Riyadh, Saudi Arabia — Mohammed Bin Salman Foundation

Bandar Khalid Kari

بندر خالد كعري

Project Management · Digital Transformation · Impact at Scale

Project Management Misk Foundation PMP® Certified

Computer science major. At the Mohammed Bin Salman Foundation I run PMO-governed projects from initiation to closure and lead the digital transformation programs that reach more than two million beneficiaries.

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Beneficiaries served by platforms and programs

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Users onboarded in a single enterprise platform rollout

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Rise in beneficiary satisfaction and service-delivery efficiency

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Manual support effort removed through workflow automation

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National-level programs supported with analytics and delivery

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Profile

Project management first, with digital transformation as the second discipline.

Project management at the Mohammed Bin Salman Foundation: projects run from initiation to closure inside PMO governance — plans, milestones and dependencies, risk and issue logs, change control, KPI tracking, and the executive reporting leadership decides from. Computer science major; PMP and PMI-ACP certified.

Digital transformation is the second discipline, kept distinct on purpose: enterprise platform rollouts, beneficiary service journeys rebuilt end to end, and the reporting pipelines that made those programs measurable. It is why I can run a technology program without a translator between me and the build.

Strategy is only worth what gets delivered. My job is to close that distance — and to prove it closed, with data.

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Experience

Inside Saudi Arabia's flagship youth-empowerment foundation since 2022.

  1. Nov 2023 —
    Present

    Senior Project Specialist

    Mohammed Bin Salman Foundation (Misk) · Riyadh, Saudi Arabia

    Scope equivalent to project manager: full lifecycle ownership across three enterprise deliveries.

    • Manage assigned projects from initiation to closure against approved methodologies and PMO governance standards.
    • Build and drive project plans — timelines, milestones, deliverables, dependencies and resourcing — to keep execution on schedule.
    • Identify, assess and monitor risks and issues; maintain the logs and chase mitigation and corrective action with the owners.
    • Control change requests, assessing impact on scope, timeline and deliverables, and escalating critical risks for timely decisions.
    • Track and analyze project KPIs, and publish the status reports, Power BI dashboards and executive summaries leadership works from.
    • Raised service-delivery efficiency 15% by restructuring vendor relationships and dependency management.
    • Provide analytical support to stakeholders across 18 programs, and sustain platform continuity for roughly 1,500 users.
  2. Oct 2022 —
    Nov 2023

    Project Specialist

    Mohammed Bin Salman Foundation (Misk) · Riyadh, Saudi Arabia

    • Implemented PMO governance requirements — templates, documentation standards and reporting practice — across multiple programs.
    • Owned project documentation: status updates, meeting outcomes, action logs, risk logs and issue logs.
    • Developed and maintained the digital platforms behind program delivery, using SQL and Python to extend and automate them.
    • Segmented audience data and ran targeted email campaigns, lifting engagement rates 18%.
    • Coordinated foundation-wide volunteer operations for the Misk Global Forum 2023, placing 42 volunteers on time and to standard.
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Selected Projects

Three deliveries, each owned end to end, each measured after the fact.

Coaching & Mentoring Platform — Enterprise Rollout

Nov 2024 — Feb 2025

Project Lead · Misk Leadership

Led the end-to-end rollout of an enterprise coaching and mentoring platform across three flagship leadership programs — owning scope, timeline, milestones and deliverables. Selected and managed the vendor, automated coaching workflows that had been run by hand, integrated feedback instruments into the session cycle, and onboarded the full coach and participant population without a delivery pause.

2,400+

Leaders, coaches and mentees onboarded

−60%

Manual support effort per cycle

NPS ↑

Measurable lift in satisfaction and Net Promoter Score

Digital TransformationPlatform RolloutWorkflow AutomationVendor ManagementChange ControlAdoption

Beneficiaries Success Initiative — Misk Hub

Jan 2024 — May 2024

Project Lead · Misk Hub

Led a transformation of the beneficiary experience across Misk Hub, serving a base of two million people. Rebuilt the feedback and support loop end to end, optimized the underlying platforms and processes, and stood up Power BI dashboards over ETL pipelines so satisfaction became a monitored KPI rather than an annual survey result. Drove team adoption and the ongoing monitoring that kept the gains.

2M

Beneficiaries in scope

+15%

Increase in beneficiary satisfaction

Real-time

Feedback and KPI monitoring, replacing manual reporting

Digital TransformationService TransformationPower BIETLSurvey AnalyticsContinuous Monitoring

Organization-Wide Volunteering Program

May 2023 — Nov 2023

Project Lead · Misk Foundation

Founded and launched the foundation's first organization-wide volunteer program, debuting it at the Misk Global Forum 2023. Built the case, secured executive leadership sponsorship, aligned the design to the foundation's mandate to empower Saudi youth, and embedded the program so it now runs across every major foundation event rather than as a one-off.

1st

Organization-wide volunteer program in Misk's history

Exec

Leadership sponsorship secured and sustained

All events

Integrated across the foundation's event calendar

Program ManagementProgram DesignExecutive Buy-InStakeholder EngagementMisk Global ForumYouth Empowerment
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Capabilities

Two disciplines, deliberately kept distinct.

Project & Program Management

  • Project management, initiation to closure
  • PMO governance & standards
  • Project planning & scheduling
  • Risk management & risk logs
  • Issue management & escalation
  • Change control & impact assessment
  • Executive reporting & dashboards
  • Workshop & review facilitation

Digital Transformation

  • Digital platform implementation
  • Workflow automation & optimization
  • Vendor & partner management
  • Systems integration
  • Cloud architecture fundamentals (AWS)
  • Information security awareness
  • Microsoft 365 administration

Data & Insight

  • Data-driven decision making
  • Power BI & Tableau
  • SQL · Python · R
  • ETL & Power Query
  • Data modelling & validation
  • KPI frameworks & continuous monitoring
  • Survey & feedback analytics
  • Data visualisation

Leadership & Stakeholders

  • Stakeholder engagement at executive level
  • Cross-functional team coordination
  • Strategic planning
  • Mentoring & coaching
  • Critical thinking & problem solving
  • Bilingual communication — Arabic & English
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Credentials

Certifications held, and where the training came from.

Core certifications

Project Management Professional (PMP)Project Management Institute
PMI Agile Certified Practitioner (PMI-ACP)Project Management Institute
AWS Certified Solutions ArchitectAmazon Web Services
CompTIA Security+ (SY0-601)CompTIA · Secure Code Design & Implementation

Additional certifications

Digital Transformation CertificationPwC
Microsoft Office 365 FundamentalsMicrosoft
Linux Management for CentOSThe Linux Foundation
Social Media Marketing: Strategy & OptimizationDigital Marketing Institute
Advanced Cisco Routing — RIPv2, EIGRP, OSPFCisco
2018 — 2022

B.Sc. Computer Science

California State University, San Bernardino · California, USA

Dean's Academic Achievement Award

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Writing

Published for the Misk Foundation audience.

Aug 2023

Infinite Ambition

On ambition as a renewable resource — why the ceiling a young professional accepts is usually the one they drew themselves, and what an institution owes the people it asks to aim higher.

Misk Foundation · Published article
Misk

How to Think SMART

A practitioner's walk through the SMART goal-setting framework — how to write an objective that survives contact with a delivery calendar, and how to tell a specific goal from a merely confident one.

Misk Foundation · Framework guide
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Recognition

Awards, training and languages.

2024

Best Project

Mohammed Bin Salman Foundation (Misk) — judged at organization level, across the foundation's full project portfolio.

2018 — 2022

Dean's Academic Achievement Award

California State University, San Bernardino — for sustained academic standing in Computer Science.

Languages

العربية · ArabicNative
EnglishNative

Professional Training

  • Next-Generation Leadership Skills
  • KPIs — Key Performance Indicator frameworks
  • Critical Thinking & Problem Solving
  • Building Stakeholder Relationships Through Effective Communication