Ali Alghamdi, Project Management Portfolio Head

Ali Alghamdi

Project Management Portfolio Head

Elm Company

Location
Saudi Arabia
Education
Master's degree, MBA- Master of Business Adminstration
Experience
19 years, 4 Months

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Work Experience

Total years of experience :19 years, 4 Months

Project Management Portfolio Head at Elm Company
  • Saudi Arabia - Riyadh
  • My current job since December 2019

• Managing Nationalization programs and projects
• Managing other client’s programs and projects (military, and other government) in the training solutions sector
• Achieving the planned company's revenue quarters
• Reviewing program and project budgets and allocating revenues and costs
• Implementing projects management applications
• Enhancing projects managers knowledge and capabilities
• Reducing expenses costs of projects
• Offering solutions to clients that contribute in achieving their goals through projects
• Managing new customers requirements (leads, opportunities)
• Developing technical & financial proposals

Director at MLSD
  • Saudi Arabia - Riyadh
  • June 2015 to December 2019

• Managing the general directorate of working environment improvement programs and projects, through the whole project management life cycle (2020 NTP)
• Managing different departments related to improving Saudi labor market work environment:
o Work environment development of Occupational Safety & Health
o Work environment development of women
o Work environment development of people with disability
o Developing the general directorate strategic objectives, plans, initiatives, and staffing requirements
• Owner of two projects “project director“- (the two projects are part of the national transformation program 2020- NTP)
• Participating in the national transformation program (NTP) workshops, version 1 and 2 (NTP is one of the 2030 vision programs)
• Participating in developing the ministry strategy for labor sector
• Establishing the Strategic National Occupational Safety & Health Program for private sector to regulate labor market & develop work environment. This includes:
o Developing national regulations, technical standards, and guidelines of OSH
o Enhancing national resources and capabilities of OSH
o Enhancing OSH inspection and investigation of the ministry inspectors
o Working on improving accidents recording system integration system
o Launching national OSH awareness
• Developing women and disabilities work environment in the Saudi labor market through regulations and motivation mechanisms. This includes:
o Launching project for enhancing organizations to improve work environment for people with disabilities (Like Mwa’amah project)
o Launching women working environment regulations (Like harassment regulations)

Consultant at Leadership and Change consulting
  • Saudi Arabia - Riyadh
  • October 2013 to June 2015

Providing Consulting & Training Services in the following fields:
• Change Management
• Leadership
• Talent Management
• Projects Management
• Organization Assessment
• Organizational Culture
• Operational Excellence
• ERP Projects (Design, plan, & Implementation)
• Emotional Intelligence
• LEAN Manufacturing
• Developing Business Plan
• Coaching

Change management Manager at ARASCO
  • Saudi Arabia - Riyadh
  • August 2012 to October 2013

## Change Management Head:
# Applying Change Management methodologies such as:
* Lewin's Model
* 8- Step process Model (Kotter)
* ADKAR (Prosci)
This includes:
* Preparing, managing, and maintaining Change.
* Resistance management.
* Facilitating changes adaption.

# Responsible for Talent Management within ENSIAB program:
* Required Competencies
* Training & Development
* Succession Planning
* Motiviation & Incentives

Sales Account Manager at Schweitzer Engineering Laboratories Saudi Limited (SEL)
  • Saudi Arabia - Riyadh
  • March 2012 to July 2012

• Open new business with new & existing customers.
• Enhancing existing business with existing customers
• Preparing & Updating Sales Forecast
• Customer Negotiation for Tenders & Lose materials
• Tenders Preparation (Technical proposal with technical team & Commercial proposal)
• Maintaining Customer relationship and satisfaction through technical and after sales support
• Pre-qualifying new products with Saudi Electricity Company SEC (NG_SA)
• Preparing Markets study on our competitors prices and capabilities to understand our strength & weaknesses
• Looking for customers concerns to improve our services
• Presentation to customers about our products, solutions, & capabilities that can be offered to them.

Projects Manager, PMP, CKM, MBA at Advanced Electronics Company
  • Saudi Arabia - Riyadh
  • August 2009 to February 2012

• AMR system projects Manager for different customers such as SIEMENS, ABB, ALSTOM, and others (the end customer is Saudi Electricity Company).

• Applying projects management concepts such as; budgeting, costing analyses, risks, EVM, among others.

• Handling all the deliverables to customers for varies projects.

• Going through LCM from initiation phase until closure phase.

• Maintaining budget in addition to making saving through negotiation with suppliers, finding alternative materials or suppliers, and reducing expenses.

• Looking for improvement, such as: reducing time, using special equipments and tools, and eliminating unnecessary activities.

• Dealing with customers and delivering their requirements.

• Motivating my team members and using some leadership concepts with them.

• Contributing in applying Knowledge Management tasks across the company (AEC).

• Planning some Knowledge Management tasks from inception tell implementation.

• Using ERP “oracle” applications for projects monitoring and controlling.

Production Planning Engineer at Advanced Electronics Company (AEC)
  • Saudi Arabia - Riyadh
  • November 2004 to February 2008

• I worked with LEAN team as facilitator on ADDAD-4 product.
• I worked with a team who was responsible for applying LEAN manufacturing on NEDAA product.
• I participated in updating some processes maps and procedures that relate to different departments.
• I was responsible -as a planner- for one of the most important project at AEC: Panther Project -at that time-.
• I was responsible for updating and calculating the manpower forecast and the hours required for different projects in production planning department.
• I applied some quality techniques like PARETO Chart Analysis, Cause-Effect diagram to analyse some production data.

Production Engineer at Albabtain Company for Power & Telecommunications-Tower Factory
  • Saudi Arabia - Riyadh
  • August 2003 to November 2004

Production Engineer, (1) responsible about achieving production planning targets. (2) responsible about monitoring, controlling, and organizing production. (3) machines maintenance responsibility. (4) I used to be production in-charge for 4 months.

Education

Master's degree, MBA- Master of Business Adminstration
  • at University of Exeter- United Kingdom, Exeter
  • January 2010
Bachelor's degree, Industrial Engineering
  • at King Saud University
  • June 2003

Specialties & Skills

Leadership Development
Talent Management
Change Management
Lean Manufacturing
Project Management
ERP-production planning options
using Excel very well
Projects Manangement
Certified Trainer
Certifief Six Thinking Hats Trainer
Certified Change Management Practitioner

Languages

Arabic
Expert
English
Intermediate

Training and Certifications

Certified Change Management Practitioner (Certificate)
Certified Six Thinking Hats Trainer (Certificate)
Valid Until:
June 2013
Certified Trainer (Certificate)
Date Attended:
May 2013
Valid Until:
June 2013
Certified Knowledge Management (Certificate)
Date Attended:
January 2011
Valid Until:
January 2011
Certified PMP (Certificate)
Date Attended:
January 2009
Valid Until:
January 2009