Iftikhar Ali

Advisor Construction and Contract Managment at National

Engineering Services of Pakistan

Mobile number : 92.333-***-****

Email Address: adcof3@r.postjobfree.com

Bayt.com profile: https://people.bayt.com/iftikhar-ali-2817278 PERSONAL SUMMARY i am looking a senior executive level position in either a consultancy or construction organisation. Most of my work relates to water resources or construction management. so these two fields would be preferred.

PERSONAL INFORMATION Birth date: 06 July 1947

Nationality: Pakistan

Residence Country: Pakistan

PREFERRED JOB Preferred Job: Project Manager, Construction manager, Team Leader, Vice President WORK EXPERIENCE Total Years of Experience: 50 years, 3 months Advisor Construction and Contract

Managment at National Engineering

Services of Pakistan

December 2016 - June 2018

Pakistan

Advice on reconstruction & improvement of Peshawar Airport Project\[Rs 2500 million\]. Contract& procurement management, Interpretation of FIDIC clauses, Issuance of variation orders, Progress monitoring, identification of bottlenecks and course correction. Trouble shooting of various issues with client and contractors. Creative Engineering Consultants - Director Technical June2015 - Dec 2016- Peshawar

Overview of design, construction supervision and contract management of about twenty five projects in water, road, wash and rural development in KPK / FATA. Reengineering of current systems and Creation of new protocols and SOPs in the organization. He is responsible forLiaison; trouble shooting and business promotion with the implementing agencies. Direct in charge of following projects:

• Design and construction of water harvesting schemes including nine weirs in arid districts of KPK.

• Feasibility for provision of drinking water from Indus to Shakardara.

• Design and supervision of water supply schemes in Nowshehra, Mardan, Haripur and Peshawar.

• Axial load monitoring and managementproject.

Director Technical at Creative

Engineering Consultants

July 2015 - May 2016

Pakistan - Peshawar

Over view of design, construction supervision and contract management of about twenty five projects in water, road, wash and rural development in KPK / FATA. Reengineering of current systems and Creation of new protocols and SOPs in the organization. He is responsible for Liaison; trouble shooting and business promotion with the implementing agencies. Direct in charge of following projects:

• Design and construction of water harvesting schemes in arid districts of KPK including nine weirs.

• Feasibility for provision of drinking water from Indus to Shakardara.

• Design and supervision of water supply schemes in Nowshehra, Mardan, Haripur and Peshawar.

• Axial load monitoring and management project

Team Leader at Integerated Consultancy

Services

August 2014 - May 2015

Pakistan - Peshawar

As Team leader, he was responsible for the management of local professionals as well as foreign expatriates. It was an ADB funded technical assistance for the formulation of minimum three water sub projects in KPK . The TORs of the assignment comprised following

• Develop subproject selection criteria and identify at least three core subprojects.

• Assess financial and procurement management capacities in key institutions, identify these risks and develop mitigation measures.

• Carry out water balance, water productivity, irrigation system, arid area irrigated agriculture, climate change (CC) impact assessments in each selected subproject.

• Develop an irrigated agriculture and water resources (IAWR) sector development plan for arid areas, and institutional analysis and carry out institutional capacity assessments.

• Develop technically feasible physical and non-physical investment packages in each subproject.

• Estimate costs, project benefits and assess economic and financial viabilities of developed investment packages in each subproject.

• Develop preliminary engineering designs and Planning Commission Performa No. 1

(PC-1) in each subproject.

• Assess the distribution of project effects and the impact on poverty reduction and inclusive growth and explore possibilities of development for a gender action plan in each subproject.

• Assess environmental, involuntary resettlement, and indigenous peoples impacts, conduct actions for safeguard requirements and develop relevant frameworks and plans in each subprojects.

• Develop efficient implementation arrangement including procurement plan, investment and financing plans and advanced implementation actions.

• Develop the Expression of Interest for potential implementation consultants.

• Develop the request for proposal to recruit the project implementation consultants. Team Leader at Associates in

development

April 2010 - August 2014

Pakistan - Peshawar

I joined AID consultants as team leader on FATA Quick Impact Project, as in charge of monitoring and evaluation \[M&E\] team. My task consists of:

• Preparation of inception report containing monitoring & evaluation protocols, Inspection modules and payment milestones.

• Rehabilitation, construction and improvement of infrastructure in road, water and power sectors in FATA. The progress achieved is as under I. Construction of 500 Km road.

II. Rehabilitation of Power distribution system in hundred odd villages. III. Construction of two small dams.

• Determination of pre -project development socio-economic indicators and post project impact evaluation.

• Monitoring & Evaluation of the project in terms of time, budget and quality. Identification of bottle necks, recommendation of remedial measures & course correction during implementation.

• Liaison with USAID, FATA Secteriate, HQ 11 Crops Pak Army, and HQ FWO. Team Leader at Fata Secteriate June 2008 - April 2010 Pakistan - Peshawar

As team leader Fata Rural Development Project (FRDP), I was in charge of a team of consultants working on the following.

• Construction of roads, buildings and water sector infrastructure including tube wells & water supply schemes in three agencies of Bajur, Mohmand and Khyber.

• Water assessment study, water management plan & proposals for water sector interventions in the above mentioned three agencies.

• Identification, pre-feasibilities and feasibilities of twelve small dams in the three agencies.

• Environmental assessment, natural resource management and GIS/MIS applications for monitoring of progress and quality.

• Coordination, compliance of ADB loan covenants, technical inputs for scheme preparation, implementation and supervision of various specialists’ activities. It was a labor intensive livelihood project carried out through communities. Country Manager at National Engineering

Services [ Pak ] ltd

July 2007 - May 2008

Afghanistan

As country manager Afghanistan, I was Incharge of Nespak country office and project manager for the design and construction supervision of following Pakistan sponsored projects: The scope of my duty included liaison with foreign affairs, works and finance ministries in Afghanistan and their counterparts in Pakistan including Planning Commission. My main responsibilities also included procurement of services and equipment, compliance to covenants of Pak-Afghan agreement and quality control.

• Allama Iqbal Faculty of Arts, University of Kabul Rs.411.25 million

• Science Faculty Block-Jalalabad Rs.256.50 million

• Kidney Center-Jalalabad Rs.395.00 million

• Engg.Faculty Block- Mazar Sharif Rs.600.00 million

• Jinnah Hospital at Kabul Rs.1087.00 million

• 200 bed Hospital at Loger (Rs. 600 Million)

• Fatima Jinnah Nuclear hospital Kabul (Rs. 800 Million).

• Torkham Jalal Abad Road (Rs. 850 Million).

• Feasibility of Jalal Abad- Kabul Road (New alignment- Rs. 1650 Million).

• Design and construction of a weir and feasibility of two small hydropower schemes at Mazar Sharif.

Vice President at National Engineering

Services [ Pakistan ] ltd

September 2002 - July 2007

Pakistan - Peshawar

I worked as Vice President National Engineering Services of Pakistan (Pvt) Ltd.

(NESPAK), in charge of projects management division at Peshawar KPK and with a team of about 250 professionals/non professionals. NESPAK is one of the largest consulting houses in South East Asia with multi disciplinary Engineering specialties under one roof and with employee strength of 3000 persons. Nespak did not have a team of middle level engineers who could work on dams. I was given the responsibility of training a team of engineers on the construction supervision of small dams. The effort ultimately culminated in to getting more business in dams in Middle East. I have been responsible for following projects during the period.

• Rehabilitation of Power House on Warsak dam in Mohmand Agency Rs. 550 Million.

• Feasibilities, Detailed design and construction supervision of four dams namely Naryab dam, Sharki dam, Changoz dam and Auxillary Kandar dam including drinking water supply schemes in KPK\[ Total cost Rs 7000 Million\] completed and handed over to the department.

• Feasibility studies, detailed design of twelve Small Dams in FATA -. Five dams namely Mir Kalam dam, Marsi Khel dam, Daandy dam, Maidani dam and Kot Ragha dam were constructed \[Total cost Rs 7500 Million\] while remaining 7 dams were dropped as non- feasible.

• Improvement and beautification of Peshawar City& Design of Flyovers -Rs. 600 Million.

• Feasibility of NESPAK HOUSE in Peshawar - Rs. 500 Million.

• Lining of Watercourses (45 Km long) in FATA - Rs. 800 Million.

• Farm to market roads project --- Rs. 950 Million Team Leader at Pakistan Drainage

Consultants

January 1999 - September 2002

Pakistan - Peshawar

National Drainage Programme (NDP) was of 6 years duration and was first phase of the programme launched for a period of twenty-five years. In KPK, its outlay was about Rs. 4000/- (Million) for the first phase. The donors involved were IDA, ADB and OCEF

(Japan). I was heading a team of expatriates as well as highly qualified local staff. The work consisted of screening of the subprojects according to laid down criteria, overall planning and preparation of feasibilities, detailed designs, procurement of works according to the procedures agreed among donors and the Pakistani participating agencies, implementation of civil works, liaison with the donors, financial control, achievement of laid down targets. One of the covenants of the project was privatization of irrigation systems through creation of farmer organisations and capacity building of farmers to enable them to maintain their irrigation systems on self help basis. It required a lot of communication and interpersonal skills to work with farmers, NGOs and other stakeholders of civil society to initiate such a major institutional change. In the process, i prepared feasibilities of forty drainage, irrigation, water supply and dam projects. I initiated detailed design of about eighteen and construction supervision of eight projects. Chief Resident Engineer / Regional

Manager at National Engineering Services

[ Pak ] ltd

May 1982 - December 1998

Pakistan - Peshawar

As Regional Manager KPK, I was responsible for coordination, business promotion & trouble shooting among various Nespak offices and provincial departments. As Chief Resident Engineer, successfully completed following IDA/ADB/ USAID co- financed projects:

• First Irrigation System rehabilitation Project (IDA/USAID Funded) with a cost of Rs. 1000 million.

• 1988-Flood Damage Restoration Project (IDA/ADB Funded) with a cost of Rs. 800 million.

• Second Irrigation Systems Rehabilitation Project (IDA Funded) with a cost of Rs. 1500 million.

• 1992 Flood Damages Restoration Project (IDA-ADB) with a cost of Rs. 2, 000 million.

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The work comprised project formulation, preparation of annual work plans, technical clearance of subproject proposals, procurement as per donor’s procedures, quality control, progress review, monitoring & evaluation and claiming of expenditures from the donor’s accounts. In the process, I had to maintain a liaison with the donors, Ministry of Water & Power and with the provincial departments, on all levels of hierarchy. These restoration works, damaged due to heavy floods in 1988 & 1992 have been done in Irrigation, drainage, flood protection, weirs, dams, Communication, Education & Health sectors. The works in communication sector included complete redesign and reconstruction of five major and rehabilitation of another five partially damaged bridges and about 800 Km long road segments. The two irrigation rehabilitation projects comprised reconstruction and improvement of canal systems throughout KPK. The total length of rehabilitated canals including allied structure was around 450 Kms. Deputy Resident Engineer at National

Engineering Services [ Pak ] ltd

June 1981 - May 1982

Pakistan - Peshawar

As Deputy Resident Engineer on D.I. Khan -Darya Khan Bridge Project worked on the construction supervision of river training and bridge protection works like guide banks and spurs etc. On the road embankment and the bridge (cost Rs.5000 million). The work also included diversion of mighty Indus River and its various creeks. Senior Engineer at National Construction

ltd

August 1979 - May 1981

Pakistan - Islamabad

As Senior Engineer, I worked on the construction of High Court Building at Peshawar and prestigious Shah Faisal Mosque Project at Islamabad. As Project Manager, on the construction of Khazana Sugar Mills as well as on the construction of all the roads/pavements and five hostels of Gomal University Campus at D.I. Khan (Rs. 3000 Million).

Manager Construction at Ziss

Corporation

June 1976 - August 1979

Pakistan - Peshawar

I worked on several projects including Police Communication Building and Main Office, Mardan Scarp Colony and National Bank of Pakistan Buildings at Kohat and D.I. Khan. In charge of overall Execution, Contract Management, Engineering and Financial control.

(Rs. 500 Million).

Junior Engineer at Associated Consulting

Engineers ltd

January 1970 - May 1976

Pakistan

I Carried out Survey, design, layout and construction supervision of outlet structure and the spillway. I also worked as Senior Engineer In charge of earth works and supervised the construction of main dam and upstream impervious blanket. I worked with a special task force consisting of Tarbela Joint Venture Limited and Mechanized Construction of Pakistan Limited. 280 million cubic feet earth was placed in less than seven weeks during the construction of upstream impervious blanket. I also Surveyed, designed, prepared tender documents and supervised the construction of the portion of Texila-Khanpur- Haripur Road that was to be submerged into the reservoir. I also looked after maintenance of all the service roads within the dam site (Rs. 2500 Million). Assistant divisional Engineer at Interhom

Ltd

September 1968 - January 1970

Pakistan - Peshawar

I worked on the construction of Khyber Teaching Hospital, one of the largest hospitals in Pakistan, having 1500 bed capacity with eleven operation theaters and central air conditioning system. I was associated with the project from the beginning up to its completion (Rs. 1000 Million).

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EDUCATION Diploma / Bussiness administration at

Lahore University of Managment

Sciences

Pakistan - Lahore

September 1996

Top Management of National Engineering Services \[Pakistan\] arranged a 6 months diploma course for its mid level and top level managers to develop skills in presentations, Business development, trouble shooting and marketing . I topped the course . Bachelor's degree / Civil Engineering at

University of Engineering and

Technology - Peshawar, Pakistan

Pakistan - Peshawar

September 1968

It is a four years degree course in civil engineering . My favourite subjects were construction and contract management and water resources . I have been lucky to have worked in the same fields . My final year project was design and construction supervision of a small dam .

SKILLS ms word, excel,microsoft project / Level: Intermediate LANGUAGES Urdu / Level: Expert

Pushto / Level: Expert

English / Level: Expert

Punjabi / Level: Expert

REFERENCES Engineer Amjad Khan

Managing Director

National Engineering Services [ Pak ] ltd

0092.429-***-****

Mr Usman Qamar

Senior Rural development Specialist

World Bank

adcof3@r.postjobfree.com

Engineer Shaukat Shafi

Senior Implementation Officer

Asian Development Bank

0092.512087316

adcof3@r.postjobfree.com

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