Engineer Project Manager

Karim Nagui

San Francisco, CA ***** • Cell: * (**5) 426–8824

*****.*.*****@*****.*** • http://eg.linkedin.com/pub/karim-nagui/16/b64/11

SUMMARY

Professional with 6 years experience in constructions project management, in Industrial, Commercial and Residential projects. Participated in all projects phases from bidding and tendering to commissioning, start-up and close-out. Built and motivated teams, designed and implemented business processes focused on meeting deadlines, budget constraints, and desired quality.

EDUCATION

Master of Business Administration (MBA) August 2012

HULT INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS SCHOOL, San Francisco, CA, USA

Certificate of Achievement for Winning the Hult International Business School Action Project Competition.

Certificate of Achievement from Hult International Business School Dean for being in the dean’s list of top students.

Winning Team for business execution simulation competition.

Bachelor of Science in Engineering May 2006

Faculty of Engineering - Alexandria University, Alexandria, Egypt

Winner of the graduation projects competition.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

ORASCOM CONSTRUCTION INDUSTRIES 2008-Current

World Leading Construction Public firm employing over 40,000 people worldwide.

Project Coordinator Procter & Gamble

Manufacturing plant, $140 million project, twice current plant capacity, supplying Africa, Asia and Europe.

Working directly with project manager, assisted him in all tasks. in charge in his absence.

Report directly to business unit director/board member.

Managed critical tasks on site, finished ahead of schedule, on budget, meeting quality.

Initiated idea to start commissioning phase in parallel with construction, before availability of permanent power on site, saving project two months on schedule, which was Highly appreciated by client (P&G) and higher management.

Scheduled testing and commissioning phase activities to WBS level of each equipment.

Took responsibility of punch list and closed them in one week time per building.

Coordinated handing over process to client and assisted client’s construction team hand over to operations team.

Talent Program Engineer

Worked in all construction related departments. Got technical and soft skills courses. Received continuous mentoring and high frequency evaluations. worked as;

Quality Control Engineer KBR

o EBIC ammonia plant, a $540 million project, KBR as Engineer and PM;

o Applied QC on Rotary and static equipments, such as Pumps, Compressors, Heaters, Heat Exchangers, etc.

o Increased rate of equipments handing over by 55%,

o Minimizing punch list items.

Technical Office Engineer Japan Airport Consultants/ Egyptian Consultants

Group/ Netherlands Airport Consultants

o Borg ElArab Airport; capacity 1.2 million passengers annually,

o Prepared shop-drawings, material submittals, and hydraulic calculations,

o 95% of submittals approved (codes “A” or “B”) from first submission.

Site Engineer Japan Airport Consultants/ Egyptian Consultants

Group/ Netherlands Airport Consultants

o Borg ElArab Airport

o Responsible for mechanical works in several buildings; HVAC, Plumbing and Firefighting.

o Met all buildings’ deadlines, even buildings that were severely delayed when being assigned.

Planning Engineer Turner/ Bechtel/ BP/ BG/

VINCI/ Contrack/ Besix

o Based in head office for tender projects scheduling;

o Finalizing various types of projects (industrial, residential, commercial buildings) 25% ahead of schedule; before submission dates.

o Prepared detailed schedules for site execution, made site follow up and schedule updates, critical path analysis, etc.

o Participated in Time Extension Claim, by inserting causes of delay and analyzing impacts, succeeding in acquiring four months of time extension for project of 18 months duration.

Cost control Engineer Turner/ Emar

o Based in head office;

o Gained broad view of budgeting process for tender projects.

o Made costs claims in power generation plants.

Contract Engineer Turner/ Bechtel/ BP/

Egyptian Consultants Group/ Contrack/ Besix

o Based in head office;

o Used several forms of standard contracts (as FIDIC contracts),

o Developed standardized Design-Build contract according to company’s required level of liabilities.

Technical Procurement Engineer Siemens/ GE/ Johnson & Johnson/ York/

Carrier/ Trane/ Honeywell/ Grundfos/ Others

o Based in head office;

o Participated in various projects in several countries.

o Prepared all comparison and compliance sheets.

o Achieved average decrease in actual cost of items by 10% compared to budgeted cost.

EGYPTIAN MAINTENANCE COMPANY, Cairo, Egypt 2007-2008

Public firm employing over 10,000 people worldwide.

Mechanical Site Engineer

Mechanical site engineer, Successfully installed several direct fired heaters in petrochemical facilities on schedule and budget. Introduced new idea for maintenance process of Heaters, that saved time and cost of lost production due to shutdowns.

Awards and Achievements

Outstanding performance appraisal. (2008)

Outstanding performance appraisal. (2009)

Outstanding performance appraisal. (2010)

Very Strong Match (highest grade)according to Personnel assessment (managerial level based) by SHL group

Courses and Certificates

Member in The British Institution of Mechanical Engineers, IMechE

PMP preparation

Planning & Resources Management

Project Life Cycle

Quality Control and Assurance

Introduction to FIDIC Contracts

Primavera P5

Primavera P6

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION

Languages: Arabic - English

Trainings: Schlumberger – Caterpillar – Global SantaFe – Egyptian Petrochemicals Co.

Technologies: Primavera P6, AutoCAD, Visual C, Visual Basic, Microsoft Office, SCADA systems

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