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1. MohammedMagdy Elsabry
Masr El-Gdieda – Besides IHC, Cairo,Egypt (flexible to travel/relocate)
+20 10 996 51 550 29th
April 1990
mmelsabry@gmail.com linkedin.com/in/mmelsabry
Product Manager
Engineer in mind, Designer in heart and Diplomat in speech. Product manager with solid
software engineering background Mobile/Web development. Passionate about product
innovation and development, visualizing strategies, technology commercialization, business
development and expansion. A combination between technical and business, experienced in
managing cross-functional teams, has an outstanding problem solving abilities.
Professional experience
March 2015 - Now Product | Project Manager at eDigits.net
Handling projects from gathering requirements phase
Design the solution;
Translate the proposed solution to developers and business
team to ensure correct functionality is being developed
and is on track for expected delivery dates.
Planning the project and its development/delivery phases.
Estimating project timeline/budget and maintain progress
reports
Helping to execute and design software testing plans that
ensure projects meet the desired requirements.
Analyzes customer and marketing reports for feasibility,
adapting product plans and trendy features.
Analyzes users feedback and catching user activities on
products to discover user attitude and weakness/strengths.
Establishes credibility at all levels in the client organization
to ensure maintenance of accounts and enhance future
business opportunities.
April 2013 – February
2015
Product Manager at Startappz (Mobile development arm of N2V)
Drive product innovation
Planning and writing proposals for potential clients.
Creating and Maintaining AARRR metrics for products,
which lead to boosting Acquisition, Active users,
Retention, Reference for new users and Revenue.
Managing apps & websites activities from development,
designing, R&D, to marketing, business development and
collaboration with other partners.
2. Managing /Estimating timeline of products.
Managing human resources working on the project.
Managing the entire life cycle of our apps from functional
requirements, designing app flows and wireframes, to
setting user experience, developing app, task management
and marketing.
August 2012 –
October2013
Android Developer at Startappz (Mobile dev. arm of N2V)
Develop android mobile applications as per the
development plan of the Technical Team Lead
Contribute ideas for products and play an effective part in
brainstorming.
Support other developers in N2V com
June 2011 – April 2013 Co-Founder at Cloud Center
Cloud Center is a crowd-sourced business process outsourcing
service. It enables business to outsource their non-core processes
to leverage the power of the crowd at a guaranteed quality and
low cost. It also provides a professional, profitable, flexible and
secure work environment for the unemployed people, people with
irregular work schedule and people with restrictions preventing
them from going for a full time job
July 2011 – July 2012 Android Developer at Nazzelha Apps
Designing, implementing, testing Applications for clients.
Working closely with clients to establish problem
specifications and systemdesigns
Education
Bachelor’s degree 2011 in Computer Science, Faculty of computers and information,
Menoufyia University Accumulative grade Good
Technical skills
Product Management
Methodologies
Agile Framework, Lean model, Kanban, Test-driven
development
Product Management tools Redmine, Basecamp, OrangeScrum, Trello,
Desktop languages Java (J2SE), MatLab
Web languages HTML, XHTML, Java (J2EE)(Servlet , JSP , JSTL), PHP, AJAX,
JavaScript
Mobile languages Android, BlackBerry, J2ME
Frameworks Struts1, Struts2, Hibernate, Spring dependency injection
Databases languages &
management systems
SQLite, MySQL, Oracle
3. Cloud Systems Amazon Web Service (AWS)
Design Patterns Business delegation model, Singleton, MVC
CMS Joomla, Ushahidi, Wordpress
Tools Android Studio, Eclipse, Netbeans, PhpDesigner,
Microsoft Visio
Featured Projects
The followingprojects is the projects which I worked on as a Product manager and there is many other projects
that I have worked on as a software developer and itis availablewith it’s description in my portfolio.
- Appolo – Website/Android App (published)
Appolo is social discovery and review apps tool, directs you to find apps your friends
use and prefer. Discover apps your friends installed, uninstalled and like. Discover
what your friends say about apps they use.
In one step, add your advice, comment or opinion as a review on applications you
installed and used. And share it instantly to your Facebook feeds.
Follow friends and be in the middle of your friends network on Appolo. Receive their
reviews and apps activities in one place; Stream page collects feeds from you friends
with awesome user experience.
Recommended apps depending on what you already installed on your device, get
recommended apps that you will love and share.
Role :
Managing and planning app/website activities from development, designing, R&D, to
marketing and collaboration with other partners. Generating business model of this
product and developing a plan for managing customer lifecycle.
App link : https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.startappz.appolo
Website : http://getappolo.com
- Fitness App – Android/IOS App – Website (underdevelopment)
This app is built for trainers, who train in public training sessions and trainees.
Trainers, who can create events, pin its location on map and invite their followers
(Trainees) to their events. Trainees can attend the event and their friends can show
their attendance on app timeline. The app provide map view for all events so trainee
can view events near to him categorized by sport.
Role :
Design the solution, Managing and planning app/website activities from
development, UX designing, R&D, to marketing and collaboration with other
partners. Generating business model of this product, planning marketing plan,
developing a plan for managing user lifecycle and detecting user attitude
- Wamda – Windows phone app (published)
Wamda is a platform designed to empower entrepreneurs in the Arab world. The
app to Keep up to date on everything that’s happening in the entrepreneurship
space across the Middle East and North Africa.
The app contains: Tips for starting, scaling, and finding investment for your company,
4. Breaking news on new investments, closures, and pivots. Reports on regional and
country-specific market trends. Calendar of the region’s biggest startup events.
Reports and Case Studies on regional trends and success stories. Video interviews
with the Arab world’s most inspiring entrepreneurs
Role:
Microsoft builds the app to Wamda. My role, is the middle man between Wamda
and technical team, negotiating with Wamda for app features, planning the project,
managing app activities development and designing between Microsoft and Wamda
App link: http://www.windowsphone.com/en-us/store/app/wamda/b862ef99-
c047-420a-ac3e-64485c5fc66f
- Texter - Android App (finished and waiting client review)
Texter is an amazing mix between iMessage, MightyText but even more powerful.
With this app if you are talking to a person who is also using Texter, it will be
completely free. Otherwise, you will send an SMS transparently to them with no
need to switch apps. But what's really cool about Texter is that we are using our own
gateway to send this message at rates that are even cheaper than your own carrier.
We also handle support for multiple phone numbers. If you have multiple phones,
you can log in with the same user account and have all your messages backed up
and synchronized between your phones
Role:
Planning and Managing app activities from development, designing, R&D and
Marketing. Generating business model of this product and developing a plan for
managing customer lifecycle.
- Al Ahram Android App (published)
This application for AlAhram newspaper – the largest newspaper agency in MENA –
which is the most widely circulating Egyptian daily newspaper. The app displays the
latest breaking news of Al Ahram Gate and Al Ahram Daily on different categories,
more categories can be added over the air without the need to update the app,
throw this application enjoy the full Al Ahram experience, watch videos, listen to
audio files, and see all pictures included in stories, optimized for 3G connections, will
not consume your connection quota, the app has been designed to take advantage
of the advanced capabilities and rich user interface of the Android, also you can
share the news on Facebook, Twitter, send it by mail or SMS, also there is an
embedded statistics tool in the app through which we know the frequent activities
and categories the user follow. The app integrated with Mobclix and AdMob
advertising Networks.
Role:
Negotiating with the client for app features, Managing app activities from
designing app screens to development and marketing activities, Designing app
wireframes, implementing small features.
Tools & Technologies:
Android SDK, Facebook SDK, Twitter SDK, AdMob SDK, Mobclix SDK, Bitly
SDK, Eclipse, Flurry statistics.
5. App link :
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.nazzelha.alahram.main
- NasTrends – Website (Published)
NasTrends is a website for selling T-shirts. The website was already launched but
they wanted to add online payment to the website by integrating with Wallety.com
Role:
Managing activities between NasTrends, Wallety, AAIB bank and development team
to finalize integration of the payment gateway.
Website: http://www.nastrends.com/
Honors & Awards
Appolo app won Gold prize in Listing & Directories apps
Issuer: Jordan App & Web Awards (JAWA) -2014 Role: Product Manager
Cloud Center in final stage competition at Start With Google 2011 – 2012
Cloud center exceeded all stages between around 400 competitor at Start with
Google and reached final stage
Issuer: Google Role: Co-Founder
Skills and Expertise
- Outstanding problem solving & High Analytical skills.
- User Experience (UX)
- Mobile apps (IOS, Android)
- Product Innovation & Designing solutions
- Technology commercialization and Business development
- Entrepreneurial spirit
- Planner & Time management skills
- Charismatic/Very good presentation, negotiation and communication skills.
- Highly collaborative in Teamwork.
Languages
1. Arabic Mother language
2. English Very Good (both writing and speaking)