Manager Project

Rizwan Haque

Contracting Specialist at UMB

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Summary

CAREER SUMMARY

Accomplished, result-oriented Financial/Procurement Specialist with extensive experience in the areas of

International Procurement, Contracts Administration and Financial Management involving large-scale World

Bank loans for oil refineries and petrochemical projects; consistently promoted to positions of greater

responsibilities. Excellent oral and written communication/report writing skills.

Expertise Includes:

*Corporate Planning * Project Financing * Budget Management * Internal Auditing * Secretarial

Services (served as Secretary to Board’s Audit Committee, Secretary to Budget Committee and Secretary to

various Purchase & Contracts Committees)

Specialties

International Procurement, Domestic Purchasing, Contract Negotiation & Administration, mergers and

acquisition, World Bank Loans for refinery / energy efficiency projects.

Experience

Contracting Specialist at University of Maryland, Baltimore (UMB)

March 2009 - October 2013 (4 years 8 months)

Contracts Administration in Specialty Services.

Head of Procurement/Manager Purchase at National Refinery Limited

October 1991 - July 2006 (14 years 10 months)

Managed the procurement of entire requirements of materials and equipments, stores and spares, chemicals,

sheet metals etc. for the refineries, from domestic and international markets. Also managed the contract

services requirements of the refineries.

For sometime, worked as Manager Finance & Planning and Head of Internal Audit. Also as Secretary to the

Board of Directors' Audit Committee.

Manager Finance at State Petroleum Refining & Petrochemical Corporation (PERAC), Karachi

April 1979 - October 1991 (12 years 7 months)

(Senior) Manager Finance & Planning 1982-1991

• Prepared Annual Budgets of the Corporation and obtained management’s approvals

• As Secretary to Budget Committee, initiated and completed the process of approvals of all the budgets of

Holding Corporation and its subsidiaries by the management

• Managed the project financing processes through local as well as World Bank loans

• Liaised with various ministries and government agencies on financial matters

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Senior Commercial Executive 1979-1982

• Carried out market surveys for different products of industrial unit of the Corporation

• Initiated brand name development for some of the industrial products of the group

• Initiated research studies for identification of potential markets for some products

Projects

Refinery Engineering & Energy Efficiency Project

July 1984 to Present

Members:Rizwan Haque

Refinery expansion project was initiated by State Petroleum Refining & Petrochemical Corporation

(PERAC), the holding corporation and National Refinery Limited (NRL), a subsidiary of PERAC. It was

financed through World Bank Loan # IBRD 2842-PAK.

Hydrocracker Project

January 1982 to Present

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This project was conceived by PERAC as a secondary refinery project, utilizing the indigenous virgin furnace

oil available from the two local refineries based in Karachi. World Bank provided $12 million for initial EDS

package of the project under IBRD Loan #2218-PAK in January 1982. Part of this loan was also allocated to

National Refinery Limited ($1.4 million) and ENAR Petrotech Services Limited ($0.4 million) for Energy

Conservation Projects.

Languages

English (Full professional proficiency)

Urdu (Native or bilingual proficiency)

Hindi (Limited working proficiency)

Bengali (Elementary proficiency)

Skills & Expertise

Procurement

Petroleum

Contract Management

Energy Efficiency

Mergers

Contract Negotiation

Petrochemical

Project Planning

Budgets

Strategic Planning

Analysis

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Materials Management

Program Management

Project Management

Negotiation

Management

Process Improvement

Change Management

Engineering

Refinery

Microsoft Excel

Customer Service

Financial Analysis

Microsoft Office

Market Research

Human Resources

Recruiting

MS Project

Auditing

Policy

Purchasing

Leadership

Forecasting

Performance Management

Training

Risk Management

Data Analysis

Government

Access

Proposal Writing

Teamwork

Business Process Improvement

Administration

Education

Karachi University

MBA, Finance, Export Marketing, 1972 - 1974

Interests

Worked as a volunteer with FIRN, a non-profit organization in Columbia, Maryland, USA during 2008-2009.

Major project was the campaign against smoking with special emphasis on its negative impact on non-smokers,

specially the children.

Also, running a small, charitable dispensary viz. Al-Falah Medical Center under Tanzeem Falah-e-Insaniyat

Trust at Mustafabad, North Nazimabad, Karachi.

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