Project Engineer

MEHDI CHAKAMEHGOOYEMOTLAGH

***** ******* ***** **. *** 515 • Houston, Texas 77082

832-***-**** • *************@*****.***

PROJECT PLANNER & SCHEDULER

Exemplary record of success delivering key planning and scheduling contributions to major projects.

More than five years’ experience in various facets of project control for mega projects and program-level projects. Highly adept at coordinating planning, scheduling and controls for multiple concurrent projects, ensuring on-time, under-budget execution. Excel at forging relationships across multiple divisions and liaising with cross-functional teams and senior leadership to gather information for creating and updating schedules. Proven capacity for supervising and mentoring multi-disciplinary project teams. Experience coordinating scheduling within multicultural environments. Bi-lingual in English and Persian.

CORE COMPETENCIES:

• Project / Program Life Cycle

• Performance / Data Analysis

• Risk Analysis & Mitigation

• Client & Vendor Relations • Procurement & Acquisitions Scheduling

• Oil & Gas (O&G) Project Scheduling

• Project Controls Analysis

• Project Staff Training & Support

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

PARS PETROCHEMICAL COMPANY, Shiraz, Iran

Senior Planner/Scheduler & Project Control Engineer, 02/2012 – 10/2013

Formulated in-depth project schedules for large-scale oil and gas projects. Liaised daily with project leads and engineers to gather information on scope of work and assess potential contingencies affecting project scheduling. Maintained and updated project baselines based on approved budgets and variances. Administered and performed bi-weekly updates to project schedule. Contributed to meetings with project engineers to review progress and identify and mitigate issues.

Key Achievements:

Demonstrated consistent capacity for maintaining balance between program-level resource availability and individual project resource needs while ensuring individual projects met deadlines.

Orchestrated planning and execution of economic evaluation to justify spending, and performed internal and external project reporting.

PARS INT’L DEVELOPMENT & ENGINEERING COMPANY (PIDECO) / IDRO GROUP, Asaluyeh / Kangan, Iran

Senior Planner/Scheduler & Project Control Engineer, 11/2009 – 11/2011

Operated from home office and construction site in performing a wide range of roles. Coordinated activities of staff and general contractors. Utilized integrated scheduling database to schedule multiple concurrent project initiatives. Generated consolidated reports based on data compiled from multiple resources to aid senior management in decision-making. Conducted weekly reviews of general contractor installation curves, tracking progress and performance against baseline and forecasting remaining work based on current unit rate curves. Analyzed schedule to ensure alignment with goals and scope, and to recommend scheduling adjustments. Facilitated contract close-out reconciliation by comparing committed, cost-to-date, budget, forecast, accounting, and contract committed values of multiple contracts.

Key Achievements:

Steered deployment and updating of detailed engineering schedule covering multiple departments based on information gathered from interactive planning sessions.

Revamped construction schedule to align more closely with multidisciplinary construction needs and optimized schedule based on logic, duration and resource availability.

Skillfully automated tools utilized for developing monthly cost-reporting package and set project-controls tracking tool to track general contractors and sub-contractors.

Drove design and delivery of detailed progress and performance metrics for multiple engineering disciplines to ensure timeline aligned with schedule while maintaining appropriate resource levels.

Conceptualized and implemented temporary facilities schedule to synchronize with contract scope of work and construction team availability.

Spearheaded development and implementation of baseline construction schedule, including inclusion of details on manpower and commodity curves.

NAVROOD CO., Asaluyeh, Iran

Project Control & Planning Engineer, 6/2007 – 11/2009

Performed project planning and scheduling for heavy civil works construction projects for onshore South Pars gas fields and facilities project phases 6, 7 & 8. Prepared and regularly updated detailed engineering, procurement and construction schedules. Generated reports on construction progress, materials / equipment inventories and manpower status. Monitored commodities-procurement status and mitigated schedule delays based on analysis of schedule impact analysis reports. Performed critical path time impact analysis.

Key Achievements:

Served as Central Team Project Controls Engineer for home office, with accountability for developing summary-level proposal schedules.

Championed development of duration key performance indicators (KPI) by reviewing historical projects and developing single page summaries to view comparisons between similar projects.

Current experience as Mathematics & Statistics Tutor (11/2013 – Present) for Club Z tutoring service.

TECHNICAL PROFICIENCIES

Platforms: Windows XP/7

Tools: MS Office (Word, Excel, Access, PowerPoint, Outlook), Primavera P3, Primavera P6 Web, Primavera Risk Analysis, Lindo, QSB, MS Office (Project, Excel, Access, PowerPoint, Word)

EDUCATION AND CREDENTIALS

Bachelor of Industrial Management (2007)

SHIRAZ UNIVERSITY, Shiraz, Iran

Professional Development & Certifications

Certified Primavera Project Planner: Software ~ Advanced Project Controls Scheduling Workshop ~ Project Controls Analysis ~ Total Quality Management (TQM)

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