MOST RECENT WORK EXPERIENCE
Oct 2006 – Dec 2006: Project contols officer for Metronet – Construction team – London underground Station upgrade project
During this last period with Metronet I was tasked with the restructuring of the “Project Controls and Reporting Procedures” for the Construction management team of the London Underground Station upgrade project with METRONET in London - whilst continuing project planning duties on all the projects allocated to me.
Responsibilities included:
- To create a simple and user friendly Progress Reporting System between the design team; construction team, QS, commercial managers and project managers for regular period reporting to director’s level by:
- Identifying current report back processes and duplication in reports
- Eliminate and reinstate minimal report back documents in Excel.
- Create easy numbering and reference system for all to identify with.
- Simplify methods for report back on all levels and create user friendly manual
- Re-arrange information and create links with intelligent excel programming between the different reports to collate and collectively compile neat reports for monthly report back sessions.
- Create & Implement user friendly links between Excel reports for management - downloaded from project planning software (Prima Vera (P3) or MS project).
Feb 2006 – Sep 2006: Project Planner for Metronet – Construction team - London Underground Station Upgrade Project - UK
Project Planner on the construction side for the modernisation / refurbishment of 9 London Underground Station buildings and tunnel infrastructure, of which current live projects are Putney Bridge, Ravenscourt Park Station, Chiswick Park and Preston Road with their combined construction value circa £20m Sterling.
Use of P3e, P3 and Excel software to prepare and control individual station construction programs by producing 4-weekly:
- site progress S-Curves
- updated programs which are cost and resource loaded
- program look-ahead
- critical path Programs
- 2-week look-ahead by discipline for discipline activity foreword planning
- assurance reports namely fire safety, HSQE, Heritage and any other Client approval documentation
- summary construction reports with forecast completion dates and summaries of issues
- period performance reports (PPR)
Feb 2003 – Jan 2006: Senior Project Planner for the Station Design TEAM on the Metronet: London Underground Station Upgrade Project - UK
Appointed as BCV (Bakerloo/Central/Victoria) underground tube line Senior Project Planning Engineer with the ASDT (Atkins Stations Design Team). Started as part of the original team of 13 members on the project; team size increased to ± 230 staff on the Atkins Station Design Team within 18 months. Responsible for reporting, predicting and forecasting progress and completion of half the project’s design projects.
Responsibilities:
- Initial build-up of P3 (Prima-Vera) station design programs for BCV (Deep & Old Tube lines) & SSL (Subsurface Tube Lines) stations;
- Managed the master-plan P3 project Program with sub-projects based on RIBA (Royal Institute of British Architects) Stage design phases;
- 26 updates - 13 Periods per year; progress reporting every 2 weeks for each station;
- Issued 4-weekly scheduled Programs to Client;
- At project peak I maintained 22 individual station design programs;
- Developed a bespoke progress monitoring system which gathered and reported progress against budget hours, actual and earned hours as defined by discipline and per RIBA stage;
- Monitored performance in terms of % completion per design stage;
- Implement change control and show results on KPI charts;
- Issue summary reports with forecast completion dates and any design issues for all BCV stations to Core Management.
- Later produced detailed programs in MS Project to allow stakeholder interaction;
- Issued scheduled P3 and/or MS Project Summary Programs to Client;
- Issued “dashboard” tools per station containing s-curve, histograms and productivity charts for Core Design Management team;
- Issued Progress Summary Reports in Excel with design narratives and issues of importance;
- Produced and Update Change Control Register and records of implementation of changes into programs.