User:Hani Al-Menaii

My name is Hani A. Al-Menaii, the sun of a Saudi couple (Ehsan Kutbi & Abdul-Rahim Al-Menaii). I was born in the city of Makkah (the holy city for the Muslims) in 13th July 1974. Few moths later we have to move to Franc because my father was getting his higher education in topography, after staying there for a couple of years we returned to Saudi Arabia and lived in a city called Abha (a city in the mountains in the south west of Saudi Arabia).

After living in Abha about nine years we moved again to Makkah when I was about 12 years old, I was in the 8th grade that time, by that time I had 5 brothers and sisters (me being the oldest) , I stayed in Makkah till I finished the high school than left to join King Fahd University of Petroleum & Minerals in Dhahran (a city in the east side of Saudi Arabia). I was an A (above 90%) student all the way through school, except the 8th grade I got 89%, I also was determined to be chechimical engineer since the ninth grade , that is because I visited my uncle in his work place and he was a chemical engineer. And that is the reason I decide to leave my home town and join a university at the other side of the country. However, in the summer of 1988 when I was at high school we had our last family vacation, we toured Syria for more than a month.

My years in the university where the best years of my life, my family was a conservative family , so I didn't have any friends other then my cousins and some family friends. This meant that when I moved to the university in Oct. 1991 I got my full freedom which was a very exiting period of my life, however my grades was not on the same level, I became a C student. During the university I was involved in the students clubs by joining the photography club and the chemical engineering club, in addition to that I worked as a part time sales man during my senior year.

For my pre-graduation practical experience, I had a great opportunity to work in Bechtel company ( the large consulting firm) , I worked with them for seven months , and finished a full engineering project to design a custody metering plant , for measuring the quantity of gas pumped from an oil company to some petrochemical factories. I worked in the plan from civil, electrical, instroumitial , Piping, structure, , and project management aspects. Also I presented the report in Bechtel & the university and get a B grade for the project.

After graduating from the university in July 1997 with a bachelor degree in applied chemical engineering I worked in an engineering consulting firm which was a joint venture between Parsons and a local Saudi office. However, before finishing the trial period of 90 days I decided to work more in the field and I don't want to spend my life in a consulting office, so I quit and started looking for a job in the oilfield services companies.

After few months of search I get an offer to work with a small service company called National Oil Well maintenance Co. which has operations in both  Saudi and Qatar. So I joined there operations in Saudi a an engineer in training to learn their operations and standard procedures for well construction services such as cementing, stimulation and coiled tubing. I worked with this company for more than two years and break into a field engineer after an year and after taking two training courses in UK (basic petroleum engineering in June 1998) & USA (Advanced cementing techniques in March 1999, which was my first visit to USA ) and in the second year I was responsible for designing the jobs and supervising there execution in the field with doing some technical sales.

In May 2000 I joined an International service company called BJ Services, with an offer to duple the income I had from my previous job. After 3 months of working with BJ (exactly on Aug. 17th, 2000) I got married to a Saudi girl named Hanadi (my sweet and beloved wife) then took her for a honey moon in USA. It was a great trip we went to Huston Texas, then to Miami Florida , then we took a Crouse in the Caribbean for a week then back to Miami.

I progressed very well in my career, I took about 10 training courses in a year. However, the course that was a changing point of my life was the 7 habits of highly effective people in June 2001, less than a month after that I had my first daughter Somayah, which was another life changing moment. From that moment I started in the road of learning the communication skills, first from the books and courses & conferences that talk about chilled raising , then ones about marital relationship and then to the communication skills in general. That lead me to start loosing intention in pursuing my career in engineering, so slowly I started to get more involved sales, I enrolled in the sales courses which were offered as part of the company technical career advancement program. During that time I had my second daughter Nusaybah in Nov. 2003, and I was looking for proper schools for my daughters, and the only GCC country I can find the schools that offers the education I look for was Kuwait, this lead me to arrange with my company for me to move to Kuwait. Unfortunately this didn't work so I resigned from BJ services and joined a small Kuwaiti service company called Gulf Drilling & Maintenance Co in Spt. 2004. Where I took a position with operational management responsibilities.

After spending about a year I joined BJ services office in Kuwait in which I took the position of coiled tubing and stimulation engineer were my role is more involvement technical sales, which was a step toward me progressing my career in communication. Also when I moved to Kuwait I had a very good chance to work with my mentor Dr. Tareq Al-Suwaidan (who is a Kuwaiti management expert & influence leaders), in so many occasions such as conferences and training courses, in subjects like presentation skills , creative training , practical management skills , making of the professional trainer ,leadership excellence etc…

Now I have my third daughter AlBatoul, I had my professional trainer certificate for more than a year , I started training in charity foundations , youth clubs , and not for profit organizations in subjects like effective communication , persuasion , idea marketing , goal setting and presentation skills.

Now I’m the R&D manager of the Innovation group (which is a group of companies owned by Dr. Tareq Al Suwaidan), taking a wide range in development and project management of new projects in the group of companies from E-training to e-publishing.

I'm planning to be a distinctive speaker, author , trainer, consultant and coach in the subject of effective communication (Dialogue , Persuasion, Negotiation, & Persuasion), that is why I'm taking my masters degree in communication then after it will be the PHD. (INSHA' ALLAH- in Arabic for if God wills) Hani Al-Menaii (Mr. CONNECTability) (talk) 18:47, 1 July 2010 (UTC)