Project Engineer

Xiomara Pedroza

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Cell phone 407-***-****

Profile

Mechanical Engineer. Senior Scheduler and Project Control Specialist.

Microsoft Certified Professional ID 8394442. 5 years working in planning,

scheduling, tracking and controlling projects up to $30 MM with MS Project

for Windows in the USA and 24 years experience working in maintenance

planning, scheduling and execution for oil refineries in Venezuela.

Bilingual Spanish and English on all levels pertinent to professional

needs. Assume both teamwork and leadership roles to establish solid working

relationship with customers, managers and peers.

SKILLS

. Planning/Scheduling

. Organizing/Coordinating/Communicating

. Microsoft Office (MS Project for Windows 2007/2010, Word, Excel, Power

Point, Visio, Publisher, Outlook), SAP MM, Primavera 6, Strategic

Project Solution software, SPS )

. Training, Couching and Development

. Cost Reduction

. Budget Management

. Strategic Planning

. Procedure Development per ISO 9000

. Project Management/Turnarounds in Oil Refineries

WORK EXPERIENCE

October 2012 to present Cambridge International Systems. Tampa, Fl. Sr.

Scheduler

2008 - October 2012 Processes Unlimited International Inc.,

Bakersfield, California

Project Control Specialist.

General activities:

Supporting Project Managers and team members in Planning, Controlling,

and Scheduling

. Development of Work Breakdown Structure, WBS, for any project

. Development of Organizational Breakdown Structure, OBS

. Development of Master Project Plans, schedule and budget

. Document control

. Kick off meetings, team or Client meetings

. Minutes, document control and electronic files

. Defining Change of Scopes and filling out spread sheets and

documentation for Clients

. Closing project and participating in project documentation, audits,

lessons learned, archive relevant documents to be used as

historical data.

. New Project Schedule Set Up:

1. Building and managing schedules using Project for Windows

2007 (mpp files or Server) for projects between 3.0K and 30

million of dollars.

2. Resource and cost loaded scheduling activities

3. Resource manpower graphs, by disciplines or total resources

before setting baseline to find the best even distribution in

any time period.

4. Creating the task list, summary task, milestone tasks,

durations, establishment of predecessors/successors

relationships, constraint types, create the task

identification code, and setting baselines

5. Calendars

6. Replacing generic resources with actual resources

7. Building team from Enterprise (if server)

8. Import rates (if server) or manually entering or adjusting

bill rates in Resource Sheet view

Preventing Project Managers from deviations identifying variations:

Weekly Project Tracking or as needed

. Update every schedule with charges and expenses for the period

ending

. Update status reports and reports for every project

. Updating metrics

. Identifying the problem causing variances

. Evaluating the impact on time, cost and performance

. Evaluating the impact on other efforts, if any

. Evaluating the expected results of the corrected actions

. Issuance of Project Control Reports & Charts

. Cost Reports (budget Vs actual). Forecasts

. Milestone Reports

. Prepare Earned Value Management Reports: [BCWS, BCWP,

ACWP, Schedule Performance Index (SPI), Cost Performance Index

(CPI), Estimate At Completion (EAC), Budget At Completion (BAC)]

and strategies to avoid deviations or suggest corrective actions,

opportunely, to keep the project on scope, on budget and on time

. Leading the remaining work and adjustment of finish date meetings

. Build and run reports; critical path, early start date reports,

precedence reports, cost variance, slipped tasks, critical path

report, in progress tasks, completed tasks, with the objective to

prevent the project to get behind schedule or get over budget

. Preparing the Status Reports (total invoice, total spent, and %

progress). Cost, Work, Earned Value, and Hourly Rates curves

. Updating the schedule: exception reports, time reports, re-

scheduling, adjusting finish dates and remaining work. Controlling

actual work, actual, projected cost, projected work, projected

start and finish dates

. Reports in excel when requested

. Using Resource sheet, Resource manpower graphs total or by

discipline, and resource usage to get further information to

control actual work and remaining work

. Reconciliation with Accounting (depending on the system the

organization is using, manually or server)

. Following up deliverables

. Discussing reports with team members to help them to plan or take

corrective actions on time. Follow up to results

. Training team members in MS Project when needed

. Participating in risk assessment and lesson learned meetings

. Others tasks: PP presentations, Pareto graphs, excel graphs

2006 - 2007 Industrial Fabrications (Industrial Fabrications) FAINCA,

Venezuela

Production Engineer

. Proactive fabrication of pressure vessels, columns,

platforms, pipes, tanks, and other recipients under ASME,

API and AWS standards, on time, on scope and on budget.

2005 - 2006 Frimarine Venezuela

Production Engineer

. Reduced the production time when in charge of shop yard for

producing fiber glass sport 21' boats.

2005 - 2005 Mitsubishi Motors Venezuela

Maintenance Manager/Planner

. Managing the Maintenance Department with improvement of

productivity indexes in preventive and corrective

activities, reducing work order backlog pending for planning

and scheduling, keeping under control the annual budget, and

giving total completion of annual investment budget.

1979 - 2003 PDVSA - El Palito Refinery Venezuela

2001 - 2003 Maintenance Superintendent/Planner

. Coordinating new projects development and execution for

offsite area executing them on budget, scope and on time.

2001 Educational Leader / Project Manager

. Leading the development profiles of competencies to train

multi skill personnel for all Maintenance Departments of

Petroleos de Venezuela, PDVSA.

1997 Mechanical and Welding Shop Supervisor

. Planning, scheduling and executing reparations and part

fabrications for pumps and compressors reducing the work

order backlog for the entire shop and increasing the

productivity indexes and quality services to internal and

external clients.

1993 Maintenance Coordinator

. Increasing all productivity indexes in the Planning

Department and responsible for prioritizing, planning,

scheduling and execution of all maintenance activities in El

Palito refinery.

1984 Planning and Programmer Engineer

. Reducing the work order backlog for the entire shop yard.

1981 Contract Administrator

. Supervision of contractors and their files, licitations and

legal document files improving the contractor selection,

accelerating the biding processes.

1979 Vessel and Tanks Maintenance Engineer

. Responsible for technical specifications and standards to

annual pressure vessels and tanks maintenance program

executing the program on time and under specifications.

1977 - 1979 National Institute for Water Treatment, Venezuela

. Supervising the execution of general preventive and

corrective actions for equipment related with water

treatment.

EDUCATION

Master of Education/Curricular Planning. University of Carabobo- Venezuela,

1998

Master of Work Management/ Labor Relations, University of Carabobo-

Venezuela, 1998

Specialization: Human Resources Management, University of Carabobo-

Venezuela, 1993

Master of Science in Engineering Management, Catholic University of

America, USA.1983

Bachelor in Mechanical Engineering. University of Carabobo- Venezuela. 1978

Recent Training:

PMP Examination Preparation Workshop. 2012.

Project for Windows 2007. National University. 2011

Project Management for Engineers - American Society of Mechanical

Engineers. 2010

Project Management Certificate - California State University of

Bakersfield. 2009

Six Sigma Overview, CALISO. March 2009

ISO 9001:2008 Auditor, CALISO. June 2009

OSHA General Industry 10 hours Safety. American University On line. June

2009

PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS

. American Society of Mechanical Engineers, ASME

. E-projectmanagers

. Project Management Institute (Individual Membership ID 1076284)

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