Lead Project Controls Manager, Faithful and Gould (Atkins Group), Several national and international projects

PROGRESSIVE   PROFESSIONAL   EXPERIENCE

Overall Description: 
Provide Project Controls Management services for multiple large oil & gas engineering & construction projects for several clients in California ($135+Mil.) 
Projects: Refinery capacity expansions and upgrades, refinery air reliability systems, pumps, compressors, oilfield pipelines, Air Force Base pipeline & fuel tanks, and diverse oil & gas facilities and buildings. 
• Provide guidance, direction and specialized assistance to project managers and top mgt. for the resolution of difficult and complex planning and project controls problems.
• Interface with clients, attend regular meetings, and elaborate managerial reports.
• Review and analyse project performance and assists project management in understanding and communicating financial issues and performance,
• Support business development efforts by participating in the proposal effort by providing financial & commercial inputs and making presentations, as necessary.
• Interface with other groups inside and outside the organization, senior management, third-parties and clients.
• Mentor and supervise Project Controls and Document Controls personnel,
• Project Planning, Budgeting and Forecasting,
• Full Cost Management (including Earned Value Management - EVM),
• Full Scheduling in Primavera P6 & P5 and MS Project 2003 and 2007.
• Project Change Management, Project Controls policies, procedures, guidelines, forms and standards,
• Weekly progress status reports, monthly operational reports, project reviews, start-ups, close-outs,
• Margin analysis, labor and non-labor corrections, strong interaction with engineering leads, etc.
• Oversee the development of integrated management Project Control Systems (like the Budgetary & Cash Management Report, Project Review Report, Project Completion Report, etc.) including databases, software and hardware requirements.
• Oversees the development and maintenance of established systems to show the hierarchy of plans and schedules; keeps project and company management fully informed.

Details of such responsibilities include:
In Costing:
• Collect, analyze and report actual manpower. Elaborate Managerial Reports over Budget, Costs, Change Mgt., Revenue, Project Status (PSR), Performance Variations (CPI/SPI), Risk Analysis & Mitigation Plan, Productivity, Earned Value Mgt., Forecasts (ETC/EAC), Financial Margin/Cash Mgt., Milestones, Operational Reviews (OPR), Final Review, Trends, Charts and Presentations.. Use Expedition (Contract Mgr.) to control data. 
• Prepare graphs, diagrams and other exhibits to illustrate Cost and Performance Current Status Forecasts for Project Management and clients.
• Elaborate Pro-Services estimate packages, budgets, start-up & close-out packages in accordance with prescribed standards and procedures in order to perform Cost Controlling and Master Scheduling.
• Prepare Change Orders and Labor Corrections as required.

In Scheduling: 
• Develop and maintain Integrated Master Plans (IMP) and Integrated Master Schedules (IMS). This includes best practices, server configuration, control systems advising, OBS/CBS/WBS dictionaries, user permissions, add-ons, templates, criteria, policies, road-maps, procedures, guidelines, resource loading, costing, leveling and updating, Resource Planning, Change Mgt., Progress Updating, EV, CPM/Float Analysis to detect issues and risks, What-if Scenarios, Risk Analysis & Mitigation Plan, Trends, Charts, Conversions, etc.
• Demonstrate schedule integrity to both internal and external customers.
• Work closely with the program management office and functional organizations, and provide independent schedule assessment as they work with the team in development of IMS/IMPs and proposals.
• Establish baseline schedules, task networking, workaround schedules, schedule status, performance tracking, trends, and critical path reporting and analysis.
• Compile, analyze and proactively challenge Schedule Progress Status updates from project leads after incorporating approved changes.
• Create baselines, incorporate all resource, cost and priority changes, compile resource planning, evaluate EV Performance, data analysis, trending and operational and financial reporting.
• Analyze and proactively challenge schedule status inputs recommending eventual work-arounds to project leads. 
• Provide composite work schedules quarterly and monthly across multiple projects.
• Integrate financial data into project schedule.

Projects: Refinery capacity expansions and pipelines.
• Multiple project controls management for large ($240+Mil.) projects. 
• Project scheduling in Primavera (P5).
• Project cost engineering, value engineering (EVM), project budgeting and forecasting, trend analysis and forecasts, labor and non-labor corrections, margin analysis, project setup and maintenance in JPCS.
• Monthly operational project review reports, monthly and bi-weekly cost reports, project change management, strong interaction with engineering leads, etc.

Alutiiq LLC [29] is a middle-sized project management corporation (general contractor), subsidiary of the Afognak corporation. Projects included diverse control, systems and security facilities and office buildings ($133MM total). DoD clients included Fort Bragg, Fort Lee, Fort Drum, Holloman Air Force Base, Garrison Aberdeen Proving Grounds, Aberdeen BL-2 Lab, etc.
Address:  3033 Parker Road, #1111, Aurora, CO 80014, USA

Performed project oversight, scheduling and controls of regional projects with both Primavera 3.1/5 and MS Project.
Projects: DoD projects included diverse control, systems and security facilities and office buildings ($113Mil. total).
• Provided in-depth project insight with trend analysis and forecasts.
• Did project scheduling, costing, value engineering (EVM), invoicing, budgeting, RFP estimates.
• Interfaced with design and engineering groups.
• Field assistance trips to implement/configure/check Project Controls systems and reports, ad-hoc analyses.

Self-employed. Rendered consulting to medium-sized companies, multinationals and industries, working both alone and sometimes under the names of micro-companies (with partners), such as Midsol and LC Consultoria. Clients included TNAX Tecnologia [35], PS Contax [36], Hidromania [37], 1001 Madeiras [38] and others.
Address: Rua das Laranjeiras 115, #304, Rio de Janeiro, RJ, 22240

Directed business management, providing consulting services to medium-sized companies, multinationals and industries. Managed staff, marketing, financial planning, bookkeeping and payroll. Supervision of subcontractors.
Projects: Diverse small corporate projects in Strategic Planning, Bus. Analysis, Process Improvement, Change Mgt., Systems and Marketing Planning.
• Spearheaded strategic plans and tactics, project and program planning, structure, budgeting, scheduling & logistics.
• Analyzed potential business opportunities, assessed and improved organizational performance, overall efficiency, readiness, productivity, competitiveness and processes. Did change management, recommending optimal approach and change management program.
• Analyzed business processes, making optimization proposals, including structural reorganization, infrastructure redesign and alignment with objectives, new processes, and systems design, development and testing.
• Managed projects, process improvement and production optimization programs, marketing plans.
• Expanded market share and gross margin (140%) for a software/hardware reseller, improved productivity, processes and competitiveness of several companies, cut costs, did O&M, started-up an international law office.
• Sub-contractor management.
• Acted as teacher in night management courses at Fundação Getúlio Vargas University, RJ for 1.5 years.

Braspetro was founded in 1972 as the international subsidiary of Petrobrás - Petróleo Brasileiro SA [41], the semi-public Brazilian oil, gas & energy corporation (51% state, world's 5th largest oil, gas & energy corp.). It was in charge of Petrobrás global affairs with offices and operations in all continents. It had several international subsidiaries and offices worldwide. In 2000 it was merged with Petrobrás [42], mainly as its International and Gaspetro Areas. In Oct 2009 it was re-opened as  [43]"Petrobrás Internacional Braspetro BV" in the Netherlands to decrease taxes. Had several level promotions and positions (functions) held in the "Administrative Line" (official title).
Address: Rua General Canabarro 500, Rio de Janeiro, RJ, 22271-200

Braspetro was the international subsidiary of Petrobrás - Petróleo Brasileiro SA [41]

Address: Rua General Canabarro 500, Rio de Janeiro, RJ, 22271-200

Acted as Director's key aide by detecting and solving management problems. Boosted operational efficiency and controlled risk. 
Projects: Diverse E&P corporate oil & gas projects including offshore/onshore field surveys, floating platforms, rigs, production systems, pipelines, flexible drilling pipe plant, storage tanks, etc.
• Actively participated in the implementation of the Strategic Planning process to eliminate the dependency on capital injections by the holding company utilizing complex financial-econometric models and strategic analyses.
• Analyzed expansions, acquisitions, joint-ventures and oil, gas and service contracts.
• Analyzed and devised diversifications in the upstream and downstream, synergies and economies of scope and scale.
• Participated in organizational restructuring and change management with competitive emphasis.
• Evaluated the main businesses performance (projects) and organizational efficiency, to recommended action plans and measures that led to increased competitiveness, reduced costs, and higher organizational efficiency and profit levels. Such plans and measures resulted in improved operational efficiency and CRM, 30% overall cost decrease and 18% rise in competitiveness (bid gains and market shares expansion).
• Redesigned the overhead allocation criteria allowing the identification of low-profit areas, projects and depts.
• Applied prudent risk management when analyzing the company's worldwide projects and investments. Planned project operations, did project finance and schedules, and modeled exploration and production projects (including structure, schedules, resources, operations, finance and expenses - operational and capital) and controlled their performance.
• Consolidated double-currency statements and elaborated the Annual and Quinquennium Activity Plans and Budgets, with quarterly follow-up variance analysis. Issued monthly dual-currency managerial reports and did special analyses.
• Designed & supervise the development of the "Project Portfolio Probabilistic Risk Analysis System" and several other MDS/MIS.
• Did managerial accounting, audited financial-accounting systems and routines with the Corporate Audit Mgt.

Petrobrás - Petróleo Brasileiro SA [41] is the semi-public Brazilian oil, gas & energy corporation (51% state, world's 5th largest oil, gas & energy corporation)

Address: Avenida Chile 65, 8th floor, Rio de Janeiro, RJ, 20031-170

Challenged to support the Head Subsidiaries Controller (SESUB Area) in the Planning Services (SERPLAN) and improve subsidiaries control.
Projects: All range of Oil & Gas projects under development in the 8 subsidiaries and 100+ colligated companies. This included offshore / onshore, exploration & production, upstream, middle-stream, downstream), petrochemical, and industrial, manufacturing and commercial projects.
• Redesigned, automated and controlled the "Petrobrás Subsidiaries Budget System" and all related statements, improving significantly the accuracy, consistency and timing (a US$20+ Billion).
• Analyzed, recommended approval and controlled the performance of subsidiary projects and investments.
• Created and implemented sound financial policies, procedures and controls. Consolidated dual-currency statements, statement consistency and accuracy checking, performance/variance analysis.
• Reported managerial accounting statements and analysis to Head Controller.

Braspetro was the international subsidiary of Petrobrás - Petróleo Brasileiro SA [41]

Address: Rua General Canabarro 500, Rio de Janeiro, RJ, 22271-200

Analyzed the feasibility and risk of international projects and capital investments, performed strategic planning, financial planning and analysis, financial-econometric modeling, budgeting, forecasting, project coordination, project finance and performance control, in the Planning Management (GEPLAN).
Projects: All projects under development in Braspetro’s subsidiaries. This included offshore/onshore exploration & production, petrochemical, industrial, manufacturing and commercial projects.
• Participated in Corporate Strategic Planning (including SWOT, BCG, IFE, EFE, IE, SPACE, QSPM analyses), performed advanced financial-econometric models, planning analysis and probabilistic decision-trees.
• Planned oil & gas projects (including project structuring, financing, scheduling and resourcing - operational and capital), analyzed project financial-economic feasibility, elaborated supply-chain logistics, modeled operations, budgeted, controlled the performance (physical progress and financial variances - EVM) and elaborated cost reports of international projects and capital investments (including contingency plans), expanding business into 5 new regions.
• Supervised the cash flow, costs and performance (EVM) of international projects in Latin America, Africa and Middle East.
• Analyzed and forecasted the expected risk composition, performance variance and profitability of global projects.
• Elaborated corporate managerial reports, consolidated the subsidiaries’ double-currency pluri-annual budgets and quarterly corporate statements (BS, IS, P&L, Cash Flow, Investments, Costs, Expenses, Dividends, etc.) considering exposed accounts and utilizing FASB 52/8.
• Oversaw the corporate Consolidated Cash Flow and Consolidated Cost reports (including all projects), including Payroll and Contingency Plans for the Financial Management.
• Elaborated the Annual and Quinquennium Budget and Activities Plan, with quarterly follow-up variance analysis.
• Designed and developed several project financial planning and performance/cost control systems.

Meadows Airfreight was a large global freight-forwarding corporation, directing cargo between its 65 offices worldwide. It suffered a hostile take-over by Monarch Equities in 1984.

Address: 9830 Bellanca Avenue, Los Angeles, CA, 90489, USA

Dedini SA Metalúrgica [50] is a very large metallurgic corporation, with some subsidiaries, producing all kinds of steel products worldwide, for alcohol and methanol plants, sugar-mills, hydroelectric dam turbines, railroads, manufacturing, chemical, metallurgic and naval industry plants, subways, etc. It is the world's largest methanol plant manufacturer.
Address: Avenida Mario Dedini 201, Piracicaba, SP, 13400, Brazil

Assisted the Manufacturing Planning Director (Oséas A Nascimento) in special studies and production projects.
Projects: More than 180 small and large steel plant projects for all kinds of companies (manufacturing, naval and airplane industries, power plants, railroads, constructors, commercial companies, etc.).
• Planned and controlled steel manufacturing projects, improved sales and production through mfg. process improvement, product standardizing, reordering, and stock criteria change, resulting in a US$7MM net profits increase.
• Elaborated new credit policy, collected bad debt, negotiated project terms, taxes and warranties.

IESA [52] - Internacional de Engenharia is a large project engineering corporation. The Montreal Corp. bought it from Morrison-Knudsen to perform major national and international private, semi-public and governmental projects. Many years later it was sold to other group and underwent a major restructuring.
Address: Rua Pinheiro Machado 22, Rio de Janeiro, RJ, 22232, Brazil

I was a project civil/structural engineer within the Civil/Structural Division for several large projects. I performed engineering structural design, field construction inspection & supervision, and materials volume estimation of diverse structures in reinforced concrete, pre-stressed concrete and steel for very large industrial, commercial, nuclear and government projects including:
• The colossal hydroelectric power plant of Itaipu Binacional (with the world's 2nd largest dam).
• The plant and support facilities for Angra I and Angra II nuclear reactors in Angra dos Reis.
• The large aluminum plant and support facilities, channels, roads, of the Valesul plant in Rio de Janeiro.
• The large steel plant and support facilities, channels, roads of the CSN plant in Volta Redonda, RJ.
• Reinforced & pre-stressed structures of the 12 mile long Rio-Niteroi bridge (world's seventh longest bridge).
• Reinforced concrete structures of diverse Sao Paulo's subway stations and Lines 1 & 2.
• Reinforced concrete structures and special paving for Rio de Janeiro's International Airport lanes and facilities.
• Reinforced concrete structures of Carajás mining complex and railroad station (world's largest open mine).
• Components of manufacturing, chemical, metallurgic and naval industry plants, dams, railroads, bridges, reservoirs, airport lanes and facilities, interstate road structures and retaining walls, forts, etc.
• Received 5 level promotions.

• Performed engineering structural design, engineering drawings and materials volume estimation of pure reinforced and mixed steel-concrete structures of some Rio de Janeiro's Lines 1 & 2 and subway stations.
• Performed engineering structural design, engineering drawings and materials volume estimation of pure reinforced concrete structures of refinery and petrochemical plant components. 
• Received 2 level promotions at METRO-RJ.

• Strategic vision deriving from a cross-functional experience and a generalist multicultural background.

• Solid expertise in Financial Planning and Financial Analysis within cross-functional organizations. Proven history of devising innovative approaches, elaborating advanced and complex financial analysis and plans to solve difficult real world corporate problems. Analyses of acquisitions & joint ventures.