Marvin C. Amadi

EXECUTIVE SUMMARY

Marvin is a Certified Scrum Master with 7+ years of experience as a Project Coordinator/Scheduler. He has

extensive experience coordinating project activities while scheduling resources to fit project demands and ensuring

projects are being completed on time and exceeding client expectations. He maintained and built detailed

schedules using Microsoft Project 2010 and 2013 with 500+ lines per project a day and reported directly to the

project manager for frequent updates. He has experience comparing recorded progress to the baseline data to

monitor change and budgets. He used Microsoft Project 2007 and 2010 to create a project schedule and add

resources to each activity. Marvin also identified critical path schedules for production activities for all new and ongoing

capital projects. His experience also includes using Microsoft Project as a means to create and track projects,

and add resources to each activity as well as identifying critical path schedules for production activities for all new

and on-going capital projects. He ensured project dates were appropriately communicated to all members of the

team, internally and externally. Furthermore, Marvin has extensive experience analyzing a project’s actual versus

planned progress to determine trends, and he has also analyzed trends and worked with the project team to identify

risk mitigating strategies or exploitation of opportunities.

REQUIRED SKILLS ASSESSMENT

Position Requirements

Candidate Experience

Knowledgeable in Microsoft Project Server and UMT360. Solid experience in MS Project 2007, 2010, and

2013, Project Server; good knowledge of UMT360,

integrating budget and financials

EDUCATION

Texas A&M University, Kingsville, 05/2011

• Master of Science in Engineer - Industrial Management

Texas A&M University-Kingsville, 08/2007

• Bachelor of Science in Engineer - Industrial Technology

• Minor in Business Administration

CERTIFICATIONS

• PMP (In Process)

• MS Project Certification (In Process)

• Primavera (P6)

• Scrum Master Certified

• Cost Management

• OSHA 10

SKILLS SUMMARY

• Microsoft Project 2007, 2010, & 2013

• Project Server

• Microsoft Office (Excel)

• SharePoint

• Material Resource Planning (MRP)

• Oracle

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

CALPINE CORP, Houston TX

Lead Project Scheduler

• SAP

• Document Control

• Auditing

• Inventory Control

• Capable of reading Blueprints

11/2014 – Present

• Develop; monitor and update integrated project plans and schedules so that projects can be executed in

the most efficient manner possible.

• Prepared detailed schedules for projects that are used as a baseline to measure progress against for the

future schedule updates.

• Assess impacts to the critical path and near – critical activities and report to the project team.

• Monitor schedule deviations and variances and assist in the developing of alternative methods for

corrective action.

• Provided schedule visibility, reporting, and schedule analyses, performs risk analyses, and identifies and

resolves critical path and network logic conflicts

• Support the control of capital and contract activity and deliverables by establishing and maintaining cost /

schedule baseline and tracking progress.

• Prepare and provide schedule progress reports, trending charts and schedule analysis performance.

• Review schedules with project team members on a regular basic to ensure that accurate and timely data is

incorporated in the schedule.

• Facilitate project scheduling meetings and/or interactive planning meetings as required by the project team.

• Upon completion of each project, develop and record the project’s historical schedule information and

lessons learned, for future use.

• Maintained and built detailed schedules daily using Microsoft Project 2010 & 2013 with over 500 lines per

project and reported directly to project manager for frequent updates.

• Analyze, monitor and review all project schedules to insure resource limitations, interdependences, and risk

are addressed.

• Integrate the output of the PeopleSoft with UMT360 and SAP to generate financial reports.

• Identify major milestones, decision points, project life cycle and other project events in the program and

portray them in the schedule.

• Establish Work Breakdown Structures (WBSs), and related dictionaries, Basic of Estimates (BOEs),

Resource Loaded Network (RLNs), detailed Budget, and Earned Value methodologies.

Halliburton Energy Service, Odessa, TX

Project Coordinator / Project Scheduler

01/2012 – 06/2014

• Coordinate project activities while scheduling resource to fit project demand, and to ensure projects are

being completed on time and exceeding client expectations.

• Define, Plan and deliver given Project initiatives i.e. Feasibility study, Project Charter etc.

• Dispatched and scheduled oilfield activates for numerous of projects according to the project needs and

availability.

• Maintained and built detailed schedules using Microsoft Project 2010 & 2013 with over 250 lines per project

a day and reported directly to project manager for frequent updates.

• Collected data from Project Manager or Field Engineer to update schedule in MS Project to generate

weakly reports.

• Schedule and lead internal and client kickoff meetings.

• Coordinated all tasks related to budgeting, revenue, invoicing and purchase orders. Provided data entry to

support management ensuring accurate tracking of budget.

• Review processing schedules or production to be able orders to make decisions concerning inventory,

staffing requirements, work procedures, or duty assignments, considering budgetary limitations, better

forecasting and diminish constraints.

• Maintain client facing and internal project documentation / reports.

• Used SharePoint in numerous of projects with Admin right with the capability of tracking status, managing

risks, updating schedules, implementing, validating weekly status reports, and project documentation.

• Participate in status meetings.

• Ensure projects dates are appropriately communicate to all members of the team internally and externally.

• Prepare project documentation as needed.

• Analyzes project’s actual versus planned progress to determine trends; analyzes trends and works with

project team to identify risk mitigating strategies or exploitation of opportunities.

• Met with project team to outline, review and monitor project goals, status, and other activities as they relate

to resource assignments.

• Act as POC for Multiple initiatives including Business, Operational and IT Deliverables.

• Define and Track Project Milestones.

• Manage Issues, Risks and communicate to Stakeholders.

• Coordination of team meetings including agenda creation, meeting facilitation and meeting minutes.

• Ensure proper financial tracking of project spend and budget.

• Review processing schedules or production orders to make decisions concerning inventory, staffing

requirements, work procedures, or duty assignments, considering budgetary limitations and time

constraints.

• Assist with SAP financial module project upgrade.

• Analyze projected cost and schedule impacts to projects, given changes in the project plan.

Amadis Corp, Port Harcourt, Nigeria

Master Project Scheduler

03/2009 – 01/2012

• Created and tracked multiple projects using Microsoft Project in different division in Nigeria (Port Harcourt,

Abuja and Lagos) for adequate performance.

• Develops, maintains and supports capital project schedules on a daily/weekly basis: engages construction

team members to develop and deliver a well-planned, logical project schedule, updating schedule activities,

reporting, and creation of new project schedules.

• Manages changes to the schedule and keep Project Team aware of changes to the schedule and project

portfolio. Prepares and attends schedules meetings as required.

• Compared recorded progress to the Baseline data to be able to monitor change and monitor budgets.

• Update individual tasks and Project Performance Indicators as indicated on the project schedule and/or as

communicated by the Project Representative.

• Monitor the Program Integrated Master Schedule (IMS) to ensure IPT Performance Measurement Baseline

(PMB) supports the Program execution plan

• Ensures compliance with Project Performance Indicators (PPI’s) and ensuring task completion prior to

projected end date.

• Attends capital construction scoping meetings to begin validation of duration and logic of schedules,

working with Project Engineer to create and input project schedules into Microsoft Project.

• Used Microsoft Project 2007 and 2010 tool as a means to create a project schedule and add resource to

each activity. Also identified critical path schedules for production activities for all new and on-going capital

projects.

• Maintains and perform updates (add details/task updates) on project schedules and resolves time

constraint conflicts as needed.

• Responsible for taking input from all technical project team members to develop and maintain the detailed

schedule.

• Drove execution of projects including solutions development, go-to-markets, and partner programs.

• Tracked complex initiatives across multiple groups within an international organization minimal outside

supervision.

• Primary point of contact for Solution Director for overall status, key dates, and critical path items for multiple

project/initiatives.

• Obtains and reports on material procurement tasks within the schedule. Tracks material delivery to job site

and when process dictates, contacts material groups/procurement to determine delivery of material and

effects on schedule based on material deliveries. Inform Project Engineer of downstream effects.

Zachry Holding Inc, San Antonio, TX

10/2007 – 02/2009

Project Scheduler II

• Involved in planning phase of Project, and created and tracked production schedule using Primavera P6.

• Lead the scheduling, prioritization, and analysis for multiple Engineering and Project Delivery projects,

including project groups such as Engineering, Natural Resources Permitting Regulatory, Legal, and others.

• Assist Project Manager and Project Engineer in aligning project WBS and cost estimate; prepare

associated supporting documents.

• Maintained and built detailed schedules using Primavera P6 with over 1000 lines and reported directly to

project manager for frequent updates.

• Performed Progress / Scheduling Updates: Visit and walk projects to gather updates/actual information.

Interface with the Superintendent and project team with regard to schedule actuals and projections.

• Coordinated all tasks related to budgeting, revenue, invoicing and purchase orders. Provided data entry to

support management ensuring accurate tracking of budget.

• Orchestrate and validate contract change requests per the Management of Change Procedure.

• Manage change process and change orders.

• Lead, coordinate and facilitate, interactive planning sessions at each phase of the project and assist with

the overall project plan development and updates.

• Oversee the development and progress of project schedules.

• Monitored critical path and daily progress while updating the project schedule in Primavera (P6) and

comparing the updated schedule to the original Baseline.

• Communicate deviations and identify corrective actions to Project Manager.

• Provide oversight to cost controllers.

• Analyzes project’s actual versus planned progress to determine trends; analyzes trends and works with

project team to identify risk mitigating strategies or exploitation of opportunities.

• Determine the impact and significance of obstacles/changes in execution of the work plan, prioritize and

solve as appropriate.

• Creating, updating, tracking and analyzing project schedules in accordance with departmental and project

requirement.

• Partner with planning and Project Team Leads, Engineering, Procurement, and material handling to

anticipate requirements necessary to meet customer expectations and the business plan.

• Monitor continues improvement during construction project, and revised plans that required special

attention and took action to resolve technical issue.

• Define and Track Project Milestones.

• Managed documents in SharePoint.

• Worked closely with third party vendors during production for project assistance.

• Utilize SharePoint by auditing documents to confirm the resent revisions are up to date.

ACADEMIC HONORS

• Presidents List – High academic achievement (4.0 GPA)

• Dean’s List – High academic achievement (3.5 GPA)

SCHOLARSHIPS

• Graduate Scholarship – Competitive based scholarship

• Undergraduate Scholarship – Full athletic scholarship

ATHLETIC TEAMS

• Javelina Football – Learned teamwork, perseverance and self-motivation

• Javelina Track and Field – Great teamwork and individual skills gained