Summary

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A total of 30 years experience in engineering, petrochemical, thermoelectric, pharmaceutical and general constructions industries, 11 years main office based and 19 years on site in foreign countries. Planning engineer on several major projects, from proposal and conceptual phases up to commissioning. Working for the general contractors or sub-contractors, either directly or as consultant. Routinely compiling reports, participating in meetings and lead presentations, working independently or as supervisor. Responsible for the production and maintenance of progress and productivity curves, manpower histograms and status reports. Sometimes as Cost Controller assistant for Estimating and Contracts functions. 

I have worked 7 years from 2001 to 2008 as HC&R consultant.

HC&R was the only Italian Primavera authorized representative and  authorized trainer and distributor of Primavera software.

Computer experience

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• Primavera P3(DOS & Windows), P3e/c (Enterprise), Primavera 6 Version 8.2
• SureTrack, Expedition, S.A. Schedule Analyzer Pro
• Montecarlo, @Risk.
• SAP, MS Project.
• STR, CCS, Xcelsius, Mindmanager
• Strong working knowledge of Microsoft Office 2003-2007-2010 (i.e., Excel, Word, PowerPoint).
• Programming Access, ability to write macros.

Scholastic education and training courses

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• Degree (M.B.A.) Master of Business Administration in Management
• Graduate - Geometra 27/7/1973
• Time Manager Course.
• Primavera Project Planner P3 training Course
• Primavera EnterpriseP6 training Course

Languages known

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• ITALIAN                       Mother tongue
• FRENCH                     Excellent
• ENGLISH                     Excellent (written and spoken fluently)
• SPANISH                     Intermediate level
• PORTUGUESE                      Scholastic

Personal informations

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• Age                   59 years old (born on 27-03-1953)
• Address             Via Volta, 11

              NOVENTA PADOVANA (PD) 35027 ITALY

• E-Mail                brigatofederico@hotmail.com
• Telephone         0039 049-8932579
• Mobile               +62-8121092250

One Page Summary

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Date            Company                  Employee Category   Software             Project

2012                Heidelberg Cement         Project Control                 P6.8.2                        NEW CEMENT PLANT 10.000 tpd

                                                                                                                                                    CITEUREUP(INDONESIA)

2011                Italcementi Group             Field Project Control       P6.1                            NEW CEMENT PLANT 7.000 tpd

                                                                                                                                                    GULBARGA(INDIA)

2009-2010      Italcementi Group            Field Project Control       P6.1                            NEW CEMENT PLANT 5.000 tpd

                                                                     Coordinator                                                         AIT BAHA (MOROCCO)

2008                Technip-Polska                PMC Planning                  P3 & SA                    REFINERY 10+ EXPANSION PROJECT

                                                                     Coordinator                                                         Gdansk (POLAND)

2006-2007     Snamprogetti S.p.A         Field Project Control       SICON / SAP           COGENERATION POWER PLANT

                                                                     Coordinator                                                         Ferrara (ITALY)

2005                Technip-Italy                     Planning Consulting       Primavera                CARTAGENA REFINERY (Colombia)

2005                CMC-Ravenna                 Planning Consulting       Primavera                FIUMICINOAIRPORT, Dock “C” Bid

2005                Impregilo-Milan               Planning Consulting       Enterprise P6          STRETTO DI MESSINA, Tender

2002-2004     Tecnimont S.p.A              Senior Planning Eng.     P3 &P6                     NANHAI(China),ROCHE(Segrate),

                                                                                                                                                    ALTOMONTE (Italy)

2002                Cepav Uno-Milan            Planning Consulting       Primavera                HIGH SPEED RAILROAD Line MI-BO 

2001                Snamprogetti-Fano         Senior Cost / Planner     Primavera                EFFLUENT TRANSFER SYS. & MINAGISH

                                                                                                                                                    WATER INJECTION PLANT (Kuwait)

1998-2001     Astaldi S.p.A-Rome         Senior Cost / Planner.    Primavera                ZAGREB-GORICAN MOTORWAY (Croatia)

1997-1998     CMC-Ravenna                 Senior Planning Eng.     Primavera/CCS      MAPUTO BRANCH (Mozambique)

1996-1997     Astaldi S.p.A-Roma         Planning Engineer        Primavera                PORCE II Dyke (Colombia)

1995-1996     Cusinato S.r.l.                   Planning Prod. Cons.     Primavera                CONVEY PLANTS (Italy, India, Argentina)

1993-1994     MMGroup S.r.l.                 Site Manager                    Primavera                STOCK PLANTS (Tunisia)

1992-1993     Astaldi S.p.A-Rome         Planning Engineer          Primavera                MOTORWAY Istambul-:-Ankara (Turkey)

1990-1991     CDC-Modena                   Area Manager                  Primavera/STR       VARIOUS RESTRUCTURING (Italy)

1988-1990     FRACASSO-Stra              Technical Supervisor      Timeline/STR          DIFFERENT SITE PROJECTS (Italy)

1982-1988     COGEFAR-Milan             Technical Engineer         Lotus 1-2-3              RAILROAD El Gourzi-:-Ramdane J.

                                                                                                                 Multiplan-Supercalc                                        (Algeria)

1980-1982     COGEFAR-Milan             Technical Engineer         HP 9815                   RAILROAD TRANSCAM (Cameroun)

1979-1980     INTERCONTRACTOR     Technical Engineer         Apple II                     JEBBA PAPER MILL (Nigeria)

1978-1979     CONDOTTE D’ACQUA Technical Engineer                                           BANDAR ABBAS PORT (Iran)

1976-1978     CONSFER (PD)               Technical OfficeEngineer                                PEMBROOKE REFINERY (England)

                                                                                                                                                    HASSI MESSAOUD REFINERY (Algeria)

Experience Details (last 13 years)

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2009-2011       Field Project Control Coordinator, ITALCEMENTI GROUP- Morocco - India

I liaised daily with Project Manager and prepared a monthly project report, which gets presented to the monthly operational meeting, and reported to the Italcementi Head Office in Bergamo.

Analysed project variances and updating forecasts regularly (Earned Value).

Updating overall S curves, and detailed by discipline and by contractors.

Monthly updating the key performance indicators dashboards by discipline and by contractors.

Implementing the tools to control the productivity of the contractors and produce dedicated projections to complete.

Monitoring performance indicators and regression analysis for critical contractors.

Provided advice, assistance and technical expertise on all planning and cost control matters as required by PM on site and Italcementi home office. 

2008                PMC Planning Coordinator, TECHNIP-Gdansk, Poland

                 As member of the Project Management Consulting team my services included: development and coordination of all project planning activities at summary level, establishment of the interface milestones between the various Contractors and verifies the relevant actuation, comments on the project planning procedures and issue of planning documents produced by the various Contractors, analysis of the schedule adjustments requested by the various Contractors, reporting integration and preparation of overall project report for the Client GRUPA LOTOS SA. Information service (Help desk).

2006 - 2007     Field Project Control Coordinator, SNAMPROGETTI-Ferrara, Italy

Responsible for the delivery of the effective site construction planning process. Ensuring monitoring and control of construction planning and reports using Primavera P3 and the SICON system. Duties will include: Interface with Company, client and subcontractors site teams. Management, updating and distribution of project construction planning. Development, issue, control and verification of construction works and distribution on site of construction resource histograms. Manage progress and productivity reports, manhours trends, etc. Production of ad-hoc schedule as required. Interface with the stakeholders. Verify commissioning planning process to ensure effective systems handover to client. Responsible for estimating and cost control functions to forecast final man-hour estimated expenditure. 

2005 -             Planning Consulting, TECHNIP-Italy, Colombia

Based in Technip offices in Bogotà (Colombia) for a PMC (Project Management Consulting) contract with ECOPETROL as client. Responsible for monitoring and control  the new refinery of Cartagena, project schedule and costs. Generating and reviewing progress reports on weekly and monthly base and relative payment certificates with calculation of escalation. Attendance at weekly videoconference, producing agenda and meetings reports in Spanish language. Compiling projections and cash flow diagrams and future man-loading requirements for both home office and site, producing the detailed schedules (PDT) in Primavera related to the different phases of bidding, construction and commissioning.   

2005 -              Planning Consulting, IMPREGILO-Milan

Working in the bidder phase for Messina Bridge tender with temporary enterprises association composed by Condotte d’Acqua, CMC, SACYR, ISHIKAWAJIMA and A.C.I. S.C.P.A, supervising and managing a team composed by other 2 Senior planners and 1 Junior with the purpose to produce a program that meet the scope and all reports required by the owner (Gantt, S Curves, Histograms, Critical path, OBS). Developing with Primavera P6 Enterprise up to level 7 of WBS the resourced networks from basic engineering to construction and commissioning.

2005 -              Planning Consulting, CMC-Ravenna

Preparing in Primavera 3.1 the programme for the EPC contract of new dock "C" in Leonardo da Vinci airport in Fiumicino – Rome. Ensuring that the produced schedules recovery the time proposed by the client. Managing the task-force composed by 3 italian senior planners, producing a logical network structured in order to allow the normal airplane traffic, during the revamping and modernization of the existing runways and aerostation. Developing up to level 6 of WBS the activities on various schedules produced for the different construction companies and discipline, from site preparation through the civil works for aerostation, gangways and dock "C", included the technological systems for optical guide, TVCC, B.H.S. automated treatment of baggage and HBS for safety control.   

2002 - 2004    Senior Planning Engineer, TECNIMONT-Milan

Responsible for preparation of construction programs and updating the construction procedures, responsible to supervise and assist the site planners or replace them in the initial and final work phases. The duties and responsibilities included management of other planner for the development of standard manhours, starting from QPL data and realization of logical networks with relative critical paths, issue of productivity curves, manpower's histograms for disciplines, cash flow diagrams and forecasts of resources workload for site and home offices, using both Primavera 3.1 and Primavera Enterprise/c (P6). From tender up to beginning of the construction phase I have managed the planning section for different PP, PE, HDPE, LDPE plants as Nanhai (China), Swechat (Austria), in pharmaceutical plants of Segrate and the thermoelectric gas turbine plant of Altomonte, I following personally the installation in site, establishing the measure system for performance and progress. Defining the standard construction schedule for different type of plants and related achievable benchmark, managing critical path and allowed float, indicating codes and description for standard EPS, WBS, OBS, CBA, resources, cost accounts, with tabular and graphical reports and relevant deliverables schedule up to mechanical completion, to represents the most competitive time effective project execution. 

2002 -              Planning Consulting, CEPAV UNO-San Giuliano (MI)

Indicating a methodology to simplify subcontracts accountability, standardizing planning and reports of the high speed railway Milan -:- Bologna, integrating in Primavera 3.1 different programs utilized by the construction enterprises PIZZAROTTI (Fidenza), ASG (Piacenza), EUROVIE (Parma), UNIECO (Reggio E.), RODANO (Reggio E.), MODENA (Campogalliano), SATURNO. Consolidating the single subprojects, conforming standard codes of WBS, ID, activity codes, resources, calendars and curves when applied. The resultant host program allowed the aggregation of times, costs and revenues at each WBS level and differentiate the distribution of contractual original value from the value of the requested variations and changes.  

2001 -              Senior Cost / Planning Engineer, SNAMPROGETTI S.p.A., Kuwait

Based in Minagish (West Kuwait) site during all phases of the project appraise, monitoring the performance of all EPC/EPIC Contractors and Subcontractors working on injection plant and relative pipeline effluent transfer system. Ensuring that Schedule interfaces are correctly identified and that all control documents supplied by them are appropriate. Reviewing and commenting on any changes proposed by EPC Contractor and identifying any implications to the Schedule. Reviewing and approving Progress reports to ensure weightings and man-hours are correctly allocated, and that progress claimed has actually been achieved, to enable interim payments to be made in accordance with contract. Monitoring of any change proposed by EPC Contractor, that has any implications positive and negative on the Project Cost. Maintaining record of Change Order requests and their associated costs. Supervising five human resources allocated in the planning office. Attending and contributing to daily management meetings with project team and subcontractors directors. Responsible for generating progress reports and trends for the weekly construction meeting, with the client Kuwait Oil Company (K.S.C.), and PARSONS. Compiling productivity statistics and forecast man-hours to go on a daily basis, as the work became more critical. Displaying graphically using Excel charts to focus management attention on sensitive areas of concern.

1998 - 2001    Lead Planning Engineer, ASTALDI S.p.A., Croatia

Principally employed as responsible for planning and cost control office, working in Croatia for Astaldi Zagreb Branch for the construction of the highway Zagreb-:-Gorican,  producing in first phases of the project the base line reference program, and after up to the end of construction developing, analysing and load manpower and machinery required in the execution schedule. Monitoring project progress against the base line by collecting and analysing data, using advanced earned value concepts, providing analysis of cost and schedule impacts, and communicating deviations and corrective actions to the owner Transeuropean Motorway Ltd and subcontractors. Monitoring, controlling and analysing all project costs, revenue, trends, change orders, and progress/performance measurement. Taking proactive steps to work with subcontractors project managers to update their data, creating ad-hoc reports for effective communication with team members, ensuring proper support in contract administration, providing program management support and overall integration. Supervising various lower-level project control engineer and support human resources, monitoring, audit, preparing, issuing and maintaining reports for weekly meeting in English language. Reviewing, commenting and approving contractors schedules and progress reports, compiling summary networks, productivity statistics and"what if' scenarios using Primavera software to optimize time and costs. Forecasting cost escalations and effectively implement control of deviations from the standards and producing the whole documentation for claims. Managing the development and implementation policies, procedures, training materials and system documentation for the project.

1997 - 1998     Senior Planning Engineer, CMC Maputo Branch (Mozambique)

Based in Maputo Branch contemporarily working in various projects among which port infrastructures, residential buildings, road constructions in the north side of Mozambique and Malawi dam. Developing specific operational programs for every site, as person responsible of the planning and control office, using different software Primavera P3, SureTrack, MS Project and Timeline as requested by different owners, I was also involved in the supervision of other planning personnel local employees and expatriated. Planning, scheduling and monitoring the progress of the different projects in every stage of execution. Planning, developing and implementing process to integrate the business projects, assessing the costs, time, risks and impact, overseeing and reviewing the progress including scope of work, timeline, budget with the various project managers. Developing regular reports on the project status and make recommendations on time, schedule and financial adjustments. Converting data in Excell to produce other types of graphics report and charts that focused better the attention of team leaders, also responsible to structure the new local network Ethernet, as expert for maintenance of PC hardware.

1996 - 1997     Planning Supervisor, ASTALDI S.p.A. (Colombia)

Working in Colombia for the consortium composed by Astaldi, Federici, CMC, and Recchi for the construction of the hydroelectric project Porce II, preparing and reviewing the overall program to complete, developing of the schedule with critical path method (CPM), establishing the critical and subcritical path, submitting for approval to EEPP Empresas Publicas de Medellin. Responsible for analysingproject management office (PMO) objectives, Work Breakdown Structure (WBS), Contract Data Requirement Lists (CDRL’s), technical specifications, and other project requirements to perform detailed CPM schedule development, milestone definition, and producing integrated project schedule (IPS) using Primavera Project Planner (P3) and other tools and techniques. Performing and coordinating accurate and timely reporting of project schedule information to the appropriate team members and stakeholders.

– Project manager, project team, system managers, and others. Preparing and submitting cost and schedule trends and scope change reports, responsible for analyzing current contractor schedule position, with respect of the project’s integrated schedule baseline and overall project level milestone targets. Supervising a team of five junior planner, carrying out various “what if” scenarios for owners and participating in formulation and counteraction claims process.

1995 - 1996    Planning Production Consulting, CUSINATO S.r.l. (Italy), (India), (Argentina)

My support consisted of ensuring effective project resource utilization through  project activity identification, applying logic to activities, and analysing effect to schedule, maintaining and updating existing databases of costs and schedule templates in order to streamline the outage planning process. Providing additional services as needed such as report writing, department procedure management/updates, and database development . Developing new ideas and techniques leading to improvements in processes and efficiencies, providing professional technical expertise and advice, developing operational technology strategies to ensure effective completion of installation and maintenance programs. Reporting to the General Manager, managing all activities related to the products manufactured on site including, engineering, warehousing and planning, interfacing with internal and external clients to ensure successful project execution, as well as professional planning production flows. Also responsible as site manager for the overall running, quality, budget and record activity on site, supervising all site disciplines as well as a specific health and safety on the project, and management of sub contractors to meet deadlines. Completing with success the erection of various plants in Italy and abroad in India and Argentina, managing and motivating a strong team of people to facilitate the effective and timely execution of production requirements, and expectations of the customer. 

1993 - 1994    Site Manager, MM Group S.r.l. (Tunisia)

Skilled in various building disciplines, producing drawings and construction details for civil works and managing the assembly to be carried out on site of 4 storage plants.   

1992 - 1993     Planning Engineer, ASTALDI S.p.A. (Turkey)

Responsible of planning office for the construction of highway Gumusowa-Gherede between Istambul and Ankara.

1990 - 1991     Area Manager, CDC Cooperativa di costruzioni (Italy)

Responsible to manage restructuring of various historical buildings in Veneto region (Italy) among which the St. Francis convent in Venice and the Specola of Padua.   

1988 - 1990     Business & Technical Supervisor, METALMECCANICA FRACASSO (Italy)

Working for Italian leader company in the production of guardrails, metal scaffolding, culverts and sound absorbent panels, delegated to the signature of contracts and responsible for the deliveries and assembling on site.  

1982 - 1988     Technical Office Engineer, COGEFAR S.p.A. (Algeria)

Responsible of the instrumentation and signallingcontrol systems in the doubling of railway line El Gourzi -:-Ramdane Jamal.

1980 - 1982     Technical Office Engineer, COGEFAR S.p.A. (Cameroun)

Developing drawings and typical details for the Transcam railroad line Edea-:-Eseka.

1979 - 1980     Technical Office Engineer, INTERCONTRACTORS (Nigeria)

Responsible of issues and revisions of construction detail for the steel structures erection in the paper mill of Jebba, (KwaraState).  

1978 - 1979     Technical Office Engineer, CONDOTTE D’ACQUA (Iran)

Responsible of the steel yard for the construction of Bandar Abbas port.  

1976 - 1978     Technical Office Engineer, CONSFER (England/Algeria)

Generating constructive schedule and responsible of erection at site for Air Cooler exchangers, supervisor in Wales (Milford Haven, Pembrooke) and in the Hassi Messaoud refinery.