Experience:
GC Company, Austin, Texas:
Sr. Project Manager
- Managing commercial and industrial projects including TBG projects at the Tesla Gigafactory Texas.
- Acting as the primary client liaison, managing and developing client relationships, and holding regular and ad hoc meetings with the key stakeholders to ensure effective communication and client satisfaction.
- Leading a team of project managers, project engineers, site superintendents, health and safety managers, coordinators, and assistants.
- Providing guidance and mentoring and fostering a collaborative work environment to achieve project goals.
- Directing projects in an extraordinary change-driven environment. Adeptly processing change orders, and adapting project plans and resources.
- Developing and maintaining project schedules to meet Teslas aggressive deadlines, consistently updating activities to accommodate the changes, optimizing resource allocation, and implementing accelerated schedules.
- Negotiate, process, and execute contracts with project owners, subcontractors, vendors, and third parties. Reviewing the contracts terms and requirements with the related parties including but not limited to field management, attorneys, accounting, and consultants.
- Proactively performing risk evaluations and analysis to identify potential project risks, and develop and implement effective mitigation strategies that minimize project disruptions.
- Conducting exceptional problem-solving by identifying and resolving challenges, which have resulted in recovering all unpredictable delays.
- Owning full-spectrum project financial accountabilities, including cost, revenue, and profit tracking as well as processing Account Payable and Account Receivable documents.
- Promoting and executing health and safety regulations and policies for all parties. Creating additional safety measures and arrangements resulting in a safe incident-free environment.
Dec. 2018 Mar. 2023 Project & Construction Management Company
Sr. Project Manager
- Champion multiple complex ICI projects in parallel from award to handover for Toronto District School Board, Infrastructure Ontario, CIBC Bank, TD Bank, Canada Post, Bell, JLL, BGIS, CBRE, and other privet sectors.
- Managed all project activities including preconstruction budgeting and planning as well as construction scheduling, scope management, cost management, procurement management, quality management, and risk management.
- Successfully delivered fast-paced projects on time by incorporating diligent risk analysis and coaching the team toward OKRs in waterfall/Agile/Lean environments.
- Completed all projects under/on budget by implementing efficient project integration, cost, and resource management.
- Mitigated risks by evaluating progress and conducting risk analysis to create/implement effective mitigation strategies.
- Unified project consultants and sponsors by driving consensus on optimal solutions that align to the overarching project goals.
- Processing project financial documents, including executive financial reports, vendors' invoices, change orders, SOVs, and project pay applications.
- Led, coached, developed, and managed the project teams as well as all associated cross-functional team members.
- Served as a certified member of Joint Health and Safety Committee to develop, maintain, and control workplace safety.
Construction Company:
Project Manager
- Managed all aspects of the projects including but not limited to scope development and control, scheduling, budgeting and cost control, contract management, and Health and Safety management.
- Controlled projects under tight deadlines in a high-pressure environment with a 100% record of on-time and under budget deliveries.
- Cultivated and strengthened relationships with diverse internal and external stakeholders to achieve technical project objectives.
- Leveraged best practices to ensure diligent resource optimization and quality control frameworks were in place.
- Implemented risk management to mitigate and avoid potential delays in project schedules, material supply, and project payments.
- Administered project procurement through evaluating, hiring, and coordinating contractors, suppliers, and service providers.
- Planned, organized, and supervised project teams of estimators, coordinators, site supervisors, contractors, and suppliers to ensure good contract performance.
International Experience:
Dec. 2015 Dec. 2016 Construction Company, Toronto, Canada:
Site Superintendent (One Year Contract)
Jan. 2012 Jan. 2015 Construction Company, Iran:
Construction Department Manager
Jan. 2010 Jan. 2012 Construction Company, Germany:
Regional Project Manager
Jan. 2008 Jan. 2010 Construction Company, Germany:
Project Manager
Jan. 2005 Jan. 2008 Construction Company, Iran:
Project Coordinator
Education:
University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada
- Master of Civil Engineering Construction Management Specialization
Azad University, Tehran, Iran
- Master of Business Administration (MBA)
- Evaluated equal to a two-year MBA in the USA by Silvergate Evaluations Inc.
Azad University, Zanjan, Iran
- Bachelor of Science in Civil Engineering
- Evaluated equal to Bachelors Degree in Civil Engineering in the USA by Silvergate Evaluations Inc.