Project Engineer

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Zohreh Ghasemi

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Chicago, IL 60608 Sponsorship: Not required

EDUCATION

Jan. 2011 – Dec. 2011

Master of Science, University of Illinois at Chicago

Civil Engineering

Sep 1999 – Sep. 2003

Bachelor of Science, Iran University of Science and Technology

Industrial Engineering

Related course work

Project Control, Construction Planning and Scheduling, Operations Research I, Operations Research II,

Knowledge Management, Ergonomics & Human Factors, Quality Control & Reliability, Plant Layout & Mater

Handling

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCES

Sep.2012 – Present

UIC ASHREA Committee, Event Committee Chair

Promote lectures, meeting with professionals, producing brochures and other publications

Develop event topics, choose featured speakers, and coordinate details

Jan. 2011 – May. 2012

University of Illinois at Chicago, Research/Teaching Assistant

Synthesized the U.S. population

Courses: Geometric Design of Highway Facilities, Traffic Engineering and Design

Sep. 2010 – May. 2011

Farsi School, Teacher

Dec. 2007 – Jul. 2010

Xyrous Communications LLC, System Analyst

Controlled the quality of service and analyzed cost

Managed rates, prepared LCR (Least Cost Routing)

Designed and implemented quality control and quality assurance procedures

Served as liaison between technical team, management, and customers/providers

Dec. 2003 – Dec. 2007

Alborz Tire Co., Project Control Engineer

Provide key dates, milestones, work breakdown structure and schedule requirements

Provide detailed logical activity-based plan and provide man power resourcing analysis

Load resources and provide resource histograms

Liaise with project team to monitor trends and analyze their impact on the projects.

Prepare regular status reports for project management and client review

Analyze weekly schedule (on some critical project daily

Hold weekly meeting with procurement manager to follow up the procurement and fabrication progress

in supplier workshops

Assisting Cost Control Team by providing time-phased budget

Maintain project management software to ensure target dates are met

Sep.2003 – Dec.2003

Metra Consulting Engineers, Project Control Engineer

Tracking the completions of different stages in the project by controlling time, cost and risk associated

with possible scenarios, Root Cause Analysis of any deviation from the plan

Jul. 2002 – Sep. 2002

Iran Khodro Co, Intern

Analyzed the maintenance system

Designed a new system for PM and EM (Team member)

ENGINEERING SOFTWARE

Microsoft Project, Primavera P6, ArcGIS (10), MicroStation, SPSS, Microsoft Access, Microsoft Office Suites

(Excel, Word, PowerPoint, OneNote, Outlook)

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