Mohamed Elattar

Company Profile

• Dubai Holding Real Estate is one of the largest real estate development businesses in the Emirate, offering a diverse range of residential communities and homes as well as a robust land sales portfolio across unique and highly sought-after locations.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead PMO Planning and Cost Control team in managing multi-billion Dirham projects serving different sectors in real estate, hospitality, commercial, F&B and Leisure.
• Standardize Corporate Project Control & Reporting System and setting-up digital reporting system.
• Lead the implementation of BIM and Virtual Design & Construction Imitative.
• Develop and Maintain Projects Risk Management System.
• Prepare and maintain Development Programs for all the ongoing and roll-out projects.
• Review and determine recommendations for Extension of Time Claims.
• Produced Key Project Indicator (KPIs) to successfully measure performance.
• Coached project teams in required methods and tools for project success.
• Elaborated action plans with project teams to drive performance improvements.
• Provided financial support, analysis and reporting to stakeholders.
• Defined project scope, milestones and task allocation to establish and maintain clear progress plans.

Significant Achievements

• Establish reporting portal for DHRE to capture real-time updates for all ongoing projects.
• Develop Operational Risk Management Policy for DHRE.
• Develop 5 Years Project Roll-out Plan with revenue recognition values.

Company profile

Part of the Public investment Fund (PIF) portfolio which is established to achieve the kingdom 2030 vision towards making the kingdom a recognized tourism destination.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead the programming of The Development Phase 1 Islands (10Bn SAR) with 12 Hotels, Golf course, Entertainment, multipurpose buildings & retail in addition to the development of the Phase-wide procurement strategy integrated with design, hospitality and operators
• Lead the planning team towards developing and managing the project Master Schedule with its phasing and detailed assets schedule in coordination with the hospitality & master planning teams
• Developing & Maintaining Standard EPS & WBS Structure & coding system of the projects to support the financial and time planning.
• Establish reporting system and produce periodical reports for time, risk and percent complete

Significant Achievements

• Establishing and maintain Development Master Schedule
• Develop procurement strategy for design and hotels construction management plan
• Develop detailed phasing plan and hotels sequence plans
• Develop detailed schedule to support construction management methodology
• Establish schedule risk assessment methodology to evaluate master schedules
• Develop & maintain packages interface matrix for construction management
• Develop & maintain forecast manpower & material to coordinate marine requirements
• Run various what-if scenarios to support senior management decisions
• Establish early warning system to analyze contractors' performance and recommend actions for construction team
• Run schedule quality assessment to evaluate the Master Schedule revisions

Company profile

• Established in 2002 as a strategic initiative of the Government of Dubai and today recognized as the largest Free Zone in the UAE with over 12,000 registered companies under license. In addition to the Free Zone, DMCC has expanded into other Commodities like tea, gold and Diamond.

Key Responsibilities

• Efficiently managing within Property PMO, the delivery of 107,000 square meter mixed-use business district and portfolio of 85+ projects for DMCC, the master developer of Jumeirah Lakes Towers in Dubai, UAE
• Leading the project management team within PMO& for Property Department and developing the project management plan for property department
• Leading the proposal, planning, implementation and management of large-scale projects including facilitating the definition of project scope, goals and deliverables
• Assuming overall responsibility for all matters pertaining to project planning and control, required to ensure the successful execution and completion of the project
• Leading the planning and scheduling team to manage the schedules for the entire property and organizing key projects
• Establishing Enterprise Risk Management System and Carrying out schedule risk analysis as and when required and advising action plan to mitigate the delays, if any
• Preparing with the assistance of the planning engineers and under full cooperation with the project manager, the detailed master construction schedule of mega development project
• Developing & Maintaining Standard EPS & WBS Structure & coding system of the projects
• Managing the 3rd party developers' development progress, claims and developing progress reports
• Assessing claims submitted by contractors and consultants scrutinizing the claims and providing recommendations
• Standardizing the process flow for Property activities
• Organizing / attending project progress and other interface meetings as required with the client, consultant and sub-contractors and preparing and distributing weekly and monthly progress and variance analysis reports
• Monitoring procurement schedules and trackers and proposing construction procurement strategies
• Carry out project trend analysis, identify and notify the areas of concern to the Project Directors and Project Managers
• Carrying out diagnostic studies of ongoing project to measure what is achieved vis-à-vis the plan, based on progress reports and feedback to ensure timely completion and formulating action plan for schedule adherence

Significant Achievements

• Played a key role for the establishment of PMO exclusively for the properties of the company and development of property department policies and procedures
• Developed property department time management plan and ensured strict adherence
• Established the first DMCC Projects Portfolio to monitor and control the enterprise key 100 projects
• Developed DMCC Project Portfolio management plan with project periodization and scoring criteria
• Established and maintained master-schedules for the key DMCC programs
• Developed standard process and workflows for Property Department
• Established Property Risk Management plan and managed integration of corporate enterprise risk management plan.

Key Responsibilities

• Provided a complete Project Control Service to the project, covering cost, planning and document control for the engineering services, materials management, subcontracting and construction services in accordance with contract execution procedures and / or department procedures and work practices
• Identified and tracked all changes or potential changes to the project scope, ensured estimates of cost changes and schedule impact are given visibility with project management team
• Developed in conjunction with the Project Manager a suitable work breakdown structure for the project
• Ensured that cost and schedule baselines are put in place at an early stage of the project and communicated to the team
• Ensured that all control mechanisms are established to monitor performance and analyses trends and prepared forecasts for review with Project Management
• Held progress and co-ordination meetings with project control staff and informed them of the overall project objectives
• Reviewed project status with the Cost and Planning Engineers, Project Management and recommended corrective action., PPM Conrad
• Key, Led the project team, which includes the JV team and subcontractors, towards achieving the project objectives and milestones
• Conducted coordination meetings between the projects main subcontractors to maintain proper coordination and ensured the project's compliance with main schedule
• Administered project's contractual correspondences throughout the project to ensure adherence to contractual requirements
• Assumed overall responsibility for project performance, in accordance with operating budget, developed, justified and defended budget submissions
• Led the planning and project control team to ensure the projects milestones and objectives are achieved
• Established a monitoring system to meet the client's and consultant's requirements and the company's monitoring system
• Prepared the project's detailed schedule identifying the project key milestones, requirements and cost
• Monitored the projects scope to prepare adequate claims against the any change in the project's scope
• Monitored the execution phase to ensure that all the projects are performing as planned and initiated proper corrective action in case of any deviation from the plan
• Developed the required projects claims and analyzed/assessed the subcontractors claims

Significant Achievements

• Successfully completed and Handed Over the Conrad Hotel First Phase well within schedule
• Made significant efforts for the Extension of time award for the 660 days claim which is worth 120m AED for PPM Conrad hotel
• Played a major role for Extension of time award for the 175 days claim for MARASSI project
• Analyzed and built well-supported claims for extension of time for subcontractors EOT claims for Egypt and Dubai projects.

Company Profile

• One of the biggest construction companies in the Middle East, having over 50,000 employees and handling a lot of landmark projects like Burj Dubai.

Key Responsibilities

• Led the project planning team from Client and project management side
• Developed the overall master schedule which reflects the development objectives, phasing plans, budget and key milestones
• Developed the Project Management Plan for each project and Cost Management Reports
• Established a monitoring system to ensure the delivery of the project deliverables and stakeholder's requirements
• Validated the consultants' and contractors' programs verses the overall Master Schedule
• Monitored the execution process and advised for the corrective actions as and when required
• Reviewed, analyzed and determined the project claims
• Reviewed the contractors' reports and the project managers' recommendations to develop the project's internal progress summary and areas of concerns

Significant Achievements

• Instrumental in developing the project Master Schedule and reaching to an agreement with the key stakeholders regarding the Master Schedule
• Developed the Project Management Plan in coordination with the project team
• Acknowledged for the successful completion of the first phase of the Golf Course project in Akoya, achieving a challenging deadline, which required continuous coordination with all project related p