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1. The last project I took that required a lot of initiative was for my son, a new Boy Scout member. Many of the kids talked about their badges, and how they could get them. The adults absorbed themselves in their phones and work while impatiently waiting for the meeting to be over. Hearing my son wistfully declare he wanted to earn his Eagle Badge in record time, I set forth a plan that involved a camping trip that could get him about a quarter of his badges in one weekend. This took a lot of planning, and even more help. I had to find, then delegate tasks to 12 adult volunteers of various categories, each with different specialties that they could share with the kids to help them get their badges in a short amount of time.
My company had been using several databases to enter the same information. I wanted to streamline the process so I decided to work with the IT team to create one database that covered all of the necessary information. It was a long process, with several setbacks, but I saw it through and ended up saving the company from lots of wasted time.

2. My robot project took some time.

3. We were having several OCTG PO running for ARAMCO. As we were reaching the production deadline, I came to know that we might face shortage due to low yield of material. So I investigated our stock and realized we had some OCTG pipes that were hanging in our system from previous production from 2012 and onwards. So I have initiated to go in depth about these pipes, and with help of the Logistics team and QC we made a list of the condition of these pipes, and decided go for re-inspection. After completing this assessment, we were able to cover the Total order for this particular PO and it saved us a Purchasing Fee of almost 1 million dollars worth of Raw material.

4. During my experience at BRF in the Planning Department, I was in rotational period where I have been across different functions, one of them was the logistics department. I was assigned to work with logistics team for a couple of weeks. As I was looking into the processing of routing the orders ( shipping ) to customers, I noticed that the process was not optimal way. So I have used one of the IE techniques to investigate the schedules that was made by logistics planners. I took samples of them an evaluated the distiance covered. After than, I used a technique called the TSP, where I used complex OR to get the optimal route. The results was note worthy as significant improvement was indicated using this approach. So I have presented my work. I have initiated to use a software to optimize delivery. So I have demanded to initiate this project, which we did later on during my experience there and we had a project saving cost of around 500,000 $ across the kingdom during the first year launch.

5. I undertook a research project, for which the original scope was only about 3 months. After that time, we had some results but not enough for a full analysis, and I had the option of continuing the project on my own time (with guidance and support) or moving on to something else, so I took the initiative of continuing the project and running further experiments.

6. I recently took part a a project with the aim to launch an air balloon into the upper atmosphere to take photos of the earth. I played a role in the research behind the materials we could use and I learnt that with limited funding, there were limitation to the ideal material to use and the most practical material which we used/