Experience

Newtech Consulting Group

• Civil Engineering
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Head of Integrated Projects Department

  • 2015 - Present

  • Built a multi-disciplinary department with revenue growth exceeding 100%. • Increased profitability by developing a lean operating model that optimized the use of external subject matter experts and internal project managers.• Led Client engagement including structuring/formulating scope in response to their vision/objectives and management of expectations. • Orchestrated inputs from multi-disciplinary, multi-national subject matter experts to align with Clients’ requested scope and deliverables. • Conducted Business Development activities resulting in increased volume of projects that warranted spinning-off two autonomous departments.• Developed alliances with international firms resulting in entering new countries/markets.• Increased departmental capacity and experience by executing projects financed by International Financing Institutions (World Bank, IsDB, AfDB, BADEA, etc). • Led diverse projects starting from opportunity scouting, preparation of expressions of interest, proposal writing, contracts’ negotiation/preparation all the way to project management. Profiles of managed project include: * Project types: evaluation of assets, feasibility, market and investment studies, landuse and natural resources management, environmental /social impact assessment and climate change. * Project sectors: irrigation, agriculture, water supply, sanitation, industrial and development projects. * Clients and stakeholders: federal/state ministries, AAAID, World Bank, Islamic Development bank, African Development Bank, Arab Bank for Economic Development in Africa BADEA, DFID and private investors. * Countries: Sudan, South Sudan, Mozambique, Zambia and Yemen. Show less

• Department Coordinator

  • 2010 - 2015

  • Managed multi-disciplinary projects in various sectors.• Managed the projects’ acquisition process including: preparation of Expressions of Interest, Responding to RFPs, Proposals Writing, Contracts’ Drafting /Negotiations and Signing.• Mobilized human resources including: identifying needed expertise/capacity, hiring and contracting of both core full-time staff and external subject matter experts.• Managed projects’ multi-disciplinary teams to ensure alignment of inputs with requested scope and deliverables.• Engaged with Clients in various stages of the project cycle starting from initiation all the way to closure. Show less