AMR ELZAYAT, Senior Design Manager

AMR ELZAYAT

Senior Design Manager

DAMAC properties

Location
United Arab Emirates - Dubai
Education
Bachelor's degree, ARCHITECTURAL ENGINEERING
Experience
32 years, 9 Months

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Total years of experience :32 years, 9 Months

Senior Design Manager at DAMAC properties
  • United Arab Emirates - Dubai
  • My current job since September 2008

Have a strong consultancy experience, handling, directing, and supervising large scale projects in various stages of design development process from the conceptual and master planning stage through final construction, to ensure effective management and coordination with all relevant internal and external stakeholders and departments (technical- business development, marketing-sales admin-sales-commercial -site...) to make sure that the project is launched and completed within time and budget during the development programme .

Details:
• Preparation of designs starting from planning to production packages
• Master planning, Concept design and Design development
• Architectural details, tender documents and multi-disciplinary coordination
• Manage day-to-day operational aspects of the project assigned by the Project Director and lead project team including sub consultants and contractors.
• Continuous following up the implementation process and site, from inception till completion, making sure it's following the regulations, budget, time schedule, cost efficiency and doing what is needed to finalize any potential modifications/solving engineering problems according to the market conditions.
• Understands, interprets, explains and applies local laws and regulations applicable to the domestic and overseas projects
• Setting the budget plans and coordinate project schedule with the planning team, Anticipating critical issues, potential problems, risks and present to the CEO
• Enforce project standards and quality requirements
• Continuous monitoring of project deliverables, program and risk register.
• Create and execute project effective work plans and revise as appropriate to meet changing needs and requirements and Conduct effective meetings to ensure suitable outcome
• Applying value engineering on the settled designs to achieve lowest cost along with the best performance and shape
• Implement effective review, performance monitoring and measurement processes
• Manage feasibility study and strategic plans for new projects from the technical point of view. research and compile information for presentation to the CEO and CM
• Developing RFP, Issuing a request for proposals for consultants and contractors describing the vision of the project, project program, areas analysis, land budgets, time schedule and deliverables.
• Evaluating and negotiating the RFPS financially and technically in the light of the project budget
• Preparing and reviewing the Design consultancy agreement, making sure its covering all aspects related to project along with the commercial and legal departments.
• Supervising and awarding the agreement to the successful consultant and setting up the development manager of record.
• Manages the development and develops strategic plans for new property development projects and/or modifying existing projects. .
• Plans, directs, integrates and monitors the management of property development projects by analyzing, determining, recommending and obtaining approval for different aspects of the projects.
• Reviewing the requirement and changes of the current market with the sales department, making sure the design is following the appropriate areas schedule, cost efficiency and time deadlines.
• Approving the final master plans/infrastructure/superstructure final concepts
• Preparing the material needed for the marketing /sales admin/sales team, (perspectives, area schedule, project information..)
• Awarding and reviewing the detailing, working drawings and tender packages
• Team and time management

Principal Architect-Design Manager at GHD Global LLc, www.ghd.com.au
  • Egypt
  • March 2006 to August 2008

• Preparation of designs starting from planning to production packages
• Concept design and Design development
• Project management strategy/ business planning,
• Manage day-to-day operational aspects of the project assigned by the Project Director.
• Continuous monitoring of project deliverables, program and risk register.
• Enforce project standards and quality requirements
• Create and execute project effective work plans and revise as appropriate to meet changing needs and requirements.
• Conduct effective meetings to ensure suitable outcomes
• Implement effective review, performance monitoring and measurement processes
• Lead project team including subconsultants and contractors on a day-to-day basis
• Value engineering
• Detailing and working drawings
• Project coordination
• Team and time management
• QA procedures
• Project budgeting
• Scheduling and follow-up
• Architectural details, tender documents and multi-disciplinary coordination

Architectural department manager at SEC
  • United Arab Emirates - Abu Dhabi
  • December 2004 to March 2006

Architectural department manager, Senior Designer, responsible of all interior and exterior project, producing profissional design packges

Head of architecture department at Arabian Architecture
  • Egypt
  • January 2003 to December 2004

Managing the design team to produce profissional design package

Senior Architect at Ehaf Consulting Engineers
  • Egypt
  • September 2000 to January 2003

Senior Architect, projects samples, HSBC, CITIBANK, EAB, BARCLAYS, CIB, Bank Branches IN EGYPT,
DEPARTMENT OF SOCIAL SERVICES & COMMERCIAL BUILDINGS” ABU DHABI UNITED ARAB EMIRATES, ...ETC

Design Manager at MASHAREQ
  • Saudi Arabia - Jeddah
  • August 1998 to September 2000

Responsible of :
producing high competitive design solution,
galyria supervising
bid analysis
implementation process

SENIOR DESIGNER at MFI INTERNATIONAL
  • Saudi Arabia - Jeddah
  • August 1994 to September 1998

Senior designer, responsible of,
the owner private projects,
all of the advertising campaigns and producing catalouges and press works

JUNIOR ARCHITECT at "COPA"CONSULTING OFFICE FOR PLANNING AND ARCHITECTURE
  • Egypt
  • August 1991 to August 1994

JUNIOR ARCHITECT

Education

Bachelor's degree, ARCHITECTURAL ENGINEERING
  • at FACULTY OF ENGINEERING
  • May 1991

GRADE :GOOD

Specialties & Skills

Teamwork
Adobe Photoshop
AutoCAD
3D Studio Max
Graphics
AUTOCAD
ADOBE PHOTOSHOP
3D STUDIO MAX
ALL OF THE COMPUTER ARCHITECTURE AND GRAPHIC DESIGN RELATED PROGRAMS
MS OFFICE

Languages

English
Expert
French
Intermediate