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Career History:
Namvaran Consulting Engineers: Business Development Manager - Tehran, Iran (Sep 2008 - Sep 2009)
Namvaran offers a broad range of engineering, purchasing and project management services in diverse fields such as hydrocarbon,
mining, metals and other industries. Namvaran is one of the two leading engineering consultancies in Iran, with over 700 employees.
� Managed three engineering, procurement and construction tenders by co-ordinating 15 experts from the engineering and procurement
teams, in a matrix organisation; negotiating with basic designers, vendors and construction companies, fixing the scope, time and cost of
the project. Reviewed contract and identified discrepancies, and presented the proposal to client, under supervision of the programme
director, which led to winning a �200m lump-sum turn key project.
Project Management Research and Development Center: Independent Senior Auditor of Project Based Organisations Maturity Model
- Tehran, Iran (Sep 2007 - Sep 2009)
Project Management Research and Development Center (PMRDC) is a specialist research and development centre in the field of
project management, working under the authority of the National Petrochemical Company of Iran. The project based organisations
maturity model was designed to measure the level of excellence in project based organisations.
� Audited two medium size companies - �Namvaran Sanat��and �Karsazan�, using the project based organisations maturity model, supervising
two auditors, interviewing senior management and presenting the results. Helped companies to find their position in the model and to define
improvement projects.
Bakhtar Petrochemical Company: Management Systems Senior Specialist - Tehran, Iran (Oct 2007 - Sep 2008)
Bakhtar Petrochemical Company is a holding company, which provides the required resources and services for its subsidiary
(petrochemical) companies, which are fed through the West Ethylene Pipeline of Iran. Bakhtar is the largest private petrochemical firm
in Iran.
� Defined and led subsidiaries' improvement projects, through assessing management systems with focus on eight main stakeholders,
including leadership and shareholders, customers, suppliers, employees, technology providers, finance creditors, joint ventures,
government and society.
� Reviewed the �managing contractors��contract, transferring responsibility of petrochemical plants construction to other expert firms.
Reviewed all parts of the contract and amended with a team of six experts from legal, technical, commercial and finance departments. The
performance of the managing contractors was improved dramatically under the amended contract.
Namvaran Consulting Engineers: Project Risk Management Leader - Tehran, Iran (Jun 2002 - Sep 2007)
Namvaran offers a broad scope of engineering, purchasing and project management services in diverse fields such as hydrocarbon,
mining, metals and other industries. Namvaran is one of the two leading engineering consultants in Iran with over 700 employees.
� Led risk management process of two main projects through identifying, assessing, responding and controlling risks with the help of
document reviews, interviews and regular meetings. This process helped two projects to reduce their risk by approximately 3%.
� Assessed management control system by interviewing, reviewing documents and auditing quality management system of the organisation.
The improvement strategies were based on the assessment to enhance the company management control system.
� Developed an effective model for integrated cost management, used in EPC projects based on the concept of target costing.
� Supervised HSE engineering discipline, designing HSE engineering systems, managing six design engineers and communicating with other
disciplines and Engineering Manager.
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