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London, England, United Kingdom

Successfully spearheaded business development efforts across multiple regions, resulting in substantial growth and expansion in the areas of project management, quality management, and business consulting.Secured key partnerships and signed country programs with clients spanning Algeria, Libya, Nigeria, Kenya, Sudan, Turkey, Malaysia, Yemen, and China, solidifying the company's global presence.Led the training and certification of over 30 instructors to become GQS CT-LP (Certified Trainer - Learning Professional), enhancing the organization's capacity to deliver high-quality training programs.Developed the comprehensive GQS CT-LP content, assessments, and program structure, ensuring alignment with international standards and best practices.Designed and implemented the GQS Business Consulting Framework, known as PYTHEO, a versatile agile framework for management consulting and training.Conducted training sessions in English, Arabic, and Turkish for 30 business consultants, enabling them to deliver consulting services based on the GQS Business Consulting Framework.Pioneered the Consortium Partner (COP) Scheme for local partners, facilitating collaborative ventures and knowledge sharing.Successfully onboarded and signed more than 20 Consortium Partners in 2022, fostering strategic alliances and expanding the company's network.Achieved significant growth in training and certification, overseeing the successful training of over 200 professionals in project management, quality management, and project scheduling in 2022.

Istanbul, Turkey

Working as an instructor, I have delivered courses in various aspects of business consulting in the oil and gas, telecom, project management, construction, education, and other industries.I have been and still am working with organizations such as: Mericler, Infor, ICCCM, Hodos School of Business, EduVert, European Training Centre, and others.I had trainees from various countries: Turkey, Malaysia, Iraq, Kuwait, UAE, Qatar, Oman, Egypt, Sudan, and more.Courses taught (short and long varying between 1 week and 3 months):- Statistical Process Control- Operations Management- Quality Management- Project Management- Statistics for Engineers- ISO 9001:2015- ISO 31000:2018- Risk Management- AutoCAD for Maintenance

Providing my services consistently as a Project Management Consultant has been my main objective for sometime, I do come from a construction and structural engineering and architectural/engineering drafting background, but my involvement in project management and planning has more aspects, as I have been working as a freelancer and self-employed professional for a long time, and management to prove myself successful through various endeavors that I have undertaken. I have my own business setup methodology, and I was able to educate professionals in order to become Business Consultants in their fields accordingly, this resulted by studying various business topics, and reflecting on my practices and experience.This had me prepared to go on a journey to teach and learn from other people's exoeriences, and connecting them with my professional experience in order to connect the dots in regards of what might work or might not work for orgranizations of different sizes, and in different industries, fields, and specializations.This had me deepen my studies in:- Operations Management- Risk Management- Quality Management- Financial Management- Marketing- Structural Health Monitoring- Smart Cities- Renewable EnergyI also assisted organization in designing and delivering on-site and online courses such as:- International Project Management Diploma- Consulting Practitioner License- Certified Project Planning and Scheduling Engineer- International Human Resource Management DiplomaI also assisted organization to design and implement:- Project Management Methodology- Quality Management System- Learning Management System- Structural Health Monitoring System

Istanbul, Turkey

I provided services as an English Instructor (native speaker) to the following English language schools in Istanbul - Turkey:1. English Time, Bakirkoy - Istanbul2. The Fluency Institute, Levent – Istanbul3. English Council, Bakirkoy – Istanbul4. Amerikan Kultur, Bakirkoy – Istanbul5. IngilizJam, Online Language SchoolMany students from different parts of the world made good use of my services, I had students from Turkey (mainly), Georgia, Azerbaijan, Iraq, Jordan, Libya, Egypt, among others, where I taught or helped with:- IELTS- TOEFL- General English- Skills (speaking or writing mainly)

Istanbul, Turkey

Working with CCM, I taught a various number of lessons and courses related to the construction industry to students receiving online preparation mainly for CIOB - Chartered Institute of Building certifiate and diploma.Teaching the courses involved: - content / activity / and exercise design, delivery, - assignment design, - assignment checking and marking (used Asana to manage),- communicating with students and providing support.Courses:1. Constructino Management2. Construction Programming and Scheduling3. Human Resource Management in Construction4. Sustainability in Construction5. Risk in Construction6. Quality in Construction7. Engineering Survey8. BIM - Building Information Modelling

Istanbul, Turkey

While attending a conference in Gelisim University, I had a discussion with the Vice Rector, and he asked me to teach courses with the Civil Engineering and Architecture departments, and I accepted the offer with pleasure, this gave me an opportunity to work on some research, and also to perfect my ideas and views on Project Resource Planning issues (which led to me creating my own Project Management Framework (not published yet), and also delivering the following courses (which involving researching and creating material (content, exercises, activities, exams, and checking and grading):Civil Engineering:1. Introduction to Civil Engineering2. Material Mechanics3. Structural Analysis I and II4. Steel Structure Design5. Timber Structures6. Business Administration7, Sustainability in ConstructionArchitecture:1. Computer Aided Design I (AutoCAD, Photoshop)2. Computer Aided Design II (SketchUo, Kerkythea)3. Computer Aided Design III (Revit Architecture)4. Energy Efficient Structure Design5. Structural Analysis for ArchitectsMy duties included:- Exam proctoring- Using a customized Learning Management System- Supporting students to make the best out of their learning experience (aka Office Hours)

Istanbul, Turkey

Working with MIU was an experience where I recalled my programming skills from creating the UI for document storage solutions - I taught IT BSc. students:- Software Engineering- Human Computer Interaction- Project Management for ITI was also responsible for creating, checking, and grading assignment work, and exams.

Benghazi, Benghazi, Libya

Libyan Project Management Office, stylized: LYPMO - was established in 2009 to provide technical support to construction contractors working in Libya on project planning, scheduling, recovery scheduling, risk management, project estimating, and project resource management using Oracle Primavera, Microsoft Project, and Schedule Analyzer, the company was renamed: Libyan Office in 2012 and Libyan Diwan in 2013, becomg: Diwan International Group upon registeration in the UK in 2017. I lead the company to become a consultant still affiliated with it after Jan 2018.Senior Planning Engineer and Lead Instructor, I was responsible for planning and delivering training and support services, and the following clients received services in Libya:- Constructor Queiroz Galvao- Daewoo E&C- Enka- Hyundai E&C- AECOM- Arabian Gulf Oil CompanyThe company moved to provide comprehensive software training as of March 2012, when it was rebranded as: Libyan Office for Engineering Consulting and Training, keeping the accronym LYPMO for marketing and continuation purposes. I was working with a partner, and I handled all of the planning, service delivery, and training delivery.The company became Libya's no.1 training provider for project management courses such as PMP, PRINCE2, ITIL, Oracle Primavera, MS Project, and we were able to offer services to clients as follows:- Libyana Mobile Company- Libyan General Company for Water Desalination- Social Security Fund of Libya- OiLibya- Condrill A.B. (individual training candidates)

Benghazi, Benghazi, Libya

Working in this position involved a lot of stakeholder management effort, as there were 2 main projects, and both were stakeholder driven.The first project was to deliver a series of training courses to candidates from the Libyan Ministry of Education, candidates were early childhood education teachers and specialists from all over the country, and my responsibility was to go over the content with the instructors to make sure that it aligns with the project objectives, something I was able to carry out with a great leve of success due to my good instructional and training design and delivery background.The second project was more hands on (literally), where I teamed up with another officer to:Step 1: Select 10 early childhood education centers in Benghazi that qualify to receive aid in the form of toys and equipmentStep 2: Conduct a "needs analysis" in order to identify the needs of those institutionsStep 3: Purchase, deliver, and document the receiving of the toys and equipment in 10 ECECsWhich took us about 4 weeks to complete, with a great deal of success measured against the satisfaction of the ECECs with the goods delivered "in a good time" according to them.

Benghazi, Benghazi, Libya

As Project Control Engineer, I was responsible for the review and approval of project design/construction baseline schedules including: time, cost, and full project resource planning and assignments.AECOM was hired by the Housing and Infrastructure Board of Libya as Program Management Consultant, responsible for 200+ projects in the whole country.In the short time working with AECOM (ending in the 2011 unrest), I was assigned 74 projects to go over, evaluate, and push contractors or assess them by providing the necessary support and training to comply with AECOM scheduling requirements, and I was able to work with the following projects:1. Slawi Infrastructure - 1200 hectares occupied with 200k people - 6 utility networks (electricity, water, sewer, drainage, roads, telecom) - 400m LYD - Belfinger Berger AG2. Ganfouda 15k housing units development - 200m LYD - Chinese National Construction Consortium3. Ajdabiya 5k housing units development - 100m LYD - Hyundai E&C4. Gardenia 5k housing units development - 100m LYD - Chinese National Construction Consortium5. Kufra 5k housing units development - 150m LYD - DSC IndiaMy achievements were:1. Training construction contractors' schedulers to use Oracle Primavera, and educating them on the AECOM Master Schedule2. All of the 5 project baselines were able to achieve minimum requirements to receive a recommendation for approval3. One of the projects was denied a recommendation for baseline approval for not apparent good standing reason, and I was able to push the Construction Supervisor towards a positive decision by leading a training workshop with the Construction Supervisor's engineers and the contractor's schedulers and planners, and we were able to reach a positive decision by the end of the workshop (just clarified some misconeptions)

Benghazi, Benghazi, Libya

Alemara Engineering Consultations Office was responsible for a various amount of design, studies, planning, construction management, construction supervision, and commissioning projects in the areas of housing, utilities, medical and healthcare, bridges, airports, and government.When I joined them in Nov 2007, I was assigned tasks as follows:- Slawi Project - Infrastructure - 400m LYD - Contractor: Bilfinger Berger AG Roles and responsibilities:1. Document Control2. Material Inspection3. Project Schedule review3G Urban Planning Project for LibyaRoles and responsibilities:Project Scheduler, review and approval of contractor baseline, Cost Breakdown StructureConstruction of the New Benina Ariport - Contractor: SNC LavalinProject Scheduler, review and approval of contractor baseline, Cost Breakdown StructurePrimavera P6 and P3 Instructor:Responsible for training 30+ of ALEMARA's Projects Department engineer on how to implement the software in schedule review.

Tripoli, Tripoli, Libya

The town of Sultan (35km North of Ajdabiya), was a 70 hectares village, with the project objectives being to check the utilities networks design, and building them within budget and time.I served both as project manager and Technical Director for the project, bringing about 3 years of engineering (civil) design into the project, with 2 years of experience in a similar project, I was able to:1. Uncover a major design issue by inspecting the survey of the area, as there was a critical mistake that led to the redesign of the water, sewage, and drainage networks, based on this finiding I submitted a changed request for 720k LYD (equivalent to half a million dollars)2. Identify 600+ road obstables, and request clarification from the client on the process that would lead to resolving the obstacles issue in order to commence construction3. Educate the client and construction supervisor on proper dependency management by developing a detailed schedule for design and construction activities and deliverable4. Develop both Quality Management and OSH plans for the project, along with the project schedules, and receive client and construction supervisor approval in a short time

Benghazi, Benghazi, Libya

CQG was the construction contractor for the utilities and roads networks in 6 towns in the east of Libya, with each town being a project under this program - 2 project managers and the engineering director attended several of my trainings, and offered me a position to transfer the proper knowledge required to kick-off the program scheduling on a good start.I accepted the position, and started working as a Project Planning Coordinator, leading 12 schedulers to plan 6 infrastructure projects.I was able to improve and unify their know-how on the use and implementation of the software (Oracle Primavera) for project scheduling, especially when it comes to the fine tuning of resource assignments.I laid the gounrd for a high-level of communication between the project planning team members, and they starting using the software and utilizing their skills more efficiently.

Tripoli, Tripoli, Libya

Dar Almansora Co. was a sales agency representing stationary and printer brands in Libya, among which Brother, Kyocera, and Casio calculators, printers, copiers, and fax machines, in addition to BILLCON counters, and SENTRYSAFE safes.I was hired to direct sales in their Benghazi branch, for which I was responsible for maintaining relations with previous, in addition to carrying out business development activities to get new clients onboard.In less than 8 months, I was able to bring in major clients, and also trippled the sales from last year in the same area (Benghazi, Marj, Albeydha, Derna).My achievements in the position were:1. Turning Kyocera and Brother into a brand that corporate workers from various client organizations liked, as I provided long term after services, and was able to turn around some technical issues from competition into advantage with our products (e.g. Brother Fax 2820 sales were increased 400% because of MFP capabilities, and also my research led me to the ability to connect it to the internet through a modem offered by Libya's Hatif Libya Telecom Company).2. Kyocera heavy duty office copier sold 250% more, with more than 20 new clients replacing their Konica Minolta and Develop with the Kyocera 1350.3. Sold a large MFP document processor (Kyocera TASKalfa 2420 A3 color printer (for USD 19,840), which constitutes a month sales worth.4. Established a consitent reseller relationship for Casio calculators, selling more than 400 pc per month through resellers.5. Introduced label printers from Brother to the local market, although it still struggled with sales.6. Sold more than 2 pc of BILLCON counters per month for 6 months (which won't sell much due to the high price, but I was able to understand how to promote them by working on fixing De La Rau counters in government banks).7. Refurbished and sold old Kyocera, Brother, in addition to SENTRYSAFE safes.

Benghazi, Benghazi, Libya

I started with Dar Alkafaa as an apprentice with the Technical Department, and I worked my way up to supervise the R&D Office,During my time as an IT Technician, I was working on refurbishing fax machines, copiers, printers, De La Rau banknote counters, and improving the Technical Support aspect of the company.As the company works on document storage solutions, there was a great opportunity to grow in the Libyan local market, and that is by integrating those (archiving) machines with a computer UI, something that I have introduced to the CEO early in 2007. The company then partnered with a manufacturer from Italy to win a multi-million dollar contract with a government organization in Libya to procure and install several hundreds of the Italian manufacturer's document storage and physical archive management depo.My achievements were:1. Introducing a ticketing system using a simple program to the Technical Support deprtment2. The computer UI integrated to the depos using a simple barcode reader for files was a selling point for the huge contract in 2007, where I delivered the presentation myself (receiving a nice bonus for the presentation).3. I introduced an idea to the Italian manufacturer, as I was part of a team along with the CEO, where we visited the manufacturer facilities, and before the visit I developed a proposal for the manufacturer to establish a factory in Libya (specifically Misurata where they got their materials from), and the selling point was: shorter supply chain, lower wages, less transportation and shipping costs. (they gave it some serious consideration before 2011).