Sharat Rajan

• Global Work flow consultant Primaveraat Shell
• Senior Lean consultantfor a construction Start up
• Project Manager Planning for a USD 285 million project for Goldman Sach
• Manager Project ControlsManaged a PMO with a portfolio of 30+ Projects.
• Delivered Projects in remote & extreme conditions.
• 15+ years of progress reporting to senior stake holders of multibillion dollar Clients
• 15+ yearsof Brownfield and greenfield Construction in USA, Middle East and India.
• 15+ years of experience in using Primavera and MIS Reporting.
• 15+ Years of on Site Execution, Construction, Planning and Project Management.

Education

• EEP Operation Management - IIM-K (2013)
• PMPCertified - Project Management Institute (PMI^®) (2010)
• MBA Marketing & HRM- SMU (2004)
• B.Tech Civil Engineering-Government College of Engineering Kannur (2002)

Professional experience

1. Process and Integration Lead – Shell (2017 to Present)
2. Streamline the Portfolio Management ways of working in all the three Portfolios – Process Modeling & Optimization, Capital Projects and Engineering, Optimal Operation.
3. Evaluates impact to the portfolio of new business imperatives, and provides insight to the business necessary to optimize its application and services landscape and associated investments.
4. Documenting and improving existing process and ensuring that portfolio team across verticals are following the same.
5. Global Work Flow Consultant Primavera – Shell (2015 to 2017)
6. Conduct consultancy across the globe for Upstream and downstream Capital projects and operations in Assets.
7. Generate more value for Shell Businesses by applying Primavera more effectively across Capital Projects and Assets to increase end-users productive.
8. Training primavera users across the globe. (Virtual & F2F)
9. Executive Project status reporting for Capital Projects.
10. Senior Lean Consultant – BT&BT (2014 to 2015.)
11. Implemented Lean for multiple construction projects across Bangalore.
12. Prepared value stream for various process and generated savings.
13. Improved construction planning using 360 planning methodologies.
14. Project Manager - Planning & Risk Turner & Townsend Bangalore (2013 to 2014)

Responsible for schedule and risk Management for a USD 285 Millionproject for Goldman in Bangalore

• Prepared and Set Baselines, Updated, Monitored and Controlled the Project Schedule using Primavera.
• Conducts Risk and Schedule workshops
• Generates Flash report for Upper management
• Delay Analysis and raise flags to Project Director on usage of float
• Review of critical and sub critical paths  
• Manager Project Controls Sycone Bangalore (2011 to2013)

Managing a Program Management Office with 30+ projects and reported to Chief Technical Office. Was involved in Planning and Project control of Residential, Commercial, Institutional and Energy projects.

• Prepared Baseline schedules and implemented tracking for the same.
• Prepared Project Implementation plans for all new projects.
• Migrated from MS Project tracking of all projects to Primavera P6.V8.1
• Analyzed contractor claims for Delay and recommended validity

Formed PMO charter, developed methodology for project monitoring and tracking. 

• Standardized and developed new MIS reports for ISO 9001:2000 certifications.
• Was successfully audited for ISO 9001:2000 recertification

1. Project Engineer The Temple Group Inc. Washington DC USA (2007 to 2011)

Supervised $75M in educational, institutional, rehabilitation, and restoration projects over three years.

• Analyzed CPM schedule and change orders; resulting in over $10 million in saving.
• Chaired post construction meetings, Monthly progress meeting and negotiation meetings
• Setup enterprise level contract manager (expedition) and trained staff companywide to use the same optimization.
• Streamlined the RFI/submittal process and reduced turnaround time by 75%.

1. Project Manager/Project Engineer K.A.R.T Rusyl Sultanate of Oman (2005 to 2007) 

Managed $5M in institutional, food service, military, and residential projects in a remote desert location, lead a multinational workforce to complete construction within budget and ahead of schedule.

• Generated $1M+ additional revenue for the general contractor through change orders and contract add-ons.
• Acquired materials from local suppliers, prepared billing statements and coordinated daily work, while also updating the engineering wing of the Ministry of Defense with weekly progress reports.
• Provided strategic scheduling for kitchen redesign and sanitary drainage system re-route and implemented safety measures to ensure zero food contamination.
• Created and maintained CPM schedule for multiple projects.
• Client Engineer Jose Giri Hospital India (2002 to 2004)

Was part of institutional and health construction projects with a combined value of $1.5M; assignments included a ladies’ dormitory, hospital wing, and sewage treatment plant as well as parking facilities and roads.

• Established controls and processes to identify and correct defective specifications; reviewed earned value reports and monitored contractor activity to ensure compliance with quality assurance standards.
• Coordinated construction work to prevent interruption of regular hospital activities.
• Designed a detailed rebar layout for the sewage treatment plant to limit steel waste to less than 3%.

• Executive reporting to Senior management for Schedule, cost and Risk
• Scheduling: Claims Analysis, Monthly update generation, review and analysis.
• Standardized project reporting
• Creation of various Portfolios & Dashboards in P6 Web Access as per requirement.
• Creation of customized Reports in Primavera Develop and prepare Progress Cost Estimate

• Analyze bottle necks in Submittals, RFI's and Transmittals processes
• Assisted and ran change condition negotiations
• Setup new projects in Primavera, expedition & MSP and trained staff to use the same
• Risk workshops
• Integration of Schedule with Cost and Resources
• Detailed Development of Schedule from Specs, BOQ and Drawings