Driven visionary with an exceptional blend of leadership capabilities eager to make a strategic impact and instill confidence across your organization by enabling effective change, achieving high quality, transparent and predictable results, and fostering continuous improvement. 

 

PROFESSIONAL PROFILE

 

  • Polished executives with demonstrated expertise in building project, program and portfolio management office that quickly become a market differentiator by enabling strategic oversight and performance management of organizational investments.  
  • Proven track record of successful project outcomes through establishment of impactful PMO business driven capabilities, culminating in measurable results, enhanced productivity, clear accountability and quantifiable cost effectiveness, realized in revenue growth and profitability. 
  • Directed enterprise strategic initiatives with stand out skills as a motivational team leader and trusted advisor. 
  • Positions organizations to become more nimble and change capable by creating mechanisms for defining and measuring organization objectives. Created clear lines of accountability and transparency.
  • Help organizations transforms PMOs into hyper-focused Impact-Driven engines to maximize ROI. 

 

PROFESSIONAL AFFILATIONS &COMMUNITY SERVICE

  • Judging Committee Member, PMO Global Alliance (1 year)
  • PMI UAE Khaleeji Chapter Membership(4 years)
  • PMI Canada Thought Leadership Inner Circle 

 

AREAS OF PROVEN EXPERTISE

 

  • Strategy Development and Execution                           Organizational Change Management 
  • Business Transformation  & AUDIT             PMO right size Governance 
  • Communication & stakeholder Management              IMPACT PMO Setup – PMO Strategy 
  • PPP Management                                                                 Integrated program, & portfolio management 
  • PMI Standards – PMP                                                         Business Process Re-Eng. & Management 
  • Analytical & disciplined problem solving                     Benefits Realization & ROI Management 
  • Lean and Agile Management                                             Revenue Generation and forecasting Tracking 

 

PRIOR PROFESSIONAL EXPERINCE

UAE hub Leader& Expert Judge, PMO Global Alliance, AD,UAE, 2018-Present 

  • Selected as a volunteer member by PMO GLOBAL Alliance for developing PMO, project management best-practices. Fostering PMO global companies to participate in the annual PMO global awards competition.  
  • Charged with support developing PMO VALUE Ring methodology that has proven impact outcomes on enterprises.  
  • Thoroughly assessing yearly eighty (80) global enterprises with SWOT and gap analysis on their PMO service offerings, structure and results, and offering recommendations on best candidates for final award. 

 

PMO Manager, UP, Dubai, UAE, 2018

  • Selected as a leader with capacity for establishing enterprise PMO office drove the largest business transformation effort undertaken to revamp business processes reengineering and portfolio governance. 
  • Established project management best practices, methodology, processes, and templates. 
  • Charged for governance and portfolio oversight, performance management and updating executives dashboard that impacted in informed and educated decision making & accountability. 
  • Leverage PMI best practices to devise a strategy to optimize throughput and profitability while drastically reducing the implementation lifecycle from 12-18 months to 6-9 months.  
  • Increased project Managers level of project management awareness and capabilities that resulted on increased throughputs, success rate and profitability. 
  • Supported project team of developing project roadmap and operation model.  
  • Charged with advising executives on techniques that breach the gap between strategy formulation and its day to day implementation. 
  • Facilitated Governance Board with the needed I/Ps for monthly review portfolio level meetings. 

 

Strategic PMO consultant, Wood-ADNOC Distribution, AD, UAE-2017-2018

  • Selected as Strategic Portfolio Management Office (PMO) consultant responsible for undertaking the hereunder
  • Charged for developing Project Portfolio management manual that drove positive impact on profitability and business value creation at portfolio level initiatives.  
  • Charged with supporting governance board with program/ project intake , business case development ( cost/benefit – alternatives analysis, prioritization, gate-phase approval of key milestones, information needed for portfolio level decisions, strategic alignment and investment vs. opportunity analysis. 
  • Responsible for supporting program management Team delivering program results throughout its lifecycle. 
  • Established the ideation & innovation management procedures that fostered collaboration, creativity stimulation, ongoing learning and rewarding inside ADNOC Dist.
  • Developed agile change intelligence approach for bringing keys stakeholders along with the change process and change initiatives.
  • Supported program mangers on business case development, projects roadmap and operating model development, benefit register and benefits  realization plan tracking and validation, designing, planning, executing and measuring baselines.  
  • Established agile project management methodology, processes and templates impacted in increased throughput, initiatives success rate and higher ROI. 
  • Responsible for portfolio oversight & performance analysis & reporting initiatives/ program status to sr. executives.

 

PMO Specialist, Ghantoot Group-Electrical Division, AD, UAE, 2015-2017

Selected by the organization to promote project management culture, leveraging & coaching project management best-practices and Setting up PMO office. 

  • Established project management Office (PMO) and improving project management capabilities.  
  • Established project governance structure that impacted informed decision making.
  • Drove change and business transformation initiative through developing business process reengineering, writing Project management Manual procedures and standardizes project tools& templates throughout the division.
  • In charged for sr. executive’s dashboard reporting, governance and portfolio oversight. 
  • Charged with support for projects budget forecast validation and cost tracking. 
  • Conducted a consultative audit approach to ongoing projects and program and address risks/Issues accordingly.

 

Lead Project Engineer (E&I), Sudan National Petroleum Co., Kht., Sudan, 2014 –2015 

Promoted as lead electrical projects engineer to manage contractors/consultants performance, quality and timely delivery for all EPCC projects 

  • Managing projects through conception, construction, pre-commissioning and commissioning. 
  • Managing project budgets and keeping costs down with cost control. 
  • Preparation of tenders and contracts for design, consultancy, FEED, Projects, and EPC. 
  • Responsible for review, comment & update on Electrical and Control design packages. 

 

Consultant-Lead Project Engineer (E&I), Greater Nile Petroleum Operating Co., KHT, Sudan, 2014

Nominated by client to oversee & report on contactor performance and quality of delivery for Provision of Supply, Installation & Commissioning of Power Plant.

  • Managing project budgets and keeping costs down with cost control. 
  • Contribute with project team in evaluating tenders and providing recommendations.
  • Reviews proposals for the provision of engineering services to ensure adequate coverage of SOW.
  • Responsible for review, comment & update on Electrical and Control design packages. 
  • Implementations of project as QA/QC/HSE plan.   

 

Project Engineer (E&I), Sudan National Petroleum Co., Kht., Sudan, 2009-2014 

Selected as electrical projects engineer in a capacity of reviewing, updating and commenting contractor electrical design deliverables.

  • Managing projects through inception till handover.
  • Managing project budgets and keeping costs down with cost control
  • Responsible for review, comment & update on Electrical and Control design packages. 
  • Implementations of project as QA/QC/HSE plan.   
  • Witness and report oil partners bi-annual metering calibration and validation of pipe prover.

 

Projects Tendering Engineer, Alcatel–Lucent, KL, Malaysia, 2008-2009 

  • Responsible for technical and commercial bid response preparation to transmission network RFP from various telecoms operators in Asia pacific region.  

 

Project Engineer & Teaching Asst., Juba University, Kht.,Sudan, 2004-2006

 

EDUCATION

MSc. Engineering Project Management, Manchester University 

MSc. Electrical &Electronics Engineering, Universiti Teknologi PETRONAS. 

BSc. Electrical Engineering, Juba University. 

 

TRAINING

  

Coaching stakeholders to help not to hurt projects ( Change Intelligence)-Change Catalysts 

Creating a Program Strategy- LinkedIn 

Agile Project management Principles- LinkedIn 

Project Portfolio Management Foundation- LinkedIn 

Program management Foundations- LinkedIn 

Program Management- Improving organizational Agility via Value-Focused PMO-PMO Strategies 

Managing Project benefits- LinkedIn 

PMO Impact Summit -PMO Strategies

Impact Project management methodology– PMO Strategies 

PMO Value Ring – CP– PMO Global Alliance                                                   

Impact Engine PMO-IEPMO-PMO Strategies  

International PMO–Expert – AIPMO-PMI     

Intensive business, interpersonal, communication and presentation skills– Manchester University                                                                                                     

MV Competent Engineer-Ghantoot Group                                                          

Switchgear & Transformer Testing– Ghantoot Group                                                     

Modern Power System Protection & Relaying -Ghantoot Group   

MV Power Cable construction, Installation, Termination, Diagnosis & Fault location-Ghantoot Group                                                                        

IRCA – QMS lead Auditor ISO 9001:2008-SGS                                                                             

ISO 14001:2004 & OHSAS 18001:2007-Charisma Workforce Development       

IMS-QHSE Awareness & Inter. Audit ISO 9001:2008-Charisma Workforce Development       

QHSE Awareness -Greater Nile Petroleum Operating Company (GNPOC)

Registered Instructor in Eng. Project Management -Experiences Training & Development                          

Low Voltage Switchgear-Exemplar Engineering Training Centre                       

Advanced Field Devices and Control -Japanese Corporation Centre Petroleum       

Technical Report Writing -LANGUAGE Solutions International                                           

First Aid & Basic Cardio Pulmonary Resuscitation-Educ. Develop. Centre for Health Professions                        

Effective Business Communication Skills -Sudanese Petroleum Technical Centre                            

Process Instrumentations-Sofcon India Pvt. Ltd                                    

Integrated Surveillance Training Program-CCTV Delhi                                                             

Certified Automation Engineer (CAE) -Prolific Systems & Technologies 

Project Management Planning by using PrimaveraP6– Sudanese Petroleum Technical Centre