Career Background - Project Controls Leader/Manager

• Project Controls Manager with extensive experience with International Multi-Million fast track projects.
• Experience gained in Quantity Surveying, Cost Engineering, Planning and Estimation.

April 2005 - Present

Hatch Engineering

Position

Project Controls Leader

Location

Alcoa (West Australia)

Project Controls Leader on Pinjarra Efficiency Upgrade, responsible for managing a team of cost controllers/planners on an A$580 million EPCM project. Reporting to Project Director and presenting Risk analysis and project status to Project Steering Committee.

July 2003 - March 2005

Hatch Engineering

Position

Project Controls Lead

Location

Alcoa (Suriname, South America)

Project Controls Lead on Suralco Plant Expansion, Regular forecasting of cost at completion, as well as period cash-flow. Contingency management including trends and contractor change notices. Approval of all expenditure, producing detailed cost statements and analysis for monthly reporting. Project Budget of US$67M.

October 2001 - June 2003

Hatch Engineering

Position

Lead Project Controller

Location

Alcoa (Suriname, South America)

Setting up and controlling all commercial and planning aspects of Capital Program within Alcoa Suriname. Capital Planning, monthly forecasting and reporting to Management in Pittsburgh. Training local staff on Project controls and training a college graduate to eventually fill my position. Annual Project Budget of $10M.

March 2001 - September 2001

Kvaerner Engineering & Construction

Position

Senior Project Controller

Location

BP Amoco (Alaska, USA)

Developing master schedule reflecting sub-contractor schedules and procurement deliveries of major and bulk materials. Holding weekly progress/productivity/cost meetings on-site, reporting to BP/Kvaerner management on cost/schedule variance. Project Budget $86M.

July 2000 - February 2001

Kvaerner Engineering & Construction

Position

Lead Project Controller

Location

Alcoa (Suriname, South America)

Setting up and controlling all commercial and planning aspects of Capital Program within Alcoa Suriname. Capital Planning, monthly forecasting and reporting to Management in Houston, developing cost control computer database. Training local staff on Project controls and training a college graduate to eventually fill my position. Project Annual Budget $10M.

April 1996 - June 2000

Kvaerner Oil & Gas Limited

Position

Senior Quantity Surveyor

Location

Scotland& England

Eventually responsible for overseeing all financial aspects of contracts within the Scottish Area. Working closely with site project managers developing contract extensions on term contracts, handling claims and all invoicing with client personnel. Issuing all sub-contract enquiries and placing of final sub-contracts, handling all sub-contract accounts until completion.

As a Quantity Surveyor I was responsible for M&E projects varying in size from $50K to $20M, types of projects included on-shore installations, shutdowns, and fabrication for offshore platforms.

Part of a management team developing an Alliance with Tyco Flow control to provide Valve maintenance service throughout Europe.

Clients Included: BP Amoco, Exxon, British Gas, Zeneca, Lasmo, and Enron.

March 1992 - May 1996

Caxios Limited (M&E Contractor)

Position

Quantity Surveyor / Estimator

Location

Scotland& England

Working in various locations within the UK, working directly for site project managers, responsibilities included estimating, measurement of sub-contract works, monthly valuations and assisting Commercial Manager in development of client claims and settlement of sub-contract claims.

Clients Included: BP Amoco, Eni-Chem, Kuwait Petroleum, and Rhone Poulenc.

July 1991 - February 1992

Balfour Kilpatrick (Elec. Contractor)

Position

Quantity Surveyor

Location

England

Quantity Surveyor as part of a team of eight working on a $60M electrical installation for British Nuclear Fuels. Assisted by three measuring surveyors.

October 1987 - July 1991

Gleeds Chartered Quantity Surveyors

Position

Assistant Quantity Surveyor

Location

N. Ireland & England

Measuring Surveyor representing the client, assisting the Senior Quantity Surveyor with drawing take-offs, contractor valuation and claim assessment.

Clients Included: N.Ireland Electricity and British Nuclear Fuels.

Education:

Qualifications: 6 ' O' Levels, 2 ' A' Levels.

Computer Experience:

Very experienced in developing cost control and forecasting systems to meet project needs. Ability to perform high level programming/macro's etc in Access to produce custom databases.

Packages used:- SAP, Primavera (P3, Suretracker), Microsoft (Project, Excel, Access, Word), Oracle accounting systems.