Project Engineer

Arun Sharma, **********@*****.***

Objective & Career focus

I aim to grow my career as strategic leadership roles in development,

management and execution functions of oil & gas, energy Programs/Projects.

Career Profile

21 years of work in Project Management functions, Program Leadership & PMO

services establishment roles paired with general management and

international business education having broad cross-cultural work

experience in Canada, Europe and Middle East.

Career progression demonstrates hands-on exposure to diverse functions of

varied sizes and types of Projects and Construction programs in Oil and Gas

industry.

. Experienced in providing Executive level support - interfacing,

presenting and proposing strategies to Senior Management. Hands-on

execution and fulfillment responsibilities of selected strategies.

. Team management and leadership roles, organizational design and

development, full cycle management of teams and departmental budget

management functions.

Career Progression

Position Company Years

Director, Infrastructure-Canada. Flint Energy Services Jan 08 to

Director, Project Management Office, FISL Ltd, Calgary, Alberta, Contd...

Program Director - Suncor Projects, FISL Canada

Flint SRU/VRU project at Suncor Firebag site,

Fort McMurray, Alberta.

Program Director - Offsite Fabrication and

Modularization, FFML

Offsite Fabrication and Modularization of

Suncor Firebag stage-3, Shell Albian Sands

Froth Ex-1, Suncor SRU/VRU projects.

Project Controls, Automation Silo, Honeywell Process Aug 07 to

Petro-Canada Fort Hills Oil Sands Project Solutions, Calgary, Dec 07

Alberta, Canada

Project Controls Engineer, Project Management Enbridge Pipelines Aug 06 to

Office Inc. Edmonton, July 07

Alberta, Canada

Project Services Manager, (Nov, 2001 to ADMA-OPCO,(Abu Dhabi July 96 to

July,06) Marine Operating July 06

Project Team Lead (Nov, 98 to Nov, 2001) Company), Abu Dhabi,

Senior Project Engineer (July, 96 to Nov, 98) UAE

Senior Project Engineer, Strategy & Planning NDC, (National Oct 91 to

(3 years) Drilling Company), Abu July 96

Project Engineer (2 years) Dhabi, UAE

Engineer (Heavy earth moving & excavation TATA Motors. India Aug 86 to

equipment) Sep 91

Graduate Engineer Trainee

Education

MBA - Master of Business Administration (IMM - International Masters in

Management)

Krannert School of Management, Purdue University, West Lafayette,

Indiana, USA &

European School of Management, ESCP-EAP, Grande Ecole de Commerce

Europ enne, Paris, France.

Concentration: International Business Finance, Business Systems & E-

Business Strategies.

B.E. - Bachelor of Engineering (Mechanical), Regional Engineering College,

Bhopal, India

Certification

Certified PMP (Project Management Professional), - Project Management

Institute, USA (2002)

Responsibilities in the senior leadership roles managing Project portfolios

. Develop the organization's project delivery capability - continually

building and enhancing its ability to deliver more complex and

challenging projects in less time and for less cost while generating

the maximum value.

. Establish Business goals and develop Client-focused, value oriented

organizational core competencies directed to achieve near term

revenue/profit goals and long term growth objectives.

. Project governance, approval and measurement -including organization

design, roles, expectations and accountabilities, policies and

standards and associated processes

. Evaluation of project/business opportunities to select the best

investment of funds and scarce resources and are within the Flint's

capability and capacity to deliver.

. Definition of the business measures of success and overall value

proposition, Measure of the outputs, outcomes, benefits and value

against the planned and measurable expectations

. Managing risk and change in the program components, Monitoring

project's progress, stakeholder's commitment, results and watching

the leading indicators of risk, Control of the scope, contingency

funds and overall project value.

. Resourcing projects with staff, equipment and subcontracts, provision

of business support using Flint's functional matrix model

. Support and steer the project into the organization's functional

matrix model, remove obstacles, manage the critical success factors

and remediate project or benefit-realization shortfalls

Skill Set and Functional Responsibilities

. Capital Projects financing, appraisals, investments evaluations and

cash flow analysis. Project Strategy Development, Alignment and

Execution through project organization. Investment Risks, Real Options

models, Life Cycle Costs analysis and Execution strategies development

& stakeholders' presentations. Experience and knowledge of all

functional areas involved in Portfolio, Program and Project

management.

. Experience in setup and administration of PMO services with the

mandate to establish Project Management best practices. Provision of

Project Management Services, as consultant and practitioner of PM

practices and techniques, establishment of corporate PM methodology,

standards and metrics, including tools and communication methods.

Acting as Best-Practice Brokerage, documenting successes and blunders.

. Development of Project Delivery Models, Stage-gate based Value

Assurance processes, CVP (Capital Value Processes) and Decision

Support Gate Packages. Process/Procedure standardization of Project

Services for Projects in line with MPCP (Major Projects Common

Processes), from Pre-project Stage through Engineering, Contracting,

Procurement, Construction and Commissioning.

. Comprehensive experience in Project Controls, Cost Engineering,

Project planning & scheduling and Estimation practices including

setting up the Services/Teams in projects from start, including

automation and interfacing Systems to support the function.

. Hands-on project experience in Risk management methodologies - both

Qualitative and Statistical/quantitative. Practitioner of Risk

simulations techniques and Risk brainstorming session facilitation.

. Hands-on experience in creation of Project Procedures/Manuals,

Templates, Information and Control point flows. Facilitating

standardized reuse of Project common processes, plan templates, forms,

estimates, reports.

. Experienced in Systems, Infrastructure, integration, development and

support of Project/Engineering Management Systems and Project

Intranets configuration.

Work Experience

Flint Energy Services Ltd, Calgary, Alberta, Canada (Jan,08

to Contd

Director, Infrastructure-Canada.

. Responsible for the direct line execution of the Canada portfolio of

Flint Infrastructure Business unit (All projects above $100 Million).

o Execution Sponsor for

. Suncor Firebag 3 & 4 ($ 350 million)

. Firebag 3 Offsite fabrication & modularization program

($33 Million)

o Proposal Sponsor during bidding phase for Imperial Oil Nabiye,

Conoco Phillips Surmont, Northwest Red Water Upgrader, MEG

Energy, CNRL Horizon

Director, Project Management Office

. Mandated to create cost leadership position for the company and

responsible for setting up central PMO facilitating development of

Construction Project Delivery Model, consistent project processes,

rightsizing the project organization structures, creating

efficiencies of cost and delivery, outsourcing support services and

developing the project competencies across the entire portfolio of

Flint Energy projects.

Program Director, Offsite fabrication and Modularization.

Role Dimensions:

Program Director role responsible for all the projects undertaken at

Sherwood-park construction, fabrication and modularization facility and

direct supervision of Facility Project managers.

. Responsibility for managing 2008/09 Program at the Fabrication and

Modularization Facility. Fabrication and Modularization of Suncor

Firebag stage-3 (Yard Cdn$170M, Fabrication Cdn$55M), Shell Albian

Sands Froth Ex-1 (Offsite component Cdn$231M), Suncor Sulfur and

Vapor recovery unit projects (Offsite component Cdn$68M), excluding

material bulks and tagged equipment.

. Program Director for Flint SRU/VRU project at Suncor Firebag site,

Fort McMurray, Alberta. (Offsite component Cdn$18M, Site Cdn$154M),

Honeywell, Process Solutions, Calgary, Canada

(Aug 07 to Dec,07)

Project Controls, Petro-Canada Fort Hills Oil Sands Project

Role Dimensions: Managing the functional plans of Project Services (Project

Systems, Planning, Budgeting, Cost control, Procurement, Logistic and

Project accounts) as main automation contractor role on Fort Hills Oil

Sands Project for Petro-Canada. Fort Hills is an integrated mining and

upgrading project, with the final targeted capacity of 280,000 b/d of

synthetic crude.

Main responsibilities on the project were:

. FEED Automation engineering coordination among 11 different EPCs

involved in the respective Silo engineering concept. Continuous

synchronization with the EPCs on various schedule anchor-points,

matching resource loading while avoiding over committing early and

reducing total feed cost as the main focus at this stage.

. Acting in the Agency role for the client in procurement and managing

the complete procurement, supply chain, logistics, invoicing and

payable cycle. This responsibility included Client capital costs

rollups and equipment tagging requirements as well.

. During FEED and detailed engineering, keeping track of TIC - Total

Installed Cost on a monthly basis, and administering the Management

of Change process as a control vehicle on the project.

Enbridge Pipelines Inc. Edmonton, AB, Canada

(Aug 06 to July 07)

Project Controls Engineer, Project Management Office

. Contributing to various activities in the newly formed PMO including

standardization of Project WBS guidelines, adoption of risk

management practices in the projects and development of standard

project practices and guidelines.

. Contributing to Oracle PM Module implementation with interfaces to

PA, PO, AP and Assets.

. Responsible for project controls services for Hardisty Merchant Tank

Project, (CAD$ 369 Million), Main facilities: 27 Crude oil storage

tanks with related station infrastructure. Comprehensive Control

services for concurrent Detailed Design, Procurement and Construction

coordination in the project.

Abu Dhabi Marine Operating Company, Abu Dhabi, UAE.

(July 96 to July 06)

ADMA OPCO - ADNOC Group

Project Services Manager, (Nov, 2001 to July,06)

Role Dimensions: Managing PMO services staff of 23 employees involving

Projects spanning multiple locations/Countries (Europe and Middle East) in

the Offshore Oil Exploration, Field Development & Production Operations.

. Setup and administration of PMO, Capital Value Assurance

processes, Stage-gate processes, Decision Support Packages

& Systems development and support of Project/Engineering

Management Systems (PEIMS). Projects Budgeting and Cost

Control Intranet. Divisional Capital and Operating Budget,

expenditure & variances controls, invoicing and reporting

facilities.

. Established facilities for Project Cost Estimation and

Historical Cost Data Warehouse to enable bottom-up,

analogous and parametric Estimation. Introduced statistical

techniques like regression, time series analysis for trend

analysis of historical costs. Added "Physical Breakdown

Structure" and "Activity Breakdown Structure" to Chart of

accounts cost coding for traceability, analysis and

historical data mining capabilities.

. Knowledge-Base facilities for Engineering Records,

Documentation & Technical Databases and Lessons Learnt

Intranet. Drawing Office Automation, Cartography and

Reprography Intranets, Engineering Drawings and Documents

Control, Review and Redlining Facilities.

. Risks and Actions Monitoring and Follow-up Subsystems

. Responsible for Systems, Infrastructure, integration,

development and support of Project/Engineering Management

Systems (PEIMS) addressing:

o Projects Budgeting and Cost Control System. Divisional Capital

and Operating Budget, expenditure & variances controls, invoicing

and reporting facilities

o Knowledge-Base facilities for Records, Documentation & Technical

Databases. Lessons Learnt Intranet.

o Program Planning and Resource Management facilities for Planning,

Schedule control, Time-Records, Future Load Predictions, Progress

Monitoring Facilities & Project Schedule Risk Analysis

Project Team Lead (Nov, 98 to Nov, 2001)

Provision of Project Management functions, Planning, Cost, and Service &

Program Control functions. Projects being serviced are:

. Offshore Khuff Gas Development Project ($565 Million). Main

facilities: processing platforms (13,700T), other structures (1,400T)

and pipelines

. Umm Shaif Gas Injection Project (Execute ~ $915 Million, Define 25

Million). Main facilities: 5 Offshore Platform (40,000T) and Offshore

pipelines (30 KM)

. New Gas Processing Facilities (FEED 15 Million, Execute ~ $240

Million)

. Water Injection Pipeline Replacement project (Execute $231 Million)

Senior Project Engineer, (July, 96 to Nov, 98)

Role Dimensions: Total Project management Experience of 15000 Plus man-

hours in various PMI Knowledge areas in projects of varying size.

. Project management in various levels and roles of Capital and major

maintenance projects like Umm Shaif Crestal Gas Injection Project, Abu

Dhabi ($25Million), Das Flares System Revamp, Abu Dhabi ($33Million),

Revamping of GTP Facilities, Abu Dhabi ($20Million) etc.

. Managed annual Portfolio/Program size of 40 to 50 new Budgeted

Schemes, Plant modification requests, & Work requests.

National Drilling Company, Abu Dhabi, Offshore and Onshore Drilling.

(Oct, 91 to Jul, 96)

NDC - ADNOC Group

Senior Project Engineer, Strategy & Planning (3 years)

Project Engineer (2 years)

Responsibility of setting up the basic Drilling contracting related Project

systems infrastructure in the company.

. Managed Projects related to Rig and Site Data collection and Reporting

automation, SITREP (Situation Report), Well diagnostics and Data

Management database integration, daily Well Operations Logbook

automation and activity planning and reporting.(16 onshore and 14

offshore drilling rigs)

TELCO, Tata Engineering and Locomotive Company, India,

(Aug, 86 to Sep, 91)

TATA Motors - TATA Group, Heavy & Medium Commercial Vehicles & Earth moving

equipment manufacturer.

Trainee Engineer assigned to the production information control systems

team.

Technology Skills

Project Management Environment

. @Risk for MS-Excel and MS-Project, Crystal Ball, and Predict based

Monte Carlo Simulations and Decision Trees models.

. Pertmaster Schedule Risk models, SPSS V.13.0. Extensive MS-Excel

modeling and VBA based automation expertise.

. Primavera Project Planner (P3), P3E and Expedition. Primavera V5.0 -

E&C Version (experience in Migration from P3 and P3E to V.5.0 and

Enterprise configuration)

. MS-Project Client/Server 2003, 2002, Project Central Versions.

. Share point portal server and Team Services. Project Data Services

(PDS), OLE DB & XML Schema, Digital Dashboards on SQL Server.

ERP, SCM, CRM and MRP Environments.

. Oracle 11i environment - AP, PA and PM modules, Hands on

implementation experience of Project Management and Project Accounting

modules.

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