Built on site, not in a product meeting.

Twenty years, one recurring problem

I started on site in Doha in 2006, as a Project Engineer with Core Alu Clad. Since then I’ve worked my way up through Construction Manager and Project Manager roles at Aluminum Gulf Ray, Techno Metal, and Profession Aluminum — all in Qatar — before moving to Saudi Arabia to run the Red Sea Golf Villas roof package with Cladtech International, and now the facade and aluminum scope of Amaala Triple Bay as Senior Project Manager with Reem Emirates Aluminum.

Across all of it — different companies, different countries, packages from $50M to over $200M — the same problem kept resurfacing. The reporting template was someone else’s idea of what mattered. The tracker didn’t talk to the dashboard. The register lived in one engineer’s inbox until they rotated off the project, and then it lived nowhere.

What running recovery plans actually teaches you

Part of the job, on nearly every package I’ve led, has been recovery — corrective-action plans when a work front falls behind, structured plans to protect the budget and the date at the same time. You learn quickly that recovery only works if you can see the problem in its first week, not the month it becomes a crisis on the client’s desk. That belief is what every tool in Project Mate is built around: log it as it happens, and let the numbers tell you early.

Why the templates are real

Every document in the library started as something I actually filled in — on the roof package at Red Sea, on Amaala, on projects going back to my first years in Doha. Not written from a textbook description of what a change log should contain. Written from having filled one in, on a bad week, and fixing it afterward.

What I’m building toward

Project Mate started as my own toolkit, and it’s now in pilot with my own team before anyone else sees it. The plan is simple: prove it on a real facade package first, keep what actually gets used, cut what doesn’t — then open it up. If you’re reading this while it’s still in that stage, you’re seeing it earlier than almost anyone will.