I sit at the intersection of technology, sales, and UX design, leading a range of projects
Professional Summary
Nebula Ltd.
Chief Product Officer (CPO), (current)
Nebula (www.nebu.la) is a revolutionary music royalty marketplace and (DeFi) fractional investment platform aimed at empowering artists and fans.
As Chief Product Officer, I am passionately leading the product development process (iOS, Android, Web) and implementing initial roadmap and design, development, launch, growth, and maintenance. We are a full-stack team, from design, backend, frontend, to QA, and work with an agile methodology, with sprints and daily standups. Some of my accomplishments include:
Led end-to-end development and launch of a unique music royalty marketplace
Defined multi-year roadmap, enhancing market reach by 300%
Implemented agile workflows, increasing team productivity 5x.
Built a digital wallet. Introduced predictive AI coding tools, agents, gen AI, marketing automation, improving engagement metrics by 40% monthly.
Set up crowd testing, analytics suites, marketing automation tools, and AI-powered task automations.
Oversaw a team of 14+across design, engineering, and data science.
FOOZ
Product Manager
As lead product manager, I led the entire product team and management to design, develop, rebuild, and maintain products, including a React website, React Native app, and Native iOS and Android apps.
Defined product roadmaps, Agile sprint schedules, kanban boards, system architecture, and overall UX/UI. Defined UX and product features, directly engaged with the design team and manually contributed to much of the UI.
Conducted daily standups with the dev team, fostering effective communication. Managed QA, support, & marketing teams, assess user feedback ensuring continuous product enhancement.
Personally maintained diverse tech stacks, including AWS, Gitlab, Jenkins, Splunk, Metabase, Google Analytics (GA4), Firebase, SendGrid, OneSignal, Google Workspace, App Store, Google Play, Huawei AppGallery, CleverTap for marketing automation, Tealium, Salesforce, and more.
NASA Jet Propulsion Lab
Robotics Engineering Lab, Pasadena, California, worked on the Mars 2024 sample-return mission prototype rover "Axel” - designed to work in tandem with “Curiosity.” Designed and developed the MAV deployment system, incorporating a tooth-hook gearing system conceptualized, 3D-printed, and built from start to finish. Programmed the robot using Python and a joystick for simulations and tests, employing CAD design (SolidWorks, SketchUp/SketchyPhysics), mechanical design, 3D printing, shell computing, and Python programming. Conducted failure-based and safety-based root cause analysis.
Easypay App
Easypay is a peer-to-peer social payment app designed for cash-dominant markets in less developed regions. The app was built in English, Spanish, and Arabic. As Senior Product Manager, and sole founder, I led a full stack team, designed the UX, wireframes, SQL Database, and UI designs myself + another designer. Developed a top-tier payment platform, native iOS and Android apps, a React Native website, admin + merchant portals, + various plugins/SDKs. Agile workflow, daily standups, defined a great work culture.
Inbenta
AI Solutions Engineer
AI-powered search and support chatbot solutions for businesses, B2B SaaS product, including semantic search, chatbots, knowledge-base scraping, automated ticket routing, all based on NLU/NLP engine and LLM built by computational linguists.
I managed the solution architecture and technical implementation and maintenance of multiple projects for large companies, including Salesforce, Groupon, Allegion, Docusign, MindBody, Xero, and more.
Monica - AI Assistant (2010)
Product Manager & Software Engineer
Monica is an AI-based voice chat executive assistant, syncing with phone, email, text, news, and web crawl including “Ask a Question” feature.
While still in school, I worked with a team to build an award-winning AI-powered executive voice assistant application for iOS/Android, competing with Siri (before Apple acquired Siri).
Featured and awarded “App of the Year” in Entrepreneur Magazine.
ClipKick
Designed the brand, UX and UI of ClipKick.com, a unique social video app that gives creators the ability to empower their media.
Consulting & Personal Projects
Zentrik.ai - Consultant for Zentrik.ai an AI-powered product management tool
HekSar, a Reddit-like user-generated content website for Arabic-speaking world.
Hieroglyphic Design Agency (https://hieroglyphic.co), UI/UX/Brand design + development, View some of our projects: https://hieroglyphic.co/portfolio
Fashion House, A boutique fashion and home accessory brand (https://fashionhouse.design/) - Founder & Creator (2022)
Abstract Avenue, AI-based (fully automated) online e-commerce shop: https://abstractave.com - Founder & Creator (2023)
Notable University Projects
EV, Electric Vehicle + App (2014-2015) - Project Manager
I led a team as “Project Manager” to build EV - a single-person fully electric vehicle.
Android app development: My focus was to build an Android app tablet interface attached to the steering wheel that gave realtime output of speed, torque, current, and more, with microcontroller data captured from motors via bluetooth modules on embedded circuits. Photos, code, and documentation available upon curious request.
Smart Notes, Augmented-Reality Learning
This was my senior-year project, and was the equivalent of my thesis for my bachelor’s degree.
Smart Notes aimed to make learning more interactive by allowing students to scan their textbook content or a QR code to run live quizzes about the chapter, show videos, and show relevant (pre-defined) AR graphics over the educational content.
Quadruped “Spider” Robot
Details and photos available upon curious request
UAV Society, building flying machines
Founding member of the UAV society at the University of Manchester, where students met in labs to build quadrotor and fixed-wing drones. This included students from aerospace, electrical, mechanical, and other schools of engineering, and the society still exists until today. More info available upon curious request.
Robot Buggy
Details and photos available upon curious request
