Current Role
Mr. Daniel has worked as Part-Time Consultant with Dar Al-Handasah Consultants (Shair and Partners) since 2005 on major projects undertaken by the Firm. He has diversified experience in project planning, coordination, project controls and management, having participated in a wide range of infrastructure, road, airport, building, and oil and gas projects in the Middle East, the Arab Gulf region, North of Africa and the CIS while working as a Free lance Consultant or with International Contracting Companies.
His duties on such projects encompass preparing master programs and work schedules, checking various reports and providing recommendations, preparing method statements and risk assessments, administering contracts, controlling projects’ resources, conducting coordination meetings, reviewing the strategy of work, monitoring and reviewing the periodically updated schedule, coordinating schedule variances; identifying delay and slippage, initiating and analyzing time claims and determining EOT, assessing variations/prices fluctuations, etc.
Additionally, Mr. Daniel managed researches on latest Project Management, Document Control and Planning techniques and software for European Market. He also created a planning French terminology and made examples of different types of construction projects’ schedules in French language on Primavera P3e for Euro Mediterranean Project - Middle East & Africa: The European Commission has released under the MEDA program € 28 million of risk capital for the following Mediterranean neighbors: Algeria, Egypt, Jordan, Lebanon, Morocco, Syria, Tunisia, the West Bank and the Gaza Strip. The facility will focus on upgrading the financial sector of these countries and territories, on raising the competitiveness of their enterprise sector and will put emphasis on privatization. With the Risk Capital Facility, the Commission expects to increase the economic and technological capability of Mediterranean countries to open up their economies towards one another as well as towards the European Union. In addition, the Facility is intended to improve economic conditions in order to enable each country involved to draw net-gains in terms of accelerated growth, additional and durable job creation and balance-of-payments sustainability.
Furthermore, Mr. Daniel participates in the submittal of technical and financial proposals for large prospective projects, including the preparation of programs of design, engineering, tendering, procurement, pre-construction, construction and commissioning together with staff deployment bar charts, organization charts, equipment lists, estimated productivity, manpower histograms, S-curves, etc.