Khaled ELSISI, Freelance Consultant

Khaled ELSISI

Freelance Consultant

Freelancer

Lieu
Émirats Arabes Unis - Dubaï
Éducation
Baccalauréat, Architectural Engineering
Expérience
30 years, 6 Mois

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Expériences professionnelles

Total des années d'expérience :30 years, 6 Mois

Freelance Consultant à Freelancer
  • Émirats Arabes Unis - Dubaï
  • Je travaille ici depuis septembre 2021

Experienced Freelance Consultant specializing in Business Development Management, Engineering Management, Coordination Management, and Project Management. With over three decades of dedicated industry experience, I offer a comprehensive skill set and deep expertise in driving success across diverse projects. My consultancy services cater primarily to major contracting companies, project consultants, and project management firms in UAE & KSA regions, delivering tangible results and exceeding client expectations.
• Proven track record of effectively managing multi-disciplinary design projects, leading cross-functional teams, and mitigating design conflicts to ensure seamless project execution.
• Expertise in resolving technical challenges, delivering exceptional customer service, and optimizing workflows to enhance project efficiency.
• Skilled in strategic planning, negotiation, and dynamic leadership, with a passion for driving organizational success through keen problem solving abilities.
• Services encompass process optimization, technical consultation, team leadership, and resource allocation, among others, aimed at facilitating project excellence.
• Proficient in project planning, budgeting, risk management, and quality assurance, ensuring projects are delivered within defined budgets and timelines.
• Dedicated to skill development, knowledge transfer, and professional growth, fostering a culture of continuous improvement within project teams.
• Experienced in providing technical advisory services, managing authorities requirements, and guiding projects through all phases of engineering design, conceptual, FEED, detailed design, documentation, and final handover.

Senior Project Engineer / Manager à General Electric (GE)
  • Émirats Arabes Unis - Dubaï
  • mai 2010 à août 2021

• Managed multi-discipline design coordination with designers, consultants, clients, authorities, electro-mechanical, HVAC, fire protection systems, and lighting/small power systems disciplines.
• Comprehension of projects overall scope of work particularly the detailed scope of architectural, civil, and building services (MEP) works as per project specifications and client requirements.
• Meeting contracts requirements in terms of scope, performance, schedule, budget, resources, quality, and safety.
• Thoroughly reviewed drawings / documents with contractual requirements and specs, ensured adherence with related technical requirements and liaised the multi-disciplinary design with all concerned disciplines.
• Responsible for design risk management in all aspects of the project from cost estimation during tendering to technical limitation, site constraints and mitigation of the same.
• Minimized potential deviation risks by analyzing clients comments causing cost or time variations before responding or confirming. Ensured that revised drawings are complying with clients comments with NO time or cost variations.
• Drove significant decrease in conflicts, discrepancies and resolving critical issues in close liaison with relevant disciplines. Ensured clearing all design-related discrepancies and missing details to site engineers in consultation with designers/consultants.
• Lead contractual negotiations with potential subcontractors and suppliers. Selected the appropriate by evaluating pre-qualification documents before project initiation and during tender stage.
• Analyzed architectural, civil and MEP subcontract agreements for consistency and confirm subcontractors scope of work meets clients and GEs standards and target dates.
• Approved issuing engineering, commercial, administrative, or technical documents and correspondents with client / consultant in line with GEs guidelines.
• Closely interacted with procurement sourcing agents before issuing POs to subcontractors for technical issues and scope of work.
• Optimized project execution process by developing and implementing work schedules, forms, checklists, procedures, work instructions, method statements and other quality system requirements.
• Managed submissions program as per project & site requirements, ensured maintaining works progress as per time schedule & site activities, identify potential delay risks & critical path activities, established means for recovery, improvement, or mitigation.
• Monitored and evaluated monthly progress of design with respect to time schedule and site activities in conjunction with project planners.
• Authenticated design progress by monitoring and validating periodic invoices of design consultants and subcontractors before payment.
• Responsible for design cash flow / budget with project controllers.
• Participated in cost control review meetings with project controllers to review project budget and identify potential deviation risks.
• Managed and identified change orders, additional works, variations, and claims in accordance with contract procedures.
• Managed works of No Objection Certificates, Permits, PTW coordinators ensuring obtaining, tracking and closure of required permits from different authorities at start-to-end of the project.
• Managed site coordination, technical and progress meetings with clients, consultants, subcontractors, and authorities to review the construction progress.
• Promoted teamwork within multi-disciplinary team maintaining positive morals, collaboration, and creative culture.
• Enforced implementation of clients and GEs Quality and EHS Systems in coordination with QA/QC engineers and ensured no quality violations by site teams.
• Ensured implementation of Engineering Management Handbook and departmental quality policy in liaison with quality auditors.

Project Engineer à General Electric (GE)
  • Émirats Arabes Unis - Dubaï
  • novembre 2007 à avril 2010

In charge of multi-disciplinary design coordination with consultants and clients. Consistently monitor Document/Drawing Control & Monitoring System for planned, actual, and revised targets of submissions to maintain updated register. Prepare a baseline planned submission program of civil documents/ drawings as per project time schedule and site requirements in coordination with Project Planner. Ensure timely submission of drawings/documents by consultants as per planned program. Thoroughly review submitted drawings/documents against contractual requirements and specs and ensures compliance with related equipment requirements and to transmit received information to all concerned parties/agencies. Ensure minimum conflicts/ discrepancies with relevant disciplines. Compile documents/drawings and submit to client through the Document Controllers. Pursue approval with clients. In case of clarifications, arrange with relevant agencies to clarify/ revise/improve as per clients comments to expedite approvals. Discuss with PM any clients comments resulting in cost variation before reply/confirmation. Ensure timely issuing of Released for Construction drawings to sites through Documents Controllers. Participate in coordination meetings and monthly progress meetings with clients. Visit sites regularly to audit/ensure that site staff are working with the latest drawings. Clarify to site engineers any design related discrepancies or missing details in coordination with designers. Participate in evaluating PQ documents of civil design consultants before start of project for the selection of the appropriate consultant. Review subcontract design agreement ensuring scope of works of subcontractor matches clients standards and target dates. Monitor/validate monthly progress of civil design with respect to time schedule and site activities in coordination with Project Planner. Monitor/validate periodic invoices of design consultants before payment to ensure matching design progress achieved.

Additional Work Experience

Architectural Engineer à Jawda Engineering Consultants
  • Egypte - Le Caire
  • septembre 2006 à septembre 2007

• Production and preparation of Architectural Drawings of major industrial and commercial projects by the use of AutoCAD. The drawings include: layouts, plans, elevations, sections and full details throughout all design stages; base design, detailed design, issued for construction and as built. • Managing the architectural workflow and team in the office. This includes: supervising works accomplishment and progress, manpower/resources allocation, work-man-hours, time sheets, CAD workflow, CAD Standardization, submission deadlines, and drawings checking/counter-checking with other engineering drawings for integration and conformity.• Managing the overall progress of the project and staff/resources allocation to ensure meeting project milestones and deadlines.• Comprehending the project tendering and contractual documents, technical specifications, codes and standards and implementing them throughout the project stages.• Attending regular (local and abroad) Design Review Meetings with clients to discuss project progress, comments and approvals on drawings throughout different project stages.• Coordinating with international clients to discuss project progress, comments and approvals on drawings throughout different project stages. • Quality Control: reviewing and counter-checking different engineering drawings i.e. structural, civil, electrical and mechanical of the project for integrity and final inspection before final submission or issuing to site. • Supervising (DMS) Documents Management System in the office. This involves electronically managing, archiving, preserving and retrieving technical documents. These documents include drawings, calculations, revisions tracking, submittals, comments, approvals, emails, correspondence, manuals and brochures. • Preparing Bill of Quantities for the Architectural Works in the projects.

Senior Architectural Engineer à Zedan Consultants
  • Arabie Saoudite - Khobar
  • mai 1997 à juin 2005

• Production and preparation of Architectural Drawings of major industrial and commercial projects by the use of AutoCAD. The drawings include: layouts, plans, elevations, sections and full details throughout all design stages; base design, detailed design, issued for construction and as built.• Analyze initial tender designs and develop them in conformance with client’s technical specifications.• Supervising the architectural and CAD workflow in the office.• Attending regular Design Review Meetings with clients to discuss project progress, comments and approvals on drawings throughout different project stages.• Reviewing and counter-checking different engineering drawings i.e. Structural, civil, electrical and mechanical of the project for integrity and final inspection before final submission or issuing to site.• Regular visits to construction sites to supervise architectural works according to Issued for Construction Documents making necessary modifications and solving design problems if required.• Preparing Bill of Quantities for the Architectural Works in the projects.

Architectural Engineer à Al-Awami Planners & Consultants
  • Arabie Saoudite - AlQatif
  • août 1992 à mai 1997

* Production and preparation of various architectural drawings and details for different projects like villas, apartment and office buildings, compounds, shopping malls, hospitals and hotels using AutoCAD software. The drawings include: layouts, plans, elevations, sections and details.
* Analyze initial designs and develop them to meet client’s requirements.

Éducation

Baccalauréat, Architectural Engineering
  • à King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals (KFUPM)
  • juillet 1992

Architectural Engineering is related to both architecture as well as engineering. However, Architectural Engineering as a discipline is distinguished from Architecture by its emphasis on the technology and engineering aspects related to Building Design, Construction and Operation Management.

Specialties & Skills

Soft Skills
Production
Preparation
Issuing
Integrity
AUTOCAD
contracts management
site management
documents management
projects planning
Inter discipline Coordination
CONSTRUCTION
COST ESTIMATION
CHECKLISTS
COLLABORATION
MITIGATION
DRAWING
MANAGEMENT
ENGINEERING MANAGEMENT
NEGOTIATION
CUSTOMER RELATIONS
MICROSOFT OFFICE
MICROSOFT WORKS
CONTRACT MANAGEMENT
interpersonal skills
sourcing/procurement
Building Information Modeling
people management
working in multinational companies
resolving complex design/project engineering & execution issues
tendering management
quality management
EPC Projects
engineering design coordination management
Clients Management
project closeout
project cost control

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Langues

Arabe
Expert
Anglais
Expert
Français
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Adhésions

Egypt Engineers Syndicate
  • Active Member
  • August 1992
(AIA) The American Institute of Architects
  • Associate Member
  • October 2021
(CSCE) The Canadian Society of Civil Engineers
  • Affiliate Member
  • October 2021

Formation et Diplômes

Teamwork Skills Training (Formation)
Institut de formation:
ALSTOM
Finance for Non-Finance Training (Formation)
Institut de formation:
ALSTOM
Management & Leadership Training (Formation)
Institut de formation:
ALSTOM
Code of Ethics e-Training (Formation)
Institut de formation:
ALSTOM
EHS, the Basics Certificate e-Training (Formation)
Institut de formation:
ALSTOM
Project Management Fundamentals Training (Formation)
Institut de formation:
ALSTOM
EHS High-Risk Activities e-Training (Formation)
Institut de formation:
ALSTOM
E-Ethics e-Learning module Training (Formation)
Institut de formation:
ALSTOM
EHS Fundamentals e-Training (Formation)
Institut de formation:
ALSTOM