Ahmad Alghamdi has worked as a Planning Engineer for Sadara Chemical Company since 2013, where he balances supply and demand to recommend production and inventory plans. Previously, he worked as a Planning Engineer for SABIC during a commissioning project. He has a B.S. in Industrial Engineering from Arizona State University and internship experience applying lean manufacturing techniques to reduce costs. His skills include programming languages, modeling software, project management and languages of Arabic and English.

1. Ahmad Alghamdi AG.86@live.com +966 548 999802
EDUCATION
Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ
B.S.E. Industrial Engineering
Dec 2012
WORK EXPERINCE
Sadara Chemical Company Planning Engineer Oct 2013 – Present
 Work with Manufacturing to obtain agreed Manufacturing Capability. Work with Marketing & Sales to obtain Customer
Demand. Balance Demand, Supply, and inventories over the S&OP horizon
 Recommend production plans, raw material plans, and packaging plans to reduce lead times.
 Perform supply/demand balance scheduling for the respective envelop.
 Build scenarios of production and Site Logistics capabilities and constraints to plan for efficient Site Logistics models.
 Monitor and report on actual sales versus forecasts, actual production versus plan, and inventory performance versus
targets for the current quarter.
SABIC, SoLA Jubail, SA Planning Engineer June – Oct 2013
 Be part of the commissioning and start-up team.
 Executing/implementing the contract with the operator company (S.A.Talke)
 Part of the SAT (Site Acceptance Test) and UAT (User Acceptance Test)
 Turning over the project from the EPC contractor (Sinopec) to the operator (S.A.Talke)
 Start-up of the facility
Philosophy, Phoenix, AZ Lean Manufacturing Engineer-Intern Aug – Dec 2012
 Implemented Six Sigma techniques to reduce the production cost and improve efficiency, saving $435,000 annually.
 Decreased production time by 23% and increased worker utilization by 15%, transitioning assembly lines to cell layout.
 Proposed a new quality control system that reduced defects by 20% using Lean Manufacturing principles.
 Designed an ideal facility process flow based on Systematic Layout Planning that shorten the distance traveled by 42%.
 Created a value stream mapping and developed a simulation model of current state that led to increase productivity
ACADEMIC PROJECTS
Airline Operations Engineering, US Airways
⦁ Designed the schedules for direct and non-direct flights within the US using linear programming and stochastic
nonlinear optimization models via AMPL.
Lean Design, International Student Service Office
⦁ Applied lean concepts and value stream mapping to the front desk and back in processes to identify the bottleneck and
proposed enhancement, which reduced the time of processing documents by 90%.
Probability and Statistics, In-N-Out
⦁ Designed an experiment using Statistical Process Control to measure the throughput and improved service quality.
CERTIFICATIONS
PROFISSIONAL MEMBERSHIP
Member, Project Management Institute (PMI), Arabian Gulf Chapter
Member, Institute of Industrial Engineers (IIE), ASU
Member, International Council on System Engineering (INCOSE), ASU
HONORS
Best Senior Design Project, School of Engineering 2012
SKILLS
Tools: o Arena o Minitab o SolidWorks
Programming: o Java o AMPL o Visual Basic
Applications: o MS Excel o Access o Visio
Languages: o Arabic o English
Site Raw Materials Warehouse
APEC tailored made course
Accenture 2014
Port of Antwerp (APEC) 2014
Lean Green Belt ASU 2012
Project Management Mastery Stanford University 2012