Kola Olaniyi MSc. BSc.

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An Experienced Project Scheduler's profile

A seasoned project controls specialist with over 8 years international

experience with a proven track record of successes working on mega EPC &

Capital engineering projects covering -: construction, utilities (power

transmission & distribution, water & gas) & highways/civil engineering

projects. An enthusiastic individual with advanced experience in project

management, change and risk management, continuous improvement initiatives,

managing system schematics, scheduling and planning workloads, including

training & managing other planners, managing plans and projects from

inception phase to completion phase and delivering projects to required

specifications/standards, focusing on time, costs, health and safety,

reliability, quality and sustainability; a good team player with strong

organizational and problem solving skills, confident and able to

communicate effectively with work colleagues at all levels; recently just

relocated to the United States and currently looking to develop my career

further with an organization that offers sustainable career progression,

learning and training opportunities.

Areas of Expertise

Sustainable Construction Facilities/Asset Project & Site

Methods Management Management

Health and Safety/Powerpoint Project Planning & Quality & Cost

Controls Control

Value Engineering SAP/ Claims Mgt/S-Curves Tender Planning

Highways/Civil Engineering Risk / Earned Value Mgt Primavera 6.2, 8.2

Design & Build; Framework Project MS Project/Office

Contract Appraisal/Evaluation Packages

Strong organization Power Distribution Performance Tracking

skills/Excel Construction of Gantt & Reporting (CPI &

Critical Path Analysis Charts & Time Phased SPI)

EPC Programmes & Lifecycle Diagrams Scheduling/PERT

Procurement/Resource Water & Gas Distribution Analysis

Planning projec Outage Planning

Academic qualifications & Awards

University of Lincoln Master of Science, Construction Project Dec 2009

Management

Obafemi Awolowo Bachelor of Science, Building Technology Nov 2006

University Nigeria

UKPN Olympic Delivery Team & Utility of the Year 2012 Award

Career History, Professional Experience And Significant Achievements

P6 Programme Planner (Capital Projects) June

2012- Aug 2013

UK Power Networks, Kent, UK (Portfolio Management of EPC Capital Projects

with a budget - $100M/year)

. Responsible for developing and maintaining a robust and stable baseline

using Primavera P6 & MS Project planning tool to enable detailed

planning, programme management and tracking progress using Earned Value

Analysis.

. Developed levels 1-4 schedules for program portfolios covering asset

retrofit, production and greenfield capital projects including substation

civil works, oil containment & flood protection, high voltage, Lv, EHv

transformer replacement, overhead lines, switchgear, circuit breakers,

substation telecommunication automation, HVAC, SCADA Control & Automation

schemes.

. Prepared Material Requisition (MR) schedule for purchasing Long Lead

Items.

. Responsible for creating, maintaining and updating project schedules in

accordance with project requirements and WBS/CBS/OBS coding structures.

. Prepared schedule, performance indicators & dashboard reports for senior

program managers, project managers & relevant stakeholders in accordance

with the project reporting calendar.

. Analyzed, evaluate and forecast current status against an established

baseline schedule using Earned Value Management Systems (EVMS).

. Ensured schedules incorporate appropriate milestones, deliverables and

activities aligned to the project scope, and that critical path(s) are

clearly identified.

. Ensured interfacing (internal/external) projects' relevant milestones and

activities are incorporated into the project schedule.

. Undertake schedule risk analyses, report outputs and make recommendations

to managers and directors.

. Support the UK Power Network's Zero Harm Policy for Health, Safety and

the Environment, by familiarizing myself with, and completing all work in

accordance with health, safety and environmental legislation, policies

and procedures.

. Support the organization in reducing the project's carbon footprint and

to achieve sustainability objectives.

. Validate construction methodologies, resource and cost loading, activity

durations, schedule logic, float allocation and critical path

identification within subcontractors' submissions in support of UK Power

Networks contract programme approval obligations.

. Provide accurate and timely Programme data to meet UK Power Networks

reporting requirements supporting Earned Value Management.

. Support project managers & quantity surveyors in the preparation of

Invitations to tender (ITT) packages in line with NEC contracts.

. Work with Risk Managers and programme teams to identify and incorporate

risk mitigating actions into the planned work scope and to incorporate

appropriate time/cost contingency levels across the baseline schedules.

. Carry out rigid cost control, commercial management and strategic

sourcing practices that deliver 'value for money' under the Ofgem 'Unit

Costs Indicators (UCIs)'.

. Achieve compliance with UK Power Networks project delivery and

programme/programme governance procedures.

. Accurately identifying, controlling and forecasting the time scales and

resource requirements of projects to minimise the likelihood of time

overruns.

. Co-ordinate the smooth and efficient flow of information between all

parties

. Oversee the programmes, monitoring and reporting on project performance,

highlighting deviations, providing early warnings, identifying and

presenting project slippage recovery strategies.

. Develop and manage a database to capture and identify work rate norms and

trends, earned value and performance indicators.

. Proactively carry out several monthly reporting covering milestone data

reporting, dashboard reporting, Load Indices/Health indices etc, ensuring

that reports meet deadlines cutoff points.

. Work with, manage and provide support for colleagues and other members of

the portfolio management team.

. Coordinate and lead project progress review & updating meetings with

project managers and senior project managers.

Project planner Nov 2011 till

May 2012

Mears Group - UK, Social Housing Facilities & Asset Management Contract

(Budget -$20M/Yr)

. Prepare and develop Master Plans and Schedules for Cyclical Maintenance

and Repair Works, help develop and communicate maintenance strategies and

changes that effect business objectives.

. Provide advice on the schedule impact of proposed change and integrate

approved changes into baseline updates.

. Maintain an overview of the contract progress and financial cash flow

in accordance with the contract budget by tracking Cost & Schedule

Performance Indices (CPI & SPI) against baseline plans.

. Proficient use of MS Projects 2007 & P6 along with client's and

material databases to schedule and manage workloads for tradesmen,

subcontractors and 30 project teams across London, UK.

. Produce full project plans reflecting agreed work breakdown

structures, critical paths, resource loading, constraints, cost and

earned value analysis, and integration of subcontractors' sub-project

plans into over project plan.

. Liaise with customers (tenants), subcontractors, specialist teams

(gas, asbestos, pest control, drainage, roofers etc) site

supervisors, operations managers, police, client's project managers

and other relevant stakeholders; balancing planned ready work and

operational constraints.

. Carried our resource & material allocation, track Critical paths,

ensure resources are not overloaded, allocate project & resource

calendars, defined resource shift patterns allocate resource curves,

tracked and analyze budgets against baseline plans and assign Work

Products & Documents.

. Tracked project progress on various deliverables, milestones and

activities.

. Support ad-hoc initiatives at direction of senior management to

analyze data, generate reports and communications, ensuring that

projects are planned within allocated time and executed within the

agreed Key Performance Indices slots.

. Identified project risks and opportunities for each project.

Project Planner May

2011 - Oct 2011

Morrison Facilities Services - Facilities & Asset Management Contract

(budget - $30M / Yr), London, UK

. Developed construction schedules based on construction team plans,

resource load schedules, analyze float paths, carried out cost and

earned value analysis and assess schedule status

. Created, maintained Project Schedules with over 2200 activity line

items reflecting Work Breakdown Structures (WBS) with costs and

resources effectively loaded.

. Effectively managed infrastructure projects of various sizes with good

understanding of earned value management.

. Lead in the development and maintenance of Periodic (daily, weekly,

monthly) status reports to keep management, client and other relevant

on project progress. Reports includes: labor productivity, schedule

performance indices (SPI), financial analysis, Costs Performance

Reports and earned value analysis.

. Carried out Progress Monitoring, Concept Study Programs, Pre-Feasibility

and Feasibility Level Programs.

. Integrate subcontractors/suppliers mini plans into the overall project

plan.

. Ensure that all statutory and industry health and safety policies,

regulations and procedures are complied with; contributing to the

development of safe working methods and safer environment to work in for

all operatives.

. Plan works in accordance with any Risk Assessments, Method Statement, and

other regulations.

. Ensure that relevant task specific risk assessments are made available

for tasks such as Working at Height, Electrical, Gas, Asbestos, scaffolds

and Manual Handling.

. Organise weekly meetings with teams (site managers, surveyors & resident

liaison officers) highlighting KPIs (Start & completion dates of works,

variations on site, delays).

. Organise and manage project handover/site inspections with Client Project

Managers.

. Assessing impacts by using project plans to review claims for Time

Extension & additional cost for variations.

Earlier Career Summary

Project planner Aug 2010 - May 2011

Ringway Jacobs Limited, London -Highway &Civil Infrastructure Management

Contract- $20M

. Use P6 & MS Project 2007 to plan, schedule and allocate heavy civil and

highway construction projects covering road construction, asphalt &

bitumen patching works, footway construction works, lighting schemes,

pedestrian guard rails installation, drainage & tunnels construction and

repair works.

. Prepare project schedules highlighting the resource & roles allocation,

critical path(s), track actual plans against baseline plans and

milestone(s) associated with each project.

. Develop and maintain close working relationships with relevant

stakeholders such as Local Authorities(Boroughs), Transport for London

Buses and members of the client's operational staff such as street works

coordinators, inspectors etc.

. Convert Subcontractors' tender plans from MS Excel, MS Project 2007 into

P6 and vice versa.

. Ensure that all works are carried out legally and in accordance with

Traffic Management Acts (TMA, 2004), New Road and Street Works Acts and

TFL requirements for working within the public highway and footways,

thereby minimising hazards to the general public and fines in terms of

Section 74 overruns and Fix Penalty Notices.

. Liaise with operation managers, works supervisors, gangs, members of the

network control room and other external specialist sub-contractors e.g.

EDF energy, Morrison utilities etc. to ensure that resources are

coordinated and managed effectively to avoid or reduce impact on traffic.

. Provided technical support in terms of interpreting designs, coordinating

and supervision of maintenance and improvement schemes on London central

road networks.

Project Scheduler

March 2010 - Aug 2010

Balfour Beatty Utility Solutions, Lincoln, UK - (Water & Gas Assets

Management Contract - Budget $50M)

. Carried out Project Control & Planning duties including planning,

scheduling and monitoring workloads for 20 project teams across East

Anglia, UK.

. Develop and manage Asset Management Plans (AMP), using P6 and MS Projects

2007 including the scheduling of work within agreed priorities, resource

availability and targets.

. Prepare project plans and resolve complex model serviceability &

regulatory issues, ensuring that project plans are in compliance with

OFWAT's regulatory framework & business model.

. Identify and prioritize asset needs using advance asset planning

tools, including scenario planning, modeling and interpretation of

results versus specific output and serviceability performance targets.

. Ensure all risk and construction methodology assessments in line with

Health and Safety regulations are carried out prior to allocating jobs

to project teams.

. Carried out Resource Planning & Scheduling using P3, SAP, Oracle Auto and

Smart Scheduler.

Project Planner

June 2009 - Feb 2010

Manorcrest Homes Ltd, UK - Design & Build Residential & Commercial Projects

- Budget $30M

. Using Primavera 6.2 and MS Project, I was responsible for developing,

cost loaded and resource loaded schedules and plans on design and

build social and residential projects across Lincolnshire, UK.

. Reviewed projects preliminary plans and estimates; prepared and

maintained project master plan.

. Monitored planning performance against appropriate performance

indicators/baseline.

. Performed feasibility, planning conditions, project appraisal and

environmental impact assessment studies.

. Prepared technical reports including method statements, risk

assessments studies and Construction Phase plans for the design and

installation of ENSO sewerage treatment plant, rainwater harvesting

and greywater recycling systems on a multi-million pounds caravan site

at Woodhall spa, Lincolnshire

Project Planning Engineer

May 2004 - Aug 2008

Reyog Construction International Nigeria - Projects worked on (Net worth

over $50M

. Carried out Project Control & Planning duties including project managing

and supervisory roles on multi-complex & dynamic projects covering

Building, Civil, and Highways Construction, Utilities, Facilities and

Asset Management contracts net work over 100M.

. Carried out reinforced concrete design and structural calculations of

beams & columns stress analysis; foundation design, roof design.

. Set-up agreed work breakdown structure using MS Project 2003 & 2007, P3e

for complete project life cycle from project initiation stages to close-

out (commissioning) stages.

. Proactive visits to sites to objectively substantiate progress of works

ensuring that issues with schedules are resolved, all deviation or delays

from baseline plans are integrated into the overall project plans.

. Tracked Project performance (Cost & Schedule indices) by comparing actual

work carried out against planned works baseline.

Other Personal details

> Member - Project Management Institute (PMI) {PMP Certification -

Ongoing}

> US Social Security Number

> US Green Card (Permanent Residence Permit)

> Excellent References available on request

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