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United States Project Controls

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Connecticut
Posted:
January 09, 2024

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Shahzad Hussain

+1-587-***-****

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United States

· A well-rounded, dynamic Project Controls Manager working in United States with 23 years of experience in planning, scheduling, cost controls, progress reporting, risk and change management, project control process improvement, master scheduling, construction management, project coordination on multi million projects in infrastructure, utilities & energy, oil & gas, pipeline, LNG, shale gas development, IT, thermal power and manufacturing industry.

· Worked with multidiscipline teams comprising of internal and external stake holders including client, program management, engineering, construction, permitting and environment, corporate real estate and land acquisition, finance, design consultants, general contractor and sub-contractors.

· Providing leadership to the team of schedulers, cost controllers and progress specialist to develop, maintain and update integrated resource loaded program schedules.

· Hands on experience to perform schedule delay analysis, develop mitigation plans, conduct schedule quality checks, create baseline schedules, develop earned value management reporting.

SKILLS

· Project planning and scheduling

· Primavera P6 (Release 18.06), Microsoft Project, Acumen Fuse, SAP

· TILOS, Acumen Fuse and Milestone Professional

· PERT and CPM scheduling

· Work Break Down Structure (WBS) development

· Change Management (MOC)

· Risk Management

· Cost Management and progress reporting

· Earned Value Management (EVM), SPI, CPI, Cost Reporting, Cost and Schedule alignment

· KPI Dashboard

· Procedure and process development

EDUCATION

Master of Business Administration (MBA) May 2015 - Sep 2017

University of Fredericton, Fredericton, NB

B.Sc. MECHANICAL Engineering Mar 1993 - Oct 1998

University of Engineering and Technology, Lahore

Project Management Professional (PMP) Mar 2023 - Mar 2023

PMI

EXPERIENCE

Project Controls Manager Nov 2021 - Present

Potential Engineering Services (United States)

· Leading team of schedulers, cost controller and progress specialist to delivery of planning, scheduling, cost management, risk analysis, progress reporting and estimating functions.

· Coordinate with various stake holders to review schedules and ensure scope of work is incorporated and full alignment with bid proposal documents of contactors.

· Overseeing cost controllers to ensure cost and schedule alignment.

· Developed and implemented earned value management report templates to track capital program.

· Providing cost and schedule inputs to the capital delivery team on project change orders.

· Performing schedule quality analysis and present analysis to the project management team.

· Providing leadership support to give inputs on fiscal year plans.

· Playing leadership role to interface with PMO, capital delivery, finance, and operation teams.

· Responsible to implement risk management system in compliance with contract conditions and Shoreline’s procedures; monitor and enforce the risk management system for assigned projects.

· Responsible to communicate, train and generally ensure full understanding by project staff of project controls processes and their applicable responsibilities.

· Oversee the review and analyze the project control reports with the project control leads and project team and suggest corrective actions to maintain productivity.

· Providing project controls support to PMO team to develop and implement project control procedures.

Scheduling and Reporting Lead Nov 2018 - Oct 2021

Potential Engineering Services

· Developed and tracked LNG pipeline construction baseline plans and schedules at level 1, level 2, level 3 and Level 4 in P6 and TILOS along with scheduling narrative as per project scope.

· Worked with program management team to review schedule conflicts and work on corrective actions.

· Actively participated in progress reconciliation meetings to validate field progress.

· Developed and presented flow charts for permitting and compliance packages approval processes.

· Analyzed pipeline construction's production issues by comparing actual production with plan production rate to provide technical support on schedule recovery plans.

· Track project budget as per EPC purchase orders.

· Perform schedule time impact analysis by comparing with project schedule baseline.

· Proactively identified project trends and deviations from original plan.

· Developed and implemented project work breakdown structure and schedule interface points.

· Reviewed contractors bid and provided inputs on project controls documents.

· Performed schedule forensic audit to align budget data with project scope of work.

Senior Project Controls Advisor Jan 2014 - Oct 2018

Kitimate LNG Pipeline (Chevron)

· Hands on experience using P6 and TILOS to develop, update and maintain engineering, procurement, construction (EPC), schedules for LNG midstream, Shale Gas appraisal and development programs.

· Lead Interactive planning sessions to identify deliverables as per scope of work, define dependencies, prepared activity duration estimates and align with the approved program budget.

· Coordinated with Engineering contractor, prime contractor, and construction management team to ensure high level internal plan is aligned with contractors detailed plans.

· Performed construction schedule quality analysis to ensure construction schedule logic, tasks relationship, leads, lags, constraints, float, out of sequence tacks, critical path integrity and baseline execution index (BEI).

· Supported Program Manager to prepare Project Initiation Document (PID), Project Execution Plan (PEP), Project Closure Report (PCR), Request for proposal (RFP).

· Provided inputs for Project Controls Plan, Project's overall contracting strategy, CBS, MOC, type and levels of construction schedule and project progress reporting.

· Analyze project controls reports, present findings, and provide recommendations to the project controls team.

Integrated Asset Planner Jan 2012 - Jan 2014

ConocoPhillips

· Developed and updated integrated asset plan of sustaining capital program.

· Worked with various stake holders to implement proposed changes.

· Evaluated project schedule integrity, effectiveness and appropriateness of planning and scheduling information collected from key stakeholders and conducted reviews to align with project scope.

· Performed schedule critical path (CPM) analysis and develop and update long range plans.

· Developed long range and short-range plans to align with company's strategic plan.

· Created baseline, project plan deviation report and spotted impacts on the project budget.

· Worked closely with permit office and communicated work packages permitting requirements

· Developed schedule baseline package and reviewed with the project management team.

Project Controls Specialist Aug 2009 - Nov 2011

Shell Scottford Upgrader

· Schedule updating effort reduced by 30% as result of schedule update best practices.

· Contractors schedule quality audits helped to achieve project reporting accuracy targets.

· Aligned cost estimate and P6 man hours to achieve productivity target of 85%.

· Supported schedule risk analysis and project contingency plans.

· Developed list of project milestones and progress tracking baseline.

· Coordinated with project stakeholders to address project schedule to align with scope changes.

Senior Scheduling Specialist Jul 2005 - Jul 2009

Canadian Natural Resources

· Developed and maintained integrated level 5 EPC schedule for utilities and offsites area.

· Assigned resources to execution schedule as required to support integrated master schedule.

· Developed and Implemented Earned Value system for progress reporting.

· Facilitated planning meetings to incorporate team’s inputs into planning work packages.

· Presented integrated schedule to get buy-in from operation and maintenance teams.

· Coordinated with contractors for their schedule inputs and updated owner's master schedule.

· Tracked schedule deviations and produced cause, effect and mitigation report.

Project Engineer Nov 1998 - May 2005

Syed Bhais Limited

. Standardized project deliverables to minimize scheduling efforts.

. Designed and implemented manufacturing facility stations and productivity improved by 20%.

. Experienced to understand project scope from construction work packages (CWP).

. Supported project manager to develop project execution plan, RACI, project scope document, basis of schedule, basis of estimate and project management procedures.

. Reviewed discipline progress and performance on a biweekly basis with the area discipline leads and develop action plans with project discipline leads when required.

. Worked with site contractors to ensure project scope and schedule is followed as per contracts.

. Lead project controls tasks to support program manager to negotiate scope with the contractors.

. Prepared capital proposal, bill of materials and bill of quantities and generated material requisitions.



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