This document provides a summary of work experience for Saad Ali AL-Khathami, a Saudi national. Over 17.5 years, he has held several management roles including General Manager of Operations and Maintenance, Director of Field Operations Projects, Project Manager, and Section Manager of Civil Works. He has extensive experience managing large projects and teams for telecommunications companies in Saudi Arabia. His areas of expertise include project management, operations and maintenance, materials and equipment management, and field implementation.
1. Saad Ali AL-Khathami
Nationality : Saudi
Language : Arabic and English
Tel. Nos. :
Mobile : 0554588776
E-mail : skhathamii@hotmail.com
Summary of Work Experienced
I am writing to let you know that I have 17.5 years’
experience, and ready for new challenges.
1. General manager of operation and maintenance
2. Director of Project related to field operation
3. Section manager of civil work at Building department
4. Program manager
5. PMO
6. Project manager
7. Operation reviewer
8. Project control
9. Materials control
2. WORK EXPERIENCED
Operation and maintenance General Manager
From March 2015 to March 2016
GM of operation and maintenance in Almajal Al Arabi Holding Company,
Managing 377 million around king dome with more than 15 projects and 6000
People with deferent
Clients managing
Projects department
Financial department
Procurement department
Human resource department
Logistic and strategy department
Operation and maintenance General Manager
From Sept 2014 to March 2015
GM of operation and maintenance in Zahran Holding Company, managing 2
Billion around king dome with more than 30 projects and more than 8000 people
In deferent clients managing
Projects department
Financial department
Procurement department
Human resource department
Logistic and strategy department
Field Operation Projects Implementation Director
From April 2008 to August 2014
Managing the department with more than 2.0 billion SR since April 2008 to date
that focusing to Broad Band (ADSL and FTTH) projects
Managing Vendor Management
Get the input and prepare for annual budget
Request and obtain the budget
Request FO requirements from other sector and follow
Manage the budget path around stc departments
Develop detailed RFP.
Approve the RFP from department concern (…legal..)
Follow FO RFP in other department and approve
Manage the tender phase with procurement and satisfy their
requirements
Study and Develop technical report for all contracts
Work with procurement for developing and merging technical and
financial contract report>
Manage high level vendor relations and resolve the issues
Develop and Analyze and report on contract status:
3. Contract execution
Change control
Vendor performance review
Contract policy
Contract review and prequalification
Vendor contract balancing
Vendor leveraging opportunities
Maintain and track expenses and capital budgets
Handle projects’ invoices with oracle and planning department
Ensure corporate procedures are followed
Interface with the Finance Organization
Support project managers in all financial-related issues
Close the project and issue the grantees for contractor
Managing Project Management
Distribute the contractors to districts
Feed back to contract management about new felid specifications
Sharing with contract management about budget distribution to
contractors.
Request technicians from contractors and prepare him for felid
work
Determine the district requirement from technicians who will
deliver the work to customers.
Monitor the distribution load to technicians throw WFM.
Support the districts that need more or reduction of technicians
Weekly meeting with contractors for resolving issues
Prepare work order for contractors
Subtract the closed load or posted load from WFM and transfer it
invoice
Review with contractors and approved.
Receive some penalty or mistakes doing by contractors from
districts.
Complete the invoice paper with any issue came from district.
Send the invoices to contract management.
Reconcile the budget for same contractors in deferent districts.
Monitor the technicians’ performance and report to that.
Monitor the progress of budget and escalate
Contractors evaluation and feed back to contract management.
Receive the plan from planning for wifi project for new site
Make the acquisition with customers
Implement the installation of broadband to customers
Maintain the existing site through wifi NOC and felid
Prepare the invoice
Manage project plan, and implement projects
Issue and perform contracts administration
4. Supervise contractors and coordinate project execution
Report progress and coordinate PAT & FAT
Coordinate with Sales Account Managers and Marketing
Solutions Developers to develop delivery requirements
Manage high level project workflow to ensure timely delivery and
meeting customer requirements
Divide and distribute project workflow tasks to Order
Management
Oversee and ensure project delivery
Ensure that project delivery issues are resolved in a timely manner
according to the customer requirements
Handle escalation of issues as required
Update Account Managers and Project Stakeholders as required
Monitor and report on project delivery
Managing Equipment Management and Logistics
Manage warehouse stock and technical equipment required in
coordination with Marketing demand planning.
plan with material department for requesting the materials items.
Manage customer equipment warranties, returns and replacements
with customers and suppliers
Mange and oversees the tools for field operation technicians
kingdom wide.
Managing logistics requests and issues
Develop and maintain materials quality and provide technical
assistance.
Receiving the materials from suppliers and approved.
Benchmarking for hi tech materials.
Civil work project group manager in building department
From march 2005 to April 2008
Managing function of renovation projects
Managing space plan & furniture projects
Managing security & fences projects
Working in Access Network Project & Contracts Department
From November 2004 to March2005 (Riyadh HQ, Saudi telecom
company)
Program Manager for Access Network Projects
Develop planning focused on the work to be performed
Communicate the project plan to clearly define individual responsibilities,
schedule and budget
Define clearly the authority and responsibility for all project managers
Provide an effective orientation (goals and objective)for project managers
at the beginning of the project
5. Explain clearly to project manager what is expected of them and how
their work fits into the total project
Maintain a record of planed and actual work accomplished to measure
project performance
Maintain monthly project cost chart that displays plan and actual
Keep record of meeting
Working in Network Project Management Office (PMO )
From January 2002 to October 2004 (Riyadh HQ, Saudi telecom company)
Building PMO Operationalization (responsibilities & Roles clarification)
Define the mission and vision of PMO
Define the responsibilities
Define key roles/activities
Define the interfaces
Develop high level plan
Define the activates
Who will do it
When it will be done
What to do
Project Management Process Development and Implementation Team
Leader
Review and update the project management process methodology
Implement the process through the network sector projects
Measuring and Reporting Progress
Defining Milestones and Deliverables
Preparation of steering committee Status Meetings, including:
Accomplishments
Issues
Completion Percentage
Monitoring and Reporting the Status of Key Milestones and Deliverables
Maintaining Project Documentation Repository
Monitoring Issue Resolution
Managing Change Control Process
Preparing Estimates for Change Requests
Conducting Change Control Meetings
Conducting Impact Assessment for Agreed-upon Changes
Update Plan to Reflect Changes
Recognizes different levels of “need to know” regarding project data.
Executive management needs information summaries, with the
ability to see more details, if needed.
Project managers need access to entire blocks of project
information for projects they are responsible for.
Team members need access only to certain information regarding
their involvement in a particular project.
6. Project Configuration Manager
Develop procedure, work instruction for the work (I was member of
network sector for documenting all process, procedures, policy)
develop a method of distributing and controlling releases of
documentation
Update The project documents
Numbering the forms
Develop Auditing process
Member of Transformation and Restructuring in Network Sector, Access Projects
From July 2001 to December 2001 Riyadh Saudi telecom company
Operational Review Project:
Generate detailed guidelines, tools to do operational reviews on the end-
to-end for Planning, design and construction, and processes within the
Access District. Included in the operational review of both Jeddah and
Riyadh Districts.
Develop tools to assist in executing the Reviews including checklists and
reference materials (STTPs)
Prepare Operational review checklists
Prepare the final Access base line operational review report
Prepare detailed procedures to perform the operational review
Developing Access Network Process:
Developing a detailed access process flow including the surveying,
forecasting, designing and construction
Developing the workflow parameter of the process
Completing the systems analysis for the new process. The system
environments for the new process are highly integrated system with
interfaces with all aspects of enterprise such as, customer service.
7. Working in Access Network Construction for:
From November 7, 1998 to July 2, 2001 BAHA District, Saudi telecom company
Project Network Construction Control (550k project)
Received job orders and schedule the jobs
Coordinate between the department
Discussed the budget with contractors
Prepare work completion reports
Conduct the preliminary acceptance test and final acceptance test
Forward as built plans to engineering
Materials Control
Manage the cable materials
Acceptance of materials from the factory
Additional Assets/work Experience
Acting network construction manager for several time
Committee member in prosody test projects in Al-Baha district for year
2000 to 2001
Coordinator in committee analysis to evaluate prosody prices premises
from companies and foundation for securing main distribution frame
block.
Committee member admission and collecting materials of Al- Baha store
PRINCIPAL COMPETENCIES
Analytical Skills
Improve the jobs to improve the products
Find a new way to do the project
Make the task easier and fast
Define the Problems
Gather the data
Consider solution to the problems
Apply the solution
Leadership
Distribute project team efforts
Doing the plans with cooperative of consultant
Manage the plans
Oversee the team members
Motivate the actions
Prepare for the meeting
8. Report the status of the project
EDUCATION
Bachelor of Mechanical Engineering
1994 - 1998 King Abdullaziz University Jeddah, KSA
OTHER CERTIFICATE / COURSES:
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