Project Manager Management

**********@*****.*** . Seattle, WA . 206-***-****

Maya Elchebeir

Responsible for leading cross-functional teams for an FDA-regulated Fortune 500 company with

Summary of Qualifications

aggressive timelines and multi-million dollar budgets.

Broad skill set including program management, engineering (software and electrical) and testing.

Full lifecycle project leadership for products including real -time embedded devices, PC products

and servers.

Experience leading projects with distributed multi-national development teams in the USA,

Canada, and the UK.

Experience

Technical Project Manager – myTV - Beirut, Lebanon 2011

myTV distributes digital content via satellite and the Internet from the Middle East and North Africa

Developed the business plan with the founder and created the financial forecast which enabled us

(MENA) to IPTV set-top boxes in the US.

to secure over $5 million from investors.

Managed all project activities including requirements gathering and development, project

planning and scheduling, hiring and oversight of technical teams.

Managed outsource activities for peripheral supporting projects including the development of the

portal, acquisition of regional content in the MENA region and encoding the content in the US.

Engineering Project Manager - CareFusion - San Diego, CA 2008-2010

Managed a cross functional team including Marketing, Engineering and Implementation to

CareFusion, a spin-off of Cardinal Health, develops FDA regulated medical devices.

incorporate new wireless security (WPA2) between the infusion pump clients and the server.

Developed the business case and revenue forecast model with marketing to ensure the new

project would be profitable upon completion.

Gathered and defined system requirements from clinical users, field support personnel and

hospital IT.

Developed a detailed project schedule and project plan and ensured the team performed to

schedule and budget.

Managed the project portfolio to ensure maximum revenue was generated w ith the limited

capital on hand.

Associate Project Manager – Cardinal Health - San Diego, CA 2007-2008

Managed two development teams, one in the US and the other in Quebec, to coordinate the

Cardinal Health is a Fortune-500 healthcare company that acquired Alaris.

development, testing and launch of a domestic infusion pump into the French Canadian market

which was projected to earn over $25 million annually in revenue.

Met regularly with executive management to communicate project progress and to ensure project

barriers were removed with their help as challenges occurred.

Trained Canadian satellite team on a new development process being championed b y the US R&D

division.

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**********@*****.*** . Seattle, WA . 206-***-****

Maya Elchebeir

Successfully led a team of five engineers, as a part of a company-wide initiative, to ensure that the

FDA Compliance Project Leader – Cardinal Health - San Diego, CA 2007

latest suite of products released in the infusion device division was in compliance with FDA

consent decree terms which resulted in over $150,000 in daily losses for the company.

Assessed designs and documentation to determine which were out of compliance with the FDA

guidelines and to develop a remediation project plan.

Coordinated with other project leaders and executive management to ensure the tight project

timelines were met under the strict FDA guidelines imposed.

Met with FDA auditing officials regularly to demonstrate adherence to the terms of the consent

decree.

Software Automation Engineer - Alaris - San Diego, CA 2005-2007

Co-designed an automated tool to allow scripts to be run from a PC to command the infusion

Alaris is one of the leading developers of infusion pumps.

pump and verify that the device behaved according to design specifications.

Wrote over 300 test scripts within the new automated test framework to achieve 95% code

coverage, freeing test resources and reducing turn -around time for build testing and increasing

product quality.

Bachelor of Electrical Engineering, University of California, San Diego, June 2006.

Education and Other

IEEE and SWE (Society of Women Engineers) - member since 2004.

Participated in a Kaizen event to streamline project management tracking tools for the program

management office (PMO).

Juror in the MIT business plan competition.

Fluent in English, French and Arabic.

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