Director of Engineering & Projects
Semiramis Intercontinental
Total years of experience :28 years, 7 Months
Directing the engineering operations and projects of the Hotel to ensure compliance with all brand standards. Leading Hotel renovation and other projects ensuring timely completion within budget. Ensure risk management and industrial safety standards are maintained to the highest level. In charge of a team of 127 staff.
Achievements:
● Build the new Sushiramis on time and within budget.
● Re-organized the engineering department as well as the project department.
● Involved in the planning of ballroom, club lounge and guest room renovations.
● Completion of two mock-up rooms.
Responsibilities: Pre-opening and opening of the Vinpearl Golf Land Resort and Villas and consulting Vinpearl Nha Trang Resort on renovation projects, budgeting and day to day operation. In charge for the maintenance of sport boats, yachts and ferries.
Achievements:
● Led two local teams, consisting of 97 and 51 Vietnamese employees respectively.
● Prepared OS&E and FF&E for hotel and villas.
● Pre-opening and opening of the hotel.
● Planned the renovation of the first building starting in March 2016
Planned, managed, and executed logistics and business operations at an international retail & destination management consulting business.
Achievements:
•Planned, and conducted 100% customized retail store visits.
•Provided detailed itinerary consulting, conducted best practice store selection nationwide, and performed ongoing retail information research.
•Provided fully customized store evaluation guides, floor plans, pictures, store spec sheets, marketing material & customer service landscape.
•Conducted various on-demand price, range, merchandising & SKU checks, including mystery shopping, competitive assessment, and store auditing.
•Researched Caribbean market and collaborated with local developers to identify and attract missing international key players.
•Gained yachting experience on a Numarine 78-foot yacht.
Management of all engineering/maintenance operations, including maintaining the building, grounds and physical plant with particular attention towards safety, security and asset protection. Accountable for managing the budget, capital expenditure projects, preventative maintenance and energy conservation. Responsible for maintaining regulatory requirements. Led the emergency response team for all facility issues. Responsible for maintaining the dhow of the owner, run by the Hotel as a Restaurant.
Achievements:
● Oversaw the concrete repair work for the pool deck slab and hotel roof during full operation of the Hotel.
● Supervised the consultancy company for issuing the tender documentation for various projects, as well as the tender processes and tender analysis.
● In charge of coordinating the design for the pool deck, ballroom, new restaurant and mock-up room with the design company and hotel management.
● Oversaw the re-furnishing of the main ballroom and mock-up room.
● Replaced all the conventional lighting in public areas with LED bulbs, saving the hotel an estimated 15% of energy cost.
● Managed and supervised a team of 38 multi-national/-cultural employees.
Pre-opening and Grand-opening of the Hotel with 844 rooms and apartments and continued maintenance in coordination with the hotel engineering team and construction companies after the opening.
Achievements:
•Successful opening of the Hotel.
•Coordination of guarantee work with different contractors.
•Solved the cooling efficiency in the laundry.
•Replaced all the conventional lighting in corridors with LED bulbs, saving the hotel an estimated 10% of energy cost.
•Trained and supervised a team of 24 multi-national/-cultural employees.
Oversaw the efficient operation of the hotel properties and all its equipment including the desalination plant, ancillary maintenance and repair services and protection of the owner’s assets. Was in charge of all structural aspects of the hotels as well as the maintenance of grounds and external facilities.
Achievements:
● Led a team of 3 assistants and 76 multi-national/-cultural employees.
● Oversaw the demolition of 100 apartments to be transformed into suites.
● Attend progress meetings with owners, management company, consultants, designers, and contractors.
● Successfully planned and executed several VIP events in the ballroom.
● Planned, oversaw and executed the King Faisal International, an annual award celebration, sponsored by the King Faisal Foundation, presented to "dedicated men and women whose contributions make a positive difference". Personal attendance of the King.
Responsibilities: Maintained the entire hotel including commercial center, the physical building structure, all plants and FF&E, and related equipment in accordance with energy conservation and preventative maintenance programs.
Achievements:
● Detected a major problem with the connection of the chilled water to the cascade units and rectified it.
● Increased the capacity of the seawater cooling for the chillers.
● Completed the renovation of Tower 2 with 14 floors.
● Managed and supervised a team of 55 national and multi-national/-cultural employees.
Responsible for the efficient operation of the hotel property and all its equipment, ancillary maintenance and repair services and protection of the owner’s assets. Oversaw all structural aspects of the hotel as well as the maintenance of grounds, external facilities, incl. the dinning yacht.
Achievements:
● Soft renovation of 202 rooms during hotel operation.
● Implemented all Starwood Standards after Le Meridien was sold to Starwood in 2005.
● Managed and supervised a team of 22 national and multi-national/-cultural employees
Managed all engineering/maintenance operations, including maintaining the building, grounds and physical plant with particular attention towards safety, security and asset protection. Accountable for managing the budget, capital expenditure projects, preventative maintenance and energy conservation. Responsible for maintaining regulatory requirements. Led the emergency response team for all facility issues.
Achievements:
•Green Belt in Six Sigma program.
•Cost saving achieved by collecting the condensation water of fan coil units and air handling units.
•Led and supervised a team of 16 national and multi-national/-cultural employees.
: Pre-opening and Grand-opening of the Mövenpick Hotel Doha and take-over of the Sealine Beach Resort from previous Management Company.
Achievements:
● Led two teams, one consisting of two multi-national and the other of 12 multi-national employees.
● Successful pre-opening and opening of the hotel within three weeks.
● Successful take-over of 2nd hotel.
Managed all engineering/maintenance operations, including maintaining the building, grounds and physical plant with particular attention towards safety, security and asset protection. Accountable for managing the budget, capital expenditure projects, preventative maintenance and energy conservation. Responsible for maintaining regulatory requirements. Led the emergency response team for all facility issues.
Achievements:
•Managed and supervised a team of 14 employees.
•Oversaw construction and opening of a new Indian Restaurant.
Pre-opening and Soft-opening of the Hotel excluding the Spa Area and Golf course as the construction wasn’t finished.
Achievements:
•Project Management for the Management Company.
•Successful opening of the hotel.
•Assisted Management Company in taking over two hotels and creating the technical report for a third proposed hotel take-over.
: Pre-opening and Grand-opening of the Hotel, 18-hole championship golf court including club house and 229 villas.
In charge of maintaining the owner’s private yacht.
Achievements:
● Project Manager for the Owning Company.
● Managed a team of 90 employees.
● Successfully opened the hotel, golf course and villas.
Responsible for the efficient operation of the hotel property and all its equipment including the desalination and sewage treatment plant, ancillary maintenance and repair services, and protection of the owner’s assets. In charge of all structural aspects of the hotel as well as the maintenance of the grounds, external facilities, and the motor yachts.
Achievements:
•Oversaw the construction and opening of the Casino & Spa.
•Managed a team of 80 employees.
•Successful planning and execution of the “Summit of Peacemaker 1996.”
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