Karim Sayed Email & Phone Number

Houston, TX, US

Houston, Texas Area

Responsible for managing global quality organization for Baker Hughes GE's Flow & Process Technologies and Reciprocating Compression businesses... portfolio includes Dresser Masoneilan control valves, Consolidated safety & pressure relief valves & Mooney regulators Portfolio size: $1 billionManufacturing footprint: 15+ BHGE factories and over 150 channel.

Houston, Texas Area

• Senior Engineering Manager responsible for managing a team of Engineering MBBs, Blackbelts, QMS leaders & quality engineers for GE O&G Drilling & Surface businesses
• Delivered requisition productivity savings of $5.5MM against a leadership goal of $5.4MM... reduced engineering touch-time by 50K hours vs a goal of 40K hours... reduced engineering total cycle-time by over 1200 days
• Delivered 20% reduction in Engineering product/process defects (goal was 13%). Assembled cross-functional teams at top global sites to analyze, engage & eliminate repeat defects/material subs. Led 15+ supplier workouts.
• Led CoQ strategy for the business when the business/functions were focused on competing priorities & showed the inclusive ability to align multiple functions (despite many roadblocks) to ultimately navigate a path to.
• Drove QMS/API adaptation & continuous improvement at D&S: Internal audits at 20 sites culminating in successful API re-certification... DPP 2.2 release closing gaps with API, ISO & customer CTQs... several.

Randolph, Massachusetts

• Key leadership role responsible for driving due-diligence & acquisition business integration for GE Energy & Oil & Gas Engineering organizations
• Led integration of GE's $3B Dresser acquisition for Engineering and Quality functions... led cross-functional groups including product development, Systems & IT infrastructure, functional management, and other key.
• Drove cost synergies, risk management & mitigation, operations management, migration, alignment and simplification of related processes, platforms and applications and helped the new business leverage GE best practices.

Atlanta, Georgia

• As a project lead assigned to a GE Capital project (GE Smart Grid HQ establishment), I was responsible for overseeing architectural design & construction, office interior design, furniture, fixtures & equipment, A/V &.

Atlanta, Georgia

• Led CTS Customer Service COE Growth Initiatives in a Project Management capacity
• Restructured the Cost Model for CTS Operations Center to identify and isolate costs associated with, and exclusive to, Monitoring and Diagnostics Operations. The induction of various Growth Initiatives necessitated.
• Provided Functional Specifications to Prognostic and Diagnostic Technology (P&DT) for current programs being developed for CTS Customer Service COE as well as New Product Introductions (NPI)
• Observed the role of CTS ‘Super-User’ entailing the conduction of User Acceptance Testing (UAT), imparting of recommendations for the final Approval to Apply (ATA) and overseeing development validation and deployment.
• Developed technical escalation methods and processes flow diagrams for new M&D Service Offerings
• Published Gas and Steam Turbine Operational Assessment Reports for Medium and High Value Contractual Services Agreements

Atlanta, Georgia

• Supervised M&D Operations in a shift lead capacity and trained crew members
• Performed diagnostic analysis on turbine systems’ normal operation and failure modes
• Analyzed machine operating trends and escalated potential combustion and vibration issues to Product Services
• Negotiated ‘first fires’, maintenance activities and emergency forced-outage situations between Product Services, Contractual Services, Field Services and GE Customers
• Furnished Trip Event Reports detailing description of episode, root cause analysis and post-failure corrective measures

Thomaston, Georgia

• Performed Control Room Operator (CRO) duties (Training Assignment)
• Fulfilled dispatched schedules by operating four (4) GE frame 7FA combustion turbines
• Recorded operating variables and set-points during inspection rounds of GE turbines and Customer Balance of Plant equipment
• Conducted Preventive Maintenance on power plant machinery
• Performed trend analysis on turbine operating parameters for troubleshooting purposes

Mobile, Alabama

• Research Assistantship from Engelhard Corporation/University of South Alabama
• Designed, constructed, operated and maintained pilot plants
• Optimized and troubleshot pilot plant operations
• Conducted research into the development of a Dry Process for removal of sulfur dioxide gas from a petroleum refinery process stream
• Analyzed gas compositions for adsorption studies employing gas chromatographs
• Conducted studies on performance of zeolites

Bachelor Of Science (Bs), Chemical Engineering

• Dean’s List • Honor’s List • Research Fellowship, Engelhard Corporation

Lean Six Sigma Master Black Belt Certification, Six Sigma Quality

Leadership program managing and applying Black Belt teams utilizing DMAIC, DFSS, CAP, WorkOut, LEAN and other tools and methodologies to.