Waleed AlHallaj, Head of Renewables

Waleed AlHallaj

Head of Renewables

Ishraq Energy

Location
Jordan - Amman
Education
Bachelor's degree, Mechanical Engineer
Experience
10 years, 5 Months

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Work Experience

Total years of experience :10 years, 5 Months

Head of Renewables at Ishraq Energy
  • Jordan - Amman
  • My current job since October 2016

I joined Ishraq Energy as a start up and worked closely alongside the investors to build a strategy, business plan and a budget. built up the company to reach 28 employees by the end of 2019 with a yearly revenue of $3M. The company achieved its financial targets in both 2017, 2018 and 2019 including a positive net profit in the first year. In 2019 it expanded its targets to include neighboring promising markets such as KSA, UAE, Egypt, Palestine, Syria and Iraq.

- Secured clients in KSA, UAE, Syria, Iraq and Palestine, while working closely with local EPCs and contractors, projects scope varied between engineering, consultations and supervision.
- Company achieved its sales targets with 128% achievement in the P/L requirements for 2019 in Jordan.
- Established an Academy for training in Amman with a capacity of 700 trainees a year in various sustainability related sectors, winning training bids to train over 400 trainees with Cowater, Profix, JEA and CARE during 2019.
- Renewable Energy unit booked the sales of over 80 projects with a total capacity of 5.5MWp ($5.6M) achieving over 110% of 2018 annual target, Include 3.45MWp for C-town and 619kWp for Estesharia Poultry
- Renewable Energy unit signed over 50 projects with a total of 4.7MWp ($4.5M) achieving over 160% of 2017 annual target, generating positive net profit at first year.
- Renewable Energy Unit landed medium scale projects for the Ministry of Public Works and Housing (1.2MWp), Fitness Vega (2MWp) and Assas Concrete factory (521kWp) in the first year.

Business Development Engineer at Al-Asalah Electromechanics
  • Jordan - Amman
  • September 2014 to September 2016

• Developed technical and financial proposals by adding new software to the department.
• Building a systematic sales, offering and follow up procedures while enhancing company’s image.
• Achieved 112.7% of annual sales target for 2015 ($2.25Million).
• Developed marketing techniques and expanding company’s reach to which tripled yearly pipeline for 2016.
• Signed the first mega scale project with Cableco Factory (2MWp - $1.55Million).
• Played a leading role in expanding company’s reference from 1.2 MWp to 6.2 MWp within two years.

Technical Photovoltaic Engineer at The Contractor for Energy
  • Jordan - Amman
  • February 2014 to August 2014

• Developed technical offer to include PVSyst Simulation
• Developed design features by adding Google SketchUp 3D designs
• Provided technical support to sales department which helped in sales over achievement
• Played a role in the agreement and installation of 8 projects with a total of 302 kWp

Education

Bachelor's degree, Mechanical Engineer
  • at University of Jordan
  • January 2014

Graduated with focus on Energy and specializing in Renewable Energy in both internship and graduation project. I also spent a full year in the USA as a cultural exchange student.

Specialties & Skills

Negotiation
Presentations
Business Development
Renewable Energy
Photovoltaics
AutoCAD
Microsoft Office
Sales and Negotiations
Google SketchUp Pro

Social Profiles

Languages

Arabic
Native Speaker
English
Expert

Memberships

Arab Renewable Energy Commission
  • Researcher
  • May 2014
Association of Energy Engineers
  • Member
  • May 2015

Training and Certifications

Renewable Energy Professional (REP) (Certificate)
Date Attended:
May 2015
Valid Until:
May 2018
Certified Energy Manager (CEM) (Certificate)
Date Attended:
March 2020

Hobbies

  • Travelling
    Visited Oman, Dubai, India, Rome and lived in the USA for almost a year in a cultural exchange program
  • Football
    Former national team player for under 20