Bachelor’s in Business Administration & Management

2006

Arab Open University (AOU), Lebanon.

UNITED OF CONTRACTORS AND ENGINEERS (UCE) - Project Scheduler

09/2006 – 01/2008

• Assisted project owners, designers, and project managers to create and retain comprehensive resource-loaded plans for Design/Build construction projects.
• Integrated multiple schedules into a master project schedule, baseline, status, and performance measurement baseline.
• Created and maintained summary level schedule reports such as progress maps, and other tools used to support critical path analysis, near-term tasks work, priority-based resource allocations, output variances, and cost/schedule alignment.
• Visited construction sites regularly to review construction progress and to assist the project management team with project preparation, monitoring, analysis, and documentation.
• Worked with different stakeholders, particularly the project management team, to ensure the continuity of the project scheduling strategy to promote precision in project implementation and documentation, and kept reliable records and paperwork.

Project and Program Management Consultant

11/2015 – Present

• Collaborating directly with project managers on-site challenges, maintaining and monitoring project plans, developing production schedules according to work order requirements, availability of workers and materials while respecting budgets, and expenditure by conducting all lean activities that will result in significant cost savings, such as improving quality and reducing waste.
• Ensuring that project deadlines are met, recognizing improvements to the project and offering logistical assistance as appropriate to enhance job execution while including those personally responsible for the work, and performing project activities as necessary.
• Consulting sites and associated in-house teams, in several departments, to collect the data required for processes set up, execution, and data preparation and coordination of site specifications and schedules, while continuously checking that projects conform with frameworks and all documentation is adequately managed for each project and that risks are evaluated.
• Creating a project management calendar to achieve each goal and purpose by forecasting and depending on the delivery-oriented breakdown of the project into smaller components following the Work Breakdown Structure (WBS) and using the Building Information Modeling (BIM).
• Building full scope across the Documentation Management System (EDMS), Handover Systems capable of tracking the progress of the project during the development process before the commissioning and handover phase.
• Timely reporting to key stakeholders, such as senior management, engineers, suppliers, subcontractors, and customers, detailing the general progress of the project and meeting points of concern at crucial milestones or near completion of the design project and tracking work non-compliance accompanied by adequate recommendations.

Planning and Scheduling Senior Forensic Planning and Delay Analysis Specialist

11/2009 – Present

• Independently reviewing and auditing projects to ensure that the last approved project can be delivered and to allow the preparation of reports on limitations, crucial problems, and delays, as well as thoroughly checking all aspects of claim preparing, including case building and claim writing, and selecting the appropriate mediation and negotiation strategy.
• Preparing counterclaim defenses and doing a retrospective review for costs of prolongation, interruption, project criticisms, and analyzing delays properly.
• Provisioning of proof of entitlement occurring from delays, disruption, and loss of efficiency to different stakeholders after analyzing baseline vs. actual production output rate, as well as the work cycle to demonstrate client's entitlement.
• Identifying scheduling problems such as concurrent delay, offsetting delay, progression, mitigation, and the combined impact of disruptions on the contract schedule, as well as preparing chronological event delay analysis.
• Developing what-if scenarios to evaluate various delay conditions, as well as evaluating the cause and impact of the work directly affected by the delays and disruptions, and other work indirectly affected.