ABDULLAH BOKHARI, Acting General Manager IT, Environment & Renewable Energy Director

ABDULLAH BOKHARI

Acting General Manager IT, Environment & Renewable Energy Director

The National Agricultural Development Company (NADEC)

Location
Saudi Arabia - Riyadh
Education
Doctorate, PhD in Electrical Engineering
Experience
14 years, 3 Months

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Total years of experience :14 years, 3 Months

Acting General Manager IT, Environment & Renewable Energy Director at The National Agricultural Development Company (NADEC)
  • Saudi Arabia - Riyadh
  • My current job since May 2017

• Successfully secured a low IPP tariff bid of 9.0 Halalah ($0.024) per kWh on the 30MW NADEC Captive solar project as a scheme for a private sector as opposed to state utility IPP and smaller than many schemes in the Gulf.
• Strategic planning, customer and competitor coordination with leadership, Energy mix strategy development, investment planning, and assistance with opportunity pursuits and post award activities.
• Develop key competitive environmental strategies, long range planning development, competitive analysis, and policies to promote sustainable development.
• Create and refine procedures and tools to optimize ongoing Digital Transformation goals.
• Manage energy and sustainability initiatives. Focuses on four key areas;
• Sustainable Energy strategy, regulation, planning, and operations;
• Energy efficiency, and Renewable energy development;
• Communications and outreach;
• Program development, administration and oversight.
• Perform oversight for a group of project transactions with a mix of agency, bilateral and participated accounts covering information technology, environment, renewable energy, and infrastructure industries.
• Develop and facilitate improvement of IT process management, compliance, risk assessment, and training.

Adjunct Faculty (visiting assistance Professor) Dept. of Electrical Engineering at Imam Mohammed Ibn Saud University
  • Saudi Arabia - Riyadh
  • My current job since January 2016
Adjunct Faculty (visiting assistance Professor) Dept. of Electrical Engineering at Imam Mohammed Ibn Saud University
  • Saudi Arabia - Riyadh
  • My current job since January 2016
Director of the Saudi Program for Measurement & Management of Renewable Energy at King Abdullah City for Atomic And renewable Energy
  • Saudi Arabia - Riyadh
  • June 2016 to May 2017

• Strategic leadership and development of the “Saudi Sustainable Energy Management Center” & “Renewable Resource Monitoring & Mapping - Atlas”
• Implementation of regulatory frameworks for licensing, regulations and operating codes
• Overseeing the establishment of processes regarding the technical, legal and commercial connection of nuclear power plants

Head of Regulation – Sustainable Grid Integration at King Abdullah City for Atomic and Renewable Energy (K.A.CARE)
  • Saudi Arabia - Riyadh
  • January 2015 to June 2016

• Preparation and submission of regulatory agency (i.e. ECRA) applications, reports, or correspondence.
• Propose rules and regulations that would integrate units of atomic and renewable energy in the electric network in accordance with policies adopted and applied to support and update existing rules and regulations.

Transmission Planning Engineer – Network Expansion at ICONMA LLC, (Contractor for New Jersey Electric Utility –PSE&G)
  • United States - New Jersey
  • September 2014 to January 2015

• Developing transmission reliability studies and proposing future transmission grid upgrades for the short and long range planning horizons with the PJM (RTO) planning group.
• Reliability and economic operation analysis to evaluate the timing of transmission reinforcements of the bulk power system.
• Performing power system contingency studies to determine the transmission system limitations (thermal, voltage, short-circuit, and stability), operating capability and performing short range planning analysis and analyze potential operating limitations.

Post-Doctoral Fellow - (Contractor for New York City Utility - Consolidated Edison of New York City) at New York University
  • United States - New York
  • May 2014 to December 2014

• Sensitivity of medical equipment and elevator controllers to voltage reduction.
• Combined effect of CVR and penetration of DG in highly meshed network
• Thermal Analysis and Ampacity Calculation of Power Cables

Adjunct Faculty (visiting assistance Professor) at New York University, Tandoon School of Engineering, Dept. of Electrical & Computer Engineering
  • United States - New York
  • May 2012 to December 2014
Adjunct Faculty (visiting assistance Professor) at New York University
  • United States - New York
  • May 2012 to December 2014
Protection & Control Engineer at ABB Automation
  • Saudi Arabia - Riyadh
  • June 2004 to August 2006

• Design of protection and control systems for HV and MV substations automation.
• Quality control for protection panels testing and installation.

Education

Doctorate, PhD in Electrical Engineering
  • at New York University
  • May 2014

Languages

English
Expert
Arabic
Native Speaker

Training and Certifications

Smart Grid and Integration of Renewable Energy (Training)
Training Institute:
Euro Arab Foundation- Granada
Date Attended:
April 2016
Technical Reports (Training)
Training Institute:
ABB Automation
Date Attended:
March 2005
MicroSCADA systems: Design & Operation (Training)
Training Institute:
ABB Finland
Date Attended:
May 2005
Telecommunication Networks Management (Certificate)
Date Attended:
June 2010
Valid Until:
June 2010
Power Electronics and Systems (Certificate)
Date Attended:
June 2011
Valid Until:
June 2011
Business Project Management (Certificate)
Date Attended:
December 2009
Valid Until:
December 2009