Guild of Project Controls: Compendium | Roles | Assessment | Certifications | Membership

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Construction Project Mgt. Engineer, Colonial Mechanical, Commercial, Institutional and Educational

START Date: 
February, 2000
END Date: 
May, 2002

Project Engineer for mechanical contractor.

Assisted Senior Project Manager in construction or renovation of commercial and educational facilities within Plumbing/Piping/HVAC disciplines. Performed material take-offs, estimated, prepared and submitted the change orders; prepared permit applications and coordinated with AHJ; acted as Company representative at progress and coordination meetings and reviewed, generated and processed submittals & RFIs.

Experience Hours (Planning & Scheduling): 
2000
Experience Hours (Cost Management): 
1000
Experience Hours (Forensic Analysis): 
1000

Maintenance Planner, Infineon Technologies - Qimonda NA, Semi-Conductor Wafer manufacturing facility

START Date: 
May, 2002
END Date: 
January, 2009

Fire Protection and Mechanical Maintenance and Repair Planner. Create, verify & implement fire protection preventative maintenance (PM) procedures in SAP PM Maintenance Module. Create and attach detailed Maintenance Task Lists for each PM utilizing manufacturer instructions, NFPA code and observance of actual testing and maintenance. Included photos and diagrams as needed.

Experience Hours (Planning & Scheduling): 
13000
Experience Hours (Cost Management): 
1000

Lead Capital Estimator, AdvanSix; formerly Honeywell's Resins &Chemical Division, Capital Engineering projects - 90MM AOP

START Date: 
November, 2012
END Date: 
November, 2019

Estimator/Project Cost Control for USA Chemical facilities, East Coast & Texas.

Estimating Manager,AdvanSix (Corporate Employee) starting July 2017.  Capital Engineering department direct hired contractor employees. see below estimating postion for description.

Experience Hours (Planning & Scheduling): 
750
Experience Hours (Cost Management): 
12400
Experience Hours (Forensic Analysis): 
1450

Project Controls Engineer, ECC International, Kyrgyzstan New Embassy Building Construction

START Date: 
October, 2011
END Date: 
February, 2012

Project controls engineer $106M US State Department OBO Kyrgyzstan New Embassy Building Construction

§  Secret Clearance from US State Department

§  Create P6 Project Project Execution Schedule; Import P3 planning file and create activity coded, resource- and cost-loaded CPM Baseline and  PES fully compliant with OBO standards and CM needs

§  Detailed fragnets for special subcontractor mgmt & subcontractor inclusions analysis and integration

Experience Hours (Planning & Scheduling): 
600
Experience Hours (Cost Management): 
250
Experience Hours (Forensic Analysis): 
100

Claims Analyst, CT Summation Case Management Database, Senior Construction Consultant, TDF, LLC, Washington Metro Area Transit Authority Orange Line Extension Claim

START Date: 
April, 2007
END Date: 
October, 2007

Construction Consultant, P5 As-built scheduler for defense $30M litigation of $200M WMATA project; CT Summation software

§  25,000 activities scheduled from inspection dailies into as-built

§  Develop codes and filters, code activities 8 ways, global code changes for improved as-built analysis

§  Review business processes, spec and 300K image project record for claim analysis

§  First draft of report summarily ended claim, adjudication lower than owner’s initial offer

Experience Hours (Planning & Scheduling): 
800
Experience Hours (Cost Management): 
0
Experience Hours (Forensic Analysis): 
500

Manager, Moy Yat Kung Fu, Seminars

START Date: 
January, 2005
END Date: 
November, 2011
Developed and Implemented marketing strategies to grow business by researching &    recognizing market trends such as; flier campaigns (designing and developing fliers) where we    distributed fliers to residential areas as well as commercial, demos in various schools,    community centers, and conventions.
Experience Hours (Planning & Scheduling): 
950
Experience Hours (Cost Management): 
300

Manager, Enterprise Rent-A-Car, Renovation

START Date: 
October, 2011
END Date: 
October, 2013

Running Enterprise Airport rental branch. Effectively implementing all employee developement plans and programs.  Training new hires how to use the operating system and follow the Enterprise business model. Organizing fleet operation by tracking incoming and out going vehicles, working with other branches/brands (i.e. National and Alamo) to acquire more vehicles when needed and assisting other branches/brands by giving up vehicles as needed.

Experience Hours (Planning & Scheduling): 
300
Experience Hours (Cost Management): 
150
Experience Hours (Forensic Analysis): 
200

Scheduler, Penalosa Consulting, consulting

START Date: 
October, 2013
END Date: 
January, 2015
Providing Professional Scheduling Services for companies in Construction, Oil & Gas, and Nuclear industries around the world.  Using Primavera P6 to plan, design, and build schedules using the CRITICAL PATH METHODOLOGY for all industries to ensure timeliness on completion of projects and milestones.   Ran 30+ projects ranging from seminars, weekend workshops, and strategic operational projects for Enterprise Rent-a-Car.
Experience Hours (Planning & Scheduling): 
200
Experience Hours (Cost Management): 
50
Experience Hours (Forensic Analysis): 
200

Estimator, 84 Lumber, Residential Construction Project

START Date: 
July, 2015
END Date: 
January, 2016
Performing estimates/take offs for residential houses, apartments, condos, as well as renovations. Trained at 84 Lumber’s “Lumber Camp” on how to do take offs and read blue prints.  Took responsibilities in running operations, logistics, sales, and managing staff at store with a budget of $11 million.  Performed job site visits to meet with contractors and subcontractors to organize meetings and schedule delivery times.  Discussed with vendors pricing, organized delivery schedule.  Organized delivery drivers and loads and helped with managing yard staff.
Experience Hours (Planning & Scheduling): 
150
Experience Hours (Cost Management): 
100
Experience Hours (Forensic Analysis): 
50

Zoltan Palffy

First Name: 
Zoltan
Last Name: 
Palffy

Zoltan is an experienced Scheduling Expert with previous roles in the Design, Construction, Heavy Engineering, Electrical, IT, Energy, Aviation and Transit sectors.

Responsible for overall Planning and Scheduling of various large projects in the USA and internationaly

He has created and implemented standardized Work Breakdown Structures to be used on all projects and has successfully transitioned from using Primavera P3 to Primavera P6 for both client and web based scheduling applications.

Professional Since: 
Jan-1978 (46.3 yrs experience)
Oldest experience: 
Jan 1978 (46.3 yrs experience)
Years Experience: 
39
Guild Accreditation: 
GPC Member
Fellow of Planning & Scheduling
GPC Member Since: 
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