Kenneth Osezua

Project Coordinator

Email: k.osezua@aol.com, Tel: 203-560-8422

M.Sc. Project Management

B.Sc. Chemistry

Texas.

Summary

 

A result oriented “Project coordinator/scheduler” with multiple years of experience in the Oil & gas, IT, Banking, Insurance or Financial Service domains with extensive exposure to gathering & analyzing end business user requirements to project planning & scheduling while working along with the project management team from project initiation to closing phase.

Excellent communication & presentation skills when interfacing with business and technical groups.

Skills & knowledge.

Project management – Scheduling, Resource allocation, Risk management, Budgeting, Team management, Change management, issue management. Maintaining Logic, Status update, CPM Analysis, Trending, and Forecasting for pipeline. Develop and maintain Work Breakdown Structure (WBS) and resource levelling & allocation. Change control process. Maintained change management system identifying variances from original scope of work & Change managements & effect on project schedule.

Technical/Software Proficiency - Primavera – P6, Microsoft Project, MS Project 2007 & 13, Clarity, VISIO, PERTMASTER, Developer 2000, Rational Requisite Pro, Clear Case, Rational Rose, TOAD, DOORS, Win Runner, Rapid SQL, Power Plant, NiSource Team Workplace, ProTool, Meeting-Place, PeopleSoft Data Warehouse, Maximo, FOCUS, Lotus Notes, ERS and MS Office suite, SharePoint, Microsoft Office Suite, MS SharePoint, MS Access, MS Visio, MS InfoPath, Mind genius, I dashboard, Interact, ACAPS, EDGE,  Windows Live Meeting, Go-To-Meeting, WEBEX.

Databases: MS SQL Server, Oracle, MS Access.

Methodologies and Standards: PMP standard process, SDLC (Waterfall, RUP and Agile), RAD, Scrum.

 

Projects:

Open wells v1.017 - v1.11 Worldwide Deployments, Landmark Decision Space Implementation, ESRI Remediation, Landmark Production Alarm Management Deployment, United Kingdom Production Unit PI Implementation, North America Shale XHQ Production Reporting Deployment (Eagle ford, Haynesville, Permian, and Fayetteville PUs), Fayetteville Production Unit Quality Control and Audit, ECC Response Transition and the BHPB Corporate Portal; 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Experience:

Bank of America                         CT, USA

Project coordinator02/2011 – Present

Responsibilities:

•             Lead planning exercises, prepare and maintain EPC project schedules for capital projects.

o Drove and maintained an overall integrated program-level schedule for the scope of work showing all IT work streams with dependencies, cross-work stream dependencies, cross-program dependencies, and critical path analysis across these elements.

•             Ensure the appropriate level of planning and scheduling functionality is applied to support project controls activities through all phases of capital projects with an emphasis on construction.
•             Assists project team in resolution of issues involving cost, schedule, & changes
•             Establishes & maintains common methods & standard reporting format for management reports
•             Review schedules prepared by contractors to ensure appropriate level of details and structure are applied to ensure effective progress monitoring and project control.
•             Ensure schedules generated for a project are fully integrated and resource-loaded in order to ensure the accuracy of projected staffing requirements.
•             Provide necessary coaching to planners to insure the development of job plans that can be transposed into a workable schedule that accurately links required tasks and specific resources that are necessary to complete an identified work scope.
•             Ensure compliance of industry procedures and practices.
•             Obtains data on project progress, logic and manpower from Project Leads, contractors or other project/plant personnel.  Review / validate expected milestone dates on new projects assisting in the setting of milestone targets as required.
•             Conduct schedule review meetings and assist in developing alternatives to accommodate changes to project plans and communicate any deviations of current plan to the project team.
•             Interviewed key business users to collect system and business process requirements.
•             Performed gathering, analysis, review and signoff of business requirements.
•             Assisted my PM in creating process flows based on the requirements to define the user interface and associated activity steps.
•             Participated in Requirements Walkthroughs, Defect Reviews, and Status Meetings.
•             Developed analysis related documentation for the PPRC project including Use Cases Requirements documents, feature specifications, workflow diagrams etc.
•             Performed Business Process Reengineering (BPR) and assessed the compatibility of the PPRC system infrastructure with new business requirements
•             Organized and prioritized requirements as well as identified applicable business rules             
•             Performed Gap analysis by identifying gaps between the as-is and the to-be future state.
•             Re-engineered the PPRC system including the user interface to meet new requirements.
•             Designed Screen Mock-ups of the future system using MS Visio and freeware tools.
•             Involved in conducting project management tasks such as developing project plan & schedule, WBS.
•             Identified weekly status on project tasks and update project plan accordingly

 

 

 

 

 

 

OANDO PLC    United Kingdom                                                                                  

Project SchedulerMarch 2009 – 2011

Responsibilities:

o Keeps schedules updated and manage current schedule changes.

o Able to operate assigned report library.

o Acts as primary scheduling point-of-contact for an assigned team

o Implements day-to-day adjustments to project queues and report the real-time impacts on Resource Availability of these changes per Enterprise policies and templates

o Validate updates per standardized process

o Provide daily reports as required and requested

o Provide assistance to Progress Report or Team Member resources as needed

o Provide assistance to team in Primavera CPM methodology

o Maintain project templates per policies:

o Advise PMs of Enterprise changes

o Perform housekeeping tasks for group templates

o Lessons Learned meetings for local changes to templates

o Create or assist PMs in creating operational CPM projects

o Integrate Enterprise Codes and send local values to Primavera Support

o Assist Primavera Support in finding and troubleshooting local problems

o Created & managed comprehensive project schedules (Master Program Schedule) including key deliverables, milestones, dependencies and resource allocation plans.

o Managed open issues and worked cross-functionally amongst stakeholders and leadership.

o Understand dependencies for delivering products and facilitate discussions to assess critical paths.

o Established key milestones and drove progress to accomplish milestones in timely manner.

o Performed enterprise-wide analysis and data gathering for critical business processes

 

Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation.                             

Project Scheduler     July 2004– August 2007

o Created, maintained, monitored & controlled Project Schedule.

o Ensured all project plans/schedules are represented and maintained within the program-level schedule.

o Provided integration with High-level scheduling capabilities with critical path indicators.

o Made frequent updates to the weekly program schedule and provided feedback to the team on how their completed tasks are affecting the overall project progress.

o Worked with the Risk & Issues Controller to support the tracking and prompt for resolution of key issues/risks as they affect the schedule.

o Provided interaction and expectation management for key stakeholders regarding scheduling needs and concerns.

o Managed customer and team relationships, leading scope and cost planning, and developed project work plans.

o Demonstrated leadership and initiative to guide integrated project teams in complex implementations.

o Created, executed, and tracked complex project plans and schedules

o Bi-weekly Reporting on project status.

 

Reference: Available on request