Hanna Ghawi, Executive Director & Co-Founder

Hanna Ghawi

Executive Director & Co-Founder

Expressions

Location
Palestine - West Bank
Education
Master's degree, MBA
Experience
19 years, 11 Months

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Work Experience

Total years of experience :19 years, 11 Months

Executive Director & Co-Founder at Expressions
  • Palestine - West Bank
  • My current job since September 2007

Main responsibilities:
- Full Project Management
• Follow up on the construction project from start to finish.
• Oversee Contracts
• Perform a main role in project planning and budgeting
• Managing the budget, minimizing exposure and risk
• detect and Initiate claims aimed to reserve the contractual rights in conjunction of the Contract Manager
• Ensure that construction activities move according to defined schedule.
• Communicate with all the main contractors and sub-contractors responsible for completing various phases of the project.
• Monitor the progress of the construction activities
• Maintain and control quality and safety standards.
• Frequent inspection of construction sites.
• Finish Paper works and all related project documents
• Identify the elements that can cause disputes and claims.
- Prepare, review and issue contracts, payment certificates, tender packages
- Audit Claims
- Supervising Design Team and coordinate with Lead Architects
- Supervising and coordinating turnkey projects
- ensure the quality of the work while reviewing the progress of work as per the contract terms / schedule.
- Making sure client expectations are met and exceeded in terms of quality of product and service delivered
- Constantly monitor and report on the progress of a project to all stakeholders
- Analyze project profitability and feasibility
- Revise and coordinate architectural shop drawings

Consultant Architect at The World Bank
  • Palestine - Jerusalem
  • February 2012 to June 2014

Main responsibilities:
• Follow up on the construction project from start to finish.
• Oversee Contracts
• Perform a main role in project planning and budgeting
• Managing the budget, minimizing exposure and risk
• detect and Initiate claims aimed to reserve the contractual rights in conjunction of the Contract Manager
• Ensure that construction activities move according to defined schedule.
• Communicate with all the main contractors and sub-contractors responsible for completing various phases of the project.
• Monitor the progress of the construction activities
• Maintain and control quality and safety standards.
• Frequent inspection of construction sites.
• Finish Paper works and all related project documents
• Identify the elements that can cause disputes and claims.

Production Manager at Alternative Business Solutions
  • Palestine - West Bank
  • October 2006 to October 2010

Main responsibilities:
- Project Management
- Prepare, review and issue contracts, payment certificates, tender packages
- Audit Claims
- Supervising Design Team
- Revise and coordinate architectural shop drawings
- Exhibition Design and Management
- Checking drawings and quantities and ensuring that the calculations are accurate for the work
- Planning the work and efficiently organizing the site facilities in order to meet agreed deadlines

Architect - Full time at ARCO engineering and interior design office
  • Palestine - West Bank
  • August 2004 to June 2007

Main responsibilities:
- Interior Design
- Technical Drawings and Details
- Partial Supervision
- preparing tender documents
- prepare and coordinate architectural shop drawings
- Site Supervision

Graphic Designer at Alternative Business Solutions
  • Palestine - West Bank
  • September 2005 to October 2006

- Graphic Design
- CAD drawings
- 3D modeling

Architect at RIWAQ
  • Palestine - West Bank
  • March 2005 to July 2005

Data Collection, Analysis and Architectural Drawings of Der-Ghassaneh Old Town Planning International Competition (Data Collection Team Leader)

CAD Draftsman at RIWAQ
  • Palestine - West Bank
  • June 2004 to April 2005

CAD Technical drawings for old houses which need renovation in Nablus Old Town Publication

Education

Master's degree, MBA
  • at Indiana University of Pennsylvania
  • August 2018
Diploma, PMP Course (Project Management)
  • at Amideast
  • February 2012
Bachelor's degree, Architectural Engineering and Interior Design
  • at Birzeit University
  • July 2005

3 Honor Semesters, AVG 84%

Diploma, Systems Engineering
  • at Microsoft Certified Institutes
  • October 2002
High school or equivalent, Scientific Stream
  • at Catholic High School
  • June 2000

Graduated with Honors AVG 91 %

Specialties & Skills

Design Management
MS Project
Adobe Creative Suite
Microsoft Office
AutoCAD
3D Studio max ( Still and Animated design)
Adobe Photoshop, Illustrator and Indesign
Computerized Project Management using MS Project
AutoCAD (2D and 3D Design)
- Character Design (Poser (3D Characters) and Macromedia Flash (2D Characters)
Video editing and montage using Avid / Sony Vegas
MS Word, Excel, Access, Power Point,

Social Profiles

Languages

Arabic
Expert
English
Expert
Italian
Beginner

Memberships

Palestinian Engineering Association
  • Member
  • June 2005
Jordanian Engineering Association
  • Member
  • June 2005

Training and Certifications

PMP Project Management Course (Training)
Training Institute:
Amideast
Date Attended:
October 2011

Hobbies

  • Travelling and Reading