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Profession: Principal Geotechnical Engineer
Year of Birth: 1968
Nationality: Syrian
Status: Married
Languages: Arabic (Native) English & French (Fluent)

ACADEMIC & PROFESSIONAL QUALIFICATIONS

2001 PhD Geotechnical Engineering – University Joseph Fourier, Grenoble, France
"Study of the differed soils behaviour and geotechnical works"
1997 MSc Civil Engineering / Geotechnical Option – University Joseph Fourier, Grenoble, France
1991 BSc Civil/Structural Engineering – University of Aleppo, Syria

SYNOPSIS

 A Principal Geotechnical Engineer with a PhD in Geotechnical Engineering from the Laboratory of Soils, Solids and Structures, Joseph Fourier University, Grenoble, France.
 17 years' design and project management experience as a Structural engineer specializing in geotechnical engineering.
 Involved in managing geotechnical investigations, appraisals, design and construction supervision for a variety of large infrastructure / Building projects in the Middle East and France.
 Detailed design and site experience of land developments, braced excavations and innovative deep foundation systems.
 Joined WS Atkins' Dubai / Abu Dhabi offices in 2006, where as Principal Engineer is involved in managing a wide range of Building / Infrastructure projects as well as providing specialist input to major projects.
 Since appointment as the Principal Geotechnical Engineer for WS Atkins in Dubai/ Abu Dhabi offices, I have been responsible for all geotechnical aspects of the Dubai/ Abu Dhabi Projects, responsible for overall geotechnical planning, investigation, interpretation, reviewing and geotechnical design of all the projects.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE DETAIL

Geotechnical Director
Benaa Aljusour General Contracting (07/09 – to present)

Establishing the company from the stages of planning and construction. Select and brought all required equipment for running geotechnical investigation and piling/ shoring constructions, material (soil and concrete) and chemical divisions. Recruitment of all staff technical and administrative for the required position in the company.

Holding all administrative, financial and technical issues. Possessing of excellent management experience and a proven ability of successful business development, consistently achieving significant year-on-year growth. Accomplished in training and motivating all involved staff in work to provide a high level of customer service. Believing that good team leadership and a hands-on approach to management brings increased standards and profits.

Principal Geotechnical Engineer
Atkins Middle East, Dubai UAE (05/06 – to Date)

 Responsible for Co-ordination, planning and supervision of soil investigation work, geotechnical assessment including bearing capacity and settlement calculation, deep and shallow foundation design, slope stability analysis, design of slope retaining or stabilization structures, geotechnical instrumentation, monitoring and interpretation, supervision of soil and material laboratory accredited to ISO 17025, preparation of geotechnical reports, technical meeting attendance and presentation, training of technical staff etc.

 Setting up all the site investigation requirements of all the projects
 Review all the SI tenders and make recommendations
 Carrying out surprise visits to SI projects in progress to check on their performance
 Review and comment on the SI reports received after the SI work is carried out
 Assisting the structural engineers in the geotechnical parameters for the pile/foundation design and spring coefficients for the superstructure calculations
 Attending meetings with approval authorities for the shoring, piling and foundation design approvals
 Review of the tender returns on shoring and piling works and make comments and recommendations
 Attending meetings with the relevant subcontractors
 Carrying out surprise visits on site for the work done by the relevant subcontractors
 Providing support for Atkins offices in the region.
 To provide the primary point of contact and meet the technical ground engineering needs of the Atkins structural and civil engineering team. In addition to support the wider Ground Engineering Group on large scale or complex geotechnical engineering projects undertaken across the Middle East.
 Travel to different offices of Atkins in the Middle East as part of my work.
 Review Atkins existing specifications relevant to the geotechnical aspects of the work
 Lead and direct geotechnical projects (multiple and individual) with overall project management responsibility including planning, developing, coordinating, and directing the completion of assigned geotechnical projects.
 Review geotechnical engineering project proposals. Monitoring schedules to assure projects are on time and within budget projections.
 Establishes and maintains quality and accuracy standards. Identify and classify underlying site soils and provide detailed reports outlining the cause and origin of the damages to clients.
 To have client interaction on a regular basis. Capable of detailed geotechnical analyses for foundation recommendations, settlement, consolidation theory, slope stability, earthwork evaluations, retaining structures and report preparation.
 Provide geotechnical consultancy services for all aspects of ground works and applies my expertise to all types of civil engineering structures such as foundations and retaining walls deploying a variety of methods for ground improvement, installation of vertical in-ground barriers, soil stabilisation, piling excavation of cuttings and placement of embankments.
 Provide high quality cost effective foundation options with complimentary remedial programmes for a full range of impacted sites.
 Help to set-up Enabling, Shoring, Excavation, Ground Engineering and Piling works.
 Capable of carrying out geotechnical analysis for example soil stability calculations, assessing data requirements for the design of retaining walls; pile and soil spring recommendations to be used in ETABS analyses through review of the SI report and soil structure interaction by carrying out FE analysis with suitable computer packages such as PLAXIS.

Principal Geotechnical Engineer
Arab Centre for Engineering Studies, Abu Dhabi, UAE (2003-05/06)

 Responsible for projects from inception to completion to include: Initial quotation; Planning of works; Project management; Technical review and quality assurance of report; interpretive reporting; invoicing for works and Ensuring client satisfaction and good client care. The range of the work ensures that staff enjoys a varied workload that gives job satisfaction not normally associated with some larger consultancies. An ability to assess the most commercially viable and practical solution to a clients problems is critical.

 Planning and supervision of field geotechnical investigations including drilling of boreholes, excavation of test pits, soil sampling and testing, etc…
 To be responsible for geotechnical assignments, acting as package or project manager.
 Geotechnical reports write-up for varies types of projects.
 Study of land slides and slope stability projects.
 Reconnaissance, drilling and sampling supervision, and field testing (especially pressuremeter, High Pressure Dilatometer, Packer (Lugeon) Permeability Test and Pumping Test).
 Geotechnical design of piles and in-situ assessment for piles during drilling.
 Consultancy for pile works construction
 Consultancy for pile load testing.
 Manage and follow up of Projects.
 Day to day, operating matters in the Laboratory.
 Operating matters of Geotechnical investigation.
 Preparation the program of tests as required by the clients.
 Prepare reports and analysis of tests results in accordance with the standard specifications or project requirements/specifications.
 Discuss the test result and suggest recommendation to the clients, if necessary.
 Evaluating / Investigation of the existing Building/Structures:
 Conduct field and laboratory investigation in the structure.
 Performing engineering analysis of the findings.
 Develop conclusion regarding the present state of the structures, cause and extends of damage.
 Developing recommendation to aid in adopting the appropriate repair options and protection of the structures.

Lecturer in Civil Engineering
Institut of Technology, Reunion University, France (2002 – 2003)
Research Assistant at the IUT laboratory of Soils, Solids and Structures.

 Teaching a variety of related courses at the undergraduate level, develop and improve academic programs, develop and implement research projects, and cooperate with other academics, and related organizations.
 Teach also in a practical student-centered environment and deliver and assist in the curriculum development of a range of bachelor, higher diploma, certificate-diploma level courses in the programs offered by the Engineering Department.
 Teaching Structural Mechanics, Structural Design and Mechanics of Materials.
 Teaching Plate and Shell Structures.
 Teaching Finite Element Method.
 Teaching constructions materials, Construction Management, Construction Methods and Materials & Science of materials laboratory.
 Teaching Strength of materials, Foundation Engineering, Probability & Statistics for civil engineers.
 Teaching mathematics for all levels.
 Experience in field and laboratory investigations and site characterization.
 Practical work of soil mechanics and construction materials.
 Carry out geotechnical work and foundation design work and review of existing designs.
 Perform geotechnical engineering analysis, including bearing capacity, settlement, pile capacity and slope stability.
 Prepares presentation documents as requested using Power Point.
 Summarize the material, machines and labour requirements for the project. (Resource requirements).

2001-02
 Lecturer in Civil Engineering in the Joseph Fourier University, Grenoble, France. And Research Assistant at the Laboratory of Soils, Solids and Structures.
 Teaching a variety of related courses at the undergraduate level, develop and implement research projects, and cooperate with other academics, and related organizations.
 Teaching soil mechanics.
 Teaching structures and materials.
 Teaching continuum mechanics.
 Teaching reinforced concrete.
 Teaching dams and water structures.
 Experience in field and laboratory investigations and site characterization.
 Practical work of soil mechanics and construction materials.
 Carry out geotechnical work and foundation design work and review of existing designs.
 Prepares presentation documents as requested using Power Point.
 Summarize the material, machines and labour requirements for the project. (Resource requirements).

1997-01
 Research and modelling of the Geotechnical works by the method of the Finites Elements (Modelling and back Analysis).
 Perform engineering analyses including numerical modelling. Laboratory of Soils, Solids and Structures. Grenoble – France

1998-99
 Lecturer in Civil Engineering in the Joseph Fourier University, Grenoble, France (practical work of soil mechanics and part time teaching in the following undergraduate courses: Soil mechanics, Reinforced concrete design and strength of materials).

1996-97
 Modelling and back Analysis of the geotechnical works (Pressuremetre) by finites elements. Laboratory of Soils, Solids and Structures. Grenoble – France

1995-96
 Formation in French language in the Stendhal university of Grenoble-France

Civil Engineer
Ministry of Irrigations, Syria (1994 – 1996)

 manage the geotechnical component of projects;
 perform site investigations;
 engineering design and reporting;
 advice to multidisciplinary projects;
 Provide oversight of the soils laboratory activities to maintain technical quality of testing, prepare proposals for services, market the services of the firm, and maintain client follow up after project completion.
 Supervises all activities including design, preparing tender specifications and documents and monitoring all facilities maintenance and documents and monitoring all facilities maintenance and requirements.
 Designs civil steel and concrete structures.
 Supervises construction works, and guides contractor for the construction.
 Draws and drafts drawings using Auto Cad.
 Prepares tender, documents, specifications, conditions of contract, bills of quantities, and cost estimates.
 Prepares facilities expense budget, and forecasts annual expense budget.
 Prepares daily service request status from the database, and prepares daily and monthly reports.

Public Works Engineer
Ministry of Irrigations, Syria (1992 – 1994)

 Project management and technical input to reports;
 Delivering projects within schedule and budget;
 Co-ordination of activities of all project team members, ensuring developments and modifications are communicated throughout the team;
 Interaction with clients in support of the successful delivery of projects;
 Assist with marketing / bid support and development of the Land Development Team;
 Prepare and review technical reports;
 Definition of the calls and selection of the suppliers;
 The realization of studies of price for civil engineering and/or building work for works;
 Preparation of reports for feasibility, concept, preliminary and detail design of geotechnical projects.
 Lead the team responsible for planning and detail design of geotechnical projects;
 Performs other similar or related duties as and when assigned by Head of Projects Unit.
 Technical follow-up of the building sites (Ministry of irrigations - Syria).

Research
Aleppo University, Syria (1990 – 1992)

 Studying and realization of works in reinforced concrete (Aleppo University - Syria).
 Designs civil steel and concrete structures.
 A sound knowledge of the principles of steel and concrete deterioration mechanisms, their causes and effects and rehabilitation strategies or a very keen interest in pursuing this facet of engineering.
 Computer literate and familiar with MS Office, MS Project, and able to use the computer applications.

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION

Expertise:
 Computer science: languages (Fortran 77 & 90, Basic, Visual Basic), office automation (Word, Excel, Grapher, surfer, Photoshop, Mathematical, Matlab…).
 To carry out tests on building site (water tests, bearing tests, etc...), as well as the realization of the tests in laboratory (Identification, Proctor, CBR, Shearing, Odometer, Triaxial, etc...), to also ensure the examination of the tests carried out on building site (Pressuremeter, SPT, CPT, Plate Bearing tests etc...).
 To carry out tests on building materials: granulate; Concretes; Cements; and Rocks.
 Numerical modelling in geotechnics with the method of the finites elements.
 More than 10 years experience on geotechnical engineering projects including the application of numerical analysis.
 Experience in the use of PLAXIS (2D & 3D) more than 10 years.
 Calculation of structure in reinforced concrete.
 Teaching a variety of related courses at the undergraduate level.
 To be in charge the work on the building site.
 Studies calls offer and answer and selection of suppliers.
 Animation, coordination, rigor, authority, negotiation, human contact taste, sense of the security.
 To assure technical missions of construction control, verification of plans, control of files and visits on sites.
 To achieve missions of technical follow-up of construction.
 To assure the technical and commercial follow-up of construction projects, of the conception to the receipt of works. Privileged interlocutor of architects and masters of work.
 The study of the project on the technique, financier and human plan.
 Preparation of the project (planning of execution, technical option...).
 Completion of the work in accordance with the contract, until the delivery.
 Be a Good team worker, with ability to coach younger team members.
 Be confident and have the ability to accept responsibility to deliver projects with a minimum of supervision.
 Hard working and prepared to be flexible to meet project demands.
 Experience in providing pragmatic and value-driven ground risk and foundation advice in all sectors but especially building, site development and infrastructure.
 Experience working in the Middle East or of Middle East ground conditions / issues an advantage with extensive experience in consultancy and contracting businesses including practical experience of geotechnical site investigations, foundation and ground improvement techniques and geotechnical design.
 Putting together soil investigation requirements for building projects, assist in the procurement of the SI companies, Inspect site investigation work to check work is done properly, review and comment on the Soil Investigation reports, review the specifications related to dewatering, shoring and piling, help to set up specification on issues related to geotechnical issues such as ground improvements techniques, help to set up Enabling works, excavation, shoring, piling, review of tender returns and produce tender evaluation for enabling works, visit sites to see the progress of work and assist in the choice of foundation to be used. Capable of carrying out geotechnical analysis for example soil stability calculations, geotechnical data required to design retaining walls, pile and soil spring recommendations to be used in ETABS analyses through review of the SI report and soil structure interaction by carrying FE analysis with suitable computer packages such as PLAXIS.

Courses:

2000-01 Practical formation in Civil Engineering «The experimental errors and the errors of calculation – modelling» (3 days).
2000-01 Practical formation in Geotechnics «Natural Risk in Mountain». (2 days).
1998-99-00 Practical formation in Continuum Mechanics « Constitutive Modelling of Geomaterials ». (9 days).
1999-00 Practical course in the management of projects (26 hours).
1999-00 Course in Geotechnics at the Central school of the Bridges and Roadway in Paris (3 days).
1995-96 French Language in the Stendhal university of Grenoble-France.

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