Engineer Project

Mohammad Siddique

***** ********** *****

Montgomery Village, MD 20886

Phone: H: 301-***-**** Cell: 301-***-****

e-mail: abhoad@r.postjobfree.com

Summary of Experience:

Over twenty five years of extensive experience in Engineering, project

planning, budget and cost control, implementation and monitoring of multi-

million dollar projects in the field of power, telecommunication, refinery,

mining and facility maintenance. Most experience is in project engineering,

contracts, procurement and construction planning. Current responsibilities

and past experience include but are not limited to:

. Development and management of detailed integrated Critical Path

Method schedules with over 5000 activities for engineering,

procurement, construction, and startup, using WBS, resource

loading and Earned Value techniques for performance measurement.

. Manage, implement and monitor high visibility projects for

Montgomery county government, in Maryland. Chair the public

hearings and prepare recommendations. Tracking of Stimulus

package for the county. Development and Implementation of county

policies.

. Development and preparation of management plans spanning over

next two decades, for Global Nuclear Energy Partnership of the

US Department of Energy. Monitoring project performance for

Environmental Management projects.

. Analyzing critical path and other activities, and identifying problem

areas and problem solving recommendations.

. Developed Project monitoring tools, developing budget forecasts

for on-going projects. Utilizing Earned Value Management System

and other tools for early warning cost and schedule issues.

Projection of resource allocations based on project performance.

Flagship project being three simultaneous projects totaling over

one billion dollars in Turkey.

. Conducted Earned Value Management System workshops for graduate

students.

. Forecast and trend budget deviations and recommend corrective

actions and manage budget change control

. Helped prepare and evaluate contractors' bid process against

allocated budgets. Evaluation of contractors' claims and

resolution. Reviewing and analyzing sub contractor reports

including integrating schedule in master schedule.

. Reviewed and approved the sub contractors' invoice against

performed work.

. Development and implementation of scheduling procedures,

standards and guidelines.

. Supervising and training junior staff.

. Engineering of support structures in nuclear plants using ASTM

standards.

. Engineering and design of industrial plants.

Achievements:

1. Developed and successfully implemented a comprehensive change

control mechanism for three simultaneous, over a billion dollar,

projects.

2. Developed and implemented Work Breakdown Structure (WBS) techniques

to compute the earned values, personnel forecasts and performance

to monitor the projects.

3. Developed project monitoring tools for fast paced telecommunication

projects, which eventually became company standards using Microsoft

Access and Excel.

4. Successfully completed detailed planning, implementation and

execution for several multi-million dollar projects..

5. Co-authored technical papers in process engineering.

Educational Qualifications:

1. MBA Marketing, Saint Joseph's University, Philadelphia

2. MS Metallurgical Engineering, University of Utah, Salt Lake City

3. BS Mining Engineering, Engineering University, Lahore

4. Computer Skills: MS Office, Primavera, MS Project

References: Available on request

Citizenship: USA

Chronological Professional Experience

2007 - 2010: Montgomery County, Maryland

Deputy Director Transportation & Manager Special Projects: Manage,

implement and monitor high visibility projects for Montgomery county

government, in Maryland. Represented Department of Transportation in

Base Relocation And Closure committee. Chaired the public hearings and

prepared recommendations for County Executive approval. Tracked the

allocation of Federal Stimulus funds for the county. Helped develop

and Implement of county policies.

2006 - 2007 & 2010 - 2011: Project Time & Cost, Germantown, Maryland

Project Control Specialist: Development and preparation of management

plans spanning over next two decades, for Global Nuclear Energy

Partnership of the US Department of Energy. Monitoring project

performance of Environmental Management projects.

2005 - 2006: Prince George's County, Maryland

Snow Operations Manager: The responsibilities included the preparation

of Snow clearing operations from the county highway system. It

involved extensive resource allocations from the entire Department of

Public Works work force and equipment. The plan had to satisfy the

county commitment to the citizens to clear the entire roadway system

within a stipulated time frame. The operation was based on a 24-hour

basis. The plan also included extensive equipment operations training

for non-manual work force as well.

1980 - 2005: Bechtel Corporation

Project Controls Supervisor: (2003- 2005) Worked in St. Louis,

Missouri, Wisconsin & Arkansas Telecommunication market. The

responsibilities included; hands on development of schedules,

monitoring of the budget, cost and change orders, preparation of

schedule and cost analysis and reports. Evaluation of bid process.

Interacting with engineering, construction, contracts and procurement

for effective implementation of the plans.

Project Coordinator: Working as project coordinator on a multi-million

dollar telecommunication project in the Washington-Baltimore market.

The responsibilities included coordination of construction activities

at various locations. Identification of problems, and recommendation

of steps to mitigate issues. It was a fast paced project with

challenging goals.

Lead Planner: Seconded to SAIC at the National Cancer Institute at

Fort Detrick, Frederick, MD. The responsibilities included, hands on

development, tracking and monitoring plan for the maintenance and

renovations of the NIH buildings using Work Breakdown Structures.

Interacting with project managers to monitor budget and performance,

identify issues and recommend steps to mitigate problems.

Senior Market Planner: (2001-2002) Working as Senior Market Planner on

an AT&T Wireless Service telecommunication project in Manhattan

market, building cell sites. Responsibilities included: Development

and monitoring of plans to build and commission over 400 cell sites in

one of the most fast paced AT&T Wireless Service markets. The

activities included coordination between engineering, site

acquisition, procurement and construction. Daily and weekly report

preparation for Client's Operations group.

Major effort was devoted to development of a monitoring tool based on

Microsoft Access, which was adopted as standard for monitoring similar

projects nationwide. Training of personnel in usage of monitoring

tools..

Project Trend Engineer: (1999-2001) Worked as project trend engineer

on three simultaneous projects built in Turkey for over one billion

dollars. Responsibilities include: Develop and maintain change

management program. Forecasting project trends as to cost increases

and recommend mitigating steps. Identification of potential cost

savings and overruns. Estimating of project costs resulting from

design deviations. Development and maintaining of a trend log with

details of cost savings or overruns to the project budget.

Project Planner: (1992 - 1999) As project planner worked on several

domestic and international multi million dollar fossil projects

[Selkirk (combined cycle), New York; Shoaiba (5-unit oil fired), Saudi

Arabia; Exxon (2-unit oil fired), Louisiana; Meizhouwan (2-unit coal

fired), China; Red Hills Coal Facility (2-unit coal fluidized bed

boiler), Mississippi; and three Build-Own-and-Operate power projects

(5-unit combined cycle), Turkey]. Major responsibilities included:

development, monitoring and analyzing of detailed plan for

engineering, procurement, construction and startup activities.

Development of work breakdown structure and manpower forecasting.

Monitoring of budgets against schedule, especially accounting for

variable cost rate structure for domestic and international components

of the project. Identification of problem areas and remedial measures

to avoid impact on schedule and budget. Preparation of weekly and

monthly reports for different clients. Chairing weekly coordination

meetings of schedule and budget related issues with the project team.

Major accomplishments included:

1. Development and implementation of workable plans for each of the above

listed projects.

2. Identification of schedule problem areas relating to engineering,

construction, contracts and procurement. Developed and implemented the

mitigating plans, resulting in cost savings.

3. Developed and implemented a methodology to measure the schedule and

budget performance for engineering utilizing Earned Value Management

System using a Primavera Project Planner. This technique resulted in

savings of hundreds of thousands of dollars, projects.

4. On Shoaiba project in Saudi Arabia, a timely mitigating construction

plan for six 450-million gallon water tanks avoided the eventual

project delay and millions of dollars in the liquidated damages.

Senior Planner: (19985 - 1992) As planner worked on domestic nuclear

projects (Limerick, PP&L, Peach Bottom in Pennsylvania; PSE&G, New

Jersey). Major responsibility included: Preparation of engineering

schedule to support construction, modifications to existing plants and

outages. Monitoring of engineering budgets against schedule. Conducted

and participated in weekly coordination meetings of schedule and

budget related issues with the project team.

Major accomplishment was the development of workbreakdown structure

for monitoring the progress and budget performance of the fast paced

multi-projects, using d-Base based computer tools. The technique

resulted in higher gross margins.

Senior Field Engineer: (1983 - 85) Worked as field engineer on

Limerick (PA) and PSE&G (NJ) nuclear projects during construction.

Major responsibilities included: designing and checking the pipe

support structural design for critical and non-critical systems. Field

walk down and modifications of existing design. Construction support.

Supported startup checkouts prior to turnover to clients. Contributed

towards the on-time completion of project milestones for multi-billion

dollar nuclear projects.

Senior Process/Mining Engineer: (1980-1983) As senior process engineer

worked on several mining and metallurgical projects (Kennecott Copper

smelter, Utah; ETSI Coal slurry pipeline, Arkansas; Deep Basing MX

Missile system, US Air force). Major responsibility included: system

design and/or checking. Coordination with engineering disciplines for

a sound design. Technical direction, analysis of technical data and

final report preparation of a coal slurry pipeline proto type plant.

Conceptual design of Deep Basing MX Missile launching system, using

exotic mining techniques..

Major accomplishment was the development of the economically feasible

coal slurrying process. The process was the first step in coal

transportation via pipeline.

1977-1980 Allis Chalmers Corporation

Process Test Engineer: (1977 - 1980) As process engineer worked on

several projects at the Test and Research facility. Major

responsibility included: mineral process testing and scale up design

for the commercial plants. Ore sample processing and determining of

design parameters for commercial plants. Design of commercial scale

equipment based on test results.

Major accomplishment was the introduction of the state of the art

scale-up technique for mineral processing, which utilized a computer-

based model.

1968 -1974 Pakistan Industrial Development Corporation

Mining Engineer: (1970-1974) Worked as mine development and safety

engineer, and as quarry manager on several projects. The

responsibilities included: prepare and implement a coalmine

development plan. Develop, monitor and implement underground mine

safety plans and coordinate with state monitoring authority. As

manager of a limestone quarry was responsible for development,

production and safety of an open pit mine supporting a cement factory.

Technical Publications:

Co-authored several technical papers; (1) "Population Balance Approach

to Ball Mill Scale-up Laboratory and Pilot Scale Investigations,"

presented at the AIME Annual Meeting, Denver, February 1978. (2)

"Population Balance Approach to Scale-up of Wet Ball Mill Operation

Investigation in Large Pilot Mills," presented at the AIME Fall

Meeting, Tucson, October 1979. (3) "An Evaluation of the Short-Lived

Radioactive Tracer Method for Determining Mechanistic Model Parameters

for Comminution Processes," presented at the Fine Particle Society

Meeting, Chicago, May 1980. (4) "ETSI Coal Preparation Plant Slurry

Preparation," presented in Slurry Transportation Association Meeting,

San Francisco, March 1983

Community Service:

I have been involved in several community volunteer programs for

several decades. I have managed a 250-student weekend school with a

staff of over 30 volunteers. I have been actively involved and work

with several social, charitable and community organizations.

Contact this candidate