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Keith Farrell

First Name: 
Keith
Last Name: 
Farrell

An experienced Project Controls Profesional with a demonstrated ability to develop and lead high profile project schedules, pinpoint core problems, improve performance and transform obstacles into opportunities. Widespread experience of project management methodologies across all project phases in a variety of industries.

KEY STRENGTHS

Provide clear vision and direction through strong authentic leadership

•       Ability to develop and set medium/long term strategies while maintaining tactical day-to-day operational excellence, by linking actions to outcomes.

•       Fosters a culture which allows continuous improvement of tools, systems and processes using innovation and excellence through a challenge culture.

•       Passion for elevating people’s ability through strong effective leadership and training.

•       Empowers high performance by providing clarity, climate & competence.

Delivers effective communication to achieve expected outcomes

•       I communicate complex processes, plans or ideas into comprehendible elements.

•       I passionately build relationships that encourage collaboration to achieve a shared goal.

•       I encourage open effective dialogue to develop a sense community with stakeholders.

•       I create a supportive environment for sharing ideas and views to generate collaboration.

Conveys imaginative, innovative, progressive thinking, and flexible approach to delivery

•       I am a keen observer of other people’s strengths so I can draw out the best in each person and this helps to build productive teams.

•       I strive to find new ways to deliver on the commitments I have made, inventing better ways to tackle assignments, studies, or tasks, making small yet necessary upgrades to enhance the efficiency and overall performance of various processes or individuals.

•       I discover the facts and weigh them with care before giving advice or stating a well thought-out position.

KEY ACHIEVEMENTS

•       Developed planning approach and methods to manage a portfolio of over 14000 projects schedules, (average 100 activity lines per schedule) across 27 programs of work.

•       50% reduction in planning cycle through effective collaboration with stakeholders.

•       20% improvement in data quality through provision of consultancy services to delivery partners & stakeholders.

•       Development of clear ownership across the project scope, allowing for accountability of the project elements (WBS) thus empowering the project resources to take ownership and control the project outcomes.

•       Identification of value savings of $10M being delivered by team through leading, coaching and mentored a cross-functional team in delivery of customer focused strategies and actions that supported delivery.

•       Continuous improvement in planning standardisation and analysis across delivery regions leading to improved time cost and quality deliver of projects.

 

PROJECT MANAGEMENT SKILLS, KNOWLEDGE & EXPERIENCE

SOFTWARE

Ms Office Suite, Desktop publishing, Deltek Acumen Fuse/Risk/360, Microsoft Project, Oracle Primavera P6, Primavera Risk, Rational, Aconnex.

METHODOLOGIES EXPERIENCE

PMBOK, PRINCE2, Critical chain, Process-based, Agile, Lean, Extreme, Benefits Realization.

PROJECT PHASES EXPERIENCE

Pre-Design, Appraisals, Proposal, Design, Initiating, Pre-Construction, Tender, Bidding, Negotiation, Procurement, Construction, Execution, Production, Testing, Operation, Closing.

PLANNING METHODS

Critical Path Analysis, Precedence Diagrams, Arrow Diagrams, Time Bar charts and Linked Bar Charts, Line of Balance Diagrams, Linear Time Chainage Diagrams, Building Information Modelling (BIM), Project Evaluation Review Technique (PERT)

INDUSTRY EXPERIENCE

Information technology, civil infrastructure (road & rail), financial services (insurance/banking), transport (ticketing procurement), telecoms infrastructure (mobile/fixed line/wireless), electricity & water (asset management), Manufacturing/Procurement (Military Vehicles and Systems) .

PROJECT CONTROLS SKILLS

Earned Value Management, Schedule Design Methods, Permanent and Consumable Resources, Scope Definition & Outliners, Cost breakdown structure, Product breakdown structure, Organizational Breakdown Structure, Resource Breakdown Structure, Responsibility Matrixes, Work Breakdown Structure, Portfolio (Enterprise) Project Structure, Base-lining, Activity Progress Recording / Monitoring, Reforecasting (re-baselining), Interpreting the performance outputs, Reporting, Interfaces, Material Constrained Scheduling, Resource Constrained Scheduling, Cost Constrained Scheduling, Portfolio Scheduling, What If's / Scenario Planning, Building Information Modeling.

PROJECT MANAGEMENT GENERAL SKILLS

Risk & Issue Management, Report Design and Presentation Dashboards, Change Management, Resource Management, Procurement Management, Configuration Management, Stakeholder Management, Communications Management, Cost Management, Document Management, Human Factors, Scope Management, Dealing with complexity

AFFILIATIONS  

Member of AIPM (MAIPM)

Member PMI (Melbourne Chapter)

EDUCATION

Leadership Essentials - 2013  

Certificate in Management - 2006

Diploma in Project Management - 2005

Higher National Diploma in Media Production & Management - 2001

Professional Since: 
Jan-2002 (22.8 yrs experience)
Oldest experience: 
Jan 2002 (22.8 yrs experience)
Years Experience: 
20
Guild Accreditation: 
GPC Member
GPC Pilot Tester
GPC Member Since: 
Tue, 2016-05-24 (All day) - Wed, 2055-05-05 (All day)

Market Place

Primavera P6 and Microsoft Project books, on-line video training courses and training material available from an internationally recognised publisher. Teach yourself using on-line or book based learning or run your own in-house or public courses.