Mudher Takialdeen Electrical Engineer Baghdad University 1991

Graduate experience and further training House, building wiring Ready Food factory (maintenance ) Ice Factory (maintenance) Bulk clothing (management )

Bechtel Cooperation March I was responsible for budget of $0.5 million Managed a team of 400 electricians (along with 3 colleague engineers ), and many other smaller teams Dec 2005 – Jun 2006, Electrical Engineer, Iraq Rural water treatment sites x 4 Mar 2005 – Dec 2005 Site Engineer, Iraq 33/11 KV replacement substation, Baghdad /Iraq March 2004-March 2005 Site Engineer Assistant, Iraq Reoperation of a power plant Tested the steam boiler, water intake and oil pump station cables (power and control) and initiated replacement where required. Terminated all new cables and re-terminated old ones

Jun 2006 – Oct 2006, Project Engineer (Operation and maintenance ) Responsible for a budget of $0.2 million (of total budget of $20 million ) Managed a team of 6 Engineers who managed around 140 technicians Responsible for managing the complete project operations. Projects 2 Sewage Pump Stations/ Baghdad Water treatment plant expansion and rehabilitation / Baghdad Installation of transformers, MCCs, control panels, lighting, grounding, generators, pulling and termination control and power cables. Ensured all tests were completed before the startup, including Motor Run test, Battery and Charger, AC-DC High Potential Testing, Transformer inspection, cables, panels and pumps Designed the operation manuals to the operators of the plants or the pump station.

Oct 2006 – April 2009 British Council Education Project Manager, Iraq, Bahrain, UAE Own budget of $750,000 Arranged more than 40 workshops, meeting, conferences, seminars in 6 different countries Linked more than 100 schools in the Gulf area with UK schools Helped 17 Iraqi schools with the establishment of their first IT labs Organised and delivered educational and school projects between Iraq and UK/Iraq and Arabic Gulf countries which included: conferences, seminars and meetings to high level officials in the UK, Iraq and other Gulf countries conferences, seminars, meetings and workshops for teachers and head teachers from UK, Iraq and other Gulf countries Linked schools electronically between Iraq and the United Kingdom Assisted Iraqi Ministry of Education with the English language curriculum

Feb 2010 – Feb 2011, Tfl/London Underground Project Manager Assistant, work experience, London, UK Power Upgrade Project Supported LU (London Underground) Power Upgrade Development and Delivery Team. Supported team in planning and managing major projects, utilizing company processes and working to corporate standards Supporting staff in accomplishing agreed project objectives. Established and maintained a good, professional and pro-active working relationship with Contractor’s project management team, Identified and managed interfaces between assigned major project and other ongoing LUL Network activities. Helped in negotiating and administering all major project agreements with outside parties, including local authorities, developers and national government.

November 2013 Joined National Grid as Programme Administrator, via Transitions agency Had applied unsuccessfully to a range of engineering organisations for engineering jobs

UK Training & Accreditation of my skills and qualifications Via Jobcentre Plus: Nov April 2012, (6 months) Finchale College, Durham, UK, 17th Edition Wiring Regulations Dec 2011, PAT and CSCS Construction Skills Certification Scheme

Other UK Courses 2013 Safety work practice in Tunnelling 3 day course, Crossrail Place facilitated by Transitions with Crossrail JCP brokerage I joined this course hoping to get a job with the company, I ended up being offered an apprenticeship by Crossrail in irrelevant jobs to me like brick laying or painting ! 2011 Business Administration course Kingston College 2010 London Undergroundcourses LU Access Training course Substation competence and awareness course Track accustomed training Medium Risk Confined Spaces course CSTS 2014 ArcFM, this is a special course with NG that will help me get more professional position in the future

NARIC and IET My university degree is considered comparable to British Bachelor Degree Standard according to NARIC Did not join the IET until now. Not sure about benefits of doing so.

Transitions services Over 20 hours 1-1 advice & guidance Guidance with 7 targetted engineering and administration job applications Range of engineering internships applications – no result Administration internship Circle Housing (3 months part time) Crossrail Tunnelling Safety course TXM Engineering presentation to management Equality Nexus network presentation to participants Workshops: UK Jobsearch Orientation for refugee professionals workshop IET information and advice workshop National Grid information and advice workshop Advisory Seminar

Skills-transfer challenges I faced in the UK -Overseas Engineering degree accreditation: how standardised are the IET and Naric systems for accrediting overseas degrees and matching to British standards? -Overseas experience accreditation: as above. -Getting work placement, job shadowing or apprenticeships for overseas engineers to gain experience & to prove themselves is very hard -Joining a professional body proved to be very confusing -Jobcentre Plus sent me on several vocational courses which didn’t result in progress. The Work Programme didn’t progress things.