Please turn on your javascript bader alqahtani - Project, Program and Portfolio Office Director - Advanced Electronics Company AEC - الرياض, المملكة العربية السعودية

Summary

• Over 14 years of experience in project management and Business Management covering project initiation, planning, implementation, closing, managing business opportunities and proposals of diversified projects and different roles as customer and as vendor.
• Assess business opportunity based on company strategic plan and value added.
• Support in balancing business portfolios in term of risk and profitability.
• Lead P3O department, monitoring all the company (4 Portfolios) business development and projects and their performance by portfolio and projects level.
• Intervene with delivery team whenever project start deviate from its plans.
• Understand the portfolio needs in order to increase the win rate in proposal phase, to prioritize business and to select best aligned projects with our strategy.
• Managed Enterprise sector as a delivery manager.
• Worked on business processes for all business related lifecycles.
• Automate project management, business capture and proposal processes in PPM and CRM tools.
• Bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering from King Fahd University.
• Finished courses in MBA in Prince Sultan University.
• PMP Certified from Project Management Institute PMI in Pennsylvania, USA. 2010
• ITIL v3 Certified from APM Group, UK. 2016
• MSP, Managing Successful Programs Foundation, Certified from Axelos, UK. 2017
• P3O, Project, Program & Portfolio Office Foundation, Certified from Axelos, UK. 2018
• MOP, Management of Portfolio Foundation and Practitioner, Certified from Axelos, UK. 2019

Experience

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Project, Program and Portfolio Office Director
Advanced Electronics Company AEC
Jun 2015 - Present | الرياض, المملكة العربية السعودية

-Mentor and coach business development team and project team with the right practice and correct engagement.
-Monitor and report the performance of business development, account management and project management and compare it to the business plan.
-Intervene whenever needed to correct the performance, recommend a recovery actions and perform gap analysis.
-Achievements:
Automate all business results and performance in dashboards for CEO and EVPs showing business performance like pipeline and opportunities. Financial performance like sales, order, price cost ratio and gross margin. Project performance like CPI, SPI & estimate at completion.

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Delivery Manager
Advanced Electronics Company AEC
Nov 2010 - Jun 2015 | الرياض, المملكة العربية السعودية

-Lead and manage a team of project managers, project engineer, project administrator and financial controller in Enterprise sector and Oil & Gas sector.
-Resolve conflicts and solve issues shown either with customers or subcontractors related to these sectors.
-Predict risks, qualify them, quantify them and prepare best responses that suitable for them.
-Working together to perform & manage projects from scratch to closure through initiation planning design implementation and control.
-Discuss the scope with stakeholders and confirm it in order to create scope of work document.
-Plan project activities, manage the process of procurement and control over the project budget following the best practices to close the project within budget and up to schedule.
-Prepare & contribute in creating proposal, estimate cost and time, prepare project scope statement document, project management plan document, contribute in bidding conferences.

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Project Manager
Advanced Electronics Company
Nov 2008 - Nov 2010 | الرياض, المملكة العربية السعودية

I participated in business need study of the projects and managed a bunch of separate projects, contribute in negotiation of subcontracting in some parts of the project based on expertise, cost and time plan of the subcontractors. My role include but not limited to manage project team, schedule, cost, scope, define risks and manage them, closing projects with lesson learned report.

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Electrical Quality Assurance Engineer
SABIC
Mar 2007 - Nov 2008 | الجبيل الصناعية, المملكة العربية السعودية

Work with a team of supervisors and technicians resolve any faulty within electrical equipments and that include bus bars and switchgears of 115kv to 13.8kv, transformers, relays, motors and 8 s/s in SAFCO premises. Sometimes our efforts need to be combined with operation, mechanical or instrument sections. In such cases we make a team to overcome any difficulty. Ex, a valve doesn’t work while it is connected to a motor we have to check them both the electrical motor and mechanical valve. I contribute in SABIC Total reliability Program and lead one group for four months the summary of this program goals is to do risk quality and quantity analysis. I was one of SAFCO SHE (Safety, Health and Environment) committee members for one year to provide employees, their families and the community by some awareness, booklets and activeness.

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Electrical Project Engineer
Saudi Electricity Company
Jun 2004 - Mar 2007 | الرياض, المملكة العربية السعودية

Work in new projects as a technical project engineer to prepare a plan of testing and pre commissioning activities from the country of origin to the S/S based on American standard and specification starting from 230kv GIS (Gas Insulated Switch gear) to the MCB (Minitual Circuit Breaker) including all electrical equipments like CT, VT, CB, TR, bus bars 132KV, switchgears 33KV and all kind of relays. This role provide me an excellent diverse experience covered all S/S equipments through almost three years.

Education

Prince Sultan University
Master, Masters, , MBA‎
Business Administration
CGPA 3.4/4
2016
King Fahd University for Petroleum and Minerals
Bachelor, Bachelors, , ‎
Electrical Engineering Communication
CGPA 2.4/4
2003

Languages

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