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Walid Ahmad

Projects Operations – Pre‐Planning & Fulfillment at General Electric - FieldCore

New Cairo, Cairo, Egypt

Work Experience

  • Projects Operations – Pre‐Planning & FulfillmentFull Time

    General Electric - FieldCore

    Nov 2017 - Present -7 yrs, 7 months

    Egypt , Cairo

    • Job Details:Managing four resources operations managers and 160 field engineers, fulfilling 120+ installation and maintenance events for gas & steam turbines across power services, aero derivative, oil & gas sites within East Mediterranean, Iraq, North Africa, and Iran region  Working with the commercial team with all costing information to build commercial proposals for growth opportunities across the region  Adopt Lean methodologies, Leading Kaizan event(s) to simplify, digitize, and optimize operations increasing the field engineers utilization by 1.5%  Leading 50+ field engineers to develop field procedures for global deployment across all gas turbine outages  Handling all AIM resources metrics meeting utilization, exported hours and costs targets set by the business
  • Senior Operation Leader (MEA)Full Time

    General Electric

    Apr 2015 - Nov 2017 -2 yrs, 7 months

    Egypt

    • Job Details:Negotiating with internal and external suppliers/vendors, established the MEA rates sheets to build competitive bids against competitions resulting in winning multiple projects within the region such as HA projects in Pakistan, extensions in Besmaya/Iraq projects  Revising all 3rd Parties multi‐year service agreements, resulting in $1MM costs saving in the region plus €700K in Algeria Mega Deal  Managing 50 field engineers, successfully staffed all projects needs for all new units installation and balance of plant demands across Middle East and Africa including major General Electric projects such as WAAD ALSHAMAL, Pakistan 9HA Installations and Legacy Alstom Steam Turbine Installation, Algeria Mega Deal Installation and Angola Aero Power Recovery Plan using Inhouse field engineers and 3rd party vendors  Built & executed strategic field engineers capacity recovery plan to meet the forecasted demands across region  Lead the new units processes harmonization with other global regions (global forecasting analysis, operations reviews, capacity recovery plans and utilizations analysis & projection)
  • Customer Service LeaderFull Time

    General Electric

    Oct 2012 - Apr 2015 -2 yrs, 6 months

    Saudi Arabia

    • Job Details:Managing Marafiq – IWPP Plant Jubail $605M high value long‐term contractual services contract between General Electric and ENGIE (GDF SUEZ) in the world’s largest integrated water and power facility in Saudi (GDF‐Suez/ENGIE site) increasing the contract margin by 3% on the covered heavy‐duty gas turbines (12 X 7FA)  Leading the customer technically and commercially negotiations on new sales opportunities generating $4.5M Extra‐parts and $14MM ST rotor sales  Appointed as the productivity champion for Saudi P&L team (Marafiq Combustion Inspections Eliminations, Eliminating Callout and Un‐ Planned Risk and QPP parts buy‐back resulting in multi‐million positive CC on the CS contracts across Saudi) resulting in +$15MM CC gain for the contracts  Executed one of the most complex overhaul scopes in the region including the Cooling Optimization Packages upgrades plus Generator Major (Rotor Out), supporting the customer in 50+ forced, unplanned and planned unit outages on the covered gas turbines (12 X 7FA) and out of scope steam turbines (4 X D11)  Responsible for Financial data collection and reconciliation during the contracts Margin Review process including all repairs, services, parts and extra‐work/parts reconciliation  Championed the simplification and continues improvement across Saudi leading major projects such as customs parts tracking and clearance with customers and Hazmat stores deployment in Saudi  Utilized GE digital predictive solutions to proactively pre‐plan for the up‐ coming events on all covered units in addition to predicting upcoming customer needs that could potentially turn into sales opportunities  Build strong partnerships within the supply chain organization to deliver high quality value to the end‐customer
  • Field Engineer & DLN TunerFull Time

    General Electric

    Jun 2008 - Oct 2012 -4 yrs, 4 months

    Qatar

    • Job Details:Leading the engineering phase of major projects across Egypt such as DLN Conversion at Kharafi National sites in Egypt  Successfully led the commissioning of two fast track projects (8X9E units at Kharafi National Shabab Site, remotely support Controls activity in Dumietta Installation (4X9E units)) putting them on grid in a world record duration of 3 months  Established the East‐Med Controls & DLN Tuning SWAT team for emergency support for all Egypt sites  Utilize Lean Six‐sigma methodologies to find solutions for long lasting customer issues  Acting as GE‐CSA I&C Controls Manager at QatarGas, managing the Controls Team to plan, execute and close all the planned and forced outage on all QatarGas 35 Gas Turbines (Frames 5D, 6B, 7E and 9E). Act as the technical focal point between GE & GE O&G and QatarGas for defining and materializing extra work opportunities such as DLN conversion, MKVIe upgrades, Instrumentation standardization across all QatarGas units. Developing and maintaining QatarGas MS‐Access Database. Supporting CSA team with respect to GE margin reviews (MR) and internal metrics  Supporting the P&L team, GE Agent and the sales team to close major punch list items to release customer bonds to GE. Also worked with the CS Contract Performance Managers across Egypt to materialize sales opportunities of upgrades to different customers such as CDM system and DLN Conversions
  • Education

    • Bachelor's Degree in Electronics and Communications

      Ain Shams University (ASU)

      Jan 2004 

    Achievements

     Feedback Flow to improve Model Based OPC Calibration Test Pattern, Walid A. Tawfic, Mohamed Al‐Imam, Karim Madkour, Rami Fathy , Ir Kusnadi and George Bailley, Mentor Graphics Corporation, 8005 S.W. Boeckman Rd, Wilsonville, OR 97070, SPIE 2007  This paper demonstrates a systematic flow to extend the calibration test pattern of VT5 process model to ensure the prediction of the model for all critical geometrical shape in the design layout  Accelerating Physical Verification by Automating Test Pattern and Rule File Generation, Ahmed Nouh, Mostafa Elkasaby and Walid Tawfic, Mentor Graphics Corporation, MCTCC 2007 Pakistan. This paper demonstrates an automatic tool for layout generation based on a novel language for polygons generation.  Safe Interpolation Distance for Resist model, Walid A. Tawfic, Mohamed Al‐Imam and George Bailley, Mentor Graphics Corporation, 8005 S.W. Boeckman Rd, Wilsonville, OR 97070, BACUS 2007. This paper demonstrates a new innovated metric that defines the

    Skills

    • Management
    • Leadership
    • Project Management
    • ownership and closure
    • Sales
    • Communication
    • Programming

    Languages

    • English

      Fluent
    • Arabic

      Fluent
    • French

      Intermediate

    Training & Certifications

    • PMP Certified

      Project Management Institute (PMI)·2016
    • RISE Leadership Development Program

      General Electric·2015
    • Leadership Development Course (LDC)

      General Electric·2014
    • PGS Contract Performance Manager

      General Electric·2014
    • Change Acceleration Process

      General Electric·2014
    • Foundation of Leadership

      General Electric·2012
    • Lean Six-Sigma

      General Electric·2010
    • Project Management at GE

      General Electric·2010
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