Experience

SAMI Advanced Electronics

• Saudi Arabia
• Appliances, Electrical, and Electronics Manufacturing
• 700 & Above Employee

• Sr. Manager, Defense and Aerospace Business Unit

  • Mar 2017 - Present

  - Lead the delivery of AFMSEP department, ($100+ million) supporting diversified military manufacturing companies, maximizing stakeholder benefits, and optimizing value while minimizing disruption. Working closely with senior stakeholders in Royal Saudi Air force, Royal Saudi Land Forces and Ministry of Defense. Drive the resource management and project management strategies. - Provide scheduling support for resource availability, time estimates and reporting to executive management. -Review and approve project plans and charters to ensure they met all business requirements.- Define deliverables, engagement staffing, hire and mentor resources and ensure compliance with AEC P3O processes.- Participate in approval and authorization of bids and proposals. - Participate in establishing clear department KPI's and monitor performance accordingly to assure annual KPIs achieved.- Work closely with corporate portfolio office as committee member to ensure efficient and consistent processes and documentation are defined, implemented and maintained. - Work closely with project/Program managers to ensure compliance with best practice project disciplines and monitoring their effectiveness.- Responsible for department profitability and for managing costs across programs operations. - Manage the weekly project status meetings and track progress in all AFMSEP projects. - Review the executive project monthly meeting, escalating RAG status where deemed necessary to AEC Top Management.- Support business growth with clear focus on clients and employees as part of the senior management team.

• Program Manager, Defense and Aerospace Business Unit

  • Oct 2014 - Feb 2017

  - Accountable for the work of 64 team members consisting of: PgMs, PMs, PEs, engineers, technicians, QAs and safety engineers across 13 projects to provide maintenance support for avionics repairs, production and Aircrew Training Devices (ADTs).- Leading delivery inputs for bids and proposals. Reviewing and revising team responses to RFP’s, ensuring customer requirements have been met while ensuring commercial value to AEC- Developed a business plan with international OEMs and sub-contractors including Boeing, Thales-UK, Barco-Belgium, BAE System, Selex ES and Rockwell Collins.- Conduct proposal kick-off meeting and regular proposal progress status meetings and maintain the proposal schedule.- Work closely with international OEM’s to develop business cases and explore new opportunities. - Build the proposal compliance matrix and track the fulfillment of all requirements- Communicate proposal requirements and status to senior management.- Oversee vendor sourcing, contracts negotiations and RFQ/RFP processes and managing engineering logistics Global projects. - Facilitate the successful transition of the team members from staffing role to maintenance, performance and availability service in Typhoon IPTD project. - Mentor Project managers on how to apply the project management tools to align with their customer’s milestones and timing.

• Project Manager

  • Feb 2013 - Sep 2014

  - Monitor project's execution and manages the team’s performance of project tasks to deliver the project within scope, time, cost, quality.- Created the Work Breakdown Structure (WBS) using MS Visio. Managed the Project Plan and Schedule using MS Project, Schedules, and also managed the Project Financials using MS Excel. - Responsible for team performance, instillations, reviews, business Analysis, SAT activities and Configuration Management.- Report on project performance on weekly, monthly and quarterly basis to the customers and senior management.- Manage customer's expectations in terms of timelines and deliverables throughout the projects execution.- Exploring new opportunities within the project to maximise benefits to industry and improve profit margins- Enhances organization reputation by accepting ownership for accomplishing new and different requests.- Manage communication, including status reporting, risk management and escalating where necessary. - Allocating and utilizing resources in an efficient manner and maintaining a co-operative, motivated and successful team.



Saudi Industrial Development Fund - SIDF

• Saudi Arabia
• Financial Services
• 700 & Above Employee

• Senior Technical Analyst

  • Oct 2010 - Jan 2013

  -Fixed capital costs of proposed projects ($ 600M) including such expenditure as pre-operating expenses has to be accurately assessed and presented in time effective and professional manner. -Prepare budget estimates and technical appraisal of industrial projects which cover assessment of capital and operating costs, Competitors’ Analysis and evaluation of the technologies to be applied in order to assist the Fund management in decisions making.

• Technical Analyst at Saudi Industrial Development Fund

  • May 2006 - Oct 2010

  -Review of the various industrial sectors separately and submit recommendations regarding the appropriate lending policies to be adopted for enhancement of the overall performance and upgrade the viability of each individual sector.-Conduct comprehensive technical data analysis to ensure that potential capacity, product quality and manufacturing cost for the subject project are in balance with each other to meet the market demand-Preparing various feasibility and statistical studies related to the industrial sector of the Kingdom for instance (Petrochemicals, Mining, Electrical Equipment, Food, plastics, Steel, Cables, Construction Materials, Textiles, Non-Woven Fabrics, and Packaging).