Project Management

Nizar Khoury Resume

Current Address: Dubai, United Arab Emirates Birth Date: 26 May 1983

Mobile No.: +971********* E-mail: ac71oc@r.postjobfree.com

Career Highlights

Over 12 years of experience in managing projects in the field of: Collaboration, Knowledge Management, Document Management & Electronic Content Management systems for some of the world’s biggest projects/enterprises. I have built a unique competency through work experience gained from a diversified industry portfolio ranging from Construction, Property Development/Management, International Development & Business Consultancy projects. My technical & functional knowledge in the above systems/domains made me well versed in setting-up/enhancing a cost efficient, fully automated and adopted electronic Content Management/collaboration solution that requires less resources to maintain.

Professional Experience

(15th of October 2016 – November 2018)

Job Title: Records Manager

Company: The Palladium Group (Leaders in International Development Projects & business consultancy)

Location: Dubai / United Arab Emirates

Implemented for the Palladium group a centralized fully automated Record Center & Knowledge Management library for the projects, global offices & functional departments, which decreased the time & resources required for capturing Knowledge Management content & essential company records by 90% & increased the staff speed in the preparation of technical documentation & proposals by 40%.

Management/Administration of SharePoint 365 for the entire Palladium group globally (EMEA, APAC and Americas) average of 15 requests a day.

Automated the process of retention (Destruction of unwanted documents) which led to more effective search results & lowered the company storage by 30%.

Automated the process of document indexing/tagging (Metadata) by the project users therefore increased the overall speed/efficiency by 90%.

Created across all regional business units (Americas, APAC & EMEA) the Records Management Policy, Procedure, Processes & Tools which increased standardization by 90% across regions & reduced risk by 30%.

Used a standard implementation approach across all projects for the setup of the integrated SharePoint site (Business Requirements gathering, documenting requirements on a standard setup forms, setting up the project on SharePoint as per the setup form, training/supporting staff on the project/system & managing the project through proper procedure and tools).

Established for the company a centralized cross search engine for all projects, functional departments, and global offices that retrieves search results based on the automatically generated information tags (Metadata) and user’s permissions.

Established on SharePoint the main Knowledge Management Projects which are currently heavily used by company users (Fully Automated "Projects Information Data Base" & "Knowledge Management Library") with an average usage of 40 hits per day.

Designed & created on InfoWise some of the company’s most essential electronic registers (Project Register, Entities Register etc.) & process workflows.

(15th of April 2014 – 15th of October 2016)

Job Title: Enterprise Content Management Specialist

Company: Drake & Scull International PLC. (Leaders in Electro Mechanical Projects)

Location: Dubai / United Arab Emirates

Setup for DSI corporate the Records Management strategy/roll-out plan for departments & projects (48 projects in the Middle east).

Rolled-out the document collaboration system across the Global projects which enhanced collaboration, monitoring & standardization by 40%

Supported end users throughout the implementation life-cycle & always assuring business requirements are met.

Used Project Management tools such as MS Project & Advanced Excel for implementing multiple global projects in parallel.

Attended regular global Implementation progress meetings (8 Resources) with global resources & continuously followed-up on assigned action Items (KSA, Qatar, UAE, Oman)

Planned, Installed, Configured, Developed & Designed SharePoint on premise for the enterprise therefor replaced decentralized Shred folders.

Automated 5 of the internal processes trough SharePoint designer & InfoPath.

Engaged with Drake & Scull department heads/Project managers for identifying operational gaps & Mapping processes (As-is & To-be processes)

Assured processes are approved/compliant with ISO 9001 standards & internal audit requirements.

Created training materials on system usage & “best practice”.

Ensuring users are guided & supported during their daily tasks.

Used advanced technical evaluation tools for evaluating construction related Information Systems & prepared the “Request for Proposal” used for the procurement of the corporate/projects systems (RMS, Document Collaboration System, EDMS, Estimation System, Time Attendance System, Cost System, Eng. Takeoff)

Revised vendors contracts and SLAs, whilst ensuring the agreed level of services are fully met.

(02th of September 2013 – March 2014)

Job Title: Document Control & Information Systems Consultant (Short Term Contract before joining DSI)

Company: MAG Engineering & Contracting (No. 1 MEP Contractors in Jordan)

Location: Amman Jordan

Investigated and assessed the existing document control processes, procedures and presented the findings to Management.

Re-engineered existing processes & enhanced Document retrieval, reporting & overall operational efficiency.

Implemented SharePoint prototype (On Premise) for Projects & Departments.

Centralized the capture of Electronic Content & therefore increased the overall efficiency.

(16th of October 2009 – 08th of July 2013)

Job Title: Document Systems Controller / EDMS Coordinator

Company: ALDAR properties (Second biggest property developer in the Middle east)

Location: Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates

Company Industry: Property Developers & managers

Managed/Administered SharePoint for ALDAR properties for corporate departments & subsidiaries.

Managed ACONEX for ALDAR across 99 projects & more than 75 TB of Data.

Managed on SharePoint/ACONEX users’/groups accessibility/system rights through proper access/governance Procedure.

Updated system project settings (ACONEX/SharePoint) as per new business requirements through proper change management processes.

Created on SharePoint/ACONEX workflows that met department’s internal needs & optimized Engineering Review Approvals.

Established by liaising with Project/Department owners the Document Control & Numbering Procedure.

Analyzed Project/Department business requirements related to content management & created the documents required for the ACONEX/SharePoint project setup.

Created new projects on ACONEX/SharePoint as per the approved implementation setup document.

Attended with the vendors weekly ‘Progress Meetings” which solved corporate related issues & continuously enhanced the processes.

Prepared the training material & trained ALDAR staff on the use of ACONEX & SharePoint based on their company’s assigned role (Basic users, Document controllers & Project Administration).

Guided, supported & coached projects/departments Document Controllers in their daily activities

Produced for the IMS department/company periodic reports (IMS Department Monthly reports, Document Control Audit Check-up reports, accessibility reports, Sales/Leasing contracts status reports, system usage reports & construction related document submission status reports.)

(October 2008 - October 2009):

Job Title: Sr. Document Controller – ACONEX Certified & Expert (ALDAR’s ACONEX/SharePoint Administrator)

Company: ACONEX (Seconded by ALDAR) recently acquired by Oracle, (No. 1 Construction Collaboration System)

Location: Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates

Company Industry: Content Management & Online Collaboration System (No.1 worldwide in construction Collaboration systems)

Job description: (Seconded Position) Same as ALDAR’s job description mentioned above.

(March 2006 – September 2008):

Job Title: Document Control Engineer

Company: Consolidated Contractors International Company (CCC) (Top ten contractors globally)

Location: Qatar / Jordan

I was the main person designated by CCC Qatar to roll-out the EDMS across projects which increased the satisfaction of internal management, main client (QP) & other clients by 20%.

Assisted the QA/QC department in the setup of the Document & numbering Procedure according to project requirements.

Ensured document submittals are carried out according to the numbering & Document Procedures

Setup for the Document Control Department the “Project Distribution Matrix” for the distribution of received documents.

Solved system related technical issues.

Coordinated training seminars for basic users & Document Controllers.

Created for new projects Information Attributes for controlling documents, repository & fast document retrievals.

Automated & optimized the system workflow processes.

Created on the system incoming, internal & outgoing transmittal templates for tracking documents internally & externally.

Designed on “Crystal Reports” program reports for sporadic inquiries (Pulling Dynamic Data from the Data Base on a designed form template).

Education

(September 2002 - June 2005)

University Name: The University of the West of England

Location: Bristol, England, United Kingdom

Subject: Bachelor's degree in “Business Information Systems/BIS”

(September 2001 - June 2002)

University Name: Coventry University

Location: Coventry, England, United Kingdom

Subject: Business Information Technology

Primary & Secondary Schools / Until June 2001:

The Bolitho School (Cornwall - England) / The New English School (Amman - Jordan) / GCSE (A-Levels & O-levels)

Computer/System skills

Collaboration/Content Mgmt.

SharePoint (PowerShell, SharePoint Designer) InfoPath & InfoWise)

ACONEX

Alfresco

EPLASS

VBC

Office Applications

Advanced Excel

Word

PowerPoint

Outlook

Lotus Notes

Access

Visio

Other (Intermediate Level)

Crystal Reports

Java

HTML

XML

Networking

Server Configuration

SQL

SELECT SSADM

Visual Basic

Front Page

Flash

CAD

MS project

Professional Courses:

MCSE “Microsoft Certified System Engineer” (CompuBase, Jordan)

MCTS “Microsoft Certified Technology Specialist”, the main SharePoint administration course (Koenig, Dubai)

ITIL Foundation Certified

ACONEX Certified Associate

Advanced Excel (Spearhead Gulf, Abu Dhabi)

Corporate Team Building Workshop (YAS Hotel, Abu Dhabi)

Languages

English fully fluent written & spoken / Arabic fully fluent written & spoken.

References Upon Request

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