Matt Kurdi, Project Control System Manager

Matt Kurdi

Project Control System Manager

Allen and Shariff Corporation

Location
United Arab Emirates - Dubai
Education
Master's degree,
Experience
15 years, 6 Months

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Total years of experience :15 years, 6 Months

Project Control System Manager at Allen and Shariff Corporation
  • United Arab Emirates - Abu Dhabi
  • October 2010 to July 2013

Management \n• Ensure work is completed as per schedule, Identifies schedule associated cost trends for \n Management attentions. \n• Project Management, Risk Management, Communication & Relationship Management, \n Strategic Planning Skills, Technical Report writing, Computer & IT Skills \n• Ensuring integration & coordination between project controls functions - Estimating, Cost \n And planning Ensuring correct compliance and application of change control Technical \n• Assists in co-ordination of vendor material deliveries storage of materials, expediting and \n Engineering reports related to schedule, prepare projections and schedules for manpower, \n Material and equipments requirements, prepare field change notice, extra work orders and \n Back charge notice and variations. \n• Attends regular monthly/weekly progress review meetings \n• Very familiar with the ESTIDAMA, the sustainability requirements of government of Abu Dhabi, including the LEED and the Pear Rating. \n \n Contract \n• Meet with the client and understand the client requirements and understand the procurement requirements of the client. \n• Oversight of the development of tendering documents \n• Draft and standardize contract terms and conditions \n• Assists Review and verify contractual documents and ensure compliant with contractual terms, prepare, distribute and present contract administration guidelines to the project team. \n• Contract review during tender stages to identify contractual risks and entitlement for tendering purposes. \n• Work with staff to ensure full compliance with all contract documents \n• Keep track and reports periodically on cash flows and earned values, etc \n• Ensure recommendations for payment is consistent with contract terms and conditions \n• Resolve contractual disputes and administer the contract in accordance with the intent of the contract \n• Identify, eliminate or minimize contractual claims and insure all client expectations are met. \n Planning. \n• Monitor the activity of direct hire craft and sub contractors to ensure compliance with plans \n And specifications, maintain update sub contractors scheduling as assigned. \n• Knowledge of analysing and planning optimal sourcing and procurement strategies based on \n Organisational requirements \n• Develop detail schedule with expert level on primavera, along with the cost loading program \n (Schedule of value) \n• Reviews the work forecasts and plans for remaining activities and comments on the \n Proposals for any amendments to original plans. \n \n Costing. \n• Perform cost estimate, analysis, and control activities. \n• Establish and maintain procedures for Cost Control, Reporting and Budgeting \n• Review and audit contractors cost management and reporting procedures for all new \n Contracts \n• Evaluate contractor’s baseline cost-loaded schedule and track project costs to \n Contract closeout \n• Prepare monthly executive reports on projects cost status and progress, and \n Review the project close out reports \n• Programme and Budget submission and reporting against the same \n Develop and maintain a Cost Estimating system (including Cost Breakdown System), \n Including a database of historical project costs, and provides cost estimating support \n For project variations and to assist in forecasting of costs to completion through CCS software. \n \n Estimation. \n• Preparation of tender documents, Develop an efficient Mechanism of the construction, \n Interacting with the client for any cost impact hidden issues might appear later, professional \n Submittal of the bed based on the confidential matter. \n• Very expert using CCS estimation software. \n• Well familiar with UAE market construction budget and price.

Construction Management at International Construction Contractors Company
  • United Arab Emirates
  • December 2008 to August 2010

Management \n• Ensure work is completed as per schedule, Identifies schedule associated cost trends for \n Management attentions. \n• Project Management, Risk Management, Communication & Relationship Management, \n Strategic Planning Skills, Technical Report writing, Computer & IT Skills \n• Ensuring integration & coordination between project controls functions - Estimating, Cost \n And planning Ensuring correct compliance and application of change control Technical \n• Assists in co-ordination of vendor material deliveries storage of materials, expediting and \n Engineering reports related to schedule, prepare projections and schedules for manpower, \n Material and equipments requirements, prepare field change notice, extra work orders and \n Back charge notice and variations. \n• Attends regular monthly/weekly progress review meetings \n• Very familiar with the ESTIDAMA, the sustainability requirements of government of Abu Dhabi, including the LEED and the Pear Rating.

Project Engineer at Consolidated Contractors International Company
  • United Arab Emirates - Abu Dhabi
  • July 2007 to October 2008

Consolidated Contractors International Company-Constractor \nJul 2007 - Oct 2008 - Location: Abu Dhabi - UAE \n- Company: Consolidated Contractors \nInternational Company \n- Position: Project Engineer (sub contract \nCoordinator) \n- High-rise tower of 72 floors with 5 basements. \n- Land mark project (4.8 Billion Dhs) \n- Main contractor: CCIC and Al-Habtoor \n- Project Management: EC Harris \n- Client: Government of Abu Dhabi \n \n- Job Description: • To develop the implementation and coordination of all outsourced contracting parties and ensure \ncontract activities are in compliance with performance and quality requirements established. \n• To obtain expediting and other general support for contract issues \n• To supervise a section of a site work, including construction methodology, logistics and management interference. \n• Coordinate with external contractors and consultants to perform internal services contract \nmanagement activities and processes by applying best-practice tools, and techniques, in accordance with standards and procedures \n \n \n4 \n \n \n• Develop external relationships with contracting parties by ensuring relationships are kept \nopen and constructive, resolving or easing tension and identifying problems early

Section Engineer at Consolidated Contractors International Comapny
  • Saudi Arabia - Jeddah
  • March 2006 to June 2007

Mar 2006 - Jun 2007 - Location: Saudi Arabia - Aramco \n- Company: Consolidated Contractors \nInternational Company \n- Position: Section Engineer (Senior \nEstimator) \n- Rabigh power plant (350 Million SR) \n- Main contractor: Mitsubishi Heavy Industries \n- Client: Saudi Aramco - Petro Rabigh \n \n- Job Description: • Estimating costs for heavy industrial, oil and gas, pipeline and facility, and power generation \nconstruction projects. \n• Preparing professional proposals to be submitted to clients in response to Requests for \nProposals \n• Ability to perform construction take-offs, estimate man-hours for discipline of expertise \n(Primarily Electrical or Mechanical), schedule work using Excel, Primavera or other \nscheduling tools, solicit and evaluate subcontractor quotes, and work closely with other \nestimators in their discipline field in compiling a complete project estimate. \n• Estimating, Valuations, Planning, Cash Flow and forecasting components produce an integrated modelling a project's anticipated construction process and financial performance. \n• Price a bid rapidly and identify the critical elements of a tender. Pricing libraries facilitate \nconsistent, accurate and well-documented rate build-ups.

Section Engineer Construction at Consolidated Contractors Internation Company
  • United Arab Emirates - Dubai
  • February 2003 to January 2006

Feb 2003 - Jan 2006 - Location: Dubai - UAE \n- Company: Consolidated Contractors \nInternational Company. \n- Position: Section Engineer Construction/ \nActing Project Engineer (Jebel \nAli Power Plant Project) \n- Client: Dubai Electric and Water \nAuthority. \n- Consultants: Lahmayer International. \n- Main Contractors: Mitsubishi Heavy Industries \n \n- Job Description: • Ensuring a project is fit-for-purpose and adheres to the project budget and schedule. \n• Direct in charge in construction implementation on the assign project. \n• Estimate material quantities as required on the job site. \n• Coordinate and manage all projects pertaining to Building & Construction matters. Management, \nLiaison with senior management and clients. \n \n \n5 \nKiewit Contracting

Office Engineer at Peter Kiewit & Sons
  • Canada
  • June 2002 to January 2003

Jun 2002 - Jan 2003 - Location: Canada - Ontario - Toronto
- Company: Peter Kiewit & Sons (I.K.C.BOREALIS)
- Position: Office Engineer
- Consultant: SNC lavalin.

Site & Office Engineer at Peter Kiewit & Sons
  • Canada
  • May 2001 to May 2002

May 2001 - May 2002 - Location: Eastern Canada-Ottawa \n- Company: Peter Kiewit & Sons \n- Position: Site & Office Engineer \n- Project name: Chaudière NO 4 G.S. \n- Consultant: K.S.T (Hydro electric engineers) \n- Job Description: • Direct in charge of construction implementation of Rehabilitation of Chaudière Bridge, \ndemolition of the concrete piers, installs steel gains, and re-construction. \n• Install floating cofferdam, demolition, rehabilitation. Re-construction of concrete piers. \n• Prepare Productions rates, Monthly cost report, Schedule and planning, LDR report. \n• Estimating, Valuations, Planning, Forecasting components produce an integrated modelling a \nproject's anticipated construction process.

Site Civil Engineer at Consolidated Contractors
  • Kazakhstan
  • September 2000 to February 2001

Allen and Shariff Corporation - Project Management

Site Civil Engineer at Consolidated Contractors
  • United Arab Emirates
  • March 1999 to September 2000

Mar 1999- Sep 2000 - Location: Abu Dhabi - UAE
- Company: Consolidated Contractors
International Company (CCIC)
- Position: Site Civil Engineer.
- Cost of the project: 500 Million US $
- Project name: Onshore Gas Development Phase II
(OGDII), Adnoc gas sulfur plant.
- Clients: Abu Dhabi National Oil Company.
- Main Contractor: (Bechtel Group-Technip)
- Consultants: Parsons


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Site civil engineer at Consolidated Contractors
  • Saudi Arabia - Dammam
  • December 1998 to March 1999

Site & Office engineer

Site Civil Engineer at Consolidated Contractors
  • Saudi Arabia
  • September 1997 to December 1998

Sep 1997- Dec 1998 - Location: Kingdom of Saudi Arabia
- Company: Consolidated Contractors
International Company (CCIC)
- Position: Site Civil Engineer.
- Cost of project: 250 Million US $
- Project name: Shaybah Residential Industrial
Complex (SRIC)
- Client: Saudi Aramco (ARAMCO)
- Consultants: Parsons International.
- Main Contractor: Bechtel Group.
- Job Description: • Responsible for 5 Numbers of 4 stories Building including finishing, precast, steel
Structural. Clinic, shopping centers and control room. Hard and soft landscaping at the late stage
Including road Marking and signaling. (This partial compound area Designed for the Gas and Oil
Employee since the camp is 20 Km away from Aramco plant)


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Biographical Data: .

Education

Master's degree,
  • at School of Energy and Physical Sciences
  • July 2013

2011-2013 MSc Master of Energy, School of Energy and Physical Sciences, Heriot Watt-Graduate on December 2013

Diploma, Computer Skills
  • at Automated Design Centre
  • January 2002

1) Advanced AutoCAD 2002. (Certified from Automated Design Centre-Ottawa-Ontario- Canada)
2) Up-Date from A14. (Certified from Automated Design Centre-Ottawa-Ontario- Canada)
3) 3D AutoCAD Modelling. (Certified from Automated Design Centre-Ottawa-Ontario- Canada)
SCHEDULE:
• Sure Track Project manager 2.0-3.0, PRIMAVERA Project Management
• Projects Estimation, Manual & Computerized.
SAFETY:
• Safety Oriented First Aid (Certified by St.Jone Ambulance-Ottawa-Ontario-Canada), CPR and health care training 2002.

Bachelor's degree, Civil Engineering
  • at University of Jordan
  • January 1997

1991-1997 BSc Civil Engineering, Faculty of Engineering & Technology, University of Jordan

Diploma, Engineering
  • at Computer Literature/Membership
  • January 1997

• Registered Member of The Jordanian Engineering Association since 1997.
• Computer Literate: Microsoft Word, Microsoft Excel and Microsoft PowerPoint.
MS Office, Slope/w, Smart sketch, Storm cad, windows Vista- XP-ME 98, Netscape,
Sewer CAD, Simply accounting, Culvert master, Flow master, Internet Explorer.

Specialties & Skills

Contract Management
Construction Management
Project Management
Cost Control
Project Control
CIVIL ENGINEER
CLIENTS
ENGINEER
ESTIMATING
LIAISON

Languages

Arabic
Expert
English
Expert
Russian
Expert

Memberships

Registered Member of The Jordanian Engineering Association
  • Member
  • January 1997

Training and Certifications

1) Advanced AutoCAD 2002. (Certified from Automated Design Centre-Ottawa-Ontario- Canada) (Certificate)
Date Attended:
January 2000
Valid Until:
January 2002