Experience:                                                   

 

UtilatechSalt Lake City, UT Jan 2014 – Present

Principal Project Controls Engineer - Scheduler/Cost

 

·              Manage 33 projects totaling $85M for Substation, Communication and Microwave projects assigned relating to power substations, communications, relay and transmission stations.

·              Build and manage detail and high level schedules using Primavera 6 v7.

·              Maintain, create and administer coding, structures, baselines, resources within project activities. Schedules consist of 80 to 300 activities.

·              Weekly status updates, baseline change processes, analyze logic sequence, risks, run log reports and claim digger analysis.

·              Create new templates and fragnet schedules to accommodate each project and type of work, resources and activities needed for projects.

·              Admin manager of Primavera schedules, maintain coding, global and user controls with project specific fields and codes. Manage, create new coding, structures, layouts, user specific fields within global and user applications. Build global change filters to analyze projects activity integrity and extrapolate specific user data for reporting. Created and maintain audit processes and application for schedules.

·              Manage Primavera Admin rights to users, global access and database and system usability within team.

·              Manage and produce 25 Primavera reports to upper management. Manage detailed resource loading schedules and audit; analyze risks, thresholds and improving schedule performance.

·              Work with contractors in relation to reviewing their schedules, importing and exporting schedules into master schedule. Work with schedule of values, project plans, engineering reviews, design changes, procurement and commissioning phases on projects.

·              Use of SAP for project costs, budget tracking, monthly forecasts, accrual reporting and analysis. Build; create user fields to manage project actuals and forecasting financial modeling. Created financial audit controls checklist for financial modeling analysis of the gross and net costs.

·              Manage project budgets, cost estimates, change control, funding limits and increases within financial and accounting budgets.

·              Interface with Engineering on design changes and procurement items.

·              Update monthly forecasts at the purchase order level on 21 projects. Maintain financial dash board models with 21 projects. Analyze and give input on budget differences of forecast threshold limits monthly. Review contractor’s schedule of values and SAP data and accruals by PO and order number monthly to ensure all estimated actual costs are captured accurately.

·              Create cost/financial metrics models as needed to capture budget allocations and expenses. Analyze budget is being spent to plan, use of Earned Value Management with costs and schedule.

·              Maintain dashboard reports which summarize project cost and schedule health of each project that I manage.

·              Direct support to two Project Managers, in addition support Engineering, Directors and Managers with project controls applications.

·              Backup up for two Project Managers and direct the 21 projects when they are out of the office. Run project meetings; write project plans, cost/schedule variance and budget analysis narratives and explanations for upper management with PacifiCorp and Rocky Mountain President, Vice Presidents and Directors. 

 

 

 

Chevron / Brahma Group  Salt Lake City, UT     Mar 2013 – Dec 2013

Consultant Scheduler/Cost Engineer     Projects Completed

                                        

 

·              Manage; create refinery schedules for mechanical, civil and electrical projects at Chevron refinery plant in Salt Lake City, UT for the upgraded Oil Skimmer project.

·              Create WBS, resource loaded schedules, status updates and implement, analyze and assess risks. Create cost estimates, load cost and budget into Primavera and manage costs and budget in Timberline.

·              Financial analysis of actuals, forecasting budget hours for project.

·              Use of Primavera P6 V7, Microsoft Project, EVMS, and Access on projects.

·              Manage schedules, status updates, cost estimates and procurement activities in schedule.

·              Work with project leads with status of activities and reporting.

·              Managed budgets, schedule of values with resource loaded schedules.

·              Built, analyzed financial data, created dash board reports and models to capture estimated forecasted and actual costs.

·              Created, maintained and managed schedules, WBS, coding, resources, man power curves and budget/accounting processes.

·              Managed project costs of $150M and a schedule of 6500 activities.

·              Ran quantitative and qualitative risk analysis reports with budget and schedule for the projects integrity assessment.  

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Kennecott/Rio South Jordan, UT    Oct 2011 – Mar 2013 

Consulting Scheduler/Cost Engineer                                          Projects Completed

 

·  Manage projects, cost and schedules for Cornerstone Stone projects which consisted of North Rim Skarn, South Wall Facilities and Truck Shop Expansion.

·  Managed budget of $250M and 8000 activity schedule.

·  Build construction schedules, logic, procurement and commissioning phases.

·  Work with contractors on drawings, CAD, engineering designs and planning controls,

·  Procedures and change control of budget and schedule.

·  Oversee cost, budgets, funding and risk analysis, quantitative-qualitative analysis, EVMS, cost estimates of project activities.

·  Review engineering drawings, submittals to ensure accuracy of project design phase.

·  Work with project leads with status of activities and reporting/Prism.

·  Assist with project controls work and team efforts.

·  Attend meetings, submit reports and scheduling updates.

 

 

PAC Energy / CH2MHill - HanfordRichland, WA       Mar 2009 - Oct 2011

Senior Project Controls Engineer / Cost-Schedule                                                      

     

·    Develop; manage schedules for projects with the Department of Energy (Richland, WA office) and Bechtel WTP projects. Support of High Level Waste project, River Corridor and Tank Farm operations.

·    Support DOE / Washington Group, Bechtel-CH2Mhill scope of work, work packages and construction activities with D&D, ORP and WRP projects. Metrics, schedules and reporting updates on closure activities.

·   Manage projects, schedules, costs, budgets and funding of construction phases of ERDF and waste treatment plant facilities.

·    Review of REA's the baseline cost estimates and schedules using MII, P6 and Pertmaster for project risks. Work with planners and maintenance projects, getting status and updates relating to work performed.

·    Maintain status, EVMS, POW, POD, project controls, procedures and policies. Create schedules when needed.

·    Provide schedule, risk quantitative and qualitative analysis, planning and controls, reports for upper management. Maintain risk register logs relating to projects work scope.

·    Manage project scope changes and supervise construction building of remediation structure projects and roadways.

·    Manage project budget, estimates and cost analysis for baseline of departmental funding and schedule variances, activities. Analyze schedule and cost claims of performance completed.

·     Update and maintain earned value in relation to cost and schedule variance.        

 

CH2M Hill, Washington Group / Bechtel – INLIdaho Falls, ID   Nov 1994-Feb 2009

Senior Project Controls - Lead Scheduler/Cost Engineer                                                                                                    

·  Project Controls Lead Scheduler/Cost engineer for chemical, energy, heavy construction-Test Reactor Power area and nuclear waste projects. This included the RH True Waste, High Level Waste, Farms, Sodium Bearing Waste, ARP I, II Construction and Waste Treatment Plant. Use of Primavera 3 and 5 and also Microsoft Project in work applications.

·  Work packages, POW, POD, metrics development and implementation.  Worked with drawings, equipment and facility walk downs. Status schedules with planners and maintenance applications.

·  Worked with construction contractors on engineering designs, drawings and specs in relation to schedules.

·  Test Reactor, D&D, operations buildings, roads, remediation projects and energy applications.

·  Provide schedule/cost, analysis planning and controls, reports for upper management.

·  Creation of schedules, resource loading and cost analysis of projects for management.

·  Budget, cost estimates and analysis for baseline of departmental funding and schedule variances, activities. Analyze schedule and cost claims of performance completed.

·  Supervised safety meetings, kept safety records, maintained recordable are database and activities.

·  Update and maintain earned value in relation to cost and schedule variance.

·  Maintained project schedule, cost and budgets

·  Ensure schedule, resource loaded correctly. Status schedule with project managers, managers and engineer's daily. Develop WBS, Baseline, Work Packages, Detailed Work Plan, SAP, CPM, PMP, (EVMS) Earned Value Management Scheduling, and Level 3, 4 and 5 schedule maintenance / crosswalk maintenance over lifecycle of projects.

 

 

 

Education:   B.S / Finance - Minors: Engineering - Chemistry / IT   -   Brigham Young University, Provo UT

                                                                  

Software:  Primavera 6, Pertmaster, MII Cost Estimating, Microsoft Word, Office, Oracle Financial, Access, SAP, Prism Microsoft Project, Cobra, PassPort, Excel and PowerPoint.