SENIOR PROJECT MANAGER
ISL Engineering
Total years of experience :28 years, 5 Months
► Initiate, direct and sustain staff, resources, schedules and budgets to ensure cost effective project delivery to clients.
► Oversee and accomplish concurrent multi-discipline construction projects, all with varying demands and deadlines.
► Coordinate and lead on-site design interventions to accommodate and manage unforeseen site conditions.
► Develop and strengthen communications between clients, contractors, consultants, external agencies and Authorities.
► Create detailed project plans with well-defined tasks, milestones, client sign-offs and specifications for progress control.
► Execute regular coordination with clients on contractual, financial and construction progress and to identify issues.
► Maintain regular written and verbal communications with clients, stakeholders, contractors and senior management.
► Drive funding, regulatory approval, contract administration, approvals and site management, all on behalf of client.
► Produce contract documentation, and exercise control over financial/commercial status of projects and contracts.
► Create and lead teams for project control and site based supervision and administration.
As Project Manager: deliver full project cycle management, including project initiation, funding applications; fiscal control, regulatory approvals, tendering process, award recommendation, contract administration/resident engineering and site management, RFI’s, safety, schedule adherence, quality control, project closeout and post-construction services.
Key Accomplishments
► Implemented and established contract administration procedures and practices to minimize client’s exposure to contractor claims during a challenging multi-discipline project.
► Recognized by company directors for successfully stabilizing the municipal group through strategic client relationship building over a 7 year period; retain existing contracts, and increasing business by 50%.
► Guided succession planning and successfully mentored younger engineers.
I have been recognized for my contribution to the industry as follows:
★ Inducted as a Diplomate, Water Resources Engineer by the American Academy of Water Resource Engineers
★ 2013 Award of Excellence in Water Resources, Canadian Consulting Engineering Awards
★ 2013 Award of Excellence in Water Resources, Consulting Engineers of Alberta Showcase Awards
I led various projects through the complete project life cycle from conceptual/detailed design to handover. During this I was responsible for resolving contractual disputes, issues and delays on behalf of the client; and also developed procedures to allow the effective interpreting of construction drawings and specifications by the project team.
Key Projects include:
★ Canmore Nordic Centre: Upgrade of snowmaking system (Province of Alberta)
★ A 130 ha commercial development (City of Calgary, Alberta)
★ Master plan to upgrade water supply, treatment and reticulation system (Town of Claresholm Alberta)
★ Canadian Natural Resources, Horizons Oil Sands Project: River water intake line and access road, raw water storage pond, and recycle water pipeline and storage pond (CNRL, Alberta)
As Engineering Manager, I developed and tested various water treatment products and designed the components used in the manufacturing and installation of these systems.
In particular I was involved in the following:
► Created a design manual for proprietary filter systems in water supply and treatment layouts
► Designed and produced end-user specifications for constructing BioSand filters using concrete for in-situ construction of filters
► Established internal procedures/quality control systems to support marketing, sales and manufacturing functions
The key highlights include successfully assisting end users incorporate proprietary equipment within their water treatment systems for:
★ Ten Villages Water Supply Project to provide potable water to 10, 000 people (Delta State, Nigeria)
★ Campamento Water Treatment Plant with a total daily capacity of 2, 800 cubic meters (Honduras)
★ Orito Water Treatment Plant with a total daily capacity of 5, 600 cubic meters (Columbia)
I successfully managed various municipal and water resources projects in Canada as well as overseas:
★ Generated the contract and procurement documents and conceptualized and designed upgrades of underground utilities at the Chevron Escravos Facility, Delta State, Nigeria
★ Designed and project managed the design and construction of wet utility systems for the Suncor Firebag SAG-D site development, Alberta
★ Designed the water reticulation, roads, sewage collection and treatment, stormwater drainage systems, landfill, power supply in residential developments in Lagos and Ugborodo, Nigeria
★ Designed a raw water diversion structure, pipeline extension and diversion channel upgrades to the raw water supply intake and conveyance of raw water for the City of Cranbrook, Canada
★ Various water supply and treatment projects, including a detailed design of raw water diversion structures and pump stations, pipeline extensions and reticulation networks on Cadet Training Camp: Ghost River Area, and the Loon Lake First Nations, Canada
★ Project managed a functional planning, conceptual and preliminary design, and cost estimates of storm water management systems for the extension of the Deerfoot Trail freeway, Calgary, Canada and the Light Rail Transit expansion in Calgary, Canada
As a Senior Design Engineer and Resident Engineer I was involved in the following projects:
★ Designed and project managed the relocation of a river in an urban area to alleviate flooding of existing development and provided localize river channel stabilization
★ Designed the retaining structure and hydraulic gates for the Ulundi Balancing Storage Weir, Kwa-Zulu Natal, South Africa
★ Designed and managed various model studies of concrete-lined river channels within an urban area to determine flooding risks, and to verify flood control measures canals designed by conventional empirical design methods and computer modeling
★ Project managed a road-over-river bridge, Pretoria, Gauteng, South Africa. I conceptualized and designed a high flow bypass to reduce flood risks to adjacent properties, and designed the road and bridge structure including road alignment and structural designs
As Resident Engineer on the construction of the Driekoppies Dam; Mpumalanga Province, South Africa (a major dam, consisting of a 50m high zoned earth fill embankment (4.8 million m3) and a 200m uncontrolled concrete spillway with overall embankment length of 2, 400m), I was involved in the following:
★ Verified and monitored adherence to the construction schedule and meeting interim milestones to ensure the construction of the dam embankment was completed in the timely manner to minimize flooding of the temporary works
★ Reviewed and analyzed the construction material & the construction work on a regular basis, to assure the quality standards are met and maintain the quality control throughout the construction process
★ Monitored the field changes to the design to ensure compliance with the intent of the original design