Rashidat Owolabi

• Identified and expounded project work scope, technical sequencing, milestones and work breakdown structures.
• Built successful project plans covering objectives, resources and staffing to meet schedules.
• Reviewed progress throughout project cycle and maintained detailed project schedule to ensure consistency with changing scope, objectives and constraints related to time and resource availability.
• Established Project control procedures and Project Management system in line with Worley standards.
• Earned Value Management and established key performance indicators (KPI) for accessing project status.
• Maintained open communication by presenting regular updates on project status to internal and external customers.
• Scheduled and facilitated meetings between project stakeholders to discuss deliverable, schedules and conflicts.
• Tracked project and team member performance closely to quickly intervene in mistakes or delays.
• Proved successful working within tight deadlines and fast-paced atmosphere.
• Prepared and maintained progress reports, charts (Histogram,S-curves) to analyze deviation from baseline plan.
• Developed action and mitigation plan for recovery of project slippages and expediting of critical activities.
• Reported regularly to managers on project budget, progress and technical problems.
• Developed cost performance and cash flow projections utilizing budget and cost loaded schedule.
• Adhered to budget requirements with excellent planning and consistent expense monitoring.
• Coordinated and managed subcontracts from RFP/RFQ to procurement and Construction phases.
• Coordinated and managed activities of Subcontractors, Third party vendors to achieve all project milestones.
• Performed duties in accordance with applicable standards, policies and regulatory guidelines to promote safe working environment.
• Interfaced with Quality Assurance/Quality Control (QA/QC) to address quality issues in order to reduce cost of quality.
• Used critical thinking to break down problems, evaluate solutions and make decisions.

Accomplishments:

• Reduced cost of re-work by 60% through streamlining document review process.
• Managed Client and subcontractor relationships on different types of projects-Cost Reimbursable, Lump Sum, Schedule of Rates, with contract value ranging from $650,000 - $ 4,700,000.
• Reduced cost by 35% and increased EBIT by 15% on Lump sum project through effective Resource Management.
• Trained 6 employees to work as project control specialist. With quality of training proffered,staff strength of company's project controls department increased, thereby, increasing its ability to handle more projects, and generate revenue.

• Participated in designing commissioning/qualification/verification (CQV) protocols for new project development and acquisition.
• Presented new operational guidelines to Senior Management, resulting in 95% improvement in data management and control.
• Developed action plans to aid in meeting defined objectives and streamlining existing processes.
• Initiated adoption of improved process development technologies such as use of laptops and desktop computer systems as against typewriters initially employed.
• Successfully trained grades 9-13 officers on basic Microsoft applications.
• Contributed to development of strategic guidelines such as construction milestones and success criteria.
• Created new analytical tools to assess ongoing process controls and expose weaknesses for remediation.

• Collated and reported weekly actual data into project schedule on Primavera software.(P3).
• Collated weekly progress from Engineers and compared with projected schedule of work.
• Quickly learned new skills and applied them to daily tasks, improving efficiency and productivity.
• Carried out day-day-day duties accurately and efficiently.
• Identified issues, analyzed information and provided solutions to problems.
• Maintained excellent attendance record, consistently arriving to work on time.