Program Manager
Chemonics International
Total years of experience :13 years, 7 Months
USAID funded Agriculture and Rural Empowerment (ARE) in Lebanon
Main Achievements: □ Developed and managed a portfolio totaling 3.1 million USD, distributed across 5 interventions and over 500 individual grants. □ Successfully enhanced the capacity of my direct reports by strategically assigning tasks that contribute to their career development
Main Tasks: □ Directly supervise ongoing and upcoming ARE interventions and grants, encompassing both private and non private sector entities, within the Strategic, Innovation, Technology, Sector Development (SITSD) sub-fund. This involves identifying and connecting opportunities with emerging and established agricultural and non agricultural activities. □ Take charge of the technical, administrative, and operational management of my interventions, ensuring comprehensive oversight of scope, budget, and schedule. I adhere to AREs project management standards and protocols, providing consistent and accurate tracking and reporting.
USAID funded Community Support Program (CSP) in Lebanon
Main Achievements: □ Streamlined the tender document verification process by optimizing collaboration with the design bureau, covering general and particular specifications, submittal lists, time schedules, general layouts, sections, and detail drawings. □ Contributed to corporate and subcontractor budgeting and spending through insightful inputs, enhancing forecasting accuracy. □ Successfully established and managed remote kick-off meetings during COVID-19 lockdowns, overcoming technology and internet connectivity challenges, ensuring active participation of all stakeholders.
Main Tasks: □ Established an efficient quality control process, designing the construction protocol, and creating corresponding forms and annexes. □ Orchestrated the optimal office plan design adhering to national and international standards, overseeing rehabilitation works, coordinating furniture delivery, and ensuring proper arrangement. □ Functioned as the Quality Control Manager for infrastructure activities, implementing an accelerated quality control process by reviewing and approving supplier material submittals, conducting on-site implementation follow-ups, and providing technical acceptance and final approval.
□ Served as a Technical Advisor on the Proposal Review Committee at Management Systems International, a Tetra Tech Company. □ Nominated as a proposed staff member for the USAID Lebanon Community Support Program with Chemonics International and Management Systems International. □ Contributed as a Project Engineer for a residential building project in Mount Lebanon.
USAID/OTI funded Lebanon Community and Resilience Initiative (LCRI)
Main Achievements: □ Implemented a 9km underground water irrigation system in Qaa, Northern Beqaa, featuring a filtration tank and multiple fire hydrant outlets. □ Successfully managed the construction of a 500-square-meter cultural center in the heart of Qaa, Northern Beqaa, amid the Lebanese Armys counterterrorism efforts just 5 km away. □ Contributed as a versatile team member during program close-out, handling diverse tasks in program development, monitoring and evaluation, and procurement.
Main Tasks: □ Designed and oversaw the implementation of livelihood projects in remote areas of Lebanon, focusing on construction, irrigation, and community building. □ Reviewed change proposals in construction scope or methods, providing recommendations for justified time extensions. □ Led the design and supervision of the refurbishment of Beirut offices during the program close out.
Main Achievements: □ Damage control a void in the soil that appeared during the excavation phase with a design alteration and a minimum cost addition. □ Redesign the parking floors in a way to optimize the parking spaces and include a private entrance for the building. □ Completing the whole construction phase over a period of 2 years with all 30 staff safe and sound and the work uninterrupted. Main Tasks: □ Oversee and assist with the generation of a full bill of quantity for the four main trades of the building (architectural, structural, mechanical and electrical works), and at later stage supervise their proper execution. □ Develop the seismic design of the building generated with ETABS computer software and make sure all outputs are consistent through hand calculations. □ Design and implement a 185 cubic meters water reservoir below the foundation level and making sure the structure is up to ACI-318 code and AASHTO standards.
(UNHCR) Lebanon (Level: G6, Step 2)
Main Achievements: □ Ensure the construction of 6 water reservoirs in Mount Lebanon, starting from the design stage to the implementation and the hand-over, in a very limited timeline. In addition to preparing a detailed plan to continue through phase 2 of the project with the construction of 4 additional tanks. □ Developing and presenting in the monthly coordination meetings a refugee influx and concentration charts highlighting on the areas in need of a bigger scale of assistance. □ Initiated and contributed in the endorsement of BOQ guidelines to serve all actors in the area as a baseline for their approach on the shelter rehabilitation activity.
Main Tasks: □ Chair the monthly Beirut/Mount Lebanon shelter working group involving the coordination between all actors working in the area and making sure all interventions are implemented harmoniously. □ Supervise and monitor the implementation of the school rehabilitation projects making sure all works are done as per Donors recommendations and adhering to allocated budgets. □ Confirm that all interventions and activities are fully compliant with SPHERE standards and UNHCR procurement procedures.
As Site Civil Engineer on the Kempinski Summerland Hotel and Resort, I have been exposed to many challenging duties. With the project reaching a contract value of more than 200 million US dollars. Having 8 subcontractors, my duties are mainly handling the internal coordination and proper practice of the communication channels for all relevant parties. I was also in charge of supervision of the waterproofing subcontractors who had a large part to play covering three large pools and 17 outdoor Jacuzzis. Moreover, I was responsible of the engenderment of variation and change orders as well as convoking negotiation meetings with the Engineering Consultant and Client representative. Other responsibilities included the preparation of the new offices space layout and the planning of the move without disturbing the workflow
As Senior Quantity Surveyor, I handled Construction Cost Estimation, mostly of residential buildings in Lebanon and of industrial facilities in the Arab gulf countries. My duties mainly consisted on preparing cost estimate sheets, generating bills of quantities, project scheduling on primavera or MS Project, as well as preparing site layout plans and in particular the infrastructure design for electrical substations along with their respective detailed cost estimates. I also partook in the subcontractors and suppliers assignment process. For further estimation accuracy, I liaised with the site engineers to make sure correct material wastages and hard workmanships are accounted for. Also, my job required high attention to details, assuring that all embedded items are accounted for in the proposals.