Samir Elkhial, Senior Project Manager

Samir Elkhial

Senior Project Manager

Ministry of communication and information technology

Location
Egypt - Cairo
Education
Master's degree, very good
Experience
19 years, 5 Months

Share My Profile

Block User


Work Experience

Total years of experience :19 years, 5 Months

Senior Project Manager at Ministry of communication and information technology
  • Egypt - Cairo
  • My current job since June 2006

Project Planning and Scheduling
• Plans, monitors and controls project activities, proactively to maximize cash flow.
• Understands critical path scheduling and assures a minimum but sufficient project float.
• Actively strives to optimize overall resource planning and utilization considering resources within the local organization.
• Assures a valid Project Safety plan is in place.
• Considers close out activities and influences for an early close out.
• Identifies and shares lessons learned. 
Customer Satisfaction Management in Projects
• Assures ABB commitments to customer are met, in accordance with contract.
• Assures and seeks to improve customer satisfaction and feedback through consistent customer interaction, e.g. Communication, (phone, e-mail, etc.) and Customer meetings, kick off, review, etc.
• Works proactively to set customer expectation to assure a smooth project including acceptance of project deliveries and timely payment even under challenging circumstances.
• Encourages openness & respect, and build trust, confidence & loyalty with customers and partners.
• Promotes healthy work-life balance within the project team. 
Project Financial and Cost Management
• Understands and use Full Cost Calculation/Model and different revenue recognition methods.
• Understands project exposure
• Controls project cost and cash flow
• Influences project expenditures to maximize cash flow. 
Legal and Contract Management for Projects
• Understands ABB’s standard terms and conditions and the impact upon the contract of differing and/or additionally accepted terms and conditions.
• Understands project specific accepted terms and conditions and their application to project contracts, including awareness of risks of negative impact on margin, performance and risk factors.
• Utilizes contract terms and conditions to maximize cash-flow, margin and to limit liabilities, e.g. through insurance.
Project Reporting
• Forthrightly presents an account of project status/issues in project reviews.
• Reports status/ progress to customer and other stake holders with appropriate detail for desired understanding, e.g. to assure payment, set expectation, etc.
• Raises potential project issues to relevant stake holders.
• Effectively reports project progress or other situations either verbally or in writing to assure desired understanding. 
Scope and Change Management for Projects
• Utilizes negotiation skills for scope and change management.
• Is on top of scope including the possible overall impact of what may seem to be minor changes
• Negotiates change orders and additional sales.
• Actively pursues desired changes in order to obtain additional sales, increase margin and to lower risk exposure. 
Project Risk and Opportunity Management
• Understands risks as well as what may be causing a change in risk exposure and actions to avoid/mitigate.
• Understands opportunities and how to take advantage of them.
• Identifies and mitigates risks associated with important aspects such as Health and Safety.
• Proactively pursues decided upon mitigation efforts for identified risks.
• Identifies and act upon new risks and opportunities as they occur.
• Assures avoidance/mitigation of liquidated damages and other penalties/claims.
Procurement Management for Projects
• Work actively with a number of suppliers to obtain overall best possible purchase, in cooperation with the supply management function.
• Coordinates/directs project transportation and logistics.
• Reviews status of critical suppliers’ progress and include in overall schedule.
• Initiates 3rd party inspections as required
• Ensures the proper application of ABB’s supplier qualification process.

Open Source Unit Manager at Ministry of communication and information technology
  • Egypt
  • September 2013 to March 2016

open source SW consulting, standards for SMEs

MIE Judge at IEEE-MIE
  • Egypt
  • September 2009 to September 2012

On behalf of IEEE Egypt GOLD, Made In Egypt (MIE) organizing committee cordially to judges Graduated projects from Egyptian universities

GIS Instructor at ElMesbah IT
  • Libya
  • September 2005 to June 2006

GIS Instructor for urban planning engineers and institution of utilities

Systems Analyst And Design at CultNat
  • Egypt
  • December 2004 to September 2005

Systems Analysis and Design

Education

Master's degree, very good
  • at Arab Academy of sciences and technology
  • September 2014

Master in Business Administration, HR, Accounting, Investment, ..etc

Bachelor's degree, Geophysics
  • at Ain shams University
  • July 2001

Faulty of sciences , Geology and Geophysics department

Specialties & Skills

Project management
Oracle BI
Oracle Middleware
Oracle BI
google cloud
google developer console
Oracle DBA
Android SDK
IBM Worklight
RedHat Openshift Cloud
Oracle Cloud
Digital Marketing
PPM-PMI
Joomla CMS
Oracle Webcenter
Apache Tomcat
Oracle UCM
SMS Workflow
Leadership
Negotiations
Critical thinking
Scheduling
Risk Management
Cost Control
Communication
Contract Management

Languages

English
Expert
Arabic
Native Speaker

Memberships

OpenEgypt
  • Government Member
  • September 2012

Training and Certifications

Oracle BPM 11g: Implement The Process Model ED 3 PRV (Training)
Training Institute:
Oracle University
Date Attended:
August 2015
Duration:
40 hours

Hobbies

  • Computer programming