Ahmed H. Ali, PMP®

 

        Name & Contact Information

ADDRESS:

·         1315 NASA Parkway Houston, TX 77058

·         Cell Phone (Primary) : (713) 419-2594

·         E-mail Address : ahmed_alsaidawy@yahoo.com

 

Education

·         BS.c in Civil Engineering

 

Certifications:

·         PMI Project Management Professional (PMP)

 

Career Objectives

·         Expert in Project Planning and Scheduling using Primavera.

·         Apply the Organization policies and procedure of scheduling to the project schedules.

·         Train the project team on the newest, most efficient and effective project scheduling procedures and techniques.

·         Measure the project’s progress, variance, and create forecasts.

·         Expert in facilitate the chartering & planning session to create the full list of activities from the scope of work.

·         Validating the project’s activities sequencing and trace logic using CPM and critical chain Method.

·         Add, maintain and control the resources pool and manpower.

·         Create, develop, maintain and analyze a full resources and cost loaded schedule.

·         Schedule control, cost control, EVM Management, forecasting analysis.

·         Assisting in the change control and changes procedures.

·         Communicate, facilitate effectively.

·         Create any required reports, Ad-hoc reports, program level master report, EVM, heat chart and variance reports.

·         Expert vision to determine the available options required to work around the issues.

·         Expert in facilitating the projects control meetings, projects team motivation and gain their involvement.

 

SIGNIFICANT KNOWLEDGE

·         Excellent construction skills

·         Total Project Management

·         Construction estimating

·         Process improvement

 

Employment Experience

1.       2012-Present (Caterpillar -Technical Center)

Position: Project Management Analyst-Programs Coordinator (PMO)

Duties & Responsibilities: Coordinate Multiple projects, Interacting with the projects stakeholders to insure delivering the projects scope efficiently, working around the issues, projects governance and projects management quality control, Scheduling using Primavera P6.7 database, Creating projects from chartering, validation, controlling & maintaining the projects activities and the resources pool, resources management, expenses & capital project’s cost management, create & maintain the heat chart.

 

2.       2009-2012 (American FederalContractor Inc.)

Position: Cultural Adviser, Linguist & Engagement Adviser

Duties & Responsibilities: Provide highly informative cultural training for USA Army individuals and officers before their deployment to Iraq, subject matter expert helping the highly ranked army individual how to engage with other personals from different culture professionally, acting as army linguist to train on how to interact with the Army interpreters.

 

3.       2008-2009 (Symbion Power LLC)

Position: Projects Scheduler

Duties & Responsibilities: Create & Maintaining the projects schedules, review weekly & monthly reports, maintaining resources quantities and costs, support project managers in determining project requirements, over budget and/or behind schedule activities calculations for multi-million dollar budgeted projects.

Projects:

Construction of five 132KVA  electrical substations, completed project from conception through commissioning

$50 Million budgeted project included civil and electrical work.  The civil work included construction of the substation buildings, foundations, trenches, transformers foundations, walkways and related structures.  The electrical work included transformers and equipment installations, switchyard construction, wiring, testing and commissioning.

 

4.    2007-2008 (USACE GRD- IPA & Parsons Brinckerhoff-Baghdad-Iraq)

Position: Project Scheduler

Duties & Responsibilities: Enterprise Project Structure (EPS), Organization Breakdown Structure (OBS), Work Breakdown Structure (WBS), Project Plan, Control and Management Systems, Processes and Procedures, EPC Project Structure, EPC Process Maps.
Cost Estimating Skills: Total bill of materials Estimating, Determining Resource Cost rates, projects budgets estimating and development.
Project Management Skills: Planning, Scheduling, Controlling, Estimation, Analysis. 

 

Projects: Operation & Maintenance Project (O&M) for 5 Gas Power Plants, Provided support for Iraqi Ministry of Electricity (ME)-Power Generation department for maintaining their power plants.

Developed new operation and maintenance procedures for ME employees including train them to write their own procedures.

 

5.    2004-2007 (Washington Group Inc./ Black & Veatch public works joint venture-Baghdad, Iraq)

Position:  Project Schedule/Project Control staff

Duties & Responsibility:

·              Produce scheduling deliverables and developing the project CPM baseline.

·              Develop Cost Break Down Structure.

·              As-built schedule for successful equitable adjustment claim.

·              Schedule submittal, CPI & SPI calculation, generate Earned Value calculations.

·              Look ahead, period report, variance reports

·              developing and maintaining Activities Coding for various cost and manpower reports and analysis.

Projects:

Rebuilding Nassiria Pump Station:

Repair and complete the construction one of largest Pump Station in the Middle East with 1200 cubic meter of water/second of pumping capacity.

The function of this pump station is to pump the water of southern region of Iraq main drain river water through siphon under the Euphrates River to prevent mixing it with the irrigation water and to pump the drainage water from low level to the adequate Level.

The project budgeted to $200 Million consisted of massive civil, mechanical and electrical works. The civil works were completed for maintaining the pump station dam structure and other related facilities like electrical substation, water treatment for the cooling system, roads, walkways and small residential housing buildings for the employees.

The mechanical works consisted of installing the massive pumps motors and connected pips, water treatment and cooling system installations and 12 main electrical inlets gates. 

The electrical work included the installation of switchgears and controlling room, construction of small substation beside the dam, and all other wiring and lighting works.

 

 

Iraq Electrical Substations SCADA System:

Design, construction, commissioning a new network as well as maintain & rehab the old existed SCADA monitoring & communication system for 152 substations in country-wide, the project was limited to 400KVA and 132KVA substations only.

The project managed by breaking it down to 3 phases, the first phase is construction and/or preparing new control rooms in all 153 substations for the new equipment, the second phase was installation of the new equipment like PLC's , RTU's, DAS's, Wave Traps and power supplies equipments.

The third Phase was wiring, testing, configuration & commissioning. The project also included construction and erection of 17 UHF (15-70) m towers.

 

   Volunteer Experience

 

(2003-2004), JumpStart Human Support Org)

Site Engineer: Al Sader city, Duties and responsibilities: rehab the sewer system pumping and piping for one of the major cities that been hit by the 2003 war in Iraq.