Tamer Alsaber

•Seconded to a confidential client to establish the PMO department and manage a portfolio of over 30 high-profile residential projects.
•Led strategy formulation and cascading throughout departments, ensuring the development and monitoring of SMART KPIs aligned with organizational objectives.
•Designed and implemented process maps for all departments and conducted training sessions to promote effective adoption.
•Led the creation and dissemination of policies, procedures, and comprehensive technical manuals.
•Developed and standardized project management best practices and templates, including project charters, communication plans, stakeholder management frameworks, risk management, resource allocation strategies, change management, and lessons learned documentation.
•Compiled and reviewed project progress reports, providing clear and concise updates while identifying key performance factors to ensure adherence to approved scope, timelines, budgets, and quality standards.
•Issued and presented both planned and ad-hoc executive-level reports and dashboards in Arabic and English for senior management and executive committees.
•Conducted regular project health checks and performance reviews during all project phases including planning, design, construction, testing & commissioning, and handover.
•Proactively managed risks and issues, implementing mitigation measures and escalating unresolved risks to executive management as needed.
•Documented and leveraged lessons learned to facilitate knowledge transfer and promote continuous improvement in project management practices.
•Ensured portfolio adherence to contractual and financial KPIs, monitored budget compliance, and managed timely contract awards for delivery partners.

•Led the development of COP28 project management plans and templates, ensuring uniformity and alignment across workstreams.
•Utilized Smartsheet to craft and oversee an integrated project schedule, incorporating milestones and activities from vendors and stakeholders.
•Managed the risk register and issue log, ensuring timely weekly updates for mitigations, actions, and escalations to higher management.
•Tracked project progress in collaboration with operations and events teams, presenting weekly dashboards with key achievements, risks, and issues. Proposed necessary interventions as part of proactive project management.
•Facilitated productive engagement with external stakeholders in weekly meetings, fostering collaboration in risk mitigations and conflict resolution.
•Played a pivotal role in procurement by reviewing and negotiating purchase requisitions and variation orders, resulting in savings exceeding AED 2 million.
•Provided comprehensive support to the project team, delivering weekly progress and risk reports, facilitating issue resolutions, and offering coordination assistance.
•Developed tailored tracking reports in Smartsheet for various workstreams, encompassing sponsorship contracts, budget monitoring, change requests, and action plans.
•Created lessons learned documentation during and after the event, contributing to ongoing organizational improvement initiatives.
•Spearheaded a weekly meeting for sponsorship contracts, successfully reducing gaps between legal, finance, and sponsors. Achieved revenue surpassing 100% of the targeted goal through enhanced collaboration.

• Established and led the Enterprise PMO office, overseeing 6 Departmental PMOs, and 40 project managers, with more than 60 projects annually.
• Provide support to the departments to ensure the successful delivery of projects including working with project managers to review project progress, identifying issues and risks, proposing and monitoring mitigation plans.
• Contributed to the development and execution of the strategic initiatives and KPIs ensuring alignment with the organization vision and mission.
• Contributed to the development and implementation of the benefit realization framework, policies and KPIs ensuring the realization of intended outcomes aligned with the strategic objectives of the organization.
• Facilitated budget negotiations and portfolio prioritization for projects, initiatives, operations, and assets with annual budget exceeding AED 3 billion.
• Contributed to the development of the project management system to ensure effective recording of progress, documents, drawings, and reports.
• Developed and monitored the project governance framework, including guidelines, procedures, KPIs, and templates for project management.
• Monitored accurate reporting of PM documents including project charter, risk register, issue log, communication plan, stakeholders, and change requests.
• Reported and presented customized monthly and ad-hoc progress reports, and KPI status to the management and stakeholders.
• Performed routine project health assessments, pinpointing root causes and tracking corrective actions for projects facing delays or budget overruns.
• Managed high-severity project risks, collaborating with stakeholders to implement proactive mitigation plans and prevent risk escalation into issues.
• Monitored the status of tendering and awarding, consultant and contracts, vendor evaluation process and payment status against contracts and budget.
• Served as a member of the interview panel tasked with evaluating consultant resources, particularly in project management knowledge, to ensure they aligned with the competencies committed in the contract.
• Conducted annual PMI maturity assessments for the organization and provided knowledge and corrective initiatives to enhance project management staff capabilities and overall organizational PM maturity.
• Promoted knowledge sharing by documenting valuable lessons learned in the PM system, benefiting from both successful and unsuccessful experiences.
• Participated in developing, implementing, and instituting innovative project management practices as part of the continuous improvement practices, including benefit realization, agile methodologies.
• Developed and implemented improvement practices to the process such as consolidated customized operational plans the departments, resulting in a significant 30% improvement in planning and monitoring processes.
• Designed and delivered recurring training workshops, mentoring engineers to bolster their project management expertise.
• Represented the organization in diverse committees and meetings, fostering cross-functional collaboration and alignment with stakeholders.

In addition to the PMO role in RTA, I have also managed the Investment office:
• Prepared and managed commercial business plan PPP projects, initiatives and contracts including advertising and paid parking to achieve annual revenue targets of AED 300-350 million annually.

Contributed to the selection and appointment of Consultants/Sub-Consultants and hotel operator for AED 500 million business center project in Fujairah.
•Monitored and presented project progress, risk register and portfolio status.
•Managed the study of AED 250 million mixed-use development in Fujairah.
•Coordinated project design activities, studies, and tendering process, while effectively liaising with various stakeholders to ensure project success. Mar 2008 - Nov 2015 Dubai Investments Fujairah, Ajman, UAE
•Managed eight-story rented residential building by appointing facility management company, ensuring compliance with local regulations, and maintaining the building's high standards.
•Conducted market research and feasibility studies for various investment opportunities in Fujairah, including hotels, malls, residential, hospitals.
•Coordinated and managed initial stage for Ajman residential project worth AED 12.16 billion over 1 million sqm of land, including mobilization, appointment of master planning consultant, coordination with authorities for approvals before project was cancelled.

• Identified 3 new business opportunities in MENA (Egypt, QATAR, Yemen), coordinated preparation and submission of tenders and preparation of legal documents such as POA.
• Managed construction and procurement activities of company own factory, office and labor accommodation utilizing company own resources as per planned scope, budget and schedule reducing cost by almost 35%.

• Coordinated appointment of consultants and contractors for 36-km land development project.
• Initiated and managed master planning, design and execution supervision of land development and infrastructure works including coordination with service authorities, STP, District cooling and others.
• Reviewed tenants' drawings submission and construction schedules as per company's zoning regulations and procedures.

• Inspected the sewerage and storm water works in Bani Yas, Madinat Khalifa, AlWathba and Abu Dhabi port for its compliances with the approved design, quality, and safety criteria.
• Prepared and maintained daily logs, reports and records for inspection made, test performed, and work executed until the handing over of the project.

• Provided necessary technical support for customers, sales, and marketing team.
• Reviewed and processed sales history & forecasting for approval of marketing manager.

• Successfully supervised and managed construction activities for 4-story residential project.