Project Manager Design

Mechanical Engineering

Michael (Haitham) Khamissi

**** ****** **** **., *******, TX - 77038

USA

Home: 910-***-****, Cell: 850-***-****

E-mail: **********@*****.***

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Complex Engineering Design Progressive Project Management Construction

Mgmt Consultancy

Innovative Engineering Research and International Business Development

Solutions Resourcing

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I am a business development expert with variable skills that will guaranty

your strategic success in any location. In fact, my proactive personality

has always assisted me to build a positive rapport with architects, other

engineers, officials, vendors, owners, and clients. My devotion to study,

develop, and maintain the engineering aspects of any engineering nature

project/development have also complemented every corner in my career. I am

a dynamic executor and motivation driven professional with an extraordinary

blend of exquisite leadership, international experience, and exceptional

technical knowledge. My successful record of accomplishments within multi-

million dollar developments is verifiable through many existing

international landmarks. I am looking forward to continue my successful

career to benefit your company in which I see a recognizable potential for

advancement and improvement on both sides. I am a classical yet innovative

professional engineer and with confidence, I state that you will,

definitely, like to keep me within your high rank operations' circle.

Key Strengths

Self Initiative & Motivated Organization & Management

skills

Specification & Contractual Writing Resources Management

Senior MEP Designing Skills Risk Management analysis

Excellent Communication Skills Team Building & Leadership

Managing All Engineering Trades Negotiation Skills

Estimating, Planning, Scheduling, Budgeting, Proper Decision's Making

Purchasing & Cost Control ability

Hands-on experience with ISO, ASTM, OSHA, EEES, IEEE, ASHRAE, SMACNA, ASME, NFPA,

UPC, ARI, ANSI, ECATTS, BS ... etc.

Selective Experience Highlights

Daher Contracting, Inc. 03/2010

to 02/2011

Position: Project Manager / Estimator

1. Managed the company internal and external resources to achieve timely

successful completion, within budget and mostly to the complete

satisfaction of the Corps of Engineering and the Navy.

2. Estimated the cost for a variety of projects pertaining to

underground utilities, landscaping and site-work.

3. Conducted the suppliers' sourcing, price comparisons, negotiations,

purchases, and evaluation.

4. Monitored material delivery and maintained quality control through

technical submittals and evaluations.

5. Wrote and provided weekly safety training for the employees in

compliance with OSHA.

6. Estimated project's budget, planed the site activities, resources

intensity, and projects' portfolio using M/S projects.

7. Maintained a cost control scheme for each project along with writing

weekly executive reports to the owner/president.

8. Managed over 50 technical employees, 15 heavy equipment and all site

construction operations for the following projects:

* SOF - the 7th Special Forces Complex - Phase III, Eglin AFB. (2.5

Million USD)

* BRAC - Civil Engineering Facility, Eglin Air Force Base. (0.7 Million

USD)

* EOD - School Dorms, Eglin Air Force Base. (1.2 Million USD)

* CSO - Bachelor Housing, NAS, Pensacola. (1.7 Million USD)

Locrete Industries, LLC 09/2008 to

10/2009

Position: Executive Development Manager

1. Sourced international housing development opportunities in Sri Lanka,

Comoros Islands, Jordan, South Africa, Iraq, Kuwait, Djibouti, West

Bank and Algeria.

2. Conducted value engineering studies, comparative analysis, conceptual

designs, and prepared technical presentations for various housing

development projects.

3. Directed the Locrete factory production activities, product testing,

development, and research activities in Kuwait.

4. Built and mentored an engineering design teams including; Architects,

civil engineers, structural engineers, an MEP engineers locally and

internationally.

5. Managed the operations of designing and building the following

projects:

* PK-12 Residential and commercial development project, Djibouti.

(Total area: 360 Acres, Value: $ 72 million )

* Locrete production factory, steel fabrication workshop, dorms,

executive's housing, and storage facility, Djibouti. (Total area: 9

Acre, Value: $ 17 million)

6. Built, trained and mentored the operations team for the above-

mentioned projects and directed the construction managers.

7. Sourced financing for the same projects through international banks,

the Djiboutian government and potential buyers.

8. Negotiated the contract with the Djiboutian Authorities, the country

vice president/s and the foreign investment minister.

9. Mentored the projects' engineering design team, led the meetings with

the Djiboutian housing authorities, negotiated the housing details,

and acquired approvals and permits for construction.

10. Managed and directed the marketing and sales operations, successfully

achieved selling one-third of the project's homes period to commence

the construction activities through safe banking deposits.

11. Built local and international business allies such as material

suppliers, contractors, assistants, and service providers.

12. Planed, budgeted, and directed both the international mobilization

plan and the project construction plan.

13. Provided technical evaluations for all material and equipment

purchasing, e.g.: Concrete Batching plants, overhead cranes, high

tensioning equipment, heavy equipment, cement silos, prefabricated

buildings, etc.

LAS Architectural Consultants 04/2004 to

09/2008

Position: MEP Principal Engineer / Consultant

1. Trained, mentored, and directed four mechanical and electrical

project engineers to provide construction consultancy for a diversity

of projects, e.g.; high-rise buildings, healthcare, commercial,

institutional, industrial, and residential projects.

2. Directed construction project management teams for healthcare and

industrial projects including civil, structural and MEP services.

Resolved disputes between owners and contractors. Provided investment

risk-management studies. Planned human resources, quality management,

time management, project communication, cost management, procurement

management, and change orders.

3. Managed and executed HVAC engineering design including: Central

chilled water stations, ice-storage chillers, water and air cooled

chillers, chilled water piping, multi-stations air handlers, mammoth

DX and package air conditioners, air duct, kitchen hoods,

ventilation, VCD VAV and comfort zones systems, sound attenuation,

equipment vibration isolation, expansion tanks, water chemical

treatment, split case pumps selection, hydronic and friction

calculations, fans and air distribution equipment, air treatment

equipment, gas phase filtration, clean rooms, data centers, medical

gas systems, and building management systems.

4. Managed and executed plumbing engineering design including: Supply

water towers, pumping stations, supply water piping, supply water

filtration and treatment, waste water recycling biochemical reactors

design, lifting stations, storm drain civil design, sewage piping and

manholes design, grinder and turbine pumps selection and design,

swimming pools and water fixtures.

5. Managed and executed fire fighting engineering design including:

combined standpipe, wet or dry automatic sprinkler systems design,

fire alarm control design, fire fighting water reserve tanks, jockey

and main pumping equipment design and selection, fire fighting

zoning, floor central valves, FM200 gas systems and pre-mixed foam-

water deluge sprinkler and spray systems.

6. Managed and executed electrical engineering design including: LV and

MV Power stations, distribution boards design, wiring design

according to VD and load design, feeder pillars and street light

design, low current design, CCTV design, and equipment electrical

design, lighting flux and intensity design.

7. Wrote and edited material and equipment specifications. Executed

design, working, details, and as-built engineering drawings,

evaluated and approved submittals and material samples, maintained

the performance quality by implementing the international standards

and codes.

8. Wrote construction contracts and scope of works.

9. Wrote project schedules and evaluated budgets.

10. Design, construction management and consultancy for: 7 high-rise

commercial buildings, 2 high-rise governmental buildings, 2

hospitals, 3 schools, 4 industrial and manufacturing facilities, 8

high-rise residential buildings, 4-story indoor car showroom, 15 high-

end residential villas (each of multi-million dollar value), 3 multi-

story companies headquarters, 2 financial institution buildings, and

2 shopping malls, 12 storage buildings.

Sayed Hamid Behbehani Company (SHBC) 02/2002 to 03/2004

Position: MEP Project Manager

1. Engineering design and build of HVAC systems for residential,

industrial, and commercial buildings including DX Units, chilled

water systems, comfort zones, and explosion proof equipment.

2. Engineering design and build of plumbing systems for industrial,

residential, and commercial buildings including lifting stations,

manholes, gravity piping, supply water pumping stations, storage

tanks, fixtures, and accessories.

3. Engineering design and build of building management systems and PLC

controllers.

4. Engineering design and build of MEP services for petrochemical, oil

and gas industrial buildings including: Control rooms, switchgears,

data centers, and special buildings.

5. Managed day-to-day construction activities, material quality, safety

measures, equipment selection, and purchasing.

6. Managed material and equipment technical submittals, attended daily

performance meetings with general project managers, resident

engineers, owner representatives, other trades engineers.

7. Design and executed 3 high-end residential castles cost-plus

projects (each of multi-million dollars value), high-rise hotels,

commercial high-rise building, indoor car showroom, 2 data centers, 3

oil & gas switch gears, and 7 oil & gas control rooms in an Ammonia

factory.

8. Assisted with the design and execution of the Chrome Coating Facility

at the company premises.

British Link Kuwait Company (BLK) 09/2000 to 02/2002

Position: HVAC Engineering Unit Head

1. Designed and built HVAC systems, including DX systems, chilled water

systems, and comfort zones.

2. Managed the engineering design of a large number of residential

buildings, exceeded 200 custom designed homes with a variety of

applications such as home theaters, indoor swimming pools, commercial

kitchens, sauna rooms, multipurpose halls.

3. Designed and built 3-story gym's HVAC system including: Sauna rooms,

Indoor Jacuzzi, Indoor swimming pool, aerobics room, spa, dancing

rooms, cardio room, lobby, etc.

4. Supervised the HVAC systems' construction and directed the

superintendents and supervisors.

5. Managed the material deliveries, duct fabrication, equipment

purchasing, and installations.

6. Managed all change orders redesign, removing and replacing, contracts

financial situations implications.

7. Managed all customers' requests and ensured full customer

satisfaction.

8. Designed and built two praying chapels using air-cooled chillers, air

handling units and fan coil units.

9. Managed and directed the maintenance operations for two oil and gas

projects with Texaco, including; HVAC units replacement, redesign and

replace of ducting, replacing condenser coils and performing blue

coating setting up preventive maintenance schedules and

documentation.

10. Designed and built multi-purpose air conditioned tents for the US

army while deployment in the American bases and Kuwaiti sea ports,

including; dining halls, living units, kitchens, indoor training

facilities.

Part-Time Engineering and Construction Contracts 09/2000 to

010/2009

Position: Free Lancing Part-time Contracting

* Refrigeration Industries and storage Co. (York Middle-East) -

(Consultancy Sample - 2008)

Hired for 2 months as a consultant by the board to re-establish an

engineering department that is capable to overcome the previous

engineering strategic failures. My consultancy yielded considerable

quantitative and qualitative engineering outcome and it addressed all

of the following aspects:

* Optimizing and organizing the operational flow of the

engineering design processes for construction projects

* Accuracy and complexity of the engineering design versus

economical actual reflected value

* Reducing the construction time starts with implementing proper

design philosophy

* How to produce an effective design and maintain consistency of

quality

* Increasing equipment life time and reducing maintenance cost

by using realistic design safety factors

* Engineering is a triangle with three vertices: environment,

engineering, and economics.

* International Design Group - (MEP Design and design management Sample

-2007/2008)

Contracted with IDG as the "Professional Engineer in Charge"

responsible to manage the engineering design of the MEP services for

two mega international projects.

* Erbil Mall, Iraq. - It consisted of master planning, central

utility and water-cooled chilled-water station, piping, heat

exchangers, underground water storage tanks, pumping

station/s, for a complex of superstore, high-rise office

building (36 Stores), shopping mall (3 Stores), cinema and

entertainment complex (5 Theaters), three high-rise apartment

buildings (26-28 Stores), high-rise 4-start hotel (32 Stores),

and waste water recycling infra-structural utility. (Value:

$180 million, Area: 277 Acres, built-up area: 1,670,000SF)

* The Jewel residential development, Lahore, Pakistan - It

consisted of underground utility master planning design for

1200 single houses, including; 16-models of individual housing

and 4-models of townhouses, health care building, chapel,

multi-purpose hall, shops plaza, retail complex. (Value: $85

million, Area: 55 Acres, avg. house area: 3,000 SF)

* LAS Architectural consultants (Consultant & Senior MEP Engineer

Sample -2000/2004)

Part time Senior MEP Consultant

Contracted with LAS as private professional engineer consultant to

perform the following activities:

* Concept design, design philosophy, and master planning of the

mechanical services of Kuwait city urban fill project.

Developed the design philosophy of a central mechanical

services station, Ice-storage chilled-water central station

having capacity of 25,000 Tons of cooling, and wastewater

treatment and recycling station with capacity of 1,500,000

GPD.

* MEP Design of a clinic, wood manufacturing facility,

governmental building, few private villas, and chalets.

* Hired as full time employee by this consultant office in due

course.

* Cooling & Homes Co. (Design and Build Contracting Sample - 2005-2006)

Contracted as a PE to design and build MEP systems for the following

projects, including; construction management, material and equipment

purchasing, quality control, all necessary paper work and permits.

* Managed the engineering design and build of a TV Studio for Al-

Rai TV and Media. The project consisted of engineering design

of a floating building suspended on spring-mounted base,

external wall vibration and noise Isolation engineering

design, HVAC equipment vibration isolation, heating & cooling

loads calculation, ventilation and fire fighting design, data

center cooling design, sound attenuation for the air-

conditioning equipment, particulate and HEPA filtration for

the whole building, dehumidification of the building

enclosure, and room-to-room noise and sound elimination

through a complex design of air plenum boxes. (HVAC Value:

$3.6 million, built-up area: 30,000SF)

* Managed the design and build of a HVAC system for a 5 star

restaurant and dining hall in Crown Plaza Hotel.

* Managed the design and build of an HVAC system for "Al-Watan"

newspaper printing press with special air filtration

requirements.

* Design and build of a pre-chiller to an ice-making factory at

Arifjan, US base in Kuwait.

* Arabi Enertech Co. (Contracting/Subcontracting sample - 2001-2006)

Subcontracted to execute the following project:

* Managed the design and build of the Special Forces

Headquarters HVAC system.

* Managed the design and build of HVAC systems for few control

rooms in an Ammonia Petrochemical Industry Factory. The system

involved a gas phase filtration, clean room standards,

automated ventilation system for fire fighting, and a precise

fully automated programmable control.

* Managed the design and build of cooling system for data

center/s at governmental buildings.

* Managed the design and build of the air-cooled chilled water

system for the Armory and Weapon Storage building. (HVAC

Value: $22.5 million, Built-up Area: 103,000 SF)

* Kamal M. Sultan Co. (KMS) (Refrigeration and Variable Contracting

Sample 2004-2008)

* Hired as a construction manager of an Ice factory with a total

capacity of 1500 Ton/day. The project consisted of steel

building, two split-type tubular ice-making machines, two

cooling towers, pre-cooling chiller, 5-stage water treatment

plant, cold store, and packaging equipment.

* Designed and built central cooking gas system, 3 kitchen

hoods, kitchen hoods' automatic firefighting system, cooking

fumes treatment equipment, swimming pool, and Jacuzzi at Mr.

Kamal Sultan Villa.

* Locrete Industries - design and development sector (Mechanical Systems

Process Design Sample - 2005-2006)

* Contracted to provide a steam-curing process engineering

design for the precast concrete production facility. An

industrial solution to reduce the time delaying process by a

factor of two in order to match the time of other processes

associated with this line of production. The mechanical

process design involved with solar energy, boilers, heat

exchangers, piping, steam, and other air, water and steam

circulation equipment. The design implemented in their new

facility in the new factories and achieved new remarkable

records of production speed.

* Kharafi National (Engineering Design and contracting Sample - 2002-

2006)

* HVAC Engineering design of an air-conditioned bridge of 260

meter long and 20 meter wide. The bridge is a national

architectural footprint in Kuwait located at the Marina Mall.

The bridge in made of curved glass and suspended over the gulf

road connecting the marina with the mall.

* Designed and build fully-welded Stainless-steel air ducting

for the swimming court at Jaber Stadium. One of the most

famous footprints in the Middle-East.

* Designed and built few fully-welded Stainless steel kitchen

hoods and relevant ducting at variable food courts inside

malls, and five star hotels.

* Awali Co. (Partnership in Duct Fabrication Facility Sample - 2002-

2007)

* Managed the facility production operations, safety procedures,

and quality control on semi-daily bases.

* Upgraded the equipment to include all duct joints and

increased the capacity from 5 ton/d to 25 ton/d.

* Ensured customer satisfaction, while built up the customers'

base.

* Equipment and material procurement and timely deliveries.

* Variables (Engineering design, Construction management, and

international trading sample - 2000-2008)

* Designed many HVAC systems for variable constructions; mainly

residential and commercial for many consultant offices and

private owners in the Middle East.

* HVAC engineering design of His Haines the Amir of Qatar's

Castle in Doha.

* HVAC systems engineering design and built for His Haines the

Amir of Kuwait at Al-Sief Palace.

* Refrigeration engineering design and built for refer

containers and cold stores.

* Gas fire places engineering design and custom built in Kuwait

* Caf shop HVAC engineering design and build at city center,

Kuwait

* HVAC maintenance, remodeling and fixes.

* Giorgio Armani shop HVAC system design and build in Kuwait

Education, Training & Certification

Education:

Applied Science University, Amman-Jordan

01/1996 to 07/2000

Bachelor of Science in Mechanical Engineering accredited by the ABET. 5

years program, evaluated by the NCEES at an equivalence of 160 accredited

hours, which exceeds an Engineering Master Degree program in the US.

Certification:

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Professional Engineer Applied Science University, 9/2000 2000 - 2009

Amman, Jordan

Professional Engineer Kuwait Society of Engineers, 06/2004 2004 - 2009

Kuwait City, Kuwait

Project Manager ECATTS - Florida, USA 02/2011 2011-presen

Environmental Compliance t

Training:

* Able to obtain PE Licensure in Texas within 12 months. (USA 2012)

* 6 Credited hours in LEED design and applications through my

preparation for LEED - Associate (two weeks, USA 2010-2011)

* Variable refrigerant flow design, equipment selection and

installation training by Fujitsu-Japan (two weeks, Germany 2002)

* Variable refrigerant flow design, equipment selection and

installation training by Fujitsu-Japan (two weeks, Dubai 2003)

* Compressor and refrigeration cycles design, installation and

maintenance training by Copland-US (two weeks, Kuwait 2004)

* TOEFL Training course by IBT (three months, Kuwait 1995)

* Computer operating system training by Alamiya Institute (two months,

Kuwait 1995)

Academic Projects:

* Designed and fabricated an adiabatic ideal gas pressure-temperature

correlation evaluation apparatus (ASU-1998)

* Designed and fabricated a cam-follower, gear reduction train,

manually operated apparatus (ASU-1997)

* Graduation project: Study of the effect of alloying element,

concentration, and time in the process of aluminizing plan carbon

steel by hot dipping.

Computer Aided Programs' Skills

AutoCAD R12 to 2009 Skills Solid Works 2008 Skills Revit Architectural

AutoCAD 3D 2009 Mechanical Bentley Auto Pipe XM SewerCAD

Design

Carrier E-20 II HAP / LEED Elite H & C Load Trane TRACE-700 / LEED

Calculation

Primavera 6 Microsoft Outlook & Internet

Projects

Photoshop Pro TPO (The Paperless Office) MATHLAB Programming

QuickBooks Pipe Flo eQuest 3-63 energy analysis/

LEED

eQuest Earthwork eQuest Estimator AutoDesk Design Review

AutoDesk 3D MAX Adobe CS3 Master M/S Excel, Power Point, &

Collection Word

Wide Assortment of computer aided Equipment Selection, Ducting Design, Thermal

Analysis, Stress Analysis and Piping Design.

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