Fahad Dalwai, Sr. Project Engineer

Fahad Dalwai

Sr. Project Engineer

Abdulaziz Abdulmohsen Al-Rashed Sons Co. W.L.L.

Location
Kuwait
Education
Bachelor's degree, Electronics
Experience
18 years, 8 Months

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Work Experience

Total years of experience :18 years, 8 Months

Sr. Project Engineer at Abdulaziz Abdulmohsen Al-Rashed Sons Co. W.L.L.
  • Kuwait - Al Farawaniyah
  • My current job since February 2013

Project Management
• Involved in all phases of the project (from design and requirements through
implementation and support). Contributed to successful closure of projects on time and
under budget.
• Assisted the manager in maintaining project schedules, work breakdown structures
(WBS), issue/decision logs, meeting summaries and status reports to ensure effective,
ongoing communications across all team members.
• Designed reports, charts and graphs for senior management to provide ongoing, at-aglance
summaries of project status.
• Collaborated effectively with vendors and contractors to ensure project deliverables
remained on track and aligned with project goals and expectations.
• Experience in products from the following vendors: Cisco Systems, Extreme Networks,
Mitel Networks, HP, Microsoft, VMware, Huawei, and Juniper.
Technical Expertise
• Providing technical and design expertise on large-scale infrastructure projects, assessing
and recommending designs/changes to customer networks and/or systems in response to
business or technical drivers

Project Engineer at Al Mulla Group – Engineering Department
  • Other
  • July 2009 to December 2012

Project Management Role:

Responsible for the project management throughout the entire project lifecycle, including project initiation/proposals, project delivery, client management, post implementation review and project close out / handover.

• Setting budgets and agreeing project time scales and deadlines with clients.
• Holding weekly internal and external meetings on progress .
• Single point of contact for all communications between the customer.
• Managing staff to ensure that all milestones are achieved within the agreed timeframes.
• Maintaining client relationships.
• Responsible for identifying, analyzing, measuring and managing project risks.
• Ensuring that projects conform to predefined methodology and required standards.
• Conducting regular analysis in order to assess the consequences of the project deliverables on other sections of the business.
• Keeping accurate administrative records of expenditure, accounting, costing and billing.
• Assisting the technical team in their design and development tasks.
• Producing project definitions to include validated functional requirements, scope, roles, responsibilities, budgets, timescales and resources.

Network Engineer at HCL Technologies Ltd. (ISD)
  • Other
  • August 2006 to January 2009

As a Network Engineer some of my responsibilities are:

• Meeting with the Customers to understand there Business Requirements, accordingly preparing a Solution Design document.
• Providing IT Solution to the Customers with regular meetings with the clients.
• Preparing NISP (Network Integration & Support Plan) for Customer’s Projects.
• Preparing Project Implementation Schedule for the Customers.
• Preparing Pre-Implementation Document consisting of Core technical configuration of the Project.
• Complete Integration & Implementation.
• Submitting Post Installation document to customers & final sign off.
• Final Handover of the Project to HCL TAC by preparing & submitting final documents like Project Case Study.
• Providing Post Implementation Support to the Customers keeping in minding various SLAs.

Part-time Trainer at Gates Training Pvt. Ltd.
  • Other
  • August 2005 to January 2006

Provided training for the Weekend and Corporate Batches on weekends and holidays.

Full Time Trainer at Gates Training Pvt. Ltd.
  • Other
  • July 2004 to June 2005

My job duties consisted of:
• Prepare the 5-Day training schedule of the various weekday and weekend batches.
• Impart the training as per the schedule.
• Help the Students with regards to any difficulties.
• Evaluate the students through tests at the end of the course.

Education

Bachelor's degree, Electronics
  • at University of Mumbai
  • June 2006

Specialties & Skills

Project Execution
Pre sales
IP Networking
Pre sales Consultancy
Pre sales Technical Support
IP Telephony Systems: Cisco, Mitel Networks
Networking Products: Cisco, HP, Extreme Networks
Structured Cabling Systems: Belden, Molex, Schneider Electric
CCTV Products: Genetec, Axis Communications

Languages

English
Expert
Arabic
Beginner

Memberships

Cisco Systems
  • Certified Engineer
  • February 2009

Training and Certifications

Genetec Security Center 5.2 Certified Engineer (Certificate)
Date Attended:
January 2014
Valid Until:
January 2014
Project Management Professional (Certificate)
Date Attended:
September 2013
Valid Until:
October 2013
Mitel Certified Engineer (Certificate)
Date Attended:
January 2012
Valid Until:
January 2012
Cisco Certified Design Associate (Certificate)
Date Attended:
February 2012
Valid Until:
February 2012