplement Lean Thinking to Scrum for scaling I worked in few engagements which total of 100 man-hours during this period.

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Scrum Master at Research in Motion
Waterloo, ON N2L 3W8
Canada
www.rim.com
August 2008-March 2010

- Lead various projects - Acted as Black Belt coach for several teams - Implemented Scrum in various teams Total engagement time: 20 months (about 2500 man-hours of Scrum experience)

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Black Belt at Rogers Telco
Toronto, ON
Canada
www.rogers.com
November 2007-August 2008

Implemented Lean approaches across teams from various disciplines including IT, process improvements, Logistics and other teams. The objectives of those projects was to achieve performance gains and solve business problems by identifying and eliminating wastes. This served to reduce the cycle time and helped in reducing cost.

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Senior consultant at ITS
Cairo, ITSoft, Free zone, Nasr City
Egypt
www.its.ws
September 1999-November 2007

- Managed software projects - Implemented CMMI process improvement program across the whole organization - Managed software center within the company to deliver solution to address requirements of Middle East users of Higher Educational software product. - Implemented Lean and Six Sigma principles to improve client services - Implemented end-to-end client engagement life cycle

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Project Manager at Emirates Telco
Abu Dhabi,
United Arab Emirates
http://www.etisalat.com/
November 1991-August 1999

- Lead Design - Developer - Project Manager - Business Analyst Outputs: - Development of Customer Care and Billing Solutions

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Developer at various roles
Alexandria,
Egypt

September 1985-November 1991

Played roles of Developer, Designer, Systems Analyst, Team Lead and Project Manager. The applications we developed were for Maritime transportation companies.

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