Development Management
Resume:
YASSER EL ZEIN abobuj@r.postjobfree.com
Direct the development of Educational applications and systems to align them with business
Pearson Education
and enterprise architecture strategies and standards.
Develop architectures, design and modeling of solutions, development guidelines and
12/2012 present
procedures in support of analysis, design, development, and performance testing for overall
Chief Solutions Architect
solution.
Leads the technical and business discussions relative to future enterprise direction. Aligns
10/2010 11/2012 architectural strategy with business goals.
Sr. Manager, IT PMO
Agile refresh of development and delivery processes for the global assessment platform. Lead
the development team in defining, prioritizing and executing development projects utilizing
Agile/SCRUM methodology.
Hold strategic and tactical responsibilities for the entire software development life cycle from
product architecture through development timelines and milestones to product launch and
quality initiatives.
Managed a global team of 155 with an annual budget of $50mil.
Abu Dhabi National
Energy (TAQA)
9/2006 09/2010
IT Strategy & Governance
Developed five year IT strategy plan covering budget, Green IT, department KPIs &
interdepartmental SLAs, infrastructure & applications, and manpower & organization chart.
Group Vice President of
Technology
Built business process optimization models for IT, finance and procurement, and a risk
cautious framework for outsourcing to reduce legal exposure and operational budget.
Formulated Compliance, Risk Management and Information Security plans, Project
Management manual, and ITIL/ISO based DR & BC policies and procedures.
ERP
Implemented an integrated, enterprise wide, application system, including:
Oracle E Business Suite for financials, HRMS, and procurement;
Hyperion for budgeting & planning, forecasting, and reporting;
Cognos for production reporting;
Maximo for asset management; and
SunGard’s AvantGard Treasury suite.
Integrated production and business process management tools with HSSE reporting utilities.
Infrastructure, Virtualization & Cloud Computing
Implemented public and private cloud solutions.
Standardized the common SAN/NAS storage backbone on NepApp, implemented VMWare
and interconnected global offices via MPLS/IP VPN and site to site VPN.
Deployed an integrated Cisco & Microsoft based VOIP solution to connect global locations via
WAN.
The Millburn Corporation Led the development & infrastructure teams in implementing analytical applications, server
virtualization and database optimization.
6/2004 8/2006
Implemented a unified messaging interface for the electronic trading system.
Worked on a wireless trading system for floor traders to execute crude oil and natural gas
Director of Engineering
trades from their handheld PDAs. The system insured secure and procedural exchanges.
Major League Baseball Established the IT department; Hired and managed technical resources, designed and built
operational processes, established technical guidelines for the company's software
.com
infrastructure, and led the architecture of the suite of sites.
9/2000 6/2004
MLB.com went from serving 20 million users to 120 million within three years.
Director of Engineering &
Advanced Development Built an e Commerce system that allowed MLB.com to sell on line subscription based
multimedia products. Created Java libraries for credit card processing and payment fulfillment.
Struts was used for workflow management.
IBM Worked on the development of a cycle simulator used in complex chip design.
Implemented a VHDL compiler.
9/1996 8/2000
Developed a web based performance monitor tool for NT servers.
Sr. Systems Engineer Developed single signon tool for backend Mainframe systems using secured tokens and LDAP.
Education
University Of Iowa, Iowa City, Iowa, USA
M.S.E. Electrical and Computer Engineering, 1997
B.S.E. Electrical and Computer Engineering with honors, 1995
Personal
Citizen of the United States.
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