Senior Planner Scheduler

Produce and Manage Master Schedule | Monitor Project Progress

Ensure Budget and Timeline Compliance

 

Innovative, creative, and highly motivated Mechanical Engineer with a Master of Arts in Finance and a comprehensive background planning, scheduling, and controlling projects from conception to completion in the oil and gas and commercial industries. Demonstrated background in preparing and analyzing cost estimates and cost forecast. Leverage strong analytical, communication, troubleshooting, and interpersonal skills to consult with stakeholders and contractors, and work with cross-functional teams to achieve project budgets, completion milestones, and project targets.

Areas of expertise:

Project Planning and Scheduling | Project Risk Assessment | Financial Planning

Cost Control |Earner Value Analysis | Change Management | Client Service

 

 

Professional Experience

 

Northwest Redwater Partnership, Redwater, AB 2013 – 2015

Lead Planner and Scheduler, Unit H

Produced and managed owner integrated master schedule for engineering, procurement, and construction (EPC) phases for CA$765M pipe rack, tank farm, and flare project for Sturgeon Refinery. Establishing project controls plan, baseline schedules and control budgets. Followed up on weekly forecast quantities, hours, and physical progress; prepared and submitted weekly and monthly report, and overall schedule analysis to Project Manager and Northwest Redwater management team.

·               Interfaced with both internal and external stakeholders, including subcontractors, developing complete loaded baseline schedules with resources, hours, and quantities.

·               Establish functional requirements, methods of measurement, and timely delivery of accurate cost & schedule progress and performance data

·               Monitored schedule deviations and variances and assisted in developing alternate methods for corrective action; conducted recovery plans, contingency planning and schedule compression techniques.

·               Lead schedules meeting between owner and contractor to discuss schedules issues and forecast work

·               Performed what-if scenarios for schedule analysis, mitigating potential schedule and cost slippages / impacts.

·               Reviewed monthly progress report and prepared key performance indexes, ensuring indicators were in compliance with unit and project goals.

Lead Planner and Scheduler, Unit G (Earthworks and Deep-Underground)2013 – 2015

Led planning and scheduling for Earthworks and Deep-Underground construction phase of CA$292M project. Prepared weekly and monthly progress report and key performance indexes for the unit. Developed project budget analysis and control in terms of value of work done (VOWD), committed budget, budget changes, incurred and actual costs, and budget variances.

Reviewed costs with contractor and unit director, reflecting authorized changes in project

 

·               schedule against approved budget. working with the project team to address or mitigate trends

·               Used earned value analysis (EVA) to measure schedule and cost performance for construction phase, ensuring project was within unit budget and achieved target completion date.

·               Used Unifier software as part of Integrated Change Control System (changes request, approved changes, cost of changes and forecast budget)

 

SUNCOR ENERGY, Edmonton, AB 2012 – 2013

Senior Planner and Scheduler, Fort Hills Project, OPP (Ore Preparation Plan)

Delivered integrated master schedule for engineering, procurement, and construction phases of US$893M project. Forecasted manpower resource requirements. Reviewed and provided guidance for all aspects of project controls and cost.

·               Interfaced with both internal and external stakeholders, developing integrated master schedule.

·               Defined and documented schedule risks and translated to a risk mitigation plan, ensuring results were shared with management team and agreed to by project stakeholders.

·               Developed what-if schedules, studying various planning scenarios and optimizing plans.

 

JACOBS EDMONTON, Edmonton, AB2011 – 2012

Senior Project Controls Lead

Managed cost and schedule for sustaining capital projects. Performed weekly cost report and updated schedules in time required. Prepared invoices for clients and monthly status report of sustaining capital projects.

·               Worked with discipline leaders in preparing proposal for clients by estimating hours and duration time, and preparing growth margin analysis.

·               Performance risk identification with stakeholders and developed final schedule to be accepted and bought by project management team

 

WORLEYPARSONS CANADA SERVICES LTD., CoSyn Technology Division2009 – 2011

Edmonton, AB

Senior Project Controls Lead

Planned and scheduled tasks for study and Front End Engineering Design (FEED) phases of US$596M Tailings Relocation North Mine South Pit West (TR-NMSPW) project. Managed schedule and cost for optimization phase.

·               Developed resource loaded schedules for TR-NMSPW project based on scope and client scheduling criteria, resulting in baseline schedule.

·               Achieved cost performance index of 0.99 and schedule index of 1.02 for CA$24.5M Extraction Froth Treatment Project by providing planning and cost control.

·               Gather lesson learned and update knowledge data base

 

 

 

 

 

WORLEYPARSONS CANADA SERVICES LTD., CoSyn Technology Division              2005 – 2009

Project Controls Specialist

Planned and scheduled different activities for basic and detail engineering, as well level 5 construction activities for South West Sand Storage project for Syncrude worth CA$236.7M. Prepared and developed project life cycle.

·               Coordinated activities with disciplines, achieving plans and schedule.

·               Produced manpower histograms and S-Curves for commodities, maintaining required manpower for all disciplines and calculating productivity factors.

 

­        ­Fort McMurray Projects

Reported to Team Leader of Upgrading projects stage of development, engineering, procurement and construction for all projects under this division.

 

·               Kept schedules updated from conceptual to construction phases.

·               Handled program and portfolio of schedules and budget cost for all projects under Upgrading department

 

COLOMBIAN OIL COMPANY (ECOPETROL), Barrancabermeja, Colombia

Administration Department and Project Control

Project Coordinator / Planner Engineer

 

COLOMBIAN OIL COMPANY (ECOPETROL), Cartagena, Colombia

Project Engineer

 

Education

 

Master of Arts / Science (MA / MS), Finance, EAFIT University, Cartagena, Colombia

Bachelor of Science (BSc), Mechanical Engineering, America University, Bogota, Colombia

 

 

Professional Development Courses

 

-        Establishing Effective Capital Cost and Schedule Processes, AB

-        Project Risk Assessment Training Evaluation, Edmonton, AB

-        PMI Training Section, Edmonton, AB

-        Preparatory Course for Certification as a Certified Cost Engineer (CCE), Edmonton, AB

-        Managing Engineering and Construction Projects (MECP), Edmonton, AB

-        Earned Value Management Techniques (EVMT), Edmonton, AB

-        Primavera Enterprise Project Planner (P6e), Edmonton, AB

 

Computer Skills

 

Primavera P3 and P6, Pert Master, Microsoft Project, Microsoft Office, Unifier