Alaa Bashour
Sacramento,CA
Summary
I’m a Product Owner and software architect with focus on streamlining and improving both technical & business process. Aspirations include; teaming, collaboration and conflict resolution; turning limitations and challenges into successful goals and accomplishments.
Overview
13
13
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification
Work History
Senior Product Owner
Insulet Corporation
Sacramento, California
02.2022 - Current
- Led two global Scrum teams (25 professionals), ensuring seamless cross-border collaboration and agile execution.
- Specifies plans and details for new features, ensuring compliance with FDA regulations.
- Attend the concept paper meetings with business and systems teams to understand the requirements of the new features, and make sure that the PRS created by the system covers the whole feature.
- Create drafted SRSs according to the Parent PRSs in Jira, meet with engineering, systems, DQA, and regulatory teams to review the drafted SRSs, and approve them.
- Run Agile ceremonies such as grooming and planning sessions and participate in the DSU meetings.
- Collaborate to gain a comprehensive understanding of the impact assessment at the feature level. This includes assessing architectural impacts, security considerations, and determining the specific module under which a particular feature should fall.
Lead Digital Product Owner
Ameritas
Sacramento, CA
09.2021 - Current
- Collaborated with business stakeholders to define product vision and roadmaps for insurance products.
- Managed integration projects with third-party tools (Okla, Appian) to enhance customer experience and operational efficiency.
- Oversaw agile processes and led a team of business analysts to deliver high-quality user stories and acceptance criteria.
Senior Product Manager, InRhythm (MasterCard)
InRhythm Working for MasterCard Account
New York, NY
09.2018 - 03.2020
- Developed and managed the product roadmap for MasterCard API integration projects, including bundling initiatives for multiple products (Offer, Airport, WiFi), ensuring market readiness, and competitive differentiation.
- Collaborated with engineering, design, and business teams to define product requirements, set priorities, and align development efforts with strategic goals.
- Conducted market research and user testing to validate UX assumptions, refine product features, and drive continuous improvement based on customer feedback.
- Established KPIs and success metrics, working closely with analytics teams to monitor product performance and inform data-driven decisions.
- Oversaw release planning sessions, coordinating development cycles with market launch requirements to ensure smooth and timely product rollouts.
Ecommerce Product Owner
eXtra-United Electronics Company
Dammam, Saudi Arabia
06.2016 - 08.2017
- Developed, implemented, and documented software development plans and SQA processes.
- Developed the product backlog using Jira, prioritized the iteration, and drove acceptance testing and delivery of the iteration.
- Defining the road map and prioritizing the backlog of work to meet the vision in a timely manner to meet market and customer demands.
- Work in conjunction with end users, stakeholders, and the technical delivery team.
- Participated in sprint planning, daily scrums, testing, retrospectives, and sprint reviews.
- I was responsible for the final presentation to the client and discussed all hindrances to the business so that a proper solution could be given.
AWS Product Owner
NTG Clarity
Muscat, Oman
04.2015 - 05.2016
- Experience in architecting and developing the AWS cloud solution using different services like VPC, EC2, S3, RedShift, EBS, DynamoDB, RDS, ElasticCache etc.
- Experience in building the highly available and fault tolerant applications on premise and on cloud infrastructure.
- Defined the in-flight instances migration best practices and design using DMS (Data Migration Service) ,DataSync, etc..
- Work in conjunction with end users /stakeholders and technical delivery team
- Participated in sprint planning, daily scrums, testing, retrospectives and sprint reviews.
IT Project Manager & Business Process Analyst
Mobily
Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
02.2014 - 04.2015
- Served as a business service manager & project manager, responsibilities included:
• Maintaining Mobily systems and business solutions by updating and managing their configurations.
Improving the efficiency of business processes through decision automation.
• Deploying and managing business rules by implementing business rules management systems - BRMSs.
• Fulfilling customers' changing requirements and ensuring full satisfaction.
• Increasing mobily market share by running various marketing campaigns & strategies.
Python Developer
Mobily
Riyadh , Saudi Arabia
02.2012 - 02.2014
- Introduced cloud-based technologies into Python development to expand on-premise deployment options.
- Experience in working with several python libraries including Beautiful soup, NumPy, matplotlib, SciPy, PyQt and Scapy.
- Experience in developing web applications using Python and Django frameworks.
- Experience with source code testing frameworks like JUnit, PyUnit.
Education
Bachelor Degree of Computer Science - Computer Engineering
Aleppo University
Syria, Aleppo01.2011
Skills
- AWS Architecture
- Jira
- Product Management
- Business Analysis
- Rally/ALM
- Python
- C#
- Communication
- Decision Making
- Communication
- High attention to detail
- Understanding of Multi-Process Architecture
- Good grasp of web frameworks
- AWS Data storage fundamentals
- Security foundations
- AWS service selection
- Proficiency in developing, deploying, and debugging cloud-based applications using AWS
- SQL server and MySQL
- Linux
Certification
- AWS Certified Solution Architect Associate (Feb 2021-Feb 2024)
- Complete Python Bootcamp from Zero to Hero (Feb 2021)
- PMP (Project Management Professional) .
- CCNA Routing & Switching
- CCNB Routing and Switching.
- Certified Scrum Product Owner® (CSPO)
Accomplishments
- Market Impact: Spearheaded the G7 sensor integration into the US market, exceeding sales goals by 35% in 2023.
- Product Innovation: Developed cloud-based features (ELV log uploads, custom food entry for diabetes management, data consent) that enhanced product usability and reduced costs.
- Cloud Migration: Led migration projects (Apache Hadoop to AWS EMR, healthcare services to AWS) that improved system scalability, elasticity, and disaster recovery while reducing operational costs.
Timeline
Senior Product Owner
Insulet Corporation
02.2022 - Current
Lead Digital Product Owner
Ameritas
09.2021 - Current
Senior Product Manager, InRhythm (MasterCard)
InRhythm Working for MasterCard Account
09.2018 - 03.2020
Ecommerce Product Owner
eXtra-United Electronics Company
06.2016 - 08.2017
AWS Product Owner
NTG Clarity
04.2015 - 05.2016
IT Project Manager & Business Process Analyst
Mobily
02.2014 - 04.2015
Python Developer
Mobily
02.2012 - 02.2014
Bachelor Degree of Computer Science - Computer Engineering
Aleppo University
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