Dayo Ola

dayo.olaosebikan@att.net

(347) 757-7468

PROJECT PLANNER/SCHEDULER

Summary

Project planner/scheduler with 10 years of experience in oil and gas, and construction industry. Experienced in Project scheduling, mitigation planning and control activities of small to medium sized projects throughout their lifecycle.  Involved in project planning, updating, troubleshooting and, forecasting. Adept at creating resource-loaded, critical path master schedules with Primavera P6 and Microsoft Project. Developing and planning work breakdown structures (WBS). Utilizing Earned Value Management (EVM) techniques (PV, EV, AC, SPI, CPI) to gauge progress and identify performance variances to facilitate focus and intervention on critical project areas. Effective communicator between developers, end-users, clients, vendors and project team. Accustomed to handling multiple projects with several job functions. Demonstrated history of producing accurate and timely reports. Flexible, versatile and thrive in deadline-driven environments. 

 

Objective

Seeking a result-oriented company to continue growth in Project Control discipline, while helping to meet their project goals and deadlines using efficient and creative planning and scheduling methods.

 

Experience

 

Snr. Estimator/Planner                         11/2012 – Date

Atkins Global N.A.  ▪  Austin, Texas

§         Analyzing multiple projects in transportation and energy sector.

§         Providing reports and letters for all stake holders. Including close out, milestone, resource, cost, issues, changes and schedule progress reports.

§         Tracking monthly progress updates of projects and making detailed reports explaining reason for loss and/or gain of time on project completion.

§         Maintaining Project Schedule Status Report (PSSR) for multiple projects.

§         Creating Time Impact Analysis (TIA) reports which analyze Contract time extension requests submitted by the Contractor to the Client for issues encountered on the project.

§         Making Time-Determination schedules for projects in planning phase using Project Plans and Specifications.

§         Reviewing baseline schedules made by Contractors for compliance with Contract Specifications and engineering Plans.

§         Historical weather analysis to model the effects of weather into project calendars.

§         Integrating multiple sub-projects into master projects and program.

§         Cost estimating for multiple projects including those in the multi-million dollar range.

 

 

Engineering Planner                       07/2012 – 11/2012

GE Oil & Gas  ▪  Houston, Texas

§         Gathered information from various engineering teams to help implement CPM scheduling as a tool to track project completion.

§         Tracked projects using EVM techniques.

§         Cost and resource loaded projects.

§         Received sales  orders from meetings and helped engineering, procurement and manufacturing team develop a plan to deliver product on timely basis.

§         Created Master-integrated schedules for development of new products and certain sales orders.

§         Updated multiple projects on a weekly basis and reported on progress at weekly team meetings.

 

 

 

Scheduler/Planner                           05/2008 – 07/2012

Alexan Construction  ▪ Houston, Texas

§         Planned, developed and setup the Integrated Schedule in Primavera P6 for Engineering Design, Procurement and Construction (EPC) schedule for the company Project.

§         Identified project activities.

§         Determined activity sequence and activity duration.

§         Monitored actual progress, compared to baseline and report progress to forecast project-end estimates.

§         Analyzed data pertaining to critical order, surrounding quality holds and material constraints.

§         Mitigation planning to ensure projects meet deadlines.

§         Critical Path Method (CPM) in implementing the schedule.

§         Presentations with any and all stakeholder when needed, especially team-mates and lead.

 

 

Scheduler/Planner                                       08/2005 – 04/2008

Drilling Controls Inc. ▪ Houston, Texas

§         Prepared initial CPM and WBS with manpower requirements and issue a draft to the project team for review and compliance to scheduling requirements.

§         Assisted project manager in controlling and maintaining project scope, schedule and cost

§         Liaising with project engineering and purchasing team in prioritizing engineering packages and material delivery to support construction priorities

§         Monitoring project expenses against budget, monitoring weekly on-site activities, monitoring and prioritizing procurement of material

§         Creating monthly cost reports, and help developing corporate monthly report

§         Monitoring extra work activities and managed contract change notices

§         Status and update all project activities that are outside the Contractor’s scope

§         Reviewed and endorsed progress measures reported by the contractors

§         Generated monthly progress status reports, progress curves and reconcile committed costs to actual costs on a monthly basis.

§         Developed manpower histograms to evaluate resource demand levels for all current and proposed projects.

 

Scheduler/Planner

                            06/2002 – 08/2005

ExxonMobil ▪ Port Harcourt, Nigeria

§         Develop and analyze project schedule to align with project scope and deadline

§         Creating WBS and resource allocation

§         Integrating subcontractors’ schedules with project master schedule. 

§         Identify Critical Path Activities (CPA) and near critical, and advise project team accordingly.

§         Updated project schedule weekly with accurate data-entry of data-date reports throughout project cycle

§         Determined AC, EV and PV, and used earned value analysis/management to determine deviations by calculating SV, EV, CPI, SPI and updating schedules when needed.

§         Helped team forecast EAC, ETC, VAC, TCPI etc. using visual aids such s-curves and histograms.

§         Furnished progress reports for meetings using Primavera and Microsoft Office report tools

§         Presentations with any and all stakeholder when needed, especially team-mates and lead.

 

Education

University of Lagos, Nigeria

Bachelor of Science Mechanical Engineering

 

Certifications

Project Management Professional (PMP)  Ongoing

 

Skills

§         Oracle Primavera P3 and P6                               

§         Microsoft Project                                         

§         Microsoft Office              

§         Critical Path Method(CPM)

§         Schedule analyzing tools e.g. Acumen Fuse, Digger and Schedule Analyzer Pro

§         Cost estimating tools including Bid Tabs Professional