Manager Quality Control

CURRICULUM VITAE

MANHAL HASAN ALI ABU SALEH

Mobile : +971********* DUBAI, OR +970********* PALESTINE

E-Mail : *********@*****.***

P.O.BOX : 5563, DUBAI - U.A.E:

Date of birth : May 17, 1963

Nationality : Palestinian/ Jordanian Passport

Language: English ( fluent ), Arabic ( fluent )

Marital status: Married

Education: Master degree (MA) in Industrial

Management & Technology. Central Michigan

University (USA) 1987.

BS. Degree in Mechanical Engineering,

University of Detroit (USA) 1985.

Training: I have been trained in the following

international manufacturing corporations:

Detroit Diesel, USA (Part of Daimler

Chrysler Corp.) ?

(GM) Allison Transmission Corporation,

USA. ?

(EMD) GM Engines, Turner Diesel Limited,

Scotland. ?

Compair Holman compressors co., UK. ?

Samsung Heavy Industries, South Korea. ?

Hamm Walzenfabrik West Germany (compaction

Rollers). ?

Vogele Company West Germany. ?

Courses Attended: Mechanical Engineering Design,

Quality Control & Chemical Process

Control, Prototype Design, Reliability in

Design, Computer Aided Design, Computer

Graphics & Programming, Thermodynamics,

Energy Systems, Science of Materials,

Mechanics of Materials, Fluid Mechanics,

Heat Transfer and Technical Writing,

Production Management, Supervision,

Electronics Technology.

Affiliations: The American Society of Mechanical

Engineers, Engineers Society of Detroit.

Member of UAE Engineering Society.

Special Projects: One Tone Portable Crane, Truss Design by

the finite element methods, Solar

Collector for the Prototype Design, Solar

Cell Design for Energy Systems, Quality

Control, Motivation of the work force.

Experience: I have more than 17 years of experience in

the field of Strategic Planning,

industrial & Business Development,

Executive/engineering/industrial

Management, Co-ordination of

Technical Training, Warranty control,

Technical Services and Sales of Heavy duty

Construction equipments, Earth Moving

equipments, Vehicles, Gensets, Compressors

and Diesel Engines.

JOB # 1

Company: GENAVCO LLC ( 1988 to 2004 )

Position: Service Manager

(From 17.04.88 until 29.09.04) :-

GENAVCO LLC (General Navigation & Commerce Company C main branch) is part

of M/s.Juma Al Majid group of companies. GENAVCO has been established in

1967 in UAE with a branch in Sultanate of Oman. GENAVCO is the authorized

distributor for the following multi national manufacturing companies:

Manufacturer Product Range

Isuzu Motors Co., Japan. Commercial & Passengers

vehicles. Industrial and Marine diesel

engines.

Allison Transmission, Heavy duty automatic transmissions

subsidiary of General

Motors Co., USA.

Detroit Diesel Industrial and Marine Diesel engines.

Corporation, subsidiary of

Daimler Chrysler Co., USA

JLG Industries, Europe Aerial work platform boom and scissor

type.

Kalmar Industries, Sweden Container handling forklifts.

Crown, USA & Germany Electrical forklift trucks.

Compair Holman, UK. Mobile compressors, drill rigs & jack

hammer

Hamm, Germany Road compaction equipments/Rollers

Vogele, Germany Asphalt paving equipment

Boge, Germany Stationary air compressors

Broadcrown, UK Generators

Terex, USA Off highway trucks (haulers)

EMD, General Motors Co USA Industrial & marine diesel engines

GENAVCO is a major supplier of the above-mentioned products and it has

contributed to almost every project in the UAE infrastructure development

program. This achievement is the result of the dedication of its staff and

the excellent after sales service.

I joined GENAVCO since 1988, right after my university graduation in a

position of Mechanical Engineer, at the time in my division I was solely

responsible for a turnover of Dhs 1.2 million with a nett profit of Dhs

300k. As I grew the business, the work load increased to such that in

1991, I was promoted to Workshop Supervisor and the staff of my division

was increased to 40 with an annual turnover of Dhs 18m and a Nett Profit of

Dhs 4.86m. I generated this sales and profit increase by motivating my

workforce via an innovative monetary incentive scheme linked to quality

work, regular and intense training to keep abreast of current and new

technologies and finally through thorough planning.

My career continued to develop and in 1993 I was promoted to Asst Service

Manager with 50 staff reporting directly to me, an annual turnover of Dhs

20m will a Nett Profit of Dhs 6.8m. Embracing and refining the same

strategies that I had used, I also focused on quality control and onsite

problem solving.

And finally in 1995 I was promoted to Service Manager with 60 people

reporting directly to me, annual turnover of Dhs 24m and Nett profit of Dhs

8.3m. As part of my new portfolio I was invited and became a member of the

Board of Management. This entailed me apart from the above, came the added

responsibility of Strategic Planning, Marketing, After Sales Service

support and Companywide training.

All during my career growth, I was fortunate to have a team of highly

qualified mechanical engineers, electronic engineers, electrical engineers

and highly skilled technicians reporting directly to me.

We were handling running repairs; repair estimates, quality assurance,

trouble shooting, hydraulic systems repairs, complete transmission

overhauls, complete engine overhauls and dyno-testing engine/transmissions

in our state of the art dyno-testing facility. PDI and commissioning of the

newly sold equipment (products). We also responsible for warranty issues

for the newly sold products and spare parts. We also conducted regular

technical training for our engineers and technicians in our accredited

training center (accredited by General Motors Company)as well as we have

conducted training for many engineering students from emirates university

and technical higher colleges in this training center. I have resolved a

manufacturing defects problems in different heavy equipments for many

different international manufacturing companies such as Samsung heavy

industries, South korea, Hamm compaction rollers co, Germany, and compair

Holman compressors co, uk.

Job # 2

Company: Platinum Yachts Fzco ( 2004 to 2005 )

Position: Technical Manager

In 2004, I was personally hand picked to head what was perhaps the most

prestigious project in the entire career. I was personally asked by Mr

Sultan Bin Sulayem, Chairman of Dubai holding & Dubai ports international

co., to be the Technical Manager for the world largest personal mega yacht

166 meters long, owned by His Highness Sheikh Mohammed Bin Rashid Al

Maktoum. The prime Minister of UAE & Ruler of Dubai

At the time of my joining, the project was behind by schedule but I have

contributed in minimizing the completion period. I achieved these stunning

results via using all the skills that I had painstaking learnt in Genavco.

They included:

1. Implementation of quality control.

2. Innovative motivation of workforce.

3. Integration of efforts amongst all divisions

4. Regular enforcement of team spirit.

5. Putting a platform in place that enhanced communications skills via

proper exchange of information amongst all departments.

6. Instituting daily progress meeting versus planning primavera program.

7. Increasing the supervisor to employee ratio to ensure quality work

and expedition of the completion period.

My most commendable work was in my personal negotiations that recovered the

FULL warranty coverage for all main propulsion engines, Gensets,

compressors,and other equipment on this Mega personal yacht.

Job 3 Al Marwan Group

Al Marwan group, Dubai From april-06 to jan-07

I joined Al Marwan group as Technical and Service Manager.

This group they have a huge fleet of heavy construction equipments they

have around 1400 equipments for their plant hire and their contracting

divisions.I Was fully responsible for all activities of the service

department such as carrying out complete overhauls, troubleshooting,

preventive maintenance etc. and making sure to keep all the equipments

in a good running condition.In this company I have made major improvements

as well as a huge savings in the consumption of spare parts and fuel.such

improvements had been achieved through the following

1.Decision making

3.strategic planning

4. Re-engineering business process

5.implementation of quality control

6.Motivation of the workforce

7. Regular & updated training

8.problem solving

Around 150 persons(engineers,Technicians, purchasers,skilled staff etc)

they were reporting to me under my control.

Extra Speak Arabic and English fluently, traveled to the

Curricular Middle East, USA & Europe. Read Business Magazines

activities including Fortune 500 & Business week. Enjoy Classical

& Popular music. Basketball, Soccer and Volleyball.

MANHAL HASAN ALI ABU SALEH

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