Ahmed Qasem, Assistant Commercial Manager

Ahmed Qasem

Assistant Commercial Manager

Infraroad Trading and Contracting (UCC Affiliated Company)

Location
Qatar
Education
Master's degree, Engineering Business Management
Experience
12 years, 7 Months

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Work Experience

Total years of experience :12 years, 7 Months

Assistant Commercial Manager at Infraroad Trading and Contracting (UCC Affiliated Company)
  • Qatar - Doha
  • My current job since March 2016

Reporting to the Contracts and Commercial Director, I am closely monitoring and guiding a team of quantity surveyors and cost controllers to perform their daily activities and solve any rising issues.

Main Activities and Duties:
• Responsible for the final review of the contract documents prior to contract signature.
• Analyzing and evaluating the proposed contract terms and conditions.
• Established and monitored a monthly internal higher management report that includes the projects’ details and their performance to date. And standardized this report across the company.
Created a cost control procedures and cost code structure to become a standard practice and applied on all the company’s projects.

Controls Engineer at Ayla Consultancy & Projects Management Co.
  • Jordan - Amman
  • April 2013 to February 2016

Reporting to the Managing Director, I was responsible for ensuring that all the engineering and construction works are carried out according to contractual requirements such as project time schedule, contract price, and scope of work
Main Activities and Duties:
• Prepared the master and milestone programs for projects including a complex residential project consisting of 70+ villas and 500+ residential units.
• Successfully managed to track and update the financial reports and change order logs for all the company’s projects.
• Prepared and tracked the projects budgets through each stage of the project life cycle starting from the preliminary design stage up until the completion of construction.
• Assisting the contracts department with preparing multiple construction contracts.
• Acquiring and follow up on project insurance policies, and successfully managed to secure a major C.A.R. insurance policy for a JOD 100M+ project with a 10% saving in budget.
• Preparing tender packages for construction projects.
• Experienced in the financial and technical evaluation of tenders.

Acting Project Manager at Ayla Consultancy & Projects Management Co.
  • Jordan - Aqaba
  • October 2015 to January 2016

Reporting to the Managing Director, Follow-up contractors’ works, activities, and compliance to the approved schedule, prepare the project’s documentation system and reports, studying the project’s changes and their cause, hold and attend progress meetings, monitoring and management of the project’s cost and budget.

Main Activities and Duties:
• Coordinate the works of multiple contractors on site
• Managed all the communications between the different project parties (Owner, Contractor, QS, and the Engineer/ Consultant)
• Verification of project payments and studying the impact of the variations orders on the project schedule, budget, and scope.
• Ensured that all the project submittals are replied to and closed within the contractual timeframe
• Organized a weekly progress meeting to solve any rising issues and follow-up on all the pending issues
• Completed the negotiations with the possible contractors to perform the works and secured contracts within the available budget.
• Made sure that all the PO for the project materials were completed and delivered within the tight schedule at a very critical stage of the project.

Junior Civil Engineer at el concorde construction ltd
  • Jordan - Amman
  • April 2012 to March 2013

Estimation of construction projects (commercial, residential, and infrastructure), and involved in the technical assessment of major irrigation projects and pumping stations in Iraq

Main Activities and Duties:
• Estimation of commercial, residential, and infrastructure projects
• Review of tender documents prior to tender submission
• Preparing of financial and technical proposal for tenders
• Quantity surveying of projects in order to verify the quantities stated in the bills of quantities and secure a reasonable price for the supply of materials
• Contacting suppliers and issuing requests for quotations, in addition to negotiation for best proposals
• Experience in GIS mapping for the Strategic Study for Water and Land Resources in Iraq (SWLRI), including but not limited to the digitizing of GIS maps, and post processing of data
• Preparation of technical reports for major pumping stations as a part of the SWLRI project

Quality Assurance officer at Uverify
  • Jordan - Amman
  • June 2010 to September 2010

• Responsible for testing a new system designed to stop medicine counterfeiting
• Training the staff in the participating pharmacies to use the new system
• Providing technical support for the participating pharmacies.

Site Engineer Intern at Saudi Oger
  • Jordan - Amman
  • July 2009 to September 2009

internship as a site engineer responsible for various construction activities and inspection

Education

Master's degree, Engineering Business Management
  • at Warwick University
  • September 2011

Dissertation: Risk Management Practice in Construction: Reflection on Profitability

Bachelor's degree, Civil Engineering
  • at Jordan University
  • June 2010

Graduation Project: Design of a water treatment plant and a pipe network for the Jordanian village As’ara.

Specialties & Skills

Project Control
Cost Control
Project Estimation
Planning
Cost control
Budgeting and estimation
Estimation and Tendering

Languages

Arabic
Expert
English
Expert

Memberships

Jordan Engineers Association
  • Member
  • July 2010

Training and Certifications

Fundamental Skills and Knowledge of Cost Engineering (Certificate)
Date Attended:
August 2016
Computer Aided Structural Design Using Prokon (Training)
Training Institute:
Engineers Training Center, Jordan Engineers Association
Date Attended:
February 2009
Your Gate to Planning and Scheduling Workshop (Training)
Training Institute:
CMCS Jordan
Date Attended:
February 2015
Primavera P3 (Training)
Training Institute:
The University of Jordan Center of Consultation
Date Attended:
February 2009
Planning and Scheduling PM Course 821 (Training)
Training Institute:
CMCS Jordan
Date Attended:
February 2015
Planning and scheduling PM course 811 (Training)
Training Institute:
CMCS Jordan
Date Attended:
February 2015