Amr El-Nowehy
Verified Expert in Project Management
Project Manager
Hamilton, ON, Canada
Toptal member since June 25, 2020
Amr is a certified project manager, scrum master, and agile coach with 15+ years of experience in the IT industry as a software developer and an agile project manager. His expertise includes the banking, capital markets, and insurance industries. He has worked with top-tier Canadian banks with both onshore and offshore teams ranging from ten to 40 developers. Amr is also enabled to coach and certify Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe) practitioners.
Project Highlights
Expertise
- IT Projects
- Jira
- Project Management
- Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe)
- Scrum
- Scrum Master
- Technical Project Management
- Visio
Work Experience
Agile Project Manager
TD Bank Group
- Supported Agile delivery across multiple pods by serving as scrum master, ensuring alignment with TD’s enterprise delivery standards and Journey framework.
- Enhanced cross-team collaboration by identifying dependencies, issue hierarchies, and stakeholder accountability.
- Facilitated quarterly Product Increment (PI) Planning within the team and with partners.
- Managed change management and control processes, e.g., data and privacy for major initiatives.
Technical Project Manager
Integrally LLC
- Developed a Scrum framework specific to Integrally, outlining roles, responsibilities, and processes to streamline project management and improve team collaboration.
- Set up a Jira project using the Scrum methodology, including creating dashboards and reports.
- Coached and mentored the scrum master, product owner, and the team on scrum best practices and continuous improvement.
- Defined and documented comprehensive epics and user stories using BDD principles and Gherkin syntax, ensuring alignment with business objectives and facilitating seamless collaboration across teams.
Adjunct Instructor
Conestoga College
- Delivered and evaluated the Project Management course, focusing on Agile and Waterfall methodologies.
- Conducted lectures, workshops, and hands-on activities to enhance student learning and engagement.
- Evaluated student performance through assignments, projects, and exams.
Technical Project Manager
Math Talk PBC
- Set up Agile ceremonies, working agreements, workflow, and artifacts.
- Created Asana Kanban dashboards, defined workflows, intake forms, and reporting dashboards.
- Collaborated with stakeholders, teams, and vendors on behalf of the digital team. Defined and optimized cross-functional workflows and facilitated clear communication and efficient decision-making processes.
Project Manager
Product Madness
- Collaborated with the PMO, directors, and architects to define the scope, business value, MVP, T-shirt sizing, product roadmap, and release increments.
- Managed resources, recruitment process, and vendors across multiple locations.
- Set up and facilitated Scrum ceremonies, including backlog population and refinement, daily standups, sprint planning, demos, and retrospectives.
- Managed the entire software development lifecycle, including architecture, UX design, development, QA, integration, user acceptance testing, and production releases.
- Liaised with infrastructure, QA management, and other teams to manage cross dependencies.
- Managed three projects with multiple work streams and a total budget of 3+ million and 30+ resources.
- Set up Jira projects, issue workflows, Scrum and Kanban boards, releases, and dashboards.
- Reported to the CTO and PMO bi-weekly and prepared quarterly presentations.
Agile Project Manager
Economical Insurance
- Set up the workflow process as the scrum master for the Big Data Analytics team and facilitated scrum ceremonies across multiple projects, support teams, and vendors.
- Led, as the project manager, a Cloudera upgrade on a Hadoop platform from discovery to testing to implementation.
- Coached agile, scrum, SAFe, and lean development culture and practices to different stakeholders and senior managers.
- Developed and executed a Risk Sharing Pool (RSP) integrated sprint roadmap plan across multiple teams, including vendors.
- Managed the business case and discovery phase for migrating Guidwire and its echo system to AWS.
Agile Project Manager
RBC Capital Markets
- Established and documented Scrum processes and ceremonies. Royal Bank of Canada (RBC) is one of the five top-tier banks in Canada.
- Documented and presented the application delivery process flow from planning to execution to the business and technology stakeholders using a hybrid of Waterfall and Agile methodologies.
- Managed the full PDLC of market data collection, storage on Hadoop, and scenario generation as part of the overall Fundamental Review of the Trading Book (FRTB) program.
- Led and partnered with various stakeholders, including risk methodology, front office, architecture and development teams, production support, and downstream systems.
- Managed a technical team of 20+ business system analysts, developers, and QAs through the entire software development lifecycle using Agile methodology.
- Focused on market risk, an FTRB compliance program spanning trading platforms to treasury reporting, market data storage and scenario simulations, equity, interest rates, fixed income, FX, and commodity products, both linear and derivatives.
- Used various technologies such as big data, Hadoop, MS Project, Visio, Excel, MS Word, Jira, Confluence, and SharePoint.
Agile Project Manager
BMO Capital Markets
- Managed the application delivery of the market risk system, based on the Monte Carlo simulation, to satisfy the Federal Reserve findings. The Bank of Montreal (BMO) is one of five top-tier banks in Canada.
- Led the full PDLC of the market risk system delivery, based on historical simulation, to satisfy Office of the Superintendent of Financial Institutions (OSFI) requirements.
- Managed a technical team of 40+ developers through the entire software development lifecycle using Waterfall and Agile hybrid methodologies.
- Acted as the accountable project manager, overseeing the financials and resourcing of labor, hardware, and software with a yearly budget of $14+ million and an overall budget of over $80 million.
- Focused on market risk, risk valuation based on historical and Monte Carlo simulations, OSFI and Federal Reserve Regulatory Requirements, equity, interest rates, fixed income, FX products—both linear and derivatives—and treasury limits monitoring.
- Utilized Netezza, MS Project, Visio, Excel, MS Word, Jira, Clarity, and SharePoint.
Project Manager
TD Securities
- Conducted business analysis and process mapping for onboarding a new product, Risk Participating Agreement. TD Canada Trust is one of the five top-tier banks in Canada.
- Managed a project for bond migration between trading platforms.
- Participated in a program for the OSFI regulatory requirement as a technical project manager of the Calypso trading system team, both business and technical.
- Focused on derivative products, exotic products, counterparty credit relationship to derivative products, credit default swaps, risk participation agreements, and collateralized debt obligations.
- Used technologies such as Murex, Calypso, Summit, WSS, MS Project, Visio, Excel, MS Word, Jira, and Clarity.
Project Manager
Scotia Bank: Technology and Applications Group
- Led a project to document the end-to-end data flow and touch points of the Internal Method Model (IMM) process from trading source systems through the counterparty credit risk application to downstream risk management processes.
- Prepared the documentation package and presented my findings to SVPs, VPs, directors in different departments, and to audit.
- Managed and facilitated the infrastructure of Algo Credit Risk System on behalf of the director both internally and with the vendor on an ongoing basis.
- Focused on Algo Credit Risk and capital markets, which involves calculating credit risk measurements such as Potential Future Exposure, Credit Value Adjustment, Internal Model Method, and settlement and country risk.
- Utilized the following technologies: Perl, Unix Solaris, Algo Credit Risk System, Visio, Excel, MS Word, and Jira.
Business Systems Analyst
GMP Securities
- Assessed, researched, and analyzed documents sponsor/stakeholder needs in accordance with a waterfall and agile hybrid lifecycle. GMP Securities is a leading independent investment dealer in Canada.
- Contributed to the successful project completion within budget and on time by identifying risks and developing and recommending mitigation strategies.
- Designed workflows for enhancements, testing, and change control.
- Utilized the following technical environments and business tools: SQL Server, Windows, Visio, Excel, MS Word, and FogBugz.
Business Systems Analyst
TD Canada Trust Securities
- Analyzed, designed, and developed trading system interfaces for the risk management system.
- Conducted GAP analysis and played a lead role in the design and development of the credit risk system upgrade, increasing volume and time capacity by 50%.
- Designed and developed pricing model for precious metals European options and futures.
- Focused on credit and market risk management, capital markets risk management systems, MUREX, Calypso, SUMMIT, and WSS.
- Utilized the following technical environments: C/C++, Perl, Oracle, MySQL, Sybase, UNIX and Linux.
Project History
Market Risk System
Managed the project from inception to delivery of the market risk system.
I led a technical team of 40+ developers through the entire software development lifecycle, from inception and production to release and infrastructure setup. As the accountable project manager, I oversaw the financials and resourcing of labor, hardware, and software with a yearly budget of $14+ million and an overall project budget of over $80 million. I presented the project status weekly to the executive committee.
FRTB: Fundamental Review of Trading Books
Managed the development of the data warehouse and scenario generation engine from inception to deployment.
With a team of over 20 onshore and offshore developers, business analysts, and testers, I led the entire development and project cycle to deliver a data warehouse and scenario generation engine for capital market risk management. It was part of the capital market risk management system in compliance with the FRTB requirements. I managed the project from inception and scope to production releases.
Cloudera Upgrade
Drove the Cloudera upgrade project from scoping and testing to a production upgrade.
I spearheaded the entire cycle of the Cloudera upgrade. It started with impact analysis, identifying the scope, integration points, and testing approach. I managed the architecture team, vendor, quality assurance engineers, developers, and the organization’s release management.
Microservices Rearchitecture
Managed a re-architectural project from design to production release, including defining MVPs and leading the entire software development lifecycle.
I supervised architectural projects to move vital and frequently used functions from a monolith engine to microservices. The team had over 25 members, including React, Java, and Ruby developers, UX designers, architects, and quality engineers for manual and automated testing.
Upgrading Guidewire
Led the discovery phase to its conclusion of migrating Guidewire from in-house to SaaS on AWS.
Managed a team of architects, subject matter experts, vendors, consultants, and financial modelers to create a cost-benefit analysis and recommendation for the CTO and C-level executives. The analysis included a comparison between AWS and GCP in terms of costs, risks, gaps, regulatory requirements, and operational impact.
Education
Diploma in Film Making
Ryerson University - Toronto, Canada
Bachelor's Degree in Communication and Electronic Engineering
Cairo University - Cairo, Egypt
Certifications
Blockchain Revolution
Coursera
SAFe Practice Consultant SPC v6
Scaled Agile Framework for Enterprises
Certified Scrum Master
Scrum Alliance
PMP
The Project Management Institute PMI
Financial Market Risk Management (FRM)
Canadian Securities Insitute
Canadian Securities Course (CSC)
Canadian Securities Institute
Skills
Tools
Confluence, Visio, Microsoft Project, Atlassian Suite, Jira, Project Management & Work Tracking Tools, RAID Log, SQL, Microsoft Excel, Slack, Asana, Google Workspace, Miro, Cloudera, Microsoft PowerPoint, GitHub, HubSpot, Figma
Paradigms
Scrum, Agile Project Management, Agile, Kanban, Iterative Delivery, Agile Workflow, Agile Software Development, Agile Leadership, Requirements Analysis, Waterfall Delivery, Implementation Project Management, Agile Product Management, Agile Delivery, Change Management, AI Project Management, Microservices, UX Design, DevOps, Microservices Architecture, Organizational Change Management (OCM), XP, Behavior-driven Development (BDD)
Platforms
Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP), Oracle, Blockchain, WordPress, Amazon Web Services (AWS)
Industry Expertise
Insurance, Banking & Finance, Capital Markets, Education Technology (Edtech)
Other
Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe), IT Projects, Agile Coaching, Technical Project Management, Certified ScrumMaster (CSM), Project Management, Backlog Management, Stakeholder Management, Scrum Master, Scrum Coaching, Project Management Professional (PMP), Waterfall Methodology, Project Planning, Agile Practices, Project Scoping, Project Delivery, Minimum Viable Product (MVP), Scope of Work (SOW), Scope Management, Estimation & Planning, Feature Backlog Prioritization, IT Project Management, Project Timelines, Large-scale Projects, Sprints, Agile Sprints, Sprint Planning, Sprint Ceremonies, Sprint Retrospectives, Software Project Management, Technical Project Monitoring, Remote Work, Remote Team Leadership, Software Development Lifecycle (SDLC), Project Lifecycle, Coaching, Hybrid Project Management, Budgeting, Planning, Best Practices, Reporting, Communication, Milestones, Team Management, Resource Management, Project Tracking, Project Reporting, Risk Management, Facilitation, Project Scheduling, Project Estimation, Team Leadership, Progress Reporting, Agile Product Delivery, Agile Program Management, Certified Project Manager, User Stories, Workflow, Detail-oriented, Process Improvement Project Management, Stakeholder Engagement, Gantt Chart, Technical Requirements, Software Development, Dashboards, Project Coordination, Documentation, Project Management & Delivery, Project Discovery, Digital Project Management, Release Management, Accountability, Data-driven Decision-making, Critical Path Analysis, Work Breakdown Structure, Cross-functional Collaboration, Scheduling, Task Scheduling, Cross-functional Team Leadership, Agile Transformation, Leadership, Technical Business Analysis, Tracking, Agile Certified Practitioner, Backlog Grooming, Status Updates, Delivery Management, Delivery, Roadmaps, Team Building, Troubleshooting, Issue Tracking, Acceptance Criteria, Stakeholder Alignment, RAID, Technical Delivery Management, Technical Program Management, Project Planning & Execution, Perl, Process Improvement, Vendor Management, Project Finance, Cost Estimation, Proof of Concept (POC), Feature Prioritization, Feature Roadmaps, Financial Modeling, Compliance, Discovery, Legacy Software, Agile Scaling Frameworks, Back-end, Finance, Agile DevOps, Business Analysis, Data Delivery Management, Requirements, Data Management, Quality Assurance (QA), Regulations, MySQL, Process Optimization, Prototyping, Discovery Workshops, Third-party Management, System Integration, Operational Streamlining, Mobile App Development, Investment Banking, Software Architecture, Software Integration, Training, Digital Solutions, Organization, Project Management Office (PMO), Process Documentation, Source Code Control System (SCCS), Project Management Operations, Applications, Complex Program Management, Communication Management, Consulting, Presentations, Organizational Design, Team Mentoring, Software Engineering, Risk Assessment, Generative Artificial Intelligence (GenAI), Build Releases, Software QA, System Implementation, SAFe 6, Product Ownership, Mobile/Web Project Management, Enterprise Change Management (ECM), Governance, Project Leadership, Enterprise Startups, Program Increment Planning, Big Data, Hadoop, Netezza, C++, Sybase, Credit Risk, Investments & Risk Management, Video Editing, Gaming, Gaming Platforms, IT Infrastructure, Cloud, APIs, SaaS, Enterprise SaaS, Software as a Service (SaaS), Procurement, Technology Strategy & Architecture, Web Applications, Product Management, REST APIs, RESTful Microservices, Data Transformation, Marketing Attribution, User Experience (UX), Product Discovery, Front-end, Mobile Apps, Databases, Data, Data Analytics, COE, Jira Administration, Jira Administrator, Web & Mobile Applications, Unity, Artificial Intelligence (AI), Augmented Reality (AR), Startups, Market Research, Innovation, API Integration, eCommerce, System Architecture, Operational Assessments, NoSQL, Training & Training Content Development, Training Content, Program Management, Operational Excellence, Strategic Planning, Operational Efficiency Improvement, TypeScript, CI/CD Pipelines, Kubernetes, UI Design, New Product Development, Business Processes, Smartsheet, Refactoring, Web3, Large Language Models (LLMs), Machine Learning, Progressive Web Applications (PWAs), User Workflows, Mentorship & Coaching, Web Development, Quality Management, Mobile Applications, Business Transformation, Productivity, Pair Programming, Virtual Reality (VR), 3D, QA Leadership, Gherkin, User Interface (UI), Product Owner, Cloud Migration, AI Integration, Project Management in Gaming, Workflow Automation, Marketing, Financials, Derivatives, Learning, Learning Management Systems (LMS), E-learning
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