Fayez Almalki, Senior Project Manager

Fayez Almalki

Senior Project Manager

King Abdul Aziz City for Science and Technology

Location
Saudi Arabia - Riyadh
Education
Master's degree, Master of Science Information Technology Project Management
Experience
20 years, 9 Months

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Total years of experience :20 years, 9 Months

Senior Project Manager at King Abdul Aziz City for Science and Technology
  • Saudi Arabia - Riyadh
  • My current job since April 2009

Lead the establishment of frameworks and standards for program and project management. Implement governance standards including tracking, monitoring and updating deliverables and ensure accurate implemented on the ERP to meet program, institute and department requirements. Integrate promotion criteria checklist to research faculty, and drive decision-making processes to create medium and long-term improvements. Establish and review key strategic priorities and translate them into a comprehensive strategic plan to underpin strategic objectives. Establish PMO’s strategies, methodologies, responsibilities, services and deliverables to support PMO’s objectives, including processes and templates, across all projects. Responsible of strategic projects and KACST collaboration agreement delivering support to the definition of project business cases.
Key Projects: -
• New Taif Technology Park (Phase I, Masterplan), Project Manager

• TAISIR (ERP), Project Manager
• Cambridge - National Centre for Advanced Materials, Program/ Project Manager
• Chemical Warehouse, Team Leader
• Genome wide analysis of infection of Johne's Disease in camels: see link
http://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0031947
• Project for establishing bases of sustainable development in palms and dates sector with a special focus on insect pests: see link
https://www.kacst.edu.sa/eng/about/news/Pages/news3550901-4335.aspx
Key Achievements: -
• Delivered computerized workflow (HRMS, PM, Financial, Procurement etc.) that reduced paperwork to 10% and accelerated the work flow by up to 90%; one of the 1st organizations in KSA to implement this kind of system into R&D
http://www.oracle.com/us/corporate/customers/customersearch/kacst-5-ebs-2714412.html?msgid=gcp-SPARC
• Key contributor in the successful build of an organic solar cell and bulk superconductors
• Established the PMO from scratch including the design and implementation of all policies and procedures.

Assistant Operator at Ministry of Water and Electricity
  • Saudi Arabia - Riyadh
  • January 2000 to August 2005

Prior to re-entering education in the USA was worked in an entry-level role conducting chemical experiments and routine checking for the Shemasy Plant.

Education

Master's degree, Master of Science Information Technology Project Management
  • at DePaul University
  • April 2009

This program is design for preparing for a careers leading and managing IT project team. The program is along with developing skills that manage major factors in IT project failures. The program is with strong training in the breadth of project management skills significantly improves the likelihood of bringing an IT project in successfully on time, and on budget

Bachelor's degree, Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering
  • at Purdue University Calumet
  • August 2007

Engineers are knowledge to be responsible for the design, development and manufacturing. This is including diagnosing and solving practical problems. Electrical Engineers design solutions for a host of systems that control, monitor or energize industrial equipment, household products and the transportation systems

Specialties & Skills

Business Strategy
Project Management
Microsoft Office 2016
MS Project application
Oracle ERP
Management Skills
Business Strategy

Languages

English
Expert
Arabic
Expert
Spanish
Beginner

Training and Certifications

Balanced Scorecard Professional (Certificate)
Date Attended:
July 2012
Valid Until:
January 9999
Strategy Execution (Certificate)
Date Attended:
March 2014
Valid Until:
January 9999
Advanced Topics in Project Management (Training)
Training Institute:
Change Consulting Training
Date Attended:
March 2012
Duration:
30 hours
IT Project Management (Certificate)
Date Attended:
November 2008
Valid Until:
January 9999
R12 Oracle Project, ERP Suite & P6 Rel 8 (Certificate)
Date Attended:
September 2012
Valid Until:
January 9999
Core Engineering Management (Certificate)
Date Attended:
March 2011
Valid Until:
January 9999
Project Management: Skills for Success (Training)
Training Institute:
Learning Tree International
Date Attended:
April 2010
Duration:
21 hours
Managing Projects using MS Project 2010 (Training)
Training Institute:
Change Consulting Training
Date Attended:
April 2012
Duration:
30 hours
Building, Leading & Sustaining the Innovative Organization (Training)
Training Institute:
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Massachusetts
Date Attended:
March 2014
Duration:
21 hours
CCNA (Training)
Training Institute:
AlKhaleej Institute
Date Attended:
May 2004
Duration:
120 hours