Romek Kaminski, Commercial Manager

Romek Kaminski

Commercial Manager

Odebrecht

Location
United Arab Emirates - Abu Dhabi
Education
Diploma, Project Management
Experience
16 years, 2 Months

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Work Experience

Total years of experience :16 years, 2 Months

Commercial Manager at Odebrecht
  • United Arab Emirates - Abu Dhabi
  • My current job since January 2012

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.

Transition Manager at Aecom
  • United Arab Emirates - Abu Dhabi
  • June 2011 to 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.

Programme Manager (PMO) at Davis Langdon
  • United Arab Emirates - Abu Dhabi
  • February 2009 to 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.

Senior Project Manager at Davis Langdon
  • Bahrain - Manama
  • January 2008 to 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.

Education

Diploma, Project Management
  • at Association for Project Management
  • January 2007
Master's degree, MBA
  • at UCT Business School
  • December 2006
Diploma, Civil Engineering
  • at Chartered Civil Engineer
  • April 2003
Bachelor's degree, Batchelor of Science in Civil Engineering
  • at University of Cape Town
  • December 1996

Bachelor of Science in Civil Engineering

Specialties & Skills

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

Languages

English
Expert
Polish
Beginner
Afrikaans
Intermediate

Memberships

Institution of Civil Engineers (London)
  • Chartered Civil Engineer (Member)
  • June 2003