Guild of Project Controls: Compendium | Roles | Assessment | Certifications | Membership
START Date: 
March, 2005
END Date: 
July, 2009
Planner & Cost Controller
Stantec Consulting Ltd. –100 Sheared Street
-     Established and maintained schedule control activities & provided detailed schedule analysis to support project management and prepared schedule progress and earned value, cost/schedule performance reports
Monitored and updated the project schedule –various levels- / Monitored progress and generated progress reports at all levels of summary.
-     Performed cost estimating, cost budgeting/cost baseline, resource planning, cash flow & data analysis and control activities and/or schedule development, maintenance, and monitoring activities & ensured work is completed as scheduled & meets established milestones
-     Based on definition and scope of Project, developed work breakdown structure to determine internal and external deliverables, responsibilities and milestones to successfully implement the project
-     Supported project organizational and administrative activities when delegated.
-     Supervised cost engineering and/or planning/scheduling, providing forecasts, preparing proposals activities estimates (analogous, modeling, vendor bids & bottom-up estimates) when delegated
-     Reviewed invoices for correct collection of revenue, updated forecasts (EV/SPI/CPI/EAC/ETC) & identified cost trends for management attention.
-     Worked with other organizations/ subcontractors & vendors to coordinate work sequences with the project schedule / cost management plan & total project plan.
-     Analyzed schedule progress and performance and identified developing problem areas.
-     Coordinated schedule variances, identified schedule impacts, forecast change process and provided recommendations for performance improvement and/or corrective action to project management.
-     Contacted with project and technical staff in review of estimates/ schedules/cost and variance analyses.
-     Interfaced with all levels of project management, project controls staff and corporate counterparts for schedule control issues & interfaced with client staff to provide schedule deliverables.
-     Interfaced with organization and client management for specific scheduling presentations

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