Standards Editors
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Geoff Mann
Aug 1976Company: Director, DAL-Sterling Ltd., Forensic Consultants
Geoff has over 35 years experience in the Building and Engineering Construction Industry.
He has variously worked in estimating; planning; procurement; commercial and project management roles in Europe, North America, Middle East, E. Africa, Russia and East Asia.
Industry Experience:
- Motorways, Roads, Bridges and Viaducts.
- Reclamation and major earthmoving
- High rise structures (Steel and RC)
- Water processing, hydropower, pumping stations and sewage treatment works
- Railways
- Industrial Estate Developments
- Tunnels (TBM, Microtunnelling & Pipejacking, Traditional D&B)
- Power Generation, Nuclear and Military Installations
- Foundation and Piling works
- Waste coal recovery, Chemical & Pharmaceutical plants
- Oil & Gas: Onshore process plants & pipelines
- E&M: Power & process engineering, Microchip fabrication tool-lines and hook-ups.
Since 1994, he specialized in providing dispute advisory and resolution services and, in this capacity, he has undertaken numerous expert advisor and witness appointments in the forensic planning and cost quantum disciplines.
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Paul McCarthy
Sep 1980
Since 1990 Paul has worked in a wide range of consultancy assignments in the role of Programme Controls Manager. Key rail assignments with Transport for London (TfL) / London Underground include the Victoria Line Upgrade project, Cooling the Tube programme and the Prestige project to design and supply the ‘Oyster’ contactless smartcard system for London covering tube, trains, buses and trams along with significant roles at THALES.
Paul’s formative years were spent in the Oil and Gas industry, followed by assignments with clients including: British Nuclear Fuels, ICL, Symonds Travers Morgan, WS Atkins and Kodak. Paul has considerable avionics systems / defence experience gained on the New En-Route Control Centre (NERC) project with IBM and the F-16 TARS and Astor programmes with General Dynamics, Lockheed Martin and Northrop Grumman.
Paul is a full Member of the Association for Project Management (MAPM).
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hardik mehta
Jul 2007
Competency Matrix
Project Management
Project Planning, Scheduling Monitoring & Controlling
Risk Matrix and Identification
Resource Planning
MIS Reporting
Historical data analysis
Documentation
Strategic Cost Estimation Planning
Computer Proficiency
Primavera P6 V17.12
MS Project 2013
MS Office 2013 for MIS Reports
SPMAT for material management
EPPR (engineering progress and performance report for WPT project) of Bechtel software
MS Visio 2013
POLARIS software for budgeting
Trainings Attended
Primavera P6 V17.12
SPMAT
Project Management Boot Camp EPC
Training of Project Management Professional (40 PDUs) for PMP Exam
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Mohammed Najjar
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Mohd Nizam
May 1996Mohd Nizam Daut is a 36yrs old Senior Planning Manager in MMC-GAMUDA JOINT VENTURE involved in Electrified Double Track project in North Malaysia. Has over 16 years experience in project planning in various nature of project such as Buildings, Highway and Railway, mainly in Malaysia, Saudi Arabia and India.
He started his career as a Technical Assistant in one of major contractor in Malaysia before fully involved as a Planner. He was the lead planner for Support Service for Primavera dealer in Malaysia. Over 16 years of his career, he has also involved in various prestigious project such as KL - Ipoh railway project, F1 circuit in KL, and few other prestigious projects.
A graduate from Malaysian Technology University (UTM) in Civil Engineering in 1996. During his study, he has actively involved in sport and rectional activities and won various awards and medals. Represent varsity in canoeing in various tournaments and Johore state in Malaysian games in 1995.
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Kevin Norman
Aug 1980Kevin is 60, married with two children and 4 grandchildren.
Thirty plus years working in Project Controls in the UK and overseas has left its scars and memories. Added to that some Field engineering roles that have given me a good insight of the problems poor engineering and planning can cause and the need for the 5 P’s to be maintained. I still have the capacity to learn, every new position I undertake teaches me something new.
I am highly experienced and motivated senior planner with extensive experience of monitoring, coordinating different disciplines to resolve interface concerns and controlling projects, providing clients with added value through effective project controls on small projects working under own supervision to being a member of a large international team on multi-billion dollar projects.
My experience covers Energy/Oil & Gas/Petro Chemicals/Rail/Food related industries with extensive project capability. This experience has been gained whilst working for various local and international companies such as, Shell, ConocoPhillips, Phillips 66, ExxonMobil, Transfield Worley (NZ), Mitsui Babcock, Suez Fabricom, Foster Wheeler, ABB, Petroleum Development Oman, Dubai Petroleum Company, Amec and SLP.
As a senior/lead I recognise the need for strong leadership skills, am able to coerce information from different engineering levels to resolve planning and engineering issues. From my planning experience I was also given the role as Field Project Engineer which combined with my extensive planning capability enabled me to resolve construction clashes and highlight potential issues during method statement revues. When carrying out the process of Senior/Lead planning, I am able to utilize a combination of technical knowledge, social and personal skills and conceptual ability to ensure projects/tasks are completed to the mutual satisfaction of all stakeholders.
I have also undertaken roles as a mentor to graduates who have chosen to be either project engineers or project controllers.
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Pete Oakander
Jan 1974
EDUCATION
Bachelor of Science Degree in Construction Management with Minor in Business
1990 to 1994, Boise State University, Boise, ID
COMPUTER LITERACY
Applications in Primavera Project Planner (P3/SureTrak), Microsoft Project, Microsoft Office
ASSOCIATIONS
Project Management Institute – College of Scheduling – Director of Scheduling Excellence Initiative
Planning Planet – Member
Military Order of the Purple Heart – Commander of the Chief Joseph Chapter 509 of the MOPH
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Sam Onumah
Sep 2000Sam Onumah is currently a contractor (Lead Planner/Scheduler) to Urenco USA based in Eunice, New Mexico, where he leads a group of planners/schedulers in developing and managing schedules to support a $3billion nuclear enrichment facility construction project.
He has 12 years of progressive experience in engineering, construction management and project controls with expertise in planning, schedule analysis, cost estimating, risk management and earned value methodologies.
His previous industry experience includes working as:
- Contractor (Senior Planner/Scheduler) to Bechtel Corporation, Houston, TX, where he implemented project execution plans to develop schedules to support a $9billion crude refinery expansion project in Port Arthur, TX.
- Assistant Project Manager with Kleinfelder Inc, Hanover, MD, where he also worked as a design engineer. He worked on environmental restoration projects which included design, procurement, drilling, and installations of remediation systems and reporting of project progress to management and state organizations.
- Project Engineer with Central Florida Testing Laboratories, Clearwater, FL, where he worked on geotechnical projects. His responsibilities included developing project scopes, budgets, and proposals.
He has a master’s degree in Environmental Engineering and Project Management, a Bachelor’s degree in Geological Engineering and is currently pursuing an MBA in Project Management.
He has membership in the following organizations:
- Project Management Institute
- Planning Planet
- American Association of Cost Engineers International
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Richard Ormerod
Aug 1978Richard first worked in the UK Construction Industry as foreman and site manager for a London based contractor for a number of years.
He also worked as an Industrial Research Fellow at the Dept. Construction Management, University of Reading specialising in Risk modelling. He also administered and taught on a part-time MSc in Project Management.
Richard co-founded Asta Development plc and designed and co-authored the project planning software – Powerproject.
Richard has been involved in project planning, project controls and forensic planning in all its guises for over 25-years.
Richard has also been an expert in linear planning techniques (time-chainage, March Charts, etc.) and the software application TILOS for a decade.
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William P. Harroun
Jan 1975
Head of Programme Controls, BG Group
Mr. Harroun has over thirty five (35) years of experience in the field of Program/Project Management and Program/Project Controls on major global programs with more than $1 billion annual budget, including 20+ years in executive and senior managerial positions.
His area of expertise is to focus on the development and implementation of program and project management processes and systems in major program/project environments, in the following areas: Program/Project Management organizational structuring,Program/Project Management training and mentoring,Establishment of Program/Project Baselines, Risk Management,Planning & scheduling, Earned Value, Performance Reporting and Cost Estimating.
Mr. Harroun has particular experience in designing and implementing PM systems that are flexible to handle ever changing program/project approaches while providing consistent measurement and feedback. He also has developed and managed large program management/control organizations for large capital programs that had insufficient program baselines and procedures at program onset. He is recognized as a subject matter expert, and is an adjunct professor at the University of Colorado, Denver campus.
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Jaishankar Pandey
Aug 2004
Project Controls professional with proven background in Project Controls of large scale chemical, fertilizer, Mining projects. Scope ranges from EPC, EPCM and PCM Projects including Greenfield and Brown-field Programs. Responsibilities included Project Controls, Scheduling, Cost Control and Definition & Setting up of Performance Monitoring System (EVMS), Progress monitoring and Reports generation, Variation and Extension of Time (EOT) Claims Management.
Experience with Earned Value Management Systems (EVMS). Proficient in Primavera and Cost control.
Can interface with clients, attend regular meetings, and give statistical reports.
Analyzes, evaluates, and forecasts current status against an established baseline schedule and budget.
Reports status of schedule and budget to appropriate project team, Company management as well to the client.
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ravishankar patil
Jan 2006
A. PROJECT PLANNING & CONTROL
1. Prepare and Update Master Schedules/Programme in Oracle Primavera 6 - consisting of Engineering, Procurement and Construction.
2. Closely Monitoring project progress on Primavera – 6 for L2 & L3 EPC Schedules.
3. Prepare Deliverable schedules & Tendency Analysis
4. Prepare Progress ‘S’ Curves both Financial & Physical for Civil Contracts.
5. Preparing Recovery Schedule Programme.
6. CPM Programme & Interface Schedules.
7. Look Ahead Schedules or Programmes – Three Months & Six Months
8. To coordinate and liaise with Construction Managers, Site teams, Subcontractors to plan and monitor the status and progress of all Civil construction works
9. Interface Management between the Contractors.
10. Holding Meetings with Contract Managers and controlling the Project scope and Defining the battery Limit.
11. Change Management & Risk Register Entry for all the Civil Contracts
12. Preparing Project Control presentations for all the civil packages.
13. Cost control & Cost analysis for Civil Packages.
14.Control & Support the change management process
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Maurice Phelps
Jul 1972
15 years time served in H M Royal Navy. Navigation and Armament. Rank Achieve - Commander
I have over 35 years experience in Project Services and Control, Planning, Contracts / Procurement, Cost / Financial Control & Estimating, Document Control and Project Administration. During this time I have worked in the Home Office and Construction Sites associated with Oil & Gas, Pipeline, Chemical, Building, Power Projects and Food & Beverage Industries.
My Project Engineering, Construction, Contract Management and Administration experience complement the Project Control & Planning skills. Since 1998 I have mainly focused on Project Services & Control Manager / Contracts Management positions. I have also taken on a Project Management roll on many occasions during the life of a project. I am well versed in use of Planning and Cost & Estimating Management / Contracts Software Applications and MS Office software suite. I have also worked as a Consultant, setting up Project Management, Project Control, Planning and Contract Administration Systems tailored to suit individual Company and Project Requirements
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Tom Reichner
Aug 1980
Mr. Reichner has more than four decades in engineering, design, construction management and project controls in the industrial sector, including:
- Primavera Administrator/Scheduling Manager, Department of Energy, National Energy Technology Laboratory (through Keylogic Systems Inc.)
- Regional Project Controls Coordinator, Eastern US, for Alstom Power;
- Project Controls Scheduler, Bombardier Transportation, Pittsburgh PA;
- Lead Planner/Scheduler, Reliant Energy, Avon Lake OH on a $48 million outage;
- Planner/Scheduler, Aker/Kvaerner/Songer, on several proposal and project schedules, Pittsburgh PA;
- Master Scheduler, Worley-Parsons Construction Management, at the American Electric Power FGD & SCR installations, Moundsville WV;
- Scheduler, Wheelabrator Air Pollution Control Co. (now Siemens), Pittsburgh PA;
- Scheduler, AMEC Construction Management, Benvenue pharmaceutical manufacturing plant construction, Bedford OH;
Previous experience as project manager for Universal Stainless & Alloy Products in Bridgeville Pa; for International Steel Services in Pittsburgh PA, Portage IN & Montetaire FR; and for Mercury Recovery Services in New Brighton PA & Runcorn UK; scheduler for Minnotte Contracting in Pittsburgh & Weirton WV; scheduler for Ross Brothers Construction in Cadiz OH; bulk handling & specifications engineer for Davy International in Pittsburgh; proposal/specifications engineer for ICF Kaiser Engineers in Pittsburgh; owner Aspenergy (coke & coal producer) in Wilpen PA.
Member, Board of Directors for 3 non-profit organizations based in Pittsburgh PA.
Founder, Schedule & Cost Risk Analysis group on LinkedIn.
Member, PAOPUG (Pittsburgh Area Oracle Primavera Users Group).
Past President, American Filtration Society Pittsburgh Chapter.
Past President, Coal Technology Group of American Chemical Society Pittsburgh Chapter
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Craig Relyea
May 1972Craig Relyea
Retired Senior Director of Project Services
Craig is a retired Senior Director of Project Services, based in Indianapolis, Indiana. He has extensive global project services experience, focusing on project controls, contract administration, risk management and planning & scheduling for the pharmaceutical, shipbuilding, petrochemical, and power industries.
Craig has been active in several industry organizations. He helped restart and is a past-president of the Hoosier section of the AACE. As a member of PMI’s College of Scheduling (many name changes) he was the Editorial Manager for the "CPM Scheduling - Best Practices for Construction", published in 2014 by PMI, and he helped write and drove the final product through the editing and publishing process. Craig was also a very active member of the CII (Construction Industry Institute) as chair and member of research teams, and a research sponsor while serving as a member of CII's Funded Studies committee. He represented the Manufacturing and Life Sciences sector on CII's Sector Leadership Committee. He was also a member of the CII Community for Business Advancement (CBA) for Project Controls and CBS for Advanced Work Packaging. He was the inaugural Chair for the Manufacturing and Life Sciences sector of CII, and he was also an inaugural member of the US editorial team of the Planning Planet.
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Denis Ryan
Jan 1989Denis has over 30 years of experience in Aircraft Engineering, Rail, and Power. This includes over ten years of planning experience, as well as Airworthiness / Change management, and IT (Enterprise solution integration) He has worked in Ireland the UK, and Hong Kong, and has managed large teams on complexes projects.
His background is predominately in Aviation, having served an apprenticeship in the Irish Air Corps, and spent nearly 18 years working for British Airways as an Engineer, Fleet Planning Engineer, Fleet Technical Engineer (Airworthiness) and Team Leader on project work, namely the SAP implementation in BA Engineering, at that time the largest Implementation of its kind in Europe. Since the early 1990’s his involvement in planning has been through supporting the production roles in aircraft maintenance, this involved managing the production plan, control of resources, estimating time to complete, planning repairs, reporting on progress. This work was carried out as a Fleet Planning Engineer on Boeing 757and 767 aircraft major maintenance. He has also been point of contact with Audit teams from aircraft manufactures and leasing companies to prove Airworthiness / due diligence on the planning maintenance carried out by British airways.
On leaving British Airways Denis moved into Rail working on projects as part of Metronet for London Underground, this involved using Primavera P3e/v5, and leading a team of planners. His last role was working for Mott MacDonald as a Planning Manager within a joint venture Alliance, managing a team of 15 planners delivering projects all over the South East of England for National Grid, using P6. Denis is now working for Mott MacDonald in Hong Kong, Responsible for promotion and adoption of best practice within HK / APNA in the areas of planning and project controls. Denis is very excited about the prospect of gaining recognition for his chosen career, along with the technical competency we all show, he is interested in gaining recognition for the human interaction / stakeholder management skills that we bring to our profession every day.
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Saimon S.
Jun 2010
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Sufiyan Saleem
Jul 2013
Hello,
Iam Sufiyan Saleem right now working as a Planning Engineer in Al- Sharqawi Electro Mechnical Co since 2017.
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ahmed samir
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kareem sayed
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Raj Singh
May 1978Raj Singh is currently working with Mace International Ltd. in Mumbai, India on New Mumbai International Airport as Project Controls Manager and previously 32 years in Construction & Project Management, Planning, Claims Management, Project Controls, Cost Control, Organizational Development, Systems & Computer Applications Development, Project Monitoring and MIS in Middle East, India, Malaysia and North Africa.
The primary work of Raj Singh has been in areas of project management, planning and monitoring, controlling, cost control, development of company systems and procedures. He has had the opportunity of working on diverse projects ranging from housing complexes, multiuse commercial complexes, public buildings, airports, hospitals, aircraft maintenance facilities, hangars, educational institutions, hotels, shopping malls, roads & highways, among others in a challenging multi cultural environment in a number of countries. The value of these projects was approximately US$ 10 Billion over last 25 years in the construction sector and over US$ 20 Billion subsequently in project management. Raj Singh has overall experience of over 33 years, including 28 years in Middle East. In this time frame he has participated in over 150 construction projects.
Raj Singh is a graduate engineer from Birla Institute of Technology & Science, Pilani, India and a Member of Institution of Engineers (India) since 1983.
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Abdulhafiz Suara
Sep 2009
Program and Project controls professional with experience in strategic planning, scheduling, reporting, cost & budget control for multiple and concurrent large capital projects in multi-national environments. I am a well-organized leader with perfect analytic and presentation prowess using contemporary software including ERPs. I communicate clearly and maturely from the highest level of management through to the lowest level of execution.
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Sanjeet Teri
May 1987
PMP Certified Planner with 18 years of planning experience using Primavera in Railways Infrasturcutre projects.
Likes to learn new things and expand my knowledgebase.
Setup processes for Planning function
Instrumental in implementation of Project Management Information System (PMIS) for IRCON International Limited (A PSU of Indian Railways).
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David Vest
Jun 1976Dave has over 35 years of experience in various company business groups. He has experience developing program controls systems for power, water, wastewater, transportation, nuclear, and communications technologies. He has strong background in construction management processes, which includes design, procurement, and construction phases in both conventional and design build construction contracts. He initially served as the Southeast Regional Program Controls manager. He later joined and helped develop the program controls systems for the company’s new Power Business group at the corporate headquarters in the early 90’s.
Dave has also worked internationally, off and on, for the last 10 years in England, France, Germany, Qatar, Jordon, Singapore, and the United Arab Emirates. The different philosophies and contract types has made the program controls system development an extreme learning experience. He has also worked on some Major Overseas Programs including the London 2012 Olympics and the Abu Dhabi Future Energy Company’s “Masdar City”.
He is active in numerous industry professional associations, including PMI (Project Management Institute) AACEi (Association for the Advancement of Cost Engineering International), and DBIA (Design Build Institute of America).
Dave is affiliated with various internal company organizations that help develop and strengthen the companies processes and standards. These include cost, schedule, estimating, risk, and project delivery areas. He frequently assists other projects with best practices processes and procedures when requested,
Dave has been happily married to Maudeen for nearly 43 years. They have two children, and five grandchildren. He enjoys traveling and visiting historical sites around the world.
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Karl Wilkinson
Jun 2001
Primavera P3 to P7, Microsoft Project, EUSR, PTS (UK & NI) AC/DC and Medical, PPS IPCS PMCS, CCMS, TILOS.
Planning and Scheduling, Dashboard Reporting, EVA, Claims, Delay Analysis, CP Analysis, 14 Point Schedule Assessment, Tender Planning, Consortium Planning, Tender Assessments, Time Chainage, Cost Control and Forecasting.
AACEI - Member
APM - Associate Member
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James Williams
Jul 1985
SPECIALISATION: Planning, Co-ordination and Project Control’s Specialist
AREAS OF EXPERIENCE: Programme Management and Project Control / Tender and Contract Management / Business Development / Financial Control Management / Claims Analysis and Negotiation / Quality Management / Configuration Management / Information System Development
KEY SKILLS & EXPERIENCE:
- Project experience gained in Dubai, Hong Kong, Malaysia, Singapore, Korea, Taiwan, Japan, Macao, the USA and the UK, having demonstrated the ability to support a diverse range of high profile projects vis-à-vis development of fully co-ordinated project management and project and cost controls tools.
- Proven ability to perform in a management capacity with robust communications, presentation, motivational, computer and analysis skills with a thorough knowledge of industry practices and technologies. With 20 years project experience in the construction, infrastructure and property sectors, with extensive experience in regard to reclamation, tunnels, civil, infrastructure, building works and transportation systems.
- Considerable experience in the use of Project Planning / Controls Tools with respect to: Project Time / Cost Control, Earned Value Management & Analysis, Interface & Claims Management, Risk Assessment & Risk Management, Scope & Change Control, Documentation Control and Contract / Commercial Management.
- Proven ability to define and develop a systematic process for planning scope, monitoring progress, determining status, assessing trends and impacts, managing change, and forecasting results to support timely management decision-making to achieve management and project objectives.
- Well-developed interpersonal partnering skills, with good persuasive abilities and the capability of working to tight deadlines in order to effectively support today’s fast track, cost driven projects. Capable of autonomous working, workload prioritisation and decision making. Possessing the ability to multi-task whilst maintaining a strong proactive business and project commitment.
- Founder and web-developer of the http://www.PlanningPlanet.com portal, a widely valued and rapidly growing Internet resource for the world’s project planning professionals.
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Simon Willson
Nov 2004
Simon has over 20 years experience in Telecommunications, Power, Oil & Gas, Nuclear Decommissioning, Design Management and large scale construction projects. This includes over 10 years planning experience, IT integration (database testing and commissioning), project management, risk analysis and reporting and document management. He has worked predominantly in the UK and in the Middle East for the last year and has managed teams on complex projects.
His background is predominately in Telecommunications, having served an apprenticeship in the Royal Corps of Signals. In the private sector, Simon went on to work on a number of telecommunications projects for UK Government agencies.
On joining Mott MacDonald, Simon went on to provide corporate programme monitoring and reporting for a private sector defence client reporting to the UK MoD. This involved, monitoring the major construction and technical projects across many portfolios, maintenance of the company’s master schedule, reporting on progress, annual affordability reviews and corporate change control. During this time, Simon was part of the team responsible for a major upgrade of the company’s planning software which included the definition and roll out of the management work breakdown structure.
His next assignment was working as a team leader and Primavera Database Administrator within a joint venture Alliance, reporting to the Planning Manager and leading a team of 6 planners delivering projects all over the South East of England for National Grid, using P6.
Simon is currently working in the Middle East on a number of ventures with Mott MacDonald.
Simon is very passionate about gaining recognition for the planning function along with increasing the overall technical competency and global accreditation for planners. Simon currently lives with his wife Heather in Dubai and enjoys traveling, cooking, watching sport and planning his next life adventure.
Simon is a member of the Association of Project Management.
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Byron WONG
Aug 1995
Experience project planning and programming practitioner.
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Rony Zachariah
Feb 1989 Usage of PRIMAVERA Softwares like P3 / P3e/c / P5 / P6 and Sure Trak Prepared Resources & Cost loaded Master Programmes in Primavera Usage of M.S. Office applications like Excel, PowerPoint & Word and Adobe Generating documentations / S-curves / Histograms Professional quality Presentations / preparing presentation slides Preparation of Professional Quality Management Reports. Analyzing & interpreting the project status and look-ahead, Earned Value Preparation of method statements Preparing / analysing programme based Delay / EoT claims. Good Management and Leadership skills.