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Romek Kaminski, Commercial Manager

Romek Kaminski

Commercial Manager·Odebrecht

United Arab Emirates

Diploma, Project Management

Work experience

Total years of experience: 18 years, 2 months

Commercial Manager

January 2012 - Present

Odebrecht

Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates

January 2012 - Present

Achievements
• Report to Project Director.
• Project Strategy definition and execution
• Strategic Advisor to Project Director.
• Responsible for Commercial and Contractual Matters for the Project
• Responsible for Project Risk and Cost for the Project.
• Responsible for performance reporting.
• Manage relationships with Client organisation.
• Manage team of 16 to execute my responsibilities.

Company industry:
Civil Engineering
Job role:
Management

Transition Manager

June 2011 - January 2012

Aecom

Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates

June 2011 - January 2012

Achievements
• Responsible for the Transition of DL Middle East into the new parent company AECOM.
• Responsible for managing all Middle East functions in transitioning operations to the new policies and procedures.
• Manage the conversion of SAP to Oracle platform, liaising with AECOM IT in US, Transition team in Europe and local Middle East stakeholder.
• Report to Head of Davis Langdon Middle East and to Global Transition lead in US.
• Responsible for developing and managing Change initiatives for the region.
• Develop and implement communication and training plans.
• Presentations to all major stakeholders in the region, Europe and US.

Company industry:
Business Consultancy Services
Job role:
Management

Programme Manager (PMO)

February 2009 - June 2011

Davis Langdon

Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates

February 2009 - June 2011

Achievements
• Provided performance assessments against strategic goals over a five year delivery program working to Executive Council and Department of Finance (DoF) requirements.
• Coordinated and assisted in the development and compilation of budgets for 109 projects and the application to the Executive Council of Abu Dhabi for budgeting.
• Forged a strong and trusting team spirit, amongst his own team and Client staff.
• Developed and implemented governance to operate the PMO.
• Manage the production of the monthly focussed progress reports to the different client bodies, produced from progress information obtained from some 109 projects.
• Managed the continual improvement of the suite of Capital Procedures and conducted regular training and procedure update presentations to the Client staff and external project teams.
• Designed, planned and executed the implementation of Oracle ERP system.
• Managed external auditing of ADACH by the ADAA and Deloitte.
• Managed a PMO team of nine and reported to the Deputy Director General.

Company industry:
Business Consultancy Services
Job role:
Management

Senior Project Manager

January 2008 - October 2008

Davis Langdon

Manama, Bahrain

January 2008 - October 2008

Achievements
• Joined a disjointed project team that was not delivering the project to the Clients Requirements both in terms of Design but also to time and cost.
• Introduced numerous control measures to ensure consultants and contractor met their responsibilities under the contract and in line with the schedule.
• Monitored the delivery of these agreed items.
• Managed the decisions required sche3dule to ensure consultant/contractors had the information required provided in a timeous manner.
• Reviewed the user specification and designs with the Client, advising on Change Control, Budgeting and Planning.
• Prepared reports on a monthly basis to inform the Client of the status of the project in terms of programme, cost, changes and risks and issues.
• Advise Client on all changes raised by the Client and those raised by the project team.
• Provided contractual advice to the Client during disputes with contractors.

Company industry:
Business Consultancy Services
Job role:
Management

Education

Association for Project Management

January 2007

January 2007

Diploma, Project Management

United Kingdom

UCT Business School

December 2006

December 2006

Master's degree, MBA

South Africa

GPA (percentage): 73%

GPA (percentage): 73%

Chartered Civil Engineer

April 2003

April 2003

Diploma, Civil Engineering

United Kingdom

University of Cape Town

December 1996

December 1996

Bachelor's degree, Batchelor of Science in Civil Engineering

South Africa

Bachelor of Science in Civil Engineering

Skills

Capacity Building
Expert
Capacity Building
Expert
Change Management
Expert
Change Management
Expert
Programme Delivery
Expert
Programme Delivery
Expert
Strategy Work
Expert
Strategy Work
Expert
Business Planning
Expert
Business Planning
Expert
MS Office
Expert
MS Office
Expert
Man Manager
Expert
Man Manager
Expert
Chair meetings with team and client
Expert
Chair meetings with team and client
Expert
Selection of Sub-contractors
Expert
Selection of Sub-contractors
Expert
IOSH Health and Safety Trained
Expert
IOSH Health and Safety Trained
Expert
Advance Safety Auditing Trained
Intermediate
Advance Safety Auditing Trained
Intermediate
Sute Track Trained
Intermediate
Sute Track Trained
Intermediate
Capacity Building
Expert
Capacity Building
Expert
Change Management
Expert
Change Management
Expert
Programme Delivery
Expert
Programme Delivery
Expert
Strategy Work
Expert
Strategy Work
Expert
Business Planning
Expert
Business Planning
Expert

Languages

English

Expert

Polish

Beginner

Afrikaans

Intermediate

Memberships

Institution of Civil Engineers (London)

Chartered Civil Engineer (Member)

June 2003