DENNIS CARREON

Major Accomplishments:

• As a Planning Engineer, Secured the Extension of time with Cost Compensation for the Qatar National Museum Project by more than 20 months from the original scheduled project completion date.
• As a Quantity Surveyor, Bided and secured and completed prestigious projects like the Heritage Houses Project, Qatar National Museum Projects, Katara Marine Restaurant, Zulal Destination Spa & Five Star Family Resort, Msheireb Townhouses, Commercial Bank Projects and other various projects.

Duties and Responsibilities:

As Senior Planning Engineer:

• Managed and oversaw the preparation of all required tender project planning requirements including programs in Primavera P6 or MS project, manpower histogram, S-curve, methodology statement and progress measurement system, etc.
• Collaborated with the project team in preparation of the design and execution programs with cost and manpower loading and ensuring alignment with the project requirements.
• Oversaw and monitored the actual progress as per the approved program and highlighted any delayed activities and proposed mitigation measure to recover or minimize the delays.
• Prepared comprehensive weekly and monthly progress reports and MS power point presentations as per project requirements.
• Attended weekly and monthly progress meetings and preceded in the presentation of reports.
• Prepared comprehensive recovery or mitigation plans.
• Prepared Extension of time and Cost Compensation claims with complete documentation.
• Prepared official correspondence related to planning, contracts & project controls.

As Senior Quantity Surveyor / Quantity Surveyor:

• Oversaw the execution of necessary activities in the preparation of tender proposal to ensure its timely submission to the client.
• Ensured that the tender document is complete and the required information are available; provide queries as necessary through proper channel as per tender instruction.
• Analyzed the tender documents and counter checked the BOQ’s as per drawings and requirements (or (provided the BOQ if required) and added the tender adjustment schedule for the additional works which not on the client provided BOQ.
• Extracted all the required tender drawings, specifications, LEED requirement and quantity required for quotation request from the manufacturers, supplier & subcontractors. Provided additional technical information as required.
• Provided detailed breakdown of item components and applying the cost received from the suppliers/Subcontractor considering wastage factor, freight & custom and other cost consideration.
• Evaluated all the progress invoice of subcontractors as per actual progress on site.
• Prepared the detailed monthly progress billing to the clients and attended meetings for the disputed claims.
• Prepared the detailed item by item project cost tracking to monitor the actual cost of the project.
• Analyzed the potential variation claims by comparing the tender documents to the latest issued IFC drawings, specification, response to RFI and other latest written documentation.
• Prepared and submitted the cost effect variation claims with all the supporting documentation and highlighted all the modification made by the client and justify the disputed claim if required.

As Acting Contract Administrator:

• Prepared subcontract agreement to the Subcontractors/suppliers based on project requirements and scope of works.
• Reviewed and provided advice on the tender contracts documents and subcontracts agreement during the tendering or pricing stage including the contract review prior to contract signing.
• Prepared official correspondence relating to projects specially if related to Contracts.

Projects: Royal Palaces, Schools, High rise buildings, Private & government medium rise
building and other Infrastructure projects

Major Accomplishments:

• Developed a MS Excel Program to systematically arrange and organize all the Contractual documents to ease the monitoring, the Cost Control and the reporting to our superiors.
• Managed to Control the Project Cost by carefully evaluating the sub-contractors claims as per the executed works.

DUTIES & RESPONSIBILITIES:

As Quantity Surveyor:
• Prepared & monitored the job allocation of subcontractors by trades, buildings and rooms.
• Prepared detailed contracts, extra works, progress and actual cost reports of the projects on regular basis using spreadsheet.
• Technically and arithmetically checked the tender documents as per actual accomplishments.
• Measured or worked on site and re-measured the provisional quantities.
• Prepared, assessed and evaluated the variations along with cost estimates.
• Analyzed, provided advice on contractual claims and prepared the interim payment certificates.
• Prepared the BOQ and other tender and contract documents for tender submission.
• Monitored the financial status of the project, cost control, project closeout and settlement of final accounts.

Project: Construction of Sotero H. Laurel Building (6 storey building)

DUTIES & RESPONSIBILITIES:

As Supervising Engineer / Project Engineer:

• Supervised the actual fabrication and Installation of Glass & Aluminum works.
• Prepared Bar Chart Planning Schedule of the Glass & Aluminum works using MS Project.
• Attended weekly coordination meetings concerning schedule, financial and other technical matters.
• Prepared Shop drawings using Auto CAD and other documents.

Projects: Construction of various Vertical and Horizontal type structures

DUTIES & RESPONSIBILITIES:

As Site Engineer / Project Engineer

• Prepared and monitored the plan schedule using MS Project.
• Supervised the actual construction works for all trades.
• Monitored and prepared the actual project cost on regular basis using spread sheets.
• Prepared the estimates for all trades for Quantity take off.
• Prepared bar bending schedule and cutting list.
• Monitored the financial status of the projects and cost control.