27 years experience primarily in oil & gas EPC/EPCM proposals generation, project controls, project engineering and management.
Posted on: 2008-04-05 (Expires 6 month(s) from date posted)

PROFILE SUMMARY:
27 years experience primarily in oil & gas EPC/EPCM proposals generation, project controls, project engineering and management.
Proposals generation responsibility includes Project Initiation, risk identification and management, generate techno-commercial proposal. On award support the project team in establishing baseline scope, schedule and cost.
Project Controls responsibility includes managing cost, schedule and risk. Forecast to complete, earned value analysis, monitoring, update schedule by fast tracking/crashing, change management, performance measurement, Contingency control & rundown. Generate Project Executive report.
Project engineering and management responsibility includes managing multi-discipline and multi-functional team in successfully delivering project meeting client HSE, Schedule, Budget and Quality Targets.

CAREER OBJECTIVE:
Seeking opportunities with global leaders or operating oil & Gas Company to manage EPC projects were multi-skills is essence to job success.

EDUCATION:
MBA in Project Management (April03 to Oct04) from Jones International University Englewood, CO 80112, U.S.A. Online degree accredited by the United States regional accreditation agency. GPA: 4.00, Credit Hours: 42.
B Sc in Mechanical Engineering (Dec79) from Birla Institute of Technology, India, First Class
Registered with APEEGA as P.ENG

CERTIFICATIONS:
PMP certification from PMI (Validity: 2008)
CCE certification from AACE (Validity: 2009)
Manager of Quality/Organizational Excellence certification from ASQ (Validity: 2010)
IRCA certifications Quality Systems: Lead Auditor ISO 9001:2000 in year02 & Internal Auditor ISO 9002:1994 in year98.

WORK HISTORY:
24 Sept 07 Present
Worley Parsons MEG, Calgary - Canada.
Project Controls Manager
Oversee Project controls team in,
Preparation and issuing detailed cost reports to reflect committed, incurred, expended and forecasted project costs.
Developing and maintaining all levels of schedules which include preparing project schedules with consideration to dependencies, durations etc. and updating status of project schedules.
Identify and process deviations from project baselines including recommendations for corrective courses of action.
Maintain the established project reporting program and prepare monthly progress, schedule and cost status reports.
Communicate regularly with engineering, procurement, contracts administration, and construction to understand the true status on projects and reflect findings in cost reports and schedules.
Validates estimates through risk reviews, management reviews, and past performance.

28 Nov 2005 22 Sept 07.
Jacobs Canada, Calgary - Canada.
Sr. Project Engineer
Responsibilities include Flow sheet/P&ID development by coordinating multi-disciplinary activities to ensure plant philosophies and design Safety Reviews are incorporated maintaining quality control & consistency. HAZOPs - Review and close the recommended actions from the HAZOP. 3D-Model Review to ensure cost effectiveness in design and Safety, Operability, Accessibility, Maintainability and Constructability. Review the vendor engineering deliverables for major items (Exchangers, Heaters, Towers, and Pumps). Develop project plan to determine the types of deliverables that the Project department was responsible for creating and issuing on the project. Also responsible for the change management process to ensure that changes affecting project scope, cost or schedule were properly communicated, coordinated, and evaluated. Provided estimates for Change Notices and Change Requests, input to planning and scheduling. Preparation of Mechanical subcontract scope package and its sub work packages Engineering and Construction work packages.

Projects:
B.A. Energy, Heartland Upgrader Project $1 Billion Heartland Up grader Project - Confidential new technology oil sand project.

05 May 1988 13 Nov 2005
Medgulf Construction Company (W.L.L.), Qatar.
Proposals Manager (5 yrs) Project Manager/Controls (11 yrs) & Project Engineer (2 yrs).
Proposal Manager responsibilities for project Initiation, risk identification and management, developed techno-commercial proposal WBS linking to CBS, RBS to establish control account points, cost & duration estimates, Establishing Allowances, Contingency & Management reserve, successful negotiating contract awards. On award transfer of documents to support project management in establishing scope, schedule & cost baselines.
Project Manager Responsibilities - Ensures project execution is to client's satisfaction consistent with HSE, cost, schedule and contractual requirements. Assures the project execution is in accordance with policies, procedures, systems, and requirements approved by the company. Defines precise scope of work and identify changes between the original proposal and final contractual agreement. Leads the project management team and is responsible for the successful completion of the project
Project Controls Responsibilities - Provides leadership for multiple aspects of controls including cost, planning/scheduling, estimating, quantity surveying personnel assigned to the project team. Develop strategy for team member personnel development. Project tracking by using EVA combining Engineering deliverables MH cost with Procurement cost & Construction cost Equipment, and various methods of measuring work progress on site, monitoring, update schedule by fast tracking/crashing, cost forecast & control, change management, performance measurement, Contingency control & rundown, generating Project Executive report. Also responsible for Data/Document management, vendor/subcontract Develop Requisition budget, RFQ Packages, Techno-Commercial evaluation of Bids.
Other experience includes leading Ad-hoc/Temporary teams to enable organization QMS accreditation ISO9000.

Projects:
Lump sum type EPC multi disciplinary oil & gas Projects new, expansion & revamps, Cross-country Pipelines, Turn-around Shutdowns etc. Project range $5 to $50 million. Customer state Oil & Gas Corporation Qatar Petroleum.
Details of past projects handled can be provided (if required).

January 1987 - October 1987
Consolidated Contractors Intl. Company, Yemen.
Project Engineer.
Responsible for preparation detailed BOQ, isometric, fabrication drawings from general arrangement drawings. Upon completing assignment led project team in installation & commissioning pumping station comprising booster pumps, power generation unit, and fire fighting system, scrapper traps.

Projects:
Refinery project scope comprising 32 1000km pipeline, CPU, C5 Recovery unit, 2 pumping station, 3 PR station.
Customer Yemen Hunt Oil Company

March 1984 - September 1986
Al-Mutlaq Mace S.A. Ltd, Saudi Arabia.
Project Engineer.
Responsible for successful completion of oil & gas projects $1 to $10 million.
Customer state owned Oil & Gas Corporation Aramco.
Also for 1 year seconded as inspection engineer to monitor installation of waste treatment project comprising slop oil storage tanks, incinerators, loading arms at Jeddah seaport. Customer Saudi Korean ship building company.

December 1982 - November 1983
Bedrock, Oman.
Site in Charge Mechanical.
Responsible for Mechanical execution of 32.5MW power plant comprising five 6.5MW Deutz engines. Customer Klockner Humboldt Deutz/Ministry of electricity.

May 1981 - September 1982
Riva & Mariani (S.P.A) UAE.
Mechanical Engineer.
Responsible for supervising Insulation fabrication, erection and scaffolding works. Projects handled ADNOC refinery & Chiyoda fertilizer in Abu Dhabi, UAE and Jubail desalination plant in Saudi Arabia.
In Italy job training for 6-month at Enel power plant (Rovigo) & Stanic refinery (Livorno) projects.

January 1980 - May 1981
Devidayal Electronics & Wires Ltd, India.
Project development Engineer.
Responsible installing wire drawing machines, extrusion machines, enameling plants & galvanizing plants in companys expansion plan.

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Contact:

Ravinder K Rao PEng CCE
E-Mail: rarao7@yahoo.com


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