Our ASSOCIATES
Osama Bakir PMP, RMP, EVP, PBA, SMC, P.Eng., Masc.
Founder & CEO
With more than 30 years experience in various diversified management positions, Eng. Osama has gained an extensive expertise, aligned with high level of post-graduate studies and supported by accredited professional certifications with (PMI)®, (AACEI)®, and VMEdu. Eng. Osama is an experienced Program Management Consultant, Certified Project Management Professional, talented and highly accomplished Information Technology Professional, with extensive background in Project Management consistently supporting organizational strategic plans, goals and objectives, business process engineering, policies development, and ability to liaison between technical and non-technical managerial assignments.
Eng. Osama holds a Masc. in Computer Systems Management and Information Technology from USA, and Masc. in Transportation Engineering Planning from Canada. He is a Certified Project Management Professional (PMP), Certified IT Project Management, Certified PPM (Pragmatic Product Management) Professional, Professional Primavera Planning and Scheduling Project Management Instructor, and Registered Certified Professional Engineer (P.Eng.), Ontario, Canada.
Eng. Haitham Matar MA Information Management
Senior Associate Consultant
Eng. Matar has a wide range of technical and business experience with its root in developing and managing solutions in different business sectors linked with strong project management and consulting skills. He has an extensive hands-on experience in planning, evaluating and managing the implementation of cutting edge information solutions to address business opportunities, associated with strong business focus, business elicitation and analysis to combine the technical and the business needs in any project.
Eng. Matar has assumed several professional assignments, such as Consulting Services Director with Gulf Business Machines, Kuwait, Project Director/Principle Consultant with Motherwell, Australia, Software Engineer/Project Leader with InfoSci Pty and BankWest, Australia.
Eng. Matar has a MA in Information Management from the University of Western Australia and a B.Sc. Electrical Engineering from Kuwait University.
Richard Coles
Senior Associate Consultant
Richard (Rick) is called a “true internationalist”, born in Toronto, Canada, and raised in Chicago, Illinois and London, England. He subsequently has lived and worked in 7 countries. Current residence is Brisbane, Australia and he works worldwide. Richard is a Training Manager, Trainer & Developer, Consultant, Presenter, and Writer.
Richard also has career experience with quality companies such as Qantas, KLM, Dubai Petroleum Company (CONOCO) and Emirates Airlines. He has held highly responsible industry positions in Australia such as Sales Representative, District Sales Manager and Customer Relations Manager. Rick was transferred to Amsterdam as Marketing & Sales Trainer for KLM worldwide.
Richard incorporates his valuable background into appropriate training of middle management to senior management Leadership and Management subjects. He believes in bringing innovative and creative ideas to his training that engage and enthuse his audiences worldwide. He has delivered hundreds of presentations, from small seminars, and informal one to one sales presentations, to large formal presentations for up to five hundred guests. Richard Coles presents the popular management radio show – “That’s Business” on 90.4 FM Radio Sultanate of Oman at 3PM every Tuesday and Saturday.
Ray Startton PMP, EVP
Senior Associate Consultant
Mr. Stratton, PMP, EVP, is founder and president of Management Technologies, an earned value management training and consulting firm. Mr. Stratton regularly conducts on-site workshops in earned value management a cross section of industries including IT, government, construction, consumer products, software development, energy, and chemical industries. He is the author of “The Earned Value Management Maturity Model®“, published by Management Concepts, and “Ray Stratton’s Earned Value Professional (EVP) Exam Study Guide.”
He is also the editor of “The EVM Newsletter. Mr. Stratton is a Program Management Institute (PMI) certified Project Management Professional (PMP), and AACEI (The Association for the Advancement of Cost Engineering, International) certified Earned Value Professional (EVP #45). For five years he was the Vice President, Research and Standards, for the PMI College of Performance Management. He now serves as their Executive Vice President. He is also Chair of the Computer Science Industry Advisory Council at California State Polytechnic University and member of the College of Engineers Deans Advisory Council. He is also a member of the Editorial Board for “Projects@Work” magazine. Ray W. Stratton has over twenty five years experience as a program manager with a major US aerospace defense firm. While there he managed the development of radar, communication, and command and control systems.
Hisham Zireeni
Senior Associate Consultant
Business Management Executive | ICT and Security Engineer | Business Analytics Decision Making | Experience Provider
Experienced professional with a solid history of success in engineering and business management of telecom, ICT, network security, product development, management consulting, project and business development, project finance, and renewable energy industries. Strong ability to build and lead teams that meet and exceed designated goals and objectives. Highly adept at developing and implementing programs and initiatives that enhance efficiencies. Demonstrated skills in managing projects from concept to completion ensuring on-time, on-budget, and on-target results.
Mostafa AbdelRazik PMP, EVP, PSP,
Senior Associate Consultant
Eng. AbdelRazik is a talented, keen and passionate EIT registered with APEGA. Mostafa is a project management professional (PMP) under the project management institute. Mostafa is also an Earned Value Professional (EVP) and Planning and Scheduling Professional (PSP) under AACE International. Mostafa is a planner/scheduler at PCL Industrial Management Inc. Mostafa also teaches project management courses at NAIT, including Scheduling, Cost Control, Construction Productivity and Project Management.
Mostafa graduated from Carleton University, Civil Engineering in 2012, with high distinction.
Mostafa also has a Masters (M.Eng) degree from Concordia University in Montreal in Building Engineering (Construction Management) obtained in May 2014.
Saad Aftab PMP, CIArb
Senior Associate Consultant
With more than 11 years of professional experience in project management and project controls, Eng. Aftab, who is holding a Bsc. in Mechanical Engineering, has significant hands-on and practical real life experience and training in Project Planning, Scheduling, Costs Control, and Extension of Time (EOT) Claim Preparation. Eng. Aftab is well versed with all Project phases starting from initiation till final Commissioning, Startup & handover / closing. He is very experienced in developing, analyzing, managing, and controlling integrated Engineering, Procurement, Construction, and Commissioning & Startup projects control plans for complex multi-disciplined Petrochemical, Oil & gas, Buildings and Infrastructure mega Projects. Additionally he is expert in utilizing internationally recognized Forensic Delay analysis techniques for multi-million Dollar Delay claims.
Eng. Aftab is a certified Project Management Professional (PMP®) from PMI®, and Certified International Arbitrator (CIArb) from the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators. He has successfully introduced an effective production monitoring system in assembly shop (KSB pumps), developed a new mechanism of payment for contractual staff to increase their motivational level, designed a system for monitoring productivity of major Equipment, and developed an Integrated Commissioning & Startup Schedule for 26 interdependent Process Plants comprising of 50,000 activities logically linked to reflect Process dependencies in the petrochemical field.
On the professional training side, Eng. Aftab has successfully delivered many professional project management and project controls training courses for more than hundreds of participants in the gulf region. Some of the delivered training was in Project Controls Systems, training in project planning, scheduling and cost costs control using Oracle Primavera (P6), and training in Incident Injury Free (IIF) work by DESCON.