Project Manager

John J. Smith

**** ***** *** ********,

Fulshear, TX, 77441

Phone: 219-***-****

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

Education

Bachelor of Technology, Mechanical Engineering, 1977, University of

Bradford, UK

Certification / Affiliations

Member of the Association of Cost Engineers (UK)

OSHA 10 Hour Certification

Professional Highlights

More than 35 years of experience in all aspects of project controls with

particular emphasis on Scheduling, Cost Control & Risk Management. Has been

involved in project controls and home office controls systems and worked as

Project Controls Supervisor, Project Controls Manager and Field

Superintendent. Has a proven record for excellence and dedication in the

execution to achieving goals for project team and client in execution of

Project Management and Controls. Extensive experience in field and home

office environment in North America, Europe, Middle East, Asia and the

former Soviet Union while responsible for implementing Project Management

and Construction Control systems for Oil & Gas, Nuclear, petrochemical and

other specialized facilities.

Software: Experienced in Primavera P3 (Versions 3, 5 & 6), Pert Master,

SAP, Open Plan, MS Project, Access, Excel, Word, PowerPoint etc.

Project Experience

Jul 2013 to Present - Project Services Lead - Shell Upstream Americas

Houston TX

Duties: Project services lead responsible for all project controls aspects

for a number of offshore upstream projects in all stages of development. I

have also been responsible for developing the Project Control Plan and

other project deliverables ensuring that my projects are compliant in all

aspects of Shell project controls procedures while producing monthly

reports to inform management.

Aug 2011 to July 2013 - Project Controls Lead - Shell West Delta 143C

project

Duties: Project Controls Lead on fabrication of off shore Jacket, Deck,

Piles & bridge fabricated at McDermott facility in Morgan City LA.

Responsible for all aspects of project controls with particular emphasis on

progress monitoring and cost management including variations to contract.

Performed Quantity Surveyor function on this unit rate type contract with a

very tight schedule, requiring active management to control both cost and

schedule performance. I was heavily involved in contractual negotiations

writing contractual letters disputing contractor claims. All invoices and

change requests were approved by me before going to senior management for

execution. I was also involved in reorganizing the contractor's labor to

improve productivity. Performed routine forecasts to using various what-if

scenarios to determine final cost range to assist management negotiating

with various contractors. I reviewed progress on site weekly with

contractors to ensure that the most critical items were being managed

effectively to maximize production.

Dec 2010 to Aug 2011 - Project Controls Manager - BP Toledo Reformer 3

project

Duties: Project Controls Manager on BP Toledo Reformer 3 project.

Responsible for setting up cost control system for owner's scope of work to

integrate cost and schedule, providing accurate forecasting aligned with

scope of work. I was heavily involved as Quantity Surveyor with cost

analysis involved with selection and negotiations to award the main

mechanical site installation contract. I agreed the progress measure with

the contractors before invoices were submitted, thereby speeding up the

payment process. I worked with contractors to ensure that change requests

were resolved efficiently to allow work to proceed without interruption.

Jul 2006 to Nov 2010 - Project Controls Manager - BP Whiting Refinery

Modernization Project Indiana

Duties: Project Controls Manger on BP Whiting Refinery modernization

program, a multi- billion dollar project involving the construction of

several new units and considerable modification to existing units which

effectively doubled the capacity of the refinery. Responsible for

controlling the cost and schedule for the outside battery limit work and

coordination with the ongoing Whiting operations and minor projects. This

work involved 73 separate work scopes which were individually controlled in

terms of cost & schedule as stand-alone projects and then rolled into

project manager's portfolios and the overall work scope. I also liaised

with the various contractors to ensure that BP's expectations were

fulfilled and contractors were paid in a timely manner with BP. This

involved validating invoices against actual work completed. My team was

required to ensure that all BP tracking systems met with accounting

requirements and seamlessly interfaced with existing BP systems and

contractor's tracking systems. In this Execute stage of the project I had a

staff of 6 reporting directly to me, controlling over $1.5 billion.

May 2006 to Jun 2006 - Project Controls Manager - Atkins Oil & Gas Trinidad

Duties: Set up project controls system to facilitate schedule and cost

management of two Offshore Rig Jacket projects.

Jun 2004 to May 2006 - Project Controls Manager - British Nuclear Group

Sellafield

Duties: Provided advice and guidance while managing all aspects of a team

of portfolio planners together with the leads of the planning, cost

engineering & estimating to provide a center of excellence within the

business control office. A new reporting system was implemented to allow

management to easily identify areas of concern within a portfolio of

projects. This was a challenging role as BNG converted to a contracting

organization from a government funded owner / operator.

Feb 2003 to Jun 2004 - Project Controls Manager - Bechtel London & India

Duties: Responsible for all planning and cost control activities on

Reliance Value Maximization Project through FEED to handover. This was an

extremely fast-tracked project to revamp the entire refinery complex in a

time scale of 18 months from Front End Design to full process operation.

The scope included extensive FCCU modifications, New Propylene Recovery

Unit, additional power generation & water supply. I was responsible for the

entire scheduling activity: coordinating client site planning team to

produce an integrated schedule from conceptual design to construction /

handover. The project was fully reimbursable so I acted as Quantity

Surveyor responsible for producing man-hour reports detailing expended and

'to go' man-hours. The scope of the work was constantly growing so I needed

to estimate the changes and gain approval from the client to proceed. I

prepared invoices and got approval from the client before submitting for

payment. I also produced the Bechtel internal project financial status

reports for senior management.

3 month assignment setting up joint venture project controls systems for

new process units in Tengiz, Kazakhstan. This was a complete level 4 master

schedule fully resourced to enable to link in with main contractor's master

schedule.

3 month assignment providing project controls advice for station works on

Piccadilly, Northern & Jubilee lines station renovations on London

Underground.

Aug 1981 to Feb 2003 - Senior Planning Engineer with a variety of companies

throughout the UK, Canada, Middle East, Indonesia and Europe covering all

project aspects from FEED to final handover largely in the oil & gas

industry.

Jun 1977 to Jul 1981 - Planning Engineer with a variety of companies

throughout the UK covering turnarounds and field construction in the oil &

gas industry.

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