Project & Construction Management

Lai Ser Chun PMP, CEng

**********@*****.*** https://www.linkedin.com/in/ser-chun-lai-10baa228 +1-408-***-**** San Jose, California

Innovative engineering project manager with 10-years’ combined experience within the highly competitive construction and energy (oil & gas, renewables) industry. Analytical professional skilled in successfully navigating corporations through periods of accelerated growth as well as development and mentorship of project team members. Collaborative communicator continually focused on building relationships and promoting synergy across business lines and global units to drive positive change, comprehensive business approaches and enhanced profitability. Cross functional management of multiple disciplines and trades while delivering project budget of $50M. Skilled in international enterprises including US, UK, Europe, and Asia Pacific regions.

Project Management

Construction Management

Digital Transformation in Business

Marketing Management

Revenue & Profit Growth

Strategic Planning & Forecasting

Business Development & CRM

Data Analysis

Global Business Strategy

Corporate Finance

Conflict Resolution

Staff Training & Leadership

Professional Experiences

CLARK PACIFIC San Jose, California 2020 - Present

Industry: construction (general contractor)

Asst. Project Manager, design-build – Coleman highline parking structure, san jose

Leads the successful design, fabrication, and installation of precast architectural and structural building systems. Accountable for the work of Project Engineers in the delivery of Design, Production, and Erection Field-related phases of project deliveries, as well as General Project Management. Initial activities pertaining to the Design Phase, including submittal drawings, design approvals, reinforcement drawings, and miscellaneous metal drawings. Manufacturing-related activities pertaining to the Production Phase, including providing complete shop drawings, ensuring purchasing of all required materials, maintaining a casting schedule and performing quality checks. Field-related activities pertaining to the Erection Phase, including preparing crane studies, rigging diagrams, coordinating shipping and field manpower requirements while ensuring erection quality and performance to plan and budget. Identify issues and develop resolutions, coordinating requested procedure submittals, escalating issues as necessary, and monitoring contract specifications, budget, and time commitments. Experienced with Lump Sum, GMP and Cost Plus (T&M) type projects. Prepare subcontracts and negotiate revisions, changes, and additions to contractual agreements. Manage the budget, track project expenses, and minimize exposure and risk in the project. Coordinate the efforts of all parties involved in the project, which include owners, architects, consultants, subcontractors and trade partners. Effective in overall project goal achievement by acting as liaison across various trades and disciplines. Effective in negotiating contractor scopes of work to drive project costs down and manage subcontractor contracts. Champions Scrum and Kanban implementation in job site and facilitates meetings.

AQUATIC ENGINEERING & CONSTRUCTION LTD Aberdeen, UK 2015 –2019

Industry: oil & Gas, Subsea construction, wind energy, pipeline installation, steel fabrication

Project Manager (2018 – 2019) ; Project engineer(2015-2017)

Commercial and technical focal point while functioning as front end with customers. Diligently seek prospects for tier 2 and new clients within installation market. Identify sales opportunities in the subsea and renewables (wind farm) market and advising the customer on the installation solutions. Effectively manage project delivery team performance and annual objective establishment. Head global project delivery process conception as part of continual enhancement enterprise as well as direct team members to successful project delivery from contract award to project close with annual revenue of GBP8M and increase contribution margin by 5% target. Effectively develop project organisation, delegate roles and responsibilities, procure adequate competent resources that adhere to time constraints and highest quality standards. Ascertain budget, assess costs and authorize POs as well as arrange, implement and monitor equipment and personnel provisions during mobilisation, offshore operations and demobilisation phase. Succeed in monitoring and controlling costs while minimising cost of inadequate quality (<1 % from global revenue impact). Provide progress report to stakeholders in addition to identifying possible conflicts with resolution suggestions as needed. Create Project Risk Management Plan with identification of risks and mitigation action plans. Coordinate with customers on change requests and prepare variation order requests for customer approval. Demonstrate absolute comprehension of health, safety, environment and quality (HSEQ) culture while encouraging initiatives per procedures and policies. Instrumental in full cycle process of contract review, negotiation and close-out as well as serving on panel for approval of internal and external supplier audits.

Key Accomplishments:

BP Eastern Trough Area (ETAP) Project in UK: Successfully directed engineering and offshore team in classifying and evaluating new methods for major lifting operation of 100Te steel structure which resulted in improvement of overall operation during mobilization by 12hrs compared to previous traditional technique.

Exceptional revenue projection and cost control: Overall improvement in project’s revenue forecast versus actuals in addition to steer cost control of overall increase in annual contribution margin by 5%.

AQUATIC ASIA PACIFIC PTE, LTD. Singapore 2012 – 2015

Industry: oil & Gas, Subsea construction, wind energy, pipeline installation, steel fabrication

Project Engineer

Delivered exceptional solutions for customer’s inquiries with engaging of proper staff which ensured technical, HSE, operational, contractual and commercial sections were entirely evaluated and approved. Successfully met customer’s constraints by practical performance of engineering and equipment choice. Systematically prepared pricing and budget that included resource cost, resource requirement verification and scheduling; as well as groundwork of technical and commercial qualifications with verification of inclusiveness in proposal. Effective in project goal achievement by acting as liaison across departments, establishing mobilisation/demobilisation processes in addition to directing mobilisation/demobilisation actions of modular equipment on vessel and/or site per project requirements. Supplied equipment construction storyboards and drafted requirements while also functioning as customer interface for new build equipment and site engineer management on mobilization/demobilization activities. Implemented and observed delivery of flexible lay equipment and staff during mobilisation, offshore operations and demobilisation period. Arranged provisioning/sub-contracting work scope and assessed sub-contractor’s proposals as well as procured subcontractors’ material and services. Succeeded in minimising cost impact and improved project margin by regulating costs and procurement activities.

Key Accomplishments:

Liwan Deepwater Project in China: Successfully guided and oversaw Aquatic’s largest contract award (SGD 9M) in Asia Pacific region from opening inquiry and contract negotiation to authorization as project manager. Project reinforced Aquatic’s position in China and created continuing relationship with Saipem and end customer.

Wheatstone Repacking of Steel Flying Leads Project in Australia: Established and organized cost estimates, trans pooling methodology and technical proposals which contributed to contract award of (SGD 1M) and supported Aquatic’s position in inspection, repair and maintenance (IRM) market which resulted in increase of comparable opportunities from client.

JURONG SHIPYARD PTE, LTD. Singapore 2011 – 2012

Industry: shipbuilding, steel erection & fabrication, marine construction

Engineer

Verified all engineering design drawings and material take-off (MTO) were properly acquired. Succeeded in contractor work package, coordination of steel structure assembly and confirmed contractors comprehended scope of work as well as completed consistent site visits for progress inspections on steel structure assembly activities.

Key Accomplishments:

Successfully composed comprehensive layout (2D & 3D) and shop drawings for production of ship and oil rigs steel structure using NUPAS Cadmatic and AutoCAD software.

GENERAL ELECTRIC (GE) OIL & GAS Florence, Italy 2009 – 2010

Industry: turbomachinery and rotating equipment

Intern

Effectively collaborated with planning engineers, master planners and project managers for delivery analyses, slots allocation and execution of risks identification of project in bidding phase. Successfully completed site visits to machining, assembly and function testing workshops on equipment interchangement. Supported application engineers in planning and development of rotational equipment technical proposals.

Voluntary experiences

solar panel installation project (feb’20 – mar’20)

Volunteer with SunWork Renewable Energy, California by working with a team of engineers to install solar electricity systems and panels on small energy footprint homes and non-profit organisations. One of the projects include installing 39 solar panels (39kW) for a non-profit organisation in The Bay Area, California.

beautiful day project at lake almaden learning centre, san jose (sep’20-oct’20)

Volunteer with a team of church members and lead the coordination efforts of excavating and development of new pathway for a learning centre which allows recreation activity to take place.

Education & Training

Bachelor of Engineering (First Class Honours) Civil Engineering

PETRONAS UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY Malaysia 2010

Concentration Building Construction Technology; Full Scholarship Awarded by PETRONAS (National Oil Co. of Malaysia)

Online Masters in Business Administration

ROBERT H. SMITH SCHOOL OF BUSINESS, UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND USA 2020

California Real Estate Principles

Professional Memberships

Project Management Institute (PMI)

PMP Certified & Full Member – Completed 35 hrs. Project Management Professional (PMP) Training; Fully Certified

Engineers Australia

Chartered Engineer and Member, MIEAust CPEng APEC Engineer IntPE(Aus)

Institute of Mechanical Engineers (IMechE)

Chartered Engineer and Member & Panel of Professional Engineers Interviewer

Computer & Language Skills

Microsoft Office (Word, Excel, PowerPoint) Microsoft Project Bluebeam Revu PlanGrid RedTeam Software Microsoft Dynamics NAV, CRM & SharePoint StatTools Palisade NUPAS Cadmatic AutoCAD

Fluent (Spoken & Written) English and Malay Fluent (Written) Mandarin

Training

Red Cross Adult First Aid/CPR/AED Clark Pacific IT Compliance Precast Erection & Welding Inspection

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