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Senior Project Controller, OUTOTEC (Belo Horizonte, Guarapari, Rio de Janeiro) Brazil, Pelletizing Plant (SAMARCO), CSA Sinter Plant (Thyssen-Krupp)

START Date: 
October, 2006
END Date: 
November, 2013

planning and scheduling, budgeting, progress evaluation, re-scheduling, resource analysis, performance analysis, cost control, construction contract control, reports

Experience Hours (Planning & Scheduling): 
4200
Experience Hours (Cost Management): 
1200
Experience Hours (Forensic Analysis): 
600

Senior Project Controller, OUTOTEC CHILE LTDA, Construction & EPC projects (Fines Flotation plant, Crushing plant, Electrical sub-station/Transmision line, Electro-winning, Solving Extraction plant (VSF))

START Date: 
April, 1997
END Date: 
September, 2006

Project Controller (planning and scheduling, budgeting, progress evaluation, re-scheduling, resource analysis, performance analysis, cost control, construction contract control, reports, risk analysis) for EPC projects at mining industry

Skilled user of planning/scheduling tools (Primavera®, MS-Project®, @Risk®), spreadsheets, database software, SAP®user

Experience Hours (Planning & Scheduling): 
20800
Experience Hours (Cost Management): 
4950
Experience Hours (Forensic Analysis): 
1000

Project Control Manager, COMIN S.A., Several (mining and cellulose)

START Date: 
September, 2015
END Date: 
February, 2017

COMIN S.A.

Corporative Project Control Manager

Consolidated project control for several EPC and construction for copper and cellulose projects

Experience Hours (Planning & Scheduling): 
550
Experience Hours (Cost Management): 
1600
Experience Hours (Forensic Analysis): 
550

Planner/Scheduler, Estimator, Cost Controller, Billing, Brock Group, RBMI-(CUI)

START Date: 
March, 2016

Project Controls (Estimating, Planning & Scheduling, Cost Control & Billing for the whole site) for an ongoing CUI job.

Experience Hours (Planning & Scheduling): 
1700
Experience Hours (Cost Management): 
1600
Experience Hours (Forensic Analysis): 
500

Project Control Lead, Amec Forster Wheeler, ZADCO UZ750 Artificial Islands and Oil field development project

START Date: 
April, 2012

·   Senior Project Controls Engineer, UZ750 IPMT Project Controls Lead for Early Works package within Client team.

Project: ZADCO Upper Zakum Field development program to achieve target production rate of 750 MBD eventually to be enhanced to 1 MMBD on four numbers of artificial Islands comprising a Central processing complex Island and 3 satellite Islands.

Experience Hours (Planning & Scheduling): 
10000
Experience Hours (Cost Management): 
10000
Experience Hours (Forensic Analysis): 
2000

Project Control Lead, Amec Forster Wheeler, ZADCO UZ750 Artificial Islands and Oil field development project

START Date: 
April, 2012

·   Senior Project Controls Engineer, UZ750 IPMT Project Controls Lead for Early Works package within Client team.

Project: ZADCO Upper Zakum Field development program to achieve target production rate of 750 MBD eventually to be enhanced to 1 MMBD on four numbers of artificial Islands comprising a Central processing complex Island and 3 satellite Islands.

Experience Hours (Planning & Scheduling): 
10000
Experience Hours (Cost Management): 
10000
Experience Hours (Forensic Analysis): 
2000

Drilling Cost Control, Project Accounting and Cost Control positions, including Marathon Oil, Schlumberger Sedco Forex & BP, Various, Various

START Date: 
January, 1992
END Date: 
March, 2000

Drilling Cost Control, Project Accounting and Cost Control positions on onshore and offshore projects in UK, Europe & Africa.

Experience Hours (Planning & Scheduling): 
1000
Experience Hours (Cost Management): 
4000

Financial Controller then Finance & Administration Manager, BHP Billiton, Boukhechba, ROD & Ohanet

START Date: 
March, 2000
END Date: 
November, 2003

Initially responsible for drilling cost control and accounting on the unsuccessful Boukhechba exploration campaign. Set up cost systems to calculate daily well costs and attended daily rig calls to ensure accurate and complete cost tracking and reporting.  Provided regular updates of drilling cost performance versus budgets, forecasts and AFEs.

Experience Hours (Planning & Scheduling): 
800
Experience Hours (Cost Management): 
2400

Cost Control Consultant, Burlington Resources, MLN Field Development

START Date: 
January, 2004
END Date: 
December, 2004

Successfully completed a backlog of well reconciliations and complex inventory reconciliations left over from the drilling and construction phases of the MLN appraisal and development project.  Reconciliations were finalised with immaterial-value write-offs.  Performed a gap analysis to identify drilling cost control process weaknesses then worked with staff in implementing the updated processes.  

Experience Hours (Planning & Scheduling): 
400
Experience Hours (Cost Management): 
1200

Senior Cost Controller, Shell International Exploration & Production, Toucan & Koula

START Date: 
July, 2005
END Date: 
June, 2009

Part of Shell’s Global Projects Organisation seconded to Shell Gabon’s Toucan and Koula projects.  Cost Management Focal Point in Project Management team on >US$ 0.6 billion fast-track appraisal and phased development projects (40 wells, FEED, EPFs and EPCs).  Developed robust controls framework for EPC phases, reinforcing the risk management process across a multi-venture environment.  Implemented and enforced VOWD, Commitment and Progress capture and reporting systems for full field development to ensure ‘no surprises’.  Ensured full transparency on contingency draw

Experience Hours (Planning & Scheduling): 
2000
Experience Hours (Cost Management): 
5400

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