Hossam Hassona, Project Manager

Hossam Hassona

Project Manager

MISC

Location
Egypt
Education
Bachelor's degree, electrical power and machines
Experience
17 years, 5 months

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Work Experience

Total years of experience :17 years, 5 months

Project Manager at MISC
  • Egypt - Cairo
  • My current job since July 2014

Managing multi-million EGP automation projects in Oil & Gas industry.

- Defining project scope and creating WBS.
- Developing and managing project schedule.
- Selecting and managing project team.
- Managing communication with customers.
- Managing project documentation in all phases from initialization to closing.
- Managing scope changes.
- Managing procurement.
- Managing commissioning & startup activities.

Lead Automation Engineer at MISC
  • Egypt - Cairo
  • July 2013 to June 2014

- Supporting project teams in all project phases.
- Supporting service teams remotely.
- Helping sales team in addressing new potentials, conducting sales and marketing visits.
- Creating presentation materials for company profile and case studies.
- Conducting presentation sessions on company profile and new automation technologies.

Senior Automation Engineer at MISC
  • Egypt - Cairo
  • January 2010 to June 2013

1-Tendering and proposals:
-Studying tender documents and provide technical solutions based on Siemens automation. technology and instrumentation.
-Preparing preliminary BOM including automation components and buyouts.
-Revising technical offers and providing guidance in pricing.

2-Project Management:
-Developing project WBS, Schedules and management plans.
-Selecting project team.
-Handling kick-off meetings with customers.
-Managing procurement of project buyouts.
-Creating ISO documents of project management plan and project execution.
-Handling regular meetings with customers.
-Handling communication and managing correspondences.

3-Project execution:
-Determining the main concepts, wiring samples and guidelines for basic and detailed engineering.
-Developing/Help developing project BOM.
-Revising all engineering work.
-Designing and perform calculations of Profibus DP&PA Networks.
-Providing procurement dept. with technical specs. For local buyouts.
-Handling procurement of foreign buyouts.
-Helping project team to develop the detailed engineering work.
-Managing BOM release from warehouse.
-Developing the automation hardware configuration and automation network architecture.
-Developing/Help developing PLC/HMI software programs.
-Managing workshop activities for panel building.
-Handling FAT activities.

4-Commissioning and startup:
-Managing installation, commissioning and startup activities.
-Handling site meetings to tackle commissioning problems.
-Making presentations on project progress.
-Handling SAT and TOT activities.

5-Project closure:
-Releasing team members after finishing their assigned tasks.
-Negotiating punch lists according to project’s scope.
-Help developing and revising the As-Built revision of the whole project documentation.
-Preparing and signing final acceptance forms with customers.

6-Other activities:
-Interviewing automation engineer candidates.
-Conducting training sessions for customers and also for in-house training.

Automation Engineer at MISC
  • Egypt - Cairo
  • November 2006 to December 2009

- Conducting site surveys.
- Developing basic engineering work.
- Reviewing P&IDs and extracting IOs.
- Creating project IO database and instrument lists.
- Creating wiring diagrams using Auto-Cad and E-Plan.
- Developing hardware configuration.
- Preparing automation BOM.
- Developing PLC/HMI programs.
- Conducting technical services in many plants and factories for various industrial applications.
- Performing the acceptance of control panels from workshop.
- Commissioning and testing automation systems in customers’ plants/factories.
- Commissioning instrumentation of level, flow, pressure and temp. and valves’ positioners.

Education

Bachelor's degree, electrical power and machines
  • at Helwan University
  • May 2006

4th year grade: very good 81% GPA: 5270 70% graduation project: ASRS, Automatic Storing/ Retrieving System. (PLC & SCADA) project grade: excellent. awards: 1- IEEE Egypt Award for being best project in electrical power engineering, August 2006. 2- Arab Organization for Industrialization Award for being best project in electrical power engineering, August 2006.

Specialties & Skills

Industrialization
Programming
2D graphics
PLC programming, HMI programming
windows enviroment, MS word, power point
control panels' design and implementation
autocad 2d & 3d
Engineering of automation projects

Languages

Arabic
Expert
English
Expert

Training and Certifications

Technical training on Profibus DP (Training)
Training Institute:
Siemens UK
Date Attended:
April 2008
Technical training on Profibus PA networks design and troubleshooting (Training)
Training Institute:
Siemens Canada
Date Attended:
July 2010
Project management training (Training)
Training Institute:
AMIDEAST Cairo
Date Attended:
September 2012

Hobbies

  • Music
  • Technical support
    I'm always willing to help engineers around the world with my experience in Siemens automation systems. In year 2010 I was selected by Siemens as a technical expert in the international automation forum due to my excellent contribution and help for forum members.