PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
20+ years of experience worldwide in oil & gas industry project management (heavy oil, LNG, deep offshore). Independent consultant since 2000, I work effectively and with high autonomy in various team settings, in long term advisory managerial roles. I leverage proven, lean approaches to large CAPEX project management, scheduling and risk management for tight steering and effective decision making
2011-2019: Member of the project direction team – Head of scheduling
Kaombo FPSO project – TOTAL SA, Paris, Singapore, Angola
- Accountable for the global project schedule and progress management from conception/FEED to production, all business and technical entities including geosciences, drilling, subsea (AKER, TECHNIP FMC, HEEREMA) to FPSO (SAIPEM) and operations
- In particular, responsible for 1. Setup of contracting structures, interface schedules, KPIs and forecasting 2. Follow-up of legal aspects and third party independent expert delay assessments, 3. De-risking culture with implementation of qualitative and quantitative risk assessments
- Coordinated the worldwide team of 500+ pax to maintain deadlines and initiated schedule mitigations vs. cost expenditures (CAPEX/OPEX). Negotiated with the 4 main lump sum contractors on execution slippages and accelerations. Worldwide: 10 main sites, 10,000+ workers
- $18G EPC deep offshore project
2006-2011: Project controls leader – Yemen LNG project – TOTAL SA, Paris, Yemen
- Management expertise in cost, schedule, and risk monitoring from contract award to production
- Close-out: finalization of accounts closure, contracts settlements
- $4G EPC LNG project
1996-2006: PMO project management consultant – Analytical Management Solutions
- Based in various locations: USA, Canada, Georgia, India, Trinidad, UK and France
- Consultancy in oil & gas project management focusing on scheduling and risk management
- 2000-2003: Long term assignment as project controls leader – EXXON SYNCRUDE oil sands UE-1 – Calgary, Canada. Supervised team of 15 project controls pax. $7G Reimbursable heavy oil project
- Main projects : ALNG Train 4 ; BP BTC pipeline, Thunderhorse , Crown Landing LNG FEED; CHEVRON Baja LNG, Agbami, Tahiti, Olokola ; EXXONMOBIL Hibernia ; PETROCANADA TerraNova ; SHELL Athabasca ; WHESSOE Dragon LNG
EDUCATION
Masters of Business in Project Management– 1996 – University of North Carolina, USA
Masters of Mechanical Engineering – 1995 – Ecole Supérieure des Sciences et Technologies de l’Ingénieur de Nancy (ESSTIN), France
OTHERS
Usual project controls packages: Project, Primavera P6, Primavera Risk, @Risk
Bilingual French-English, basic German
Others: offshore certification BOSIET