Project Engineer

Ahmad Alaraj

****Dacula Ridge Rd.

Dacula.GA ****9

Home:770-***-****:********@*****.***

Professional Summary

Creative Professional with diverse backgrounds as planning leader, academic researcher,

business consultant and production engineer. Proficiencies include leadership, analysis,

problem solving, strategic thinking and organizational development

Core Qualifications

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Project management Results-oriented

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Organizational development Creative problem solving

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Mastery of research International experience

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Training and development Project planning

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Computer proficient Thought leadership

Experience

Project Planning Leader (Offshore & Onshore Projects)

June 2011 to July 2013

Origo Solutions- Kristiansand. Norway

• Established a planning department from scratch with comprehensive processes,

procedures, job descriptions and hiring and training plans.

• Created presentations on planning, leadership and project management which were

adopted by company as formal training material for project managers and planners.

• Improved the bidding preparation and submission process to enhance budget

estimations and resource requirements.

• Changed the cost control practice to include rigorous forecasts of final budgets of

projects.

• Coached and trained planners on planning concepts and using Safran Planner Software.

• Designed standard progress reports for clients

• Consulted by top management in creating a project management office.

• Proposed to top management a new approach to define resources which I called Origo

Resource Profile.

• Advised a strategy for enterprise resource management using my proposed resource

profile.

• Successfully delivered to a client a tender plan for a $100M/5yrs project and received

no-amendments feedback from first submission.

• Anticipated an over-budget behind schedule status of one project 4 months in advance

and successfully recommended proper solutions.

Research Fellow

August 2008 to June 2011

University of Agder- Kristiansand.Norway

• Researched issues related to team work, leadership and virtual organizations.

• Developed a rigorous research methodology that is not used in the field.

• Wrote a PhD thesis on the topic of complex adaptive systems.

Business Consultant in a project based in Saudi Arabia

August 2005 to August2006

Aregon Consulting- Amman. Jordan

• Conducted analysis to address warehousing operations in FMCG company which led

to reduction of expired inventories.

• Reviewed and provided comments for a client on the efficiency of their finished goods

distribution and took necessary steps to cure any deficiencies.

• Enhanced the production planning process which led to streamlining throughput with

inventory replenishment.

Production Engineer

April 2003 to August 2005

Prime Five Garments Manufacturing- Amman. Jordan

• Improved production lines by removing all non-machine labor.

• Reduced work-in-progress which led to zero buffers in production lines.

• Created a low-cost method to track work in progress using simple stickers and bundles

cards.

• Designed production line layouts and required setups.

• Built estimates for production cost per unit for different types of orders.

• Built capacity plans, master production schedules and BOM.

• Designed quality control check points.

• Developed lean manufacturing measures.

• Built production-subcontracting forecasts.

Education

PhD, International Management, 2013

University of Agder- Kristiansand. Norway

PhD thesis: Virtual Teams as Complex Adaptive Systems: Emergence of Group Properties.

Public defence of thesis is on schedule for Nov2013

M.Sc, Operations & Production Management, 2008

University of Chalmers- Gothenburg. Sweden

B.Sc, Industrial Engineering, 2003

University of Jordan- Amman. Jordan

Additional Information

Voluntary Work:

• Summers of 2006, 2007 &2008. DeBONO Center for Teaching Thinking. Jordan

Organizing training seminars, Workshops and conferences related to teaching thinking.

• 2010 University of Agder. Norway Participating in organizing development studies

conference.

Languages:

• English, Arabic, Norwegian

Computer Skills:

• MS office, Safran Planner, MS Projects, HyperResearch, STATA, SPSS, Oracle SQL,

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