BACKGROUND & EXPERTISE
§ Expert User of PRIMAVERA P3, 3e/c, P5, P6 and MS Project
§ Critical Path Method (CPM) planning technique
§ Earned Value Management methodology
§ Professional Project Reporting (Milestone / Earned Value)
§ Strong Multidisciplinary Rail background (Engineering, Procurement and Installation/ Construction)
§ Software: MS Office, Microsoft Project and Primavera P6
EXPERIENCE
MG jv (Southern Water) Jun 2015 – Present Senior Planning Consultant Projects: Clean Water and Waste Water projects comprising of tender and live projects.
Responsible for managing, planning and updating schedules and costs. This involved managing the planning team, ensuring integrity of data and up-to-date project control information was available and appropriate to the needs of the business. This included governance of project schedules in Primavera P6, and ensuring that monthly Cost, Time and Output reporting was completed in an accurate and timely fashion.
Colas Rail Limited Oct 2014 – Jun 2015 Senior Planning Consultant Projects: IP SNE OLE Framework (CP5) 14 Wire-Runs + Structure Design IP-SNE Plant & Distribution Framework South Kirkby & Westgate Signalling Renewals Wessex RCM installation and Ti21 analogue to digital conversion
As a Senior Planning Consultant within COLAS Rail Systems, I was predominantly working as a tender planner for Signalling & Electrification projects. Works included for the provision of new structures, civil works, modification /refurbishment of existing connection /alteration of isolators, feeder cables, TPWS, AWS, IBJs & 650v Power supply, Track circuits & Remote control Monitors (RCM)
SIMS Rail Limited Jun 2014 – Oct 2014 Lead Planner Projects: LOCIP (London Overground Capacity Improvement Programme) LOCIP will upgrade all Class 378 Units to a 5-car configuration. The LOCIP upgrade will require a number of infrastructure changes to depots and stabling, stations, signalling and electrification on the East London Line and North London Line.
As a Lead Planner within SIMS, I was predominantly working on the signalling installation & commissioning using Primavera P6 Version 8.2.
Key Responsibilities: • Development/ Maintenance & monitoring multidisciplinary project programme • Baseline management • Periodic Reporting to client – London Overground • Progress & financial reporting • Monitoring of Key Programme Milestones & Programme Scope Changes • Risk Analysis / Pertmaster (QSRA) • Provide Planning support throughout Test/Commissioning/Changeover • Close liaison with client
VVB Engineering Nov 2013 – Jun 2014 Lead Planner Project: Crossrail - (C405) Paddington Project - VVB/Skanska Rashleigh Weatherfoil JV (MEP)
Responsible for producing, updating and monitoring the main project programme in Primavera Ver 8.2 complete with all documentation, contract milestones and key-dates, labour and logic linked, together with accompanying narrative, and reports on critical path. The programme was broken out in a Work Breakdown Structure, reflecting the phases of work, i.e. design, procurement, construction/installation, test & commissioning and handover. The programme was also typically loaded with both labour and materials, as tendered. Update of M&E Works in the 4 Weekly Look-ahead programme with Primavera and occasionally Excel. Updating Percentage Complete, forecasting completion dates, updating data dates, and labour loading and levelling. By tracking instructions from clients from time of issue to completion, construct, monitor, progress and report on other programmes as necessary using Primavera P6 or, if required, Excel. Where necessary record Early Warnings and the impact on the programme.
Attend and report in the weekly Team Progress Meetings, weekly coordinated planning meetings between various contractors on projects, like Skanska, Costain and Byrnes Bros. Working within the NEC contracts delivering programmes with Compensation Event Notices, identifying approved, pending or disallowed CE’s. Cost incurred, with or without lead times and where applicable with programme impact.
Bombardier Jan 2013 – Nov 2013 Senior Planner Project: ATC Project – Value £400m NEC Contract Upgrade of the London Underground's SIGNALLING system on the Hammersmith & City, Metropolitan, District and Circle lines. I produced plans for the Design, Procurement, Installation, Testing and Commissioning. The programme contained over 18,000 activities.
Key responsibilities:
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Network Rail
Oct 2011 – Jan 2013
Project Planner
Project:
Great Eastern OLE Renewals Project.) - Value £132m
Construction and installation of OLE structures and wire renewals. The Project is to deliver renewals and replacement of the present fixed termination 25kV OLE with high reliability, low maintenance, auto tensioned equipment on the Great Eastern route between Liverpool Street Station and Chelmsford and between Shenfield and Southend Victoria. The works shall include for the provision of new structures and/or modification/refurbishment of existing ones, connection and/or alteration of isolators, feeder cables, return conductors
Key responsibilities:
• Create, update, analyze, monitor & control, period submission of project programme schedule
• Key member of the track and station possessions.
• Maintaining P3e programmes for Earned Value monitoring
• Putting an hour by hour plan together for risk analysis (QSRA)
• Effective working relations with people at all levels across the organization and outside
• Liaise with project team to ensure programme & sub programmes are aligned and coordinated.
• Interrogating the contractor programme schedules and claims
• Preparing and monitoring possessions programme
• Review& issue critical activities and escalate any risks to line manager.
• Preparing two weeks look-ahead plans, weekly progress reports and preparing period reports.
• Daily site walk around, monitoring and checking shift report plans.
• Managing multiple stations projects / interfaced projects
• Standing-in to cover projects during Planner absence / recruitment gaps.
• Create, monitor and update programme for multi discipline engineering
• Prepared time schedule for daily, weekly and monthly progress and review the overall progress on by yearly basis.
• Responsible for generating and managing cost and resources loaded project schedules.
• Generating monthly progress report
• Prepared technical package for tendering.
• Arranging meetings with sub-contractors and client.
• Prepared Resources & Cost loaded detailed and high-level Programmes in Primavera / Excel
• Monitored and implemented critical activities and risk regularly.
• Visiting sites and updating progress.
Resolving “bottle-necks” through daily/ weekly progress review & co-ordination meetings held with site teams and main sub-contractors.
Tubelines - London Underground
Sept 2005 – Jun 2011
Project Planner
Projects:
LU Stations Modernisation - Value £98m
• Waterloo Station
• Clapham North – South Wimbledon (7 Stations)
Refurbishment of Stations Assets (Civils, premises, M&E, Comms and Cables & Fire system & CCTV), Platforms Nosing Stones, Platforms Tactiles, and Stations Wide Aisle Gates works.
PFI Interface Planning engineer - Value 54m
• Connect
• Prestige
To ensure best possible alignment between LUL PFI Contractor programmes and Tube Lines station programmes with regard to PFI (Connect & Prestige) works at Tube Lines stations
COMMS Core Planner - Value 34m
As a COMMS core planner, maintaining the installation programme for LLPA, CCTV, Clocks, and THIDS & VIDS. I am responsible for planning and scheduling for the entire Enhance (Contractor) activities in all stations.
Feed Planner – Value 80m
Developing cost and resource loaded programmes for station upgrade and modernisation from the scoping stage till the detail designing and making sure the programme drives the project.
Tube Lines Limited (JLEP)
Jan 1999 - Sep 2005
Document Engineer
To ensure document controllers are working against the timescale to complete the task they are given. and making aware any of all the update by the projects and corporate. Documents are handed over by the contractors in accordance with the JLEP Regulatory, Technical and corporate requirements. To ensure that all information is issued to the technical contractors in accordance with the programme and to identify all outstanding information required by the technical contractors to be supplied by JLE or any other party. Making sure all re-submitted documents are being reviewed as per the timescale. Making sure all staff perform as required. Maintain the level of resources for the project and ensure timely production of the above.
Brown & Root Halliburton Oil and Gas Ltd UK.
Oct 1995 – Jan 1999
Assistant Mechanical Package Engineer
Project:
Obaiyed Field Development (Cairo)
Worked on many mechanical packages including compressors, inert gas generator &heat exchangers.
PERSONAL DETAILS
Date of Birth : 24th Sep 1963 Sex : Male
Nationality : British Ethnicity : Asian - Srilankan
Marital Status : Married
Driving license : UK Full (car)
Personal References : Available on request
Contact Number : 07702 404 531