BABATUNDE “VICTOR’’ ADJALA

 

SUMMARY

Dependable and results-driven professional project planner/scheduler with almost 10 years of experience in a project management environment; equipped with ability to work on all phases of project controls including planning and scheduling, cost estimating and control and material coordination. I possess great leadership skills and excellent interpersonal skills with an ability to elicit cooperation from a wide variety of sources, including project managers, contractors, clients and other project teams.  I’m proficient in Microsoft Office Suite, SAP Project System, FICO, SAS Programming Fundamental , Minitab SPSS and Project Management Tools: Primavera P5, P6 v6,v7,v8.2,v8.3 , Pertmaster, MS Project and @Risk. Victor is very keen about the opportunity to work for Hess as a Development Planner and is available for phone interview immediately and to start with 2 weeks’ notice. 

 

EXPERIENCE

Public Service Electric & Gas Company (PSE&G), Newark, NJ           December 2012 - Present

Sr. Project Controls Engineer – Scheduling & Cost

·   Maintained and update integrated master schedules using Primavera P6 8.3

·   Perform schedule  reporting  and variance analysis on each project

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

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

·   Ensuring all project related controls meet Sarbanes-Oxley (SOX) testing and monitoring requirements manage and report monthly on a portfolio of projects.

·   Responsible to provide cost engineering services for projects

·   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 audits

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

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

·   Coordinates the documentation of the Management of Change process, and ensures approved changes are correctly incorporated in the project schedule

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

·   Facilitate and maintain communication with management, contractor, and project teams regarding all scheduling issues

·   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

·   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

·   Performed Schedule Management training to project team members to ensure proper understanding of the role of the scheduler and scheduling procedures to assure realistic progress update

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

Senior Project Control Analyst

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

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

·   Responsible for the weekly schedule updates and reports

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

·   Established and maintain a consistent operating routine to ensure project progress reports are generated and issued on time

·   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, Houston, TX (Contract)                               July 2010 - April 2012                                                                                                                                                                                                               

Senior Planner/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

·   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

·   Review, evaluate, and reject or approve contractor recovery schedule

·   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

 

Public Service Electric & Gas Company (PSE&G), Newark, NJ                June 2009 - June 2010

Sr. Project Controls Consultant – Cost Engineer

·   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

·   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

·   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

·   Attach invoices in SAP

·   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.

·   Print and distribute technical and administrative reports, assembly of monthly report packages.

·   Analyzes the monthly project forecast financials vs. prior month and annual budget

·   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

·   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, Astoria, NY                                          July 2006 - June 2009                 Sr. Project Control Specialist

·   Provided Contract services for Skanska USA Civil Northeast Inc.

·   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 Sub System Managers and Work Package Owners

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

 

OilSERV Limited, Portharcout, Nigeria                                         December 2004 – March 2006                                                                                                         

Pipeline Project Scheduler/Planner

·   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;

 

 

 

EDUCATION

Texas A&M University         2012                              

MBA, Finance

 

City University of New York   2009                  

MA, Financial Economics

 

University of Houston           2004

BBA, Finance and Management

 

 

CERTIFICATIONS

·   Project Management Professional (PMP)

·   PMI Risk Management Professional (PMI-RMP)

·   PMI Scheduling Professional (PMI-SP)

 

TECHNICAL SKILLS

·   Project Management Tools: Primavera P5, P6 v6,v7,v8.2,v8.3 , Pertmaster, MS Project and @Risk (basic)

·   Working Knowledge of SAP Project System & FICO

·   SAS Programming Fundamental , Minitab SPSS

·   Expertise in using Microsoft Tools namely: Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook, Access, WordPerfect