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Passport: Expires: March 26, 2005
Date of Birth: August 26, 1965
Citizenship: Dual: Jordan / United States
Nationality: Jordanian
Education:
Bachelor of Electrical Engineering – May 1989
University of Illinois
Urbana-Champaign, Illinois
Honors and Awards:
Dean’s List – University of Illinois
Quality Employee of the Month – Amoco, Joliet
Kiazen Award – Amoco, Decatur
Captain – College Soccer Team
Hobbies:
I enjoy spending a lot of time with my family
Playing and coaching soccer.
Languages: Arabic and English
Marital Status: Married – Three children
QUALIFICATIONS
•Thirteen years of experience in the petrochemical, food and cement manufacturing industry.
•Extensive experience in implementing management, maintenance and reliability process improvements such as; balanced business scorecards, communication process, continuous improvement process, Total Productive Manufacturing (TPM), Reliability Centered Maintenance (RCM), Root Cause Failure Analysis (RCFA), best practices networking, world class benchmarking, planning and scheduling, turnaround management, preventive & predictive maintenance program, lubrication program, storeroom management, and performance measurements.
•Skilled in negotiation, people management and interpersonal skills.
•Excellent communication, presentation and leadership abilities.
EMPLOYMENT HISTORY
Global Validation – Manufacturing Services, Inc.
2002 to Present
Consultant with hands-on experience helping management, maintenance and operations personnel implement various management and business process improvements in order to achieve manufacturing excellence.
Corporate Engineering and Reliability Manager
Cemex USA – Houston, Texas
1999 to 2002
Responsible for the reliability, maintenance, engineering, management and business process improvements of fourteen manufacturing plants through out the United States of America and Egypt. Responsible for conducting facility assessments to fully understand the current working environment and to identify strengths and areas for improvement. Work very close with plant management to jointly develop a short and long term improvement strategy plan in order to accomplish the goals of manufacturing. Assist plant management to develop an audit system to track progress. Major accomplishments:
.Involved in implementing a global initiative designed to standardize manufacturing processes, practices and operational systems in order to reduce cost, increase efficiency, provide organizational flexibility, and improve customer services. This resulted in $10MM annual savings.
•Implemented management, communication and balanced business scorecard processes that ensure business accountability at every level and every function within the organization. Every department had a tangible business scorecard that supports the strategic plan and company vision. Reduced manufacturing cost by 10% and improved facility uptime from 83% to 92% within one year.
•Implemented maintenance processes such as: planning and scheduling, preventive & predictive maintenance program, lubrication program, storeroom management, training and performance measurements. Reduced maintenance cost by 20%, annual turnaround duration by 50% and equipment mean time between failures by 50%. Improved Planned work from 15% to 70% and schedule compliance from 20% to 88%.
Maintenance Department Manager
General Mills Inc. – Chicago, Illinois
1998 to 1999
Provided supervision of 117 company employees. Managed a $12MM maintenance budget. Developed and implemented a plant wide preventive, predictive and planning and scheduling programs. Implemented Total Productive Manufacturing Process (TPM). Implemented a new computerized maintenance management system, MAXIMO. Major accomplishments:
•Developed and implemented a three year maintenance and reliability improvement strategy. Developed and Implemented a plant wide Reliability Blueprint Measurement Objectives such as; packaging reliability, system reliability, planned Vs unplanned, compliance to schedule, storeroom inventory turns to track progress and drive actions. The facility achieved its highest performance rating in 30 years.
•Developed and implemented a “customized Hands on” planning and scheduling training in order to maximize manpower utilization. Resulted in Improvement of Planned work from 15% to 70% and compliance to schedule from 20% to 88%. The training is very successful and was adopted by the entire corporation.
•Implemented Total Productive Maintenance Process (TPM). The TPM process is a Proactive Equipment Reliability Process which promotes continuous improvement through the use of a cross-functional teams to identify and correct equipment abnormalities, developed a lubrication and inspection standards for operators, implemented improvement ideas and developed equipment specific training in order to maximize overall asset effectiveness. The process resulted in $600M annual savings.
Engineering and Maintenance Manager
Amoco Chemical Company - Decatur, Alabama
1994 to 1998
Provided leadership and supervision of 40 company and 30 contractor employees including; engineers, foremen, mechanics, planners, electrical and instrumentation technicians. Directed and prepared conceptual designs involving modification of existing processes or equipment or installation of new processes or equipment. Responsible for directing the overall maintenance planning and scheduling of routine unit turnarounds. Major accomplishments:
•Managed $18MM maintenance and capital budget, $27MM expansion project and 45 days major turnaround (exceeding 250,000 work hours) with ZERO OSHA recordables, on time and within budget.
•Established cross-functional equipment improvement teams. Each team worked together to prevent equipment failures through a program of proactive maintenance and Reliability Centered Maintenance (RCM). Extended facility run time from 12 to 30 months. As a result, the facility gained an additional income of $90MM.
•Initiated and implemented a safety auditing program and provided technical support for programs such as HAZOP (Hazard & Operability). The program was very successful and was adopted by the entire facility.
•Involved in the installation and startup of the first large scale demineralised retrofit in North America. This retrofit resulted in tripling the flow rate of water produced while reducing operating costs by 60%. Received the Kiazen award.
Plant Engineer / Project Manager
Amoco Chemical Company - Joliet, Illinois
1989 to 1994
Worked as a lead instrument/electrical and mechanical engineer. Job duties included project design, leading safety process design reviews, coordination of capital budget, cost estimating, bid package development and construction supervision.
•Responsible for replacing pneumatic instrumentation and controls with Honeywell TDC-3000 and a MODICON PLC-984 control system. Project scope included cost estimation and detailed design, including: (1) specification and flow diagram development, instrumentation sizing such as control valves, actuators, orifice flow meters and mass flow meters, (2) preparation of engineering drawing (loop sheets, junction box locations, conduit layout, wiring diagrams, etc.), (3) HAZOP, (4) review of contractor selection and (5) installation and startup support. Project costs exceeded $7MM.
•Task force team leader: Responsible for leading a multi-discipline task group to implement corrective action on identified deficient designs in the new $25MM Expansion Project. My responsibility included research and reengineering of the existing vacuum jets, exchangers, Knock back condenser, piping and associated instrumentation to increase production and reduce product fouling. The modifications led to a successful start-up. Project costs of $3MM.
•Retrofitted existing Thermal Oxidizer, Flame Safeguard system and associated instrumentation with Engelhard Catalyst to increase production unit capacity by 10MM lbs./yr. and meet EPA Guidelines. Project costs of $2MM.
TRAINING
Total Productive Manufacturing Certified Coordinator, Maintenance Planning and Scheduling Certified Trainer, SAP R/3 System, MS Office 2000 (Excel, PowerPoint, Word), Computerized Maintenance Management System (MAXIMO and JDE), Reliability Centred Maintenance, Essentials of Leadership, Diversity Facilitator, Dupont Safety, Facilitation Skills, Accident Investigation, Hazard & Operability Study Team Leader (HAZOP), Team Performance Management, Team Quality Improvement, Principal of Project Management, Quality Education System, Contractors Safety, Targeted Selection – Certified Interviewer, Honeywell, TDC - 3000 Process Manager and LCN Maintenance.
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