CV

Yaser Alkatab

Houston, Tx

E-mail:   yaserkattab@yahoo.com

Cell Phone: 832-528-8018

 

Summary of Experience

Ø      Possess years of experience in EPC Oil & Gas, sales & marketing, project controls, including scheduling, contracts, estimating, cost control, material procurement, fabrication and installation of onshore and offshore facilities and pipelines in the international oil and gas industry.

Ø      Perfect knowledge of oil and gas, construction and offshore projects Drilling & production especially Subsea systems, BOPs, Riser Systems.

Ø      Ability to interpret technical market information and coordinate with inside sales and engineering teams for product forecast.

Ø      Track project performance using Earned Value Analysis at an advanced capacity

Ø      Develop Project Plan and Schedule in Primavera P6 for Oil and Gas and Manufacturing projects

Ø      Master in Primavera p6, p7 (Project Planning & Resourcing and Risk Management), and project WBS

Ø      MS Project and SAP

Ø      Experience in multi-tasking, analysis, planning & sourcing, and management

Ø      Solid written and oral communication skills.

Ø      Experience of working on Master Integration Projects, knowledge of change management and organizational awareness.

Ø      Excellent communication and interpersonal skills, I have the ability to work to tight deadline with a high attention to detail, and ability to work with diverse teams

Ø      Fluent English and Arabic, and good level in Scandinavian language.

Ø      Possess excellent interpersonal and communication skills and willing and able to travel 100%.

 

Professional Experience

 

Engineering Planner-NPI/Drilling & Production

GE Oil & Gas, Houston TX:                                                                                                                 Feb 2013-present

 

•          Create big size project schedule and template and FEED design for New Product Development Introduction (NPI) includes Drilling systems such Stack and Control, BOP.

•          Update project schedule and analyze critical path.

•          Provide support at customer presentations and participate in the requisition meetings.

•          Develops solutions using creativity, experience, principles, and constructive thinking. Anticipates potential problems and proactively resolves them using independent judgment and innovation in finding solutions.

•          Serves as a subject matter expert for project scheduling, engineering resource management and OTD milestone tracking for the portfolio. Builds and maintains relationship with the Portfolio Managers, Technical Managers, Product Project Managers, Product Planning Analysts, Project Coordinators, Project Managers, and associated Operations personnel

•          Work with mechanical, Electrical & software teams, and manufacturing.

•          Identify the risk and change management plan and create action list.

•          Coordinate between NPI engineering team and OTR-MIS (Master Integrated Schedule) and -proposal team to ensure that project meets the contract date.

•          Create project resources for engineering. And help engineering managers and project management to use these resources as a forecast for the next projects.

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Lead Project Planner& Scheduler/Subsea Systems

FMC Technologies, Houston TX:                                                                                                            Nov 2011-Jan 2013

•          Create & Update the project execution schedule of projects for big oil operators and report on status, project progress and providing risk analysis and critical path.

•          Serves as the subject matter expert for project schedules and project controls within the portfolio and interfaces with the client as needed.

 

•          Provide resources management solutions for project teams to meet customers’ unique schedule requirements.

•          Consolidates and analyzes information from Project Engineering, Sourcing and the Manufacturing Project Planners to develop the overall product schedule and Work Breakdown Structure (WBS) for assigned project sales orders.

•          Conducts and/or participates in Schedule Reviews with the Product Engineering Manager, Project Planning Manager, Project Services and with senior management as appropriate to ensure schedule accuracy and validity requirements are met.

•          Coordinate process standardization and process improvements for scheduling & forecast across my project and product groups including engineering resources and supply chain.

•          Ensure that the product line is properly staffed with planning resources from planning base organization

•          Scheduling the deliveries according to the contract schedule and anticipate procurement and manufacturing strategy.

•          Using SAP and Primavera P6 professionally for planning and scheduling, as well as working with WBS for project structure.

 

 

Assistant Project Manager-Contracting Management,

BWSC, Copenhagen, Denmark:                                                                                           Nov 2008–Nov 2011

 

•          Conduct planning for the design, project development activities, engineering and strategy, civil work construction and installation of power plants (Biomass and Biogas) starting from FEED to engineering, manufacturing & production, shipping and installation, test and commissioning.

•          Develop and implement schedules, templates, using Primavera P6 and tools for turnkey projects. Provide project progress charts/curves for the project team, management and the clients.

•          Assist the Sales and Marketing team to inquire energy projects information and help with change management.

•          Responsible for planning and overseeing the entire program of work and for anticipating the demands in terms of labor and project resources, materials, equipment and technical challenges.

•          Implement schedule controls including management of float, earned value and critical paths.

•          Determine appropriate logistics solutions and resources, draw up plans and present schedules of work, and prepare logistics plans and pricing schedules for the project.

•          In addition to that monitor progress throughout the construction process and liaise accordingly with the Project Managers, Site Managers and QS’s to ensure timely delivery.

 

 

Strategy Analyst & Public Affairs

Blue Hackle Int., US mission in Iraq:                                                                                       Oct. 2006-Aug. 2007

 

•          Providing strategy for the clients and operation teams.

•          Coordination between experts and Iraqi Government.

•          Manage all personnel security actions for program personnel.

•          Working with the management team for how to improve the communication between the Iraqi officials and the company.

•          Translating in excellent command level in from to Arabic-English/English-Arabic for documents, correspondence, forms, and other written material.

 

Technical and Marketing Advisor-Public Affairs

Royal Danish Embassy Baghdad-Iraq:                                                                                                May 2006-Sep. 2006

 

•          Providing technical solutions for the embassy facilities.

•          Coordinating for procurement and purchasing.

•          Checking the local price & availability for the procured material.

 

Filed Quality Control Management

Chemical Engineer, USAID                                                                                                          Feb. 2005- Apr. 2006

 

•          Engineering and Management, Quality Control in projects

•          Planning and strategy, public affairs.

•          Provided procurements solutions for inquiries as well as quotations.

 

 

Professional Associations

v      Member of IDA (Ingeniørforeningen I Danmark)

v      Member in Iraqi Engineers Union

v      Member of IAK-Denmark

v      Working on my PMP certification

 

 

Education

 

B.S.C Chemical Engineering - Gas & Petroleum Engineering (June-2005)

University of Technology, Baghdad University

 

 

Extra-curricular Activities

Literature, music, travel, social communication, and sports.