PROFILE:

A highly experienced, result–oriented Project Planner / Project Scheduler, with over 10 years professional experience in the Oil and Gas, Energy, Telecommunication and Construction industries.

 

SOFTWARE SKILLS: 

MS Project 2007, 2010, 2013 • Primavera P6 (intermediate) •  Microsoft Office suite  • Project Web Access • Access • Mind Genius  •  Project Server • SharePoint •  FileNet • Visio 2010 • Live Meeting (WeBEX) •  Info Path •  Mind View             

 

METHODOLOGIES: PMI, SDLC, AGILE and Business Analysis Practices.

 

EXPERIENCE:

CenterPoint Energy (Adecco/Kelly Consultant)                                                                                                Houston, TX

Project Deployment Scheduler, IT, Back-Up Control Center and Disaster Recovery                Nov 2013 – Present

•Responsible for managing deployment, installation/cutover schedule of a back-up control data center.

       •Manage project plan by identifying task to be performed, necessary requirement, deliverables and milestones.

       •Involve in planning session and kickoff meetings of project different phases.

       •Facilitate stakeholders meeting and ensure adequate buy-in.

•Manage integrated project plan with over 7600 line item in Microsoft project 2010 and Excel.

•Organize all project deliverables and acceptance document for phase stage gate.

•Produce project daily, weekly, monthly and quarterly metrics status report.

•Tracking and reporting project progress, issues and improvement strategies to project oversight manager.

•Manage changes to task schedule, issues log, action item, lesson learned, and meeting summaries.

•Analyze critical path and constraints to determine the effect of changes to the schedule using schedule compression technique, what –if scenario analysis and resource leveling.

•Collaborate with 8 cross work stream team to align dependencies and resolve issues.

•Monitor and evaluate result in alignment with project goals and objectives.

 

CenterPoint Energy (Kelly Engineering Services Consultant)                                                                                     Houston, TX

Assistant Project Manager, Voice and Mobile Data Radio Project:                                                           September 2012 – Dec 2013

•Managed $32 Million installation and deployment of Harris OpenSky M5300 Mobile / P5300 Portable Radio and Base station system in 24 CNP locations.

•Developed the project plan using Microsoft Project (SDLC) best practices, ensuring the project stays on budget and on
time, and providing updates to management.

•Gather information from the project team to develop project execution schedule, project execution plan, WBS, project               activities and project resource allocation.

•Facilitated requirement gathering and validation session with business team, and subject matter expert.

•Analyze, compare and forecast current status against established baseline schedule.

•Tracked and reported project progress, issues and improvement strategies to program manager.

•Reviewed and maintained plans and procedures to ensure that documented information is current and in line with the corporate strategy.

•Facilitated training workshop for TPED Team, Executives, Securities Personnel, Linemen and Journeyman.

•      Establishing project cost and schedule baseline to create control account to monitor cost and schedule performance on      

project

 

PESO Energy Services (Drex Solutions Consultant)                                                                                                    Houston, TX

Master Project Scheduler, IT, System Enhancement and SAP Integration Project                                   March 2010 – July 2012

•Created, and managed a project schedules with 2880 line items.

•Defined and managed WBS guidelines, standards and templates

•Implemented and applied Earned Value Management (EVM) system to track progress and maintain accurate project cost.

•Analyze and compared current status against established baseline schedule.

•Gathered report from SME’s in various form i.e. word, excel and imported them into Microsoft project.

•Analyzed resource leveling and coordinate with activity owners to resolve resource overload and conflicts

•Defined and monitored closely the project critical path

 

Continental Builders & Developers (Consultant)                                                                                                    Houston, TX

Project Scheduler, Construction and Engineering Project                                                                                May 2009 – March 2010

•Prepared project schedule in primavera P6 with WBS, activities and milestones

•Developed and managed risk/issues register and escalated issues that can be resolved through CCMB

•Tracked plans and schedules, perform risk analysis, identified and resolved critical path and conflicts.

•Create various reporting documents i.e. S curve, earned value, performance metrics and project schedule baseline.

•Participated in identifying resource allocation, project schedule changes and issue escalation.

 

Nigerian National Petroleum Company (NNPC)                                                                                                                         Abuja, Nigeria

Project Planner, LNG Project (LNG Terminal Project)                                                                           July 2006 - December 2008 

•Participate in all phases of planning budgets and monitoring costs, developing action plans, forecasting project requirements, analyzing variances, and initiating corrective actions and completing audits.

•Facilitate Project WBS, resource allocation and loading, create and maintain schedules and provide key project tracking data to project lead.

•Prepared and presented status on project schedule, project deliverables, project risks, and risk containment strategies.

•Provided communications to stakeholders and executive leadership regarding project status, issues and pending risks.

•Facilitated weekly project status meetings with stakeholders.

•Organized project team members to ensure communication of project schedule, and task assignments.

 

Hoslyn Oil and Gas Services                                                                                                                                     Lagos, Nigeria                                                                                     

Project Scheduler, IT Disaster Recovery Project                                                                                               July 2002 - March 2005

•Worked with teams to coordinate project schedules, monitoring actual vs. plan and highlighting anticipated issues or slippage and formulating mitigation plans or assessing impact if not recoverable.

•Prepared plans for project engagements and monitored performance to ensure that project commitments meet contractual specifications

•Understood program/project roadmap and key milestones regarding criticality, downstream impact if dates are missed and determine alternative/mitigating actions.

•Supported overall financial direction for the projects to manage the development of budgets, controls and measurements to monitor project progress.

 

EDUCATION:

Tulane University, A.B Freeman School of Business                                                                                                                

Master of Business Administration, (Finance and Energy Specializations) May 2010.

 

University of Ado Ekiti, Nigeria.

Bachelor of Science, Economics, April 2001.

 

CERTIFICATION:

•PMP (Candidate)  •              ITIL V3 Foundation    •  Microsoft Certified Application Specialist (MCAS)

 

AFFILIATION:

•PMI:  Project Management Institute (Member)   •                CCM: Chartered Institute of Cost Management (Member)

•NIM: Nigeria Institute of Management (Member)