Summary

 

 

Experienced in various phases of the design and implementation of construction: Highly competent P6 Scheduler, Project Controls Specialist, Contract Coordinator, & Project Planner; with experience in turnarounds, small cap projects and multi-million dollar contracts for major project revamps.  Experience includes, post-award contract management, scheduling and administration from construction sites, sustain & insure all contractual issues of scope, cost, on time delivery and fulfillment of services (from point of project inception to completion). My experience encompasses a willingness and drive to challenge our people to work safely, with a flawless scheduled execution plan; to be productive, deliver quality on schedule, and within budget.

This experience is supported by 15 years of experience.  I have worked in areas of field coordinating, field engineering, including system design for projects (constructability) Project Planning, Project Controls (Field Accounting), & P6 Scheduling. I have the Ability to work with complex software applications, including Access Databases and interfaces with MS Excel and Primavera 6, & SAP. I have been in a position to support several aspects of various projects, including the development of work plans, scheduling plans to work in the field, coordinating materials according to schedule, documenting & tracking cost, reporting progress and resolving conflicts in design and construction related issues surrounding the installation of mechanical and piping.

 

I am a TEAM oriented player. I believe in asking questions, helping others, and I am committed to the goals of the projects WE work together.

 

 

 

SUMMARY OF QUALIFICATIONS/LICENSES/CERTIFICATIONS

 

 

 

Proficient in Microsoft Project 2002, 2003 and 2007

Proficient in Primavera version 6.2 & R8.3

Proficient in (all areas) Microsoft Office

Proficient in SAP

 

·   Very Strong In All Aspects Of MS Software,

·   Access - Long-term support of Microsoft Access database programs to meet information and Turnaround Project Storage and Reporting needs at individual and corporate levels. Able to Perform Queries and Sorts for reporting needs.

·   Excel – utilize excel to plan, create staffing plans, track cost with graphs & curves and, use as an interface with Access,

Primavera 6 & SAP.

·   SAP- Depending on “right of SAP use” I am able to plan work, purchase material, track deliveries, Track Previous WO’s to Jobs according to Equipment (Function Location) provide current hours & expenses to P.O & W.O. Additionally, I am capable of entering various cost, invoices, and labor & use and pull reports specific to needs from P.O, Charges, & unpaid entries

·   Primavera 6 – Strong experience in building and maintaining schedules of 1,000 - 19,000 tasks. Experience includes, project creation, setting the baseline, tracking progress, comparing progress with baseline & reviewing the schedule and performing analysis to validate the schedule, & create custom reports for project needs.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Employment Experience

 

12/14 - PresentLead Scheduler Version 6.2 & 8.3 – Innovative Turnaround Controls (ITC)

Dow Plant B – Freeport Texas (Multiple TA Projects)

LEN/GMA, POLY 4 TR 2, & Major Outage That Included 3 Units (EPI/HOCL/DCH/TCP)

 

•                              Ensure that while scheduling efforts are applied, that the turnaround window is preserved
•                              Sequence of systems availability for work and return to operations is achieved
•                              Manpower is properly assigned and leveled to avoid significant swings in headcount
•                              Schedule is sufficiently detailed to define the work to be performed
•                              Critical paths are clearly defined and resourced to meet the timetable.
•                              Assure that meaningful schedule reviews are performed with Planners, Coordinators, and Operations to achieve realistic and achievable schedules.
•                              Resolve schedule conflicts that will prevent the achievement of the timetable
•                              Assure that multiple contractors working in the turnarounds will be scheduled accordingly to avoid conflicts
•                              Assure that work by different contractors and project/maintenance work is linked to assure smooth transition in custody of equipment or systems.
•                              Keep the Turnaround Management Team updated with the status progress and forecasts on a daily basis.
•                              Provide the turnaround Project Managers with daily progress reports
•                              Attend all daily execution meetings and provide insight into the interpretation of the scheduling data
•                              Assure that scheduling deliverables are met during the duration of execution.
•                              Analyze the schedule, validate the progress and forecasts  to assure that discovery work or scope changes are added to the schedule and that the execution strategy supports the completion of this additional work.
•                              Define any major impacts to the schedule and share a mitigation effort

 

 

03/14 – 12/14Sr. Scheduler Version 6.2 & 8.3 – ORCAS Project Controls

Air Liquide

As the Senior Project Scheduler, I reported directly to the Operations Director. I work with minimal supervision and administer all elements of multiple Project Schedules including the Master Schedule that supports successful program/project execution.

 

· I work closely with the Operations Director to support the successful development and implementation of Project Schedules

· Prepare integrated Master Schedule for review of all Project Schedules

· Prepare, Update & Maintain Pipeline Schedule, Operations Readiness Schedule

· Update and maintain Project schedule (Turnaround & New Construction) as per contract requirements through interface with Operations Director & Project Manager.

· Provide critical activity instructions and/or alerts as needed

· Prepare, review, and issue schedule reporting

· Create Manpower Histograms & Progress Curves

· Assess schedule risks and opportunities and feed information to Operations Director & Project Manager.

· Track and update all deliverables continuously, including Contract Deliverables

· Support the project close out process and ensure project closeout in a timely manner

· Implement and support the development of scheduling standards and procedures

· Support upper management in their strategic planning through data acquisition, critical analysis, and report preparation

 

 

 

 

 

03/13 - 03/14Project Lead Planner – Scheduler Version 6.2 - Innovative Turnaround Controls

LyondellBassel Houston Refinery – OUE (Outages & Unplanned Events) & Capital Projects -- under 5 million -- Houston, Texas

 

•                              Involved in Development of  the overall budget, staffing plans, & schedule durations of all assigned T/A & Capital Projects
•                              Responsible for:
•                              Detailed work scope activities, with craft type, estimated hours, and plans within the Schedule.
•                              Develop schedule logic in Primavera to efficiently execute scope of work and resource level the plan
•                              Work with Project Leads & management to ensure contract milestones and tasks are properly integrated
•                              Develop baseline schedules and schedule related performance indicators for monitoring of performance
•                              Work collaboratively with schedule/outage/project management team members to optimize execution of the outage
•                              Keep project/outage management personnel appraised of critical path/near critical path schedule status and issues; provide recommendations for schedule improvement and recovery plans
•                              Implement an effective T/A & Capital Project Planning process for each Project
•                              Key elements of this process include:
•                              Detailed planning of the defined scope.
•                              Development of shutdown, decontamination and startup plans and procedures for each TA 
•                              Management of a addendum work process
•                              Development contingency planning for each T/A & Capital Project
•                              Appropriate benchmarking with scope and schedule challenges to achieve cost and duration efficiency and effectiveness.
•                              Management of productivity measures.
•                              Lessons Learned process for continuous improvement.
•                              Works closely with Operations, Lead Planners, Coordinators, Planners & Execution Contractors to insure effective staffing
•                              Insure that capital project activities are effectively integrated with the T/A maintenance work plan.
•                              Involved in the development the overall contracting strategy for the TA.
•                              Works closely with the Lyondell Leads & TA/Capital Projects Manager on overall strategy and integration with other upcoming events.

 

011/11 - 3/13Project Controls Specialist – Scheduler Version 6.2 – AltairStrickland Turnaround Group

LyondellBassel Houston Refinery – 2013 Coker TAR_ Coke Drum Change Out -- Houston, Texas

 

·   Create overall project schedule with resource loading

·   Manage and supervise the schedule, field change orders, and other project support functions and activities, as instructed by management. creation, maintenance, updating and analysis of project schedules and man-hour/cost budgets versus actual and committed values, progress measurement, forecasted man-hours/costs at completion, cost estimating, and issuing reports to the Project Team, Management, and the Client, as required.

·   Responsible for setting up the control systems for the project to record, maintain and report original and current schedules, actual expended, estimate-to-complete, estimate-at-completion amounts, and their variances against the budget.

·   Responsible for gathering, consolidating, producing, and incorporating into reports, all required schedule inquires, management of change progress, progress and performance data and charts, and ensuring they are current and accurate, including revising the schedule to reflect actual progress, and issue reports as required on-time.

·   Responsible for analyzing the schedule for anticipated, as well as current, situations to proactively focus management’s attention on known or potential areas of concern. Additional duties include tracking and incorporating out of scope work activities.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

07/11 - 11/11Project Cost Accountant – AltairStrickland Turnaround Group develop

CHS Refinery – NHT/Coker (TA 2011) Laurel, Montana

·   Primary Role is this position was to be accountable for the ongoing Cost Analysis of project (WBS break down of Work Orders to detailed cost of individual Work Lists tied to a Work Order), and tracing cost back to daily project activities.

·   monitor those cost-effective data accumulation systems needed to provide an appropriate level of costing information to Project management & Client

·   Utilizing Access Database- to create, update, and review data accumulation and reporting systems

·   Creating and reviewing the controls needed for data accumulation and reporting systems; updating Labor, Material and Rental costs – Reimbursable and Non.

·   Control, track and progress all Sub-Contractor cost and labor efforts throughout project duration

·   Control of Invoices and review variances to resolve issues; to insure proper billing to client and value to Altair Strickland

·   Track daily cost to P.Os and overall W.O Numbers/ WL Items for Project to insure limits were not exhausted

·   Create and Estimate FCO’s for client approval and track actual cost to FCO’s 

·   Create RFI’s to confirm the interpretation of a detail, specification or note on the construction drawings or to secure a documented directive or clarification from client that is needed , and review estimated and actual costs for inaccuracies

·   Reports to management invoices to date and total cost to client

·   Report on periodic variances and their causes, focusing in exacting on reporting variances

·   Interface with P6 and Excel to report 3-Part curve (MP, PF, Productivity Summary)

·   Procurement Agent on All incoming and outgoing purchases and rentals

·   Update Daily Cost and Billing from field purchases and rentals

·   Upon Close-out, reconcile all purchases, labor cost, sub-contractor, and 3^rd party invoices to insure all were corresponding for Altairstrickland maximum profitability and within client contract stipulation agreements.

05/11 - 7/11Project Estimator & Planner – AltairStrickland Turnaround Group

Home Office – (Various Projects) La Porte, Texas

·   Identify cost and schedule

·   Create and use planning documents, such as specifications and project plans.

·   Perform a detailed task analysis of the work to be performed.

·   Use more than one method to arrive at an estimate, and look for a midpoint among all of them.

·   Identify a set of constraints, and assumptions to accompany calculations, which would bound the conditions under which estimates would be significant. (Anything that occurs outside of those constraints I would considered out of scope.)

·   If the proposed budget or schedule seemed inadequate to do the work, I would propose adjusting upward or downward According to project scoping criteria: cost, schedule, quality, and features.

·   Develop contingency plans by prioritizing the deliverables

·   Reduce the risk of running out of time, resources, and budget during a project

02/11 - 5/11Project Cost Accountant – AltairStrickland Turnaround Group

SunCor Refinery - FCC (TA 2011) Denver, Colorado

Assigned as Cost Accountant for FCCU T/A with a 3 Million Dollar budget, Three (3) week T/A

 

·   Primary Role is this position was to be accountable for the ongoing analysis of project cost, and tracing cost back to daily project activities. Monitor cost-effective data accumulation systems needed to provide an appropriate level of costing information to management

·   Utilizing Access Database-Create and review data accumulation and reporting systems

·   Utilize SAP to bill client;  per invoice to individual P.Os

·   Investigate Invoice variances and resolve issues to insure proper billing to client and value to AltairStrickland

·   Track daily cost to P.Os and overall W.Os for project, to insure limits were not exhausted 

·   Update daily cost and billing from field purchases and rentals

·   Review standard and actual costs for inaccuracies

 

 

 

07/10 - 02/11Project Planner – The Turnaround Management Company

The DOW Chemical Company - Rohm & Haas (N AREA TA 2010) Deer Park, TX

Assigned as Project Planner for Emergency T/A with a 6 Million Dollar budget, Six (6) weeks to plan with 360 Packages & 62 Addendums which was desired to be planned and coordinated into an eleven day window; in which we (The Turnaround Team) successfully planned and executed.

 

·   The primary responsibility of this position is to plan Turnaround activities in assigned operations areas and lead the Turnaround Team in planning and executing incident-free, on-schedule and on-budget turnaround.

·   Lead a cross-functional role in the Turnaround Team to develop work lists, schedules and job plans for each job.

·   Work lists were developed with a team to build an Access Database that interfaced with Both SAP & Excel.

·   Queried the planning database (Access) for output to Excel & SAP

·   This database was utilized for all project planning, materials and as an interface to the scheduler.

·   This includes development of the plan, scheduling of internal and external resources and preparing the area to manage the execution of the plan.

·   Coordinated the development work packages for each work order that includes safety & permit requirements, work scope, defined individual tasks, man-hour and material requirements, contractor, special equipment needs, etc. and applicable component records.

·   The Maintenance Turnaround Planner would monitor and implement corrective actions to control the budget, timeline and quality of work executed.

 

12/09 - 05/10Construction Superintendent – Fluor Power Services, Atlanta, GA

Southern Company - Georgia Power

I was assigned as the night Field Superintendent for two (2) new natural gas-fired electric generating units.  The overall value of the project was at an estimated $200 million.

·   Supervised night shift construction and reported directly to Nightshift Construction Manager.  Monitored construction of concrete placements and equipment placements conducted during the evening hours to facilitate delivery of safe and efficient positioning.

·   Provided technical assistance to contractors and checked construction to verify that specifications and drawing requirements were met.  Provided oversight for union employee relations and managing and mitigating issues per the GPPMA and reporting all issues to the Construction Manager.

·   Responsible for reviewing for accuracy and distribution of progress turnovers.  Coordinated and monitored Contractors’ activity assignments and production.

·   Coordinated and managed material deliveries from lay down yard to unit.

 

 

06/09 - 12/09Planner (Mechanical, Pipe & Civil) – S&B Constructors, Houston, TX

PL Propylene LLC, a PetroLogistics Co. Capitol Planner in existing Olefins plant.

Provided support to the transfer of connections to existing equipment from EPC Group Construction; on the 1.2 billion pound capacity propane dehydrogenation plant to produce propylene.

·   Prepared packages that were capable of delivering to project objectives.

·   Assured logic and alignment with new construction objectives.

·   Monitored and reported on progress against the plan and made changes as required.

·   Developed recovery packages and contingency plans in order to meet changed objectives.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

06/08 - 05/09         Sub-Contract Coordinator/Superintendent – Fluor/TRS, Moses Lake, WA

Fluor O&M/TRS/Renewable Energy Corporation (REC)

 

The FBR-B Second Generation Reactor Project was an upgraded design of an existing pilot plant that would be, after a year of R&D, the model for a new multi-million dollar facility.  The Filter Wash Modification Project was a revamp of an existing reactor filter wash system.  The process was upgraded to allow for ease of use for operations, to improve system efficiency, to increase caustic capacity and to be more maintenance friendly.  The project was exclusively contract management with a blend of union and non-union contractors.  The total of both projects was valued at $17 million.

 

·   Duties included review and response to RFI's, (Contractor’s Request For Information), review of contractor’s progress with respect to schedule and direct contractors to adjust manpower and equipment to stay focused on critical path activities.

·   Reviewed daily work with respect to drawings and specifications for quality control.

·   Worked closely with the design engineering team to resolve interference problems and get modifications approved quickly; provided minor design changes for civil and structural interferences, as needed, to allow work to proceed without delays.

·   Kept the project on schedule and minimized impacts to contractors.

·   Monitored receipt of owner supplied equipment and worked with suppliers to furnish missing or backordered items.  Coordinated supplier personnel, as needed, for equipment modifications or checkout and start-up support

·   Reported directly to the Construction Manager for status of design and construction issues; and inspected contractors' work for conformance with design drawings and contract requirements.

·   Observed contractor’s workforce to assure construction activities were conducted within the requirements of OSHA/Fluor regulations.

 

09/06-06/08Job Representative/Superintendent – Fluor/TRS, Texas City, TX

P2S/TRS/Fluor/BP Refinery PS3B Revamp

Productivity Coordinator/Job Representative/Turnover Coordinator/Sub-Contractor Liaison

A $1 billion investment to improve safe operations and environmental performance, and renovate a 27-mile site steam system.

Assigned to a Job Representative (Productivity Specialist) position, I worked with off-site Fluor Production Managers to calculate real-time field production levels.

·   Performed constructability studies of the planning, documentation and training needed to ensure an incident-free, efficient transition from construction to commissioning stage of the PS3B project.

·   Made notes and presented to project management viable solutions to maximize the work flow process from the field into various departments within Team PS3B.

·   Upon success and closing of the project, I was assigned to help in the turnover process, and I maintained close communications with Sub-Contractor (JVIC), Fluor Management and BP to ensure handover system definitions were well understood by the Sub-Contractors, and that a sequential, prioritized, handover process was utilized in the transition from construction to close-out.

·   Effectively planned, prioritized, guided and tracked the completion of multiple packages and tasks for Sub-Contractor.

 

06/06 - 09/06Piping Foreman, JV Industrial Company, Coffeyville Resources Refinery Coffeyville, KS

 

05/05 - 04/06Piping Foreman, HB Construction Corp., Texas City, TX BP Refinery

 

12/03 - 12/05         BM Foreman PSC/P2S (Fluor Integrated Services) Texas City, Texas

Plant-wide (BP-Special Projects) PS3B Maintenance

01/01 - 09/02Field Coordinator, Austin Industrial, Texas City, TX

Field Coordinator (Valero’s Plant Revamp Turnaround)

 

 

 

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