Vision: To ensure proper management of projects through effective and efficient utilization of available resources

Name:                                                             Ike Ekene Christian

Date of Birth:                                                            October 20, 1974

Contact address:                                           Eliminigwe Estate ,

                                                                        Phase 4 Elelenwo, Port Harcourt

                                                                        Rivers State, Nigeria                                                           

Port Harcourt, Rivers State

Telephone:                                                     08034940327

E-mail:                                                            ektech78@yahoo.com

                                                                        Ekene.ike@shell.com

 Areas of interest include

• Project management
• P3 and P3e
• Microsoft Project
• Project Planning/Scheduling
• Risk Analysis
• Cost Engineering
• Project Execution Plan
• Project monitoring
• Project budget analysis
• Project tendering

Training Attended

• Water Survival / Swing Rope
• Basic Fire Fighting Technique
• Basic First Aid
• Basic Risk Assessment
• Personal Protective Equipment
• Waste Management Overview
• Office Ergonomics Awareness
• Hearing Conservation
• Cyber Security

SHELL Nigeria Exploration and Production Company –May 2012

Position- Planning Engineer

Responsibilities

• Closely monitor Contractor’s work on daily basis and liaise with the contractor’s personnel to ensure any issues and concerns are dealt with an appropriate manner to preserve the contract key dates and approved contract value
• Support contract holder in representing company at project team, customer and management meetings
• Work proactively to protect company reputation and commercial interest
• Review , analyze and validate schedules from contractors and vendors for company weekly and monthly progress reporting with relevant provisions of the contract
• Monitor physical progress and performing variance analysis in comparison to the baseline schedule
• Validate physical progress on site verification of completed works. Report any possible variances from reported progress vs. physical progress
• Ensure that all project controls processes and procedures for the project are implanted and all contract requirements are met.

ExxonMobil Producing Nigeria (2008 –April 2012)

Position- Project Control Engineer

Responsibilities

• Develop the schedule that is used to obtain approval for Estimate Basis Confidence Package
• Integrate all the different phase of a project to achieve an integrated schedule
• Provide the schedule basis to PT
• Monitor and appraise contractor schedule to ensure alignment with Company procedures and standards

Evaluate contractor’s schedule control organisation, plans, performance and procedures.

Coordinated schedule review meetings with contractor to analyse schedule and progress trends developed by contractor

• Provided guidance to contractors as needed for alignment of Engineering, Procurement, Fabrication and Installation progress measurement.
• Participated in site visits to offshore platforms as necessary to verify project scope of work and align schedule accordingly
• Used lessons learned in other projects to develop a more realistic schedule.     
• (Schedule reduced significantly the amount of hot work done offshore thus leading to reduced barge timeoffshore)
• Analyze schedule trends, develop and review schedule forecast
• Advise PT on schedule trends, slippages and recovery plans to mitigate schedule slippage
• Monitor and report to PT schedule implications of changes.  
• Develop relevant tracking curves to provide trends and forecasting basis to PT
• Reconciles the forecast difference and provide mitigation plan as required to the PT
• Prepared presentation packages for PT to facilitate coordination of project reviews and assessments such as; RA, HAZOP, Constructability review, meeting with NAPIMS.
• Timely implementation of corrective actions and recovery plans where defects were identified; 
• Alignment of PT on forward plans /execution strategy
• Alignment of multi-discipline PT and work groups on deliverables and expectations
• Update weekly project cost outlook/forecast and track changes
• Update staffing plan and track with personnel movements on weekly basis

Baywood Dextron Ventures (2006 -2008)

Client: Chevron Nigeria Limited

Project worth: 45 million dollars

Position- Project Control Manager

Responsibilities:

• Line Manager responsible for developing and executing project execution and controls in compliance with contract expectations
• Controls the project to agreed plans and processes, including cost, schedule, contracting strategy, management of change, key issues, organization, interface management, lessons learned, etc.
• Participates in external interfaces such as contractor project management in all areas of project execution planning/controls and host Government and co-Venturers.
• Periodically advise Project Manager and his other reports of lookahead plans so that necessary arrangements will be made to maintain planned activities. Any unrealistic events will be evaluated and reflected in progress reports
• Responsible for preparation of corporate materials for meeting with external parties
• Interacts with sub-project contractors [and where applicable parts of EPC and other contract(s) ] on the project’s behalf
• Prepare the resource forecast and advise management on the time to make available those resources

Nestoil Limited (2002-2006)

Project worth: 38 million dollars

Position-Planning and Scheduling Engineer

I report to the Project Manager-KCTL                                                            

Responsibilities:

• Developed the detailed schedule from the scope of work
• Baseline the approved schedule
• Assign the relevant resources to the baseline schedule
• Updates the schedule on a weekly basis
• Schedule the work for the whole project team
• Continually monitor the schedule to ensure that the proposed project end date is within the approved end date
• Ensure that the weekly forecast are achieved
• Produce the necessary graphs (s-curves) to monitor the project progress
• Ensure on weekly basis that the actual target does not exceed the planned target, where it does; I provide the necessary recovery measures that will ensure that the project is within track.
• Prepare the resource forecast and advise management on the time to make available those resources
• Cover the weekly project progress meetings with our clients
• Prepare the weekly and monthly report for the project team
• Generate the relevant planning procedure
• Represent my company during quarterly review project meetings with SPDC and NAPIMS

Nestoil Limited (2002 -2006)

Project Title: Construction of Engineering Landfill at Egbeleku

Project worth: 3.4 Billion naira

Position-Planning and Scheduling Engineer

I report to the Project Manager –Egbeleku Projects                                                             

Responsibilities:

• Developed the detailed schedule from the scope of work
• Baseline the approved schedule
• Assign the relevant resources to the baseline schedule
• Updates the schedule on a weekly basis
• Schedule the work for the whole project team
• Continually monitor the schedule to ensure that the proposed project end date is within the approved end date
• Ensure that the weekly forecast are achieved
• Produce the necessary graphs (s-curves) to monitor the project progress
• Ensure on weekly basis that the actual target does not exceed the planned target, where it does; I provide the necessary recovery measures that will ensure that the project is within track.
• Prepare the resource forecast and advise management on the time to make available those resources
• Cover the weekly project progress meetings with our clients
• Prepare the weekly and monthly report for the project team
• Generate the relevant planning procedure

Nestoil Limited (2002-2005)

Project Title: Shell I.A Hospital Construction

Project worth: 10 million dollars

Position-Planning and Scheduling Engineer

I report to the Project Manager –I.A Projects                                                            

Responsibilities:

• Developed the detailed schedule from the scope of work
• Baseline the approved schedule
• Assign the relevant resources to the baseline schedule
• Updates the schedule on a weekly basis
• Schedule the work for the whole project team
• Continually monitor the schedule to ensure that the proposed project end date is within the approved end date
• Ensure that the weekly forecast are achieved
• Produce the necessary graphs (s-curves) to monitor the project progress
• Ensure on weekly basis that the actual target does not exceed the planned target, where it does; I provide the necessary recovery measures that will ensure that the project is within track.
• Prepare the resource forecast and advise management on the time to make available those resources
• Cover the weekly project progress meetings with our clients
• Prepare the weekly and monthly report for the project team
• Generate the relevant planning procedure

Nestoil Limited (2003-2003)

Project Title: Replacement of 6” x 12.5km Testline from Biseni to Adibawa flow station      

Project worth: 58 million naira

Position-Planning and Scheduling Engineer

I report to the Project Manager –Biseni Projects                                                            

Responsibilities:

• Developed the detailed schedule from the scope of work
• Baseline the approved schedule
• Assign the relevant resources to the baseline schedule
• Updates the schedule on a weekly basis
• Schedule the work for the whole project team
• Continually monitor the schedule to ensure that the proposed project end date is within the approved end date
• Ensure that the weekly forecast are achieved
• Produce the necessary graphs (s-curves) to monitor the project progress
• Ensure on weekly basis that the actual target does not exceed the planned target, where it does; I provide the necessary recovery measures that will ensure that the project is within track.
• Prepare the resource forecast and advise management on the time to make available those resources

Jatori Nigeria Limited                                                                                

Project Engineer-Industrial Trainee

• Construction of base transceiver stations, cell sites construction, upgrade and maintenance
• Scheduling and inspecting work
• Drive testing, transmission and receiver status monitoring.
• System status monitoring, performance administration

• 1996-2002 University Of Nigeria Nsukka

B. Eng. (Electronic Engineering) 2^ndClass Honors (Lower Division)

• 1988 – 1993 College of the Immaculate Conception, Enugu
• 1982-1987 O’Connor Street Primary School, Enugu

• Winner of Hyundai Internet essay on Women’s roles in the 21st Century, May 1998

• Design and construction of a 500w uninterruptible power supply

• Reading and Networking

• Self-discipline, focus and commitment
• Excellent communication and inter personal skills
• A team player and a self starter