Electrical Project Manager
Saudi Electricity Company
Total years of experience :24 years, 4 Months
My responsibilities at Saudi Electricity Company included:
Managed EPCM Lump sum turnery Projects (Pre-award & Post-award) ranging from SAR 5M to SAR 214M, through their Life Cycle (initiation to close out).
Prepared Bid Package, attending pre/post bid clarifications/queries, evaluation of Technical Proposal and Contract award recommendation.
Worked with the team on development of Scope of Work and Technical Specification for U/G & OHTL as well as communication projects.
Prepared detailed project cost estimates including engineering, manpower, material, and construction.
Assisted in the preparation of Detail design of overhead transmission line as well as underground cable projects from 11 kV to 230 kV. Also, conducted feasibility and planning studies.
Worked on acquiring the Right of Way (ROW) for the projects and interfaced with permitting agencies and regulatory bodies (different ministries, Saudi Aramco etc.) for their approval.
Collaborated with different stakeholders. Assessed and approved Change Orders /claims.
Coordinated various meetings such as design review meeting & bi-weekly / weekly progress meetings.
Prepared daily, bi-weekly, monthly and management reports / presentations.
Checked drawings & other technical documents for compliance to standards & requirements.
Ensured complete compliance of electrical safety codes and OH&S requirements at sites.
I managed and completed following projects at Saudi Electricity Company:
Construction of 115kV U/G to connect Halfmoon BSP to DIE 4A S/S.
Interconnection of Nariyah-3 S/S through 115kV OHTL.
Deployment of Remote Fiber Testing System in Eastern Operating Area (Phase-I).
Construction of 115kV underground cable to energize West to Second DIE Substation.
Installation of 115kV Cable between DIE 4 A & DIE 4B as well as DIE 6 B to DIE 4B to energize DIE 4B Substation.
Construction of 115kV U/G cable between Takhassusi S/S and Khalidiyah S/S.
Construction of 115kV U/G cable between Khalidiya S/S and KAAP S/S.
Deployment of Remote Fiber Testing System in Eastern Operating Area (Phase-II).
Rerouting of SCADA channels in existing substations in EOA.
DETAILED EXPERIENCE:
Installation, commissioning, testing and PAT of BSC6000 V9R8,
Operations & Maintenance of BSC6000 V9R3 & V9R8.
Expansion, Configuration, Upgradation and Testing of BSC’s
Integration, Troubleshooting, inspection and PAT of BTS 3012.
Expansion, Configuration and Testing of PCU’s
Upgradation of Patch versions of BSC’s
Expansion of Media between BSC’s and MSC’s. E1’s as well as STM’s
Expansion of Ater, A, Pb and Abis interface connectivities.
Troubleshooting and Testing of Microwave Transmission specially NEC and
Siemens and PCOM.
Creating and Troubleshooting E1’s on MW equipment of NEC, SEIMENS and
PCOM.
BTS Alarm Management
Working as Senior Engr. NOC CDMA (NSS+BSS)
Supervision of Installation, expansion and O&M of BSC6600.
Expansion of Media connectivity between BSC and MSC.
Trouble shooting of BTS’s.
Operations & Maintenance of Huawei’s CDMA Mobile Switch (M800 MSC/VLR) and HLR;
Creation of Code Points, Trunk Groups, Trunks, Routing, and C7 links for Faisalabad Telecom Region, Central Telecom Region, Lahore Telecom Region and Gujranwala Telecom Region;
Traffic Analysis;
Addition of trunks (E1’s) in case of congestion on overloaded routes in co-ordination with PCM and other exchanges;
Address subscriber complaints and provide appropriate solutions;
creation and modification of subscribers data on MSC/HLR
Modification of different parameters of WLL subscribers like ESN, IMSI, A-key and MDN’s.
Traffic Analysis of different sectors of BTS’s
Alarm management of BSC and to manage to fix problem in minimum possible time.
Working as Engr. (Ericsson)
in Network Management Center (NMC):
Operations & Maintenance of a multi-tandem network of 16 Ericsson AXE-10 Exchanges.
Rectification of E1 and board alarms.
Traffic Analysis of Lahore exchanges.
Maintenance of Routes/Trunks in all Exchanges
Health check of E1 on all routes to ensure quality communications.
Scheduling and coordinating various maintenance tasks.
Coordination with various departments within the organization to ensure smooth and rapid maintenance and recovery of exchanges.
Managing a team of 9 Supervisors and technicians for fault free operations of the exchanges.
Creation and maintenance of E1’s.
Preparation of feasibility reports for the provision of ISDN (BRI’s/PRI’s) services to Internet Service Providers /Data Communication Companies;
Creation, and Configuration of ISDN services;
Calculation of ASR (Answer to Seizure Ratio), and CFR (Call Failure Ratio) based upon traffic reports;
Responsibilities included designing, installation, configuration, commissioning and testing of solar cell modules based Photovoltaic Systems.
• Implementation of various domestic standard solar electric system networks i-e for home appliances etc.
• Maintenance and Operation of CZ single crystal growth machine.
• The process of fabrication of solar panels consisted of the steps
• Conversion of Poly Crystal Silicon into Single Crystal Silicon
• Slicing of single crystal Si in wafers.
• Designing of PN junction on wafers to make a solar cell.
• Designing of solar panel by interconnecting the 40 cells so that one panel is capable to provide 20 volts and 2 A current.
• Finally system is designed to meet the needs for different applications.
In doing MSc Engineering I passed 8 theory subjects and a final thesis. The title of my thesis was, "Network congestion problem in PTCL and its solution by packetizing the traffic through NGN."
It was four years Bachelor Degree. with tremendous theory and lab sessions.