Highlights:Accomplished and results-driven Project Management Professional with an intense drive for personal, team, and company success gained through 10+ years of experience in managing multimillion-dollar projects, leading people, and delivering results. Recognized for strong problem-solving abilities, creative thinking, and innovation to identify areas of operational opportunity for producing cost savings, increasing efficiency, and improving productivity, while promoting collaboration through focused leadership and best practices to maximize team cohesiveness.

Skills:Project Management, Project Manager, PM, PMO, Project Management Office

Membership:MEMBER, PROJECT MANAGEMENT INSTITUTE (PMI), 2011-PRESENT

Certification:CERTIFIED PROJECT MANAGEMENT PROFESSIONAL (PMP), PMI, 2011 SCRUM FUNDAMENTALS CERTIFIED (SFC), 2015 SIX SIGMA GREEN BELT PROFESSIONAL, 2012

Honor:Distinction in Msc Research, Manchester University (2010) Received Service Excellence Award, BANK AL-JAZIRA 2007. Earned Best Performance Bonus, SIEMENS, LTD 2005.

Project Manager 09/2013 - 10/2016
BOMBARDIER, Pittsburgh, PENNSYLVANIA United States
Provide leadership and project management oversight with respect to manufacturing, engineering, and procurement of two Automated People Mover (APM) projects, valued at $200+ million, in the Middle East. Lead project team and suppliers to analyze quantifiable measurements, allocate limited resources, and consistently achieve project milestones under strict time constraints.
- Successfully overcame numerous obstacles in delaying production delivery by identifying roadblocks and unblocking bottlenecks to recover schedules and deliver business-critical projects on time, producing significant cost savings. - Enhanced reporting capabilities by playing instrumental role in keeping track of accurate metrics, managing project delivery, and reporting with transparency using detailed key performance indicators (KPIs). - Maximized productivity by developing and delivering project progress reports, requirements documentation, and presentations to senior leadership. - Leveraged organizational capabilities to facilitate well-run and streamlined business operations by communicating project expectations to team members and stakeholders. - Achieved compliance by coordinating the testing and commissioning between the Pittsburgh team and the site team in Jeddah/Dubai. - Consistently delivered superior service by leading the team to meet strict delivery schedules, while managing customer relationships, resolving difficult problems, and exceeding client expectations. - Boosted morale by acting as liaison in blending organizational and cultural diversity, bridging the gap between the team, and facilitating the communication among each group. - Recognized by management for effectively juggling priorities, gaining additional responsibility, overseeing major projects, and replacing more experienced project managers in the company.--
Project Manager 11/2011 - 09/2013
BOMBARDIER, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia
Directed and led project team and subcontractors to provide project management support for the new King AbdulAziz Intl Airport (KAIA) project onsite with respect to monitoring and reporting, and deliver the project on schedule.
- Ensured success by communicating project expectations to team members and stakeholders through client meetings, scoping sessions, requirement gathering, project planning, risk analysis, assessment, and mitigation. - Dramatically improved access to information by producing project status reports, compiling requirements documentation, and delivering presentations to top management. - Increased efficiency by implementing project management tools and processes in areas of risk management, change control, and internal/external project status reporting, including training of the project core team. - Improved customer retention by effectively dealing and interfacing with difficult client, and managing to build a strong relationship and meet expectations.--
Assistant Project Manager 09/2006 - 03/2008
Bank Aljazira, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia
Industry: Banking
Leveraged senior-level leadership abilities in a hands-on environment to provide project tracking, control, and resource allocation in an effort to develop departmental policies and procedures, implemented by corporate staff.
- Mitigated risk by procuring the appropriate project management practices for company-specific business and product development projects. - Reduced costs by managing project budgets, estimating expenses, and analyzing financials to achieve project deliverables and estimate project timeline. - Ensured compliance with project specifications by executing quality assurance and control related best practices. - Received Service Excellence Award, 2007.--
Project Engineer 07/2003 - 08/2006
Siemens, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia
Project-managed SAP custom development, configuration, and implementation throughout the product lifecycle.
- Enabled secure information flow by establishing an adequate project stakeholder communications network. - Improved productivity and efficiency by creating and revising internal company procedural documents. - Championed solution implementation of new system software, significantly enhancing user performance and boosting satisfaction.--

KING ABDULAZIZ UNIVERSITY 09/1998 - 06/2003
Jeddah, , Saudi Arabia
Degree: Bachelor's Degree
Major:COMPUTER ENGINEERING
The program has adopted outcomes listed under ABET-EAC General Criterion 3: - An ability to apply knowledge of mathematics, science, and engineering. - An ability to design and conduct experiments as well as to analyze and interpret data. -An ability to design a system, component, or process to meet desired needs within realistic constraints such as economic, environmental, social, political, ethical, health and safety, manufacturability, and sustainability.

Mohammed Tashkandi CV