STANLEY WANLESS

14631 Southeast 246th Place Kent, WA 98042

phone 253 216-3746

 

Career Objective: Be part of a professional project control team of skilled professionals providing CPM scheduling support to project managers, directors, and stakeholders in their efforts to achieve project success through an integrated project control system.

 

My project management skills were developed while working on large domestic, public and international construction, infrastructure and environmental projects valued from $2 million to multibillion dollar. Below is a list of my Project Management skills:

 

*  More than 25 years of scheduling experience, trained and currently using Primavera 8.0. Industries of Transportation (Light Rail), Oil and Gas, Aerospace (Boeing), Infrastructure, Semi Conductor, Design Build, Engineering and Construction Mining (Conveyor Systems)

*  City University Masters degree 2004 Project Management, Thesis on Risk Management

*  PMI Certified (Project Management Professional, PMP)

*  Project or program master schedule development for infrastructure, oil and gas, buildings and light rail.

*  Project Earned Value Analysis

*  Development, implementation and analysis of work breakdown structures

*  Project schedule development, integration and analysis

*  Contract administration

*  Claims analysis

*  Development and implementation of project control policies and procedures

*  Systems analysis

*  Customer service

*  Founded Time & Cost, Inc., a construction management firm

 

Education/Training:

 

*  University of Washington, Bachelors Degree, Political Science 1985

*  City University Masters Project Management degree 2004, Thesis on Risk Management.

*  Project Management Institute, PMI Certified (Project Management Professional)

*  Teaching Project Planning and Scheduling, Earned Value Class Bellevue Community College

 

Fluor Arabia Project Control/ Risk Specialist

March 2013- Present

 

*  Risk specialist monitoring Program risks for a 10.2 billion new aluminum plant consisting of multi-billion sub projects Rolling Mill, Smelter, Refinery, and Bauxite mine.

*  As part of Fluor’s Project Management Consultancy contract (PMC) assisted in the preparation of the weekly, monthly, and quarterly Program reporting with responsibility for risk analysis. Attend weekly risk meetings with each sub project control team (30% of work load)

*  Review and analysis of weekly progress and status of sub projects schedule, progress, and man hours. Attended cost and schedule meeting for each sub project. (70% of work load)

*  Filled in at different levels and in different positions as needed to cover sub project and PMC staff shortages.

 

Parsons Brinckerhoff Engineering/ Supervising Scheduler

February 2012- October 2012

 

*  Assisting the project team in development of the WBS for the Columbia River Crossing Project a 3.5 billion project of new bridges, highway, and light rail work spanning the Columbia River and the states of Oregon and Washington.

*  Scheduling on the project is performed using Primavera 6.2 scheduling software

*  Assisted project team in developing Project Control system

*  Developed Engineering schedule

*  Revised the Right of Way schedule for incorporation into the Master schedule

*  Perform monthly updates to the Master schedule.

 

FL Smidth Corporation Master Scheduler

August 2010 to January 2012

 

*  Developed the WBS and Master Schedule for the Tutupan project in Indonesia. This project was a turnkey Design, Manufacture, Install conveyor contract of 250 million dollars.

*  Developed the schedule updating and reporting process

*  Interfaced with Indonesia contractors and office for schedule development and updating

*  Developed and tracked design, fabrication and manufacturing schedules for facilities throughout the world

*  Provide schedule analyses to project managers and engineering PE’s and leads.

*  Participated as a member for the Integration team to develop the interface between P6 and Oracle.

*  Developed schedule updating procedure for using the Primavera updating tool Project Reporter.

 

HNTB Corporation Design Build Division, Project Manager for Scheduling and Claims

August 2009 to August 2010

 

Responsible for developing and updating Pre-Award and Post Award design build schedules for design build infrastructure projects. This position required 60% travel to site offices to meet with the design team and build a resource loaded man hour project design schedule.

*  Develop design schedule with typical WBS elements of Roadway, Drainage/Hydraulics, Structures, Geo Technical and Quality Management.

*  Track subcontractor man hours at the activity level and reported actual man hours at the summary level.

*  Updated the schedule on a weekly basis.

*  Taught CPM scheduling and Earned Value to engineer leads.

*  Assisted project engineers in scheduled updating.

*  Prepared Earned Value graphics for weekly submittal to project manager and monthly Earned Value reports to client.

 

Oil and Gas Industry:

November 2007- July 2009

Senior Scheduler

 

IMS agency employee, Anchorage, AK

 

BP Exploration Alaska I developed the Master Schedule for the Liberty Project. The Liberty Project consisted of building the largest drill rig in the world capable of drilling the longest well in the world (approx. 8 miles). Utilizing Primavera 6.1 software developed the Liberty project CPM Master schedule consisting of the following Work Breakdown Structure (WBS) work scope elements:

 

*  Drill Rig

o Scheduled engineering, fabrication, assembly, and testing of the drill rig.

o Prepared a written progress narrative explaining impacts of variances to the baseline and critical path.

 

*  Building a 20 acre expansion to the existing Drilling Island.

o Scheduled all infrastructure contracting, procurement and installation activities. Prepared graphics for management review to show status against the baseline for each element.

o Updated infrastructure schedule progress weekly, set up weekly progress meetings with each manager to review progress against the baseline and developed work around schedules to mitigate impacts.

o Developed weekly engineering and procurement status report format for the engineering firm to submit showing progress of drawings and procurement.

o Produced a monthly procurement status narrative report speaking to variances of critical material and the impacts. Worked with the facility manager and engineering leads to develop work around schedules to mitigate impacts.

 

*  Production Modules

o Developed schedules for engineering, procurement and fabrication and installation of all electrical, mechanical piping, and instrumentation infrastructure to support the development of drilling eight new wells.

o Reviewed contractor’s weekly fabrication schedule and prepared a written narrative report showing progress against the baseline schedule. Worked with the engineering lead to develop work around schedules to mitigate impacts.

o Prepared a written process for integrating the Primavera schedule system and the PRISM cost system

 

Transportation Infrastructure Projects:

June 2006- November 2007

 

Lead Project Control Specialist with engineering firm Hatch Mott MacDonald (HMM) on the Alaska Way Viaduct Project Seattle, WA. Project size was $3-$4 billion, client Washington State Department of Transportation. The project was a replacement of an elevated freeway. HMM had the program management contract for the project.

 

*  Developed the project WBS (Work Breakdown Structure), and Master Schedule for the eleven year project using P3 5.0.

*  Developed and assisted in the development of the Enterprise and Organizational Breakdown structures, global and enterprise coding, and program layouts.

*  Developed six different construction replacement scenarios consisting of a street option, a tunneling option, an elevated option, and three lesser options. Worked with the City of Seattle, the Port of Seattle, King County and state of Washington transportation department to supply “What if Schedules *  to measure time of construction, cash flow, and impacts to businesses, Port of Seattle access and egress, and traffic.

*  Performed monthly critical path analysis of the engineering effort by lead firm Parsons Brinkerhoff. Compared monthly progress against the baseline schedule and produce progress graphics for senior management.

*  Developed an extensive schedule for tracking the EIS (environmental impact statement) for each construction scenario.

 

International Projects

Iraq July 2005- June 2006

Washington Group International (WGI):

 

Scheduling Manager for all company infrastructure projects in Iraq (electrical and water): Scheduling department had eight expatriate scheduler’s three local national schedulers and one expatriate estimator. Project scope included electrical transmission and distribution infrastructure and water upgrades in southern Iraq.

*  Responsible for reviewing and preparation of internal and external scheduling progress reports to the client. (Army Corp of Engineers)

*  Reviewed budgets, percent complete and earned value data for accuracy as well as weekly schedule progress variances.

*  Provided solutions to scheduling problems, provided direction and taught Primavera scheduling software and CPM scheduling concepts to third country nationals.

*  Interfaced with cost manager for confirmation of schedule cost data and earned value data.

*  Responsible for establishing scheduling goals and policies for MECP (Middle East Construction Projects) in Iraq as well as interfacing with the client on all scheduling activities and meetings.

 

Parsons Engineering and Construction Iraq:

*  Responsibility included scheduling and budgeting of 50 health clinics and 5 hospitals in southern Iraq.

*  Monthly reviewing and changing construction logic with input from Task Mangers to determine realistic project end dates.

*  Performed bi-weekly budget reviews, percent complete and earned value data for accuracy, updated and reviewed schedule and budget progress, prepared progress reports for the Project Control Manger and Project Director.

*  Attended and participated in weekly progress meetings with Task Managers and Project Director.

 

Sound Transit Light Rail Project Controls Specialist 12/97 to June 2005

 

Project Control Specialist in the Light Rail Division. Developed Project Control contract specifications and project control department scheduling policies and procedures. Developed baseline program schedule, reviewed contractor schedules and updated and maintained program master schedule. Later was assigned to Rainer Valley $149 million Light Rail section in urban Seattle. Developed detail construction schedule, interfaced with contractor, reviewed progress schedules, prepared delay analysis and impact schedules, documented delays for future claims.