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SUMMARY
Current Location: Lithuania / Vilnius
Current Employer: Self-employed / Consultant
Qualifications: University Degree
Professional Memberships: ASME (non active)
Years of Experience: 22
Years of Expatriation: 14 (6 USA, 2 UK, 6 Lithuania)
Countries of Training: USA / UK / Lithuania / Saudi Arabia
Availability for Interview: Via phone only
Availability for Mobilization: 2-3 months notice
TARGET JOB
Position: Director, Assistant Director, Manager, Assistant Manager, Purchasing Consultant, Purchasing Specialist, Project Manager, Project Engineer, Marketing Manager, Or any promising and challenging managerial or supervisory role.
Category: Especially interested in Management or Administration post or Project Management or Supervision at any level. Also, Business Support, Business Consulting, General or Vocational Company Training or Professional or Technical Training. Also any post in Oil & Petroleum Industry, Petrochemicals & Plastics Industries, Exports & Imports Management or Promotion, Upstream or downstream, or any other suitable position.
Location: Currently in Vilnius, Lithuania.
Salary: Flexible based on benefits provided
CAREER OBJECTIVE
My career objectives can be summaries as follows: to obtain a challenging management, administrative, or technical position as deemed suitable to my skills, experience, and backgrounds, to help a successful organization or company expand further and to help myself grow further professionally, technically, and financially, to become an effective team player in a progressive organization or company. I am a highly trained, multi-cultured, widely-traveled, hard working, confident, mature, self-motivated, responsible, reliable, skilled individual with practical engineering skills, management experience, and consulting methods gained through many years of practical work experience in English, Engineering, Business, and Project Management covering a broad range of construction, petroleum, industrial, marketing, educational, and Internet projects. I am a healthy, friendly, outgoing, open-minded and flexible person. I am a born leader and able to influence others to follow and meet any goal or objective. I have never smoked and I don't have any harmful habits.
EDUCATION
Thames University
November 1998, London, UK, United Kingdom
Degree: Certificate - Postgraduate Studies, PRE-MBA (One-year Completed))
University Of Portland
September 1986 - May 1990, Portland, United States
Degree: Bachelors - Mechanical Engineering
ASSETS
* Strong interpersonal and communication skills and the ability to work effectively with a wide range of cultural backgrounds.
* Skills in directing multi-department multi-cultural technical and administrative staff.
* Skill in organizing resources and establishing business priorities.
* Knowledge and understanding of current and developing strategic business requirements.
* Knowledge of financial business information.
* Knowledge of strategic planning and advanced leadership skills.
* Knowledge of current trends and developments in information technology.
* Ability to identify and secure alternative funding and supply resources.
* Ability to provide strategic guidance to clients in the assessment and development of existing and/or proposed systems/projects.
* Ability to develop commercial/technical proposals and to evaluate commercial/technical proposals.
SKILLS
MS Word Expert More Than 15 Years (40 Wpm)
MS Excel Expert More Than 15 Years (Programming & Tables)
MS Powerpoint Expert More Than 15 Years
MS Access Good More Than 5 Years
Ms Project Good More Than 5 Years (Project And Budget Planning)
Primavera Good More Than 5 Years (Project And Budget Planning)
Adobe Pagemaker Good More Than 5 Years (Publishing & Page Setting)
Adobe Photoshop Good More Than 5 Years
PC Hardware Good More Than 15 Years (Very Pc Literate)
Commercial Proposals Good More Than 10 Years
Contracts Review Good More Than 10 Years
Contracts Drafting Good More Than 10 Years
Contracts Bid Review Good More Than 10 Years
Contracts Bid Eval. Good More Than 10 Years
Projects Planning Good More Than 10 Years (Funding, Coordinating, Estimating)
Projects Start-Up Good More Than 10 Years (Kick-Off Meetings, Mobilizations)
Projects Scheduling Good More Than 10 Years (Scheduling, Charts, Cross-Checking)
Projects Costing Good More Than 10 Years (Estimates On Design/Construction)
Projects Management Good More Than 10 Years (Supervision Of Teams, Taskforces)
Feasibility Studies Good More Than 10 Years
Risk Analyses Good More Than 5 Years
Market Analyses Good More Than 10 Years
Market Research Good More Than 2 Years
Business Setup Good More Than 5 Years
Business Planning Good More Than 5 Years
SWOT Analyses Good More Than 5 Years
Internet Expert More Than 15 Years
E-Commerce Good More Than 2 Years
Negotiations Expert More Than 10 Years
Speech Writing Expert More Than 5 Years
Public Speaking Expert More Than 5 Years (Speech & Auditorium Experience)
Editing & Proofing Expert More Than 10 Years (English Only)
English Near Native More than 25 years (Writing / Speaking/Teaching)
Arabic Native More than 30 years
Lithuanian Good More than 6 years
Russian Fair More than 1 year (Only basic social communication)
WORK EXPERIENCE
TEGRA UAB (LTD)
January 2005 – Present
Vilnius, Lithuania
www.tegra.lt
Business Development Consultant
Highlights:
* Consulting and Assistance on Products Sourcing and Locating Suppliers of new SKU's.
* Consulting on New Strategic Markets in EU and Central Asia
* Performing of all negotiations, agreements, and contracting with New Suppliers and Purchases
* Follow up on products transports, logistics, and warehousing.
* Occasional Consulting on Strategic Business Plans and Marketing Plans
* Drafting, Editing, Proofreading, and Concluding of all company's English Legal Documents and Publications.
* Successfully sourced and concluded four strategic supply agreements on company products. One product, the company is currently selling 1,000,000 units annually. With new suppliers, the company sales will be 3,000,000 units in two years time.
* Company turnover in 2004 was over USD 40 million.
AL-HABEEB COMMERCIAL BROKERAGE LLC
January 2004 – January 2005
Dubai, UAE
www.alhabeebcomrage.com
Vice President
Highlights:
* Responsibility for supervision and controls of company activities.
* Business development and Strategic Marketing plans.
* Communication and cooperation with clients and customers
* General Brokerage and Consulting on Real Estate Development and Other Commodities
* Allocating potential customers through personal contacts and referrals
* Conducting feasibility studies and market researches
ICBL UAB (LTD)
January 2002 – Present
Vilnius, Lithuania
Managing Director
Highlights:
* Company co-founder
* Responsibilities for developing business and building relationships with clients and exploring markets potential.
* Cooperated and worked on transactions in the sale of Urea, Timber, Metals, Construction Material, and Consumables.
* Resourced and allocated commodities and products suppliers for Lithuanian buyers.
* Successfully searched, and consulted on acquisition of real estate property for investors from Saudi Arabia in Lithuania, with conclusions of three strategically located real estate property items in the Capital of Vilnius totaling 16,525,000 Litas ($6,200,000) in capital. Further investment efforts are ongoing.
TASKS:
* Management and supervision of company staff, total of 8 people.
* Management, supervision, and maintenance of company facilities
* Management of company accounting and all aspects of company finances
* Management of company marketing and advertising, including sales and promotion of services and products
* Management and supervision of companies
KALBA UAB (LTD)
September 1999 - November 2003
Vilnius Lithuania
www.kalba.lt
Language & Marketing Consultant
Highlights:
* Native Speaker with the Company, working successfully and continuously for 4 consecutive years and with full satisfaction of the management.
* Success in job based on testimony of clients and satisfied customers; demanded and sought after by many clients due to professional attitude, dedication to post, and effectiveness of methods.
* Helped and assisted in the company's expansion into new markets. Successfully recruited, and employed Lithuanian university students with US employers with a success rate of 8 in 10. Reviewed, edited, and created CVs and Resumes. Conducted Job interviews. Contacted and positively influenced US employers. Conceptualized, developed, and created a 10,000 entry employers/applicants database and effectively and successfully integrated and managed this database for successful placements of applicants, and for eventual feedback and communication with applicants and employers.
TASKS:
* Assisted with Company Marketing and Advertising Tasks
* Assisted with Interviews and Recruitments of Students
* Conducted English Language Courses for Businessmen
* Conducted English Language Courses for High School Students
* Conducted English Language Courses for University Students
* Conducted English Language Courses for Government Officials, Politicians, & Diplomats
* Conducted TOEFL Preparation Courses for University Applicants
* Conducted English Language Interviews on Behave of USA Employers For Summer Work Programs
* Conducted informational seminars and workshops on company programs and work placements in the USA.
* Conducted Professional English Text Editing and Proofreading for Translations prepared by Translation Agencies, municipalities, newspapers, and companies.
AMERICAN ARABIAN OIL COMPANY (SAUDI ARAMCO)
October 1983 - November 1997
www.saudiaramco.com
Project Manager / Specialist Engineer
Worked on a wide variety of tasks and roles on projects management and business development/management posts in USA, KSA, and UK.
Highlights:
* Total of 14 years experience with Saudi ARAMCO in Oil & Gas industry, of which 7 years direct experience with projects management, business development, and engineering process plants.
* Demonstrable track record in project management working with multi-disciplined engineering teams in design and construction phases.
* Good knowledge of basic issues of quality, safety, loss-preventions, security, cost control and client/customer satisfaction in all business environments.
* Good general knowledge of process plants, refineries, equipment, and cross-country pipelines.
* Company Reference letter and history certificate available.
TASKS
* Supervised and ensured the work is performed in accordance with the company quality procedures and engineering standers.
* Successfully conceptualized, developed, engineered, staffed and commissioned numerous projects and business tasks in all countries of operation.
* Supported Plant's operation & engineering teams. trouble-shooted mechanical problems. Sourced and Procured Projects material. Allocated and searched for suppliers on specialty items. Procured, Reviewed, Qualified, and Contracted task teams or contractors to work on numerous company projects.
* Conceptualized, prepared, completed, & commissioned the engineering and construction works of numerous design packages for company projects.
* Streamlined Engineering Division Design Procedures with complete revision and optimization of the division's Plants Engineering Design and Maintenance Repairs Packages.
* Prepared risk analysis, feasibilities studies, market researches, and conducted reliability, availability and maintainability inspections on assigned plant's units.
* Negotiated and concluded on behalf of company many contracts and cooperation agreements.
* Purchasing & Material Supplies experience. RFQ's and, PO's, Bidding, Review and Management.
SAUDI ARAMCO
January 1997 - November 1997
Saudi Arabia - Eastern Province
Specialist Engineer
Specialist Engineer with SHEDGUM Gas Plant Department. A one year assignment to help and assist the plant's engineering division with technical and operational problems.
Highlights:
* One year developmental rotational assignment with SHEDGUM Gas Plant Department.
Tasks
* Supervised and ensured the work is performed in accordance with the company quality procedures and engineering standers.
* Successfully conceptualized, developed, engineered, staff and commissioned numerous projects maintenance items within the plants vicinity.
* Supported Plant's operation & engineering teams. trouble-shooted mechanical problems.
* Conceptualized, prepared, completed, & commissioned the engineering works of numerous design packages for plant repairs & maintenance.
* Streamlined Engineering Division Design Procedures with complete revision and optimization of the division's Plants Engineering Design and Maintenance Repairs Packages.
* Prepared risk analysis, and conducted reliability, availability and maintainability inspections on assigned plant's units.
SAUDI ARAMCO
November 1996 - November 1997
Saudi Arabia - Eastern Province
Lead Project Engineer
Lead Project Engineer, ARAMCO, Saudi Arabia, & Bechtel LTD, London, UK. Lead Project Engineer (Manager) on incoming oil-pipelines surge relief upgrade project at ABQAIQ Plants. Researched, conceptualized, designed, & supervised the manufacturing, constructing, & installation of facilities & equipment to provide hydraulic oil flow surge protection for incoming-oil-pipelines at the plants. Project was valued at US $20.0 millions.
Highlights:
* Project Manager with full responsibility of project execution. Conceptualized, Scoped, Drafted, Reviewed, and Executed the Project Proposal Phase and the Detailed Engineering Phase of the project.
Tasks:
* Created Master Schedule and Design Schedule.
* Prepared Contract Evaluation questionnaire and contract evaluation package, Reviewed, Evaluated, and Rejected Bids.
* Selected Successful Contractors. Counseled unsuccessful contractors.
* Prepared and lead project engineering review stages with coordination with all concerned departments. Coordinated and successfully mitigated interventions from proponent departments, technical services departments, geotechnical departments, operations departments, contracting departments, and process & control departments.
SAUDI ARAMCO
November 1994 – MAY 1996
Saudi Arabia - Eastern Province
Process/Facilities Engineer
Facilities Engineer, Bechtel LTD, London, UK. Facilities Engineer as part of a project management team from ARAMCO with BECHTEL UK, to execute conceptual & detailed engineering design for Ras TANURAH Refinery for ARAMCO, a $300 million project. Responsibilities included tasks in project management, project engineering, loss prevention, safety engineering (HAZOPs) & mechanical engineering. Performed refinery equipment process designs; preparation, verification, & finalization of key plant drawings (PFDs & P&IDs)
Highlights:
* Hands on experience with grass root conceptualization, analyses, and designs of refinery process equipment including structural and strength calculations, cost effectiveness, hydraulic analyses, and cathodic protection.
Tasks:
* Reviewed and revised equipment specifications
* Prepared & finalized economic feasibility studies
* Supervised activities in planning, scheduling & cost monitoring of project activities.
* Participated in several European & American vendor visits to review, supervise, control, monitor & expedite materials & equipment for project.
SAUDI ARAMCO
March 1993 - November 1994
Saudi Arabia – Dhahran, Eastern Province
Project Engineer
Working on project proposal and detailed engineering for the MIS and process control systems upgrade in ABQAIQ Plants, ARAMCO, Saudi Arabia, with the help of US Company Honeywell for process control systems.
SAUDI ARAMCO
1992-1993
Saudi Arabia - Eastern Province
Project Engineer
Project management of numerous maintenance and construction projects in ABQAIQ Plants, ARAMCO, Saudi Arabia
SAUDI ARAMCO
1991-1992
Saudi Arabia - Eastern Province
Project Engineer
Project Engineer, ABQAIQ Plants, ARAMCO, Saudi Arabia
SAUDI ARAMCO
1990-1991
Saudi Arabia - Eastern Province
Project Engineer
Mechanical Engineer, Consulting Services Department, ARAMCO, Dhahran, Saudi Arabia
FREELANCE ACTIVITIES
May 1999 to present
Vilnius, Lithuania
FREELANCE ENGLISH EDITOR
TASKS:
* Performed professional text editing and proofreading for translations prepared by translation agencies, translators, government and state offices, newspapers, and companies.
* Participated in editing and proofreading of Vilnius municipality official websites text and English Material.
* Samples of work and references are available upon request.
REFERENCES
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