Software Manager / Architect / Engineer

Senior Manager - ADAS - Harman - February 2020 till now - Product Owner of Harman’s Surround View and Park Assist product line. - Responsible of the technology road map, responsible of features planning and investment plan. - Managing the product development team including team growth and distribution, features development plan. - Head of the product technical decision. - Managing suppliers and interface with the customers.
Product Manager / Product Owner - Harman - April 2018 till February 2020 - Product manager of Harman’s Surround View product. - Responsible of the development the product road map, responsible of features planning and investment plan. - Managing the product development process. - Managing the product development team including team growth and distribution, features development plan, project management, sprint planning and task assignment. - Head of the product technical decision. - Managing suppliers and interface with the customers.
Software Architect - Harman - November 2016 till April 2018 - Software system architect for multi-camera 3D Surround view systems (the system combines 3D rendering with image processing features). - Design system level software and software components for camera systems on multiple hardware platform based on SoCs from various manufacturers with different setups based on Embedded Linux and RTOS. - Leading technically the software development team of the surround view system.
Software Engineer - Autoliv - July 2016 till October 2016 Software Engineer in passive safety department, design and develop software for Autoliv airbags safety systems.
Working as freelancer/consultant - Germany - January 2015 till June 2016 Working as a freelancer and consultant in different projects mainly focused on camera, IOT, mobile development for clients in Germany and USA.
Technical Manager - Devfactory - Since May 2013 till November 2014 - Managing and technically supporting test automation team responsible for the development and maintenance of automatic test cases for several enterprise solution for big clients as Deutsche Bank, Toyota and Fannie Mae. - Team management including team members training and ramp up, resource allocation, project/task planning, estimation and assignment, process improvement, and technical support.
DSP Framework Team Leader – VALEO - Since September 2006 till April 2013 - From April 2012 till April 2013 - Team Leader of Valeo DSP framework Team for Camera Systems. - Set goals and putting skills development plan for DSP framework team members. - Evaluate DSP framework team members performance across the year. - Software Architect of DSP framework for some Valeo vision (Camera) systems using Ti’s DaVinci Digital Media Processors. - Acting project leader for Valeo vision systems projects. - From June 2011 till April 2012 - Design of DSP framework software components for Valeo vision (Camera) systems based on Ti’s DaVinci Digital Media Processors. - Development, integration and testing of Valeo Vision (Camera) Systems framework on Ti’s DaVinci Digital Media Processor TMS320DM814x (Vision Mid). - Development of TMS320DM814x Drivers. - Algorithm integration on Vision Systems framework. - From December 2010 till June 2011 - Development, integration and testing of automotive software related to drive assistance features on 16 bit micro-controllers and Power PC platforms. - Development of system drivers for 32bit embedded Power PC platforms. - Development of software used in hardware testing. - From September 2006 till December 2010 - Design and development of software tools, used in the development and validation of the embedded software for the Electronic Control Unit (ECU) used for cars’ engine management. Development done using WIN32 APIs, C++, C#, SQL, VBA, and PERL. - Validation of the software tools on the actual hardware and ECUs, using communication protocols such as CAN and KLINE to transfer the data between the tool and the hardware. - Responsible for upgrading and maintenance of large scale projects of 10+ years old that is vital in the embedded software development cycle for VALEO ECUs. - Investigation and analysis of new tools needed by the embedded software engineers to facilitate their work. - Impact analysis on the tools chain from modifications requested on one tool. - Schedule and effort estimation for projects and tasks assigned. - Development of recruitment exam tools. - Technical Support of different tools (developed from scratch or inherited and updated) for software engineers in VALEO Egypt and VALEO France. - Development of language translator (translates word documents to/from English, German and French). - Conduct trainings and produce user guides for the software tools. - Knowledge transfer and sessions preparation given to other team members. - Consultancy and training to other teams in tools development field - Development under quality processes following standard software development cycle: o Requirements analysis. o Specification writing. o Software Design o Development and coding. o Core logic development. o Friendly GUI development. o Application testing. o Validation planning and execution. o Quality reviews.