Contracts Manager
M. A. Kharafi & Sons
Total years of experience :20 years, 3 Months
• In charge of Contract preparation, negotiation, risk identification and evaluation for building and infrastructure projects.
• Established and executed a Contract Management System across a project portfolio of AED 2.8 bn to mitigate the identified risks.
• Developed and implemented detailed policies, processes and procedures for scope and claims management.
• Serve as the focal point for all official communications with projects stakeholders with emphasis on contract disputes and claims.
• Engaged in disputes and final accounts negotiations and resolutions at the close out stage of the projects.
• Leading the Planning, Monitoring & Controls department across Africa, MENA, and Central Asia backlog of AED 1.4 Billion.
• Member of the Estimation & Pricing team, investigating potential projects and mitigating risks by innovative execution plans for more than AED 4 Billion worth of projects / year.
• Conducting pre-contract technical workshops of scope definitions, price and contract negotiations.
• Developing post-contract Project Management Plans including engineering, HR, procurement & construction schedules.
• Monitoring and controlling progress, costs, budgets and revenues including upstream manufacturing operations.
• Leading the Annual Processes Review & Enhancement to align with corporate strategy and all required reengineering, technical trainings and workshops as well as team building.
• Managing project close outs including data analysis and consolidation for further use in future planning, budgeting, pricing and risk management.
Claims & Contracts Department
• Secured AED 80 Million as net profits after 6 years of persistent follow up on a controversial extension of time dispute case.
• Performed prospective & retrospective delay analysis for responsibility determination including “Windows Analysis” techniques.
• Administered delays and communicated with contract counter parties in accordance with the contract terms & conditions.
• Developed Extension of Time claims including calculation of prolongation, disruption, mitigation and acceleration costs.
• Maintained Schedules mitigating local delays and determined recovery measures and methodologies.
Centro Hotel Project
• Steered the project initiation activities, cost estimation, budgeting, bid preparations and tender negotiations.
• Managed the project engineering, procurement and construction execution against the quality, budget and time baselines.
• Secured timely and continuous upstream cooperation from suppliers and subcontractors towards effective completion.
• Managed project stakeholders, including senior executive management, client and other contractors on board.
Burj Khalifa Project
• Lead the IT team to develop the “Site Monitoring System” to be implemented afterwards across the entire project portfolio.
• Monitored and controlled the project direct and indirect cost and “earned value” against budgets and contract prices.
• Reported progress valuation, billing, claiming, profitability analysis and revenue generation proposition.
Burj Khalifa Project
• Scheduled off site operations including engineering drawings, material selections and approvals, procurement and logistics.
• Scheduled site activities, interface with other contractors, human resources by man-hours as well as material consumption.
Capital Towers
• Developed, managed and maintained the project time baseline to secure successful project completion.
• In charge of the sales operation in the Oil & Gas market sector.
• Structured and designed the database system of tenders, inquiries, offers and purchase orders.
• In charge for registering the company in the bidders list of all petroleum, petrochemical and power generation companies.
• Monitored our sales agencies in Egypt and evaluated there performance as local suppliers with respect to the objectives of the company.
• Followed up monetary and banking transactions after material delivery.
• Gathered the required market intelligence from the clients upon which the firm can set its long term strategies.
Bachelor of Science majoring Construction Engineering - Graduated December 2003. Coursework included: Methods of modelling of construction projects, numerical simulations, evaluation of various construction strategies and construction quality control, organizational planning, financial management, accounting, strategy and policy formation, contracting and construction law. Graduation Project: Construction Management, Swiss Inn Hotel (Sharm El Sheikh) Minor Studies: Economics Coursework includes Micro and Macro Economics, Mathematics for Economists, Statistics and Engineering Economy.