Dr. Shaheen brings more than two decades of experience in the trenches of project execution in the oil and gas industry and real estate development. Dr. Shaheen has managed projects, led project delivery groups, and been involved with every aspect of capital project delivery, from design & engineering to construction & integrity assurance, procurement & contracts to logistics & regulatory, and everything in between. He has managed projects for asset owners and ECPM alike, working on billion-dollar CAPEX investments ranging from on shore and off-shore pipelines, mining equipment failures, marine terminals, rail / truck offloading facilities, and residential/corporate construction.

Dr. Shaheen is a subject matter expert (SME) in materials selection, root cause failure analysis (RCFA) investigation and fracture mechanics. As a SME, Dr. Shaheen was involved in a number of litigation cases and worked closely with lawyers and in selected cases acted as a technical witness in court.

Dr. Shaheen is an active member of the Project Management Institute (PMI). He is also associated with the University of Calgary as a researcher and lecturer in fracture mechanics, and with the Northeastern University as lecturer on project management.
He has published research papers in with several journals and conference papers in such fields as environmental spill consequence of pipelines, structural reinforcements, fracture mechanics, retrofits of historical structures, and structural health monitoring.

Dr. Shaheen is currently a professor of Construction Management at Florida Gulf Coast University.