United States

Ebeid ElSayed

Senior Product Manager

Introduce yourself, define mentoring expectations and goals. Learn and grow together.

General mentorship

Making remote and globally distributed teams work for you and your needs.

Working remotely

Talk to people who have learned to manage their imposter syndrome.

Dealing with imposter syndrome

Understanding factors that lead to a motivated team - recognition, communication and more.

Keeping team members motivated

How to maintain trust, commitment, accountability deliver results while handling conflict

Avoiding common dysfunctions

Decision making as a software engineer or lead - how to become better at making the right choices

Making better tech choices

Strategies for maximizing your design internship or co-op program.

Getting the most out of my internship

Tips for transitioning into a new role or company.

Changing roles

How to successfully prepare and position yourself for a job promotion?

How to get promoted

How to ask for a promotion and negotiate for salary raise?

Negotiating a job offer

How to think about design career paths and what progression looks like for designers?

Design career path

Learn the career path and progression for product managers.

Product management career path

Get actionable feedback on your resume or portfolio.

Resume and portfolio review

Practice HR, technical and behavioural interviews with mentors.

Practice mock interviews

Talk to people who've broken into the tech industry and learn their stories.

Breaking into tech

Learn the best ways to answer technical interview questions with frameworks

Acing technical interview questions

Best practices for running productive design critiques.

Running effective design critiques

How to define and execute a successful launch and managing stakeholders expectations. (eg. MVP)

Launching new products or features

Methods of prototyping and solution validation. When to use which kind of prototype (eg. Webflow, Notion, etc)

Prototyping methods and tips

Manage team expectations and get the most out of your meetings.

Running effective meetings

Identify and define potential product problems and generating possible solutions.

Identifying problems vs solutions

Learn how to properly present your work and share ideas and opinions.

Presenting your work with impact

Tips on how to work and collaborate with designers.

Working with designers

How to work with team members with different skill sets but towards a common goal?

Working cross-functionally

Navigating the working relationship with PM's and engineers as a designer.

Working with product and engineering

How to set up product analytics and metrics to track success?

Leveraging Product Analytics

How to create personas, and leverage them in design.

Creating and leveraging user personas

Ways to provide constructive feedback to team members.

Giving effective feedback

How to define an ambitious product vision and how to best communicate it to stakeholders?

Creating a product vision

Tips on how to work and collaborate with engineers and developers.

Working with engineers

Best practices for documenting projects, epics, and stories

Writing product requirement documents

Leading the Encompass Partner Connect product. This is the API platform that enable service providers to offer their services to lenders.

Teaching courses in School of Economics and Business Administration. 
* OPS 407 Data Visualization & Storytelling:  Introductory course prepares students to create compellingnarratives to effectively communicate the results of their data analysis.  Course used Tableau but the concepts andtechniques were software neutral

New Product Development Team, CTO Office of Radiology Informatics Business Unit
1- New Product Development: Responsible for doing proof of concepts around technology and products early in development stages. Work with product teams on product runway until they are comfortable owning the product.
2- Technical Debt Reduction: Re-evaluate existing technology and design decisions that previously increased
technical debt and work with product teams to reduce the technical debt and increase quality.
3- Engineering Operations Improvement: Helping modernizing services, operations, and field engineering practices.
Used: Java Springboot, Python, Cassandra, Postgres, Redis, Jenkins, Docker, Kubernetes, JFrog Artifactory

EllieMae Lending Platform Team.
1- EllieMae Developer Connect: Led the development and the public roll-out of EllieMae's platform APIs and SDKs. Helped developers on forums and in corporate training sessions.
2- Encompass Consumer Connect: Worked on the core team for the rst B2C product that utilizes EllieMae's mortgage platform.Worked on platform capabilities that improved user experience and performance.
3- Encompass TPO Connect.: Lead one of the o-shore teams by gathering requirements, design, code-review the first bundle of APIs in EllieMae's mortgage platform. Worked closely with front-end engineers on consuming these APIs to deliver the first complete B2B product that utilizes EllieMae's mortgage platform.
4- Technology Refresh Team: Implemented modern engineering practices in the following areas: CI/CD (gated checkins, TeamCity, Jenkins). Source control: migration from TFS to GitHub. Package management (in-house shared NuGet server). Service monitoring and alerting (SignalFX & xMatters).

As a technical co-founder I worked with the founder to dene requirements, build, test, and deploy the MVP to Microsoft Azure. Administered and congured all the engineering infrastructure on the cloud. Built and led the engineering team till my exit. This was a venture beside my full-time job at Interface People.

1- Quest Designer: Worked on new features for a desktop suite of designers that enable health care professional build queries, reports, and web pages that consumes their Meditech data outside of Meditech.
2- Engineering Practices: Installed, congured and administered the internal SharePoint internet. Introduced continuous integration to engineering teams using TeamCity and Jenkins.

Consulting job on the side to help in modernizing internal applications.

1- Corporate CRM: Installed, configured, and maintained the corporate CRM using Microsoft Dynamics CRM. Worked on data cleaning and migration to the new CRM.
2- Corporate Intranet: Installed, configured, and maintained the internal SharePoint intranet and all the internal applications that interact with it.

Internal applications for various teams within the Financial Aid and Scholarships Department.

Provide post production support to software engineers in Microsoft Certified Gold Partner companies in the EMEA region.

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