Project Manager/Design Manager
ParadisWorld
Total years of experience :15 years, 6 Months
Project.: Large-scale habitation Project (12500 villas, 720 ha)
Urban planning, roads, infrastructure, villas, factories, schools, parcs and community buildings)
Responsibilities:
• Managed a team of architects and engineers in assistance of the technical director
• Prepared Invitations To Bid contracts (ITB) worth millions of dollars for soil, hydraulics, topographic, concrete and infrastructure studies
• Directed and provided guidance in Technical Bid Evaluation (TBI)
• Supervised and followed up winning bidder works and deliverables
• Prepared technical inquiry requests (Inquiry Requisitions) to vendors
• Verified scope of work, budgeted man hours, budgeted quantities, total of deliverables, and format of delivery, time schedules and other specifications for execution of the work.
• Prepared design specifications and drawings for foundations structure design, slab on grade, retaining walls
Achievements:
Established the project’s WBS, Scope, HR, Estimation, Budget, Cost, RFP's, Scheduling, Quality and perform change control
Established Project management plans and SOP for the whole company
Responsibilities:
• Represented and promoted VJ tech (innovative soil and concrete testing equipment) by selling their products and technically supporting their clients in UAE, Kuwait, Qatar and Oman
• Worked on the development of a professional network in the construction and engineering domain in the UAE
Achievements:
Wrote the technical submittals for geotechnical and environmental investigation of al Dhafra landfill site (Tadweer center of waste management Abu Dhabi) with Gulf geotechnical laboratory
Advised on the work procedure for soil mapping project (client : Dubai municipality) with National geotechnical laboratory
Responsibilities:
• Developped detailed project budgets for supervision projects
• Monitored and managed project budgets and resource allocation, ensuring the adherence to allocated budgets and investigate reasons for budget overruns
• Ensured supervision projects are delivered on schedule and on budget
• Managed client relations, including managing project expectations, sharing project progress and issues / risks and responding to client clarifications on technical and contractual issues
• Designed the structures of foundations and retaining walls for 2 critical buildings and 3 villas
• Suggested several creative technical and economical solutions for 2 of our largest clients
• Trained 200 engineering students in soil mechanics and geotechnical design while teaching at the Beirut Arab University
• Set up design specifications and drawings for many foundations and earth retaining structures
• Wrote over 10 technical reports on different topics (foundation, earth retaining structures, sea wall, landfill, dam)
• Obtained soil parameters by assigning and monitoring various soil site investigation tests
Achievements:
-Set up the Soil Testing Laboratory from scratch at the Beirut Arab University
-Convinced several experts and high level political leaders for a landfill solution for the country’s waste management challenges
-Increased the company’s turnover by 200% through promoting tailored project solutions
-Successfully studied and suggested out of the box recommendations to rescue a failed dam project worth AED 110 Million of value.
Project: Extension of Port Tripoli (Budget: AED 246 Million)
Mouawad Edde is one of the leading regional names in construction and project management involved in key projects in Lebanon and the Middle East.
Responsibilities:
• Monitored the construction work of more than150 workers and 5 subcontractors
• Assisted the project director in establishing site organizational plan to increase work productivity
• Collaborated with the consultant for the elaboration of the onsite batching plant for concrete pavement
• Discussed design modifications with the consultant for manholes design and foundations
• Supervised the execution of earth works, foundations, manholes casting and installation (over 150 m3 of concrete casting/day)
• Prepared work progress reports from scratch (daily report, weekly report and monthly report)
Achievements:
-Resolved conflicts with the consultant which avoided more than 3 months delay
-Increased work productivity by 50% (200m of duct bancs/day to 300m of duct bancs/day)
-Resolved design problems (light pole foundations and type A manhole design) after being on hold for more than 6 months
-Reduced foundations concrete volume by 25% which induced more than AED 185K savings in concrete
Project: PCB Axelera cleaning program (budget: AED 40 Million).
The project was conducted between SITA FD subsidiary of Suez Environnement, one of the world leaders in environmental management and LGCIE, one of the well-known applied research laboratory in civil and environmental engineering
Responsibilities:
• Planned, Designed and Implemented the project from A to Z (AED 1.2 Million, 3 years project)
• Collected, analyzed and discussed over 500 Soil testing results on polluted dredged materials and geosynthetic clay liners
• Innovated and executed a pilot scale test based on the landfill facilities (Execution of field work, site sampling and investigation, instrumentation, supervision, data collect and analysis)
• Wrote technical reports and scientific articles (English, French)
• Led a group civil engineers and master students in the planning and execution of their final year project
• Presented and debated my works in front of experts in international conferences
• Coordinated the execution of work between the industrial partner and the research laboratory
Achievements:
-Allowed the company, to predict long time behavior of landfill by developing a numerical model to study the water flow and pollutant transport in dredged materials
-Implemented a Landfill solution that was the only one selected in the PCB Axelera project final report
-Reduced the project budget by 20%
-Won AED 400K of new client contract and expanded the laboratory activity.
- Trainer of Autocad for Civil engineering department, INSA de Lyon
- Group management, knowledge communication
-Site management (Platinum tower, Hosen 440 tower) with ACC "Arabian Construction Company" Beyrouth, Lebanon
-Day-to-day management of the site, including supervising and monitoring the site labour force and the work of any subcontractors;
-Checking plans, drawings and quantities for accuracy of calculations
-Site management for the construction of sewage water purification plant with Butec, Tripoli, Lebanon
-Technical adviser of the site
Day-to-day management of the site, including supervising and monitoring the site and the work of any subcontractors
Research Master in Civil Engineering, INSA Lyon France Cement based materials, Composite materials, High environmental quality, road planning, and Structure analysis
MS in Civil Engineering, Lebanese University Lebanon; Soil mechanics, Structure analysis (ACI code, Eurocode), project management