Ms. Janjua has over 10 years of experience in, rail and transit, as well as infrastructure and site work; including projects with complex phasing and stringent time constraint requirements. She has a strong background in all phases of project and construction management, combined with deep experience in critical path method scheduling, time impact studies, change order review, and claims negotiation and resolution. She has provided all levels of PM CM, from initial conceptual planning to multi-project schematic budgeting and value engineering, from design monitoring, constructability reviews and bid process management to complete construction field management services, including change management and time impact analyses, through commissioning, project close-out and establishment and maintenance of warranty programs. At Metro North Railroad, she is responsible for developing training, standards, and procedures, providing scheduling, estimating, and claims overview and expertise, supervising Project Controls Managers in all offices, and business development, as well as taking on analysis and scheduling tasks as necessary.
Professional Experience
MTA Metro-North Railroad February 2013-Current
Assistant Director – Project Controls & Technical Services
- Responsible for directing and leading staff, providing schedule control services, monitoring and reporting on project’s progress, claim analysis, and technical support as needed to ensure the Capital Department goals are achieved.
- Direct staff in the preparation and establishment of realistic schedules, milestones and certified dates to support the Capital Program and satisfy project stakeholders. Appraise reasonableness of contractor baseline schedules and recommend acceptance or rejection. Personally provide scheduling services on high profile, complicated, and/or during peak project workloads as needed.
- Review projects in early development (Project Management Phase) and recommend to Project Team, based on industry best-practices and the nature of work scope, the appropriate scheduling method (i.e. CPM, Bar Chart etc...) for effectively monitoring progress during construction. In addition review and assess projected milestones, durations, and forecasted completion dates of proposed tasks and determine if opportunities exist with respect to the schedule to maximize cost savings and minimize contingency appropriation.
- Provide support to Director as needed to ensure that Department goals are achieved. Generate high level progress reports to senior staff on construction progress with recommendations for recovery as needed. Analyze and publish ad-hoc reports which include but are not limited to: cash flow forecasting; integrated project Master Schedules; Executive Milestone Reports; and staffing projections.
- Develop solutions and recommendations to minimize schedule impacts of potential problem areas of on–going projects and prepare defenses against contractor claims.
STV Construction, Inc. New York, NY September 2008- February 2013
Project Manager/ Controls Engineer (Scheduling Engineer and Document Controls)
- Experience in administration of FTA, Operating and Capital Projects/Programs through both in-house forces and contracts administration resulting in safe and cost effective facilities.
- Experience in reviewing plans and specifications, perform constructability reviews.
- Performed daily inspections of construction activities to ensure conformance with construction documents.
- Experience in preparing partial payments packages based on the approved detailed cost breakdown.
- Experience in maintaining all construction documentation such as logs and packages for, RFI, Shop Drawings Submissions & Permits.
- Experience in coordinating with various Management on the phasing of all construction activities to minimize impact on the other operations.
Ensure all construction activities are conducted in a safe manner. - Experience in preparing schedules and cost analyses for education, government, and healthcare facilities as well as pipeline construction projects.
- Skilled at developing and updating baseline project schedules, performing trend and critical path analyses, and preparing cost estimates and audits.
- Report on the remaining work in the project schedule, forecasting impacts, assisting with managing resources, and identifying and validating schedule corrective actions.
- Provide scheduling support functions such as baseline validation and review, monthly CPM baseline schedule analysis update reviews, and project performance assessments for this $10.5 million rehabilitation bridge rehabilitation in Washington, DC.
- Developed and maintained the project schedule to provide timely and accurate schedule information for the work being done at this justice building in the Bronx, NY
McCarthy Building Companies, San Francisco, CA September 2006- July 2008
Project Controls Engineer (Scheduling Engineer)
- Assist in establishing cost, schedule and performance baselines and to identify, qualify, and quantify variances from those baselines.
- Assist with the integration of program cost, schedule, and performance data to assess any risks to program success.
- Support, including analysis and reporting on cost, schedule, and performance deviations from program baselines, and assist in program status reviews.
- Have the ability to meet client and Company-set deadlines under all conditions.
- Working with project teams to develop and coordinate project schedules using Primavera scheduling software.
- Assisting with critical path analysis and reporting to project team members and schedule updating on a weekly basis.
- Supporting the Project Team with planning and organizing the resource planning and scheduling as well as coordinating and coordinating project staffing levels.
- Reporting early warning notice of positive and negative trends affecting the project schedule to the Project Director.
- Collecting actual man-hours expended for each Cost Account on a monthly basis.
- Maintaining backlog project planning, people loading, analysis and reporting.
Bechtel Corporation, San Francisco, CA October 2005- August 2006
Project Controls Engineer (Scheduling Engineer), Corporate Function
- Support cost estimating, analysis, and control activities and schedule development, maintenance, reporting, and monitoring activities
- Managed the Project Controls Department functions for large and multiple global business units and for all assigned projects
- Provide technical and administrative guidance to the global business unit
- Performed audits to ensure the quality of estimating, cost engineering, and planning/scheduling functions
- Formulate and present new concepts for global business units and overall Project Controls Department policies across global business units
- Responsible for the quality and timeliness of cost estimates, budgets, financial reports, and schedules
- Provide supervision to a project team of Contracts personnel
- Performed formation and administration of all types of commitments when required by workload, complexity or other factors
- Developed and monitored project work-hour estimates, and master contracts forms
- Participates in the planning, staffing, training and development of (Sub)Contracts personnel
- Supplied dispute resolution services for an impact claim.
PETROFAC INTERNATIONAL, Sharjah, UAE December 2003-August 2004
Project Operations Intern
- Worked with 6-8 members of the Regional Management Team, Managing Project Development to sites worldwide
- Helped implement a new forecasting and planning IT infrastructure to help improve the supply chain. Part of the solution involved setting up 3 continental distribution center (in Asia, Europe, and Middle East, with an overall cost of approximately $80M
- Ensured all contractual commitments were met or exceeded by sponsoring weekly Site Coordinators’ Meeting to address site specific operational issues, developing effective performance metrics, interfacing with the clients on a daily basis to resolve availability issues
- Responsible for the procurement of goods and services associated with the construction of Ohanet Gas Pipeline Field, Algeria
- Led cross-functional teams through bid evaluation and contract negotiations.
- Completed the procurement of the largest pipeline construction Project in the company’s history, <?xml:namespace prefix = st1 />EPC value US$80M
- Work with SAP, and i2 Operational software’s