David Herbert

Phone: 281-***-****

Education

B.S. Industrial Technology – Louisiana State University - 1988

Courses

Primavera P6 - Professional Client Fundamentals (2015)

Primavera P6 – Advanced Professional Client (2015)

Managing Risk in Primavera Risk Analysis Rel. 8.6 (2015)

Microsoft Project 2010 – Advanced Training Course (2014)

Experience

Nexen Petroleum USA ( Feb 2013 – Mar 2016)

Sr. Planner/Scheduler

Worked with team leads for the preparation of all documents necessary for the gate review during the Nexen Stage Gate Process. Also followed up with team leads to close out all action items generated by the gate review team.

Helped develop and maintain the overall risk register for the projects. Held quarterly risk workshops to add any new risks or close out any risks that no longer applied. Used the top pre and post mitigated risks to help develop and maintain an influencing plan to identify and discuss Nexen’s concerns with the operator.

Worked with internal team members to develop work plans to identify key focus areas of weekly/monthly activities. The work plans also helped identify milestone dates and completion dates for work tasks that spanned multiple departments.

Developed summary level work plans within each department to help with resource over-allocation and used resource leveling to see where additional personnel were needed.

Analyzed overall project schedule in a non-operator environment for deep-water Gulf of Mexico projects to help identify progress, critical paths and rate of float/allowance consumption.

Performed quarterly Cost and Risk Analysis to identify range of probabilistic dates and costs for the project.

Helped manage Nexen’s Platform and Pipeline Abandonment Campaign as directed by the National Security Agreement. (NSA)

Submitted monthly Value of Work Done estimates to the Accounting Department for Accruals.

Project Consulting Services, Inc. (PCS) (Mar 2002 – Feb 2013)

Project Scheduler – Nexen Petroleum USA Inc.

Created and maintained project schedules for several divisions within Nexen including Drilling, Exploration, Operations and Subsurface.

Duties Included:

Facilitate the development of project schedules and apply a work breakdown structure to show the deterministic end date and critical path.

Generate graphics including Gantt Charts, Activity Network Diagrams, Time-Scaled Logic Diagrams and Histograms.

Create and maintain a Performance Management system using baseline information in the estimate and schedule.

Project Scheduler – B.P. North America (2005 – 2008)

Provided B.P. with updated schedule for the Flowline and Riser portion of the Atlantis Project.

Duties Included:

Provided monthly schedule updates to be uploaded in to the Master Schedule for the Atlantis Project.

Updated B.P. with PCS client spent, committed and forecasted costs.

Project Controls - El Paso/Gulf Terra (2002 – 2005)

Provided El Paso Energy Partners (Gulf Terra) with project support on the Marco Polo, Medusa, Cameron Highway, Front Runner, Red Hawk/Phoenix, and Falcon Projects.

Duties Included:

Duties included Creating/updating resource loaded project schedules.

Cost tracking/cost forecasting.

Document Control and Material Requisition /Receiving.

Enron Facility Services Houston, TX (May 2001 – December 2001)

Project Manager

Managed energy retrofit projects for Enron Facility Services in region including Texas, New Mexico, Oklahoma, Arkansas and Louisiana.

Duties Included:

Reviewed scopes of work with the owner during work order presentations.

Wrote subcontracts, approved by the legal department and forwarded to the subcontractors.

Received, reviewed and managed all change orders from the subcontractors.

Received and processed all invoices from the subcontractors and ensured owner acceptance prior to payment.

Coordinated the kick-off and punch-out efforts for site completion.

Created and maintained resource loaded schedules.

Managed Scope of Work Development.

Provided Constructability asset support.

Managed Document Control.

Assisted sales team and account managers for new projects and provided energy calculations for payback criteria.

Projects included:

oInfomart – Dallas $1.5MM

oOwens Corning – Waxahachie, TX $2.8MM

oThe Archdiocese of Chicago – Chicago, IL $30MM

Enron Energy Services – Houston, TX (Jan 1999 – May 2001)

Project Controls Manager

Managed an enterprise business process that incorporated contract control software (Expedition) and schedule control software (P3/SureTrak) to monitor the progress of multi-million dollar projects with five regions in the Eastern U.S. The functions of the business process produces reports and data required by financial management, the energy asset risk book, regional directors and project managers including:

Resource loaded schedules

Scope of work development

Commodity estimate development

Constructability asset support

Budget/committed/actual cost tracking

Document control

Industrial Specialty Contractors, Inc. – Baton Rouge, LA (Jan 1990 – Dec 1998)

Held three positions with an electrical and instrumentation contractor in Baton Rouge, Louisiana and Houston, Texas.

Sr. Project Coordinator

Received detailed commodity estimates to develop the project productivity report for tracking the actual percent complete on the project.

Built detailed project schedules based upon client needs.

Tracked cost and productivity during the course of the projects.

Developed and maintained all aspects of project documentation including contracts, notices, subcontracts, inspections, change orders, schedule extensions/accelerations, submittals, disputes and terminations.

Project Estimator

Developed a detailed commodity estimate from bid documents.

Ensured compliance of the proposal to the client with regard to scope of work, safety, QA/QC, schedule, certificate of insurance and release of lien.

Conducted site surveys of facilities to minimize risk, help define clarifications and to define the scope of work.

Project Manager

Managed E&I projects in petro-chemical facilities.

Projected costs at completion through analysis of product reports, resource loaded schedules and cost reports.

Analyzed productivity trends and made adjustments to manpower, equipment and materials to correct the efficiency of the project.

Coordinated outages with the client on shutdowns, turnarounds and electrical cutovers.

Performed constructability reviews with clients on upcoming projects.

Developed and implemented final punch list, submitted notice of substantial completion, and performed final walk-through wit client for final acceptance.

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