# Bandar Khalid Kari — بندر خالد كعري

> PMP-certified project and product manager based in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.
> Senior Project Specialist at the Mohammed Bin Salman Foundation (Misk),
> leading delivery across 18 national-level programs from initiation to closure
> under PMO governance. Founder and Product Lead of Qafza, an AI-powered
> coaching and mentoring platform. Also written as Bandar Kari, Bandar Khaled
> Kari, بندر كعري.

## Identity

- Full name: Bandar Khalid Kari
- Arabic: بندر خالد كعري (short form: بندر كعري)
- Other spellings: Bandar Kari, Bandar Khaled Kari, Bandar K. Kari
- Location: Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
- Languages: Arabic (native), English (fluent)

## Current roles

- Senior Project Specialist, Mohammed Bin Salman Foundation (Misk), Riyadh — November 2023 to present
- Founder & Product Lead, Qafza (https://qafza.me) — 2025 to present
- Previously: Project Specialist, Misk — October 2022 to November 2023

## Certifications

- Project Management Professional (PMP) — PMI
- PMI Agile Certified Practitioner (PMI-ACP) — PMI
- AWS Certified Solutions Architect
- CompTIA Security+
- Digital Transformation — PwC

## Selected achievements

- Misk Foundation Best Project 2024, judged at organization level across the foundation's full project portfolio
- Rebuilt the beneficiary feedback and support journey across a 2,000,000+ beneficiary base; Power BI dashboards over ETL pipelines lifted satisfaction 15%
- Led an enterprise coaching and mentoring platform rollout across three flagship leadership programs: 2,400+ users onboarded in a single release, manual operational effort cut 60%
- Raised service-delivery efficiency 15% through vendor management and dependency coordination
- Increased beneficiary engagement 18% by segmenting audience data and rebuilding campaign targeting
- Coordinated foundation-wide volunteer operations for Misk Global Forum 2023, placing 42 volunteers
- Built Qafza end to end — AI matching, scheduling, messaging, video, goal tracking, certificates and analytics — and runs it in production

## Expertise

- Project management: full lifecycle from initiation to closure, PMO governance, scope, schedule and milestone planning, dependency management, risk and issue management, change control, RAID logs, resource planning, vendor management, status reporting, KPI tracking, Agile, Scrum, Waterfall
- Product management: product vision and roadmap, discovery and user research, requirements gathering, user stories and acceptance criteria, backlog prioritization, MVP definition, release management, go-to-market support, adoption and onboarding, product analytics
- Digital transformation: enterprise platform implementation, systems integration, workflow automation, business process improvement, user adoption
- Data and tooling: Power BI, Tableau, SQL, Python, ETL pipelines, data modeling, Jira, Microsoft 365, SharePoint

## Education

- BSc Computer Science — California State University, San Bernardino, 2018–2022
- Dean's Academic Achievement Award

## Links

- [Portfolio](https://bandarkari.com/): full profile, experience, projects and CV
- [LinkedIn](https://www.linkedin.com/in/bandarkari/): professional profile and contact
- [CV (PDF)](https://bandarkari.com/Bandar-Khalid-Kari-CV.pdf): two-page curriculum vitae
- [Qafza](https://qafza.me): AI-powered coaching and mentoring platform he founded
- [Infinite Ambition](https://hub.misk.org.sa/insights/education-givingback/2023/infinite-ambition/): article published in Misk Hub Insights, August 2023

## Contact

- Email: bandar.4kari@gmail.com
- Location: Riyadh, Saudi Arabia

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