Ali Dimshawy, Architect

Ali Dimshawy

Architect

Hill International

Location
Qatar - Doha
Education
Diploma, Project Management
Experience
21 years, 10 Months

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Work Experience

Total years of experience :21 years, 10 Months

Architect at Hill International
  • Qatar - Doha
  • My current job since May 2012

Hill is the CM of the National Museum of Qatar owned by QMA and as an architect reporting to the Design Manager with hill my job description covers the following:
• Chairing design coordination workshops.
• Reviewing BIM models per contract, specifications and IFC.
• Reviewing Shop Drawings per contract, specifications and IFC.
• Reviewing Material Transmittal per contract, specifications and IFC.
• Reviewing Technical Deviations Requests per contract, specifications and IFC.
• Reviewing Deviations Requests from the Preferred Vendor List per contract, specifications and IFC.

Senior Architect at OHL international
  • Qatar - Doha
  • July 2008 to June 2011

(reporting to the Design and Technical Manager, managing a team of 8 architects and 15 draughtsman, planning and controlling the Drawings' preparation this includes naming SMART deliverables, assigning tasks, coordinating amongst related parties i.e; MEP sub-contractors and interior designer in order to gain needed information in the right hands and on time and working out the conflicts and discrepancies amongst them, tracking the job progress against time line, quality, and cost, enhancing the communication amongst related teams, minimizing time and cost impact, ensuring on-time within budget and reasonable quality SMART deliverables)

Project Coordinator at DFG
  • United Arab Emirates - Abu Dhabi
  • July 2007 to July 2008

(The Intercontinental Hotel bar counters cladding project and Al-Futtaim Office Building, internal partitions.) In the DFC.
(Accomplished all internal and external coordination tasks. Prepared and achieved all business correspondence. Tracking jobs through design, manufacturing and fixing. Supported related teams.)
Recommendation letter attached.

Senior Architect at GPCC
  • United Arab Emirates
  • February 2006 to July 2007

Cladding Designer (The Dubai Mall)
 Challenging the design to minimize waste, maximize value and reduce risk.
 Implementing agreed processes for the production, control and distribution of design information at different stages of the process.
 Ensuring regular progress reporting of the design, including production, coordination and interfaces, against a timeline.
 Ensuring design information is thoroughly reviewed: for buildability, safety and maintainability, ‘completeness’ and technical suitability before use.
 Carrying out design work in accordance with relevant, recognized standards, codes and guidelines
 Supervising and check the work of CAD staff producing drawings
 Ensuring that designs are delivered by the agreed dates
 Complying with the Company design procedures in full, and place a high emphasis on all safety associated with the design and construction of PC/GRC elements
 Obtaining feedback from erection teams to ensure that this has been achieved, review feedback and incorporate into ongoing work
 Ensuring designs are economical and satisfy Contract requirements
 Attending meetings at site in progress design related issues
 Ensuring to place a high emphasis on design activities in designing out safety issues, and give them top priority
 Ensuring that design documents for the project reflect high accuracy and technical quality as well as economical design.
 Training students of Turkish and Greek universities trough YIESTA program.

Construction Field Director at General Association Education Building (GAEB)
  • Egypt
  • February 2002 to December 2005

 Owner’s site engineer
 Responsible of allocating tasks and managing workload for engineers ensuring maximum efficiency and customer satisfaction.
 Monitoring Progress and reporting to superiors.
 Recruiting, Training and Evaluation of Engineers.
 Planning and Scheduling of periodic Maintenance to sites.
 Responsible for construction, renovation and destruction projects of buildings.
 Exterior and Interior designing of different size buildings.
 Working with schedules and fulfilling deadlines accordingly.

construction engineer at the consultant unit pf Elminia university.
  • Egypt
  • December 2002 to February 2003

Responsable of constuction works of Susan Mubarak Hospital project including foundations, cocrete casting and block walls works

constultant engineer at COPA consultancy
  • Egypt
  • August 2001 to November 2002

The works following up engineer in Al-forsan project (High rising towers including shopping mall and parking and residential flats owned by the CIE)

Education

Diploma, Project Management
  • at RKC- The University of Wales
  • May 2009

Post Graduation Certificate in Project management. 4 taught modules-60 credits PM101 Contemporary Project Management C PM102 Defining Excellence in Project Management B PM103 Project Planning and Controlling C PM104 Strategic Context of Project Management B

Bachelor's degree, Architectural Design
  • at El Minia Faculty of Engineering
  • November 2000

Specialties & Skills

Languages

English
Expert
Arabic
Expert
French
Beginner
Spanish
Intermediate

Memberships

Egyptian Engineering Association - Egypt
  • Member
  • December 2001
USGBC
  • LEED GA
  • October 2012
CMAA
  • Member
  • June 2012
UPDA
  • Certified Project Manager
  • February 2013

Training and Certifications

GSAS (Training)
Training Institute:
GORD
Date Attended:
January 2012