Gregory Ewah

Greg.ewah@gmail.com

773 934 3079

Profile: A highly experienced Project Management Professional with experience working in Construction and Oil and Gas industries. Offering over 8 years of combined scholastic and professional experience in planning, estimates, field works and office works. Skilled in dealing with managers, owners, consultants, government officials and very good relationships with co-employees as well as possessing strong leadership, team work and result oriented personalities.

Key Skills: Primavera (P6), PRINCE 2, ITiL and MS Office.

 

EDUCATION.

University of Dundee                                                                                                         Dec. 2007

Centre for Energy, Petroleum and Mineral Law and Policy                                         

Master of Business Administration in Oil and Gas Management

 

University of Benin                                                                                           Dec. 2003

Faculty of Social Sciences                                                                      

Bachelor of Science in Business Administration                                              GPA 3.9/ 4.0             

 

PROFESSIONAL CERTIFICATIONS.

 

v      Certified Primavera P6 Professional Fundamentals Rel. 8.3

v      PRINCE2 Project Management Practitioner (PMP) Certified

v      Information Technology Infrastructure Library (ITIL v3)

v      Requirement Engineering (Certification Leading to ISEB International Diploma in Business Analysis.) Certified

v      Certified Nebosh International General Certificate in Occupational Health and Safety

CAREER SUMMARY.

 

ExxonMobil                                                                                          November 2010 to Present

Project Planner.

 

·         Analyze schedules for potential impacts and advise project manager of potential problems, work interference on schedule difficulties and assist in the resolution

·         Travel to Europe, United Arab Emirate and Africa to conduct vessels inspection and interface on offshore project issues

·         Working with the project team, sequence project activities to ensure that project progress is on schedule

·         Provide required information, reports, documentation and schedules for Change Order creation and submission

·         Create and maintain baseline for project schedules

·         Incorporates updates in the project schedule based on input from the organization

·         Review all portfolio contractual documentation in regards to project planning and project controls

·         Anticipate potential problems and proactively resolves them using independent judgment and innovation in finding solutions

·         Facilitates communication between key support functions within the department

·         Break activities down into smaller weighted steps and track the completion of the steps to determine the activity percent complete

·         Input the planning issues into the project’s critical issues risk log. Review planning risks and ensure the risk register is updated accordingly.

           

 

Bankers Ware House                                                                                    July 2009 to October 2010

Project Scheduler

 

·         Created cost loaded plans with complete logical dependencies, baselines for monitoring/evaluation, complete WBS coding structure, critical paths and physical progress measures

·         Developed recovery programs to ensure project critical milestones are met on time

·         Created a monthly milestone report to ensure that the Project Manager is aware of which projects are at risk and allow adequate time to make changes to the critical path to bring implementation date back on schedule

·         Managed the contractor plans to ensure that accurate physical progress was recorded

·         Ensured effective change control takes place on any live or near live project

·         Generated weekly progress reports including milestone slippage charts and pictograms showing project progress and highlighting milestones at risk at a glance

 

 

 

 

 

Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS).                                                                      July 2008 to March 2009.

Project Scheduler.

                                                                                                                                                                                                                              

·         Prepared  and maintained project control schedules

·         Ensured that the project schedules accurately reflect the scope of the project and are of sufficient detail to enable project progress to be accurately monitored, reported and communicated

·         Prepared project progress reports for review and validation by the project manager

·         Identified variances from the project baseline plan and propose corrective actions to minimise / mitigate delays

·         Monitored progress against tasks carried out by project team

·         Ensured plans are fully resourced and cost loaded, monitored progress and made changes as required

·         Reported actual performance and variance against plan and forecasted outcomes

·         Monitored and audited contractor plans ensuring they comply with company requirements

·         Risk Analysis and developing contingency plans to prepare for changed objectives

Grontmij (Formerly Carl Bro)                                                                                  July 2007 to June 2008.      Project Planner on Scottish Water’s Capital Investment Program.

 

A program of improvement works on behalf of Scottish Water

Projects cover the Scottish Water region, across Edinburgh, Dundee, Perth and Glasgow which included:

·         Widespread improvements to sewage works to upgrade the quality of water released into rivers and the sea

·         Refurbishing water supply works to improve the quality of tap water

·         Projects to control odor from treatment works

·         Schemes to provide mains drainage to areas without public sewers

Responsibilities

·         Prepared a project work breakdown structure (WBS) and plan in accordance with the requirements

·         Assigned activities, created relationship between activities, baseline, scheduled and optimized project plan

·         Assisted in the preparation and monitoring of Project budgets

·         Monitored the works to ensure that quality requirements are met, identifying any changes to the scope of the contract works

·         Ensured project plan is fully resourced and cost loaded and monitored progress to the plan and made changes as required

·         Updated activities and schedule on a weekly basis

·         Identified all critical paths within a project by using float path analysis

·         Reported actual performance and variance against plan and forecast outcomes

·         Highlighted key milestone and critical path issues to members of the team, provided an assessment of the impact of such issues and recommended solutions to correct the position

·         Improved collaboration by quickly emailing entire projects to project managers

·         Assisted in Coordinating labor, material, equipment and subcontractors to ensure on-schedule, on-budget completion

 

Nigeria Liquefied Natural Gas (NLNG)                                                             June 2005 to October 2005.

Project Planner.

                                                                                                                                       

·         Discussed and agreed resources/timescales with the project manager

·         Ensured all activities within the scope of the work are included in programs

·         Issued programs in accordance with document control systems

·         Gathered information for progress reporting

·         Updated Plan through the lifetime of the project

·         Maintained cause and effect records in liaison with the project manager

·         Assisted in regular resource planning and updating

·         Assisted in progress reporting against program

·         Pursued subcontractors programs & ensured alignment with those of the company

·         Worked under pressure to tight deadlines

 

 

References will be supplied on request.