ZAHI DARWAZEH

Successfully established and built software engineering and development company providing solutions to a variety of companies’ business and operational needs. Led complex software development for a broad range of functions including invoice management systems, e-commerce, and sales systems.

• Built a solid reputation for delivering high-quality, cost-efficient technological solutions and tools driving business development and the establishment of key partnerships with large organizations and Fortune 500 firms that included IBM and HP.
• Managed all aspects of business and project development from initial scoping through strategic and fiscal planning to final testing and delivery.
• Delivered outsourced service to IKEA IT maintaining support, development and life cycle management of IBM Rational tools for change and configuration and Oracle development tools, including all products/services source code and changes.
• Invited to take over software change and configuration management tools project supporting 2000 IKEA IT users, successfully learning everything from the ground up.
• Managed development for IKEA for the development tools group along with setting up the VMware ESX environment tech support Mercury Quality Center (HP ALM).
• Currently lead the management of IKEA’S CLM (IBM) suite including tools such as Rational Team Concert, Rational Requirements Composer, and Rational Quality.
• Subject Matter expert regarding source code configuration management, process engineering, change management, and parallel development for Swedish National Police using ClearCase (Base/UCM), Quality Center.
• Led DevOps awareness inside IKEA organization, established thru vendors like Microsoft, HP, IBM and CA.

Selected from 400 candidates to lead software development for a new platform for electronic invoicing management, utilizing MS Windows, C#, ASP, .NET, SQL Server 2000, UML, RUP, WSE, Webservices and XML, a new electronic invoicing system for company’s finance and accounting processes.

• Performed detailed analysis of business requirements and developed comprehensive plans defining and scoping project requirements.
• Created specific software and devised testing scenarios to ensure optimum levels of efficiency.
• Established clear timeline and monitoring systems to successfully manage project delivery within agreed-upon time frame and budget.

• Successfully led team of developers on Siebel software project for e-auctions.
• Established new office as part of company expansion, playing a key role in defining strategy and planning business processes.