Mohamed Gabr, Facilities management director

Mohamed Gabr

Facilities management director

eXtra

Location
Saudi Arabia - Khobar
Education
Diploma, Business adminstration
Experience
32 years, 10 Months

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Work Experience

Total years of experience :32 years, 10 Months

Facilities management director at eXtra
  • Saudi Arabia - Eastern Province
  • My current job since August 2008

Managing a budget of 125, 000, 000 SAR with responsibility for the total facilities management of all properties, retail outlets, HQ, warehouses, buildings etc. including:

• Construction of new outlets
• Operations & Maintenance for all premises
• Safety & Security
• Administration
• QA/QC for company projects
• Fleet management
• Assets Management

Achievements

 Oversaw the building of 38 stores in Saudi, Bahrain & Oman with an average of 3000m2/store over 5 years with turnkey projects taking 4 months per store
 Asset management including all company premises, furniture and retail fittings

Acceptance & quality Sr. Manager at etisalat-misr
  • Egypt - Cairo
  • July 2007 to August 2008

Responsible for establishing acceptance guideline, process, SLA and WLA as well as the Quality Manual for all network elements

• Managed the NTRA function - National Telecommunication Regulatory Authority
• Coordinated with Finance to manage Network assets
• Successfully managed the site transfer process between Rollout and EOT
• Designed and created ORACLE data base to manage all related functions under one umbrella

Achievements

 Built the first database including all GSM sites from build to Activation
 Created the TQM manual-Etisalat Egypt for GSM site acceptance
 Diligently applied TQM across all GSM sites

HoD of Managed Services department at Huawei Technologies
  • Egypt - Cairo
  • August 2005 to July 2007

In charge of the Solution and Bid Management of Managed Services Propositions/Projects in the extended MEA Region (UAE, Egypt, Saudi Arabia, Bahrain, Qatar, Bangladesh, China, Jordan etc.)

• Developed a telecom Managed Service proposition, covering operation and maintenance, organisational development, business models effectively marketed in the region
• Implemented effective Business & Operational processes for a System Integration Service Division supporting significant growth and service expansion.
• Designed Process/Workflow of different business areas and Huawei’s standard manual for Managed Services, and maintained continuous improvement of MS standards
Prepared Strategic and Tactical Plans as well as Annual Budget, Quarterly Objectives and related KPI’s for the Managed Service Department, and led the evaluation and selection of suppliers and service providers
• Proactively managed other customer-related business areas within regional resources as needed
• Negotiated SLA / KPIs with customers, and closely monitored and reported KPIs to customers
Achievements

• Successfully conducted customer negotiations during establishment and implementation phases
• Carried out customer satisfaction surveys and monitoring in order to secure customer loyalty
• Designed and implemented a feedback system and monitored performance.

Operation and Maintenance Manager at Vodafone-Egypt
  • Egypt
  • February 1999 to August 2005

Overall responsibility for the efficient management and control of operations as well as allocation of a budget of 50, 000, 000 LE, and c oordinated fully with both Marketing and Sales staff to handle the requirements of 15 Retail outlets

• Designed and implemented a HELP DESK system to support customer requirements and a professional Data Base for business performance
• Managed Network Assets and handled partners and suppliers (prices, contract, SLA, WLA)
• Established schedules, the annual budget and closely monitored service assurance and delivery
• Applied cost management plans including scope statement, resource pool, organizational policies, cost baseline, revised cost estimates, budget updates, corrective actions, estimate at completion, closeout
• In charge of business case analysis and preparation for different internal projects, and the business development and launch of network elements, contract negotiation and management
• Designed business improvement programs and developed programs of accomplishment

Achievements

 Built the O&M organization from scratch
 Established the Vodafone-HQ and set up 49 stores over Egypt
 Headed the Team for Y2K project, BCP, ISO, Health & Vocational committee
.

Regional Engineer at Norconsult
  • Saudi Arabia
  • February 1995 to January 1999

Pre-Construction Survey .
FOC civil and installation work supervision .
Ensure the construction on schedule and as specified by the contract .
Managing the Acceptance Tests (PAT) for both fiber and copper cables .
Supervision of concrete works for exchange buildings, MHs and HHs (
According to ASTM code )
Maximizing Production at a given cost or minimize cost for a particular level of output.
Review all work flows to see if they can be speeded up, redirected or streamlined.
Examine any bottlenecks or delays to identify causes and suggest remedies.
Ensure efficiency of all running activities.
Coordinate the work progress to MoPTT.
Prepare reports, presentations to illustrate achievements.

SRS Project :

Reviewing the planning of the civil work of each system.
Ensure the appliance of project communications management plan.
Control project records, reports and presentations.
Supervising of Surveying and marking the location of Towers using GPS .
Supervising the selecting construction access roads .
Supervising the erection of steel Tower and fences .

Sr. Planning Enginer at SAE (French company)
  • Egypt
  • January 1994 to January 1995

Ensuring the sub-contractors to perform their work in a quality manner
Support all placing & splicing testing teams .
Hand -over execution work to the customer
Quantity surveying for the work done .
Cost control for OPS network materials
Surveying
Managing construction crews performance.
Full coordination with consultant regarding work under progress.
Manage multi activities through available resources.
Manage subcontractors to meet the project schedules.
Cost estimate for change orders.
Prepare weekly / monthly reports for top level management.

OSP Sr. Engineer at Telec (Telephone&Electricity company
  • Egypt
  • June 1991 to December 1993

Pre-contracting planning
Surveying
Test Diggings
Managing construction crews .
Supervision of concrete construction and exchanges Buildings
Supervision of road crossing and railway crossing .
Planning and control to bring the project to completion on schedule with budget.
Quantity survey for civil and cables work
Participation on doing shop drawings by Auto cad .

Education

Diploma, Business adminstration
  • at Ain Shams Univ.
  • April 2004
Bachelor's degree, Civil Engineering
  • at Ain Shams University
  • May 1991

Project management

Specialties & Skills

Facility Management
Crisis Management
Operational Systems
MS office
AutoCad
Facilities Software,aperature, Maximo, Oracle
Primavera
Negotiation skills
Crisis Management
Managing People
LeaderShip
Productivity measures & Efficiency Evaluation
Project Management
TQM Standards & ISO Standards
Risk Management
communication Skills
Customer Service @ CRM
Internal Auditor certified (BVQI)
Change Management
Multinational Experience
Presenting/ Instructing/ Briefing

Languages

Arabic
Expert
English
Expert

Memberships

Canadian council for professional engineers
  • Professional engineer approval
  • January 1999
American national standards institute(ANSI)
  • Space Planner Approval
  • March 2002
Society of maintenance&Reliability
  • Maintenance Specialist
  • April 2003
ARMS Reliability Engineers
  • Asset Managment
  • July 2003