Abdulaziz is the founder and owner of the first Value Engineering office in the Arab World. He is a Certified Value Specialist for life (CVS-life) from the Society of American Value Engineers (SAVE International).
He is the past president of The SAVE International - Arabian Gulf chapter. He is also a member of SAVE International Certification Board. He served in the past as General Secretary of the Saudi Council of Engineers and the Vice president of Gulf Chapter of Project Management institute (PMI-AGC).
He has over 23 years experience in Value Engineering (VE), Life Cycle Costing (LCC), Project Management and Design Reviews of large-scale projects. He participated and led more than 60 VE Workshops in Construction, Oil & Gas, Industry, Operation & Maintenance and management processes. He lectured on VE, Project Management, and LCC in more than 50 training seminars and workshops.
He has done these VE Services with many distinguished clients, such as: Saudi Aramco, Royal Commission of Jubail & Yanbu, SABIC, Saudi Electric Company, Dubai Municipality, Saudi Ministry of Defense, Saudi Ministry of Municipality, UAE Ministry of Public Work, Bahrain Engineering Society, UAE Engineering Society, Kuwait engineering Society, Saudi Arabian Engineering Council, Forum of Qatar Engineers, and other private companies in Saudi Arabia and the Gulf countries.
He is the founder of the newly acclaimed quality improvement methodology that is called “Total Value Management (TVM™)”. He presented many papers at the PMI, ASCE, SAVE, SJVE and IEEE conferences. He has specialized in computer applications in Value Engineering and Project Management.
He wrote the first VE book ever written in Arabic titled Value Engineering: Concept and Techniques. He Holds BSEE (1982) and MS (1987) degrees in Electrical Engineering and Project Management from the United States of America.
Abdulaziz is currently acting as the Secretary General of the Saudi Council of Engineering. He is a member of SAVE, IEEE, PMI, ASHRM, ASQ, Saudi Quality Counsel, Saudi Engineering Committee and Saudi Computer Society.
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