Timothy Tate 

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Timothy J. Tate, CCCA

2205 Fayhill Drive

Cincinnati, OH 45238

(412) 401-0513

tjasontate@hotmail.com

 

 

Education and Certifications

 

·          Pennsylvania State University, Erie – Communications (1995-1998)

·          Certified Construction Contracts Administrator (CCCA) - CSI

·          Certified Construction Documents Technologist (CDT) – CSI

 

Project Management Tools and Technical Software experience

 

·          Primavera Project Manager (P6, P5, P3 and P3 e/c)

·          Microsoft Office (Word, Excel, Access, Power Point, Visio)

·          Primavera Contract Manager (formerly Expedition)

·          Microsoft Project

·          Meridian Systems Prolog

·          Deltek Cobra

·          Oracle People Soft Enterprise

 

Employment and Project Experience

 

Browne Engineering and Construction Services, Cincinnati, OH, June 2010 – Present

URS Corporation, Pittsburgh, PA, February 2009 – May 2010

 

Project: Greater Cincinnati Wet Weather Program

Owner: Metropolitan Sewer District of Greater Cincinnati

Location: Cincinnati, OH

Cost: $4 Billion

Job Description: Project Controls Manager (URS) and Senior Project Scheduler (Browne) for Wet Weather Program and associated Capital Improvement Projects in the Greater Cincinnati area.  This multi-phase program involves extensive improvements to the city’s sewer systems and wastewater treatment and storage facilities.

 

Responsibilities include:

·          Utilizing Primavera P6 as the primary scheduling tool for the program and Microsoft Project for selective vendor schedule reviews

·          Developing, updating and reviewing project schedules to monitor Program Master Schedule dates for compliance with consent decree milestone requirements

·          Reporting on schedule performance, focusing on variances, trending and earned value analysis to help the client identify potential schedule delays or cost overruns

·          Working closely with client’s project managers and cost team to produce more accurate budget forecasts and cash flow projections

·          Reviewing vendor schedules (baselines and progress updates) and performing time impact analyses to mitigate claims

·          Reviewing change order requests (CORs), notices of advisement (NOAs) and requests for information (RFIs) for potential schedule or cost impacts

·          Acted as Interim Project Controls Manager, managing a team of schedulers and writing scheduling guidelines and standard procedures utilized by all schedulers within the program

 

Chester Engineers, Moon Township, PA

May 2008 – February 2009

 

Project: ThyssenKrupp Steel - Secondary Water Treatment Plant (July 2008 – February 2009)

Owner: ThyssenKrupp Steel

Location: Mobile, AL

Cost: $150 Million

Job Description: Served as Project Scheduler for design-build project which includes the engineering, procurement and construction (EPC) of a Secondary Water Treatment Plant which services ThyssenKrupp’s $4 billion carbon and stainless steel manufacturing plant near Mobile, Alabama.

 

Responsibilities included:

·          Creating design-build EPC schedule using Primavera (P6) and Microsoft Project scheduling software

·          Performing systematic updates and critical path analysis and submitting schedule reports to the client

·          Tracking budget and cost information as well as providing cost forecasts and earned value analysis

 

 

Project: Marathon Petroleum Detroit Refinery Design-Build Projects (May 2008 – February 2009)

Owner: Marathon Petroleum Company

Location: Detroit, MI

Cost: $45 Million

Job Description: Served as Project Scheduler for design-build program which included the engineering, procurement and construction (EPC) of several overlapping projects:  a chemical building, a final effluent filters system, a permanent desalter wastewater treatment plant and a new boiler feed water system.

 

Responsibilities included:

·          Creating design-build EPC schedules using Primavera (P6) scheduling software

·          Performing systematic updates and analysis and submitting biweekly schedule reports to the client

·          Tracking budget and cost information as well as providing cost forecasts

·          Serving as system administrator for Primavera web-based contract management system

·          Creating proposal schedules for use by marketing department as needed

 

 

Malcolm Pirnie, Inc., Sewickley, PA

February 2006 – April 2008

 

Project: Molycorp Washington, PA Remediation (February 2006 – April 2008)

Owner: Chevron Corp. / Molycorp

Location: Washington, PA

Cost: $65 Million

Job Description:  Served as Project Scheduler/Administrator for this 3 year project involving the remediation of 73 acre site. Project included precision excavation and off-site disposal of slag and soil containing low level radiological materials as well as manufactured gas plant (MGP) tar. 

 

Responsibilities included:

·          Utilizing Primavera 5.0 Project Manager software to build a cost loaded project master schedule and to perform systematic schedule updates

·          Tracking all project invoices and pay applications and submitting to client for payment

·          Generating and submitting cost reports, showing current expenditures as well as all costs-to-date using a multi-tiered work breakdown structure (WBS)

·          Creating cost curves showing baseline cost vs. actual cost, maintaining cash flow projections and tracking earned value

·          Serving also as a Project Administrator – assisting in procurement of subcontractors, field equipment and supplies and managing subcontract work; also, logging and tracking contracts, purchase orders, change orders, change order requests, change directives, submittals, requests for information (RFI’s) and other project documents

·          Preparing Construction Manager’s weekly and monthly progress reports

 

 

URS Corporation, Pittsburgh, PA

September 1999 – January 2006

 

Project: Carnegie Museums and Libraries (July 2002 – January 2006)

Owner: Carnegie Museums of Pittsburgh and Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh

Location: Pittsburgh, PA

Cost: $85 Million

Job Description: Served as Project Controls Specialist for this multi-phased program involving renovations and additions to the 4 Carnegie Museums and the Carnegie Library and its 17 branch libraries throughout the city of Pittsburgh. 

 

Responsibilities included:

·          Generating and submitting monthly cost reports to the client, detailing current expenditures as well as all costs-to-date using a complex work breakdown structure (WBS)

·          Performing updates to CPM master schedule using Primavera Project Planner (P3)

·          Utilizing Meridian Prolog project management software to track contracts, change orders, change order requests, purchase orders, drawings, requests for information (RFI’s), submittals, transmittals & correspondence, etc.

·          Coding and tracking of all project invoices and pay applications

·          Serving as Prolog systems administrator, setting up new user accounts and providing training and technical support to all users

·          Creating proposal schedules for use by marketing department as needed

 

 

Project: Brunot Island Gas Fuel Conversion (November 2000 – June 2002)

Owner: Orion Power Midwest / Reliant Energy

Location: Pittsburgh, PA

Cost: $42 Million

Job Description: Served as Project Controls Administrator for 2 year refurbishment project of 50 MW Power Plant.  Project involved the conversion of oil fuel burning plant into a gas fuel plant by demolishing the old combustion turbines and installing 3 new Heat Recovery Steam Generators and overhauling a complex cycle steam turbine.

 

Responsibilities included:

·          Utilizing Primavera Expedition and Microsoft Access database to maintain logs and generate reports for tracking project documents including contracts, purchase orders, change orders, drawings and specifications as well as RFI’s, submittals, transmittals and correspondence

·          Receiving all contract drawings and specifications from engineers and issuing to contractors

·          Transmitting RFI’s and submittals to engineers and contractors

 

             

Project: Carnegie Mellon University-Posner Hall 3^rd Floor Addition (September 1999 – October 2000)

Owner: Carnegie Mellon University/Carnegie Bosch Institute

Location: Pittsburgh, PA

Cost: $6 Million

Job Description: Served as Project Controls Administrator for the construction of new 3^rd floor addition to CMU’s Graduate School of Industrial Administration.  This one year project involved the construction being performed while classes continued uninterrupted in the building on the two floors below.

 

Responsibilities included:

·          Performing CPM schedule updates using Microsoft Project

·          Utilizing a database for tracking and generating reports for contracts, pay requests, change orders, change order requests, drawings, submittals and RFI’s

·          Preparing and distributing meeting minutes