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RESUME

Omar Kattan

Project Management Expert (1989 till now)

Nationality: Canadian

Mobile: +966-**-*******

E-mail: ad0z2v@r.postjobfree.com

WORK EXPERIENCE:

September 2nd 2021 till February 28th 2023:

Electrical Low Current Systems Engineer and Project Control. Saudi Architects Riyadh – KSA

Project Name: World Defense Show 2022 (Short Time Project) Main tasks and responsibilities included (but not limited to):

• Revise Systems Material Submittals for approval according to contract specifications.

• Revise Systems Shop Drawings Submittals for approval according to contract initial drawings and required approved changes (if existing).

• Receive Material Inspection Requests and check arrived materials with their specifications and quantities

• Receive Work Inspection Requests and check works done in sites according to approved drawings and materials submitted earlier.

• Attend Weekly Client and Contractor meetings to follow up works progress according baseline/running work plans.

• Follow up Change Orders Material and Shop Drawings submittals and Implementation, and revise Payment Certificates, for LC Works according to BOQ, VOs, approved shop drawings and Materials.

• Issue letters to Contractor for necessary actions to be taken to correct any faults in site (NCRs).

• LC Systems contains: Fire Alarm, Public Address, Access Control, CCTV, Radar, Audio Visual, Wireless Access Points, Structured Cabling, with their required Civil / Architectural / Mechanical design and coordination’s.

• Follow up project execution and progress evaluation for all work disciplines according to project baseline and its recoveries to catch fixed opening show date, keeping watching performance and quality in their high levels.

• Revise as-built drawinds, testing and commission for BMS with assigned required systems, and release snags lists whenever done.

February 16th 2011 till December 15th 2020: Sr. Project Planning Eng’r. Saudi Consulting Services (SaudConsult). Riyadh - KSA 1. From Nov-2019 till Dec-2020: Follow up multi contractors to continue and finish “Hilton-Mawten Hotel

(Garden Inn and Double Tree” project, control and prepare weekly, monthly and quarterly progress reports, running weekly progress meetings, supervise quality assurance and quantity survey, follow up with HSE (Health, Safety and Environment) site issues, …etc 2. From May-2018 to Aug-2019: Deputy Project Manager: Assist and help the Project Manager for

"Rehabilitation of Jazan General Hospital Project" for the Ministry of Health, and project control, follow up main contractor, prepare weekly, monthly and quarterly progress reports, running weekly progress meetings, supervise quality assurance and quantity survey, follow up with HSE (Health, Safety and Environment) site issues, …etc.

3. From May-2016 to Mar-2018: Scheduling, Planning and Follow up main contractors to build National Centre for Educational Information Building and Multi-Storey Car Park for Ministry of Education in Riyadh. Using P6 V8.4, and MS-Office

4. From Feb-2013 to Apr-2016: Scheduling, Planning and Follow up main contractor to build Terminal-5 (and its Ancillary Buildings) for King Khalid International Airport in Riyadh, and Four Aprons with Taxiways, Service Roads, Bridges, and Viaducts. Using P6 V8.3, MS-Project 2010 and MS-Office. 5. From Feb-2011 to Jan-2013: Planning, Control and Follow up the construction project of Girls Campus in King Saud University (Riyadh). This project is part of Mega Projects in Kingdom; using P6 v.7

(Primavera Project Management) and MS-Excel to control all stages of project implementation. Main tasks and responsibilities included (but not limited to):

• Responsible to plan, revise, follow up work plans and scope of works.

• Planning Integration between sub-projects (zones/buildings) and solving bottle neck issues

• Weekly Client and Contractor meeting to follow up Work Progress.

• Monthly reports to Client and higher management. 2/4

• Weekly "two-weeks” look ahead schedule for Zones/Buildings Managers/Engineers.

• Follow up Change Orders, Monthly Payment Certificates, Correspondences, Materials and Shop Drawings Deliveries … etc.

• Issue letters to Contractor/Client for necessary actions to be taken to correct slippage in works ...etc. May 1st 2002 to December 31st 2010:

Project Control for Telecom Transmissions

(STC-Saudi Telecom Company) - Norconsult Telematics (S.A.). Riyadh – KSA

• Consult and follow up Transmission Group in STC (GSM 2G, 3G, 3.5G, 4G) section to insure on-date delivery for transmission facility for each individual site in growing up network (Al-Jawwal).

• Using program management tools and internal STC facilities, I was following up the process from planning, design, integration, PAT to site on air in timely controlled objective for each new or upgrading existing site.

• Train and lead a team of engineers and technicians to control this process, in addition to coordinate with different vendors (like Ericsson, Nokia, Lucent, Huawei … etc.), designers, and service providers to solve bottleneck and blocking issues to ensure steady work flow, and explain/help field engineer/technician(s) if problem(s) found.

• MSC/RNC, BSC, BTS/Node-B, DMW, IPRAN, MSAN, Repeater, Fiber Optics, upgrade to HSDPA 7.2, 14.4, 28.8, 42 Mbps & LTE), Civil and Network Implementations are all part of my follow-up/Revision for daily works and weekly meetings.

November 3rd 2001 to March 28th 2002:

Engineering (and Project Control) Manager

NATEL (National Telecommunications Company). Riyadh – KSA

• Leading the Engineering Department for design, documentation, submittal and approval.

• Follow up construction, delivery, installation, implementation and testing of wireless (GSM) sites with STC

(Saudi Telecommunication Company) working with Ericsson, Nokia, and Lucent equipment and systems, to provide the 1M subscribers Expansion Project in one year term.

• Work team was 15 engineers in design & technical documentation and about 20 in installation and testing.

• My role was to provide team leading, supervision technical revision, project management & cost control (as Project Control Manager), customer satisfaction, reporting, and company board weekly meeting for follow up and management.

March 25th 1995 to October 15th 2001:

Lucent Technologies Int. Inc. (formally AT&T) Riyadh - KSA Last Job : Planning & Control Manager for Wireless Projects (GSM-DWDM-WLL) Previous : Lead Planning/Control GSM Group in Implementation Management Department. Started : GSM System Support Engineer (performing Planning/Project Control functions) Involved in the early stages of GSM implementation as Planning & Project Control Engineer, planning and reporting for GSM sites (from site acquisition through PAC) using P3 (Primavera Project Planner), MS-Project, MS-Access and MS-Excel to control various stages of progress for sites and cities. Main tasks and responsibilities included but are not limited to:

• Responsible to create, manage, & develop work plans and scope of works, manage the periodical reporting and lead planning/control team for GSM Project in SA.

• Integrate the work plans with different type of local or long distance SDH, FON, LD, or DMW Rings & prepare then follow-up Circuit Work Orders (CWOs) to provide connectivity for GSM sites.

• Revise NFDED (Network Final Design Engineering Documentation) with other engineering staff

• Prepare and follow-up since 1995 to 2001 Work plans for GSM (1.3M Sub. & new 700K), and follow-up all engineering & implementation stages till Final Acceptance Certificate

• Planning integration between sub-projects and solving bottle neck issues

• Weekly high level and departmental reports (GSM-Internal) (Matrix Management)

• Weekly/Fortnightly reports to Consultant, Client & Business management groups

• Weekly "two-weeks” look ahead schedule for individual section managers

• Overall monthly progress report for business management…etc. October 1st 1994 to March 23rd 1995:

System Analyst (IT Dept. GSM Group)

(QTEL) Qatar Public Telecommunication Company. Doha-Qatar Worked as a system analyst for the GSM Billing System in the Information Technology Department - GSM Group, to 3/4

analyze the new billing system provided by CSCI (USA) and implemented in the QTEL-GSM system to serve the billing. Main software tools were: VMS, UNIX, MS Windows Emulation, Excel, MS Project, MS Word & ISIS Billing System for UNIX env Etc.

Main tasks and responsibility included:

• Customer Care & Billing Management

• Billing System Acceptance, check, tests & agrees on training environment

• Study & propose possible solutions to develop and maintain the system

• Create System defect report to be fixed by the supplier.

• Test new “fixes” and agree on implementation in live environment

• Planning, order & deliver for SIM cards from different international suppliers

• Process daily roaming Transfer Account Procedure TAP with international networks

• Process daily Fraud report for international Roaming in QTEL Network

• Report statistics of GSM network efficiency and usage

• Maintain billing cycles and testing outputs.

January 1st 1989 to September 29th 1994:

Planning & Computer Engineer (Eng. Dept. Head Office) Al–Fayhaa Est. For General Trading & Contracting - Jeddah/Riyadh - KSA

• Study the existing facilities for information housekeeping in databases for ongoing project. Responsibilities involved utilizing software programs such as dBase III+ and Primavera V2.0 to report and track material and schedule resources updates.

• Study of projects bid and scheduling, preliminary cash flow, resource estimation, network chart and price adjustment helping in “what if” scenarios.

• Perform the planning, controlling, reporting & billing for ongoing projects. In addition to progressing and issuing the monthly or periodical reports & invoices for other projects.

• Utilities used are HTPM, Lotus, Dbase IV, Primavera V2.0, 3.0 & 4.0 & MS-Project.

• Participate in the analysis of required database system to make the bidding stage computerized by using FoxPro V2.5 under windows to develop both Arabic and English versions of BoQ’s and suppliers, resources, subcontractors, and owners (as Ministries) to submit their bidding in both languages. This issue required design and implementation of additional LAN network to serve users and management.

• Participate in design and implementation of computer network (hardware - terminals, modems & multiplexers - & software -COBOL-) for the IBM minicomputer (AS400) serving the accounts, payroll, project control, and stock control for all branches (kingdom wide), in addition to a computerized fax utility and CADsystem.

• Sample of projects I participated in planning, following up for progress reporting, cost control and closing:

• Faculty of Medicine Buildings (finishing) – Girls Campus in King Abdul Aziz University Expansion (1989-1990)

• Buhairah Resort Project (Turn-Key/Landscaping) – Abha City (1991-1993)

• Al-Habalah Resort Centre (Turn-Key) – South Region/Abha (1991-1992)

• Al-Soudah Resort Centre (Turn-Key) – South Region/Abha (1991-1992)

• Al-Babtain Festival Palace (Turn-Key) – Riyadh (1990-1991)

• Gypsum Company Head Quarter Building (Turn-Key) – Riyadh (1991-1992)

• Air-Defence Bases (Turn-Key) (Different Cities in KSA) (1991-1994)

• Research/Development Centre for SABIC (Turn-Key) – Second Industrial Zone– Riyadh.(1990-1992) SOFTWARES

• P3 / P6 (Primavera Project Planner), MS Project, Harvard Total Project Management, Time-Line

• Windows 10 Professional, MS Office 2013 (all components) (English/Arabic)

• MS Windows NT & 98, AS400, UNIX, VMS.

• Novell’s NetWare for LAN, Microsoft for Work Group & Windows NT

• Visio, AutoCAD, Harvard Graphics & Power Point Drawing presentation utilities

• Basic, FORTRAN, dBase IV, PROIV, FOX-Pro under Windows, MS Access COURSES

• Internal Quality Auditing (ISO 9001:2008) (FAHSS/TUV) – Oct. 2014

• PMP Project Management Professional (PMI) Course (45 Hours) (X-Plus) – May. 2006

• ISO 9001-2000 Awareness Training. (Quality Management System) (LPC) - Mar. 2001

• 5ESS Switch System Overview (LT-ES5530) – Mar 2000

• SDH Introduction Course (LT- TR5951) - Mar 2000

• Telecommunication Essentials (LTT-106W) – Jan 2000

• Introduction to Cisco Router Configuration Course (Cisco) – Dec 1999 4/4

• Fiber Optic Communication (LT-LTT200C) – Oct 1999

• Digital Telecommunications Networks (Surrey University, Guilford - UK) - Oct. 1998

• Air Loop Overview Course (LT-WA4100) – Aug 1998

• EPPR (Engineering Progress & Performance Reporting) V 1.9 (Bechtel) - Jul. 1997

• Technology Transfer Training (LT) Apr-Jul 1997

• PMTS (Project Management and Team Leading Skills) (LTII) - Jun. 1997

• Cascade (LTII) (Project Management Tool) - May 1997

• Managing & Controlling Projects with P3W (Saudi PROJACS) - Jun. 1996

• Team Leading & Facilitation Skills "QT103" (AT&T) - May. 1996

• Process Quality Management & Improvement "QT104" (AT&T) -Mar. 1996

• MS Excel 5.0 (Adv.) (New Horizons) - Jan. 1996

• Quality Awareness "QT101" (AT&T) - Jan. 1996

• Planning & Scheduling with Primavera for Windows (AT&T - 501) - Nov. 1995

• Program Planning (CSM Inc.) - Apr-May 1995

• GSM Seminar WL9002 (ATT) Apr 1995

• PRO-IV IQ Report Writing - Qatar - Jan. 1995

• Project Planning & Management Using Personal Computers (P3 V2.0) (Engineering Committee/ Riyadh Chamber of Commerce) - Dec. 1991

EDUCATION:

B.Sc. Electrical Engineer (Electronics & Communications). August 1988 King Abdul Aziz University, Jeddah, KSA,

LANGUAGES

• Fluent English, French & Arabic.

Community:

• IEEE Member since 1996 till 2019

("IEEE") is the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc., USA.

• SCE: Saudi Council of Engineers since 2011 till now Home town: Ottawa, Ontario, Canada.

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