Railway

Project Planner, Network Rail, IP Central Region Programme Compliance

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Experience Hours (Planning & Scheduling)
1000

Contract Project Planner for Network Rail IP Central Region team, assisting with central planning functions, particularly the managing and monitoring of Signal Tester and OLE resource demands for critical Bank Holiday works and programme compliance with the IP Central 6 year Plan and the Signalling Team's Commissioning Diary.

Project Planner, Ove Arup & Partners, Croxley Rail Link design programme

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Experience Hours (Planning & Scheduling)
1000

Contract Project Planner for Arup Ltd assisting on the maintenance and development of the Croxley Rail Link design programme for Network Rail and London Underground.  Liaising with designers and engineers from a wide range of disciplines, including Pway, Civils, Highways, Environmental and Safety, and issuing weekly reports to our client Taylor Woodrow.  Also tasked with the development of the Rail Resource programme and the production of various resourced bid programmes in P6 and MS Project as requested.

Integrated Planner & Master Schedule, Ansaldo STS, Linea 2 Metro Lima

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Experience Hours (Planning & Scheduling)
14000
Experience Hours (Cost Management)
9500
Experience Hours (Forensic Analysis)
2500

Head of Planning & Cost Control Department

Develop of EPC Master Schedule

Update execution schedule level 3 and 4.

Cost Control (labor and equipment)

Measure Productivity Index (Labor)

Progress Measurement (Engineering, Procurement, Construction and Commissioning)

Curve S Development

Develop Monthly Reports 

Head of Programme Controls, Crossrail Ltd, Crossrail Project

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Experience Hours (Planning & Scheduling)
2000
Experience Hours (Cost Management)
1000

I joined Crossrail in June 2015 where I am directly accountable for ensuring visibility and accuracy of programme performance data, and providing the Executive Leadership with the information they need in order to manage the programme and maintain their focus in the right areas. Having joined an already established world-class team, my primary focus in the first 6 months has been to review and evolve the Controls function to ensure that it is ‘fit-for-purpose’ for the remainder of the duration of the works. In these months, we have;

Tapiwa Chimboza

First Name
Tapiwa
Last Name
Chimboza
Professional Since
Oldest experience
Years Experience
13
Guild Accreditation
GPC Member
Telephone Number
07766885378
LinkedIn Profile
https://uk.linkedin.com/in/tapiwachimboza

Lead Scheduler, Strukton International Riyadh, Riyadh Metro Project Line 6

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SK Chong 👤 Member for 25 years 4 months
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Experience Hours (Planning & Scheduling)
2850
Experience Hours (Forensic Analysis)
300

Lead Scheduler (9 Jul 15 - current)

FAST Riyadh Metro Project

Saudi Arabia

1. Worked with the Project Control Manager on what are required for the control of the project in term of scheduling, monitoring and reporting to client for the line under our control.  

2. Liaise with the Project Management Office as what are the overall project requirements and obligations to the client so that my team can be in alignment to the needs.

Manager - Project Planning and Controls, Aquenta - A Jacobs Company, Cranbourne Pakenhan Line Upgrade., Melbourne Metro

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Experience Hours (Planning & Scheduling)
4000
Experience Hours (Cost Management)
500

Working to help clients with Project plannning and project controls

Worked  with Public Transport Victoria, assiting with Melbourne Metro, Cranbourne Pakenham Line upgrade, High Capacity Trains, High capacity Signalling.

Planning Engineer, Almobty Contracting Company., Dml-2 (Doubling Main line -2 )

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· Preparing of Basic Contract Schedule & Integrate schedules from engineering,procurement, subcontractors to create Master Schedule· Interface with Engineering and Procurement to quantify assumptions and align Activities.· Break activities into smaller weighted steps and track the completion of the steps todetermine the activity percent complete· Assign resources to activities to admeasure & generate distribution curves toaccurately reflect how the work is performed

Planning Engineer, Almobty Contracting Company., Dml-2 (Doubling Main line -2 )

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· Preparing of Basic Contract Schedule & Integrate schedules from engineering,procurement, subcontractors to create Master Schedule· Interface with Engineering and Procurement to quantify assumptions and align Activities.· Break activities into smaller weighted steps and track the completion of the steps todetermine the activity percent complete· Assign resources to activities to admeasure & generate distribution curves toaccurately reflect how the work is performed

Senior Planning Engineer, Bombardier Transportation, Crossrail

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Experience Hours (Planning & Scheduling)
3800
Experience Hours (Cost Management)
1000
Experience Hours (Forensic Analysis)
1000

Bombardier Transport - Derby

My initial brief and goals  was to fully develop a harmoniised schedule for onboard signaling systems linked to the Crossrail Programme objectives and develop  fully harmonised schedules for signaling at a test track. The schedules to be in sufficient detail as to understand the infaces and be linked as to understand the logic allowing for critical path analysis.