1.

I’m Mohamed Shoukry, Bachelor degree in the year 2000 in the discipline of Computer Engineering,
Management Information System Department recognized from the Supreme Council of Egyptian Universities.
2. Post Graduate Degree in Operations Research from Cairo Universities in the year 2009 with Excellent Grade in
Projects Management and Very Good Grade in the Graduation Project which was in Projects Management.
3. I’m PMI Member, recently submitted my application and after getting reviewed and accepted, I’ve become
eligible for the exam, I’m planning to schedule it once I know where I’ll be placed in the coming two months.
4. I’m a Cost Engineer with 9 years of exclusive experience in the Oil & Gas Projects Cost Engineering, Client side
and about one year of experience within Contractors environments domestically and internationally.
5. I spent almost nine years working with Petrobel which is the major Oil & Gas Operator in Egypt with ENI and
British Petroleum as main shareholders. The company is employing about 3,900 employees, are working within a
Strong Matrix Organization as classified by PMI, where the projects are managed through a dedicated
department under the supervision of the Projects General Director who is supervising the Company Program of
Projects and leading the Programs and Projects Managers.
6. The Projects Services Department where I’m coming from is managed also by the Projects General Director and
it has the responsibility to serve and support all the projects with its team mainly in the Time, Cost &
Communication areas.
7. I started my career joining this company in the Projects Services Department as Junior Projects Cost Control
Engineer in November 2001 and was promoted several times till being a Senior Cost Engineer.
8. Within my Department, I was managing a team of cost and planning engineers in addition to other supporting
members for some various tasks which have direct relation to our main objective like project accountants,
document controllers and secretaries.
9. I experienced controlling the time and costs of a program of various sized onshore and offshore oil and gas
projects costing almost 4 Billion US Dollars including typical production deliverables like the offshore platforms,
sealines, Subsea Isolating Systems, Umbilicals, Onshore Processing Facilities in addition to some other projects
which were applied for the first time in the company like the deep water production from subsea units, like
producing from rented onshore processing plants and utilizing non-producing facilities to serve new projects by
decommissioning existing offshore platform and reutilizing.
10. My recent responsibilities were mainly to
1. Assist preparing the project management plan by participate setting up the schedule baseline and the
cost performance baseline in addition to the schedule and cost management plan during the planning
phase and commit to that schedule and cost management plan while controlling the progress of the
project during the execution.
2. Track the project progress and update the progress measurement system, perform the analysis,
forecasts, obtain the variances of time and cost comparing to the baselines and the changes in the risks
identified during the planning phase in addition to other foreseen risks might not been considered.
3. Control the project contractors together with the information provided by the company representative
in the various locations and cross check with the contractor cost reports.
4. Assure running properly and accurately as much as possible the projects control system with my team
guaranteeing the correctness of the data fed into the system and share the required information with
the project management team. (That system I previously designed and implemented)
5. Reconcile the actual costs and captured with what is considered in SAP in order to submit the monthly
cost report to Finance Department complete with the accruals.
6. Coach the team to enhance using the system and give the required mentors and advices in the due time.
7. Issue the required reports in both languages English and Arabic mainly the Monthly and the Annual
reports, the board meetings presentations, the general assembly presentations and the flash ad-hoc
reports to satisfy the requirements of the project’s stakeholders like the company management, the
governmental authorities, and the shareholders in addition to act as the focal point of communication
 with the internal department like the Finance and Contracts Departments and participate preparing the
close out report.
11. During the year 2006, I was selected by my department for the candidature to the Company's Ideal Employee
Award and actually I got it, the justifications memorandum prepared by my Department :
1. Loyalty to company by doing the best in all situations.
2. Good behavior and attitude between all the persons specially the closer workers directly in relation.
3. Cooperation and coordination with the involved staff believing the strengths of the teamwork.
4. Commitment to the Company Rules & Procedures & adherence of working through the legal & right
channels.
5. The continuous willingness and sustainability of work challenges.
6. The Distinction between all my colleagues as being initiator, problem solver and creative.
12. I’m professionally using the most powerful tools in the Projects Management like SAP, Primavera, MS-Office
2010 applications specially, MS-Project, Access, Excel, Word, Powerpoint and Outlook.
13. I’m fluently speaking, reading and writing the Arabic language and have some skills in writing the Arabic Reports
in addition to more than good working level in writing, reading and speaking of English and Italian languages.

My strengths:

Generally:

 Distinguished because of the homogenous mix of scientific, practical and managerial skills in addition to very
strong computer skills help me performing the analysis of huge volumes of data easily, accurately and shortly.
 Beside my base knowledge and experience in the Client side, I experienced also the contractor one. An amount
of experience that really added lots and lots to my profile at least I knew how are the contractors managing the
project costs, what ticks and tricks are used to report to the Client and how do they manage the project
resources.
 My nonstop willingness to be part of a winning team. Really & truly, the improvement from my point of view
and as I’m always considering it, is not only the personal improvement, the whole team improvement impacts
back on every member of the team and I’m able to help the others to improve themselves.

Regarding PDO:

 I’m coming from a similar organization, similar culture and spoken languages.
 The stakeholders surrounding PDO business are the same as I’m previously experiencing in terms of the
relations with government represented by the oil and gas ministry, the shareholders with the different
nationalities, traditions and cultures and the company role toward the industry, community and the whole
country.
 I’m a loyal resource, not moving quickly from a place and not migrating all the time.

Regarding this job specifically:

 My profile is extremely the same as required specifically for this position.

 Well, no one is complete and everyone has more than one weakness or maybe many.
o I see that my greatest weakness is that I take a little bit more time to review in a trial to decrease the
number of errors as much as possible. It takes somehow longer time but on the other hand it
guarantees much more accurate deliverables and enhances the quality of the work products. However,
I’m overcoming this weakness by prioritizing my tasks and duties. To arrive to a satisfactory point of
allowed errors, my team may think that I’m too much demanding when some job is not done perfectly I
require it to be modified and corrected to arrive to a point of convenience and convince makes it
accepted
o I never experienced working in Oman, but looking positively to that, I can see that it represents another
point will help me continue challenging and gives me the chance to prove myself.

Critical Situations:

I remember that, I was doing the cost estimate of a new offshore project where we had to construct and install three
new Gas Platforms located in the Mediterranean Sea.

I started to make the activities cost estimate after getting the project schedule ready. Normally we refer to the project
schedule while estimating the activities costs according to the resources previously considered.

There was the activity of “Platform offshore installation” where the main resource was the offshore installation barge
with a certain value of daily rate. I considered the daily rate by the estimated duration of the activity and added the
relevant reserves to compensate the foreseen risks and I got at the end the total estimated cost of the activity which
made part of the project approved budget.

While executing the project, the installation barge proposed to perform the activity had a problem with one of its
machines caused impossibility to move to the work location. The relevant maintenance works would take almost one
week which would cause the delay of the activity and accordingly the project because the activity was part of the critical
path. Unfortunately, this was the only barge with the capability to lift these platforms.

The execution team was forced to scout the market looking for another capable barge with direct awarding because
there was no time to tender out the activity and you can imagine the coast variance caused.

Although the problem was not within our responsibilities domain, we updated the Organization Process Assets with this
lesson learned after holding a small workshop to simulate what could we consider mitigating that risk.

 Include in the contract with the contractor one article guaranteeing the availability of an alternative resource
during the execution.
 Such an activity which uses some rare resources should consider more time reserves for such kind of risks.
Petroleum Development Oman (PDO)

Is the major exploration and production company in the Sultanate with combined hydrocarbons production in excess of
1 million barrels per day. It accounts for more than 70% of the country's crude-oil production and nearly all of its natural
gas supply.

The Company is owned by the Government of Oman (60% interest), the Shell Group (34% interest), Total (4% interest)
and Partex (2% interest). Gas fields are operated by PDO exclusively on behalf of the Omani Government.

In 2010, PDO produced an average of 553,000 barrels per day of crude oil, and 410,000 per day barrels of oil equivalent
of natural gas. During 2010 the combined production of oil, gas, liquefied petroleum gas and condensates stood at more
than one million barrels of oil equivalent per day.

PDO has been exporting oil produced in its concession area known as ‘Block 6’ since 1967. The Company has discovered
over 180 fields, of which 126 are currently producing oil and/or gas. In recent years, PDO has embarked on a major drive
to produce oil using enhanced oil recovery (EOR) techniques.

In 2010, the Company started commissioning its first EOR oilfield project at Marmul and currently has three other EOR
projects at various stages of development at Harweel, Qarn Alam and Amal.

Deepest well in the Middle East

In 2010, PDO drilled what is believed to be the deepest well in the Middle East. Using state-of-the-art technologies, Well
Engineering drilled more than 7,000 metres in the search for deep gas in the Fahud Salt Basin. The well, targeted
unconventional tight gas reservoirs are known as Basin-Centre Gas.