Key Qualifications

Senior Project Planner/Scheduler with 10 years in Oil & Gas Project Services. Broad range of experience developing complex schedules; managing and integrating subcontractor schedules; developing schedule metrics; resource loading; contract analysis and discussions; management of change; risk management and qualitative analysis; procurement and logistics monitoring; project execution plan development, and interpretation of technical specifications and drawings.

Proven performance record on diverse portfolio of projects, working through various stages of development: from early concept through execution and installation.

Highly analytical, tenacious, and self motivated with strong communication and partnership skills.

 

Education:

08-1984 – 06-1989:  Case Western Reserve University (Cleveland, Ohio), Biology

 

Skills

Primavera P6: Version 8.2

Microsoft Project 10

Acumen Fuse – Schedule Diagnostics Tool

Primavera Risk Analysis

Palisades Cost Risk Analysis

EasyRisk; Risk Management Database/Reporting (Shell)

Microsoft Office: Excel: Pivot Tables, Charts; Power Point; Word; Visio

SAP

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Work Experience

 

Company: Royal Dutch Shell                                     02/2014 - 02/2016    

      Work Location: Houston, TX 77079

 

Position: Senior Project Planner (Contracted)                     01/2015 – 02/2016

Project: Shelburne Deep Sea Exploration, Nova Scotia ($1.0 Billion)

·   Insured the quality of information required to develop a level 3 schedule in Primavera P6 version 8.2.

·   Established trust and brought together a team of many disciplines across 4 geographic locations.

·   Consistently used targeted questions to bridge terminology and to identify interdisciplinary interfaces and drivers that fostered team collaboration and prioritization of deliverables.

·   Created effective weekly schedule tracking reports and progress metrics that focused the executive team and resulted in on time delivery; saving the project millions in drilling rig and vessel costs.

Project: Perdido Life Extension Project, Gulf of Mexico ($1.2 Billion)

·   Developed a Primavera 6 level 2 schedule on a multi decade future project focused on life extension of the Shell Perdido FPSO. Brought together engineering team and asset to insure feasibility of work and its impact to rig personnel and space constraints. Schedule served as key tool to insure achievability without production deferment.

·   Recognized for producing an exceptional schedule and schedule basis document by the project assurance team.

Project Risk Manager (Contracted)                       02/2014 – 01/2015             

Projects: Ventura Enhanced Oil Recovery ($1.2 Billion), California | West Boreas Subsea Tie Back, Gulf of Mexico ($350 Million) | Mars Gas Injection Subsea Tie Back ($500 Million), Gulf of Mexico

·   Project Risk lead on diverse projects, responsible for timely risk identification and risk review workshops.

·   Established project risk sensitivity and ownership through frequent interviews to enforce active risk mitigation. Coached teams to mature risks and develop meaningful mitigation strategies.

·   Tailored reports for monthly reports and executive decision meetings.

·   Authored cohesive risk narratives for technical and project execution documents.

·   Served as risk auditor on a Shell assurance team; evaluated project readiness to proceed.

 

BP America                                   05/2012 – 02/2014  

      Work Location: Houston, TX 77079

 

Position: Senior Project Planner (Contracted)

Projects: Juniper, Subsea Gas Production, Trinidad ($400Million) | Mad Dog Phase II, Gulf of Mexico ($1.4 Billion) | Galapagos, Gas Lift Umbilical, Gulf of Mexico ($200 Million)

·   Served as Lead Primavera 6 Planner/Scheduler on multiple upstream deep water projects.

·   Negotiated contract discussions with supplier, held contractor accountable for quality, progress measurement, according to BP standards.

·   Conducted field scoping to insure full scope was clearly captured. Worked with cost and project management to develop WBS for progress measurement, scheduling, cost estimating and project control.

Cameron International                                     08/2006 – 05/2012

      Work Location: Houston, TX 77041        

     

Position: Lead Project Planner     11/2009 - 05/2012

Projects: BP Gulf of Mexico Subsea Frame Agreement ($200M) | BP Angola Gas, Angola, Africa ($100M)                                       

·   Primavera 6 Lead Planner. Managed multiple Cameron fabrication site schedulers to insure quality schedule development and maintenance. Integrated all schedules and established progress measurement and incorporated management of change per Cameron guidelines.

·   Proactively reviewed schedule logic for accuracy. Interfaced with engineers, project team, and fabricators to insure priorities were understood. Mitigated late delivery through what-if solutions to successfully maintain key payment milestones.

·   Created concise reports for BP weekly meetings strengthening relationship and building schedule creditability: focus on critical path, look-ahead forecasts, and baseline variance reports.

·   Managed risks in schedule, assisting risk to calculate accurate probabilistic contingency allowing for on time delivery and protected milestone payment targets.

·   Traveled extensively to fabrication sites worldwide for hands on schedule management and contribution to fabricator readiness reviews.              

Projects: BP 16.5 K Tree Qualifications ($10 Million)                                    

·   Microsoft Project 7 Lead Project Scheduler on highly visible schedule driven program. Led client planning meetings, levered resource histograms to communicate resource constraints and created a comprehensive scope matrix to clearly convey key accomplishments, critical path and milestone status.

Position: Project Coordinator II                                                                             05/2008 - 11/2009

Project: BP Angola, PSVM Project, Angola Africa ($150 Million)

·   Managed all facets of procurement, contract discussions, logistics, risk and management of change orders for 15 manifolds with split fabrication scope in Cameron USA and two subcontractors in Angola.

·   Diligently Identified and reconciled cost variances to contract; creating change orders that recuperated millions in scope modification not captured in the contract.

·   Identified the driving project risk associated with welding qualification by development of 4 scenario MS Project schedules, using backward and forward scheduling that proved specifications were high priority.

·   Established various comprehensive tracking spreadsheets used in multiple phases of a product cycle: from order placement, quality verification, transportation and final acceptance.

Position: Senior Project Scheduler       04/2007 - 05/2008

Role: Engineering Department Planner                                                                                             

·   Integrated 44 individual engineer schedules into an integrated MS Project departmental portfolio.

·   Provided management valuable reports and resource histograms to manage engineering work loads, anticipate future work, and prioritize team focus to meet department deadlines.

·   Accurate resource loading provided essential manpower requirements for accurate cost/time/resource information used for tendering packages.

·   Developed a valuable excel tool to assign quantitative metrics to engineering deliverables to insure department met targets and insured individual accountability. Developed and executed departmental training on tool.

 Position: Senior Business Analyst          08/2006 - 04/2007

Project: Project Management Six Sigma Green Belt Project

·   Devised and implemented a Global Resource forecasting method, based in share point, for Cameron Project Management Vice President. Tool was used by executive managers to manage skilled resources.

·   Moved Excel/SharePoint based format to Microsoft Enterprise. Consulted in 2011 on effort to migrate global Subsea resources onto P6 platform.

 

Foley’s Department Stores                                                                                    1997-2006    

Position: Senior Business Analyst

·   Cost and replenishment analyst responsible for strategic inventory placement for 100s of stores nationwide. Awarded departmental associate of the year 2004 & 2005

 

Perkin Elmer, Applied Bio-systems Division                                                                                  1992-1996  

Position: Field Specialist  

·   Biotechnology consultant and trainer providing onsite technical support optimizing equipment and process of DNA sequencing technology to industry and university researchers.

University of Cincinnati Medical School                                                   `1989-1992

Position: Research Facility Manager

·   Managed 3 research assistants, and all operations, of a full service genetic research DNA sequencing facility.

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Professional Courses                                                              

 

2014Primavera Risk Analysis – Basic (Shell)

2014 Palisades @Risk Cost Tool – Basic (Shell)

2012   Project Management Training – Intro (Cameron)

2011Intro to Subsea Hardware Systems – (Cameron)

2010Pert Master / Risk Analysis Course (Cameron)                                          

2008Primavera P6 Certified Course (Oracle)                                               

2007Six Sigma Lean: Green Belt I & II (Cameron)                                       

 

References: Provided upon request