DIPAK D. PATEL

***** *********** **. ***** ****, TX 77498

Cell: 404-***-**** Email: acvo9b@r.postjobfree.com

SUMMARY

Over 19 years of experience in Planning & Scheduling - FEED Engineering, EPC, EPC lump sum, EPCM and Construction Management of multimillion dollar Heavy Industrial Projects. Excellent project execution planning, analysis, and monitoring skills acquired and refined as a team member on many projects in JV environment.

Project Controls Core Team Member and principle resource to initiate, conduct and develop the schedule and planning efforts for new projects, support proposals, setup of progress measuring system and assisting and helping the need of ongoing projects.

CORE PROFESSIONAL STRENGTHS

1.Setup, establish, train and consistently maintain standard design work flow steps, budget distribution norms, progress measurement systems, rules of credit, and reporting tool for Engineering. On heavy industrial construction projects, setup, establish, train, and consistently maintain field progress measuring systems, bulk quantity tracking, weld tracking, heavy erection tracking, and rules of credit consistent to the contract and company policy.

2.Develop, train, and consistently monitor Level II through Level IV Schedules including integration of sub contractors and individual schedules to Master Schedule and establishing milestones that makes sense for physical and financial as well as Critical Path evaluation aspects.

3.Breaking down Bid/Estimates/Contract into a manageable WBS and tasks with resource allocation. Loading of resources such as labor, strategic equipment, and materials/commodities in schedule and creating tools for continues monitoring and reporting of deviations therein.

4.Setup & establish various reporting systems specific to the audience such as direct work in charge to upper management with appropriate details.

5.Comparison of the current schedule to the baseline and other comparable project schedules pertaining to performance analysis with consideration of productivity factor, quantity changes, and scope revisions. In order to avoid delays, this provides critical information to the decision makers for development of recovery strategy well ahead in time..

6.Providing timely reports and commentary to management on effectiveness of ongoing schedule recovery measures and their impact on schedule with prognosis to the management.

7.Regular checkups of schedule effectiveness per established project schedule matrix standards.

8.Establishing company specific Scheduling Standards and Procedures.

9.Timely coordination and publishing of bulk installed quantity, physical progress charts, and EPC Optimization/ JV Reports.

10.Training technical and non-technical personnel in scheduling and project controls specifics.

11.Designing result driven rational and practical methods to gather project execution progress and performance related real time information.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

JGC America INC. Houston, TX

Lead Scheduler/ Planner September 2014 – November 2015

As a Lead Scheduler/Planner at JGCA Project Controls, while working on few proposals for their schedules, my other assignments were as under:-

Worked with different engineering department leads to prepare the engineering design workflow standard logic fragnets, budget distribution criteria, interim milestone for earning rules, progress recording and reporting system, and the manual write-up on each step and its associated flow chart.

Support management/leadership to timely and consistently produce and publish schedules for ongoing proposals and FEED design project on each reporting deadlines.

Prepared templates for impact analysis, impact category classification, and visual graphic documents and presentation.

Initiating the corporate processes and procedures for schedule development, updating and reporting for Pre-FEED, FEED, and detail design projects.

Supported the following Projects in addition to Departmental Leadership duties:

A.Aurora LNG FEED Proposal Project

Lump Sum FEED Project

Developed FEED engineering resource loaded schedule based per ITB and Management directive.

Upper Management decision to decide to bid through JGC Yokohama. The final award outcome is unknown.

B.Nederland Ethane Project

Lump Sum EPC Project

Developed OSBL Engineering detail design schedule for the JV partnership consisting of JGC, S&B, and Black & Veatch. The Procurement and Construction scope assigned to S&B. Black & Veatch to design ISBL scope.

The JV schedule was integrated by the team and resource loaded.

JGCA management opted for No Bid at later stage.

Lauren Engineering & Constructors Abilene, TX

Corporate Lead Scheduler and Database Administrator March 2013 – September 2014

The main assignment for the Project Controls Scheduling department was to standardizing the ongoing day to day operations, and establishing department processes and procedures, while developing a culture to persistently follow them.

Worked to establish the standardization of engineering design workflow logic dependability, budget distribution criteria, earning rules, progress recording and reporting system for various disciplines as well as procedural write-up on each step and its associated flow chart.

Primavera database clean-up, coding standardization, resource library, WBS and OBS structure development. Notebook documentation throughout the life cycle of project. Standardization of engineering design scope description to avoid interpretation confusion. Standard and consistent layout theme for various types of projects.

Effective management/leadership to timely and consistently publish level 3 and level 2 schedules of all ongoing projects for each reporting cycle.

Establishment and training of impact analysis, impact type category classification, back charge philosophy, and time aspect impact visual document development and presentation.

Develop culture to identify scope creep, rework, and its root cause to generate change orders and track trends.

Help Project Controls team on troubleshooting, Impact Analysis, Visual Presentation, and As-Built Schedules using various tools such as Visio, NetPoint, and standard MS Office software.

Received the 2013 “Let Your Light Shine” employee award for good work.

Exclusively supported the following Projects in addition to Departmental Leadership duties:

C.Refinery Relocation Project, Holly Frontier, Wood Cross, UT

Lump Sum EPC Project

Developed Engineering, Procurement, and Construction Level 3 resource loaded schedule based upon “As Sold” proposal schedule utilizing two junior team members.

Setup and train team in Engineering and Field progress measuring system.

Setup reporting process and procedure, assigned responsibility and timeline.

D.Naphtha Fractionation Project, Holly Frontier, El Dorado, KS

Lump Sum EPC Project

Developed Engineering, Procurement, and Construction Level 3 resource loaded schedule based by guiding and delegating two junior team members using As Sold proposal schedule as basis.

Setup and train team in Engineering and Field progress measuring system.

Setup reporting process and procedure, assigned responsibility and timeline.

E.CFI Industries, Ammonia Plant Capacity Expansion, Donaldsonville, LA

Lump Sum EPC Project Proposal

Exclusively worked as proposal team member for project controls efforts/obligations in development of Level 1, 2 and 3 Schedules, and implemented resource allocations derived directly from proposal estimate, staffing plan, and project execution plans.

Captured basis of proposal such as assumptions and qualifications, construction strategy, and documentation.

BECHTEL POWER CORPORATION Frederick, MD

Sr. Lead Planning & Scheduling Engineer July 2010 - March 2013

A.Turkey Point Nuclear Power Plant, Outage 27 Unit #4 Florida City, FL (Dec 2012-March 2013)

Helped Project Controls Team on near completion execution, preparation of impact analysis, visual presentation on Level II for those Impacts and as built schedule, and Bingo Sheet for sign offs.

Lead Planner/Scheduler, BPC Frederick Office, (Nov 2011- Dec 2012)

Supported following Projects:

B.Construction Management Project, Al Khalij, Libya

Developed Reactivation Plan of project consisting of Remobilization, repair and rework due to sudden suspension of execution and re-baseline of the remaining work. This involved integration of various contractors like GAMA of Turkey, GE OCEAN of France, HYUNDAI and DOOSAN from Korea along with Libyan Government Power Co: GE Power.

Converted existing P-3 schedules and various contractors schedule of various format into P6.5 Enterprise environment. Crated universal WBS coding structure and streamline scheduling architecture among various stakeholders.

C.Erbil Engineering Design Project (Combustion Cycle Conversion) ENKA, Turkey

Prepared FOAK (First of a Kind) Engineering Level III schedule for this complicated project having multiple contractual deadline commitments with Owner. Used a unique approach of identifying work scope to outsource for timely completion of project.

D.Project: Generation mPower, B&W and Bechtel JV Lynchburg, VA

(SMR Development & Design Certification Application Project), August 2010 - November 2011

Developed Small Modular Reactor Project consisting of various Nuclear Island System design schedules with resource planning anticipations and key monitoring milestones.

Prepared Monthly JV Project Evaluation Meeting Schedule related reports such as physical status on various scopes, EVMS deviation reasoning, strategic milestone status report, Level II physical status comparison with baseline schedule and probable mitigation options, trend management, and FTE forecast.

Developed detailed engineering progress performance measuring system for all design phases of all design units by identifying design calculations, schematics, and P&IDs to monitor and evaluate progress.

IS International Inc. Lawrenceville GA

Project Scheduler May 2010 - July 2010

Temporary assignment to Siemens Industries

Developed schedule templates for various business divisions in MS Project 2007 Enterprise Project Server.

Tracked and reported progress, as well as EVMS for projects and divisions.

Assisted PMs in developing and monitoring work-around in schedules.

Created resource pool for various disciplines in MS Project ERP and for presenting workload and assignment related conflict issues to various resource managers.

ZACHRY INDUSTRIAL, INC. San Antonio, TX

Lead Project Scheduler October 2007 - February 2010

A.Project: Sandy Creek Power Project. 900 MW Single Unit Pulverized Coal fire Plant Riesel, TX,

Project Lead Scheduler January 2009 - February 2010

$1,492 million EPC joint venture project between Zachry, Kiewit, and Black & Veatch.

Prepared EPC project evaluation monthly meeting schedule related reports such as optimization and commodity curves, milestone status report, firewall tracking report, physical status comparison with baseline schedule, crew size forecast and resource redistribution/mitigation.

Prepared detailed execution plans and field progress measuring system for all construction phases, crafts, and installed quantities tracking.

B.Plum Point Power Project. 665 MW Single Unit Pulverized Coal fire Plant Osceola, AR

Project Scheduler October 2007 - January 2009

$875 million EPC joint venture project between Zachry, Kiewit, and Black & Veatch.

Restructured the Master Schedule, kept over 4750 plus execution activities aligned to Level II contract commitment. Developed the construction sequences and logic through several active detailed discussions with execution team.

Removed the initial constraints provision from schedule and provided active firewalls between Engineering, Procurement, Construction and Start-up.

Created and monitored several Visio presentations about construction sequence and monitored them.

Created presentation to address conflict issues, in Visio related to handover issues between various craft, material deliveries of major components etc.

Prepared monthly JV project evaluation reports consisting of optimization curves, milestone status report, and firewall tracking report.

THE INDUSTRIAL COMPANY (TIC) Steamboat Springs, CO

Scheduling Engineer February 2007 - October 2007

Santee-Cooper: Cross T.P.S. Unit #4 Boiler Erection Project. Santee Cooper, SC.

Re-organized the master schedule of over 2600 activities including logic. Removed constraint usage from schedule.

Data input and extraction in SAP for resource and commodities.

Prepared project detailed weekly short interval schedule, and four-week look-ahead schedules.

Preparation of summary level schedule consisting early and late projections of various disciplines/trades using resource allocation from master schedule and providing weekly updates.

Preparation of bulk quantity production reports to the owner.

GEORGIA/ATLANTIC CONTRACTORS, INC. Doraville, GA

H.Q. Engineer February 2005 - January 2007

Assisting Vice President in cost, quantity estimating, and bidding process.

Preparation, monitoring and updating of various project CPM schedules.

Preparing project meeting related documents for V.P.

Preparation of submittals, and its log.

Tracking RFI histograms.

Responsible for record documentation for projects.

Independent Agent Various Locations

Feb 2002 - Dec 2004

Supervision and managing various construction remodeling work for various motels: elevation treatments, structure strengthening, toilet and plumbing, and complete renovations.

Supervision and managing basement finishing, and kitchen remodeling work.

AEONWARE, INC. Atlanta, GA

Software Engineer August 2000 - February 2002

Created SQL commands, ASPs, JSPs, XMLs and Java Scripts as needed by software creation team.

Software white papers, user manuals and customization tips.

CONSTRUCTION MANAGEMENT & ENGINEERING SERVICES Ahmedabad, India

Sr. Manager, Project Execution March 1998 - June 2000

Monitor Project Execution of Saurastra Cement’s new clinker plant.

Reliance Petrochem Township School building and bungalows.

Verification and justification of contractor’s final bill on termination of contract.

Development of special integration between Excel and M.S. Project for financial projections and implication of project related cost aspects.

BUILDECORE Bombay, India

Project Engineer January 1997 - February 1998

Monitored Civil and Multi storied R.C.C. frame structure for a Five Star hotel in Udaipur, Rajasthan.

SAUMYA CONSTRUCTION Ahmedabad, India

Executive Engineer January 1995 - January 1997

Managed multiple Commercial, Residential and Industrial projects of various magnitudes.

Trained engineering team to use computer spreadsheet program, PERT, and CPM.

Developed Execution and Cost Monitoring System, which generated Execution Process Information and helped in Control Productivity, Projected cash flow using Harvard Total Project Manager, Lotus, Clipper, and FoxPro.

SOFTWARE SKILLS

Primavera P-7, P-6, P-5, P-3 and P-3.5e, NetPoint, Suretreck, MS Project ERP, MS Project, EVMS, MS Office (Word, Excel, PowerPoint), MS Visio, MS Access, QTRX, CIMS, and Cost work.

EDUCATION

GOVERNMENT POLYTECHNIC Ahmedabad, India

Diploma in Civil Engineering (B.S. Equivalent)

SPECIAL PROFESSIONAL STUDY

Project Management Institute,

Course 106-P – Advanced P6 Features and Functionality

Course 106-R – Advanced P6 Resource Management

Microsoft Certified Professional (MCP)

Project Management and Project Documentation.

Six Sigma, Impact Analysis, Change Orders, and Back Charges from Bechtel University.

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