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Khaled Atia

Mississauga,ON

Summary

Help businesses create world-class products. Manage teams and facilitate effective communication that ensures maximum visibility to all stakeholders using Lean-Agile frameworks, such as Kanban and Scrum. 15 Years of work experience, including ten years of experience spearheading SaaS, B2B, B2C, and B2B2C products from ideation to launch and growth. Adept at deconstructing and planning stories in order to promote improvements to product design and implementation. Excellent relationship-building, organizational and project management skills with a focus on overcoming technical challenges and implementing successful resolutions.

Skills

  • Change Management
  • Team Management
  • Agile frameworks
  • Scrum
  • Jira
  • Scrum Product Owner PSPO
  • Professional Scrum with Kanban PSK
  • SAFe
  • SDLC
  • CI/CD
  • Requirements Gathering
  • Visio
  • Business Analysts
  • Sprint Planning
  • Agile Methodologies
  • Backlog Management
  • Agile Project Management
  • Product Road Mapping
  • Project Planning
  • Product Evangelism
  • Business Modeling
  • Stakeholder relationship management
  • Lean Thinking
  • Lean Management
  • Mockups and prototypes
  • Requirements Gathering
  • User Experience (UX)
  • ERP Modules' Implementation GL, AP, AR, Inventory Control, Bank, suppliers, customers
  • Perl scripts for parsing and searching huge logs files
  • Oracle & SQL Server DBA
  • PL/SQL, T-SQL scripts
  • MDX scripts for OLAP server, dimensions and Cubes
  • Data Warehouse Planning & Designing

Work History

McLedger

Product Owner & Head of Technology
05.2018 - 03.2022

Job overview

McLedger is a start-up on the rise that is poised to change the world of online bookkeeping experience Emerging and headquartered in Dubai. The ultimate AI solution with a touch of expert accountants

  • Drive the conceptual and technical development of product initiatives from beginning till Delivery.
  • Created and maintained solution vision, roadmap, and backlog of work through the project's lifecycle
  • Acted as liaison between business, sales and IT teams for product refinement and incorporate features based on market demands
  • Partnered with IT and product leadership to drive and manage the solution development process and ensure product team understands the direction and vision
  • Collaborated with teams to discover and deliver best solution to the market presented by the product team lead and the business
  • Translated features into user stories
  • Owned and prioritized product backlog using JIRA to reflect stakeholder’s requirements
  • Oversaw entire product deployments from vision and creation to rollout and delivery

Integration Projects

Full cycle reconciliation and integration between McLedger's back office and the following online platforms to automate the data extraction, bookkeeping fillings and TAX report preparation and submission.

  • Amazon list Mcledger as first seller’s TAX service provider in MENA area in Amazon seller central marketplace
  • Shopify list Meleager as first TAX service provider in MENA area in shopify marketplace
  • Stripe integration with Mcledger's Invoicing system to enable online invoice payment in one click
  • Salla leading ecommerce platform in Saudi Arabia and MENA
  • Magento First FTA compliance backoffice integration with Magento platform.
  • Foodics Enable foodics' (POS marketplace) client to have real time analysis of their online orders and transactions report from backoffice
  • Banks integration for automation of banks' statements reconciliation. These banks are included AMEX, Citi, ADCB, Emirates NDB and RAK Bank.
  • Amember membership integration to automate the billing cycle, monthly recurring billing and price change auto reflect on recurring billing. Project include payment gateway integration through the membership customized plugin and payment gateway APIs for the Mobile Apps (iphone and Android)

Re-Branding Project

  • Re-Branding the whole solution web & mobile apps with new intuitive design, themes and layouts

Griffin Brokers Inc

Cofounder
01.2010 - 01.2018

Job overview

  • Developed marketing materials and campaigns to boost brand awareness and customer engagement.
  • Established foundational processes for business operations.
  • Networked with other businesses and customers to increase sales opportunities and contacts.
  • Identified business development challenges and customer concerns for proactive resolution.
  • Conducted target market research to discover customer needs and analyze competitor trends.

Projects

Sharjah University

Design and Implement Stock Market simulation system for University Business School, which include briefly the Following Features

  • Interactive computer simulation designed provides participants with hands-on experience in making tactical trading decisions and implementing them in different market environments
  • Continuous order driven and quote driven markets are simulated, along with call auctions and hybrid combinations
  • Equity market simulation help for deepening understanding of how the type of trade orders influences actual trading behavior
  • Simulation has work-station with customizable user-friendly interface for investors including advanced charting system
  • Student Assessment Module based on different factors e.g. return of student constructed security portfolio and risk-return trade-off

Boursa System

Online FOREX trading system was built mainly based on MetaTrader as backend transactions repository, quotes database history and live quotes & news server provider

  • The project was built in C# using wrapper package to encapsulate the MetaTrader C++ APIs to C# Wrapper classes
  • One of the key features of the project was its customized MDI Environment so users can save and load his own desktop layout profile which includes the chosen tool bar buttons trading forms with its position and chosen quotes
  • Boursa system was the first solution to offer white label trading work-station based on MetaTrader server as back-end

OrionTradeSoft,

Technical Product Owner
02.2008 - 06.2010

Job overview

  • Provide functional and technical support to different Organization subsidiaries
  • Technical consultation of our remote offices in regards to the integration of our trading solutions to the existing infrastructures of banks, brokerages and proprietary trading firms
  • Work together with the development team for in depth analysis of software problems
  • Coordinate the communication between the head quarters and remote offices in regards to product functionality and support
  • Identify new strategic product developments for MENA markets
  • Work on the design of new functionality and new products
  • Support QA group with testing of new software releases, new functionality and release planning
  • Hardware and software requirements
  • Design and execute performance testing of eBrokerage on different operating systems and hardware
  • Integration Projects (1) Arab, - (2) Dubai Bank
  • Analysis and write the scope of change and the bank integration documents
  • Write the CR for the new integrated banking module for the eBrokerage system
  • Build the wrapper components to encapsulate and use the banking core function from within the eBrokerage
  • Coordinate with the test team in terms of determining the area of changes and side effects of the new bank integrated module.

OrionTradeSoft

Development Team Leader
01.2006 - 02.2008

Job overview

  • Led development teams in building e-brokerage system, data and application-level interfaces and functional relationships.
  • Led development teams in building system, data and application-level interfaces and functional relationships.
  • Collaborated with product specialists to understand requirements and align business processes to product features and capabilities.
  • Data integration and Migration for different database systems MS SQL, Oracle, Sybase, Access, DB2.
  • Restructuring eBrokerage Trading System from Legacy form/backend structure to MVC structure.
  • MENA WebTrader an Online Consolidated Trading solution for Forex - Futures - CFD - Commodities and local exchange markets in the Middle east (DFM - ADSM - Egypt - Qatar - Amman - Saudi markets).

Migrations Projects

  • Estock - Emaar FinancialTwo Data Migration projects from Oracle Based trading platform (FIT)
  • AlramzData Migration projects from Manaf (MS Access Based Accounting Package ) to eBrokerage
  • ADIC Data Migration projects from home made (MS Access Based Accounting Package )

Hamsho Information Technology

Senior Software Developer, Accpac
01.2003 - 03.2005

Job overview

  • Administration for ACCPAC ERP including backups, upgrade setup SQL Server and developed customize report using ASP.Net
  • Provided technical support using knowledge of complex technology to solve problems and support new projects.
  • Monitored ongoing operation of assigned programs and responded to problems by diagnosing and correcting logic and coding errors.


Civil Affair Data Center

  • The biggest data repository in the country which contains data about all civilian information in Syria
  • The project requirement was to implement cluster environment based on both operating system (Solaris) and database Active-Active database (Oracle -RAC 9i) for two Fujitsu Sun-Sparc Machines (PrimePower 850) with external SAN EMC (CX700) and Tape library for archive purpose


Task Tracking System

  • Developed web based application using ASP.Net-C# for the Projects Progress and task assignments tracking with fully integration with Active directories user accounts and MS Exchange server
  • The system classifies the tasks mainly according to its type then responsible Team -> Person with full support of projects security requirements
  • Tasks reminder methods, the system supports multi methods start from alert mails, manually active alerts and schedule alerts according to Task's due and expire dates

Revenue Science

Implementation Engineer
01.2000 - 01.2003

Job overview

Projects

Car Configurator (Daimler Chrysler) & eCRA (Amex) Two Data warehousing Projects using MS Analysis Server as OLAP Server, ASP & Java Script

Designed & Built Data warehouse cubes via MS Analysis Server , write advance MDX statements to retrieve the metric data that serve Business Decision Support

Metadata QA Tool

Tool that Make a compare Between 2 Data Warehouses in order to achieve an optimal Quality, according to standards' sections Specified by Metadata Files.

Built User interface and Project Core Functions using .NET (C#) Technology.

DigiDesk

Issue Tracking System, That Assist Processor & CE (Consult Engineer) in Track the progress of Customer's Data Processing.

Designed System Distributed Database Structure and SQL SERVER Stores Procedures T-SQL scripts.

XML2XLS Tool

Tool that convert the Meta file from Xml format into excel sheets, and convert each main section of the xml Meta file to a dedicated tab sheet in the target generated excel sheet. This tool is written as .WSF file using java script.

Customer Service Engineering (CSE)

• Design Click Stream Metadata Files in XML Format.
• Build Data warehouse in a schema that satisfy Metadata Attributes.

• Load Log Files into this DW and Generate Different Report By applying datamining Patterns.

• Define customized reports depending on user's flat files (products & transaction , user types , eCRA ,etc)

• Generate Quality Assurance Reports.

Alrajhi Company

Oracle DBA/Developer
01.1999 - 01.2000

Job overview

  • Provided resources and skill sets to support DBA functions for applications.
  • Monitored and analyzed database activity to identify and prevent incidents and recommend performance improvements.
  • Participated in situation management of incidents to support database operations.
  • Developed automated processes to manage database creation in virtualized or cloud environment.
  • Design database entities.
  • Write P/L SQL stored procedures
  • Design user Layout using Oracle Forms (Form IV)
  • Designed customized reports using VB 6 and Crystal Reports as report builder.

Education

Damascus University
Damascus

Bachelor of Science from Computer Engineering
09.1999

Certification

Professional Scrum Product Owner

Professional Scrum with Kanban

MCSD - Microsoft Certified Solution Developer

MCDBA - Microsoft Certified Database Administrator

MCAD - Microsoft Certified Application Developer

MCP - Microsoft Certified Professional

Additional Information

  • Willing to relocate: Anywhere

Overview

21
years of professional experience
7

Certificates

Khaled Atia