planning

Responsible for planning and project controls of Civil works, leading a team of 12 planners.

$2.5bn Gautrain Project, Johannesburg, South Africa.

New suburban railway and rolling stock, comprising 80km dedicated track and 11 new stations.

Planning, Scheduling, and Control.

Progress Reports, Time Claims, Cost Control.

Time Impact Analysis, Revised Scheduling.

Experience and the majority of types of construction project, including: Residential, Commercial (Office Blocks), Retai (individual units and 'live' Shopping Centres, Multi-storey Car Parks, a new build Opera House, a PGA standard 18-hole Golf Course and facilities, a District Cooling Plant, Marinas (both built in the 'wet' and 'dry', Hospitals. laboratory facilities, a Convention Centre, Infrastructure services, Reads and Motorways and Bridges

delay analysis and claims planning and scheduling engineer in MEP construction company

Over 14 years of rich, qualitative and in depth experience in Construction Planning & Management, Site Construction, Resource Planning, Contracts Management, etc. Currently working with Techno Engineering & Associates Middle East WLL, Muscat, Oman as Senior Planning Engineer. Applying project management knowledge, technical and interpersonal skills and project management tools and techniques to meet the requirements of large to medium projects.

• • • Provide strong leadership to planning engineers, schedulers and cost engineers to plan, monitor, and control the execution of the project within the time and budgetary parameters, optimizing resource utilization.
    • Develop systems and procedures for Project control functions on the onset of the project and as and when there are additional requirements from the client in order to facilitate the process of monitoring progress.
    • Plan and schedule the project by developing a project master schedule in line with the proposal requirements through the application

1975 to 1995      
GEC Marconi                                              
Defense and Commercial Products
Career progression as follows: -
1989-1995 Employed by GEC Marconi S3I (Simulation & Training) as the programme controller for the Support Operations Division.

1987-89 Senior Commercial Officer responsible to the co

1996 to 1999     
Ultra Electronics Command and Control Systems                          
Defense and Commercial Products
Programme manager/Planning Manager.
Career started as Project Planner, after 5 months promoted to Programme Manager for the Submarine Command & Control Division, after further 18 months promoted to Planning Manager.

Feb 2001 to Oct 2003:-
Motorola – Planner – coordinator     
IT/Telecommunications
Joined Motorola on 19th February 2001 to work in Program Management Office implementing an Enterprise Project Management System (Primavera TeamPlay/P3e) in the UK. SME (subject matter expert), System Super User, Application Administrator and approved trainer for the EPMS covering Europe, Middle East and Africa.

Employed in IT department to review and maintain Development and Mobilization schedules for an MoD joint venture programme for national property maintenance. Also reviewed schedule and data integrity and provided recommendations on methodology improvements. Designed bespoke layouts and reports for management. Produced process for transfer of schedule data to other companies within the joint venture.