KIM ROMERO

19 years of experience in construction management, project and program scheduling, and project cost and schedule controls. As a Sr. Scheduler, Mr. Romero has prepared resource- and cost-loaded master program and project-specific schedules for College and K-12 educational new construction buildings and facilities, new sewer, water and wastewater treatment plants, port & harbor civil projects, recreational facilities, TBM tunneling and military housing facilities. Kim is also experienced in review of contractors’ baseline and monthly schedule updates, evaluation of contractors’ requests for time extension, status reporting, funding allocation monitoring, forecasting, and earn value analysis, and preparation of owner parallel schedules. Kim is a certified Primavera user and is proficient in the use and review of state of the art scheduling software packages including Primavera P6 version 8.2, P3, Suretrak, Contractor and Microsoft Project. He has successfully completed projects with private, local, state and federal government owners including Port of Los Angeles, Port of Long Beach, Department of Water & Power, Los Angeles Unified School District, Los Angeles Community College District, City of Los Angeles Bureaus of Engineering, Disney Resort, Metropolitan Water District, and Army Corps of Engineers. Mr. Romero has provided scheduling for both Owner and Contractor.

 

Design - Build EXPO 2 Light Rail Transit Phase 2, Skanska/Rados             

SENIOR SCHEDULER CONSULTANT

Date: June 2014 to October 2014

Mr. Romero is currently serving as the Senior Scheduler Consultant for the Design - Build EXPO 2 Light Rail Transit Phase 2 project with a budget of 580 million dollars for 3 months assignment. The project consists of constructing 6.5 miles and 7 stations of Light Rail transit from the end of Expo 1 to the City of Santa Monica. Mr. Romero will be providing training, monitor, maintaining and make recommendations to the current schedule. Analyze Time Impact Analysis of the electrical subcontractors and fragnets schedule. 

 

Caltrans CMGC Pilot Program for Selected Projects             

SENIOR SCHEDULER CONSULTANT

Date: May 2014 to Present

Mr. Romero is currently serving as the Senior Scheduler for the Caltrans CMGC Pilot Program. The Caltrans CMGC Pilot program includes 6 distinguish projects with approx. budget of 110 billion dollars. Mr. Romero is involved with Independent Cost Estimate team (ICE) to provide scheduling services for the projects.  The Caltrans CMGC projects consists of the following design build and construction projects:

 

·   Oakland Bay Bridge Marine Foundation Removal

·   Realign Route 99 to Accommodate High Speed Rail (Fresno)

·   State Route 58 Convert 7.5 Miles 2- Lane Highway to 4- Lane Expressway

·   Reconstruction of Barton Road at Interchange 215 Freeway

·   Ferguson Slide Restoration Construction of 2 - Lane Highway on New Alignment  at Yosemite

·   Interstate 5 North Coast Corridor Improvements consisting of 27 Miles in San Diego County

 

South Wilmington Grade Separation, Port of Los Angeles, CA             

SENIOR SCHEDULER CONSULTANT

Date: December 2013 to Present

Mr. Romero is currently serving as the Senior Scheduler for the Port of Los Angeles – South Wilmington Grade Separation with a budget of 50.6 million. The project consist of constructing an approximately 4,100 foot long grade separation South Wilmington extending from the Trapac Terminal South of Harbor Bridges Boulevard near the intersection of Lagoon Avenue to Pier A Street West of the intersection with Fries Avenue. The project will include demolition and removals; asbestos abatement; constructing approaches, abutments, slopes, retaining walls and mechanically stabilized embankment (MSE) walls; driving precast/pre-stressed  concrete piles, placing footings on top of piles, add 7 foot diameter column piles on top of footings; constructing viaduct; constructing storm drain systems; relocating of sewer and water lines; install street lighting; installing traffic signals; install steel casings; installing landscape planting and irrigation. Kim is presently providing  schedule services for the project, Kim will be reviewing the contractor’s baseline and monthly schedule updates, preparing owner’s parallel schedules, monitoring the Contractors progress and comparing it to the latest approved schedule.  Kim  will be preparing the response to the Contractor  monthly written reports. Kim will also attends weekly progress meetings, verifies the three-week look-ahead schedules and compares them with the latest baseline and monthly schedule updates provided by the Contractor. Reviewing of the Contractor Time Impact Analysis fragnet schedules pertaining to contractor stated delay.

 

Anaheim Street Improvements, Port of Long Beach, CA             

SENIOR SCHEDULER CONSULTANT

Date: August 2013 to December 2014

Mr. Romero is currently serving as the Senior Scheduler for the Port of Long Beach – Anaheim Street Improvements with a budget of $ 9.6 million. This project consists of demolition, removals and re-install for project improvements which will include concrete curbs, gutters, slabs, asphalt concrete, PCC pavement, base material, curb ramps, sidewalks, driveways, landscaping and traffic signals. The project will also include grading, earthwork , providing CMB material on site, utilities relocations, modifications to the traffic signals, irrigation and landscaping. Mr. Romero responsible for reviewing the contractor’s baseline and monthly schedule updates, monitoring the contractor’s progress and comparing it to the latest approved schedule and preparing written reports. He also attends weekly progress meetings, verifies the three-week look-ahead schedules and compares them with the latest baseline and monthly schedule updates.

 

Berths B84-B87 Tesoro Facility Improvements, Port of Long Beach, CA             

SENIOR SCHEDULER CONSULTANT

Date: August 2013 to February 2014

Mr. Romero is currently serving as the Senior Scheduler for the Port of Long Beach – Berths B84 – B87 Tesoro Facility Improvements with a budget of 4.8 million. The project consists of demolition &, removal of partial marine structures, demolition & removal of partial fendering system, construct new fendering system, repair pre-stressed piles with FRP wrap, repair under deck and top deck concrete spalls , concrete repairs to seal product leakage and construct of new access bridges. Mr. Romero is responsible for reviewing the contractor’s baseline and monthly schedule updates, monitoring the contractor’s progress and comparing it to the latest approved schedule and preparing written reports. He also attends weekly progress meetings, verifies the three-week look-ahead schedules and compares them with the latest baseline and monthly schedule updates.

 

                                               Los Angeles Mission College, Sylmar, CA             

INTERIM PROJECTS CONTROLS MANAGER CONSULTANT

Date: April 1, 2013 – October, 2013

As a Project Controls Manager, Mr. Romero is managing the budgets and construction schedules for various projects budgets that total $ 450 million for Los Angeles Mission College. The projects include design-bid-build and design-build contracts for new construction and modernization/renovation projects from NTP through Commissioning and Closeout. He is responsible for creating,

updating, monitoring of budgets and schedules for Los Angeles Mission College master schedule, assisting the construction managers in placing their project schedules on the District dashboard for their monthly reports, reviewing the contractors’ baseline schedules for conformance with the schedule specification, monitoring contractors’ daily progress, reviewing and monitoring contractors’ monthly schedule updates, tracking project costs, preparing owner’s Time Impact Analysis and reviewing the contractors requests for time extensions, preparing cash flow projections and preparing schedule reports. Kim also monitors submittals, RFI's, long lead procurements and field orders that might impact the schedule.

 

Berth 102 – Rear Backland Development, Port of Los Angeles, CA

SENIOR SCHEDULER CONSULTANT

Date: Jan 2013 to February 2014

Mr. Romero had been serving as the Senior Scheduler for the Port of Los Angeles’ Berth 102 – Rear Backland Development with a budget of $ 29 million.

This project consists of constructing 27 acres backland, which includes reinforced portland cement concrete paving and trainstainer runways; asphalt concrete paving; crushed miscellaneous base; grading;  sewer system including boring and jacking under railroad tracks and dewatering; gas distribution system including boring and jackind under the railroad tracks; storm drain system including dewatering; electrical, telephone and communications systems, including electric rubber tire gantry (ERTG) infrastructure; striping, fencing and fencing on K-rails. Kim is responsible for reviewing the contractor’s baseline and monthly schedule updates, preparing owner’s parallel schedule, monitoring the contractor’s progress and comparing it to the latest approved schedule and preparing written reports. Kim also attends weekly progress meetings, verifies the three-week look-ahead schedules and compares them with the latest baseline and monthly schedule updates. Review of the contractor Time Impact Analysis fragnet schedule.

Berth 100 – Wharf South Extension & Backland Development, Port of Los Angeles, CA

SENIOR SCHEDULER CONSULTANT

Date: July 2012 to December 2013

Mr. Romero had been serving as the Senior Scheduler for the Port of Los Angeles’ Berth 100 – Wharf South Extension with a budget & $ 33 million. This project consists of construction of a reinforced concrete container wharf and backland area. The scope of work also includes construction of a rock dike and engineered fill requiring the installation of wick drains, both underwater and on land, a surcharge with instrumentation installation and monitoring and paving. Kim is responsible for reviewing the contractor’s baseline and monthly schedule updates, preparing owner’s parallel schedule, monitoring the contractor’s progress and comparing it to the latest approved schedule and preparing written reports. Kim also attends weekly progress meetings, verifies the three-week look-ahead schedules and compares them with the latest baseline and monthly schedule updates.

Ultraviolet (UV) Filtration Facility, Los Angeles Department of Water & Power, Sylmar, CA

SENIOR SCHEDULER CONSULTANT

Date: July 2012-August 2013

Kim Romero provided scheduling services for the design and construction of a new Ultraviolet (UV) Filtration Facility with a budget of $ 66 million, which is the biggest filtration facility West of the Mississippi. This project is being constructed with the DWP construction workforce. Mr. Romero’s responsibilities include developing and updating detailed resource-loaded project schedule, working with DWP Construction team to optimize schedule and sequencing of activities, equipment staging, resource planning, procurement activities, and working with Consultant design team to develop 4-D (NavisWorks) model. Kim provides recommendations for schedule optimization, which is required due to critical project completion date. 

 

                                          Los Angeles Unified School District, Porter Ranch, CA

SENIOR SCHEDULER CONSULTANT

Date: October 15, 2010 – July, 2012

Mr. Romero provided scheduling services to the Los Angeles Unified School District Valley Region Span K8 #2 Porter for construction of seven different buildings totaling 55,000 square feet with a value of $33 million. He was responsible for reviewing the contractor’s baseline and monthly schedule updates, preparing owner’s parallel schedule, monitoring the contractor’s progress and comparing it to the latest approved schedule, reviewing and reporting on the contractors Time Impact Analysis fragnet schedules, and preparing written reports. He conducted daily job walks to monitor the contractor’s progress of work and updated the Owner’s parallel schedule based on the weekly job walks. Kim also attended weekly progress meetings, verified the three-week look-ahead schedules and compared them with the monthly schedule updates.

                                     

 

                                               Los Angeles Mission College, Sylmar, CA             

SENIOR SCHEDULER CONSULTANT

Date: December 20, 2008 – October, 2013

As a Senior Scheduler, Mr. Romero is manage the construction schedule for a 30,000 SF and $42 million Health and PE Fitness Center, a 25,000 SF and $47 million Family Consumer Studies Building, a 38,000 SF and $77 million East Campus Science Building, a 22,000 SF and $18 million Media Arts Building, and campus wide modernization and renovation projects totaling $15 million for Los Angeles Mission College. The projects include design-bid-build and design-build contracts for new construction and modernization/renovation projects from NTP through Commissioning and Closeout. He is responsible for creating, updating and monitoring the Los Angeles Mission College master schedule, assisting the construction managers in placing their project schedules on the District dashboard for their monthly reports, reviewing the contractors’ baseline schedules for conformance with the schedule specification, monitoring contractors’ daily progress, reviewing and monitoring contractors’ monthly schedule updates, tracking project costs, preparing owner’s Time Impact Analysis and reviewing the contractors requests for time extensions, preparing cash flow projections and preparing schedule reports. Kim also monitors submittals, RFI's, long lead procurements and field orders that might impact the schedule.

 

City of Los Angeles Bureau of Engineering (LABOE), Los Angeles, CA

SENIOR SCHEDULER Consultant

Date: May 2005- February 2008

Kim provided scheduling services to LABOE for Lower North Outfall Sewer Rehab Project valued at $67 million. This project involved sewer renovation which consisted of bulk cleaning, pressure washing, excavation of shafts, cast-in-place concrete, and soil injection grouting. Responsibilities included reviewing baseline schedule and monthly schedule updates for conformance to the scheduling specifications; evaluating progress of construction; verifying actual start and finish dates; verifying individual activity durations and sequencing through reconciliation with the inspector’s daily logs; and preparing written schedule analysis reports. He monitored activities that might have interfered with third parties and provided schedule update information at the weekly jobsite meeting, and also prepared owners Time Impact Analysis fragnet schedules.

                                         

                                                                                  

                                               Disney Project Management, Anaheim, CA

                                           SCHEDULER CONSULTANT

Date: November 2004 - May 2005

In this role, Mr. Romero was reviewing monthly schedules for Steam Train Ride upgrades, Storefront upgrades, Tiki Room Renovation, Jungle Cruise upgrades and Splash Mountain rail upgrades at Disneyland Resort for the 50th Anniversary milestone. This effort included preparing written comments and recommendations; reviewing contractor construction schedules for conformity to the specifications, durations, activity logics, and critical activities; reviewing actual construction progress; attend weekly progress meetings to provide information to the project managers and the construction manager regarding progress and schedule issues. He also created what if schedule analysis due to delays to late submittals, RFI’s and long lead procurement for this project.

 

 

 

 

 

U.S. Army Corp of Engineers Los Angeles District, Los Angeles, CA

SCHEDULER

Date: April 2004 - November 2004

Mr. Romero was assigned to multiple civil and military facility projects, including waterways, dams, streams, channels, barracks, mess halls, and military housing valued at over $200 million. In providing scheduling support through all project development phases, he developed the project cost and schedule baselines, established resource loading based on detailed work scope, identified variances, monitored and updated the cost and schedule status, and provided monthly reporting. He oversaw a staff of four project control specialists and provided Primavera schedule training to USACE staff.

 

Los Angeles Unified School District – District A, Los Angeles, CA

OWNER AUTHORIZED REPRESENTATIVE

Date: August 2004 - October 2004

Kim was Owner Authorized Representative for the renovation and modernization of 4 elementary schools. For this over $200 million project, Kim managed the preparation of bid documents, conducting Job-Start meetings, monitoring contractor’s schedule of values, and developing summary construction schedules and cash flow diagrams. He also maintained information in Expedition, including RFI’s, RFP’s, Submittals and Change Orders; processed contractor payment applications; monitored cost and schedule status; and conducted weekly progress meetings and job site visits. He was certified as an OAR through the LAUSD training program.

 

Chevron Commercial Projects, Los Angeles, CA

Contract SCHEDULER

Date: May 2004 - October 2004

Mr. Romero responsibilities included the EPC baseline planning, scheduling updates, monthly forecasting, cost performance reporting, forecasting project cost-at-completion, attending weekly project meetings, and providing progress reporting information to Chevron on this project that valued at $50 million. 

 

Hacienda La Puente Unified School District, City of Industry, CA

SCHEDULER/DOCUMENT CONTROLS MANAGER

Date: November 2003- June 2004

Mr. Kim Romero was Document Controls Manager/Scheduler for the renovation and modernization of four elementary schools at Hacienda La Puente Unified School District totaling $125 million. He processed and logged RFI’s, RFP’s, Submittals and Change Orders into Prolog. He provided cost and schedule analysis to Project Managers, and reviewed cost and schedule performance baselines against schedule updates. Kim also provided cost and schedule reporting to the construction managers, and oversaw a staff of 4 document controls engineers.

 

City of Los Angeles Department of Public Works, Los Angeles, CA

SCHEDULER

February 2001- November 2003

Mr. Romero was assigned to the construction of East Central Interceptor Sewer Tunnel Project which was 10 miles long, which consisted using 4 TBM tunneling equipment and with valued at $265 million. His services included reviewing baseline schedules and monthly schedule updates for conformance to the contract requirements; evaluating progress; verifying actual start and finish

dates; verifying individual activity durations and sequencing through reconciliation with the inspector’s daily log; identifying critical and sub-critical activities; and reviewing the contractor’s plan to mitigate delays. He also reviewed activities that might have interfaced with third parties and provided schedule update information at the weekly jobsite meeting. Kim also prepared Time Impact Analysis and reviewed contractors’ requests for time extensions.

 

Los Angeles Unified School District

SCHEDULER

As a Scheduler, Kim was responsible for consulting with the LAUSD consultant 3DI on cost control and scheduling issues. He provided review and analysis for performance against established baselines vs. the schedule update and prepared monthly progress updates to LAUSD under BB Bond Program.

 

Los Angeles Police Department, Los Angeles and Valley 911 Center

SCHEDULER

Kim provided cost control and scheduling services for the construction of 911 facilities valued at $22 million. Responsibilities included review and analysis of baseline cost and schedule in comparison to the forecasts, prepare monthly progress reports to LAPD, and review monthly invoices.  He attended the City of Los Angeles’ monthly technical steering committee meetings to report on project schedule and cost status.

 

Metropolitan Water District

SCHEDULER

Mr. Romero served as scheduler for over $100 million Metropolitan Water District’s dam renovations at Inland Feeder and San Diego 6. He developed and maintained construction cost and schedule information at all project phases. Kim was responsible for cost loading the schedules, monitoring costs, manpower analysis, performance measurement analysis, resource analysis, overhead and escalation rates, and implementing requirements to establish performance against baselines. He also prepared weekly and monthly schedules, performed cost analysis, and prepared reports.

 

North Island Naval Station Coronado, Long Beach Naval Station, 32nd Street Naval Station and Camp Pendleton

COST ENGINEER/SCHEDULER

Kim Romero served as a Cost Engineer and Scheduler for construction projects at the Naval Marine facilities. Kim tracked cost and updated the schedule on a weekly basis for environmental projects related to soil contamination removal, construction of Vapor Extraction units, demolition of existing buildings and

removal of underground storage tanks at Long Beach Naval Facility ($11 million), Camp Pendleton ($15 million), North Island ($20 million), and 32nd Street Naval Station ($11 million). He was responsible for cost loading schedules, man power analysis; earn value analysis, tracking costs on a daily basis and developing monthly cost burn rate, and prepared weekly and monthly schedule and cost analysis reports. Kim also provided training for newly hired cost engineers and schedulers.