1. Jalal Sobbohi
07954 324405/ sobbohi@onetel.com
Profile
A civil engineer with significant experience, technical knowledge and skills in highways, traffic and
transportation engineering, project management, transport and development planning, transportation
assessment, travel plans, road safety engineering, traffic and parking management, accessibility, bus
priority, cycling, walking, regeneration, sustainability, environmental and public-realm improvements.
Key attributes and competencies
• An enthusiastic and customer-focused manager - responds positively to clients, residents, business,
road user groups, multiple stakeholders, senior management and elected members;
• A passionate, strategic thinking, and dynamic leader - inspires motivates, increases team commitment
and executes constructive changes;
• An excellent communicator and negotiator - adds value to the success of the organisation, provides
effective presentation and advice to clients and stakeholders;
• An influencing, persuasive and adaptable project manager with excellent interpersonal skills, flexible
and proactive approach - skilled in managing multi-disciplinary professionals, projects and studies;
• Provides strong project management by successfully controlling costs, solving problems, setting clear
performance targets, prioritising competing tasks and making the best use of resources;
• Achieves continuous performance improvements by providing direction, clearly defining the
expectations, project aims and targets;
• Engages and influences people by facilitating interactive communication and feedback, being focused
and result–oriented as well as sharing skills, knowledge and experiences;
• Produces excellent financial, budgets and monitoring reports - ensures that all projects are scoped,
resourced and successfully delivered to high quality standards, on time and within budget; and
• Excels in engaging and involving stakeholders in development and delivery of projects by promoting
equality and diversity policies and successfully completing extensive public consultation processes.
Significant Achievements
• Successfully led multi-disciplinary engineering and planning teams and delivered multiple and diverse
projects on time, within budgets and to high quality standards in JASO and ZFP consultancies ;
• Won national and local awards for street design and public-realm improvement by developing and
delivering creative, innovative and high quality highway, traffic and street scape initiatives in RBK;
• Promoted smarter, healthier and sustainable travel choices, improved safety for all road users,
enhanced residential environment and improved accessibility to key amenities and destinations in RBK;
• Increased customer satisfaction by responding positively to residents, business and road users groups
and delivered integrated solutions and improvements – won promotion to Chief Officer level in RBK;
• Secured commission for new projects by producing and delivering comprehensive and robust business
plans, transport policies and strategies, programme governance and strategic management in JASO,
Zuhair Fayez partnership and E2RD consultancies;
• Inspired teams, utilised good practices, realised real benefits, managed risks, increased client’s and
stakeholders’ satisfaction and secured increased capital allocation and finance for new projects in all
rolls and positions of responsibilities;
• Achieved best value, positive results and successful outcomes by providing quality management,
successful communication, problem solving, conflict resolution and performance management;
• Enhanced passenger and interchange facilities as well as reliability and punctuality of public transport
services and improved safety of pedestrians and cyclists In TfGM and RBK;
• Won new business by demonstrating excellent commercial awareness and secured the confidence and
praise of clients, met and exceeded their requirements and expectations in all the consultancy rolls.
Academic Qualifications
MBA (Business Management and Administration) - Kingston University 1996
MSC Highways, Traffic and Transportation Engineering - Strathclyde University 1986
BEng (Hons) - Civil Engineering - Liverpool University 1983
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2. A’ Levels (Maths, Physics, Chemistry) and 10 ‘O’ Levels - Merchant Taylors School (Crosby) 1979
Work experience and accomplishments
JASO Consultancy Limited – Senior Project Manager August 2012 - Present
• Delivered Oxford Road bus priority, walking and cycle network projects for Transport for Greater
Manchester by successfully controlling costs, solving problems, setting clear performance
measures, prioritising competing task and making efficient use of the available resources;
• Completed extensive public consultation process, engaged and involved stakeholders in
development and delivery of the proposals and promoted the equality and diversity policies of TfGM;
• Produced and presented reports and advice on project performance, budgets, risks, opportunities
and outputs to Committees, Councillors, senior management, internal and external stakeholders ;
• Accomplished sustainability, regeneration, economic development and growth by enhancing
resilience of transport infrastructure and road network in Manchester city centre;
• Built strong partnerships with funding and government organisations, local authorities, developers,
contractors, multi-disciplinary consultants, health and higher education establishments, service
providers and delivery agencies;
• Increased sustainable accessibility to economic centres, higher education, employment and health
establishments by improving transport reliability, reducing congestion and improving journey times;
• Accomplished maximum benefits for the community from a proposed development in Tolworth area
by successfully completing highway and transport impact assessment and economic appraisal;
• Delivered area wide road safety improvements in Hampton Court Area; resolved conflict between
cars, pedestrians and cyclist and delivered key stakeholder requirements;
• Solved complex transport issues in Makkah City by introducing major highway, transport and
infrastructure improvements - delivered robust and strategic highway management plans; and
• Achieved network reliability, efficiency and safety by introducing ITS and dynamically optimised
systems that improved the highway capacity, traffic flows and pedestrian safety in Jeddah city.
Zuhair Fayez Partnership Consultants - Senior Project Manager November 2010 – June 2012
• Exceeded requirements and expectations of the clients by successfully developing and designing
high quality proposals and schemes in Saudi Arabia;
• Accomplished project priorities and targets by achieving continuous improvements - introduced
business planning processes with fully integrated information and reporting systems;
• Achieved project objectives and successful outcomes two months ahead of schedule and reduced
project cost by £84,000(12%) by managing risks and providing strong project management skills;
• Secured commissions for further new projects by demonstrating competence, value for money,
perseverance, adaptability and focus – won clients’ praise as an excellent project manager;
• Improved productivity by 32% by providing strong leadership, successful team and change
management, sound project, financial and budget management skills;
• Set clear project objectives, targets and deliverables, delegated tasks, set team and individual
accountability, responsibility and ownership; and
• Increased staff commitment and motivation - enhanced team performance, developed other’s skills
and talents, created effective solutions and facilitated interactive communication and feedback.
E2RD Consultants Limited - Senior Project Manager August 2008 – October 2010
• Achieved sustainability and regeneration with the right balance between street scene and the
environment by delivering a dynamic highway and transport master plan;
• Improved network operation and reliability by delivering highway, traffic and parking management, road
safety, bus priority, cycling and walking proposals;
• Achieved client’s confidence and satisfaction by successfully designing environmental
improvements, town centre accessibility schemes and area wide traffic management proposals;
• Enhanced team performance by setting clear and effective performance expectation and maintained
focus on the project objectives and targets; and
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3. • Secured commission for another project by achieving value for money and delivering the projects on
time, within budget and to high quality standards.
Royal Borough of Kingston – Head of Traffic and Transportation May 1988 – Jul 2008
• Increased customer satisfaction by 37% by responding positively to the concerns of residents,
business and road user groups - achieved environmental, regeneration and sustainability
improvements;
• Improved service provision by delivering integrated highways, traffic, transportation and road safety
engineering, parking management, development planning and transport modelling services;
• Delivered the Council’s priorities by successfully executing capital and revenue programmes;
• Implemented development and construction programmes and executed S278, S106 and S38
agreements;
• Produced and presented reports to the Council Committees, provided engineering and technical advice
to the councillors on projects and programmes;
• Won national and local awards for street design for developing and implementing innovative and high
quality highway and traffic projects, street and public-realm improvement initiatives;
• Achieved modal shift from private car to sustainable modes of travel by 27% by delivering integrated
transport strategies, promoting healthy travel and establishing car-sharing clubs;
• Secured increased annual financial allocations (£3 to £5.7 million) from TfL and increased the annual
revenue budget from £5 to £7 million by providing effective business plans and clearly defining project
scope, objectives, outcomes and deliverables;
• Improved productivity and service efficiency by 35% by providing robust financial and budget
management, strong project management and strategic thinking;
• Provided successful leadership by providing effective team management, business development,
research and development, robust commissioning and procurement;
• Developed and delivered the regeneration of town centres and commercial areas by providing local
improvements, community leadership and collaborative partnership working;
• increased public and partner participation workings by 60% by engaging and involving local residents,
business, community organisation, other public service providers and delivery agencies;
• Encouraged greater level of walking and cycling by implementing green cycle and walking network,
cycle parking and safe pedestrian crossing facilities;
• Introduced safe freight movement network and lorry ban areas - achieved safer and greener
environment;
• Met quality assurance, statutory and regulatory procedures and requirements by using standards and
manuals for highways and streets design;
• Represented the Council as the Highway and Traffic Authority by leading partnerships with TfL, GLA,
DfT, delivery partners, Network Rail, South West Trains and bus operators;
• Chaired Engineering Project Management Board, Traffic Management Liaison Group, Area
Regeneration and Improvement Working Groups and London Cycle Network Steering Group;
• Presented lectures on transport, traffic and road safety engineering, walking, cycling and bus priority
initiatives, Home Zones, sustainability, regeneration and streetscape improvements;
• Executed Transport Microsimulation modelling using SATURN, VISSIM, TRIPS, CONTRAM and
VISSUM suits; and
• Successfully provided evidence in eight planning public inquiries for retail, residential and mixed- use
developments.
JMP Consultants Ltd - Assistant Engineer September 86 - May 1988
• Developed and designed highway, traffic and parking management schemes, junction improvements
and signal designs using Manual for Streets and DMRB;
• Designed and implemented walking, cycling and bus priority measures;
• Completed highway, traffic and transport assessments for retail, residential and mixed-use
developments;
• Presented reports to senior management and clients; and
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4. • Successfully completed highway and junction modelling, using LinSig, Transyt, ARCADY, PICADY and
OSCADY programs.
Pursuit
I am seeking a new opportunity in project management or team leadership in public or private sectors
within the disciplines of highways, traffic and transportation engineering, transport and development
planning, road safety engineering or parking management.
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