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Charlotte, Nc

- Identifying opportunities for improvement and maximizing financial impacts through understand corporate pricing and operational strategies- Planning and organizing a $350m portfolio of key clients pricing analyses across multiple stakeholders, including defining scope and timeline- Creating and delivering tailored, client-specific pricing analyses using relevant data and tools - Presenting analysis and recommendations in a clear and consider manner to the various personnel levels of the organization including Senior Executives - Analyzing complex business problems and data sets to draw conclusions and recommendations

Part of the Strategy, Planning & Organization team at Risk, the management consulting arm of a multi-national network of Fintech, Insurtech, Gaming, Insurance & Reinsurance brokerage operating across Europe, the Americas & MENA regionMain projects across more than 10 entities in the Group in: - Operations and Project Management: - control and KPIs reporting of service teams as part of performance management systems and initiatives; operational assessment and process reengineering - organizational design, including operational assessment, transformation projects, drafting of operating poicies and procedures - inauguration of governance frameworks, including drafting of charters, maintaining risk and control registers, and developing authority matrices - Strategy and Business Development: - Slide decking for pitches, market research, financial projections, multi-million dollars acquisitions - Inception and launching of start-ups in cyber tech - Leading licensing procedures (including drafting regulatory business plans and completing licnesing applications in collaboration with legal professionals) and communication with reguator and governmental authorities

- Assisted a local and regional law firm in developing its management dashboards and HR and finance processes- Led a team for a $800 million retailer through workshops to formalize and improve their business processes related to the finance function in the headquarters and affiliates through business process reeingineering - Helped a regional bank reduce its retail and corporate credit lines assessment and approval by 30% - Developed a corporate strategy for a regional bank venturing in new sector - Created proposal decks and scoping documents for client pitches and researched clients and industries for business development

Lebanon

- Worked under the supervision of different professors each academic semester and provided them with instructional responsibilities - Corrected homework, reports and exams - Supervised laboratory, experimental and field sessions - Conducted qualitative and quantitative research - Modelled and analyzed responses from several research surveys and rationalized discrepancies found in the data- Adapted my research process based on evidence synthesized from the collected data in order to improve analytical rigor in answering research questions- Learned how to extract concise messages and insights from research - Developed meticulous written communication skills through the submission of complete reports and papers

Beirut, Lebanon

Fulfilled an internship as a site engineer.

Master Of Engineering (M.Eng.), Construction Management

Thesis on quantifying the impacts of clashes on construction projects using Building Information Modeling

Bachelor Of Engineering (B.E.), Civil And Environmental Engineering