Senior Design Manager - Architect
Dar Al Riyadh Consultants
مجموع سنوات الخبرة :25 years, 11 أشهر
1. Projects worked on: Misk City Boys and Girls Schools and Mobility Hubs
2. Managing and executing design reviews, while coordinating with multiple global specialists, and consulting with cross-functional teams, including architects, engineers, contractors, users, clients, and project and design managers to communicate and resolve design issues involving multiple disciplines. Received Client appreciation for rigor, thoroughness excellence, and clarity of design review comments, leading to 20-30% improvement in the quality of documentation and design.
3. Design Leadership, leading and inspiring design team members to apply rigorous professional standards, resolve internal glitches, and move forward to complete work within tight deadlines, achieving targets as much as 5% before the target deadline.
4. Assessing Consultant Design documents for adherence to scope, codes, authorities, guidelines compliance, and application of international best practices.
5. Managing client expectations from concept to developed design, including value engineering, design value for users, and contractor queries.
6. Implementation of quality processes and systems for projects, including creation of customized checklists, online comment trackers, and scope completion trackers, resulting in improvements of up to 20% in terms of coordinated technical clash, codes and design quality checks.
7. Preparation of technical business proposals for bidding, building relationships with specialist consultants, defining scope, collecting input from internal disciplines for final bid preparation, and creating online shared bid developed and specialist consultants project contacts, leading to an estimated 20% reduction in time taken to make a new bid.
1. Project worked on: Exit 15 Al Nahda - Mega Entertainment Complex, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
2. Meeting Client and Project Management consultants’ expectations, achieving desired outcomes in close coordination and communication with both internal design teams and Sub consultants, resulting in 25% faster turnaround times, and better win-win relationships.
3. Managing production of contracted design deliverables by multiple disciplines and global design consultants, controlling scope creep, identifying risk elements to management, leading to as much as 5-10% gain in frequency and quality of communication.
4. Bringing together as many as 4 internal disciplines, including offshore teams, and 9 Specialist Consultants, including theme park, snow park, water park and cinema designers, delivering results in line with a fast track project program, meeting deadlines, managing risk and getting all parties to talk to each other, and resolved as many as 30-40 key design issues across multiple stages of development, between consultants, users, clients and PMC.
5. Facilitating Design Workshops, tracking timely completion of expected actions by design disciplines and specialists and removing barriers to completion, resulting in 20-30% improvement in glitch free design process and outcomes.
6. Upgrading Design Management Plan, and technical processes. Creating robust project directory, and email best practices and tactics that resulted in as much as 10-20% gains in time required to send communications to just the right set of people, speedily and reliably.
7. Reporting to Company Management on project risks, critical information required, and recommending the best strategy for dealing with ongoing issues. Implementing and executing quality systems implementation, over deliverables produced by up to 15 unique specialists and disciplines, all the while engaging with both Client Representatives, Internal Project Managers, Project Management Consultant, and Support Staff.
8. Assigning Work to 9 Specialists and Sub Consultants and ensuring they meet all contracted scope and deliver results at the right time and in the right format and degree of completion for other consultants to succeed in delivering their portion of the work.
9. Resolving Scope boundary issues, providing clarification and agreement about the expected work output between design participants, including resolution of payment and contractual expectations that were not met, enabling work to be re-initiated by 5 plus Sub-Consultants.
10. Implementing and coordinating Total Quality Systems and Design Reviews by 15 or more project participants, including tracking completion and collection of final documents, using online trackers, and constant reminders.
11. Identifying and addressing pre-existing unworkable systems, and resolving barriers and bottlenecks to highest productivity, leading from 5-10% gains in quality and completion of work.
12. Mentored and delegated to 2 assistant Design Managers, instilling skills of organization, discipline, and motivated proactive, pre-emptive action, new initiatives, relationship building and assertive follow up.
1. Designing projects at each design state, and finding solutions for project specific problems.
2. Meeting client and project management consultant expectations, resulting in desired goals and out-comes in close communication with both internal and external design teams and specialist consultants.
3. Managing design and delivery of scope, by aligning multiple disciplines across the globe.
4. Aligning design Work with project program, deadlines, and stages of development.
5. Facilitating design Workshops, tracking timely completion of expected actions by design teams.
6. Adjusting design program to latest project conditions.
7. Reporting to company management on project issues, concerns, and actions planned.
8. Assigning Work to Sub Consultants and ensuring they meet their targets and scope.
9. Resolving Scope boundaries between design participants.
10. Implementing and coordinating total quality initiatives and design reviews by all project participants.
11. Identifying & resolving barriers and bottlenecks, resulting in high productivity and project success.
12. Encouraging and appreciating fellow designers, managing team delegation, discipline, and motivation.
13. Designed high-end residence, with Concept Design, Programming and Site Planning.
14. Residential mixed use design using 3D modeling, rendering using Revit, Form it, Rhino and 3ds Max.
15. US Architect Registration Exam Study for Board of Architects, Massachusetts.
Exit 15 Mega Entertainment Complex, Riyadh
Ministry of Defense Medical Hospital, Riyadh
Ministry of Culture—National Libraries redesign
ROSHN, Community Development Project, Al Kharj
Ministry of Defense Medical Hospital, Riyadh
Serena Gardens Residential Complex, Dubai
High-end Residential Design, Dubai
1. Successfully managed lean design teams, producing quality design solutions, while using up only 85% of planned time and cost targets. Planned task breakup and responsibility allocation based on stated talents, optimizing resource application to just the right priorities.
2. Excelled at definition and implementation of quality design documentation strategies, with full
involvement and consultation with all stakeholders, increasing speed and reliability by at least 25%.
3. Strategically clarified project scope ownership and roles between medical planners, architects, and
engineers, engaging and motivating all team participants to deliver at their highest potentials.
4. Developed well-designed architectural experiences and planning, systematically applying the highest medical performance and quality standards, that exceeded client and user requirements.
Designed and setup REVIT Building Information Modelling Systems Templates and Resources for Design Production and quality assurance systems for this design firm, leading to superior technically rigorous drawings, giving the firm a major competitive advantage.
Designed + Documented Corporate Headquarters for Business Bay Client, making effective use of limited space while creating a revolutionary design.
Produced comprehensive, quality construction drawings, resulting in quality execution.
Worked with client and design team, creating highly effective project management and work production scheduling systems that boosted productivity and performance.
Setup file and information management systems and checklists that ensured transfer of information in sequential manner reliably and with accurate documentation.
Produced Effective System for drawing exchange between internal and external design participants in the design center of a contractors office.
Researched and proposed a Marketing Strategy for pursuing Design Clients in these challenging business conditions.
Managed the appointment of an Interior Designer for a 4 star Hotlel in Jeddah, representing the Owner.
Desinged bespoke Luxury Villas for a developer in Jeddah
Prepared a conceptual interiors plan for a 4 star hotel
Coordinated the lighting of a tower in Jeddah, Saudia.
Served as Architecture Department Head, greatly increasing quality of documents, maximized utilization and productivity.
Grew department from 11 to 22 Architects, hired, motivated, and mentored staff to give their best performance as a team.
Increased profitability from 10% to 30% per year.
Designed Quality Assurance Systems and Tools for Architects to apply along with ISO 9001. Trained staff in discipline of quality systems resulting in marked improvement in quality and reliability of design delivery and services.
Succeeded in Creating a Training Organization where all staff contributed to training activities, conducted more than 50 training workshops directly under my leadership.
Developed Mission Statement, conducted Values Workshops with staff increasing staff’s ability to lead, be proactive and to make independent decisions.
Created Marketing/Growth Strategy Plan, Tools and devised tactics for Business Development, resulting in many new Clients and Leads.
Developed systems and training for bidding and fee proposals that reduced bidding time and resource consumption by as much as 70%.
Obtained Customer Feedback taking deliberate actions across departments and operational lines, transforming work culture and processes to meet client expectations.
Managed Multiple Project Scheduling and Backlog, never letting utilization drop below 90% for virtually all associates.
Organized Materials Library for speed and ease of access
Select Projects executed under my leadership:
Directorate General of Sharjah Police, Sharjah
Hyderabad Mixed Use Development, India
Masdar Zero Carbon City with Foster+Partners
Welcare City Hospital with Ellerbe Becket
Festival City Mall with HOK, Jerde, Carrilion
Sharjah Islamic. Botanical & Science Museums, with GAJ
Sharjah Souq Historic Restoration
Spinneys Corporte Headquarters Logistics City
Rulers Palace, Sharjah
1. Implemented design quality for 40+ retail outlets fit outs. 2. Resolved complex architectural & structural construction, planning, tenant relations & logistics issues to execute office fit out project. 3. Analyzed Lighting Studies and Signage Design, ensuring highest quality standards, coordinating internal and external disciplines.
Implemented design quality for 40+ retail outlets fit outs.
Resolved complex architectural & structural construction, planning, tenant relations & logistics issues to execute office fit out project.
Analyzed Lighting Studies and Signage Design, ensuring highest quality standards, coordinating internal and external disciplines.
Created Innovative, Modern Corporate Office Headquarters Interiors representing image of a progressive business organization, with an exciting highly productive work place.
Designed avant-garde Retail Interior Design for Luxury Clothing Retailer at Wafi Mall Boutique enhancing the brands image and providing an elegant showcase to exhibit the exquisite fashions.
1. Created Innovative, Modern Corporate Office Headquarters Interiors representing image of a progressive business organization, with an exciting highly productive work place. 2.Designed avant-garde Retail Interior Design for Luxury Clothing Retailer at Wafi Mall Boutique enhancing the brands image and providing an elegant showcase to exhibit the exquisite fashions.
Produced Highrise & Hotel Design Documentation
Resolved on site Detailing and construction issues resulting in timely delivery of historic reuse and residential condominiums.
Produced Designs for 500 person divisable Auditorium, along with 3D visualizations, material selections, and construction detailing.
Jan 2002 to March 2002 1. Historic Residential Luxury Condo Refurbishment Design, Site Services 2. Site Detailing and construction issues resulting in timely delivery of historic reuse and residential condominiums.
1. Quincy Academic Complex and Urban Planning, Design Visualizations 2. Produced Designs for 500 person dividable Auditorium, along with 3D visualizations, material selections, and construction detailing.
Produced quality design documents for Harvard & Boston Universities, Mass General Hospital and Amgen HQ Building
Produced Design Presentation Drawings for reuse of Theatre Building as a Residential Tower. Project received community approval at the first presentation, which is rare.
1. Amgen Biotech Headquarters, construction documentation, 3D Modeling 2. Harvard Auditorium Facility construction documentation
510 Dorchester Residential Complex, South Boston Refurbishment
Produced Design Presentation Drawings for reuse of the Theatre Building as a Residential Tower. The project received community approval at the first presentation and complied with the code.
Produced Models, Visualizations and Design Drawings for University Administration and classroom Buildings.