Nick Maou

About Nick Maou

President/CEO of SharpHat, Inc. since 2001 - involved in all aspects of running the company. Hands-on leader with over 33 years of experience, including over 28 years as a technical project manager. Highly advanced expertise in UI/UX design for native, mobile and Internet applications. Developed a proven design methodology that significantly increases productivity from development team. Have been involved in many enterprise-wide applications for the entire project life cycle, and have had a 100% success rate. PM skills include strategy, requirements gathering, project planning & estimating, documentation writing, client & team management throughout the entire software development life cycle, and budget tracking. Excellent oral and written communication skills. Excellent presentation skills.Specialties: Project Management, UI/UX Design, Application Design, Database Design, Creating technical specification documents.

Experience

1. President CEO

   SharpHat, Inc.

   Oct 2001 — Present · US

   SharpHat, Inc. is a Microsoft based software development firm that specializes in building custom applications. We meet with our clients to analyze their specific business and technology needs, then work on the entire software development life cycle, from requirements to implementation and support.The SharpHat team consists of highly skilled professional consultants such as Project Managers, Architects, Lead Developers, Designers, Programmers and QA Specialists. My responsibilities:• Co-founder of the company and responsible for all aspects of running the business.Responsibilities as Senior Technical PM:• Hands-on senior technical project manager for projects across various vertical markets.• Create proposals, statements of work and project estimates and timelines.• Conduct client meetings to define business processes and gather requirements.• Expert in User Experience (UX) & User Interface design• Create functional specification documents, use cases and application flow diagrams.• Expert in database design practicing normalization techniques.• Manage the development process and change requests as required.• Manage system testing phase and provide expert level QA.• Provide acceptance test, implementation and production support to clients and end users.• Proficient in PM tools including Jira, Balsamiq, MS Project

Education

• St. John's University

  BS, Computer Science

  1987 — 1992

Skills

• Databases
• Full Sdlc
• Ms Project
• Visio
• Asp.net
• User Interface Design
• Software Documentation
• Business Process
• Vb.net
• Requirements Gathering
• Database Development
• Technical Documentation
• Enterprise Software
• Oracle
• Requirements Analysis
• Project Planning
• Project Management
• Web Services
• Software Design
• Xml
• Database Design
• Microsoft Sql Server
• User Experience
• .net Framework
• C#
• .net
• Access