Project Manager
3W Networks
Total years of experience :6 years, 8 Months
3W Networks is a system integration company deploying IT & Telecommunication and life safety systems to clients in the Middle East and Africa.
Lead Project Manager for the Energy/Power project sectors delivering complex IT solutions to tier one customers.
Successfully delivering multiple systems integration projects and achievement of project milestones by identifying risks, maximizing Teamwork effectiveness and profitability of projects within the sector, achieving a 12% improvement in GP.
Proactive Change management of project deviations and time critical activities, controlling projects financials and negotiating variation orders as a result of scope change.
Supervising a team of Engineers & Technicians (15 people) to deliver solutions at site, submitting timely technical drawings and documents to the client using a proven Project Management Methodology framework to achieve repeatable execution, using established PMO standards and practices.
Reporting to the Director of Projects, authoring monthly reports for the executive management team demonstrating achievement of performance in KPI’s and identifying emerging project risks.
Managing internal and external stakeholders, creating an environment of collaborative team working.
Approving and defining SOW, T&C’s in support of the Legal and Commercial team and assist in the negotiation of payment terms and contract delivery schedules to reduce the company’s exposure and risk profile.
Define the procurement schedule and validate the purchase requisition and purchase orders, maximizing cash flow and predictability of budget achievement.
Manage and liaise with in-house and client Logistic teams to achieve on-time and effective movement of project assets.
Clients and Project Values
DEWA Project portfolio (15 projects of 132/11kV substations) - $3m
DAELIM (Telecommunication, Telephony and CCTV systems) - $3m
THALES KSA (SDH & PDH telecommunication and transport systems) - $1.5m
o Itron is one of the world leaders in Metering hardware and systems solutions for Electricity, Water and Gas sectors.
Creating Work Breakdown Structures to quantify and assign tasks to achieve milestones successfully.
Maintaining a trusted relationship and a regular communication with clients to enable our teams to sell additional services, software features to satisfy the final requirements and optimize the solution.
Subject Mater Expert (SME) performing functional, technical and acceptance tests, deploying solutions to clients, successfully generating savings and product & system awareness to end users.
Trainer for field customer maintenance staff, preparing and delivering structured courses, transferring system knowledge to reduce support requests resulting in improved system “up-time” and cost savings.
Produced engineering document deliverables improving the site efficiency and quality of installation and procedures.
Clients and Project Values
AMI Electricity Project in Pakistan (IRG) - $5m
AMI Gas Project in Etihad Towers, Abu Dhabi, UAE (AL FANAR) - $200k
AMR Gas Project in The Avenues Mall, Kuwait (GFlame) - $150k
Prepayment Gas Project in Al Bustan Towers, Abu Dhabi, UAE (AL FANAR) - $130k
AMR Gas Project in Sharjah, UAE (SEWA) - $50k
AMR Gas Project in Karachi, Pakistan (SSGC) - $50k
Prepayment and AMR Gas Project in Tashkent, Uzbekistan (Uzbekenergo) - Pilots
Smart Grid Project in Dubai, UAE (DEWA) - Pilots
Deployed, installed, integrated, validated and supported the following systems:
o Prepayment and electronic banking / Self-service kiosk payment
o Advance metering Infrastructure (AMI) / Advance Meter Reading (AMR)
o Meter Data Collection (MDC) / Meter Data Management (MDM)
o Walk by and Fixed Wireless Network
Providing management of the technical support team, driving design validation initiatives to ensure that managed services and delivered solutions are fully compliant with specifications and contract requirements.
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Defining specifications and operational costs and potential revenues based on forecasted client usage.
Establishing project schedules and resources to meet client demand profiles.
Executing functional and technical tests to validate solutions prior to operational deployment.
Setting up an incident management tool to automate and accelerate the provision of support services.
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Carried out plant audits resulting in the preparation of tailored training presentations which address the critical findings of the audit to improve safety working practices.
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