Ellie Moradinezhad

Ellie Moradinezhad is a result-driven and dynamic entrepreneur with more than 21 years’ experience in managing, supporting, and delivering capital projects in Design and Construction joint venture environment mostly in Transportation, Energy and Chemical sectors. As an Engineer, MBA educated and PMI certified practitioner with several years’ experience in managerial roles and delivering many successful projects, recently she has aimed to build a professional team consisting of experts with different backgrounds who can leverage valid analysis and support the clients for cost deduction, increased efficiency, improved quality, and minimized risks in addition to delivering the project on time and within the determined budget and scope. She was involved in projects’ full lifecycle including proposal writing, initiation, planning, execution, monitoring & controlling and closing out. Some of recent transportation and power transmission projects in Canada that Ellie was involved, or lead can be summarized as follow: - Regional Express Railway (RER) OnCorr- GO network upgrade and electrification (DBOM) - Eglinton Crosstown LRT -P3/AFP - Ontario Line Subway- RSSOM Package - Finch LRT - VivaNext H2W&E-Highway 7- P3/AFP - Mississauga BRT - Barrie bus maintenance facility (P3/AFP) - Waterloo/ Northfield Bus Facility Environmental Assessment and Pre-Design Feasibility Study - Copeland and Vaughan Transformer stations - Bombardier Steam plant upgrade feasibility study and many other projects.

Is Diversity a Critical Factor for Creativity and Problem Solving?

I remember once we had a great conversation with my dear friend Elaine Daniels, a thoughtful HR expert and an excellent head-hunter, about the necessity and importance of diversity in our workforce. She mentioned a common practice in recruitment scoring systems being widely used is  to evaluate candidates and choose the best fit for the …

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Time to shift our approach in major infrastructure projects

Summary Engineering and construction industry is one of the most traditional sectors among the technical fields, specifically from management and delivery perspective, that needs devoted attention to adopt with the current high-risk environment. Today is the time we should look over our major infrastructure projects, bring the experts around the table, work together, and evaluate …

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OPINION: Utilization of Hybrid Project Management Methodology in Infrastructure Projects- Part 2: Theoretical Concept Evaluation

INTRODUCTION In today’s fast paced constantly changing environment, some of our infrastructure projects are being delivered by more progressive contractual models such as Progressive P3, Alliance, Design-Build-Finance-Operation-Maintenance (DBFOM), DBOM, and other similar collaborative models, to distribute the risk and guarantee the success of project. In these projects, the functional requirements or service levels in addition …

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Opinion: Hybrid project management in infrastructure Projects-Part 1

Part 1- Accelerating outcomes with a hybrid approach within a waterfall environment A few years ago, when I reviewed for the first time and out of my curiosity the following article, published by Chris Kaufman, Deloitte Consulting LLP and Project Management Institute (PMI), I was not sure if it is possible or beneficial to implement Hybrid …

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