Chris Manuel Thomas
Abu Dhabi
Summary
To be part of an organization that emphasizes an ambience of teamwork, learning and dedication, use my expertise and experience to further its Purpose, Values and Vision, and there by enrich my personal and professional competence.
Overview
15
15
years of professional experience
Work History
Unit Project Sr. Manager
Future Pipe Industries
05.2022 - Current
- Managing strategic projects of the company and leading the unit project team.
- Meeting the requirements of functional project management and geo market team in parallel.
- Able to effectively direct, plan, implement and evaluate projects in a multi-cultural organizational environment.
- Conflicts and claims management.
- Strong leadership and interpersonal skills with the ability to work with people and provide direction
- Ability to communicate effectively with team members with diverse cultural and functional backgrounds
- Ability to work collaboratively with colleagues and contribute to a diverse workplace through ideas and experience
- Excellent time management skills and ability to prioritize work
- Ability to be flexible and adapt as needed between in-person work environments
- Understand the selection criteria for each critical project and oversees the selection process for the Project leaders
- Monitors the quality of project management by collecting, analyzing, and responding to data to ensure expectations of the projects are being met
- Collaborates and maintain effective and consistent communication with various stakeholders to ensure all requirements are integrated in the learning to provide meaningful experiences
- Provides input and support to division leadership regarding prioritization of professional development needs, evaluation of professional development for all levels of leaders
- Provides ongoing guidance, coaching, and support to project leaders throughout the project’s duration
- Supports in the development and implementation of creative and innovative development strategies and techniques
- Establishes metrics to measure the effectiveness of the projects and work closely with the operations team to gather feedback from production managers and assess the impact of leadership development initiatives on organizational performance
- Facilitates program sessions, workshops, and activities to ensure a seamless and impactful learning experience.
Project Manager
Future Pipe Industries
01.2016 - 04.2022
- To plan and coordinate all phases of work ensuring that the project will be executed in accordance with the Contract and Client requirements and will be completed within the planned profit margins and schedule
- To manage project scope and claim additional compensation for scope changes and contract variations
- To handle and resolve complaints, claims and disputes
- To develop customer relationship and improve the company’s representation, responsiveness, and communication
- To identify project issues and risks and facilitate their resolution and mitigation
- To provide effective assistance for the accomplishment of the Projects Department Objectives
- To address the development needs and raise the competence and skill set of the Project Management Team
- To implement effective policies, procedures, systems and tools for the project management and customer service functions
- To roll out and implement the developed policies, procedures and utilize systems and tools provided
- To build, update and share the acquired knowledge lessons learned and project case studies an maintain a centralized project library
- To gather and analyze clients/ customer feedback and recommend actions for the business to adopt
- Proper interaction with business partner and the central project team for control of individual project as per Codes & Standards to meet Client Satisfaction & to maximize project profitability
- Maintain good relationship with customer and to protect FPI interest
- Minimize risks of penalties and direct project team to the proper ways to achieve seamless project process
- Responsible to review & direct Project team for the implementation of the project as per the customer needs and the contractual obligations for effective execution
- Highlight any critical issues and project related matters
- Ensure regular posting of project critiques and case study reports to develop a company’s wide projects data base which can be used as a future platform for product and engineering development within the group
- Organize and attend meeting with clients and resolve projects issues on planning schedules production delays, testing requirements, QC, site services, payments to ensure smooth running of the projects with minimum risks and avoiding penalties
- Present FPI for Kick off meetings, pre-inspection meeting, and related meetings wherever and whenever needed
- Supervise finance and projects interface to have effective transfer of information related to invoice submissions
- Monitor Site Service contractual obligations
- Resolve all client’s complaints and record them for future referrals
- Boost relationships with key customers and clients through attendance meetings as required and ensure that that clients’ request / feedback / suggestions are being reliably attended and properly communicated
- Ensure that each Project is financially monitored and controlled and act upon deviations to realize or exceed planned project profitability
- Negotiate and convince clients on behalf of FPI and central projects recommendations to approve variations claims, delays or other projects issues.
Project Leader
Future Pipe Industries
07.2011 - 12.2015
- Interface between the client and internal departments and achieve successful completion of various oil field Projects
- Supervising and coordinating various projects with respect to cost, time over-runs and quality compliance
- Evaluating project progress and taking adequate corrective actions
- Makes detailed contract review by highlighting critical areas to safeguard company interest and understand client requirements
- Monitors project deliverables, drawings, stress reports, invoice submissions and ensure corrective actions are taken to meet the contractual requirements
- Attend project meetings and ensure proper communication with client, suppliers, shipping agents and contractors
- Maintain project log and records, compilation of final submission reports, draft project progress reports and prepare adequate documents to support variations and claims.
Project Engineer
Global Engineering Systems
10.2008 - 06.2011
- Ensure efficient cost-effective planning and execution of variety of projects for chemical/manufacturing/process industries
- Plan, manage, monitor, coordinate, control & execute overall functions of the project to accomplish company revenue target complying with project requirements
- Develop master construction schedule of each project, fully quantified and resource loaded using MS project and Primavera P6
- Develop project wise micro level programme for Technical, Procurement, Production, Installation and ensure that the programme is in line with the project master schedule
- Manage & finalize master schedule for design department after considering all the ongoing & future projects and issue resource allocation chart showing the status of future resource requirement against current available
- Develop master schedule for production line as per the project installation requirement and finalize the production plan by considering the optimum production capacity
- Prepare detailed item wise manpower deployment schedule for the project installation
- Overall Site management.
Education
Bachelor of Technology in Mechanical Production Engineering -
TKM College of Engineering
01.2008
Skills
- Project Management
- Planning software - PRIMAVERA 60, MS Project
- Office Tools - Microsoft Office
- Programming Languages - C
career overview
Senior Project Manager with 15 years’ experience in UAE
personality traits
- Team player
- Flexible and Service minded
- Creative
- Positive attitude
- Organized
- Accurate
- Solution and Customer Oriented
position held
- Unit Project Sr. Manager, Future Pipe Industries, 05/01/22, Present
- Project Manager, Future Pipe Industries, 01/01/16, 04/01/22
- Project Leader, Future Pipe Industries, 07/01/11, 12/01/15
- Project Engineer, Global Engineering Systems, 10/01/08, 06/01/11
personal information
- Age: 37
- Passport Number: M0015522
- Passport Place Of Issue: Cochin
- Citizenship: Indian
- Date of Birth: 05/22/86
language capabilities
- English, True, True
- Hindi, True, True
- Malayalam, True, True, True
training
- 07/01/07, In Plant training in SHIP BUILDING division of COCHIN SHIPYARD LTD, Kerala
- 10/01/11, Project Management Course at UAE
- 08/01/14, First Aid and Firefighting course by Zones Corp.
- 03/01/16, Project Management Professional (PMP) at Cambridge Education
- 06/01/18, Time Management
- 08/01/20, Stress Management
Timeline
Unit Project Sr. Manager
Future Pipe Industries
05.2022 - Current
Project Manager
Future Pipe Industries
01.2016 - 04.2022
Project Leader
Future Pipe Industries
07.2011 - 12.2015
Project Engineer
Global Engineering Systems
10.2008 - 06.2011
Bachelor of Technology in Mechanical Production Engineering -
TKM College of Engineering
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