CA
Responsible for the Territory Project Management Office for the Real Estate division of a major oil & gas company. The portfolio of projects consisted of all real estate transactions and projects in Canada.
Education:
2002-2004 University of Phoenix, Albuquerque, NM - Master of Business Administration
1991-1992, 1995-1997 Boise State University, Boise, ID - Bachelor of Science in Construction Management
Accountability in leading, coordinating, and directing the Project Services Team, which provides a range of project controls & services: Risk Management, Planning & Scheduling, Estimating, Cost Engineering, Project Accounting, Information Management (data & document control), Management of Change, Project Reporting, and Admin Support. Project Spans span the complete EPC lifecycle, Project execution and commissioning.
Civil Engineer Technologist with 20+ years international professional work experience in large –scale projects Nuclear & Oil , in all phases from design, procurement, fabrication, construction, commissioning to operation and outages; specialized on Planning/Scheduling, Project Monitoring & Reporting, Cost Control, Risks; with excellent knowledge of project management techniques (e.g.
I am AACEI certified Planning and Scheduling Professional (PSP) and Earned Value Professional (EVP) with 16 years of experiences on project management and control. My expertise is focused on planning and scheduling and using earned values techniques for progress monitoring and reporting. I accumulated extensive knowledge on estimating, cost control, change management and risk analysis, which give me advantages of facilitating project data flow and making process improvement across functional areas.
• Developed integrated schedules using Primavera for smal projects and their different stages
• Interfaced the schedule with the project budget and resource load it with labor and material resources based on the project approved budget hours and quantity.
• Liaise with management team to ensure all project tasks are identified and resource needs are properly estimated for the project.
• Updated project schedule, monitor actual progress and compare the updates with the baseline and report progress against schedule in the proper format.
Michael is a Primavera P6 educator working with companies large and small. He's also a trainer, instructional designer, and is pretty good at flying remote controlled helicopters. He writes tutorials because he loves to teach and is pretty keen on technology. He also holds a Project Management Professional cerfication from PMI.org.