Hassan Al Yagoub, Advisor - Human Capital Management

Hassan Al Yagoub

Advisor - Human Capital Management

Ministry of Human Resources and Social Development

Location
Saudi Arabia - Dammam
Education
Doctorate, Engineering Education
Experience
12 years, 8 Months

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Total years of experience :12 years, 8 Months

Advisor - Human Capital Management at Ministry of Human Resources and Social Development
  • Saudi Arabia - Riyadh
  • My current job since March 2023
Management Consultant at Portas Consulting
  • Saudi Arabia - Riyadh
  • July 2022 to February 2023

- Co-led the PMO for a conference accommodating +50 senior delegations.
- Designed a strategy for a major sport expansion globally (+SAR 3bn).
- Devised a governance evaluation & maturity model for +150 entities.
- Led an Org & HR transformation program to a public sector entity.
- Participated as part of think tank group to develop governance policies.

Senior Business Analyst at Portas Consulting
  • Saudi Arabia - Riyadh
  • February 2021 to June 2022

- Own and conduct specific pieces of analysis of a national scale transformation project.
- Gather knowledge and undertake research (external and internal sources)
- Analyze qualitative and quantitative data & draw out insights from completed analysis
- Develop documentation for clients.
- Prepare, conduct and write up interviews
- Prepare and write up workshops and meetings
- Support process management for the project.
- Capture and codify new knowledge developed during the project.

Intern at Portas Consulting
  • Saudi Arabia - Riyadh
  • November 2020 to January 2021

- Undertake research, conduct analysis, draw out insights, and synthesize findings.
- Develop independent sections of client documents and presentations.
- Contribute to team problem-solving and help develop recommendations.
- Help prepare and conduct interviews, workshops, and meetings.
- Build productive day-to-day relationships with client team members.
- Support team planning and process management.
- Support Portas's business development and internal firm-building activities.

Trainee consultant at Consulting Co
  • Saudi Arabia - Eastern Province
  • October 2020 to November 2020

A selective 8-week internship program that is administered through a partnernship between Capital Placement and the MISK Foundation.
The remote internship program has been designed to scaffold participants by taking an international project through the six consulting phases:
1- Onboarding and team allocation
2- Initial contact with an international client
3- Data collection and analysis
4- Feedback and solution proposal
5- Implementation
6- Testing, review, and handover

Team Leader at MIDFIELD
  • United States - Indiana
  • August 2018 to August 2020

• Manage MIDFIELD lab: recruitment, task assignments, performance reviews, and compensation.
• Research student, faculty, and engineering practitioner transition across various settings including academic, corporate, and refugee camps.
• Utilize both qualitative and quantitative approaches in resolving research inquires.
• Disseminated research through a book chapter, multiple conference papers, and research posters and presented a workshop.
• Coauthor on a book chapter that navigates corporate engineering leaderships programs in the United States.

Research Assistant (RA) at MEERCAT Purdue
  • United States - Indiana
  • January 2018 to May 2018

Led the quantitative research efforts for a cultural consensus analysis using the R language and the CCTpack package to analyze Purdue mechanical engineering faculty’s belongingness to the department.

Research Assistant (RA) at DeBoer Lab
  • United States - Indiana
  • August 2017 to December 2017

Performed qualitative analysis on the interactions of Syrian students during an introductory engineering course within a refugee camp setting. The analysis was used to provide course improvement for the second-course iteration.

Fleet Management Engineer at General Electric
  • Saudi Arabia - Dammam
  • July 2014 to July 2017

Responsible for upholding GE's product integrity by proactively identifying customer issues, investigating technical anomalies, providing technical assessments at both component and systems levels, and communicating GE technical solutions to customers.

Essential Responsibilities:
-Respond to internal and external customer requests for technical issue resolution relating to gas turbine axial compressors using technical product knowledge and analytical skills while adhering to sound engineering principles, standards, practices, procedures.
-Establish and maintain relationships with customers to make customer technical issues/requirements understood and addressed in a timely manner.
-Oversee technical Installation and Commissioning activities.
-Ensuring timely and accurate customer support of Power Engineering Requests (ERs) via use of Service Now.
-Lead and program manage root cause analysis activities for product technical issues.
-Prepare technical presentations for GE Leaders and Customers ensuring the timely communication of significant issues or developments.
-Plan and provide engineering technical oversight to the Contractual Services and Field Services teams during planned outages to meet availability goals.
-Escalate issues as required acting as the liaison between the field and design engineering to drive specific technical resolution and to help engineering identify, drive corrective actions.

Curriculum Develop, Trainer, and Coach at General Electric
  • Saudi Arabia - Dammam
  • January 2015 to July 2017

A volunteered non-paid role as Saudi Edison Champion which involved supporting the Regional Edison Development Program Manager with recruiting and job interviews in Saudi Arabia. Providing guidance to incoming Edison engineers and ease their transition from the academic setting to the professional experience which includes technical and personal coaching in addition to providing support on the graduate school application process.

Further support was provided to interns, co-op within Saudi Arabia by instructing technical courses and serving as a coaching partner.

Edison Engineering Development Program (EEDP) at General Electric
  • Saudi Arabia - Dammam
  • March 2012 to July 2014

Member of a rigorous two years and a half rotational leadership program designed for top talent individuals that accelerate development by focusing on technical skills through rotations in different engineering departments throughout GE, the A-B-C course, 8 months of intensive technical training in addition to regular work assignments, Six Sigma certification, and a Masters Degree.

GT Accessories Product Service Engineer (EEDP Rotation) at General Electric
  • United Arab Emirates - Dubai
  • January 2014 to June 2014

A rotation that was part of the Edison Engineering program, this role within the regional service engineering team supports new unit and installed base in the region by supporting the installation of new units, outage execution of installed base, and provided technical support through PAC system. This role involved being engaged in executing technical root cause analysis, non-conformance analysis, and FMEAs and supporting inquiries for different mechanical and electrical accessories systems.

Performance Testing Engineer (EEDP Rotation) at General Electric
  • Saudi Arabia - Dammam
  • July 2013 to December 2013

A rotation that was part of the Edison Engineering program, this role includes a mixture of engineering performance analysis (brayton cycle), cycle deck runs/analysis, familiarity with GE Performance calculation tools, full understanding of ASME performance testing code (PTC 22) and other key ASME codes and standards. In addition, it enhance project management skills, testing instrumentation and data acquisition, conducting risk reviews for key projects, and prepare performance test procedures and reports. Conducted, calculated, and reported preliminary test results in addition to conducting acoustic tests for multiple sites.

Repair Technology Engineer (EEDP Rotation) at General Electric
  • United States
  • January 2013 to June 2013

A rotation that was part of the Edison Engineering program, during this rotation I Developed fixtures with the Repair Development Center and planned its industrialization at global GE Repair Service Centers with estimated repair cost saving of $1.5MM. Written Repair Engineering Instructions and Repair Work Instructions to standardize the Nozzle repair processes and derived the standardization across the global network.

Instrumentation Technology Engineer (EEDP Rotation) at General Electric
  • United States
  • September 2012 to December 2012

A rotation that was part of the Edison Engineering program, where I led the designing of lifting and rigging systems and was working on developing instrumentation technologies. Development of a technology typically requires Hand calculations and solid modeling skills (AutoCad Inventor and ANSYS analysis skills) and presented the design during formal design review. Furthermore,

Repair Development Center Engineer (EEDP Rotation) at General Electric
  • Saudi Arabia - Dammam
  • March 2012 to September 2012

A rotation that was part of the Edison Engineering program, where I worked on developing and documenting repair processes. Document repair and work with GEMTEC service shop to establish the procedures. Participated in key roles in the creation and development of critical 7FA units’ Manufacturing Process Plan (MPP) and First Piece Qualification (FRQ) packages. Worked on updating the tooling and machining tooling inventory and led the communication between GE and both local and global vendors.

Research Assistant at University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
  • United States
  • April 2011 to December 2011

Helping designing a finite element code for Porous Media Flows. This code can be used for Mold-filling in LCM, a process to make polymer composites, Permeability prediction, Wicking flow in rigid and swelling materials, and General laminar flow.

Education

Doctorate, Engineering Education
  • at Purdue University
  • August 2023

Engineering education is the field of inquiry which aims to define, inform, and improve both Engineering Education and the education of engineers. It achieves this through research on topics such as: epistemology, policy, assessment, pedagogy, diversity, amongst others, as they pertain to engineering.

Master's degree, Engineering Education
  • at Purdue University
  • May 2019
Master's degree, Mechanical Engineering
  • at Georgia Institute of Technology
  • December 2015
Bachelor's degree, Mechanical Engineering
  • at University of Wisconsin Milwaukee
  • December 2011

- Graduated with high honors, Magna Cum Laude, from the University of Wisconsin Milwaukee in December 2011 -Honorable mention in the Outstanding Undergraduate Student Award, 2011. -Won first place in the Donald Borden Design Award on the capstone design project "Fluid Pressure Regulator for Medical" in December 2011. -Won first place in the Product Realization course final presentation on the capstone design project "Custom Healing Abutments" in December 2011. -Awarded the Hi-Five Award twice by UWM University Housing for handling building flood incident and helping in the grand opening of new established resident hall in 2010. -Awarded as MSOE Outstanding Peer Mentor of the year 2008.

High school or equivalent, Science
  • at Alsalam Highschool
  • May 2005

Specialties & Skills

Management
Mentoring
PowerPlant
Gas Turbines
Engineering
Six Sigma
ANSYS Workbench /FLUENT
SolidWorks
Autocad Inventor
Pro Engineer
Gas Turbine
operation
maintenance management
project execution
negotiation
planning

Languages

English
Expert
Arabic
Expert

Memberships

ASME
  • Member
  • October 2006
American Society of Engineering Education
  • Member
  • September 2017

Training and Certifications

Applied Management Principles (Training)
Training Institute:
Purdue University - Krannert School of Management
Date Attended:
August 2019
Duration:
40 hours
Advance Course in Engineering (ACE) (Training)
Training Institute:
General Electric
Foundation of Leadership (Training)
Training Institute:
General Electric
Meeting Management (Training)
Training Institute:
General Electric
Presentation Skills (Training)
Training Institute:
General Electric
Decision Making (Training)
Training Institute:
General Electric
Powerplant Fundamentals (Training)
Training Institute:
General Electric
Engineering at GE (Training)
Training Institute:
General Electric
Career Management (Training)
Training Institute:
General Electric
Six Sigma (Certificate)
Date Attended:
January 2008
The Art of Global Communication (Training)
Training Institute:
General Electric