Omar Jouhar

• Review the Consultants and main contractors’ design and drawing packages for 238kV, 115 kV, 34.5kV, 33kV, 13.8 kV, 4.6kV, 480V, 400V, 380V, 208V and give direction to a team of electrical engineers
• Provide direction in preparing innovative designs for continuing expansion of 13.8kV electrical distribution system.
• Coordinates transmission and distribution of Saudi Electric Company (SEC) specification, standards/practices and comments into project design documents
• Review and assist to prepare electrical design calculation, load flow, cable sizing and voltage drop calculations
• Provide support to Construction department, which includes review of Design Change Notices (DCN), and respond to contractor’s Technical Queries (TQ).
• Review construction shop drawings and material submittals
• Supports Investment Promotion Department by reviewing designs submitted by the industries
• Review and assist prepare design documents to meet local and international codes and standards such as SBC, SEC, IBC, IEC, NEC, IEEE, NFPA, IESNA, CIE, ASTM, ANSI, and Royal Commission (RC) codes and standards
• Lead the effort of review for the development and maintenance of the Royal commission Engineering Manual, and development of Standard Details and Specifications
• Review of computer code reports, which utilize ETAP to run electrical transient calculations to verify proper rating and sizing of equipment
• Review of computer code reports run by DIALux to verify that lighting calculation meet local and international codes’ requirements
• Continuously updates the status of power supply availability to the residential, industrial communities, provides solutions, alternatives to power supply routing and systems satisfying SEC’s standards
• Coach, mentor and lead personnel within a technical team environment

• Production of construction documents for transit projects, involving power distribution, lighting, calculations, cost estimates, and specifications
• Prepare electrical design packages requiring extensive knowledge of design techniques and tools to add new equipment and modify existing systems
• Provide construction management and inspection services for assigned projects in accordance with the plans and specification
• Review of Prime Contractors’ (PC) and its Sub-Contractors’/Suppliers’ electrical engineering deliverables, submittals and shop drawing related to electrical systems and equipment, and assure compliance to specification, design codes and standards in order to facilitate design, construction, installation and commissioning for the project
• Utilized ETAP to perform short circuit, ARC flash, voltage drop, load flow, motor starting, and protective device coordination for variety voltage systems
• Complete field surveys and generation of as-built and demolition drawings
• Create and provide design services, engineering services and construction administration services for transit systems
• Create commissioning guide, commissioning specification, and inspection checklists on behalf of the client
• Proposal review and evaluation and follow up on project construction and execution
• Develop lessons learned, and maintain Lessons Learned database for the clients

Responsible for electrical plan review of construction documents and ensures compliance to National Electrical Code and building code for residential, commercial, and data center projects for local jurisdictions
• Conducted interdisciplinary team review and coordination
• Ensured design compliance to safety codes and standards
• Conduct design evaluation and plan review for the manufactured home project for the Department of Housing and Urban Development, which includes electrical, mechanical, and plumbing reviews, as well as compliance to standard 24 CFR Part 3280, and Part 3282

• Development of testing design concepts and proposals
• Utilized SKM and ETAP to provide electrical transient power analysis, which includes short circuit, arc flash, voltage drop, load flow, and transient stability coordination for low voltage systems
• Responsible for preparation of technical document such as commissioning and maintenance procedures, proposals and statements of work
• Performed on site surveys to verify requirements and compliance
• Conducted on site commissioning services in the area of mission critical equipment, such as UPS (Uninterruptable Power Supply), emergency power generators, emergency service facilities, and ATS (Automatic Transfer Switch) to insure system reliability
• Managing and overseeing maintenance services
• Verification of project and document compliance to National Electrical Code and building code
• Participated in providing cost estimates and proposals
• Monitored project financial status and performance
• Production of construction documents for commercial projects, involving power distribution, lighting, and fire alarm systems
• Complete field surveys and generation of as-built and demolition drawings

• Production of construction documents for $750 million Surveillance Radar Program (S.R.P.) in undisclosed/classified Location.
• Responsible for designing lightning and grounding protection systems for the project
• Review of FSS (Facilities Subsystem Specification) and design requirements for the 69kV system and its subsystems and the direction of all electrical and instrument engineers across the project areas
• Implemented design concepts and building systems selection and analysis to meet military codes such as TM5-690, TM5-691, and TM5-811; National Fire Protection Association (NFPA) Code 780; NEC, and IEEE/ANSI Stds. requirements
• Ensured consistency of design reviews, specifications, electrical drawings, equipment schedules, cable schedules, panel schedules, calculations, and cross-referencing throughout the drawings for all electrical designs
• Provided solutions, alternatives to power supply routing, and systems reliability satisfying FSS requirements through providing redundant systems
• Coordination with architects and mechanical and civil engineers to facilitate optimum efficiency to maximize output and minimize expenses
• Electrical engineering design included work for all non-technical facilities as well as complex systems for the radar, radar cooling, water and sewer, and power generation facilities
• Utilized ETAP to perform short circuit, voltage drop, load flow, motor starting, transient stability coordination, harmonics, cable pulling, duct bank thermal analysis, grounding calculation, DC analysis, and battery sizing based on load requirement for DC systems and control for variety voltage systems such 69kV (high voltage), 5kV (medium voltage), 480V, 380V, 208V, and 190V (low voltage) systems
• Performed lighting design and calculation using AGI lighting program
• Participated in the Q.A, QC team for the SRP project
• Provided ETAP training to the Electrical Engineering department at PB.
• Provided computer codes, ETAP and AGI, technical guidance to all electrical engineers on the project as part of the company’s functional support engineer
• Mentored and trained entry level engineers
• Maintained effective working relationships with field crews, vendors, and outside agencies

• Production of construction documents for various commercial, residential, religious, and public projects, involving power distribution, lighting, and fire alarm systems
• Complete field surveys and generation of as-built and demolition drawings.
• Coordination with utility companies for the electric service
• Coordination with Architects, Mechanical, and Plumbing engineers to facilitate optimum efficiency to maximize output and minimize expenses
• Implementation of design concepts and building systems selection and analysis and construction cost estimates.
• National Electrical Code and building codes research
• Full ACAD production and IT needs such as Network Planning; Installation and configuration of Windows NT 4/2000/XP, MS Office, Remote network access; VPN, Complete System Virus Protection; Network and local printing

• Designing, deploying, and configuring test beds, including LAN (Local Area Networks) with UNIX workstations, and testing towards product acceptance for data and telephone service
• Provide 24x7 remote and on-site customer support to AT&T and IBM
• Interact with developers and customers to provide EMS (Element Management System) bug fixes, solutions and software evaluation for data and telephone services
• Designing and simulating computer communication protocols such as TCP/IP, OSPF and routing protocols
• Operate different data communication and testing tools such as Sniffer, Digital and Optical Signal Generator and Analyzer
• Installation and design of TMN based Q3 interface between Network Management System (NMS) and Element Management System (EMS)

• Quality assurance of Network controller for NEC SONET NE’s (Network Elements)
• Install operating systems SUN OS 4.1.4, Solaris 2.5.1, 8.6, Marben, OSI, NTP, Sybase database 10.0.2, 11.0.1, and 11.0.5 on UNIX workstations
• Prepare test plan and procedures for System Level and Integration testing of NC and SONET NE's as defined in ISO-9001 software product life cycle requirements
• Analyze results of QA testing using TL1 commands
• Review and edit necessary documentation for each software release, which includes SIG, OMG, Release Notes and MOPs
• WAN simulation with Cisco routers, conduct TMN (Telecommunication Management System) based Q3 interface testing of EMS-100 of NEC to manage OC-48 SONET NEs by using DSET Agent Tester