Ian B. McDonald

Phone (718) 964-3091

Email-ianmcdonald357@yahoo.com

 

Job Objective

To obtain a position in which I can continue to enhance my planning and scheduling skills with the opportunity for advancement and self-development within the company.

 

Experience

 

Riverso Associates, Inc. 2011-present

Scheduling Engineer, Scarsdale, NY

Provide construction scheduling consulting expertise to our many and varied clients. Building, maintaining, and updating CPM schedules according to specifications and project requirements. Analyzing CPM schedules. Delay mitigation, and recovery planning. Impact analysis. Claims & loss of productivity investigation/analysis. Claim preparation including, and not limited to charts and claim/loss of productivity calculations. Direct on-site interaction when needed.

 

Hazen & Sawyer Environmental Engineers & Scientists, 2008 – 2011

Scheduling Engineer, New York, NY

Provide construction scheduling consultant expertise on behalf of NYCDEP. Performed oversight review of CPM schedules to insure compliance to specification, and protect the interest of the client. Monitored milestones, and reported on project slippages, and potential slippages. Monitored line items, and costs for several projects. Conducted schedule review portions of Monthly Project Review meetings. Direct on-site interaction to insure accuracy of CPM schedule updates, and line item updates. Generated monthly/yearly reports on project status, delays/impacts, and projections.

 

Kawasaki Rail Car, Inc., 2006-2008

Project Scheduler, Yonkers, NY

Maintain integrated master schedules for Railcar building programs in MS project, & Primavera P3.  Assist in determining milestones and logical sequence of tasks. Evaluate performance against plans to ensure that contractual schedule objectives are met. Create Monthly Progress Report for entire project for reporting to ultimate customer. Conduct schedule progress meetings. Collaborate with IPT Leads to verify task successors/predecessors and daily schedule maintenance.  Assess deliverables while analyzing multiple critical paths within schedule. Review, & critique monthly schedules submitted by suppliers.

 

New York City Transit Authority, 2001-2006

Project Scheduler, New York, NY

Maintain integrated master schedules for construction and structural maintenance programs in MS project.  Assist in determining milestones and logical sequence of tasks. Evaluate performance against plans to ensure that contractual for cost/schedule objectives adherence. Conduct technical presentations for Integrated Product Team (IPT) Leads in MS project and PowerPoint. Compute schedule reserve percentages for earned value analysis and financial reporting. Collaborate with IPT Leads to verify task successors/predecessors and daily schedule maintenance.  Assess deliverables while analyzing multiple critical paths within schedule.

 

 

Banca CRT S.P.A. 1993-1999

Planning Specialist, New York City, NY

Created master schedule in MS project detailing day-to-day activities for multiple bank departments. Created network diagrams to show progress in matriculation of new Back office system, Front office system and overall bank accounting system. Implemented WBS (Work Breakdown Structures) to identify tasks and sub-tasks within schedule.  Utilized Gantt charts and tables in MS project to view project duration and multiple critical paths.  Supervised integrated schedule plans and coordinated meetings for overall system upgrade program. Specialized in balancing cash flow positions in USD and various foreign currencies as well as analysis of impact on future cash positions.

 

K.P.A., 1993-1993

Temporary Professional, New York City, NY

Provided temporary professional services within the corporate field. Utilized analytical skills, willingness to learn new skills, and a highly driven work ethic to accomplish and complete a large variety of assignments. Assisted in exporting data from Primavera and converted to MS project.

 

Computer Skills

MS Project, Primavera P3, P6, MS Office-Access, PowerPoint, Excel, Outlook, Word as well as Lotus Notes and Word Perfect.                                                                                                                                                                        

Education

City University of New York, New York, NY - September 1989 (did not degree)

Double major: Accounting / Business Management

 

 

                                                                                                                             

References

Furnished upon request.