CONTRACT ADMINSTRATOR

Personal details

Nationality: British

UK Tel: **4,7903,527,876

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

Profile

I am a UK trained Quantity Surveyor educated to Masters’ level. Experience with contractors and PQS Consultancy firms representing clients both National and international. Experience on wide range of projects including the infrastructure project in Gabon manage by Bechtel International worth 1.8billion pounds. This project includes: football stadiums, road construction, hotel construction and residential buildings. Construction of Societe General Bank in Yaounde (Cameroon, Africa) value circa US$20million, The major projects involve with includes: the Emirates Stadium circa £450milion, Transport For London (TFL) East Croydon Tram Tracks depot and on tracks project worth around £98million, refurbishment project worth £18milion of a 10 storey building at Liverpool street in London, and Bovis lend lease project (123 Bank side Television podium at London Bridge worth circa £300million., Far East experience including with Glavstroy Construction in Moscow- Russia during the construction of Moscow School of Academic worth US$19million

Goal oriented, dynamic individual with good and broad communication skills in English, French and Russian languages. Experience with various forms of contract including JCT (2005), FIDIC, NEC (New Engineering Contracts) and Marche Publics. Knowledge in pre and post completion project financial management and also good knowledge of abatement, set off in dealing with delays and defective work and breach of contract where required.

Technical skills

• Proficient in Microsoft Office.

• Microsoft office project

• Fluent speaker in French, English and Russian language

• Good interpersonal and negotiating skills in contracts

• Excellence estimator

• Good knowledge of abatement and set- off

• Good skills in resolving disputes between clients and contractors, setting out knowledge, Cartography and construction method.

• Good knowledge in Arbitration, Adjudication and Mediation.

• Excellent in numeracy.

• Considerable knowledge in analyzing and agreeing final accounts.

Employment History

(07/07/2010 -2011) Bechtel International: Role: Contract Administrator

Duties include:

• Review of contract data and establishing a file for each contract sign between the client and contractors. Contract check list in accordance with FIDIC Form of contract.

• Assisting the Contract’s Manger in contracts formation and highlighting areas of possible claims. Coordinating weekly site meetings and taking minutes

• Site visiting and reporting to the Commercial Manager and also invoice control.

• Approving contract commitment authorization and dealing with change orders.

• Preparing a lock-book for all invoices, change orders, approved contracts and signing invoices for payments to contractors. Updating the project director about work progress, planning, and other issues that needs immediate action.

(20/01/2007-23/12/2009) Consultant (Systech Group Ltd): Role Quantity Surveyor hired by TFL (Transport for London) UK.

TFL (Transport for London) project on Tram Tracks at East Croydon as the main QS base in office and site running day to day activities of the project and reporting to the contract’s manager as explained below.

Duties Include:

• Assisting in approving of final account, drafting contracts and cost control

• Assisting in dealing with delays, abatement against contractors and set off.

• Managing contractors and reporting to the contracts manager

• Measurement and track survey

• Making recommendation of emergency track repairs and reporting to the team leader

• Inspection of contractors quotation, monthly valuation of work carried out by contractors

• Review of schedule two quotations and clerk of work function.

• Assessment of variation

Achievements included: Review and approved variation in contract and the procurement of various packages of work, and the successful Contracts administration of day work and lump sum contracts.

2006 to 2007 C.P.F Construction. Role: Project Surveyor

Duties include:

• Negotiating contracts with subcontractors

• Coordination of day to day activities on site

• Monitoring progress of work and cost control to keep cost under budget

• Assistant in interim payments on monthly basis control of invoices and making recommendation for payments

• Managing subcontractors

Achievements included: Meeting dateline of project and successful management of various subcontractors and identification of areas for possible claims/variations for the Contractor.

(2004 – 2006) Irvine Whitlock: Assistant Quantity Surveyor

Duties include:

• Estimating number of blocks required.

• Daily maintenance of equipment.

• Sourcing materials from vendors.

• Managing a small team of bricklayers.

• Allocation of workers

• Measurement of work

• Estimating

Site Ref ( Bovis Construction) 123 Bank site, London Bridge.

Site Ref (Emirates stadium) Arsenal New football Ground.

Duties include:

• setting out, allocation of workers, procurement of materials, processing of timesheets, coordinating a team of bricklayers and labourers, hired and off hired of plants

• Estimating number of blocks required.

• Daily maintenance of equipment.

• Sourcing materials from vendors

Achievements included: Resolving dispute between client and contractor on outstanding contractual issues, and the completion of the Contractual/financial review of various section of work concern.

(Jan 2001 – June 2003): Elmer Construction: Trainee Quantity Surveyor

Duties includes:

• Management of day to day activities and coordination of my subordinates

• Daily maintenance of equipment Hired and off hired of plants

• Sourcing materials from vendors.

Achievement:

(1999-2000) Assistant to Site Agent

Glavstroy construction in Moscow Russia during the construction of Moscow school of academic. Duties includes: sourcing of material, estimating and managing in team of operatives.

Achievement: Assisting in setting off against client and recovering of lost incurred.

(1997- 1999) Razel Cameroon, Assistant to Site Agent

during construction of Societe General Bank Yaounde. Duties include Setting out, estimating processing of timesheets,

Achievement: identification variation in contract and negotiated for successful payment.

(1995-1997) Managing self owned business worth US$500,000 which involved procuring goods such as cocoa and coffee from local farmers, transporting and storage at depot in Douala and selling to international exporters

General management skills development while running small cocoa exporting business involving procuring from farmers, transporting and storage at depot and reselling to exporters. Achievement: Made a net profit of US$100,000

Education & Training

(2010-2011) MSc Quantity Surveying course at London South Bank University

(2008-20/02/2010) Obtained PgD Quantity Surveying, London South Bank University

(2005-2008) Obtained 2/1 BSc Honours in Commercial Management (Quantity Surveying) at London South Bank University

(1992- 1995) Obtained Baccalaureate in Civil Engineering in a Canadian orientated College of Engineering Cameroon.

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