Project Manager
Etimad Strategic Security Solutions
Total years of experience :21 years, 11 Months
Currently orchestrating Homeland Security projects at onshore Oil & Gas fields in Abu Dhabi and Fujairah, including executing, monitoring, and closing projects through effective internal teams & Contractors (civil, electrical & electronic) management, liaising with multiple stakeholders, authorities, operational companies, ADNOC, and PMO.
Successfully implemented hundreds of kilometers of infrastructures (>1700 structures) in a span of 11 months, including foundations and interconnections.
Achieved minimum percentage of incidents across all projects by working primarily in night shifts on major highways.
Delivered projects within agreed deadlines and budgets by building trust and relationships with clients, management teams, contractors, and consultants.
Handed over 3 high security inspection main gate complexes comprising of advanced security systems and surveillance sensors as well as interconnections and endpoints.
Deploying Complex Homeland Security Projects at onshore oil and gas fields in the Western Region of AD and reporting to two project managers, one in country and one abroad plus PMO. Work packages under my management and responsibility including but not limited to:
Construction works such as roads, fences, bypasses, concrete works as tower foundations, concrete walls, pre-cast works, anti-terrorism barriers;
Electrical works: solar systems and grid connections, connections at OpCo's substations drawers and switchboards, emergency power supply, grounding systems, powering up command and control centers;
Sensors (cameras, radars, thermal equipment, wireless systems, detections systems) installation, integration, commissioning and testing, inclusive of command and control rooms and centers;
Health and safety, quality assurance and handover packages to all activities.
Main achievements and projects:
Implementation of QHSE plan and training of contractors to comply with standards;
Habshan 1 (Complex Gasco, Gasco Bab and ADCO) project conclusion and delivery of planned, including gatch roads, security fences, FO backbones, sensor towers, solar systems, Command and control electrical re-wiring and testing, complete systems tests;
MP21, (hub of main pipelines) including internal and external gatch roads and FO backbones, sensor towers, solar systems, 47 road crossings over gas and oil pipelines, in time and with ZERO comments;
Mirfa (complex including Elixir, Al Mirfa Power Company, ADDC) single element, readiness of km of gatch roads, 12 major road crossings over services, gas and oil pipelines, FO backbones, Grid connections to ADDC, as planned.
Build trust and relationship with the operational companies asset holders, shift controllers or superintendents, plant managers, engineering, operations and maintenance teams on site, to explain activities, approve permits to work, ensure access and support for inspections was challenging at the start, but proof to be valuable with time.
Value of contracts above AED 187 Mi.
GSM expansion Project (BSS/NSS), Turn Key (TK) and Not TK, Managing small but skilled project team plus support from engineering staff (maintenance, operations and network planning) and legal team when required, at expansion of GSM mobile Network on Claro's Midwest Regional office (area of coverage 7 states, 26.7% of Brazilian territory). Main activities and stakeholders involved:
Main Vendors Nokia (civil works TK project team) and equipment installation teams, NEC microwave links, Ericsson, microwave links; BRT lease line FO access and satellite links; 4 Construction contractors and site acquisition teams, Supervision contractor and 3 metallic structure vendors.
With the network plan indicating geographical area where a new station is located, site acquisition team is dispatched to location to indicate possible areas to install new station. Candidates are visited by engineering teams, validating requirements and to the chose ones paperwork follows to legal department for lease contract. In parallel indicated contractor provides proposed design for validation and once approved authorization to start construction is given. Once construction ends, tower need to be erected, radio frequency and equipment’s installed, transmission installed, station tested and after all quality approvals, handed over to operations.
Some sites were co-location with existing ones, in this situation, less civil works but more planning and approvals required to proceed.
Main achievements and challenges:
Keep track of all processes and activation dates closest of baselines as possible, to 168 base stations, with environmental restrictions, huge deployment area, shortage of structures availability due to demand on the specific period pushed planning and resources allocation to be very accurate.
Some of the planned base station were to cover remote cities, mandatory for the regulatory agencies, so all efforts directed to achieve these specific ones, avoiding agency fines.
Main achievements: able maximize base stations activations to meet sales and regulatory agency Anatel coverage requirements, exceeding given targets by 2 additional stations before Dec 31st.
Negotiate on frequent conference calls with Infrastructure Director and the vendors top management, reallocation of resources, such as towers or equipment’s (RF, BTs) and installations teams, once distances could be from 500 to 3500 km away from warehouses and hubs.
Value of contracts U$ 16 mi.
As Nokia project team member at Claro (mobile carrier, country coverage) Swap Project, replacing and upgrading Alcatel Radio base station equipment’s (ERB's) equipment for Nokia on live network, 900 stations in 7 states.
Among my responsibilities on this contract: Responsible for support contractors on technical site survey report elaboration and approval, proposed design approvals, supervision of construction works, acceptance of infrastructure works, training of peers acting on different states, lifting operations, go ahead for swap on the clusters, only performed during maintenance window (11pm to 07am), validation of as built and acceptance, invoices pre- approval, coordination with Claro operations teams.
Main achievements and challenges:
Very critical activities and timelines, once all new equipment’s, racks, frames supports, antennas at the top of towers and required retrofit works should be prepared and ready, to be performed in 6 to 9 base stations integrating a cluster on the same night (maintenance window). If some problem happened with one of them, all activity should fall back and return to previous equipment, the risk was to stop providing mobile network for the region covered by this cluster.
Some sites very far or rural area, lack of communication with alternative mobile provider;
Subject to climate conditions, old equipment active on the network presenting failures;
Due to very good team work and a fast learning curve, project was successful;
I was for 2 months the responsible covering the activities on Rondonia state, responsible for all surveys and design approvals to the stations, on an area located between amazon forest, Bolivia and Mato Grosso, very challenging environment and climate.
Promon, Brasilia/DF; Infrastructure and Vertical structures
on Vertical Structures - Logistics:
Metallurgic Industry, implementing processes to coordinate fabrication, and logistics of structures new production line (towers and monopoles) including all materials required to final installation, joints, anchor bolts, nuts bolts, etc.
to Architecture, Engineering and Design companies retrofitting and building commercial areas, shops at shopping malls, offices, responsible for implementation and adjustments on design, illumination, air conditioned systems, civil and electrical works and structural, coordinating all disciplines to meet timeline and budget.
, Brasilia, SP, RJ
Turn-key Project for mobile network in Rio de Janeiro. Clients: Oi (TNL-PCS), TIM, Vesper and Nextel. (220 sites). Responsible for Roll Out coordination meetings at client's offices, planning of vertical structures delivery and erection teams to match availability and curing of concrete foundations, cranes and lifting requirements, optimizing resources, responsible for client's acceptance inspection and release for equipment installation (RFI), coordinating mobilization of infrastructure contractors and planning supervisors allocation, reporting to PM.
courses: NEBOSH – International General Certificate (IGC)- August 2015 PMP Training for PMI – Chicago training - Dec. 2013, pursuing PMP Certification PMI member;
courses: NEBOSH – International General Certificate (IGC)- August 2015 PMP Certificate