Senior Project Controls Engineer and QS Leader

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Twinamatsiko Hilary CURRICULUM VITAE Senior Project Controls Engineer / Senior QS / Claims Specialist Hilary Twinamatsiko – Resume Mobile No: +256-***-****** / 751-523003 / 783-736648 Email: *******@*****.*** / *******@*****.**.** Proposed role : Head Project Execution

Family name : Twinamatsiko

First name : Hilary

Date of birth : 11/02/1984

Civil Status : Uganda

Education:

Institution Degree(s) or Diploma(s) obtained:

University of Strathclyde - Ongoing LLM Construction Law TECH Technology University, June 2024. Professional master’s in management of international Large Contracts

(EPC)

Uganda Management Institute, March 2024. Masters in Management Studies in Project Planning & Management Uganda Management Institute, April 2016 Post Graduate Diploma in Project Management & Planning University of Dar-ES Salaam November 2008 Bachelor of Science in Building Economics Kitabi Seminary 2003 Uganda Advanced Certificate of Education Kitabi Seminary Uganda Certificate of Education

Language Skills: Competence on a scale of 1 to 5 (1- excellent; 5-basic) Language Reading Speaking Writing

English 1 1 1

Swahili 3 3 3

Membership of professional bodies:

Registered Surveyor (Quantity Surveyor) of Uganda- 586 Member Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors MRICS- No. 1252690 Project Management Professional (PMP)- No. 5027341 Professional Institute of Surveyors Uganda- No. 2312 Construction Law Society, No. 12684

Certified Balanced Scorecard Strategy Professional Certified ISO 22301 Lead Implementer

Certified ISO 31000 Lead Risk Manager

AACE International Regular Member

February 2024, Integrated Project Controls, Project Controls Institute March 2018: Primavera P6 Professional Fundamentals April 2012: Introduction to Cost Engineering-Oil and Gas, Cranfield University March 2012: Introduction to Oil and Gas, MDT International Present position: Acting Manager Project Support Office Total Years of Experience in Project Management & Controls: Over 17 Years Capability Statement.

I am a results-driven Project Development, Planning, Execution, and Investment professional with over a decade of experience leading and supporting complex, multi-sector infrastructure projects across Uganda and the East African region. I hold a B.Sc. in Building Economics (University of Dar es Salaam), an M.M.S. in Project Planning & Management (Uganda Management Institute), a Professional Masters in Management of International Large Contracts – EPC (University of Salford, UK), a Postgraduate Diploma in Project Management & Planning (Uganda Management Institute), and am finalizing an LLM in Construction Law (Strathclyde University). I am also a Registered Quantity Surveyor of Uganda (RSU), Chartered Quantity Surveyor (MRICS), Project Management Professional (PMP), Certified ISO 22301 Lead Implementer, ISO 31000 Lead Risk Manager and Balanced Scorecard Professional, with memberships in AACE and the Construction Law Society. I have advanced expertise in Integrated Project Controls, Primavera P6, cost engineering, FIDIC contract management, project management, and Project Stage Gate processes, ensuring structured decision-making across project initiation, planning, execution, monitoring, and closure.

Proven in leading and supporting multi-disciplinary teams to deliver large-scale national and regional projects, including the East African Crude Oil Pipeline, Tilenga, Kingfisher, Uganda Refinery, Kabaale Industrial Park, hydropower plants, airports, and water/waste treatment facilities. Skilled in project lifecycle management, investment management, risk identification and mitigation, stakeholder engagement, cost and schedule performance monitoring, and Stage Gate approvals for high-impact projects. I am enthusiastic and recognized for driving accountability, efficiency, and value-for- money in project delivery, with the ability to translate strategic objectives into measurable outcomes, optimize resource utilization, and ensure timely, high-impact investment execution.

Date from

- Date to

Location Employment Details Position Description

May 2022

to Date

Uganda Employer: Uganda

National Oil Company

Client: Government of

Uganda

Acting

Manager

Project

Support

Office (Jan

2024-

Todate)

Acting

Project

Controls

Manager

(May

2022-Dec

2023)

Projects: East African Crude Oil Pipeline (EACOP, Tilenga, Kingfisher Development Project, Uganda Refinery Project, Kabaale Industrial Park, Kampala Storage Terminal, Jinja Storage Terminal and Others.

Activities:

• Champion the Project Function across the company.

• Implementing a project controls framework across UNOC-operated projects and adopting control methodologies of non-operated projects; involving reviewing and validating project schedules, contract claims, variations, and actual cost and entitlement per contract to minimize cost exposure to the company.

• Setting policy guideline documents to streamline the project control discipline. Spearheading the contract administration and claims management activities for all UNOC development projects in the upstream, midstream, and corporate shared infrastructure, including enforcing 4No. Joint Operating Agreements through work programs and budget cycles.

• Drill planning and cost management operations for Tilenga and Kingfisher. Review and comment on contractors' procedures and schedules, scheduling and progress control methodologies, monitor Contractors' execution schedules, check and approve Contractors' progress measurement and progress reports

• Develop and refine the WBS to meet project requirements and define work packages and control accounts accordingly.

• Undertake interface management reviews for the KIP, Tilenga, KFDA, and EACOP projects to optimize coherent program objectives through the identification and recommendation of action points and key utility dates.

• Support other workstreams, including Engineering and Business Development by providing input and planning services.

• Participate in the corporate and project budgeting process.

• Developing or/and validating cost and schedule baselines basis.

• Lead UNOC project management teams in the Claim evaluation and planning of commercial management and sharing relevant reports with stakeholders, including in-depth assessments and actionable analysis.

• Created a working framework that provides a unified approach to common claims

• across UNOC which was approved by EXCO and adopted by the company and has enabled consistent and fair treatment of claims across the organization. This maintains and enhances the Claims Avoidance and Management procedure and also ensures updates capture best practices for informed project decision points.

• Leading schedule analyses such as conducting delay analyses to support Twinamatsiko Hilary CURRICULUM VITAE Senior Project Controls Engineer / Senior QS / Claims Specialist Hilary Twinamatsiko – Resume Mobile No: +256-***-****** / 751-523003 / 783-736648 Email: *******@*****.*** / *******@*****.**.** Date from

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Location Employment Details Position Description

Company positioning and development of response strategies to potential or active claims and determine contract entitlement through vigorous assessments in liaison with legal and JV to ensure alignment on assessment outcome.

• Leading the project controls in developing project and contract position papers which have been instrumental in causing alignment across stakeholders.

• Advise the Board of Directors for EACOP projects on matters relating to contractor’s performance with emphasis on project performance (Cost, schedule), claims, and variations where I challenged irrelevant and redundant claims, variations, and decisions that have yielded savings of $45m on the project.

• Responsible for the commercial department's performance by managing and reporting on the department scorecard, through my tenure planning and reporting compliance requirements have improved by over 90%.

• Member of the contract committee that steered the company procurement for one year.

• Supporting the development and implementation of Post-Award Contract Management Strategies and what-if scenarios for all UNOC megaprojects.

• Participating in the bid document development and evaluation of bids from time to time.

• Leading the company's Project Gate Process, a framework for all project development and management and also act as the Gate Custodian.

• Consistently transferring knowledge to different staff through coaching and mentorship in project management and controls.

• Review and approve annual work programs and annual budgets for Upstream projects (Kasuruban, Tilenga and Kingfisher).

• Lead the review and validation of the project execution plan with emphasis on resources, schedule, and cost management for all UNOC projects.

• Lead the schedule and cost analysis and reporting plus trending on all projects.

• Review JV partner costs for upstream projects and recommend cost-saving mechanisms.

• Coordinated the project development gate review process for the Refinery project.

• Represented the Chief Commercial Officer when assigned to the weekly EXCO, meetings.

- Date to

Location Employment Details Position Description

Nov 2021

to Date

Uganda Employer: Uganda

National Oil Company

Client: Government of

Uganda

Cost and

Planning

Specialist

Project: East African Crude Oil pipeline (EACOP), Tilenga, Kingfisher Development Project, Uganda Refinery Project, Kabaale Industrial Park, Kampala Storage Terminal, Jinja Storage Terminal

Activities: My main responsibilities include integrating both schedule and cost for the UNOC project portfolio. I am also responsible for setting policy guideline documents for streamlining the project control discipline.

• Undertake estimation and forecasting for all UNOC projects.

• Perform cost analysis and reporting plus trending on all projects.

• Review JV partner cost for upstream projects.

• Creation of cost and schedule baselines

• Regular schedule performance updates

• Coordinated the project development gate review process for the Refinery project.

• Advise on the CAPEX and OPEX budgets.

• Participate in the budgeting process.

• Prepare AFE for internal projects.

• All other project controls duties as required /assigned. Twinamatsiko Hilary CURRICULUM VITAE Senior Project Controls Engineer / Senior QS / Claims Specialist Hilary Twinamatsiko – Resume Mobile No: +256-***-****** / 751-523003 / 783-736648 Email: *******@*****.*** / *******@*****.**.** Date from

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Location Employment Details Position Description

Oct 2019

to Oct 2021

Uganda Employer: Berkeley

Energy Client: Berkeley

Energy

Scheduler

/ Claims

Analyst

Project: Kikagati Hydro Power Plant, Achwa Hydro Power Plant 1&2, Achwa O&M Camp Construction, Dibombe Hydropower plant Cameroon and Other Subsidiary projects in Africa & ASIA.

Activities: Responsible for schedule development and managing the interfaces of civil and mechanical contractors, reviewing and approving contractor work programs, determining the claims arising from key utility date pitfalls, and resolving conflicting schedule performance. I was also involved in project cost and risk management.

• Developed project schedule and cost baselines including managing resource ramp-ups as required.

• Developed and refined the WBS to meet project requirements define work packages and control accounts for various projects.

• Reviewed and commented on contractors' procedures and schedules, scheduling and progress control methodologies, monitored Contractors' execution schedules, and checked and approved Contractors' baseline schedules, progress measurement, and progress reports.

• Coordinate and interact with the technical project team, and senior management to ensure established milestones are completed according to schedules maintained in the scheduling software tool.

• Maintained good relationships with different teams and types of professionals, from senior managers to vendors, and third-party agencies. This ensures everyone complies with their obligations in a time-efficient manner.

• Investigated and made decisions on incoming claims using multiple systems and tools; efficiently resolved differences and answered service requests and inquiries received from various channels resulting in efficient communication with claimants.

Initiate and process claims using multiple systems and tools and ask the customers probing and relevant questions to determine how to appropriately file the claim.

• Monitor the progress of schedules through constant meetings with the project team members on their tasks to determine resource needs, change control, and schedule variance. This enables the company to stay on top of unexpected problems through timely discussion of strategies to fix them.

• Integrated company project schedules by different contractors. This helped to allow proper measurement of performance by respective contractors, in the determination of liabilities and responsibilities.

• Introduced the practice of constant status report updates with the project team and the timely communication of schedule changes that may impact any successor tasks and key milestone dates. All individuals participating in the project receive important information promptly and this gives them enough time to accommodate the changes.

- Date to

Location Employment Details Position Description

June 2017 to Sept

2019

Uganda Employer: Sogea Satom

Uganda Client:

National Water and

Sewerage Corporation

Quantity

Surveyor-

Planning &

Scheduling

Projects: Construction of Construction of Kinawataka and Nakivubo Sewer Mains, Construction of Kinawataka Waste Pretreatment plant, Construction of Katosi- Kampala Drinking Water Pipe.

Activities: Managing project planning and claims. I developed baseline schedules and completion schedules including updating, tracking, and reporting on schedules. I also supported the claims review by undertaking delay analysis resulting in the determination of schedule quantum. I also administered contracts and controlled project costs, valued completed work, performed cost-value reconciliations, and reviewed resource allocation to different projects. I also led the development approval process of both work programs and project budgets and maintained the scheduling tool and master schedules.

• Developed, implemented, and maintained procedures, means, and tools to ensure the efficient organization and operation of the scheduling, progress control, and reporting activities of Projects.

• Contributed to the successful development of baseline schedules in compliance with the contractual requirements and industry standards. The schedules developed included Integrated portfolio schedules (Level2), project baseline schedules (Level3 or 4), lookaheads and turnaround/recovery schedules, and respective schedule bases.

• Maintained the project master schedule, updated, and reported on schedule performance.

• Supported the preparation and submission of notices for claims.

• Performed schedule delay analysis and provided requisite time quantum to support claim defenses.

• Performed the price fluctuation calculations where I verified the indices, forex, and the base date of the contract.

• Developed options for corrective action, analyzed alternatives, and presented recommendations to contract and project management with special attention to anticipating variables and developing contingencies to manage large projects in a dynamic work environment.

• Monitored the schedule and reported on potential risk areas that required addressing.

- Date to

Location Employment Details Position Description

May 2014

to May 2016

Uganda Employer: G1 Group Ltd

Client: Office of the Prime

Minister

Republic of Uganda

Project

Controls

Lead

Projects: Resettlement of Bududa Landslide Victims At Panyandoli Reception Centre

($10m)

Activities: Responsible for the various aspects of project management including project planning, cost control, monitoring work progress, and quality assurance Improved the cost tracking and reporting process by developing creative data retrieval and reporting tools that reflected financial and project performance measures.

• Reviewed and redefined the project execution plan and developed a project controls framework with a focus on scope, cost, and schedule. This led to the establishment of new project baselines and implementation procedures that efficiently delivered the project.

• Led the control of the schedule, cost, and contract administration strategy which resulted in a timesaving of 6 months on the project.

• Was responsible for resource allocation and commitments to subcontractors.

• Reviewed and validated subcontractor schedules and resource requirements.

• Monitored and evaluated the projects by controlling a series of processes, which verified and validated work completions and thus helped the company document the progress of projects at specific sites.

• I was also responsible for document control and management

• Revised and improved metrics used by senior management to determine the success of individual project sites. The plan covered a review of job cost analysis, cash flow, billing efficiency, accounts receivable, reporting accuracy, company procedures, customer satisfaction, and site management.

• Conducted on-site training sessions in company processes and procedures, health and safety policies, and set-up and maintenance. There was an improvement in compliance resulting in operational efficiency.

• Independently completed successful additional projects ranging from increased efficiency of procedure to cost-saving measures which resulted in value for money.

• Efficiently coordinated subcontractors and suppliers, managing relationships with over one hundred vendors and suppliers to strengthen relationships with the company.

• Ensured quantity forecasting and tracking were accurate and inclusive of the scope of work. This facilitated a smooth flow of project activities to completion.

- Date to

Location Employment Details Position Description

June 2011 to March

2014

Uganda Employer: Tullow Oil

Uganda Operation (Pty) Ltd

Client: Tullow Oil

Cost

Engineer

Project Name: Various as shown below

Well Engineering Projects Undertaken

I. Waraga-D Appraisal Well Drilling (USD 11m)

II. TaiTai, Karuka 1 & Karuka 2 P&A Well (US$ 9m)

III. Ngege-4 Exploration Well Drilling (US$4m)

IV. Ngege 5, Ngege 6 & Ngege 7 Well Drilling (US$10.5m) V. Waraga-2 Appraisal Well Drilling (US$10m)

VI. Ngassa-1 P&A (US$5m)

VII. Nsoga 3& Nsoga 4 (I) Well Testing (US$8m)

VIII. Ngege 4 Well Testing (US$3.6m)

Oil And Gas Field Service/Infrastructure Projects Undertaken I. Camp Operations and upgrade

II. Logistics Services: Aviation, Road Transport, Freight &Forwarding, Materials Handling, Lifting Operations, Marine Services & Park Entry III. Field Maintenance

IV. Civil Works: Airstrips, road works, Site restorations& Waste Management sites V. Environment Projects & Studies

VI. Waste Disposal & G & G studies

VII. IT & CSR projects & Security

• Developed integrated exploration and appraisal campaign baseline and annual workplans for the Tilenga and Kingfisher before farm down in Uganda.

• Developed a new project cost report to show actual costs, total commitments and budget for each project. This reduced the time to update all project files from one week to a couple of hours.

• Led the cost estimate process from review of project scope, developed a work breakdown structure to the final approval stage, gathering necessary equipment quotes, negotiated with suppliers/contractors, labor rates, and taxes. Successfully met established goals for cost estimating accuracy.

• Successfully provided multiple detailed proposal/estimates that became viable and profitable projects

Improved the process of estimating the engineering labour by developing and managing an excel spreadsheet with predefined tasks and milestones; decreased the total estimate time by 35-45%.

• Developed Excel process for estimating cost of instrumentation, analyzers, valves and other piping specialties. This allowed flexibility and noticeably Twinamatsiko Hilary CURRICULUM VITAE Senior Project Controls Engineer / Senior QS / Claims Specialist Hilary Twinamatsiko – Resume Mobile No: +256-***-****** / 751-523003 / 783-736648 Email: *******@*****.*** / *******@*****.**.** Date from

- Date to

Location Employment Details Position Description

improved process time for all the projects, which decreased estimate time by 50%.

• Initiated and led the development of Excel-based historical database of the previous cost estimates and projects for different regions; this greatly improved the quality of similar estimates.

• I also supported the company's exploration and drilling activities in Kenya. Twinamatsiko Hilary CURRICULUM VITAE Senior Project Controls Engineer / Senior QS / Claims Specialist Hilary Twinamatsiko – Resume Mobile No: +256-***-****** / 751-523003 / 783-736648 Email: *******@*****.*** / *******@*****.**.** Date from

- Date to

Location Employment Details Position Description

September 2010-

May

2011

South

Sudan

Employer: Moulders Design

and Build Ltd

Clients:

Ministry of Parliamentary

Affairs, Government of South

Sudan

Ministry of Internal

Affairs, Government of

South Sudan

Japan International

Cooperation Agency

Senior

Cost

Controller

and

Quantity

Surveyor

Project Name: Various as shown below

Ministry of Parliamentary Affairs Building 9M USD (Consultant QS) Proposed Juba Prisons headquarters 12M USD (Consultant QS) Proposed Juba Nursing and Midwifery College 0.7M USD

(Managing QS)

I was responsible for:

• Pre-Contract management

• Personnel and people management

• Project Cost Management and Resource allocations

• Valuation of works in progress and actual measurement of works

• Project Cost Records maintenance

• Site material and cost Estimator

• Feasibility Studies and preliminary estimation

• Preparation of monthly Forecasts

• Procurement Planning and Programming

• Progress monitoring.

• Daily and Monthly project report writing

• Subcontract management

• Project Cost Control and Value Engineering

• Take off from drawings

• Contract drafting and negotiation

• Interim Certifications and Final Accounts

- Date to

Location Employment Details Position Description

February 2009-

August 2010

South

Suda

& Uganda

Employer: ROKO

Construction Ltd

Clients:

Government of South

Sudan Pine Investments

Ltd Uganda

Quantity

Surveyor

Project Name: Various as shown below

Rehabilitation of Juba International and Domestic Airport

($31m) Proposed Rwenzori Towers Building for Pine

Investments ($19m)

I was responsible for:

• Subcontractors Evaluation and monitoring

• Claims preparation and actual measurement of works

• Project Records maintenance

• Site material and cost Estimator

• Requisitioning for site material requirements

• Preparation of monthly Fore casts

• Procurement Planning and Programming

• Progress monitoring including progress mark ups.

• Daily and Monthly project report writing Cost Control

• Take off from drawings

• Valuation of works in progress

• Identification of variations including their treatment

• Correspondence management

1. Mr. Johann Kisekulo

Head Joint Ventures

Uganda National Oil Company

Email: *.**********@*****.***

Mobile: +256*********

2. Eng. Edgar Tusingwire

Head Technical Services

Uganda National Oil Company

Email: **********.*****@*****.***

Mobile: +256*********

3. Mr. Ashabahebwa Brian Pliers

Registered Quantity Surveyor,

Operations Director, B-Ply Services

Email: ***********@*****.***

Mobile: +256*********

Hilary Twinamatsiko 3rd December 2025

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