Jawad AshrafChief Technical Officer, Co-Founder at Terra Virtua.
Description
Jawad Ashraf is Co-founder and CTO at Terra Virtua. The first in line to download his brain to an artificial intelligence bot, Jawad is the Yoda of all things technical.
Top performing technical specialist and entrepreneur with 30+ years experience. Strategic Planning / Process Engineering / Project Leadership / PMO / Business Development / Relationship Management / Team Leadership/ Negotiation/ Team and Infrastructure build / Budgets / International / Offshore
• An energetic, effective leader with hands on development experience. Managed teams based in multiple locations across the globe, maintaining the planning, resourcing, IT, budgeting, cost control and client management elements of his projects.
•Practises Agile and innovation through new technologies.
. Mobile, AR, VR and Blockchain focus.
•Lead programs and projects to successful conclusion by enabling teams to deliver consistently against contracted deliverables.
•Cultivating relationships with users, stakeholders, team members and partners to get the best results for a project delivery.
•Sectors: Insurance/Reinsurance 6 years, Energy Trading and Risk Management 3 years, SAAS cloud based systems (CRM/ Project Management / T&A / Helpdesk / Survey) and mobile applications (Apple, Android, Blackberry, Windows Mobile) 6 Years.
•Managed projects in the UAE, USA, Turkey, Australia, Norway and the UK – with teams consisting of onshore/offshore developers, business analysts, quality assurance engineers, third party suppliers and partners.
Development