KHALID Khalid Awan +971509511254

AWAN khalidawan444@outlook.com
Abu Dhabi UAE
Electrical Engineer LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/khalid-awan-a687b82b

SUMMARY
Highly professional & resourceful bachelor’s degree holder in Electrical Engineering has been in the field for 10+ years experience in
infrastructure construction tasks. ADDC & AADC approved Competent Engineer with highly skilled for supervision of cable laying, testing,
commissioning, jointing, termination & Performing project execution installation of Electrical Primary/Secondary Distribution Equipment LV,
HV up to 33KV. QCC approved Hard-working achiever & Sound knowledge of single line diagram, Electrical wiring, specifications of ADDC,
AADC, RSB & international standards. Expertise in the concepts of managing sizing & selection of Transformer, MV/ LV Switchgears,
Substation Equipment, Cable, Lighting, Panel, Earthing, Generator Set, Capacitor & Lightning Protection Equipment.
Performing MEP work execution & preliminary planning, designs, schedules, monitoring, & reporting.

SKILLS AND ABILITIES

▪ Site Acceptance Tests ▪ Factory Acceptance Test (FAT) ▪ Testing and Commissioning ▪ Stakeholder Liaising ▪ Teamwork and Coordination
▪ Medium Voltage Electrical Substations ▪ LV/MV Cabling ▪ Distribution Transformer and Switch Gear ▪ Project Management ▪ Reporting
▪ Approved competent-person from ADDC (HV, LV & Live works) & from AADC (LAP, PTW & SFT)
▪ Certificate of conformity AD-QCC Abu Dhabi Quality & Conformity Council ▪ PMP program training (35 hours) at Cambridge education
 Recognition & rewards at INTEC GOPA International Energy-Consultant LLC – Effectively contributed to achieving business goals of the
company & received “Appreciation - Business Year.”
 Cost saving & teamwork at INTEC GOPA International Energy Consultant LLC – Using self-created tools for data collection, thus remote
access to substations for gathering data. This resulted in saving costs for the company. Introduced OSM-And GPS offline navigator to
boost project progress. Successfully met a deadline which was appreciated through “Letter of Appreciation.”
 Stakeholder Liaised– Inspected MV/LV powers distribution network project through technical knowledge & established coordination to
meet quality standards & received Performance Certificate from a client. ▪ Increased satisfaction of existing customers.

EXPERIENCE
Since - 5/2014 Assistant Resident Engineer (Electrical)
Abu Dhabi Intec GOPA - International Energy Consultant LLC, (2 years 8 months)
2340480 Design and Construction Supervision of MV/LV Power Distribution Network for street lighting in the new Abu Dhabi –
Dubai Road – E311-Package A
- Monitor and control Contractor’s Installation, testing & commissioning to 11/.4 kV Package Unit Substations, H
Pole Over Head Line, 44km power cable laying and allied works to make sure compliance to contractual
requirements and achieved highest quality of the project.
- Review of Contractor’s technical material to make sure conformity to project requirements,
- Certify the Receiving Cum Damage Reports and Issue Site memo, Non-Conformance Report, Corrective and
Preventive Action Request for unconformities in the project execution,
- Reviewed as-built drawing and prepared the punch list.
- Supervise/Coordinated for Site Acceptance Tests of Switchgears Transformers and Cables: General operations,
insulation resistance, high voltage, earth fault indicator, primary injection & secondary injection, high set, winding
resistance, ratio, magnetizing, earth resistance and vector group test.
D-102390 Substation Engineer (Electrical), Data Collection, Condition Monitoring & Data Entry in All Substations of ADDC of All
Regions.
- Site survey and condition monitoring by visual inspection,
- Partial discharged testing and thermal imaging
- Data collection: of all power distribution substations.
- In-charge for site safety and worked in energized substations.
- Data entry by Hand Held Unit, checking exported data, closing the work order and updated the legacy files in
Maximo Asset Management system.
Electrical Engineer, Energy efficiency auditing for energy saving in the accommodation buildings at Dubai Industrial
Park in line with Dubai Municipality/Green Building Regulations.
- Walk around to research and data collection from various buildings.
- Analysed best energy saving opportunities.
- Making a report and show to the client all savings and return back period.

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 A13108 Consultancy Services for Supply, Installation and Construction of 11/0.4 kV 100 Brick Built Substation and A12678.2:
Consultancy services for 33/11 kV Package Unit Substation Mega Development Project in Al Ain.
- A feasibility study: site survey, data collection and existing HV cables sizes to decide the feeding arrangements,
- Size of substation, relocation of plots of 33/11 KV Package Unit substations and finding nearest Grid station’s and
data collection.
- Technical Support to preparation of design of substation as-per ADDC and town planning department requirements.

9/2013 - 4/2014 Electrical Engineer

Abu Dhabi Sardinia General and Electrical Maintenance LLC, (8 months)
MEP works undertaken by contractors such as cable laying, installation of HV/LV panels, transformers, generators, DC
systems as per approved documents and authority standards. Method statements, SAT and FAT procedures for
equipment and reports by UAE standard and policies.

5/2010 - 8/2013 Electrical Support Engineer

Abu Dhabi Amplex - Emirates WLL, (3 years 4 months)
G-3923 Supply and Installation of the Automated Meter Reading (AMR) Technology System for Abu Dhabi and Al Ain
- Managed the Technical Support teams for maintenance and troubleshooting of Automatic Meter Reading system.
- Tested and repaired Automatic Meter Reading modules, Central Processing Unit, power line communication and
allied modules.
G-5634 Water & Sewerage Network Management System in Abu Dhabi and Al Ain
- Tested and commissioned of noise loggers, repeaters and alpha units for leak detection of water using Hand Held
Unit.
- Provided technical support for maintenance of warning and control stations of wastewater.

6/2007 - 5/2010 Students Support In-charge/Sr. Lab Technician (Electrical),

Islamabad Research Center for Modeling & Simulation / NUST, (3 years)
- Maintenance of 40 kW UPS, 165 KVA Diesel Generators and LV wirings.
- Maintenance and programming of telephone exchange.
- Maintained hardware’s of ALTERA’s FPGA cards and National instruments devices in Electronics System Design
Automation lab.
- Repaired electrical and electronics devices.

3/2003 - 6/2007 Service Engineer,

Islamabad SIEMENS (Com EN), (4 years 4 months)
- Installation, maintenance and programming of Siemens telephone exchanges.
- Troubleshoot and repaired of Siemens telephone system, power supply, telephone sets, uninterrupted power
supplies and computers.
- Installation of MDF, IDF data and voice network 10 to 100 pairs of cables and patching with krone punch down tool in
the patch panels.

EDUCATION
4 years Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering (Electronics)
2005 - 2008 UAE Equivalency Certificate & Recognized by Pakistan Engineering Council
Islamabad Federal Urdu University of Arts, Science, and Technology
3 years Associate Degree in Electronics Engineering, (DAE)
2000 - 2003 Recognized by Punjab Board of Technical Education of Pakistan
Rawalpindi Rawalpindi Swedish Institute of Technology

OTHER CERTIFICATIONS

2014 - 2017 General Safety Course, Gulf Technical and Safety Training Centre, UAE

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2015 - 2016 Competent Person, LAP, AADC, UAE
2014 - 2016 Competent Person, LAP, ADDC, UAE
2016 Introduction to the Project Management Professional (PMP) Exam, LinkedIn
2016 Project Management Fundamentals, LinkedIn
2016 Leadership Fundamentals, LinkedIn
2016 New Manager Fundamentals, LinkedIn
2016 Project Management Simplified, LinkedIn
2016 Solving Common Project Problems, LinkedIn
2016 Business Writing Fundamentals, LinkedIn
2016 Efficient Time Management, LinkedIn
2016 The 5-Day Excel Challenge, LinkedIn
2013 - 2015 Basic Fire Fighting Training, Tatweer Safety Consultancy, UAE
2013 - 2015 Basic First Aid Training, Tatweer Safety Consultancy, UAE
2013 - 2014 Competent Person, LV Work, ADDC, UAE
2014 HHU and MAXIMO Training, ADDC HQ, Abu Dhabi
2014 PD measurement and Thermal Image (Practical/Theoretical), Abu Dhabi
2011 PMP Program Training, Cambridge Education PMI, UAE
2011 2150 AV Flow Meter Training, TELEDYNE ISCO, UAE
2010 - 2013 Basic Fire Fighting Course, ETSDC, UAE
2010 - 2013 Basic First Aid Course, ETSDC, UAE
2009 Modeling and Simulation Techniques, RCMS/NUST, Pakistan
2009 Stochastic Modeling and Simulation, RCMS/NUST, Pakistan
2007 LabVIEW Training & LabWindows CVI, CCTSM/NUST, Pakistan
2004 Advanced Digital Design (Verilog HDL), College Of Digital Sciences, Pakistan
1999 Computer Course (6 months), Barkat Ali World Computer Connection, Pakistan

SKILLS
Project Management, Planning, Erection, Testing and commissioning, SAT, FAT Microsoft Office, Business Writing,
Maximo, LabVIEW, Verilog, Quartus and IT

REWARDS AND GRANTS

2016 Performance Certificate, GTGC (Electrical Projects Division), Abu Dhabi
2015 Appreciation + Incentive - Business Year 2015, Intec GOPA, Abu Dhabi
2015 Letter of Appreciation, Intec GOPA, Abu Dhabi
2014 Two Performance Rewards + Incentives, Intec GOPA, Abu Dhabi

TALKS AND PRESENTATIONS

2016 Testing and Commissioning of MV/LV Cables and 11 kV PU Substations, in Intec GOPA, Abu Dhabi

LANGUAGES
Urdu: good English: good Arabic: beginner

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