Program & Projects Management · Riyadh

Delivering transformation. Developing project leaders.

What I do:Program delivery

I lead digital transformation programs for banks, government and enterprise, and I coach professionals online to earn PMP, PgMP and PfMP.

10+years of delivery
150M+SAR in portfolio value managed
30people in my largest team
7professional certifications
Abdelkarim Sweilem, senior project manager in Riyadh
PfMP® · PgMP® · PMP®Project · Program · Portfolio
AI researcher2 papers published in 2026
Online trainerLive cohorts and 1:1

Organizations I have delivered for

PwC Middle EastAl Rajhi BankTetcoAlfanarTatweer Educational TechnologiesLayan General SuppliesKudos.Events
Services

How I can help

Four ways to work together, from a single exam to a full transformation program.

PMI certification coaching

Live online coaching for the exam and the application: PMP, PgMP, PfMP, PMI-ACP and PMI-RMP, one-to-one or in groups.

  • Personal study plan from a diagnostic session
  • Scenario-based practice in the style of the exam
  • Help writing PgMP and PfMP experience summaries
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PMO and governance consulting

Set up or reset a PMO with governance, reporting and prioritization that people actually use.

  • PMO maturity assessment and roadmap
  • Stage gates, decision rights and steering committees
  • Portfolio prioritization and KPI dashboards
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Program and project delivery

Hands-on leadership for digital transformation, ERP, banking and government platform programs.

  • Program mobilization and integrated planning
  • Vendor and contract management
  • Recovery of delayed or over-budget projects
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AI for project management

Workshops and pilots that put AI to work on schedule risk, reporting and PMO productivity.

  • AI for project managers workshop
  • Schedule overrun prediction pilot on your own data
  • Generative AI in status reporting
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Abdelkarim Sweilem teaching a live online PMP exam prep session
Online training

Live online coaching that gets you certified

Every session is live and interactive, built around real scenarios from programs I run. You learn the exam logic and the job at the same time.

  • PMP, PgMP, PfMP, PMI-ACP and PMI-RMP
  • One-to-one, small groups or company cohorts
  • Application support for PgMP and PfMP
  • Arabic or English
Certifications

Certified at every level

The full PMI ladder from project to portfolio, plus agile, risk, business analysis and P3O.

Research

Predicting schedule overrun before it happens

Two papers published in 2026. The first trains a gradient boosting model on 4,517 projects to estimate how far a schedule will slip. The second benchmarks six machine learning models on the same question. Risk factor and planned duration are the strongest signals.

0.835R² on the test set
5.95Mean absolute error (points of overrun)
7.13Root mean squared error
4,517Project records analysed
Slide from an online AI for project managers workshop showing the research results
Projects

Selected work

Platforms delivered for banks, government and enterprise.

ERP systems

SAP ERP

ERP operations and business workflow management focused on process optimization and operational continuity.

Layan General Supplies
Government services

QIWA

Workforce and digital services platform supporting business operations, employment workflows and public-sector integrations.

Banking

Survey System & IVR

Customer survey and IVR integration platform for satisfaction analytics, automated reporting and operational feedback.

Al Rajhi Bank
Government and education

Unified Admission Portal

University admission and management system for the Ministry of Education, streamlining student registration and digitizing admissions.

Tatweer Educational TechnologiesVisit the platform
Government platform

Study in Saudi portal

Platform for international student applications, with workflow automation, document processing and onboarding.

Tatweer Educational Technologies
Government and education

NOOR Portal

Learning management system for the Ministry of Education.

Tatweer Educational Technologies

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