Dependable and results-driven Project Management Professional  who possesses a defined ability in Business acumen and global acumen in the area of Project Planning and Schedule Execution , Project Risk Analysis and Assessment using Monte Carlo simulation, Business Financial Planning and Analysis, Project Control Management and Finance. Excellent communication and interpersonal skills with extensive experience on project in the Oil and Gas, Utilities and Power, Construction and Manufacturing industries.

 

Covestro (Bayer Material Science) and Business and Technology Service, Baytown, TX

POSITION: Assistant Manager, Project Controls

·   Perform and manage project controls team including schedulers, cost estimators and project controls specialist, Estimators and Expeditor

·   Perform and manage evaluation of CPM schedule submitted by contractor and provide timely feedback

·   Perform and manage ad hoc project reviews, analysis and provide recommendations and solutions to upper management

·   Perform and manage reviews of project reports including monthly and weekly progress and project status

·   Provide recommendations and information to support management decision making and presentations

·   Provide oversight on systems development for schedule and progress reporting including dashboard for project updates 

·   Participate in strategic planning and provide recommendations to meet project objectives

·   Manage and provide input on quantity take-offs, earned values from Contractor agreed Rules of Credit

·   Manage validation of monthly progress and milestones completion for accuracy and timeliness of invoices

·   Ensure contractual deliverables are prepared and submitted to appropriate stakeholders 

·   Assist in preparing reports and presentations on all phases of the project

BAYER Material Science (Chemical) and Business and Technology Service, Baytown, TX

POSITION: Lead Project Controller

·   Perform and manage project controls team including schedulers, quantity specialists and project controls specialist

·   Lead and provide project controls guidance to lower level project control schedulers and cost specialists.

·   Ensure contractual deliverables are prepared and submitted to appropriate stakeholders

·   Responsible for creating new project definition in SAP and develop cost planning for project spending plan.

·   Manage validation of monthly progress and milestones completion for accuracy and timeliness of invoices

·   Perform and manage project controls team including schedulers, quantity specialists and project controls specialist

·   Perform and manage evaluation of CPM schedule submitted by contractor and provide timely feedback

·   Integrate SAP resource planning inputs with Primavera Schedule

·   Prepare S-curves highlighting cumulative progress vs. baseline

·   Ensure project activities are logically tied – provide sequencing recommendation

·   Attend project meetings to obtain cost and schedule updates

·   Prepare manpower histograms and provide resource leveling

·   Participate in critical discussions with Contractor’s on project issues and client’s concerns

·   Develop summary cost & schedule reports for senior management

·   Interface with field leaders to receive schedule progress updates

·   Identify critical project metrics to track in order to monitor progress

·   Provide cost and schedule forecasts

·    Provide oversight on systems development for schedule and progress reporting including dashboard for project updates 

·   Participate in strategic planning and provide recommendations to meet project objectives

·   Perform project closeout with summary cost and schedule statistics

·   Perform job audits to validate actual progress vs. reported

·   Review client and sub-contractor schedules

·   Perform various KPI and Earned Value analysis on projects as a project control measure

·   Make presentations to clients/stakeholders on project controls

 

 

Public Service Electric & Gas Company (PSE&G)                        December 2012- April 2015

POSITION: Sr. Project Controls Engineer – Cost/ Schedule (Scheduling lead)

·   Maintained and update integrated master schedules using Primavera P6 8.3

·   Perform schedule reporting  and variance analysis on each project

·   Coordinate schedule from multiple contractors and incorporate the information gathered into the master schedule.

·   Developed Risk matrix and Coordinates preparation of schedule and  risk analysis

·   Prepares look-ahead schedule to ensure progress toward milestones and to understand root causes of deviations

·   Perform schedule impact analysis for contractor change orders and conduct resulting schedule negotiations

·   Ensure scheduling and cost control standards while maintaining liaison with project management, cost engineer , client, contractor, and other consultants on all project controls related activities

·   Monitor contractors’ schedule progress and report to project manager and company management and perform qa/qc on contractor schedule for contract compliance

·   Perform critical path and earned value analysis and provided regularly scheduled and as-needed reports Analyzes the monthly project forecast financials vs. prior month and annual budget

·   Participate in all phases of multiple construction projects including planning budgets and monitoring costs, developing action plans, forecasting project requirements, analyzing variances, determining system improvements, initiating corrective actions and completing audit

 

Public Service Electric & Gas Company (PSE&G)                                                         December 2012- Jan 2014

POSITION: Sr. Project Cost Controls Engineer –Cost Engineer

·   Setting up projects in SAP, updating forecasts, downloading SAP expenditure data in control spreadsheets, working with PMs and Finance to ensure correct project structure

·   Monitored, analyzed, and forecasted all cost elements on the project, including changes Input or update budget information, expenditure information, and forecasts into the cost reporting system(s)

·   Maintained cash and financial forecast for projects to ensure that obligations are submitted and paid in a timely manner

·   Responsible to provide cost engineering services for projects

·   Develop cost estimates for scope changes

·   Integrated schedules from engineering, procurement, survey  and construction to create a master schedule using Primavera P6 8.2 and 8.3

·   Prepare monthly and quarterly project as well as program report by gathering data from procurement, engineering and construction contractors

·   Proactively anticipate potential schedule issues and advise management and project teams on corrective actions

·   Review critical path, cost loading, schedule content, use of relationships and lag, constraints, and milestones

·   Develop cost estimates for scope changes

·   Perform required variance analysis of incurred costs against current budgets

·   Interface with project staff to develop internal cost to complete forecast and client billings at completion

GE Oil & Gas – Houston, TX   (on Contract)                                             May 2011 – November 2012                                                                                              

POSITION: Senior Engineering Planner

·   Managed Deepwater Blowout Preventers and Riser Systems schedule development and assessment

·   Demonstrated proven thorough abilities in addressing client needs, including proactively identifying needs and effectively communicating the solutions that can be provided.

·   Provided tendering support in the development and review of tender schedules and review of tender documents for content related to planning and scheduling requirements

·   Develop the activities, logic, resource loading and progress to provide a fully integrated project schedule, leading to the creation of the baseline schedule and its subsequent maintenance

·   Worked with engineering managers to review the plans and focus/prioritize resources to reach the target and

·   Established and maintain a consistent operating routine to ensure project progress reports are generated and issued on time and proposed recovery actions when needed

·   Created and maintained project schedules that support and align with manufacturing and project requirements

·   Responsible for the weekly schedule updates and reports

·   Acted as the key planning point of contact for engineering and interface with other teams, attend cross function meetings

·   Supported and review monthly engineering metrics. Produce weekly progress reports

·   Lead analysis of the schedule impact due to external variation orders

·   Contact person for adding and deactivating resources and timesheet changes

·   Lead projects status, resource demand/capacity, risks and probability meeting

 

Toshiba International Corp (Contract)                                                                 July 2010- April 2011                                                                                                                                                                                                               

POSITION:   Principal Planner /Master Scheduler

·   Provided engineering planning and scheduling support. Created, tracked, scheduled and reviewed schedules per customers’ requirements and traceability to the Integrated Master Plan/Schedule (IMP/IMS) and WBS standard

·   Developed a template for a 600MW Combined Cycle Power plant design, procurement and construction, startup and test phases

·   Ensured that the project’s priorities are clearly communicated to project management, engineering, manufacturing, and project services

·   Implements the progress measurement and productivity reporting systems in accordance with established procedures

·   Tracked and measured the progress for the Engineering work being performed

·   Tracked baselines, performed what-if analysis, developed contingency plans, and incorporated PERT estimates into the schedule

·   Proactively estimated and created the resource loaded baseline schedule for Engineering

·   Interacted with engineering disciplines weekly to resolve the open items

·   Developed and maintained the deliverable reports to the internal as well as external customers

·   Created and implemented Schedule Change Proposal and BCP’s for change management

·   Developed and prepared weekly and monthly project progress summary reports

·   Worked with all schedulers for design consultants, construction management consultants, contractors, and program management

·   Attended progress meetings with design consultants, construction managers, and contractors to review and approve baseline schedules, and attended other scheduled meetings as necessary to stay current on schedules

·   Developed, managed, updated and monitored individual project schedules and integrated overall master program schedule in conjunction with project team members using Primavera P6 or MS Project

 

Westinghouse Electric Corporation                                                     June 2009 to June 2010

POSITION: Sr. Project Controls Cost Engineer/Consultant

·   Utilize primavera in the creation schedules and input of activities and cost load the schedule

·   Integrated the constraints of the client, schedules and coordinated all the Drawing and Construction packages while establishing the interfaces with all the internal and external contributors using the Critical Path Method

·   Identifying, organizing and analyzing extensive technical and financial data sets, with an acute attention to details

·   Monitored, analyzed, and forecasted all cost elements on the project, including changes Input or update budget information, expenditure information, and forecasts into the cost reporting system(s)

·   Maintained cash and financial forecast for projects to ensure that obligations are submitted and paid in a timely manner using SAP project system and other cost data base

·   Developed and processed changes in the change management system. This also includes interface with the client.

·   Effectively communicated with Project Managers, Procurement department and other departments to ensure that data accurately reflects project results and that financial statement are in compliance with reporting requirements

·   Communicated technical concepts in a clear manner, both verbally and in writing, to internal and external audiences, and prepare concise, accurate documents

·   Supports project teams with forecasting of monthly project cost

·   Prepared spreadsheets and a wide variety of routine cost analysis, cash flow, and other cost related evaluations.

·   Analyzes the monthly project forecast financials vs. prior month and annual budget including Earned value analysis

·   Perform required variance analysis of incurred costs against current budgets

·   Interface with project staff to develop internal cost to complete forecast and client billings at completion

·   Prepare monthly and quarterly project as well as program report by gathering data from procurement, engineering and construction contractors

·   Coordinate with program and project teams to identify cost impacts of proposed changes as well as monitor management of change process

Responsible for managing, maintaining and supporting cost control between project Services and finance, prime contractors and with disciplines within the Project Services organization

 

Skanska USA Civil Northeast Inc, New York                                                          July 2006-June 2009                 POSITION: Sr. Project Control Specialist- Cost & Schedule

·   Prepared level III EPCM project plan and schedule using P6

·   Planned, developed and maintained several schedules of identified activities in a logic based schedule program in collaboration with project team using Primavera P6

·   Provided project scheduling and analysis support to project managers and engagement teams using Primavera P6

·   Integrated the constraints of the client, schedules and coordinated all the Drawing and Construction packages while establishing the interfaces with all the internal and external contributors using the Critical Path Method

·   Determined and analyzed critical path activities for identification of potential delay impacts

·   Informed the Project Manager and the Project Team as soon as possible of any significant drifts or variation in the schedule

·   Collected, updated and consolidated the physical progress follow-up for the project.

·   Proposed and coordinated the corrective actions for reducing risks of delay, maintaining floats and improving time control

·   Provided support in the area to project construction Managers and Work Package Owners

 

OilSERV Limited, Portharcout, Nigeria                                                             Dec. 2004 – March 2006                                                                                                         

POSITION: Pipeline Project Scheduler/Planner

·   Review critical path, cost loading, schedule content, use of relationships and lag, constraints, and milestones

·   Developed full-scale project plans and associated communications documents

·   Performed weekly updates and tracking for Project status and made recommendations for based on results; Integrated schedules from Engineering, Procurement, Survey, ROW and Construction to create a master program schedule;

·   Performed Resource analysis for International Pipeline development using Primavera P6; Performed Risk Assessment and Analysis for Pipeline development Projects using Pert master and made recommendations;

·   Monitored and Controlled resource usage, cost and time for existing Pipeline Projects  

·   Performed weekly updates and tracking for Project status and made recommendations for based on results

·   Developed comprehensive reporting tools for Pipeline Projects based on cost, time and schedule; identified common scheduling pitfalls that may result in misleading schedule;

·   Proposed risk mitigation plans in accordance with project plan and informed management for approval

·   Performed bi-weekly Earned Value Analysis and provide relevant progress reports to PM; Developed comprehensive reporting tools for Pipeline Projects based on cost, time and schedule

·   Identified common scheduling pitfalls that may result in misleading schedule;

 

MBA, Finance, Texas A&M University, Texas, Aug, 2012                              

MA, Financial Economics, City University of New York, City College, 2009                  

BBA, Finance and Management–University of Houston-Victoria 2004

 

Project Management Professional (PMP)

PMI Risk Management Professional (PMI-RMP)

PMI Scheduling Professional    (PMI-SP)

 

Technical Skills:

·   Project Management Tools: Primavera P6 , v7,v8.2,v8.3 , Pertmaster, MS Project and @Risk

·   Financial/ERP systems : SAP Project System , SAP FICO and  Sales force

·   Expertise in using Microsoft Office suite: Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook, Access database

·   Statistics & Risk packages : Pertmasters , Minitab, @Risk ,SPSS and SAS  Excess Data Analysis