Senior Project Services/Project Controls personnel, with experience supporting the project team from project inception, to a timely project execution and delivery.

 

Senior Project Services personnel with over 15 years in the project execution, project controls, project planning/scheduling, project cost engineering, risk management, time impact analysis, trend analysis, and earned value management. Experience working stage gate management processes with major Oil companies in all phases of project, developing bid plans, detailed plans, and execution strategies.

 

University of Alabama at Birmingham OAU University, Nigeria

MEng Construction & Engineering Management – 2014BSc Chemical Engineering - 1996

 

Certification: Project Management Professional (PMP)

PMI Scheduling Professional (PMI-SP)

                     

 

Santos - Gladstone LNG, Gladstone Australia

Lead Project Control Engineer/Lead Planning EngineerSeptember-12 to Present

 

·   Supervise and manage Quantity Surveyors

·   Managed the development of the Construction, commissioning and shut-down schedules.

·   Conducted planning meetings with contractor planners and field engineers to evaluate, reforecast and re-sequence construction and commissioning activities to align with current project objectives and targets.

·   Contract administration and management of subcontracts for Provisional sums portion of overall contract

·   Guide senior surveyor in cost report preparation and progress measurement evaluation

·   Negotiate and agree the Standard Work Process Procedure with the Contractor

·   Reviews and determine Extension of Time claims as put forward by contractors

·   Guide QS in the generation, update and maintenance of database used for monitoring construction progress; prepares the weekly progress reports.

·   Analyzes the weekly progress versus the planned target dates, generates forecast of trending completion date and provide weekly reports on the impact on the overall schedule

·   Maintains the Progress Measurement System and prepares the weekly and monthly reports; generates production S-curves, visual construction progress graphs, lost man hours graphs, 4 week look ahead, weekly target and KPI charts.

·   Updated the project trend analysis procedure.

·   Guide my team in monitoring subcontractor’s personnel and equipment and prepares “counter” monthly timesheets used for invoicing.

·   Examine, control and evaluate subcontractors invoices and ensure that the contractual obligations are satisfied and advice the Cost Control team on payments of the same

·   Guide my QS in the production of takeoffs, measures, and checks installed quantities for progress measurement and variations and changes

·   Administers Change Orders and maintains the change order register(s).

·   Track and manage scope/work, schedule and material cost expended on reimbursable package Works.

·   Assessing Sub-Contract Variation and monthly progress claim.

·   Monitor, analyze, review and report schedule impact. And use result to guide construction crew. (Earned value metrics)

 

 

 

Chevron (Swift) - Angola Liquefied Natural Gas  

Lead Planning EngineerMay-2010 – September-2012

 

·   Work with the existing offsite planners to develop an overall coding structure for all offsite projects that enhanced better and more efficient project reporting/updating system.

·   Conducted planning meetings with the contractor and contractor’s planners and field engineers to reforecast and re-sequence planned construction work to re-align with current project objectives.

·   Created earned value spreadsheets to tract contractor physical progress.

·   Developed leading indicator progress curves, that highlights critical project activities and recommending mitigation plans to forestall/reduce schedule slippages.

·   Reviewed and analyzed contractor schedules for quality as it adheres to planning standards, critiquing contractor schedules, offering corrective suggestions and integrating contractor schedule with client planning activities.

·   Issue weekly schedule updates as required.

 

Chevron (Swift Technical Services) – Escravos Gas Project, Nigeria      

Senior Project Controls Engineer May 2009 – April 2010

 

·   Preparation and maintenance of level 3 Pre-commissioning and commissioning schedules as fully resourced networks, including the leveling of work within agreed priorities, resource levels and targets.

·   Review and co-ordination of all level 4 data input. (Resources, Job Cards)

·   Preparation of weekly and monthly planning / progress reports for various levels of managements needs.

·   Production of ``what if`` scenarios and plans to suit both client requirements.

·   Performed quantitative schedule risk analysis using PertMaster 8.5 to determine the project deterministic finish dates and foster the challenges on the project’s success – Monte Carlo schedule simulation.

·   Participated in risk review sessions/workshops to identify risks/opportunities, and perform monthly monitoring and controlling tasks using earned value management methodology.

·   Mentoring and development of Nigerian planning personnel, to raise their competence, awareness, knowledge and techniques required in the execution of planning functions.

·   Built, maintained and issue daily reports on the Turnaround schedule for Train 1 during the 30 days shutdown window.

 

 

Turner & Townsend (For BP Alternative Energy Wind Projects) – Houston, Texas

Senior Consultant August 2008 – May 2009

 

·   Developed relevant documents to support project advancement through the various MPcp stage gates.

·   Production of ``what if`` Schedule scenarios and plans for use by the Project Manager

·   Build recovery schedules on various wind projects that are under severe schedule slippages.

·   Developed leading indicator progress curves for critical project activities.

·   Issuing weekly & monthly planning progress reports

·   Develop and maintain multiple wind energy project schedules during key stages starting from the Appraise stages. 

·   Maintain the overall master project schedules in Primavera Project Planner (P3/P6).

·   Projects range between 69 wind turbines to 268 turbines with capacities up to 600MW. Some the projects include Fowler III Wind Farm Project (Indiana), Sherbino Mesa II (Texas), Flat Ridge Wind Farm (Kansas)

·   Make frequent field trips to gather planning and updating information.

 

 

Technip USA - Angostura Gas Project (BHP Billiton – Trinidad & Tobago)

Lead Project Planner/Scheduler January 2008 – August 2008

 

·   Preparation and maintenance of level 3 logic driven and resource loaded project schedules, including the leveling of work within agreed priorities, resource levels and targets.

·   Worked with overseas counterparts to gather information and setup Tehcnip USA standard progress system using their proprietary progress management system (Janus).

·   Liaise with the engineering / construction groups with respect to setting up the departments rules of credits during progress reporting.

·   Preparation of weekly schedule update reports as well as weekly and monthly earned value reports using Technip’s proprietary progress reporting system.

·   Attend regular planning and scheduling meetings, where schedule issues were discussed and corrective actions are suggested.

·   Preparation of 2 weeks, 4 weeks & 60day look-ahead schedules.

·   The AGP includes modifications made to the existing Angostura facilities and the installation of new flow lines.

 

 

Cameron International (Subsea Systems) – Houston, Texas

Master Scheduler November 2006 – January 2008

 

·      Liaise with the commercial / business support group during project conception to build the proposal schedules. Negotiate and agree with contractor on the Standard of Work Process Procedure.

·      Production and maintenance of level 3 logic driven project schedules for assigned projects.

·      Review and co-ordination of various data inputs gathered from SAP for schedule integration (Material tracking and reporting), using SAP BW system.

·      Develop improvements in planning standards, procedures, processes, and systems by producing standard WBS and coding structure to ensure uniform project reporting.

·      Implement planning schedule actions arising from the impact of variations as direct impact of the change orders.

·      Maintain the planning element of the change control procedure.

·      Issue the overall schedule weekly reports, including the earned value reports and the S-Curves.

·      Identify common schedule pitfalls, track project status and providing corrective recommendations based on results of data analysis.

·      Projects include the fabrication, installation,  and testing  of various subsea systems including Cameron christmas trees, umbilical’s,  subsea instrumentation systems, control systems, connections, manifolds, tubing hangers and tooling,  and flow line connection equipment.

 

S&B Engineers and Constructors – Houston, Texas

Senior Project Planner June 2005 – November 2006

·   Developed, managed and report on assigned project schedules.

 

Granite Services (GE Energy Services) – Tampa, Florida

Project Controls Engineer  February 2004 – May 2005

 

·   Developed and Managed fully resourced assigned power plant turnaround schedules

·   Provide overall schedule analysis and reports as required by management (critical paths, look ahead, etc)

 

Ariosh Engineering (Mobil Nigeria Unlimited), Lagos Nigeria

Project Planner/SchedulerJanuary 2001 – February 2004

 

·      Managed and report on overall subsea systems project schedule for the Utue PP II project.

Primavera Project Planner  (Sure Track, P3/P6 vs 8.2), MS Office, MS Project, SAP. Oracle Primavera Risk Analysis (Permaster), Auto Desk Revit, & Smart Plant Review.

Citizenship - USA

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                               Wale Alabi