Construction Manager

Location:

Plano, TX

Posted:

June 26, 2018

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Steven W. Baker

Project Manager/Construction Site Lead

**** ****** ****, *****, ** 77474

Phone: 713-***-****

Email: ***********@*****.***

SUMMARY

Project/Construction Manager with (20+) years’ industry experience in areas of Construction, Operations, Fabrication and Engineering. My experience includes projects, both onshore and offshore, and cost ranging from $25 million thru $ 2.5 billion dollars, for Exxon, Chevron, Marathon, Shell, Noble Energy and smaller independent companies. The scope of my experience includes management of personnel (site teams up to 300), along with project execution and construction installation, both domestic and international assignments. twenty

MILITARY

U.S. Navy, (6 years), Underwater Demolitions Team(s)

EDUCATION

B.S., Natural Gas Technology; Texas A&I University (currently A&M)

B.S., Civil Engineering, Unite States Armed Forces University, Bethesda, MD

PROFESSIONAL CONSULTANT EXPERIENCE

Principal Construction Consultant (owner) 1997 - Current

National Consultant & Management Group, Inc., Houston, TX

•Provide key personnel to management construction activities from the field level or oversee activities for clients

•Recent project: Gas gathering system/pipeline, Henderson, TX (East Texas) for privately-owned company

•Previous projects have included international assignments

Construction Site Lead Apr 2013 – 2015

Chevron, Houston, TX (on assignment Africa) Projects: Mafumeira Sul Project, Angola Responsibilities:

•Administered site contract issues and represented company’s interests

•Developed and maintained positive working relationship with company and contractor teams

•Led the development and implementation of an Incident and Injury Free culture at the site for both company and contract personnel

•Ensured development and implementation of contractor and subcontractor safety plans, emergency response plans, security plans and incident/accident investigation processes

•Instigated cost and schedule control processes and reporting

•Reviewed and advised project team on their ongoing projects planning activities and constructability issues

•Interfaced between engineering departments and project management team to insure construction, fabrication schedule are achieved

Sr. Offshore Construction Manager Brownfield Projects Oct 2011 – Feb 2013

ExxonMobil-ENL Neft-Gas

Projects: Orlan Offshore Platform Expansion Russia-&-US Responsibilities:

•Lead Advisor to the SIMOP’s team reporting on ongoing actives, to overseeing interface management between Operation/Production and Construction as to issues within the confines of the outlined project

•Supervised and developed company employees with particular emphasis on mentoring junior employees.

•Administered site contract issues and represented company’s interests

•Developed and maintained positive working relationship with company and contractor teams.

•Responsible for coordinating, both offshore and onshore work between the offshore platform construction tractors and the onshore fabrication contractors, and logistical receiver stations, and the development of the schedule actives to meeting deadlines set by the client

•Led the development and implementation of an Incident and Injury Free culture at the site for both company and contract personnel

•Ensured development and implementation of contractor and subcontractor safety plans, emergency response plans, security plans and incident/accident investigation processes

•Implemented cost and schedule control processes and reporting. Reviewed and advised project team on their ongoing projects planning activities and constructability issues

•Developed methodology to reduce project cost/schedule construction fabrication, installation, commissioning and start up

•Interfaced between engineering departments and project management team to ensure construction, installation and commissioning activities were generated into a single active schedule to ultimately reduce costs

Construction Advisor Brownfield Projects Jun 2011 – Oct 2011

Noble Energy Inc.

Projects: NEM Expansion Project Israel &-US Responsibilities:

•Preliminary execution plan development after FEED, included early project plan workshop, purchasing and contracting plan, work breakdown structure, construction plan, organization plan, interface coordination, funding plan and regulatory compliance plan

•Responsible for the development of the projects construction work scope, definition and strategy and the recommendation of project organization and staffing.

•Developed and management the review of material for milestone decisions

•Developed methodology to reduce project cost/schedule construction fabrication, installation, commissioning and start up

Offshore Construction Manager Jun 2010 – May 2011

Chevron-ENL Neft-Gas

Projects: CPC Phase II Expansion Project Russia-&-US

Responsibilities:

•Provided the technical expertise and leadership required for installation and refurbishment of pipeline and SPM Installation

•Preliminary execution plan included early project plan workshop, purchasing and contracting plan, work breakdown structure, construction plan, organization plan, interface coordination, funding plan and regulatory compliance plan

•Provided functional oversight of construction department personnel deployed to area projects including staffing, training, management of safety, management of quality, construction execution means and methods

•Developed and management review material for milestone decisions

•Responsible for the development of the projects construction work scope, definition and strategy and the recommendation project organization and staffing for field engineering, contract supervision, safety and related project support functions

•Provided functional support in the coordination and planning of future contracts as well as development of a project team to effectively supervise the construction project.

•Responsible for the development of the HUC activities, for onshore loading system and offshore SPM Loading

systems, including the 5Km 42” loading lines

Onshore Construction Advisors (Infrastructures Feed) Jan 2010 – May 2010 British Gas, FEED- Project Responsibilities:

•Developed on-site infrastructures needs i.e., housing, recreation facilities, transportation, communication, and office space on the island and main base, as well as the safety concerns and enter actives between the field construction and office work on mainland

•These camps included approximately 45 to 1,200 individual staff for the planned community, power, water, stores, hospitals and doctor care

Sr. Onshore Site Construction Manager Jun 2006 – Dec 2009

Shell R&D

Projects: Shell E&P Oil Shale Test Project US & Calgary Canada Responsibilities:

•Served as the On-Site Sr. Manager with duties including the overall coordination of drilling, construction, operations and Camp Actives. Daily duties involved daily meetings to determine which order of actives would be placed in the lead

•Administered site contract issues and represented company’s interests.

•Provided functional support in the coordination and planning of future contracts as well as development of a project team to effectively supervise the construction project

•Developed the on-site infrastructure needs i.e., housing, recreation facilities, transportation, safety concerns and the enter actives within the “First Nation” Canadian Locate peoples. These camps included approx. 65 to 6,000 men planned community, power, water, stores and schools, hospitals and doctor care.

•Led, planned, organized and coordinated activities of multidiscipline owner and contractor construction team(s) during front end engineering and design (FEED), constructability, construction planning, fabrication possibly under multiple contracts at multiple sites, installation, construction, system completion, pre-commissioning and start-up

•Ensured development and implementation of contractor and subcontractor safety plans, emergency response plans, security plans and incident/accident investigation processes.

•Implemented cost and schedule control processes and reporting. Reviewed and advised project team on their ongoing projects planning activities and constructability issues

•Developed methodology to reduce project cost/schedule construction fabrication, installation, commissioning and start up

•Interfaced between engineering departments and project management team to insure construction, installation and commissioning actives were generated into a single active schedule to ultimately reduce costs

Sr. Offshore Construction & Production Manager Brownfield Projects Apr 2003 – May 2006 ExxonMobil-& Affiliate

Projects: BOPMU, CCHIP, EIU, SHE, EAP& EPC-4B Nigeria-Lagos and Cameroon-&Houston Texas-US

Responsibilities:

•Assigned to the Brownfield projects in West Africa. These development projects ranged from $35M to $97M. Conceptual/pre-feed experience was required. Lead the evaluation team to define the project scope and cost coordinate and participate in team activities, including: preliminary project technical plan, including concept selection, Brownfield verifications, project risk assessment, constructability review, issues identification workshop, lessons learned workshop, cost and schedule estimating basis and FEED planning. Reviewed and advised project managers on ongoing projects, planning activities and constructability issues

•Coordinated the efforts of multiple disciplines personal, and provided technical responses for the project construction group. Coordinated the offshore construction campaign activities, including, manpower skills, and scheduling construction group objectives. Provided the technical expertise and leadership for installation and refurbishment of platforms.

•Developed methodology to reduce project cost/schedule construction fabrication, installation, commissioning and start up.

•Interfaced between engineering departments and project management team to insure construction, installation and commissioning activities were generated into a single active schedule reducing overall project cost. Recommend the integration of new technologies into planned activities for cost reduction.

•Consulted on bid packages preparation and contractors bid evaluation submittals and documentation. Advised and participated in the bid reviews on construction issues. Participated as an independent project review consultant on the conceptual/per FEED, FEED and through execution of Brownfield work.

•Interviewed, evaluated and hired contract personnel, and company personal to work under my leadership, and to allow them to lead their section of the Hook Up, Commissioning and Start Up of both the onshore plant and the offshore production and gathering systems.

•Advised project management team, execution team, senior management, and support operating divisions on the identification and implementation of solutions designed to achieve business unit operating and financial goals.

•Project adviser for other projects which included changing to other project work and report to Project Coordinator in Houston, Texas Interface with project team members executing FEED. Coordinated and participated in project reviews including HAZOP, Risk Assessment, Issues workshops, FEED progress reviews.

Sr. Offshore Construction Manager Brownfield Projects Jan 2001 – Mar 2003

Marathon Oil & Gas Corp

Projects: Alba II Phase A&B

Location: Houston Texas-US & EQ-Equatorial Guinea-Isl-Malabo Responsibilities:

•Lead Construction Engineer / Coordinator. Responsible for coordinating between facilities and structural engineering to identify issues associated with space limitations on the platform and the review of additional deck space addition, working within the team to resolve problems and employ solutions.

•Lead Construction Advisor. Gas Processing and LNG Loading Facility and Jetty. Responsible for coordinating between facilities and structural engineering to identify issues associated with space limitations. Identified tasks and reviewed all projects and plans to ensure that all key points were taken into account. Oversight on construction safety for plant upgrades and personal.

Lead Construction & Installation Advisor, Brownfield Projects Oct 2000 – Dec 2001

British Petroleum

Projects: Pompano VK 989 Expansion Project, U.S. Responsibilities:

•As Lead Construction Engineer and Coordinator identified tasks and reviewed all projects and plans to insure that all key points were taken into account i.e., issues associated with the installation of new modules onto existing facilities/structure due to crane limitations.

Project/Construction Field Manager May 1997 – Aug 2000

Coastal Oil & Gas Corporation, Houston, TX Projects: Gulf of Mexico, U.S.

Responsibilities:

•Project /construction manager for all projects associated with platforms and fields assigned to me.

•This required the development of project planning and studies if required. This covered FEED studies, safety review and HAZOP reviews and AFE preparations.

•Projects ranged from $2M to $25M for platform upgrades and routine maintainers and compressor installation or exchanges.

CORPERATION WORK EXPERIENCE

Project/Construction Field Manager

May 1997 – Aug 2000

Coastal Oil & Gas Corp.

Director of Construction All US Operations

Jan 1987 – Jun 1997

Total Minatome Corporation

Construction Manager All US Operations

Jan 1980 – Jun 1987

Total Minatome Corporation

Sr. Field Engineer & Project/Construction Oversight May 1976 – Jan 1980 Coastal Oil & Gas Corp.

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