Project Engineer
Resume:
Richard P. Facas ******@*****.***
Mill Valley, CA 94941 www.linkedin.com/in/richardfacas
PROFESSIONAL EXPERTISE:
Contract Management: Contract Engineering and Administration
Project Controls: Cost Engineering and Planning
SKILL SET
Contract Engineering: developing Contracting Strategy and Plan to best achieve objectives; drafting EPC, Construction, Service Contracts; Pre-Qualification Plan, Tender Evaluation Plan; coordinating and assembly of the ITT Package: SoW, Work Packages, commercial and technical evaluations, leading pre-award activities and drafting Recommendation of Award. Contract Administration: implementing change management / claims avoidance procedures, contract administrative system: invoice review, progress measurement, tracking spend / VoWD against Contract Value; validating claims and costs, drafting and obtaining approvals of change orders and amendments; close-out: preparing prelim. / final statement with all outstanding issues. Cost Engineering and Planning: cost estimating and planning schedules; analyzing costs and schedules for optimization and coordinating with engineering to achieve lowest total installed costs; budgeting and forecasting; tracking and analyzing actual vs. planned, budgeted & forecasted; analyzing trends, variances and exceptions; project reporting; updating baselines. PC Proficiency: Microsoft Office; MS Project; Power Point; SAP WORK EXPERIENCE
Senior Contracts Engineer – Business Advisor 2013 - 2014 Cabinda Gulf Oil Co. (Chevron-operated JV), Cabinda, Angola Facilities Engineering Projects in an Offshore Oil and Gas Production Operation
Achieved cost savings by replacing short-term, high-priced, single source contracts with competitively bid, long-term, low-priced contracts
Prepared clearly-written and definitive bid packages and instructions to reduce risk and costs due to poorly defined requirements and unknowns
Drafted and led technical and commercial bid evaluations resulting in the lowest cost, technically and commercially acceptable bids being awarded contracts
Administered contracts: drafted work orders, monitored / controlled costs and compliance
Change Management – monitored potential changes and advised contract owner, negotiated claims to validate changes and costs, administered change orders Senior EPC Contract Engineer 2011 to 2012
AMEC Global Resources Ltd (Project Management Consultant), Abu Dhabi, UAE Client: ZADCO (Abu Dhabi Nat’l Oil Co. - ExxonMobil JV) Projects: UZ750 (Upper Zakum FFD) and New Main Oil Line – $3 Billion Offshore Projects Richard P. Facas / resume
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Drafted clearly-written, well-coordinated and definitive Bid documents including a strong FEED Endorsement resulting in competitive bids without a lot of variances and exceptions
Drafted a comprehensive Technical and Commercial Evaluation Plan that led to the lowest cost, technically and commercially acceptable bid being awarded the contract
Avoided costly litigation and higher costs by strategizing and negotiating resolutions to over a hundred claims totaling $40 million resulting in a settlement of less than $8 million Lead EPC Contract Engineer 2010 to 2011
RasGas Company Ltd. (Qatar Gas - ExxonMobil JV), Doha, Qatar Project: Flow Assurance Upgrade Project – $500 million Offshore Gas Project
Drafted clearly-written and comprehensive Contracting Strategy and Plan that was endorsed by the Contracts Supervisory Board
Drafted the Pre-qualification Plan that resulted in a short list of quality bidders
Drafted clearly-written, well-coordinated and definitive bid documents including a strong FEED Endorsement
Project was put on indefinite hold pending technical studies of alternatives. Project Controls Head / Contracts, Cost and Planning Coordinator 2003 - 2010 Agip Kazakhstan Caspian Operating Co., Atyrau, Kazakhstan Project: Kashagan Development Project – Phase 1- a $30 Billion Onshore and Offshore Project
Led and managed Project Services, a group of twenty+ people implementing project controls including contracts, cost and planning as well as the QA/QC program
Supervised preparation of the Contracting Strategy and Plan aligned with project objectives
Replaced short term, high-priced contracts with competitively bid, long term, low-cost contracts resulting in significant cost savings
Managed preparation of cost estimates, preparing, tracking and updating of budgets and forecasts
Supervised preparation, tracking and updating of Level 1-3 Planning Schedules
Led ISO 9001 audit that resulted in Company being ISO 9001 Certified
Formulated KPI matrix and evaluated staff for KPI scores Project Controls Supervisor 2000 to 2003
TengizChevOil LLP (Chevron-operated partnership), Atyrau, Kazakhstan Project: $150 Million Office, Housing and Infrastructure Projects
Developed Contracting Strategy and Plan dividing project into three discrete contracts resulting in the successful completion of all three projects within budget and on-time
Prepared cost estimates, tracked and updated budgets and forecasts that came within 5% of actual costs in an overall budget of $150 million
Prepared, tracked and updated milestone and detailed (Level 1-3) Planning Schedules; projects were all completed as scheduled
Prepared monthly Project Report including Executive Summary, Critical Issues as well as Progress Report of all areas for management and stakeholders’ information Richard P. Facas / resume
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Prior Relevant Experience
Project Controls Specialist, Yost Grube Hall Architecture, Portland, OR General Contractor, San Francisco Bay Area, California EDUCATION
Fordham University, New York, NY; B.S. in a Business Administration program; major in Accounting, other courses: Finance, Business Law (including Contract Law) and Economics OTHER CREDENTIALS
ISO 9001:2000 Lead Auditor; Lloyd’s Register Quality Assurance, Cert. No. 06\3353 General Contractor, State of California License No. 601740
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