Project Controls

Curriculum Vitae

PERSONAL DATA:

Name GHAZALI ABD AZIZ - PSP

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Calgary, AB T3M 1J4

CANADA

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QUALIFICATIONS

Certified Planning and Scheduling Professional (PSP) AACE International

B. Sc. In Chemical Engineering and Petroleum Refining Colorado School Of Mines, USA

EXECUTIVE SUMMARY

I graduated from Colorado School of Mines in Chemical Engineering and Petroleum Refining degree in 1988.

Since then, I have a wide-ranging and deep technical experience in Oil and Gas Project Management with specialty in Planning, Scheduling and Project Control. I have hands-on involvement in various project developments, feasibility studies, front-end engineering, construction and commissioning of gas and petrochemical projects. My primary function is to ensure that the client needs and requirements in terms of Project Scheduling, Project Planning and Project Controlling are met. I have a very strong technical knowledge and know-how on applying scheduling software tools such as Primavera (P6) and Microsoft Office Project. I have the ability to interpret and analyze the schedule produced by the softwares.

I have experienced various Project Management environments ranging from being an EPCC Contractor, PMC to OWNER. I have been involved in various mega projects such as 1. Fertilizer Processing Plant Project,

2. Onshore Compression Station Projects,

3. SABIC Mega Petrochemical Plants (in Yanbu, Saudi Arabia) 4. Building the facilities for the national oil development in Sudan. This project in Sudan included Field Surface Facilities, Central Processing Plant, Power Plant and Pipelines.

My last project undertaking is in the engineering and construction of Oil Sand Projects with Clients, SUNCOR and Imperial Oil Limited in Calgary, Canada. I also have a very sound and extensive experience in Quality Management System having been through ISO 9000 certification acquisition processes for 2 international companies from my previous work experiences.

PAST WORKING EXPERIENCES

September 2012 to Present JACOBS Inc.

Calgary, Canada

Principal Project Control Specialist

Core responsibilities included : -

• Providing comments and recommendations for planning and scheduling as well as cost engineering requirements relative to staffing and project controls;

• Interfacing with designated Jacobs management and client counterparts for specific planning and scheduling presentations;

• Planning and supervising the effort to establish milestones for total project or major portions of the project;

• Providing supervision and assistance to planners in the development and integration of individual schedules into the total project plan;

• Reviewing performing organization’s and unit’s work logics and determining adequacy of schedules in support of overall project schedule;

• Supervising, directing, reviewing and evaluating schedule durations for all disciplines to support project milestones;

• Supervising and directing calculation of durations and other considerations affecting activity durations;

• Planning, organizing and supervising schedule resource loading and levelling as well as project cost budgets;

• Supervising, directing and obtaining required schedule information for all disciplines;

• Supervising and identifying schedule restraints and effect on total project schedule;

• Identifying schedule considerations and problems resulting from interdisciplinary or group restraints and interfaces;

• Monitoring and reporting critical path and schedule performance of the total project;

• Supervising project schedule analysis and studies of problem areas to determine criticality of schedule activities;

• Recommending alternatives for schedule improvement to project team for discussion and/or decision;

• Preparing and presenting planning and scheduling information to management/clients;

• Preparing and facilitating interactive planning sessions; and

• Planning and conducting both Quantitative and Qualitative Risk Analysis sessions. March 10 to June 2012 SABIC E&PM

Yanbu, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia

Project Planning Engineer

Yanbu Site Projects

Responsible for :

• Creating logical and practical schedules for every new projects based on customer requirements.

• Creating effective monitoring tools (e.g.. Physical Progress Measurement) use for progress monitoring.

• Providing effective schedule monitoring and analysis services to customers.

• Ensuring periodical updates for project progress status (weekly and monthly).

• Ensuring compliance with all applicable laws, regulations and standards of local authorities.

• Ensuring on time submittals of all required reports, documents & information maintaining the required level of quality & accuracy.

May 2008 to February 2010 Yanbu National Petrochemical Company SABIC Affiliate Company

Yanbu, Kingdom Of Saudi Arabia

Senior Planning Engineer

Commissioning and Start-Up Department (CSU)

• Responsible to ensure the Integrated Pre-commissioning and Commissioning activities of oncoming eight (8) petrochemical plants are being properly incorporated and scheduled.

• Monitoring and ensuring the inter-plants pre-commissioning and commissioning activities are being properly identified and handled.

• Ensuring the smoothness start-up activities being met to achieve the FLAWLESS Start-Up Methodology/Concept.

November 2006 to May 2008 PETRONAS / Research and Technologies Division Staff Engineer - Planning / Scheduling

PLANT PROJECT STUDIES

• Responsible for providing one-stop center for PETRONAS capital project support by providing Leadership, Expertise and Tools to deliver project goals and objectives in the areas of Project Management, Risk Assessment and Technical Studies, Work-scoping, and Detailed Feasibility Study/Front End Engineering for scaling up and commercialization of new technologies.

• Providing Technical Support (Planning/Scheduling, Project Control) to Mega Methanol Project in Labuan. The scope includes assisting OWNER to identify the project issues and providing the team with the mitigation approach to arrest the project issues.

• Providing technical support (Planning/Scheduling, Project Control) to PFK Debottleneckling Project in Kedah. The scope includes providing the Project Control templates, establishing Project Control procedures and developing the Master Schedule. September 93 to October 06 PETRONAS / OGP Technical Services Sdn Bhd Senior Planning / Control Engineer

THAR JATH DEVELOPMENT PROJECT, SUDAN

The project objective is to provide a crude oil gathering system which will transport the produced fluids from Thar Jath Field located in Block 5A to a Central Processing Facility for Crude Oil Separation Treatment and transport the treated crude oil to upstream of existing GNPOC Heglieg Pump Station #1.

January 2004 to October 2006

• Producing the overall project schedule with details of Engineering, Procurement and Construction activities.

• Establishing for the project a physical progress measurement system for the purpose of controlling and monitoring project progress as per Client requirement

• Reporting and highlighting to the Project Management Team (PMT) the status and identifying the key areas and suggest corrective actions.

• Preparing weekly and monthly reports as well as presentation materials for Client information.

• Schedule updating, monitoring and conducting verification of the construction progress.

• Based at the Site Office to monitor the Construction progress by analyzing sub- contractors’ daily performance and production rates.

• Communicating Construction issues, concern and critical paths to the Construction Team in order to maintain the schedule and progress towards achieving the Mechanical Completion date as per plan.

Senior Planning / Control Engineer

Attached to Technical Engineering Services (TES) Department MLNG Sdn Bhd

(June 2002 to December 2003)

• Monitoring TES Department Projects and Plant Changes to ensure that the projects and Plant Changes (PCs) are executed within budget and time.

• Reviewing and providing advisory services on project physical progress measurement systems for the purpose of controlling and monitoring project progress.

• Reporting and highlighting to the MLNG Plant Management on projects status and identifying key areas with recommendations for corrective actions where needed.

• Preparing weekly and monthly reports as well as presentation materials for management information.

• Preparing the overall Project and Plant Changes budgets for the TES department. Senior Planning / Control Engineer

AMPA FAIRLEY RATIONALISATION PROJECT

(August 1999 to May 2002)

• Producing the overall project schedule with details of Engineering, Procurement and Construction activities.

• Establishing Project Physical Progress measurement for the purpose of controlling and monitoring project progress as per Client requirement

• Reporting and Highlighting to the Project Management Team (PMT) the status and identifying the key areas and suggest corrective actions

• Preparing weekly and monthly reports as well as presentation materials for the Client information.

• Scheduling, Monitoring and verification of the construction progress.

• Based at the Site Office to monitor the Construction progress by analysing sub-ontractors’ daily performance and production rate.

• Highlighting Construction issues, concern and critical paths to the Construction Team in order to maintain the schedule and progress towards achieving the Mechanical Completion date as per plan.

Site Project Planning / Control Engineer

PETRONAS FERTILIZER KEDAH PROJECT

(January 1997 to July 1999)

• To perform Project Control functions for PMC at PFK Project.

• Tasks included monitoring, verification and management of EPCC Contractor of Package 1, EPCM Contractors of Package 2, 3 and 4.

• Reporting and highlighting to the Project Management Team (PMT) the status and identifying the key areas and suggest corrective actions.

• Scheduling, monitoring and verification of progress for all the four (4) packages.

• Preparation of board papers and reports for Senior Management for Board and Project Steering Committee.

Process Engineer

PETRONAS FERTILIZER KEDAH PROJECT

(October 1995 to December 1996)

• Performed Basic and Detail Engineering work of the project. Responsibilities included developing Process Flow Diagrams, Piping and Instrumentation Diagrams and process datasheets.

• Participated in HAZOP for the project, line sizing, vessel sizing, pump sizing, pressure safety valve sizing and reviewing of instrumentation and firefighting systems Process Engineer

Engineering Services Department

PETRONAS ENERGY PHILIPPINES INCORPORATED (PEPI) Project

(LPG Import Terminal and Bottling Plants in Philippines)

• Perform basic and detail engineering work of the project. Responsibilities include developing Process Flow Diagrams, Piping and Instrumentation Diagrams and process datasheets

Corporate Quality Management

• Develop and Coordinate the Documentation Management System based on the Corporate Quality Policy and ISO 9001 requirements among all OGP Projects.

• Assisting and ensuring the implementation of ISO 9001 requirements is being met and followed in the company.

• Conducting and participate in the company Internal Quality Audit exercise. Process Section, Engineering Services Department

Worked with Process Engineering team in developing in-house design capabilities and home office support services, including

• Documentation of the Process Information Technology.

• Review of design studies for all new projects.

• Provide process engineering input for feasibility study of projects such as JDA Gas Processing Plant and Vietnam LPG Bottling and Gas Processing's plant.

• Review of simulation software applications

• Modeling and process simulation for JDA and Vietnam Gas Processing Plant.

• Preliminary sizing of process equipment

• Review of utilities requirement

• Review of relevant design standards used in process engineering.

• Interfacing and building up vendor technical databases.

• Provide process engineering input for several preliminary studies of projects such as Gas Process Plant and LPG Bottling plant.

June 1994 - Sept. 1995

Sandwell Inc., Calgary Canada

Quality Assurance Specialist

• Contributing to Datap's ISO 9001 QMS registration effort through involvement in the Datap activities.

• Establishing ISO 9001 training for all employees.

• Creating an ISO 9000 awareness program for all employee levels. August 1989 - August 1993

SUMITOMO ELECTRIC MAGNET WIRE (M) SDN BHD

Quality Assurance and Quality Control Engineer

• Ensuring customer satisfaction through the Quality Assurance program on all the products delivered.

• Planning and executing the Total Quality Management program for the company wide better production, productivity and quality campaign.

• Establishing and revising the company standards and procedures for achieving the ISO 9002 certification program.

• Maintaining products quality by implementing several Quality Control Program such as Quality Control Circle (QCC)

• Enforcement of Statistical Process Control (SPC) tools and methods in the production area.

August 89 - February 90

SUMITOMO ELECTRIC INDUSTRIES (JAPAN) LTD

On Job Training

• Planning and preparing for a new plant set-up in Malaysia.

• Basic training on the manufacturing process and management according to the Japanese style and orientation.

COMPUTER SKILLS

• Microsoft Applications (Words, Excel, Access, PowerPoint, Outlook)

• PRIMAVERA Project Planner (P3 and P6)

• Microsoft PROJECT

• HYSYS

• SAP (PS – Project System)

• LOTUS Applications (Words, 123, Freelance, Approach, Notes) LANGUAGES:

• English : Written and Oral

• Bahasa Melayu : Written and Oral

• Mandarin : Oral

• Arabic : Oral

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