Experience has included commercial, industrial, governmental, and residential projects, buildings as well as infrastructure and boats.

Chris is also lecturing in the Construction Management Department at NMMU and looking at including BIM planning as part of honours and post graduate studies in Construction Management.

He has also travelled extensively working on projects from South Africa to the Sudan, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, the Middle East and UK. He is active in educating the broader Project and Construction Management industry on the use of new technology to improve on project delivery and has published a treatise titled ‘Improving Construction Planning through 4D Planning’, achieving a Highly Commended Award from Emerald Group Publishing JEDT. He has presented at numerous industry conferences including PMSA 2008; ASOCSA & CBE 2007; Construction H&S 2007 & VR Net 2006. He has had articles published in Building Canada and is in the process of compiling a book on how to implement 4D planning in the construction industry.

I have extensive experience in project controls (planning, scheduling, cost controls and cost estimates) in addition to a solid experience in PMBOK with thorough understanding of their processes and practical application. Implemented the earned value concept through C/SCSC (Cost/ Schedule Controls System Criteria) successfully in many projects. In addition to the applied planning & scheduling techniques utilized Primavera Project Planner P3 (V3.1) and P6 features (fragnets, global changes, project group, sub-projects, what-if analysis and resource loading) to develop cost/ schedule baselines through task-driven and resource-driven schedules.

I have excellent communication and interpersonal skills demonstrated and developed by listening and liaising with the project management team, all disciplines leads and contractors that contributed in settling the areas of concern effectively. I can handle projects meeting time pressures according the specifications within the budgets. Able to take a pro-active role within the project management team and analyze & reason, combined with a willingness to increase my technical knowledge with additional studies, I have been enabled to develop a sharp experience in project controls.

My experience spans over Twenty years in Canada and overseas for various industry sectors including Oil & Gas and Marine.

Fluent in English and Arabic.

His break came in 1982 when appointed as Lead Planner on a project in Saudi Arabia….here’s a piece of desert, build a city! Great experience, a 20,000 activity network on Artemis, with the $300m contract value spread across the activities, and the monthly invoice was an activity listing, allocated $ value, percentage complete and thus earned value! A 20mb storage disc was 12 inches in diameter and one inch thick, for the old HP 1000 machine!

Subsequently he has worked in Holland, USA, Qatar, Sarawak, Germany, UK, France, Iran, UAE, Oman, Hong Kong, China, Taiwan, Thailand 2005-2010, and currently Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.

Of all the projects he’s worked on, the two that stand out are the European Transonic Windtunnel in Cologne, because it is the only one of it’s kind, operating at -270o C and Mach 1.5, and a one week assignment to advise on planning systems became three very fruitful years, and the Airport Railway in Hong Kong, 1994-1998, completed on time, and arguably within budget.

Richard got his MBA in 2003 after two very intense years studying out of hours in Hong Kong, and became Fellow of the Institution of Civil Engineers in July 2011

Richard has a Filipina wife and a young son.

Skills: Richard firmly believes that if a planner knows the principles of his profession they can be applied to any project, so in the last 25 years he has been able to switch between Petrochem and Rail projects. This can be an advantage when job hunting. He is also very much a hands on planner who tries to handle the whole spectrum from data entry to Board presentations.

Forensic Planning | Teaching Project Controls and planning software | Software | Artemis – All versions expert (but not up to date) | Primavera P3 (expert) and P6 | Microsoft Project | Office

Highly skilled program and project delivery professional: Combining proven management and delivery ability, deep process, technical and IT knowledge with a wealth of program and project management skills including program start-up, governance, project controls (scheduling, cost control, reporting, estimating), risk management, scope and change control, document control, procurement, contract management, funding, commercial management and earned value systems.

Program / Project Controls Systems Implementation: From requirements engineering through to data systems creation or start-up, process/procedure development, report development (for use at all levels from strategic business planning at board level to day to day reports for work-site personnel), and roll-out to teams. These systems can be completely bespoke; ‘off the shelf’ industry standard applications or the integration of multiple existing data sources into one.

Performance and Controls Director – Water Business Group

Management and continuous improvement of an integrated approach to program and project controls throughout the $1.4bn (annual) Water Business Group (WBG), covering the functions of planning/scheduling, cost management, estimating and document management and economic modelling.

Direct responsibility for over 80 staff and wider functional accountability for all WBG Project Controls staff across the world. Management of multi-million dollar annual overhead budget.

Supporting and developing Program Management (including portals), Cost Management and Project Controls software and tools for the WBG in conjunction with CH2M Hill corporate efforts.

Richard is a chartered quantity surveyor and barrister* with twenty years experience in the construction industry. He has provided commercial and dispute advice for employers and contractors as well as preparing and defending claims for extensions of time, disruption and prolongation for domestic and international arbitration. He has also prepared contracts for major construction projects and has experience in building, ship building, civil, heavy engineering, power, rail, water, oil and gas works.

Richard is a past councillor of the Australian branch of the CIArb, the immediate past President of the New South Wales Chapter of the Australian Institute of Quantity Surveyors and current National Councilor of the Australian Institute of Quantity Surveyors and a past lecturer in contract law Curtin at Herriot Watt Universities.

Richard is also a keen sailor and has crossed the Atlantic twice. He enjoys reading and travelling and reading about travelling. He is married to Kathryn, whom he met in Edinburgh 5 years ago, has one son, Archie, and currently lives in Sydney, Australia.

(*England & Wales, not practising)

Email: contact me

Professional summary

• PassionateSenior Project Planner with 13+ years of experiencegained in planning across landmark, large complex projectsin Commercial, Aviation, Rail projectswith top tier consultants, clients and principal contractors. I started my career in 2007as an Assistant Project Plannerafter graduating as a Civil Engineerand made my way up to Senior Project Planner position over the coming years
• Key clientsinclude Heathrow, Gatwick, Network Rail, DLR and Crossrail within Aviation and Rail projects. Skanska, Canary Wharf Contractors and Mace within new build, refurbishments in the Residential and Commercial sector, and Mott MacDonald, Turner and Townsend across the consultancy sector
• Key projects:DLR stations for London Olympics in 2012, 20 Fenchurch street (also known as ‘Walkie Talkie’ building) in Central London, Simandou Project (Rail, port and Iron Ore Mine Programmes) and other flagship aviation projects (including Baggage and Capital optimisation projects of Heathrow and Gatwick Airports)

• Lead planner expereince working with Project Director and PMs
  Monitoring progress during construction and whole project life cycle, monthly client reporting with Earn value management and inline with contract for programme acceptance.
• Preparation of compensation event programm, critical path analysis and detail narrative.
• Created and mainted master integrated schedules for large strategic projects.
• Team player with passion for mentoring and coaching.

Raphael M. Dua has been working for the past 55 years in the Project Management field as both a Planning & Cost Scheduling Engineer and a Project Manager/Director. He is a Fellow of the Australian Institute of Company Directors a Member of the Australian Institute of Project Management. In addition he is a member of the Australian Computer Society (was also member of the British and New Zealand Computer Societies) as a PCP as well as an Associate Member of the British Institute of Management. He was Federal Vice-President of Defence And Industry Course Association and is currently a councillor. He is a member of the PMI COS and PMI EVPM groups.

Raf spent almost 32 years with the British Computer Company International Computers Ltd (ICL) [Now Fujitsu in Australia and New Zealand], in various parts of the world; where he co-authored the entire Critical Path & PERT software packages ICL produced from 1958 to 1984. These were ICT 1300 Series PERT, ICT 1500 Series PERT, ICT 1900 Series PERT, ME29 PERT, 2004 PERT, VME PERT being the last one in 1983. During the years from 1959 until 1983, Raf contributed to the many original ideas in CPM technology invented BY ICT, such as Pool Resources, Progressive Feed (Ladders) and Hammocks and the Short Path Node. As well as Multi Sub Project Resource Scheduling using Decision Tables. Raf was seconded from BTM (as ICL was in those days) to work with Kelly & Walker (the original authors of the Critical Path technique) in 1956/7 and later with Booz Allen Hamilton (the originators of the PERT technique) on the Fleet Ballistic Weapons Program (Polaris) project for the US Navy in 1958 - 60. (RCA 301 PERT).

From 1978 he consulted to Micro Planning International Ltd in the UK for the development and production of Micro Planner X-Pert for MAC and Windows.

In addition to designing and writing project management software: Raf has spent many years consulting as a cost schedule and planning engineer to both government and private companies on projects too numerous to mention. Some major projects were Bougainville Copper Mine for Bechtel Corp and CRA, Nuclear Power stations for the CEGB in UK. The electrification of British Rail Eastern Region; Construction of the Oberon Class Submarines for Scotts’ Dockyard in Scotland which culminated with 22 years of submarine refitting of the Oberon’s at Cockatoo Dockyard in Sydney. In addition many major warship construction and refit projects for the RAN, RN and RNZN were also managed and scheduled. Raf used ICL’s CPM/PERT software from 1960 to 1986 to manage projects in Australia, New Zealand, Hong Kong and throughout many other Asian countries for a wide range of ICL clients both private and government.

Since 1966 he has lectured extensively in Europe, Australia and New Zealand at various universities as both Senior Lecturer and lately at University of Melbourne as Visiting Fellow in Building, Architecture and Planning for the Masters degree in Construction Management.

He has contributed to several books as well as being a co-chairman of the Australian Standards committee on Earned Value performance Measurement, culminating in the AS4817:2006 standard being published and is currently a committee member of the ISO/CD 21500 Standard for Project Management.

From late 2002 for four years Raf was the Senior Planner and Scheduler for the NZ government Department of Corrections RPDP project which had a budget of $NZ1.1 billion. This project was unusual in that it was located on four disparate and rural sites across both the North and South Islands. The project was both a Collaborative Work Agreement (a better form of alliance) using Earned Value Methodology. It was a first for New Zealand as a Complex Project Management project and required an ability to work the RPDP Schedule & Plan with over 70 major collaborative partners as well as on 50 sub collaborative partners, some who were involved in more than one of the sites. Each of the sites involved water treatment plants and water reticulation pipe work to current best practice in water conservation. Both Micro Planner and P3 software was used on this project. All the four projects opened up on time and somewhat less than budget as the Gainshare option was invoked.

From Nov 2006 until Jul 2007 Raf was the Senior Planner and Scheduler for the Eastern Alliance of the Queensland Government’s Western Corridor Recycled Water project using P3 and Suretrack in Brisbane. This project consisted of three stages and Raf was responsible for the establishment of the master plan for all three stages as well as the detailed planning for Stage 1a. The project consisted of over 90Kms of pipeline with water treatment plants as well as pump station. It consisted of trenching and micro tunnelling and HDD boring. The value of stage 1A was expected to be approximately $150 million. In addition to the planning, site project procedures were set up for other planners to follow later in the project.

From July 2007 Raf was been contracted by Boeing Australia Limited to provide Planning and Scheduling consulting and training for the F-111 Strike Maintenance project. In addition he will be developing a Planners and Schedulers manual specifically for Boeing Australia Limited. This work was completed by late June 2008 and Micro Planner X-Pert for Windows was used for developing schedules and the EVPM.

Since 2008 until now he is consulting as Lead/ Senior Planner and Scheduler for the new Orange Hospital and Associates Health Services project with a value of $AUD235 million and a thirty month building duration in New South Wales.

Since January 2010, Raf has become the sole owner of Micro Planning International LLC after retirement of some of the other original owners.

SUMMARY

• Project Management Professional - PMP in good standing with extensive plannin, scheduling, project control , program and project management experience in multidisciplinary IT, infrastructure, engineering, procurement, industrial construction and built projects comprised of multiple sub-projects successfully, on budget and on schedule.
• Managed and planned as a project planner and project manager, all phases of multiple large-scale projects from conceptual design to start-up and final delivery safely and successfully.
• In-deep knowledge in the development and implementation of a quality management programs in the public sector.
• Provided overall direction to the formulation, development, implementation and delivery of projects, while managed all aspects of projects including, scope, budget, time, quality, execution, risk and communication.
• Experienced in working with cross-functional teams of different business areas and expertise levels.
• Demonstrated high performance in a fast paced, highly dynamic, challenging work environment with changing deadlines and priorities.
• Project planning, scheduling, control and management experience in international projects and diverse cultural environments.
• Demonstrated ability to effectively identify and resolve problems to ensure business requirements are met.
• Demonstrated effective communication and data exchange with stakeholders including project owner, management and project team.
• Expert in Primavera P6, MS Project, Microsoft Office (Excel, Word, Visio, PowerPoint, Outlook)

AREAS OF EXPERTISE

• Industry Fields: IT, telecommunication, infrastructure, engineering, procurement, manufacturing, industrial construction, construction, utilities and heavy industrial.
• Project Phases: proposal, bid evaluation, engineering, procurement, installation, commissioning, close out.
• Tasks and Technical Expertise : Project planning, scheduling, control,  quality management, project scope management, project time management, project cost management, project risk management, project stakeholder management, project communication management, project procurement management,  business analysis, budgeting, tender, proposal, documentation, feasibility study, quality assurance, data analysis, process mapping and strategic planning.
• Skills: Excellent interpersonal, communication and presentation skills; problem solving, result oriented, organization, planning, self motivated, team-player, energetic, multitask, customer service, leadership, decision making, effective delegation skills.

He is the Managing Director of Enterprise Project Management Solutions Limited, a company that specialises in the Oracle Primavera suite of applications, an area that he has specialised in for over 15 years having been involved in Primavera Enterprise deployment in Motorola, British Energy, Alstom Power and GE Oil and Gas to name a few.

Aspirations To be involved in setting up and running PPCD with the objective of introducing professional recognition for Planners, Project Controllers and associated personnel on a global basis.

Specialist in Primavera P6 web based and standalone based.

Mr. Kelly, PSP has more than 15 years in construction management and government contracting for transportation, facilities, and critical structures assignments, providing project controls, scheduling, and disputes resolution services, for contractors and owners in small and large construction projects at the federal, state, and local level. 

He has provided forensic schedule analysis and litigation support on construction methodology, cost analysis, and delay/disruption issues. 

Mr. Kelly has also written several articles on scheduling and delay analysis, and has provided training to schedulers and analysts in a variety of forums.

PMP, Vice-President of Moscow, Russia PMI Chapter.

Vladimir Liberzon developed his first professional CPM software for mainframe computers in 1978. This software included sophisticated resource leveling and was used in the Soviet Union for project and resource management.

When the Iron Curtain fall he created the company that developed Spider Project – advanced project management software that is now most popular professional PM tool in Russia and is used in 28 countries.

Vladimir believes that effective use of PM tools can be achieved only with implementing mature project management culture in the companies that manage projects. Spider Project Team not only developes project management software but is also involved in consulting and training of its cistomers. Spider Project Team is Global Registered Education Provider PMI and has branches in many Russian cities and in Belarus, Brazil, Romania, and Ukraine. The customers of Spider Project Team represent almost all industries including Aerospace & Defense, Banking, Construction, Energy, Engineering, Manufacturing, Metallurgy, Mining, Oil & Gas, Retail, Shipbuilding, Software development, Telecommunications, etc.

Vladimir was and is involved in management of many large scale programs. The programs that are managed with Spider Project and Vladimir’s help today include preparation of Winter Olympic Games 2014, development of Russian Pacific Area, preparation of World Student Games 2013, etc.

In 1997 Vladimir founded Moscow PMI Chapter – the first PMI Chapter in Russia and now serves as its Vice President. He teached project management in the leading Russian business schools, published 4 books and more than 150 papers on project management. He participated in the development of PMI Practice Standard for Scheduling.