Amira Mohamed
Verified Expert in Product Management
Product Manager
Cairo, Cairo Governorate, Egypt
Toptal member since September 21, 2021
Amira is an enthusiastic, committed, fast-paced, and quality-driven professional with 16+ years of experience and extensive knowledge as a product owner, business analyst, and coach. She is an ICAgile Certified Professional and a big believer in the agile mindset. Amira always studies, applies, and spreads the best practices within her work based on company needs and environment fit.
Project Highlights
Expertise
- Agile
- Agile Sprints
- Business Analysis
- Elicitation
- Product Management
- Product Roadmaps
- Systems Analysis
- UX Tools
Work Experience
Product Ownership Manager
Fintech company
- Led and influenced the team of product owners for smooth delivery of the product.
- Acted as the "voice of the product" to key stakeholders to ensure that their needs were met and that the product team was getting the direction and support it needed to succeed.
- Collaborated with leaders, business analysts, project managers, IT architects, technical leads, and other developers, along with internal and external customers, to understand requirements and develop needs according to business requirements.
Principal Product Owner | Business Analyst
Software House
- Owned and derived the successful launch of multiple products.
- Defined the product roadmap, vision, backlog items, and features lists with priorities for different products.
- Worked closely with development, quality, and architecture teams to align the products’ required features, releases, and timeline.
- Wrote detailed user stories with any required elaboration.
- Made strategic and tactical decisions about product functionality, balancing appropriate tradeoffs between business and user goals, scalability and maintainability, time‐to‐market, and process efficiency.
Product Analysis Section Lead
Software House
- Made strategic and tactical decisions about product functionality, balancing appropriate tradeoffs between business and user goals, scalability and maintainability, time‐to‐market, and process efficiency.
- Managed the complete analysis lifecycle including requirements gathering from a variety of internal and external stakeholders and business users and external resources.
- Led the Agile-based process improvement initiative within the organization under the umbrella of a strategic initiative for organization improvement through three main important aspects: people, process and technology.
Senior Data Management Associate
Humanitarian Organization
- Did renovation and enhancement of the whole reporting system including the automation of different processes to speed up the process.
- Defined and developed different products, reports, and applications using Tableau, Excel, and Quantum GIS. This helped in enhancing the ways of working, improving the data quality and decision-making processes.
- Handled the alignment of the organization processes, integration methods across different units, offices and partners while meeting with different stakeholders to align and analyze the different business needs.
Senior Solution Specialist
Software House
- Was responsible for roadmap definition and understanding market trends; performed user testing and surveys.
- Studied and analyzed different customers’ strategic plans including framework in use, objectives, KPIs and initiatives to build a bigger vision on the needed features from different perspectives.
- Worked closely with customers, creating demos and POCs on site. Prepared and reviewed different proposals and brochures in alignment with different teams including technical, marketing, and sales teams.
- Aligned and led the different development teams with the product team to act as the integration point between the different teams working on customizations over the product.
Software Engineer
Software House
- Developed different web and desktop applications following the whole software development lifecycle.
- Provided advice, guidance, and support for all team members in an Agile environment.
- Led and coached junior and senior team members and ensure that all internal and external teams are aligned, and team is well aware of business requirements.
- Handled project estimates, monitored, and reported status to senior management as well as integration between QEs, UI design, and product team.
Project History
Principal Product Owner and Analyst
Derived the successful launch of a process automation product; owned the definition of the roadmap, vision, backlog items and features lists; managed requirement gathering workshops, brainstorming sessions, demos and meetings with stakeholders.
I managed and automated various processes, defined and measured other metrics to enhance the different ways of working.
Education
Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science and Information Technology
Ain Shams University - Cairo, Egypt
Certifications
ICAgile Certified Professional - Business Value Analysis
ICAgile
ICAgile Certified Professional
ICAgile
Skills
Tools
Zoom, Jira, UX Tools, Tableau Desktop Pro
Paradigms
Scrum, Agile Product Management, Requirements Analysis, Agile, Unit Testing
Platforms
ProductPlan
Other
Business Analysis, Technical Business Analysis, Systems Analysis, Lean Product Manager, Product Management, IT Product Management, Elicitation, Communication, Analysis, Agile Sprints, Product Roadmaps, Backlog Grooming, Technical Product Management, Data Analysis, Business Requirements, Technical Requirements, Product Ownership, Requirements, Backlog Management, Feature Roadmaps, Feature Analysis, User Requirements, Requirements & Specifications, Product Requirements Documentation (PRD), Product Development, Estimations, Minimum Viable Product (MVP), Excel 2013, Presentations, UX Process, API Integration, Computer Science, User Stories, Data Analytics, Reporting, Data Reporting, Data Cleaning, Data Cleansing, Stakeholder Interviews, Stakeholder Management, Roadmaps, Feature Prioritization, Presales, Scrum Master, Competition Research, App Development, C#, SQL, Web Development, Product Owner, Feature Planning, Team Leadership, Agile Leadership, Databases, Web Applications, Web Platforms, Mobile Apps
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