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Sr. Project Controls Specialist

Location:
Mississauga, ON, L4T 1Z3, Canada
Posted:
August 08, 2013

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Deborah van Erdelen

**** ***** *****, ***********, *******, L4T 1Z3

Cell: 647-***-**** Home: 905-***-****

E-mail: ab30va@r.postjobfree.com

Career Background:

I have over ten years of project services experience in the mining,

pharmaceutical, forestry, and oil & gas industries. I also have over

ten years production control experience in the manufacturing industry.

In addition to my current qualifications I have completed training on

Primavera P6, Prism, FDCost and Convero, Microsoft Excel and Access,

SAP, and Leadership Development.

Qualifications:

2012 FDCost v8 (Fluor in-house training)

2009 Honours Bachelor of Commerce (Laurentian University)

2008 Primavera Project Planner 6.0 Project Management

Module (SAR Systems)

2008 Prism Project Manager 5.1 Level 3 (ARES Corporation)

2007 Primavera Project Planner 5 and Timberline (AMEC in-

house training)

Interests & Hobbies:

Cooking, Camping, Squash

Career History:

Aug 2011 - June 2013

FLUOR

Rail - Simandou RTIO Project

Project Controls Lead - Rail CTL

The project is a green field development of an iron ore mine complete

with port, rail and infrastructure facilities, to support the

transportation of iron ore along a 650km railway. Responsible for

weekly updates of sub-consultant labour and expense costs, monthly

updates of project status, financials, cost reports, CFM commitments

with incurred and cash flows, unrecorded liabilities along with

variance reporting, and quarterly updates of resource staffing plans.

As required: advance invoice preparation, input to SAP WBS generation,

budget creation, change management, review and analyze project

schedule, detailed review and approval of sub-consultant costs and

supporting documentation, review and approval of construction and

service contracts, reviewing contractor PEP, monthly reports,

schedules, progress data and invoices.

Jan 2010 - Aug 2011

VALE

Voisey's Bay Post Ovoid Studies

Sr. Project Controls Specialist

The projects are FEL1 and FEL2 studies of potential underground mining

opportunities. Duties include preparing and maintaining the annual

project budgets. Ensuring Prism is up to date with cost budgets,

accruals, payments, contracts and percent complete. Producing

Primavera schedules for FEL2 through to the Execution phase that align

with the project work breakdown structure. Monthly reporting of the

current FEL schedules, cash actual figures as well as forecasts,

accruals, expenditure actual figures and forecasts, remaining

commitments, safety performance and future project activities.

Reviewing of vendor invoices for proper coding and ensuring payment is

made.

2008 - May 2009

AKER METALS, a division of Aker Solutions Canada Inc.

NICO FEED Project, Fortune Minerals

Sr. Project Controls Specialist

The project consists of front-end engineering design of a cobalt-gold-

bismuth open-pit mine and potentially an underground mine. Duties

include contract administration, change management, progress

measurement, review of expenses and invoices, creation of cash flow

and monthly management reports, maintaining a neutral cash position.

1999 - 2008

AMEC

Kearl Project, Imperial Oil (May 2007 - July 2008)

Project Controls Lead

This is a front-end distributed engineering design project for an oil

sands mining, pipeline and upgrading project. Responsibilities

include coordinating, managing and reporting the duties of estimating,

scheduling, cost control, project accounting and document control

staff of the Utilities portion of the project. Also includes analysis

of engineering earned value progress, manpower, budgets and forecasts,

change management, risk mitigation, project financial forecasting and

reporting, as well as ensuring alignment with the project schedule and

invoice. Travel to Calgary was required.

Victor Diamond Mine Project, De Beers Canada Inc. (Sept 2004 - May

2007)

Project Accounting / Cost Control

This multi-million dollar project encompassed the permit, front-end

engineering design and detailed design phases of an open-pit diamond

mine located in Attawapiskat, Ontario. Duties and responsibilities

included:

o Monthly cost reviews to confirm completion estimates, accruals,

commitments, and discuss variances and upcoming expenditures not in

original budget.

o Preparing and maintaining the project budget/actual flows - committed,

incurred (GAAP), cash (actual) for the life of the project.

o Project costs reports, month end close out, consolidating Owner's costs

and reconciling the cost system with client cost reports.

o Reporting GAAP expenditures, deposits and cash flows, legal costs, fixed

assets, asset retirement, PST, foreign currency adjustments and cash,

contingencies and contractual obligations.

o Supervising entry of client invoices and the cheque run. Preparing month-

end cost tables for the client monthly financial report as well as their

year-end tax schedules.

o Reporting the monthly AMEC project financial review and reforecast.

Tissue Project - Winder, Irving Tissue (March 2004 - Aug 2004)

Site Project Accounting / Site Cost Control

This was a winder rebuild project. My duties were to verify invoices,

effort hours, expenses, subcontracts, purchase orders and change

notices, forecasting of cash flow.

TorPharm Expansion Project, Apotex (August 2002 - March 2004)

Site Document Control / Plant Start-up Commissioning

Apotex expanded their pharmaceutical plant to include an additional

~360,000 sq ft. I spent 1-1/2 years at site document control followed

by a few months of participation in commissioning of the building,

while practicing the industry's good documentation practices and

marking up final drawings for as built status.

Several Tissue Projects, Procter & Gamble (Feb 1999 - April 2001)

Site Project Accounting / Site Cost Control

Rebuild projects varied in size from a few thousand to several million

dollars. Major activities included monitoring project budgets using

Microsoft Access and SAP Project Management module. Creation and

entry of client purchase orders and change orders using SAP.



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