Project Management Professional

Project Controls Engineering ~ Project Planning ~ Scheduling ~ Team Leadership

 

 

 

Certified as a Primavera Trainer for Primavera Enterprise version 6.0, Primavera Contractor, and Primavera Contract Manager in 2007 while working for a Primavera dealership. Conducted end user training as well as training for Primavera administrators for clients in Chicago, New York, St Louis, Conshohocken PA and other US locations.

Exceptional leadership skills including mentoring, training and motivating staff to rapidly achieve business, project, and customer objectives. Extensive experience in project planning and scheduling training, facilitating team meetings, delivering presentations, budgeting, forecasting, and document control. Well-versed in materials management, Work Breakdown Structure (WBS) development, earned value analysis, and risk management. Able to develop detailed project estimates, resource plans and status reports, track key project milestones, and modify project plans and/or resources to meet diverse needs of customers. Outstanding technical savvy with proficiency in Primavera suite of project management tools.  Able to travel worldwide.

 

Selected Achievements:

 

·   Recognized and awarded by Royal Dutch Shell for exemplary performance in planning detailed engineering, procurement and construction schedule which was pivotal to obtaining funding for execution phase of pipeline project.

·   Identified as “Future Leader” by Aker Solutions and chosen to participate in Leaders as Teachers program.

·   Received Certificate of Achievement from Dow Chemical for exhibiting superior performance in providing timely and accurate schedule support for Ras Tanura project.

·   Successfully implemented Primavera Enterprise software for Columbus Ohio Airport Authority on behalf of PMA Consultants as part of $650M initiative.

·   Formulated project schedule for $75M expansion project for General Motors Transmission Plant in Detroit Michigan.

·   Captured significant cost savings by eliminating overtime labor after successfully streamlining monthly reporting process for project tracking team at GM Power train in Toledo, Ohio.

·   Authored winning proposals for $434M project encompassing Department of Water and Sewerage Capital improvements.

 

 

Mustang Engineering, Houston, TX, 2012 to 2016

Project Controls Manager

·   Currently serving as lead scheduler on a LNG Expansion project in FEED phase.

·   Served as lead scheduler for Shell project in pipeline business unit having total installed cost (TIC) of $350M.

·   Supervised and mentored junior schedulers in planning and maintaining schedule for Shell Front-End Engineering and Design (FEED) pipeline project.

·   Facilitate interactive planning sessions with engineering and procurement leads to finalize project schedule.

·   Educate, train, coach and mentor personnel in use of Primavera software.

 

SBM Offshore, Houston, TX, 2012

Project Controls Team Leader

·   Spearheaded project controls for Shell FEED Floating Production Storage and Offloading (FPSO) vessel project.

·   Managed internal and external project reporting including forecasting, performance measurement, project effort hour reporting, schedule progress, as well as updating and reporting monthly KPIs, dashboards, etc.

·   Closely analyzed and reported impacts of cost and scheduling data against contract requirements. 

·   Handpicked as part of special team to travel to Halifax, Nova Scotia and resolve deployed MOPU (Mobile Offshore Production Unit) overwrought with commissioning delays while acting to restore corporate reputation and profitability.

 

Continued …

 

 

 

 

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Professional Experience continued …

 

Worley Parsons, Houston, TX, 2011

Senior Scheduler

·   Assigned to deliver comprehensive planning and scheduling support for capital improvement projects at Shell chemical plant and refinery in Deer Park, Texas.

 

Aker Advantage / Aker Solutions, Houston, TX, 2008 to 2011

Principal Project Controller

·   Prepared and administered schedules to track detailed Engineering, Procurement and Construction for $250M Rio Tinto Molybdenum mining project in Salt Lake City, Utah.

·   Served as Lead Scheduler on $200M FEED Gasification/Liquefaction alternative energy project in Medicine Bow, WY for DKRW Energy LLC in 2010.

·   Devised schedules and performance metrics to track progress for $56M Dow Chemical /Ras Tanura Integrated FEED Project in The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.

·   Trained and mentored junior project controls team members in scheduling techniques and using Primavera 6.0.

·   Applied sharp critical thinking abilities toward conducting detailed schedule and risk analysis for Sempra Liquid Natural Gas (LNG) project.

 

Jacobs Engineering And Science Contracting Group (ESCG), Houston, TX, 2008

Performance Management Office Supervisor

·   Contributed significant managerial talents in supervising, mentoring and developing 20 project controls specialists in Performance Management Office (PMO) of ESCG.

·   Led development and maintenance of schedules for NASA space shuttle and space station projects.

·   Facilitated PMO team meetings to engage staff, expedite project progress, and ensure continual alignment with customer requirements and expectations.

 

Catalyst, Inc., Indianapolis, IN, 2006 to 2008

Professional Project Management Software Instructor

·   Delivered technical training and instruction in Primavera Suite of project management tools including Primavera 6.0, Primavera Contract Manager (Expedition) 11.1, and Primavera Contractor 5.0.

·   Diligently provided on-going software support to clients by email and telephone.

 

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Prior Background:
 

Senior Consultant, PMA Consultants LLC, Ann Arbor, MI, 2005 to 2006

Construction Scheduler, Washington Group International, Troy, MI, 2004 to 2005

Senior Consultant, PMA Consultants LLC, Ann Arbor, MI, 2001 to 2004

 

 

Bachelor of Arts, Ohio Northern University, Ada, OH

Project Management Professional (PMP), Project Management Institute (Cert No. 44218)

Candidate, Master of Eng. in Construction Management, Lawrence Technological University, Southfield, MI

 

 

Primavera Project Planner (P3), Primavera Project Manager 6.0 (P6), Primavera Contract Manager (Expedition), Primavera Contractor, MS Project, MS Office, MS Outlook