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Project Estimator/Coordinator

Location:
Toronto, ON, Canada
Posted:
March 10, 2017

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PROJECT MANAGEMENT CONTRACT EXECUTION

Tactful and versatile professional with 5+ years of experience within project management and coordination. Offers the ability to work with clientele and key stakeholders to review engineering documents and project plans to conduct quantity take-offs and selecting subcontractors, material suppliers, and equipment rentals to complete high quality work. Manages budgets and ensures contracts are administered and managed effectively, leveraging negotiation and conflict resolution abilities to mitigate project related concerns and clearly illustrate construction requirements, deadlines, and deliverables. Controls change orders and scope creep through best-practice management methods.

CORE COMPETENCIES

? Project Lifecycle Management

? Accessibility Studies ? Supplier & Subcontractor Negotiation

? Project Management & KPI Tracking ? Contract Management

? Stakeholder Management

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Project Coordinator Milestone Equipment Contracting Inc. Jan. 2015 ? Present

Manages excavation, storm, water main, sanitary piping, concrete, and landscaping projects throughout full project lifecycle, ensuring adherence towards agreed upon budgets, timelines, and scope of work for projects of $8.5M+.

Selected Accomplishments:

? Developed intimate understanding with SAGE 100 software to become company subject matter expert, preparing analysis into Unit Rates to assess company accuracy in preliminary project bids and budgets, versus actual completion. Improved company accuracy to achieve 95% success rate.

? Establish break-even analysis strategy used by project management team to manage profits during ongoing projects, working with subcontractors to arrange expedited completion of project components.

Key Responsibilities:

? Tender Offers: Prepare job bids based on project timeline, scope, man-power, arranged based on assemblies, quantity take-offs, subcontractor requirements, and other project elements obtained through close review of technical reports and preliminary design documents.

? Materials Procurement: Worked through standard RFP, sourcing, and selection process with suppliers, manufacturers, and equipment rental companies for all project components, negotiating pricing arrangements, shipping and logistics, and as-need schedule for delivery of materials.

? Subcontractor & Labour Management: Hire negotiate scope of work and contractual agreements with subcontractor workforce, ensuring alignment with original designs to minimize occurrence of change orders or rework that could alter project budget and schedule.

? Project Management Methods: Prepare line of for all sequential project steps within MS Project, line-iteming delivery of materials, pricing, estimated time for labour, and other cost-codes, preparing documents for key project stakeholders at kick-off meeting to ensure agreement of schedule.

? Project Analysis: Review production analysis from on-site teams, ensuring the cost-codes align with to-date progression, sending information directly accounting department for processing. Continually monitor budget through daily reporting while providing clients and internal management with visualization of project updates.

? Change Order Management: Negotiated change orders directly with subcontractors, agreeing on cost-absorption while assessing impact on project cost and schedule.

? Accessibility Study: Conduct risk assessment of on-site hazards and how best to mitigate and control identified risks. Utilize information to develop project-specific safety planning and receive regular reports from on-site personnel regarding compliance.

? Project Completion: Prepare overall analysis of project to highlight profit, deliverables completed, any remaining tasks for completion, and outstanding payment expected from client.

? Project Post-Mortem: Conduct lessons learned sessions with project management team in order to address and close issues faced during project execution, evaluating KPIs associated with contract fulfilment while identifying methods to improve on departmental defects and delays for future projects.

Project Coordinator Vixen Enterprises Ltd. Oct. 2011 ? Aug. 2013

Managed construction projects to ensure proper coverage of telecommunications network establish in Nigeria, Ghana, and Benin Republic, collaborating with engineering and technical teams to establish operational need for new transmission terminals and receivers used to broaden network.

Selected Accomplishments:

? Prepared quantity take-offs for 150+ Base Transmission Stations

? Functioned as Project Manager for the completion of 100+ Base Transmission Stations.

? Conducted vital estimate needed for high-rise construction contract valued at $20M+

Key Responsibilities:

? Quantity Take-Offs: Prepared estimation of equipment, labour, and material needed to complete construction of Base Transmission Stations, continually evaluating available suppliers and subcontractors and establishing new contracts as required.

? Engineering Design Reviews: Supported construction of parent company headquarters during expansion efforts, drafting estimates based on design documents, blueprints, and schematics prepared by engineers.

? Stakeholder Management: Hold regular communication with client, subcontractors, foremen, and client-side on-site representative to report and discuss project progression, budget, and completion.

? Inventory Management: Coordinate with warehousing team to determine on-hand materials quantities, tracking shipments and anticipating material needs based on upcoming project schedule. Maintain well-stocked inventory to meet specific project needs.

Business Development Manager Cornerstone Insurance PLC Jul. 2006 ? Sept. 2011

Obtained advanced payments and bonds from on behalf of contractors to fund construction projects in Nigeria, managing relationship between investors and general contractors to satisfy obligations with each party.

Selected Accomplishments:

? Improved sales collections by 80% in one year after implementing new revenue collection process.

? Trained multiple sales personnel on role and strategic relationship management involved in obtaining customers and managing expectations.

Key Responsibilities:

? Client Acquisitions: Assess professional standing and to-date construction experience of contractors requesting bonds to qualify them for investment funds.

? Risk Management: Monitor and supervise construction progress to ensure that the contractors are meeting specific project milestones and are moving towards on-time, within budget completion of developments.

Assistant Quantity Surveyor Setraco Construction Co. Ltd. May 2005 ? Jun. 2006

EDUCATION & PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT

Master of Business Administration Vancouver Island University 2015

Master of Science, International Business University of Hertfordshire 2015

Post-Graduate Certificate, Project Management Humber College 2014

Bachelor of Technology, Quantity Surveying Federal University of Technology, Nigeria 2004



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