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Mark Burrows

First Name: 
Mark
Last Name: 
Burrows

Skills/Responsibilities

  •  Use of P6/P7, Microsoft Project and Access
  • Supervise Junior and Intermediate Planners/Schedulers
  • Train and Mentor Junior Planners/Schedulers
  • Establishing, updating and maintaining of project schedules in Primavera for Engineering, Procurement, Construction and Commissioning to ensure that all levels of schedules in all areas of assigned responsibility reflect the accepted project execution logic, identify key interfaces and project milestones.
  • Monitoring progress and generation of progress reports at all levels of summary.
  • Interface with other project staff for collecting progress data, resolving schedules issues, and for maintaining a coherent scheduling and progress database.  Development of workaround plans in late areas is also required.
  • Develop databases using Microsoft Access, using VB to tie P6 and the databases together for easy current reporting for the PMO office.
  • Loading and maintaining approved labor budgets and generate resource histograms using Primavera database, develop the yearly Business Plans
  • Analysis of the critical path and the provision of schedule reports for project management purposes.
  • Develop proposal schedules and cash flows.
  • Generate graphics/reports for Project Managers and Clients
  • Generate monthly Progress Reports and Summary Level Schedules.
  • Consolidate information on cost and schedule from Consortium members
  • Site visits to develop and monitor ongoing site activities
  • Co-ordinate material deliveries and schedules for up to four manufacturing facilities around the globe per project.
  • Review vendor/subcontractor schedules i.e. structural steel fabricators and conduct on site meetings at the facilities to ensure schedules are maintained.
  • Developed Work Breakdown Structure (WBS) in conjunction with Project Management Team and Team Leaders.
  • Prepare detailed CPM Logic Diagrams in conjunction with Project Manager, Team Leaders and Department Managers.
  • Took a pro-active role within the Project Management Team and acted as assistant to the Project Manager on project control issues
  • Communicated frequently with all the functional teams to expedite deliverables and action items and to ensure that works are performed on schedule and within budget
  • Provided coordination and expertise to the disciplines and to the Junior Planners in the application and operation of P6 Project Management and Planning Software
  • Prepares Manpower Loading Reports for all Functional Departments.
  • Highlights problem areas during schedule updates to the Project Manager in order to minimize schedule impacts and devise workarounds, if possible.
  • Generates “What if” scenarios for Manpower and schedule issues.
    Monitors and updates schedules with progress for all Functional Departments, Sub-Contractors and Site installation.
  • Prepares various spreadsheets such as Material Delivery, Risk List, Deliverables List, Progress S-curves, and other company standard matrices.
Professional Since: 
May-1980 (44.3 yrs experience)
Oldest experience: 
May 1980 (44.3 yrs experience)
Years Experience: 
33

Market Place

Primavera P6 and Microsoft Project books, on-line video training courses and training material available from an internationally recognised publisher. Teach yourself using on-line or book based learning or run your own in-house or public courses.