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Gonzales, LA, 70737
Posted:
June 16, 2020

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Marvin Weaver

Prairieville, LA *****

addu1q@r.postjobfree.com

Cell # 225-***-****

Owner’s Rep Master Scheduler for Sasol Facility at Lake Charles. Louisiana

Owner’s Rep Master Scheduler for Praxair Facility at Geismar, Louisiana

Project Controls/Master Scheduler on $11 billion Sasol project for Turner Industries in Lake Charles, Louisiana

Owners Rep / Master Scheduler for Large Capital Projects with Jacobs Engineering for Flint Hills Refinery at Rosemount, Minnesota.

Owner's Rep -Senior Project Controls Specialist / Master Scheduler with Jacobs Engineering for

Mosaic

Fertilizer at St. James, Louisiana

Senior Project Controls Specialist for Jacobs Engineering at ExxonMobil Refinery in Baton Rouge Process based scheduling - using a stream-to-stream approach

Owner's Rep/Project Controls Specialist at Chevron Pascagoula, Mississippi on Chevron's General Management Team overseeing Bechtel's Construction Management Teams progress on five major capital

Project’s totaling 3.5 billion dollars.

Reviewed Bechtel's monthly progress reports to verify accuracy of progress reported by analyzing their progress on manpower, installed quantities and cost versus what their estimate had and what they had

forecasted.

Kept Chevron's management updated on Bechtel's SPI (Schedule Proformance Index) and CPI (Cost Performance Index)

Reviewed and analyzed Bechtel's monthly commodity curves to track actual installed quantities and verified percent complete.

Monitored actual versus budgeted costs, review bid evaluations, and prepare periodic trend analyses to identify problem areas and recommend corrective action

Experienced Primavera P3.1, E/C & P6.2 Planner/Scheduler/Estimator with extensive background taking civil, mechanical and electrical projects from cradle to grave.

Experienced in doing piping material take-offs for estimates from both Isometric and Orthographic drawings. Compiling material list for pricing vessels, tanks, pumps, piping, fittings, flanges, bolts, gaskets, valves, pipe

coating and NDE's per specifications.

Bidding and scheduling earth moving, roadwork, bridge and site preparation projects for the Army Corps of Engineers and Department of Energy's Strategic Petroleum Reserve sites. Projects ranged in size from $10

million to $30 million.

Preparing Offshore Oil Platform Estimate Plans and Bid Review packages for upper management's review, ranging in size from $10 million to $300 million.

Performing schedule and estimate reviews insuring accuracy and completeness.

Forecasting cost and manpower Authorized to work in the US for any employer

WORK EXPERIENCE

Owner’s Rep /Master Scheduler

TRS Staffing at Sasol Facility at Lake Charles, LA – Sept 2018 to Present

Responsiblities:

Creating pre-commissioning, commissioning and start up schedules and integrating those with mechanical and E&I contractor’s construction schedules to establish a master schedule.

Owner’s Rep /Master Scheduler

Fishbone Entergy Services at Praxair Facility in Geismar, LA – July 2017 to Sept 2018

Responsiblities:

. Created and controlled owner’s master schedule for several midsize capital projects from P&ID's, IFC Drawings, Scope of work, and Estimates. Integrated contractor’s schedules and Turnaround schedule into owners master schedule.

Resource and manpower load schedules

Creating WBS Structure and Project Codes

Creating manpower histogram curves

Reporting critical and sub-critical paths

Creating What - if Schedules

Integrating Engineering and Construction schedules

Linking material deliveries to construction activities and determining Required on Site (ROS) dates

Tracking material delivery dates

Tracking Manpower actual vs planned graphs

Tracking overall project percent complete vs planned graphs

Verifying contractors progress on civil drawings, Iso’s & P&ID’s

From March until July 2017 was off due to wife having ankle replacement and was unable to walk for 17 weeks.

Project Controls / Master Scheduler

Turner Industries - Lake Charles, LA - September 2015 to March 2017

Responsibilities

Integrating engineering, Procurement and construction schedules.

Creating detailed construction schedules for structural steel erection, setting mechanical equipment and installing piping.

Creating critical path schedules, 30 and 90 day look ahead schedules, manpower loading schedules, forecasting manpower requirements, tracking progress and reporting percent complete, issuing weekly reports to owner.

Owner's Rep -Master Scheduler for Large Capital Projects

Jacobs Engineering - Rosemount, MN - April 2014 to Sept 2015

Creating master EPC schedules for large capital projects from P&ID's, IFC Drawings, Scope of work, and Estimates.

Resource and manpower load schedules

Creating WBS Structure and Project Codes

Creating manpower histogram curves

Reporting critical and sub-critical paths

Creating What - if Schedules

Integrating Engineering and Construction schedules

Linking material deliveries to construction activities and determining Required on Site (ROS) dates

Tracking material delivery dates

Tracking Manpower actual vs planned

Tracking overall project percent complete vs planned

Owner's Rep -Senior Project Controls Specialist / Master Scheduler

Jacobs Engineering - Saint James, LA - January 2012 to March 2014

Jacobs Alliance working as Mosaic Fertilizers client representative compiling master capital projects cash flow projections for both Louisiana sites

Compiling master EPC schedules for capital projects

Creating from scratch construction master integrated project schedule for $50 million Deepwell Injection Project

Analyzed and tracked subcontractor schedules (civil/structural, piping, electrical and instrumentation).

Created manpower and percent complete S-curves tacking planned, actual and earned values

Performed what-if scenarios, issued weekly updated project schedules comparing to baseline schedule, issued critical and sub critical path schedules

Setting up project controls procedures for owners small capital projects

Setting up new capital projects in master schedule using P6 for owners five year plan

Cost and manpower forecasting

Senior Project Controls Specialist

Jacobs Engineering - Baton Rouge, LA - December 2009 to December 2011

Working with Exxon Mobil's Construction and Turnaround Group estimating, planning and scheduling a major 2012 Turnaround.

Key Tasks, Responsibilities & Accountabilities

Facilitating planning and scheduling meetings as required

Using Access Data Base to Estimate and exporting information into P6.2

Using P6.2 to set up and fully integrate engineering, procurement, pre-turnaround work, shutdown, mechanical, civil, structural, E&I, inspection, machinery, commissioning, start up and post turnaround work

Optimizing pre-turnaround work / maximize non-shutdown/turnaround work

Incorporating Small Capital Projects into the Turnaround window

Initiate the interface between maintenance and other business areas to develop an integrated plan

Testing the plan to ensure alignment with original objectives

Receive planned work orders for scheduling.

Develop annual maintenance schedule and resource profile.

Produce job packs

Prepare short term and multi-month integrated schedules.

Building schedules that minimize equipment downtime and maximize efficient/effective use of resources.

In consultation with Asset Level Teams/Business Teams (maintenance and operations leadership) ensuring work schedules are aligned with business plan objectives.

Identifying potential constraints/deficiencies/trends that could impact the schedule and recommend corrective action.

Receiving feedback on any scheduled jobs that were not started or were due to be completed within week one of the short-term schedule.

Building plans that minimize equipment downtime and maximize safe/efficient/effective use of resources.

Defining scope of work for contract services

Identifying material needs

Initiate procurement and track status of materials and contract services

Initiate the review of plan performance for continuous improvement of the planning process

Apply Front End Loading process to total scope, all work, all disciplines

Complete equipment strategies/plans

Work selection process driven by equipment criticality and current performance requirements

Project Controls Specialist/Owners Rep

Chevron - Pascagoula, MS - September 2008 to April 2009

Projects cancelled due to recession)

Working on Chevron refineries General Management Team overseeing Bechtel's Construction Management Teams progress on five major capital projects in excess of three billion dollars.

Reviewed construction project schedules, estimates, monthly progress and cost reports,

Man power projections against actuals and engineering progress and manpower curves.

Integrated project estimates and schedules to forecast cash flow requirements

Monitored actual versus budgeted costs, review bid evaluations, and prepare periodic trend analyses to identify problem areas and recommend corrective action

Reviewed Bechtel's monthly progress reports to verify accuracy of progress reported by analyzing their progress on manpower, installed quantities and cost versus what their estimate had and what they had

forecasted

Kept Chevron's management updated on Bechtel's SPI (Schedule Proformance Index) and CPI (Cost Performance Index)

Reviewed and analyzed Bechtel's monthly commodity curves to track actual installed quantities and verify percent complete.

Prepared various cost control/performance measurement reports, forecasts, and specific studies

Reviewed conceptual, preliminary, and definitive estimates

Analyzed and interpreted data submitted by project engineers and work with contractors and vendors to formulate critical path plan and schedules

Monitored critical paths and prepared written analyses of problem areas with suggested corrective alternatives

Identified and resolved schedule conflicts

Collected historical engineering, procurement and construction data for reporting and predicting project trends

Prepared Schedule Analysis Reports to identify impact of progress and/or scope change on previously scheduled target dates

Prepared performance measurement summaries to evaluate the utilization of actual man-hours versus budget

Project Controls Consultant/Owners Rep

Pathfinder Construction Management Co - August 2006 to August 2008

Working to bring Motiva's Small Capital Projects, Project Controls procedures into the top 10 percent-tile in the industry.

Instructing Engineering contractors on Shell/Motiva's scheduling and estimating expectations. That all

Engineering companies must conform to the directive that one uniform schedule and estimate will now be used by all.

Performing reviews on Engineering Contractors schedules to confirm that they are in compliance with Shell/

Motiva guidelines.

Compiled master schedule of current and planned capital projects in Motiva Convent's five-year business plan.

Cost and manpower loaded five-year master plan schedule by importing information from SAP.

Produced graphs showing current and forecasted cost and manpower usage for engineering, procurement and construction.

Verifying Engineering companies estimated cost, manpower and quantities matched what they had in their schedule and where using to forecast percent complete.

Project Controls Specialist

Ford Bacon & Davis Engineers - July 2005 to August 2006

Senior planner/scheduler on multiple projects. Focus on overall project planning and working with the client, contractors and engineers to develop an overall plan that meets all expectations.

Detailed knowledge of the Operating Procedures for Project Controls

Detailed knowledge of the scope of work for the project

Input to the development of the Project Controls Plan

Facilitated Interactive Planning process

Developed schedule for engineering, procurement, construction, commissioning and validation activities

Input or update activity data, logic, resource, progress / expenditure information and review of activity duration's and logic sequences.

Performed critical path analysis to identify potential problems early enough for the project team to react and correct the situation.

Performed risk analysis on schedules

Reviewed staffing / resource forecasts based on input from project leads as compared to duration's / staffing reflected in schedule.

Reviewed earned value analysis based on input from project leads and comparing to progress reflected in schedule

Over all understanding of the information needed to complete each activity. This includes information supplied by lead from engineering, procurement, construction, clients and others. Assist in expediting that

information

Assisted and or lead effort in producing various planning and scheduling reports

Reviewed change orders for schedule impact

Provided schedule input to the monthly progress report

Good understanding of the cost techniques and principles being used on the assigned projects

Able to read and understand major engineering deliverables (P&ID's, Site Plans, General Arrangements, etc.)

Print and distribute technical and administrative reports, assembly of monthly report packages

Project Controls Scheduler/Estimator

Universal Personnel - March 2005 to July 2005

Preparing estimates for piping and pump installation work in Corpus Christi, Texas

Compiling schedules, cost and manpower loading for Dry Bulk conveyor projects

Project Controls Analyst/Estimator

J. Ray McDermott - February 2004 to March 2005

Preparing Estimate Plans and Bid Review packages for upper management's review.

The estimate plan is used to indicate any potential problems with the estimate. The purpose of which is to create a bidding strategy, determine methodology, competition, scope of work, and items to be included

with proposal.

Once the estimate plan is finished and reviewed by all parties contributing to the proposal. Expanding on what was put together in the estimate plan to assure all areas of the bid are covered creates the Bid Review

package.

A brief description of the scope of work is discussed to give management a clear understanding of the work to be performed in the proposal. Then all information is presented on what is known about whom will

be bidding on the current project. A bidding strategy is presented to management discussing all aspects of the proposal and what measures should be taken to be the successful bidder. An execution plan and project schedule is presented to show that work can be accomplished in the time frame presented in the contract. All technical and commercial risk presented and discussed to limit any unforeseen complications that could arise and contingencies given. A financial sheet is put together, which breaks down the proposal by discipline, labor, equipment, material, subcontracts and project management cost to come up with a cost for the scope of work presented in the bid documents.

Estimator/Planner/Scheduler

L.S.Womack, Inc - February 1996 to February 2004

Taking projects from cradle to grave. Responsible for going to pre-bid meetings, doing material take-offs, estimating, getting quotes on material and from subcontractors, putting bids together to submit to clients, doing all planning and scheduling, updating schedules, manpower and cost loading schedules, monthly billings, negotiating extras, purchasing and writing purchase orders.

Have successfully bid and scheduled projects in the 20 to 30 million-dollar range. Performing mechanical

(above and below ground piping), civil (structural steel, fencing earth movement and concrete work) and electrical (Perimeter lighting and security intrusion detection) for the U. S. Department of Energy's Strategic Petroleum Reserve sites located in Texas and Louisiana.

-Estimated, Bid and Scheduled small bridge projects per Louisiana and Texas specifications. Utilizing pre-stressed concrete sections per Louisiana and Texas DOT specifications.

-Estimated, Bid and Scheduled underground piping projects. Required extensive clearing, excavation, backfill, compaction and re-seeding. Utilized track hoes, rubber tire backhoes, dump trucks, sheep's foot and smooth drum rollers.

Built tank-firing range (moving 6,000,000 cubic yards of dirt, roads, and concrete targets) at Camp Shelby

at Hattiesburg, Mississippi for Army Corps of Engineers and U. S. Army Reserve.

-Estimated, Bid and Scheduled road projects per Mississippi DOT specifications. Utilizing excavation equipment, sheep foot rollers and smooth drum rollers, scrapers and graders. These projects involved tree and vegetation removal, drainage work, installing culverts, soil stabilization, crushed concrete and 610 road base limestone, Asphalt base and wear coat.

-Estimated, Bid and Scheduled small bridge projects per Mississippi DOT specifications. Utilizing pre-stressed concrete sections.

Prepared the development of the project work breakdown structure and budget with the project team.

Ensured that budgets were accurate in the company's financial system; tracked and reported all client change orders and revised budgets in the company's financial system; ensured that project complied with

incremental funding and notification requirements for cost reimbursable government contracts.

Performed all cost accounting functions; reviewed timesheets, purchase requisitions, and vendor invoices for compliance with the approved work breakdown structure. Supported the preparation of the client invoice;

organized source documents and developed cost justifications.

Performed all project scheduling functions; developed initial project Baseline schedule based on information obtained from the proposal and project team; ensured that updates were accurate and timely; re-baselined

project schedule for approved scope changes and/or changes in methods of execution; ensured compliance with contract documents.

Performed the development of progress/production reporting systems and ensured updates were routine

and accurate; tracked and reported on manpower and equipment utilization to project management.

Prepared routine estimates of future project costs or forecasts; documents and explained budget variances; ensured that project forecast accounts for all vendor commitments, realistic production targets, and for current

schedule expectations.

Prepared client and internal project/program status reports; coordinated report content from other project disciplines and forecasted project billing and cash flow expectations.

Estimator/Planner/Scheduler

Pala-Interstate - June 1995 to February 1996

Estimated, bid and scheduled various mechanical civil and structural capital projects at Shell Narco.

P&ID Draftsman

Process Services - May 1994 to May 1995

Compiling field data on piping, valves, pumps, vessels, controls valves and E & I for P & I D's at Exxon Chemical, Baton Rouge.

Planner/Scheduler

Jacobs Engineering - July 1993 to April 1994

Turnaround Planner/Scheduler at BP refinery, Belle Chase

Planner/Scheduler

J. E. Merit at Star Enterprise - July 1992 to June 1993 Turnaround Planner/Scheduler

EDUCATION

Bachelor's

College of New Jersey

Planning and Scheduling

Associated Builder's & Contractor's School - Baton Rouge, LA



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