Profile

·         More than 11  years experience in project planning and scheduling

·         Strong computer skills in Primavera(P6), EPM, M.S. Office,

·         Proficient with Level I, II, III and IV  schedules

·         Skilled at developing long term look ahead schedules

·         Great analytical and problem-solving skills.

Experience

Jan/2008 – Now                              Alstom Power                                                               Windsor, CT, USA

Senior Planner / Scheduler

§         Setting up a detailed schedule ( with 8000 activities)  in three levels utilizing P3e(P5) :

§ Management Schedule (Level I), used to communicate overall project goals and overall project schedule time frames. The management schedule is developed by using coding/hammocks to roll-up progress from the level II schedule.

§Project level schedule (Level II), integrates significant work activities from project initiation through commissioning in sufficient detail monthly to identify deliverables, constraints, and overall project critical path.

§      Control level schedule (Level III), identifies day to day tasks, sequence, and responsibilities required to complete associated project-level schedule activities

§         Preparing 2 weekly and monthly progress reports for senior management and project team

§         Participating in internal( engineering and project team weekly meeting) as well as client planning related meetings

§         Collecting information from different disciplines, analyzing them and updating schedule tasks on two weekly basis

§         Monitoring project status, flagging issues and following up on them to ensure they are getting resolved

2006 –2007      BPR-Bechtel            XStrata Copper,Kidd Metallurgical Division, Timmins, CANADA

Senior Planner / Scheduler

§         Set up  three level schedules for all capital Projects including engineering, procurement and construction, utilizing P3e / MSP  and updating them on weekly basis

§         Controlled   all  of the operational projects on weekly basis

§         Prepared weekly  report  consist of projects status over view and recommendations (if required)

§         Monitored the financial status of each project and discuss issues with project managers to create a recovery plan(if needed)

§         Expedited critical items of capital Projects

2005 –2006                                                        GE Canada                                        Large Motors/Peterborough

Project Leader

§         Set up a Scheduling System, utilizing Microsoft project enterprise ( EPM) and Customizing it based on the requirements of GE

§         Monitored the Projects and Updating the Schedules and Preparing variety of reports such as analyzing the delay root causes and  workstations load vs. capacity

§         Loaded proposals and evaluating  plant capacity , utilizing system advanced features

§         Prepared Work station loading analyzer (utilizing Customer Order Tracking System)

§         Implemented logic tables in conjunction with data history for forecasting production load.

2002–2003                Hampa Eng. C o            petrochemical Construction Projectin Kermanshah/ Iran

Senior Planner/Scheduler

§         Prepared a WBS and master schedule for the project and break down the work into sub-systems such as constructing industrial buildings, offices, installing auxiliary systems (such as cooling water, oil, compress air, HVAC systems), Towers, Drums, Piping, Insulating. The schedule, which had been prepared in PRIMAVERA environment, had been linked to Excel.

§         Defined weighting Factors for all of the activities in the time schedule, predicted future situation of Project and increased the efficiency through analyzing the curves and reports.

§         Met client in weekly meetings in order to consider his concerns in time schedule and talk about project problems.

§         Assigned manpower and other resources such as heavy cranes in order to control the time and cost,

§         Directed work groups and departments such as (engineering department and construction department) according to time schedule, checked subcontractor reports,  estimated the future needs and tracked them,

§         Upgraded inventory control system in order to have a better control on it,

§         Prepared weekly and monthly progress reports and handed them out to project manager,

§         Monitored the situation and suggested new proposals for time schedule to reduce cost that increased the efficiency,

1998–2002           FARAB Co            power plant Construction projectin Masjed-e-soleyman/Iran

                                                                                         ($485M power plant project)

Project Planner /Scheduler

§         Worked with ABB (Alstom), Hydro Quebec (CANADA), Foith and Elin (AUSTRIA) and International Lamayer (GERMANY) as a team member,

§         Prepared master and updated schedules for construction and installation activities such as control room, office buildings, auxiliary systems, Piping, MCC panels, SF6 busducts, Turbine and Generator, and other mechanical and electrical parts (utilizing PRIMAVERA)

§         Defined installation sequence in detail and weight factors for each activity. Made a deep analyzing of project situation utilizing curves of progress reports, which were made in, excel and announced anticipated problems due to lack of materials, tools, manpower or other resources. Suggested appropriate solutions and best ways to decrease the cost and time considering total float and free float time and increase manpower with regarding to restrictions.

§         Organized all the subcontractors, managed them in weekly meetings according to project priorities, and work sequential.

§         Organized and managed work groups and departments such as engineering, installation, commissioning departments in weekly meetings and attended in client and consultant weekly meetings in order to follow up and modify time schedule according to their requisition.

§         Prepared weekly and monthly progress reports and other necessary documents and analyzed them in order to clarify the problems and checked subcontractor reports and suggested possible ways to solve them.

1997–1998                     The Scientific Amusement of Educational Industries Co                               Tehran

Production In charge

§         Prepared production schedule with considering of inventories, bazaar requirements, policy and capability of company,

§         Made a contract for producing & following it up till deliver to sales department.

§         Supervised the assembling work groups and manage them

§         Made regular weekly coordination meetings with QC and graphic departments heads

§         Controlled the storage.

1995–1997                                                                                           

Lieutenant in military service

Education

Project Management Professional Certified (PMP Certified)

1990–1995                                          Science and Technology University                                             Tehran

§         B.Sc., Industrial Engineering.

2004                                          George   Brown College                                                   Toronto

§         Construction Cost control   

§         Construction Estimating     

§         Construction Administrative