Articulate and possessing excellent communication and project management capabilities, passionately committed to the delivery of service excellence whilst remaining focused on achieving and exceeding targets and objectives.
Overview
21
21
years of professional experience
4
4
years of post-secondary education
Work History
Deputy Project Director
Acwa Power
Riaydh
09.2023 - Current
Increasing communication and strengthening stakeholder relationships.
Conducting technical and review meetings and producing progress reports for management and stakeholders.
Providing counsel and representation at key planning meetings and appeal hearings.
Supporting consultants and engineering team a to achieve overall design project objectives.
Engaging and coordinating assigned resources, engineers, consultants, and solar installers in preparation and execution of project plans
Collaborate with stakeholders on the creation of project plans, and oversees changes in project scope, issues and risks that affect the project.
Monitoring project progress by continuously evaluating performance and deliverables completion in accordance to plan and schedule.
Leads multiple teams through the project life cycle by participating in planning, scheduling and tracking project plan.
Building and maintaining relationships with consultants, EPC contractors, technology providers, OEMs, lenders
Project Manager
Hitachi Energy (Previously ABB)
Riyadh
01.2017 - 09.2023
Managing multiple high value projects simultaneously and ensure meeting customer expectations and satisfactions in all dimensions.
Supporting sales team in defining scope by sharing lessons learned from previous projects.
Developing projects schedule and execution plans to assure achieving millstones in timely fashion.
Conducting risk assessment by evaluating and mitigating potential risks of the projects.
Assure allocating required resources to execute projects in safely manner.
Monitoring ongoing projects effectively and ensure improvements in all different phases.
Managing Cash Flow and flagging any deviation or alerting risks.
Leading project review meetings to address and tackle all challenges during execution.
Proudly was the assigned project manager of biggest service order that was awarded in 2014, for upgrading of 59 Bays (132 KV) GIS; which’s been selected to be published as success story in the organization newsletter and journals.
Successfully executed and delivered the 1st 132kV GIS Mobile GIS Units in Saudi Arabia · Increased local content for execution by developing local resources and minimizing services manhours during pandemic and travel restrictions · Optimizing execution performance of different critical projects with limited outage duration
Senior Project Engineer
Hitachi Energy (Previously ABB)
Riaydh
06.2016 - 12.2016
Conducting collection/revenue meetings to assure achieving financial targets.
Follow up with all different stakeholders to meet desired results by utilizing most effective communication practice.
Evaluating technical and commercial proposals of sub-contractors in accordance with organization guidelines and methodology.
Establishing the appropriate strategies to improve saving and cutting cost targets.
Optimizing project duration for one of the most critical / complex projects in service, by improving site activity schedule within a very limited outage period given by customer.
Implementing the newest solution for remote monitoring system, that’s been installed 1st time in Saudi Arabia, and successfully overcome all difficult challenges during execution.
Project Engineer
Hitachi Energy (Previously ABB)
Riaydh
12.2013 - 05.2016
Preparing forecasts for all required resources such manpower and tools.
Helping other teams to capture gaps and opportunities for continues improvements.
Resolving customer issues by ownership approach and root cause analysis.
Utilizing organization tools to go beyond customer satisfaction and strengthen customer relation.
Submitting drawings and project documents to obtain customer required approvals.
Honored by receiving high management recognition for being excellent example and attending one the most urgent case for customer, and successfully turned it around into a success story.
Established and maintained a great relationship with customer by ensuring full support and quick response to critical case in a satisfactory manner.
Data Center Operator
Saudi Basic Industrial Company
Jubail
12.2002 - 02.2006
Ensured system back-ups.
Monitored the system and anticipated problems.
Coordinated regular/irregular system maintenance with system providers.
Prepared daily System and Network checklist and wrote monthly reports.
Witnessed the installation and troubleshooting of new network equipment.
Improved my capability in planning my work and managing my time.
Education
Master of Science - System Engineering
Southern Methodist University
Dalla / Taxes, USA
08.2011 - 05.2013
Bachelor of Science - Electrical Engineering Technology
The University of Toledo
Toledo / Ohio, USA
08.2008 - 05.2011
Skills
ABB Certified Project Manager
Risk analysis and mitigation
Excellent technical competence
Project management skills
Schedule optimization
Contract negotiation
Excellent performance under challenging situations
Servant Leader and outstanding teamwork
Languages
English
Fluent
Trainings
Risk Management.
Project leadership, management and communications.
Rapid assessment and recovery of troubled projects.
Timeline
Deputy Project Director
Acwa Power
09.2023 - Current
Project Manager
Hitachi Energy (Previously ABB)
01.2017 - 09.2023
Senior Project Engineer
Hitachi Energy (Previously ABB)
06.2016 - 12.2016
Project Engineer
Hitachi Energy (Previously ABB)
12.2013 - 05.2016
Master of Science - System Engineering
Southern Methodist University
08.2011 - 05.2013
Bachelor of Science - Electrical Engineering Technology
The University of Toledo
08.2008 - 05.2011
Data Center Operator
Saudi Basic Industrial Company
12.2002 - 02.2006
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