Project Manager

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Obayashi Corporation

Re: Project Control Manager

I read with great interest your recruitment for a Project Control Manager as Project Controls is my profession and I found your job description and responsibilities mirroring my education, training and experience; therefore, I am submitting my resume and cover letter for this position.

My experience encompasses both the office and the construction site, and I and the teams I form work effectively in either setting. Additionally, my experience has been in all types of project delivery systems, e.g., design – bid – construct as well as design – build and a wide range of permutations of these two and other delivery methods. Another plus, is my experience has been to a large part the monitoring and control of diverse projects, e.g., Urban Infrastructure, Diplomatic Quarters, Nuclear Plants and Support Facilities, Transit Facilities, and Mineral Processing Facilities. My experience is both deep and wide, e.g., planning, scheduling, estimating, risk analysis, cost and schedule control, change control, document control, and negotiations with owners, designers, vendors and contractors. My experience has also been on a wide variety of project types, e.g., urban housing complexes, high energy laser facilities, entire new cities, rural arctic highways, airports, corn chip factories and automated warehouses.

I have successfully led and managed the planning and controls tasks on a wide variety of projects and programs, e.g., Saudi Arabian 20-Year Improvement Plan, Rehabilitation and Reconstruction of the London Underground, the Beulah Lignite Mine and Gasification Facility, and the Hanford Nuclear Waste Processing Facility. The scope of these projects has ranged from Research and Development through Design, Procurement, Construction, Start-Up, Commissioning, Operations, and Decommissioning. The costs, estimated and actual, of these projects has ranged upwards of $50 billion.

I have also successfully led the efforts of diverse project controls groups, national and international, consisting of planners, estimators, document and configuration management specialists, schedulers, cost engineers, risk analysts, and change control engineers in the concurrent monitoring and control of projects both in and outside the United States.

Additionally, I have always developed with every member of my staff a career path that fits their individual desires and needs; made assignments that fit those paths; and tutored and mentored them to further their designated careers. This has led to great loyalty to the team’s goals as well as extended tenures on the team.

Many of the projects I have worked on were for governmental agencies, e.g., U. S. Department of Energy, CalTrans, and foreign government rules and regulations; therefore, I am quite familiar with government requirements the ways to fulfill those requirements and needs expeditiously and cost-effectively.

I am very interested in working for Obayashi Corporation as I believe it would be a win-win situation it would provide Obayashi with a world class project controls team and me with a stimulating work environment in an area I call home as well as allow me to improve my project management / controls skills.

Sincerely yours,

Ernest Finn

149 Vine St., Paso Robles, CA 93446 805-***-****

PROJECT CONTROL MANAGER

As Project Control Manager I established the overall processes and procedures and led the day to day efforts in:

• Establishment of project budgets and schedule, pre- and post-bid.

• Design and implement cost and schedule reports for each specific audience and deliver reports on a regular basis, weekly, monthly and quarterly.

• Monitor and review reports to identify and analyze variances, cost and time, leading to determination of root cause(s) for variance.

• Develop and produce monthly cost and schedule forecasts based on the actual progress, costs and productivity.

• Establish and maintain a comprehensive corporate and project Change Control process and system for evaluation, approval, and incorporation into the project’s baseline of any changes in cost, quality, scope or timing.

• Establish and maintain a comprehensive corporate and project Risk Analysis and Management process and system for identification of risks, estimation of the costs of occurrence of each risk, evaluation of the probability of the occurrence of each risk, and calculation of the probable impacts, cost, time, scope and quality, at a project or corporate level.

• Establish a corporate and project Risk Register and populate it with the output of the Risk Analysis and Management System.

• Contract Administration and Management, e.g., Subcontracts, Consultant agreements, and Insurance and Bond.

• Review and analysis of contractor prepared schedules.

• Planning, scheduling, estimating, and risk analysis for projects from inception to final shutdown.

• Preparation of detailed budgets and resource requirements for projects, fiscal year, 5-year and total life.

• Earned Value Management and Analysis

• Value Engineering

• Constructability Analysis

• Preparation of project control area responses, e.g., cost and schedule, Requests For Proposals (RFP) as well as Requests For Qualifications (RFQ).

• Invoice Review, Analysis and Approval

• Development of Realistic and Cost Effective Work Arounds

• Reporting; and Presentations.

Typical Projects as Project Control Manager:

• Design and Construction New Jersey Turnpike Widening Program, (Est. Cost $2.2 billion), E. Windsor, NJ;

• Design and Construction of Oil Pipeline Support Road of ~700-mile roadway from Fairbanks to Prudhoe Bay, (Est. Cost $2.5 Billion), Fairbanks, AK;

• Design, Construction, Operations, and Maintenance World-wide Fiber Cable Network and Supporting Facilities, (Est. Cost $400 million), Seattle, WA;

• Design, Procurement and Construction Hetch Hetchy System - Capital Improvements Program Water Utility Storage, Transmission, and Distribution Facilities, Design and Construction (Est. Yearly Budget $1.2 billion), San Francisco, CA;

• Development and implementation of a comprehensive, computerized project management and controls system as well as user training for the French Nuclear Consortium (100+ Nuclear Power Units), (Actual Cost ~$30 million);

• Design, Procurement and Construction Electrical Utility - Capital Improvement Program, (Est. Yearly Budget ~$900 Million), Chicago, IL;

• Design, Procurement and Construction, Basalt Waste Isolation Program (Est. Cost $25 Billion), Hanford, WA;

• Design and Construction Potable Water Treatment and Transmission Facility, (Est. Cost $158 million), Providence, RI;

• Design and Construction Sewage Treatment Facility, Design and Construction (Est. Cost $185 million), Phoenix, AZ;

• Design, Reconstruction and Construction for Seismic Retrofit of Anchorage Airport Terminals, (Est. Cost $230 million), Anchorage, AK; and

• Design, Procurement and Construction, Green Frog Gold Mine, (Actual Cost $275 Million), Beatty, NV.

Additionally, worked on projects requiring assessment of work required and development of methods to repair, rehabilitate, or demolish the impacted facilities all the while complying with federal management and control regulations, e.g.,:

• Northern California Winter and Spring Floods (Est. Cost $1.7 billion), Sacramento, CA (FEMA);

• Katrina and Rita Hurricanes Catastrophe, , (Est. Cost $3.5 billion), St. Bernard Parish, LA (FEMA); and

• Design, Rehabilitation, Reconstruction and Construction of Seismically Damaged University, (Est. Cost $2.3 billion), Northridge, CA (FEMA).

Tools used in processing and analyzing program and project data, and producing reports:

• Primavera 3, e, e/c, 5, and 6; OpenPlan; Artemis; SurTrak; MSProject; Timberline, Prism; Cobra; Excel; @ Risk; Crystal Ball, Access; and numerous other off the shelf and custom software packages.

KEY SKILLS:

• Development of cost effective project controls teams and systems;

• Planning and Scheduling of Programs and Projects;

• Analysis of project progress to highlight variances and their root causes;

• Development, implementation and maintenance of cost and resource loaded schedules;

• Development, implementation and maintenance of integrated project baselines;

• Development and implementation of computerized project management systems;

• Organization of large projects (>$2 billion) into meaningful and controllable segments; and

• Developing options and time-phased forecasts of resources, funding and expenditures.

EDUCATION AND TRAINING:

• Master of Engineering in Urban and Public Systems (2+ year program) University of California at Berkeley, 1976

Majors:

• Transportation Planning, Engineering and Management

• Solid Waste Planning, Engineering and Management

• Construction Materials

Minors:

• Urban Planning and Design

• Environmental Planning

• Bachelor of Science (with honors) Civil Engineering, University of California at Berkeley 1972

RELEVANT CERTIFICATION COURSES:

• Parsons – Brinckerhoff, “Highway Construction Site Safety”

• CH2MHill, “Radioactive Construction Site Safety”

• FEMA, “Hazard Mitigation”

• FEMA, “Public Assistance – Operations I”

• FEMA, “Public Assistance –Operations II”

• Earth Tech, “Construction Site Safety”

• Society of American Value Engineers, “Value Engineering”

• Society of American Value Engineers, “Advanced Value Engineering Case Study”

• Systems Management and Development Society, “Systems Engineering”

• Kaiser Engineers, “Constructability Analysis”

• Kaiser Engineers, “Project and Construction Management”

• Kaiser Engineers, “Project Controls”

A detailed resume and references will be supplied on request.

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