Professional background
Khalil has spent more than 15 years in the construction industry, moving through senior roles with contractors and consultancies in Saudi Arabia and the wider region. Those roles map directly onto the four areas the APC actually tests:
- Cost Control Manager — cost monitoring and control across the project lifecycle.
- Project Control Manager — cost, time and reporting control.
- PMO Manager — leading the project management office and building its systems.
- Commercial Director — leading commercial strategy and contractual position.
His experience spans large infrastructure and building projects across the Gulf, including work packages within Aramco and NEOM, alongside direct experience of Saudi government contracting and the Etimad platform.
FIDIC specialism
A large part of his day-to-day work runs on FIDIC contracts — the Red, Yellow and Silver Books, in both the 1999 and 2017 editions. That is the same material he teaches in the Contract Practice and Procurement and Tendering competencies inside the course.
Qualifications
| Credential | Awarding body | Field |
|---|---|---|
| MRICS | Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors | Chartered membership — QS & Construction pathway |
| RICS APC Counsellor | Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors | Counselling APC candidates |
| CCP | AACE International | Certified Cost Professional |
| PMP | Project Management Institute | Project management |
| RMP | Project Management Institute | Risk management |
| PMO-CP | Project Management Institute | Project management offices |
He is also an MBA candidate at ESLSCA Business School, graduating in March 2027.
Current roles
- Founder & Lead Instructor — LeAlmond (since August 2026): building and teaching the RICS APC preparation course in Arabic and English, and reviewing candidate submissions.
- Co-Founder & Commercial Director — MK Solutions Co. (since February 2026): commercial and contractual consultancy for contractors and project owners.
Why he built LeAlmond
Most APC candidates do not fail because they lack experience. They stall because the written submission asks them to describe that experience in a structure nobody taught them, against competency levels whose distinctions are easy to misread.
LeAlmond was built around that gap: every competency is its own mini course, the lessons are kept to two to eight minutes so a working professional can finish something daily, and the written material shows what Level 1, Level 2 and Level 3 writing actually looks like rather than describing it in the abstract.